I wasn’t expecting to be at work all day today. The past two days-before-a-holiday we have gotten out early. So, thinking I’d be out by 1 or 2, I didn’t bring a lunch. Now I am hungry.
I ran over to Exxon and grabbed a Campbell’s® Soup at Hand (Classic Tomato). It’s very cute but also quite creepy. I’m gonna go cook it up and try it……
So Aaron told me last night about one of his old friends from Virginia Beach that was in towne visiting. His name is Brock Enright, he lives in NYC, and he gets paid $1500 to kidnap people. Isn’t that weird?
But honestly, I looked him up on the internet and it’s for real. Check out this BBC News article about him. Here’s the audio bit of it.
I found his personal website here. So far, only the VIDEOGAMES section is open (that’s what the business is called), and even it still has a lot of pending features. I can’t wait til the site is finished. I am so intrigued to see the rest of his work.
I found the following comment on a site called bud.com:
I wandered into this guy’s opening a couple months ago. It was at a new gallery in my neighborhood in Brooklyn. My roomate and I were on a bike ride and it looked like there was free champagne to be had, so we took a look. Enright had set up the interior of the gallery space with a series of installations fetishizing pre-adolescent acts of violence and rebellion. It was alternately a bit scary and hillarious (esp. the videos of himself at a young age playing ninja/rockstar for the camera).
They had a TV monitor there playing clips from the kidnapping series, which he appropriately enough titled “Videogames.” He does a lot with masks and costumes to fit the client/victims taste. There was one clip with someone in a frighteningly detailed goblin mask bursting through a false wall in an apartment to tackle a victim. Another featured cigarette burns. It gave me the creeps in a big way. There was allegedly a kidnapping to go down at the opening that night, but I unfortunately had plans.
Enright is a strange and unassuming presence for someone who plumbs the dark side. He seems very average, just kind of lurking around the space, eavsdropping on people’s conversations about the work. It took me a while to realize he was the guy… I expected someone more outwardly strange-looking.
Just goes to show, it takes all kinds. And yes, there was champagne.
ps - He also directed a stage version of “Debbie Does Dallas”
I hung out with your family last night. It was fun. We went to Plaza Azteca for bean dip and guess who came along….. Jasmine and Erica. Yay!!! They are so cute.
Here are some cute things uttered by Jasmine:
“Hi, you met me when I was a baby.”
“You’re just like my Aunt Charity.”
When I told her that she still had toys at my house that she had left a long time ago she said,
“Are they still my toys? I really used to love those toys.”
I asked her if she was going to come to my house and say hi to Julio because he really liked her and he even called her Princess Jasmine. That made her smile and she showed me her shirt that said Princess. When she got to the house, she ran up to Julio and said,
“Look at my shirt.”
She’s adorable. The only thing Erica said to me all night was “BYE” when they were leaving. :-)
I rode my new bike to work, it was fun 
I was checking out Osiris’s friendster page today for some random reason and guess what I found - Chrissy!!!! (i don’t know if you can see it without logging in. i signed in under oso’s account)
But here is the best part - under both Interests and the About Me section she says “i love baths”. AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA. Could’ve fooled me.
I love that picture:)
Oh, and don’t wash the shirts in case Josh forgot to tell you. Hand wash only (even then, they might shrink). I guess Neiman Marcus customers don’t care if they spend $80 on a one-time wear.
I love you too… pet Clan Clan and OsoLoso for me. Give Jules hugs.
There are a total of 4 people in the office today. 2 upstairs and 2 downstairs. It is very odd.
I got John (my next door neighbor) to agree to keeping the lights off so we can enjoy a fluorescent-free environment for once. It’s great. And I’m keeping the music in my ears as loud as I want since I don’t have to worry about anyone coming in to talk to me.
Oh, I forgot to tell you, we saw the new Tim Burton film Big Fish yesterday at the Naro. It was a free screening.
It was really sweet and cute, I liked it. Much better than that damn Planet of the Apes. It’s odd to watch a Tim Burton film and not see Lisa Marie anywhere. I guess Helena Bonham Carter has replaced her (blegh).
