For a long time there, I thought my mom got sick when she was diagnosed in 2012. The last couple of years, however, have taught me that she was a sick woman for a long time before then. I love her, I forgive her, and I am so sorry about all the hurt that she endured but I do not miss her.
Everything about this time of year is so heavy. It’s changed my life for the better and it’s under a rainbow so I cannot help but believe that it’s all gold.
Darby Allin is the AEW World Heavyweight Champion! Before he won the big one, I made a custom figure of him from his sketch that he did for Braindead with Tim Robinson for a friend who loves ITYSL.
“In a town like Twin Peaks, no one is innocent” but the Bobby Briggs stuff in Twin Peaks: The Return makes me cry every single time I see it.
Bobby was such an ass throughout the original run of Twin Peaks and in Fire Walk With Me so it’s staggering to see where he’s at 25 years later in The Return. It may have taken a long time and he may have held on to his old ways for a bit afterwards, but there’s so many moments along the way to the end of The Return that all point to the vision that Major Garland Briggs shares with his son at the diner panning out and becoming true.
Even with everything that Bobby has done, I just cannot help but believe that he grew up to be a good man. The thought that this kind of change for the good is even possible just makes me weep.
Happy Easter! Mary Magdalene was not only the last at the cross but also the first to see the resurrected Christ. Apparently Easter Eggs are a thing because of her and I think that’s neat!
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about Mary Magdalene a lot lately. She’s the patron saint of both penitent sinners and pharmacists so I drew this as a prayer to her.
We set out to make a feature film a very long time ago and doing so was the beginning of my mental unraveling but I’m happy to report that the movie has been in its final round of post-production sound mixing. My man, Justin, is combining the audio work he did back in 2019, the ADR and foley work that we did at Shock City a couple of years after that, and my own more impressionistic sound design that I did to honor the lives and memories of both David Lynch and Brian Wilson last year into something that is easy to hear.
It’s been an uphill battle for Justin because we got an original score from one of my favorite bands to cut the movie to sometime after the first or second round of audio work on this movie was completed and all those picture cuts made a big chunk of the previously-done audio work go out of sync. Adding to this problem, I cut around fifteen minutes out of the movie back in the Fall of 2025. Now the movie is an hour and thirty-three minutes long (which I think is a perfect length for a movie) and now I think the movie is always doing something interesting but all that cutting on the film created even more audio work for a movie that has had bad audio since day one.
I put together an end credits animation/montage/thingy back in the Fall (and that, as well as some other animation I’ve done for the movie took about an entire week of my life to complete) but now I’m trying to put together the final white-text-over-a-black-frame end credits of the movie. If you’re in this movie, worked on it, or contributed to it in any way, please do reach out to me so I can ensure you are credited how you’d like to be credited.
I’m hoping to do a screening of Pet Turtles for both Missouri and Utah friends and family sometime over the Summer. That’s also when I intend to send this thing out to festivals. After this movie is done, I’m going to retreat into the shadows and live a quiet life of doing much smaller art that is much easier to make.
The very last slide of this carousel is a list of movies that, in one way or another, inspired this weirdo comedy about grieving and finding yourself. If you like any of those movies, maybe you’ll like Pet Turtles.
I didn’t capture a lot of footage of my making The Pimple but it being a part of the Keep Salt Lake Weird Art Show inspired me to edit the footage I did get into something. Here’s that something.
Loved seeing old friends and meeting new friends at the opening reception of @shopmomu ‘s Keep Salt Lake Weird Art Show! I’ve never been in an art show before and I’m way honored to share space with a bunch cool artists who all have really fantastic art at such a wild spot!
All this weirdo Salt Lake art will be on display at MOMU until April 24th! If you have a chance, please check this place out because there’s so many really rad things here! I really love all their candles they have for sale.
And let me know if you’d like to buy The Pimple because I would like to make a donation to the Molly Young Memorial Foundation.
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