Angry Puppy

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Christmas isn’t my favorite holiday, but I can take a hint. You people are ready for some holiday-themed posts.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against Christmas à la Phoebe Cates.

(Though don’t ask me about Bastille Day. I still can’t talk about it.)

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OK, so it’s not origami proper, but this werewolf I found on Super Punch is shaped out of a single piece of paper.

Although I’m obsessed with Netflix streaming from my Watch Instantly queue to the Xbox, I’m disappointed that they don’t have a lot of werewolf options. I was forced to watch The Food of the Gods Last Night instead. [A+ for effort!]

Since I had the time, I also made a video with the latest version of “The Beast Within”. It now has a tagline:

Be it lycanthropy; addiction; PMS; mental instability or infection, this is for those whose lives are periodically wrecked by their own particular beast within.

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While idly thumbing through Wired magazine just now, I came across this simple how-to on making an origami Millennium Falcon. Now, what I really want is an origami Dalek (Sok, are you reading this?), but I figured this would have to do for now, despite my, ahem, limited abilities with visual art.

So, I went to Marc’s Forbidden Black Heart Closet for supplies (shhhh…). Surprisingly, he didn’t have any origami paper lying around, so I cut up a fancy envelope. OK, I had to cut up two fancy envelopes. I had trouble cutting a square. Seriously.

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In anticipation of 2009’s re-make of The Wolf Man, I’m now about 1/3 of the way through watching my list of every werewolf movie I could find. Though our vlog series has finished, I’ll still end up posting my rankings and comments here.

(Incidentally, they should have tried to release it this weekend: The full moon was at its perigee last night and won’t appear so big again for a few years.)

Some of you may know I’m a folk musician of sorts, so it won’t surprise you that all these lycanthropes inevitably made their way into my subconscious and came out as a song called “The Beast Within”. Disclaimer: It’s in no way related to or inspired by the movie The Beast Within which, I found out after about an hour of watching, is not about werewolves at all but some sort of insect-monster.

In any event, here is a demo of that song, and I’d love to get your suggestions and thoughts as I tweak it. For those of you who are only used to über-produced tracks, this is going to sound rough. When I say “demo”, I mean USB mic, GarageBand and an oblivious puppy milling around making noise in the background. In fact, the chain-like sounds you hear at the end were provided serendipitously by Kodos. I’ll have to take him to the studio if I ever really record this one.

Click here to play it in your browser. You can also head over to my MySpace page for some other demos. If you happen to be into my songwriting, voice or guitaring, you can find some nicely polished tracks on the Archy and Mehitabel MySpace too. E-mail me if you want anything, and I’ll send you a download link.

For the interested: My next project (if I can find the time and inspiration) is going to be a cautionary carol on the perils of Xmas.