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my weird dreams have continued. last night said person who i keep dreaming about had designed an exhibition catalog for a show that in reality, some people from here actually were in last month in nyc. said book was great-looking and i was amazed said person had time for classwork and the book, seeing as it involved a lot of individual page layout. and we were together — we showed up somewhere that seemed like a trade show or a casino and we did a lot of driving. i really have no idea where this is coming from.

tonight i made my first photo emulsion screenprint. pretty basic, but fun. brendan, if youre reading this, youll soon be receiving a newsprint version of this. except the bottom got a little cut off on the one im sending you. which i didnt realize until i got back to my studio.

tonight a local 'broadcast' took place here in the studio. forest used the air vents (we have huge vents and ducts that run along the perimeter of our studio space…if you laid them side by side, theyd likely take up about half of the ceiling space of the studio) to broadcast, via wireless transmitter, someone's playlist in the studio. we're going to do broadcasts here from time to time which i think sounds fun. i began making a playlist this evening, though it's now 4.5 hours and i only have 1.5 hours to broadcast. and ideally, i only want to broadcast for maybe 1 hour.

this past weekend i spent my time watching movies at the same film festival for two different classes. while there i saw a man escaped, the seine meets paris, the shadow, kanal, the seventh seal, all the memory of the world, night and fog, adebar, schwechater, mosaik im vertrauen, experiment with synthetic sound, sea urchins, momma don't allow, and everyday except christmas. my favorites were a man escaped, the seine meets paris, and night and fog. night and fog has to be the most powerful film ive ever seen about the holocaust. it isnt so much all of the footage of the bodies, their eyes and heads and arms detatched, but more the fact that the movie contrasts, in plain detail, the ease with which the holocaust occurred, the everyday events that tortured its victims and the statement that history will likely repeat itself. the film was just incredible. the fact that the insanity of the holocaust was conducted under such a seemingly 'reasonable' and nonchalant guise just makes everything more horrific. it was terrible to watch.