Brad Walsh

Gently Out of Time

I’ve slept approximately six hours out of the last 48. Last night was going to finally be a stay home and go to bed early night, but instead I spent six hours modeling clothes in a storefront window and in an alley until two in the morning. What? I had planned on using Sunday night to catch up on all my backed up e-mails and photo odds, but when Josh Madden and Bronques say they want you to be a part of a clothing shoot as a model you say “yes,” “where,” and “when?” Don’t say “but I’m not a model,” because then they might come to their senses.

It was really strange to be there and do that. I had a good time and was really fascinated by everything going on around me. Did a lot of staring blankly at things because I was so completely out of it from not having slept the night before. Met some really cool people. Must have seemed like a weirdo because I didn’t say much.

My new favorite thing to do is something that nobody’s done before in this scene, which is nightlife animations. Bronques has done video, and he’s done it very well, but I think this is different. Plus, an animated gif is so conveniently Myspace-ready, which is pretty much where every photo I take of anyone ends up within 24 hours. You can see some here and here, including one of Jamie Bell (Billy Eliot himself). A legit still photo Party Junkies update will go up later today.

Whenever it’s 11:11 or 12:34 or some such other appropriate time to make a wish, I always spout out my stock wish, which is “for my mom and my brother and me to be happy forever.” I think it’s a good, simple one that bypasses money and love and all that and just gets to the point. If we could all be magically happy, we could live in respective garbage cans for the next fifty years. Happy is happy.

But Friday at 11:11 I wished for something more immediate, something irrational, and what do you know? It worked out.

Listening to: Blur’s Think Tank, which is still sort of my default “I’m really tired this morning and need to listen to something that’s familiar and enjoyable for more than ten minutes” record.