Greg + You =This

Beatrice

greg — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:53:39 +0000

“Do not – I repeat – do not bring another dog into this house,” I commanded Karissa. “We barely have room enough for the one we’ve got.” Seriously. She and I were stuffed into a guest house that was no larger than 900 square feet, each of the four rooms (living room, bedroom, restroom, kitchen) [...]

NOFX Occupies OccupyLA

greg — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:45:13 +0000

With Mayor Villaraigosa’s November 28 eviction deadline only hours away, the Occupy Los Angeles encampment threw an eviction block party. Fat Mike & Eric Melvin of NOFX performed a set, which included a new song written for Occupy called “Wouldn’t It Be Nice If Every Movement Had A Theme Song.” I brought a camera. Photos [...]

OCCUPY LA: “Why I Chose to Get Arrested”

greg — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:00:59 +0000

One of the friends I made at Occupy Los Angeles is the very clever Craig Toennies; you may recognize him from the interview I did with him (above) for my OccupyLA Speaks page. On Veteran’s Day, during OLA’s march on the Financial District, Craig made the choice to be voluntarily arrested. I invited him to [...]

Occupy the Crossroads

greg — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:44:07 +0000

I visited City Hall early on Monday morning to speak with Occupiers and conduct more interviews for my OccupyLA Speaks page. I apparently didn’t stay long enough. Later in the day, it was announced that the City of Los Angeles had offered the Occupiers a 10,000 square foot office space for $1/year, along with 100 [...]

Occupy: Who are the 99%?

greg — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:14:23 +0000

“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You don’t need to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have [...]

Adapting Inside the Outside: Part 3

greg — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:00:08 +0000

voiceover noun: A piece of narration in a movie or broadcast, not accompanied by an image of the speaker. From Adaptation (Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman) ROBERT MCKEE …and God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That’s flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to [...]

Happy + Birthday = This

greg — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:36:39 +0000

Where does the time go? Before you know it, I’ll be sending Greg+You=This off to college, dancing at her wedding, defending myself against the claims that she’ll make in her tell-all book, Greggie Dearest. Hold on while I wipe away the single tear that is now streaming down my cheek. So… 1,377 unique visitors, 9,355 [...]

What Will They Stink of Next?

greg — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:31:48 +0000

“See that clock on the wall? In five minutes you are not going to believe what I’ve told you.” ~Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), Blue Velvet Burbank is a peculiar place. In the thirteen years I’ve lived here I’ve grown to suspect that – not unlike Blue Velvet’s fictional town of Lumberton – behind the manicured [...]

Occupy the Media

greg — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:21:26 +0000

I try to visit OccupyLA a few times a week to take some photos and grab interview footage to post here in the hopes that you’ll get a sense of the humanity behind the movement. What with editing photos and video, creating blog posts, not to mention my other projects, I’ve been insanely busy and [...]

Occupy LA

greg — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:22:54 +0000

“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I’m about to do today? And whenever the answer would be no for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.” – Steve Jobs (1955-2011) How often have you allowed the answer to be no [...]