6 posts tagged “tv”

I'm moving. I sold one of my computers last night. And today I took my couch over to my sister's. (I don't want it anymore.)

When I was coming home, I had the urge to watch this Slits video. (It's a clip of of them on some German TV show dancing and lip-synching to their song "Spend, Spend, Spend".)

Now, I know a couple weeks ago I posted a video of me dancing and whatever. But that's not how I'd actually dance. This video is actually closer to my style.

CUBIST LITERATURE
cubistliterature.etsy.com

Hi, my name is Craig Hunter, and I live alone in a neat two bedroom apartment in Houston, Texas. I'm in my fifth year at the University of Saint Thomas, majoring in English, minoring in women's studies. (However, I should have majored in philosophy.)

I was just trying to explain to someone in an e-mail about how and when I started crafting, and I told him I pretty much started in highschool. I know I started before then, but from now on, the story is I started in highschool, pretty much altering my clothing and doing other things like that, including music. There's this fat (not tiny) voice in my head that's always pitching ideas at me: "Hey, it'd be cool if you did that like this!" or "What if you put this here?" or "Dude, let's drink some beer." As a result, I'm constantly going, my mind's always racing and thinking of new ideas for anything. In my eyes, anything can be turned into something special.

So, my shop name is Cubist Literature, which is also the name of everything else I do, including my musical solo-project (yes, I hate that term). My shop is on the wonderful Etsy.com, and I'm best known for making t-shirts, I suppose. T-shirts are what I first started selling on Etsy, and I still regularly list those as well. I also sell skirts, supplies, my music, cuffs, and various other things. I'm constantly trying out new ideas, as I'm still trying to familiarize myself with the sewing machine (once I sewed my finger and the needle when through the fingernail and the needle broke and I had to pull it out!) and with screenprinting (it's a messy ordeal). Sometimes when I'm trying out ideas, I make something that I just fall in love with! So, I have a few favorite items: my CheGuevara/snowman True Love shirt, my Portland Is... shirt, and the cummerbund belt. Those are just a few examples of letting my mind wander and focus to the point where I get something I didn't expect. It's really cool!

Being a guy who sews and crafts is harder than a lot of people think. (There are a lot of guys who screenprint, so that's a medium I often feel alienated from, it seems. I just get a feeling.) I've had to teach myself pretty much everything I do. My mother didn't teach me how to use my sewing machine, so I had to use the hell out of Google and do so much trial and error. Usually when people find out I'm a guy who sews and knits (and etc.), I usually feel like a novelty or an outsider---sorta like a girl on a football or wrestling team. I think I'm just doing my part in promoting the DIY spirit and in becoming self-reliant (reasonably so, of course). It seems most people have a problem with self-analysis, looking within, learning their limits, etc., but I don't want to be like that.

Yeah, I basically like anything that sounds good to the ear, which is why in my first "album" I use the sounds like knitting needles/electric toothbrush against a guitar. Keyboards are great, but I don't really have the money to get the things I'd like to fuck around with. I think the only keyboard I use on the album is this Yamaha PSRsomethin' my mother bought me a few years ago. I'm not complaining, though. I'm satisfied. I'm not too hard to impress when it comes to things like that. I mean, the only guitar I own is this cheap Squire, but it's served me welll over the years, and I still use it. I'm not really interested in the sounds of guitars but more in the sounds I can make WITH a guitar, be it putting an electric toothbrush near the pickups, threading an old guitar string through the regular strings, different tunings, etc. Does that make sense?

I know what you mean about being busy and not having the time to record, though I wonder if after I finished recording "Korperkonfigurationen/." I got some sort of feeling of accomplishment and moved onto other things. That's pretty much how I roll: I dabble in lots of things, concentrating on one thing at a time, then going onto the next. Not that I completely forget about the last thing I was doing, I just sorta put it on a backburner for the moment. (I feel like this message is full of total cliches...I apologize; I'm not the best person in e-mail.) I'm TOTALLY anxious about recording a second album. I already know what I'm calling it, and I've thought about making it nothing but me and an acoustic (which seems sorta lame though...), but I think I'm just intimidated by all the work I remember putting into the last album.

So, you and I are doing a music swap. Just send me your first EP, even if you think it sucks--I'll be the judge of that.

Now about sewing/silkscreening...hmm. I don't know where to begin. I've been altering clothing since highschool (but I just got my first sewing machine in June). You know when you think of something, and then you're like, "oh it'd be cool if i did this to it"? Well, that's how sewing's been for me. Did that make sense? It's just something I've always messed with---just needle through fabric. Now about silkscreening, I don't really like to do that too much because it's messy and PLAYED. (Ugh, my rival on Etsy...all he does is silkscreen on American Apparel...) BUT it does come in handy. So to answer your question about how I started silkscreening, just get yrself a Speedball starter kit. They cost about $30something dollars, I think. I bought my first kit in June, too. Go to a crafts and arts store, and look around.\

DUDE, I'm stopping here. I don't know if I answered everything, but I'm stopping because I've gone on for too long.

I'm more of an instant message kinda guy. If yr on AIM or MSN, let me know.

xo
Craig

AIM: dance damage
MSN: urbanfolk@gmail.com