Jason Buckley: Moving Pictures

Zorak Unplugged

2008-05-11T20:04:00.001-07:00

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The place was New Paltz, NY. The year was 2006. The band was Fnord and the sound was dark, progressive sludge rock. I was the oldest member of the band at 23. The other guys were still in high school. Our singer also played trumpet which he lit on fire at some of our live gigs. We'd close our shows with a Henry Mancini (by way of John Zorn) cover. Our originals had titles based on The X Files, The Jerky Boys and Space Ghost.

Today was the first time in 12 years that I've played one of those songs with my old guitarist. He was passing through my neck of the woods and we just had to bust out the acoustics and jam on Zorak: King of the Mantis People.

Murder on the Redwood Express

2008-04-19T06:38:00.000-07:00

Here's another 10 hour movie we made last weekend.

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The Writers Room

2007-12-02T08:03:00.000-08:00

What's a network executive in charge of a hit show to do when the the writers go on strike?

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Out of the Can

2007-10-07T09:04:00.000-07:00

Notorious prank phone caller, Prince Albert, breaks out of San Quentin for one last call. Written, shot and edited in 10 hours for Cinemasports and screened in the Mill Valley Film Festival.

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The Country Bears Rock the Park

2007-07-15T07:25:00.000-07:00

The Country Bears of Nova Scotia are the Bay Area's best acoustic rock cover band. Yesterday they played in the panhandle bandshell in Golden Gate Park. The bandshell was built from entirely recycled materials such as car hoods, plastic water bottles, computer motherboards and redwood doors by a bunch of burning man people as a gift to the city. Here the Bears rock out an Iron Maiden medley of Hallowed be thy Name and The Trooper.

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Stella Gets Her Groove On

2007-06-03T22:05:00.000-07:00

I swear this isn't going to turn into a full-on daddy vlog, but since all the footage I've been shooting has been of Stella and since I'm trying to learn my way around Final Cut Pro, here's the latest family vid. Anne called me up at work last week to tell me that every time she put on the Scissor Sisters CD, Stella would start dancing like crazy. I got the demonstration that night. I wanted to try to capture in one continuous shot the way she danced through the whole song, but as soon as the camera rolls, all bets are off. But that meant I got to play around with the editing and the end result turned out really fun.

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Stella's Vacation Video

2007-05-28T22:05:00.000-07:00

It's been a very long time since I've posted a video here. Mainly it's because I haven't been shooting anything new except for family videos. This is one of those family videos. It's also the first time I've ever tried using Final Cut Pro. It's not that much different from Premiere Pro which I was using before, though it's a bit difficult trying to figure out how to do some of the same things in a completely new interface. So far, I like it and look forward to really learning the ins and outs of it.

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5 Years

2007-02-06T19:48:00.000-08:00

Here's another number from the show at Isotope Comics. It's the entire crew... Stella, Just Henry and 5 Cent Coffee performing Five Years by David Bowie.

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Everything You Can Think

2007-01-26T19:41:00.000-08:00

Another video from the show at Isotope Comics, here's Stella performing Everything You Can Think. This song is going to be part of a performance tomorrow night. Here are the details:
5 Cent Coffee presents:
Everything's a Dollar in this Box:
The songs of Tom Waits on cheap instruments.
Saturday, January 27th 2007
8:30pm
21 Grand, Oakland, CA
416 25th St.
(at Broadway)
www.21grand.org
$6-10

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Moonage Daydream

2007-01-19T20:57:00.000-08:00

Here's the next video from the show at Isotope Comics. It's Stella performing a classic Bowie tune from the big Ukie Stardust show that they did a few months back. They also did a song for song performance of Prince's Purple Rain, but I've heard that people who posted clips of that on YouTube were getting cease and desist letters from the purple one's purple legal people, so I probably won't be posting any of those songs.

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Is She Really Going Out With Him?

2007-01-14T12:34:00.000-08:00

OK, so I haven't posted anything here in a very long time. If I have anybody left who is actually reading/viewing this thing, I'm really sorry about that. Anyone who knows me knows my excuses, and those who don't know me don't need to concern themselves. The fact is, I'm back and I've got some new, yes new, content for your eyeballs and eardrums. Last night I had the opportunity to catch a wonderful show at a very cool venue. Isotope Comics hosted the Ukelele Apocalypse, featuring Just Henry, Five Cent Coffee, and Stella (the band, not my daughter). My dear friend and coworker Amy sings and plays the saw in Stella, and I've finally had the chance to hear her play. It was an incredibly difficult shoot with weird angles, bad lighting, and lots of background noise, but I still think you'll enjoy it.

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Ween - Dr. Rock

2006-12-05T21:25:00.000-08:00

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Here's another one from the 5/22/00 show at the 9:30 Club, Washington, DC.

This vlog is not dead, it's just been resting. I'm running out of clips that I already have ready to go, and need to get an external hard drive for the mac to get new stuff up captured and ready to go. Hopefully after the holidays. So here's yet another song from the Ween show from 5/22/00 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC.

If you want to see a blog that I update on a daily basis, check out Download This. It features links to bit torrents, mostly daily Howard Stern shows, but also some music, comics, and other stuff that I think you ought to check out.

Ween - Voodoo Lady

2006-10-30T18:27:00.000-08:00

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Deaner Comes Alive! Dean Ween busts out the talk box in the solo and goes all Peter Frampton on us. From the 5/22/00 show at the 9:30 Club, Washington, DC.

NoMeansNo - The River

2006-10-24T20:13:00.000-07:00

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I shot this at the old Black Cat club in DC sometime in the fall of 2000. I don't have the specific date handy. As soon as I get a new external drive, I plan on putting this whole show on DVD and making it available on all the bit torrent sites, but for now, here's the last song of the show.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I'm running out of hard drive space for capturing new stuff, but plan to fix that soon enough. I've also been busy starting a new blog called Download This where you can find links to stuff that you can download through BitTorrent, including daily Howard Stern shows.

Washington Interns Gone Bad Episode 11

2006-10-15T11:06:00.000-07:00

Here's the 11th and final episode of my feature film, Washington Interns Gone Bad. I highly recommend you start at the beginning, so here's part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9 and part 10.
You've been watching this far, you pretty much know what's going on. Here's how it all ends. This episode features a cameo by Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. We had been in contact with him about doing this scene during a protest against the World Bank, and the last we had heard from his manager was that he wouldn't be at this protest. Lucky for us, he was the first person we saw when we got there. The funny thing about staging a wedding at a protest is that everybody at the protest thinks it's the real deal.

Washington Interns Gone Bad Episode 10

2006-09-30T12:40:00.000-07:00

Here's the 10th episode of my feature film, Washington Interns Gone Bad. I highly recommend you start at the beginning, so here's part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, and part 9.

This is the episode in which I predicted the Jack Abramoff scandal a few years before the fact. It's also the sexiest episode, and the second to last. Enjoy.

This is your country

2006-09-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

Tuesday has come and gone without a new episode of Washington Interns Gone Bad. I promise there will be a new one very shortly. All of that stuff is in a pc format and I'm mainly working on my mac these days. But I'm making it easier to switch between the two, and we'll be back to normal in no time. So in the meantime...

This is a little ad I did for MoveOn.org's Bush in 30 Seconds contest. It's not the most original thing in the world. It is the best I could come up with on limited time and no outside help.

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Dedicated to my boss

2006-09-19T21:42:00.000-07:00

Here's a nice little country song by Ween. While the song itself is about a relationship gone sour, the sentiment is how I feel about my boss. He's an angry little man who derives the only happiness in his pathetic life by making everybody who works for him absolutely miserable. I would ordinarily be wary about blogging about my boss, but on my first week there, the asshole had my domain blocked because too many people were on there to look at pictures of my newborn baby. Way to be endearing to the new guy! And it's all been downhill from there. I relish the day that I quit that lousy sweatshop and can finally tell that miniature petty tyrant the multitude of ways in which he sucks, but for now there's really only one thing to say and that's "Piss up a Rope."

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Vau De Vire Society Parade at Vegoose

2006-09-17T10:04:00.000-07:00

Here's my first video that I've put together with iMovie on the mac. It's a very simple editor, but for vlogging it seems to do the trick. Almost a year ago, I had the opportunity to go to Las Vegas with San Francisco's premiere avant-cabaret troupe, the Vau De Vire Society. The organizers of the Vegoose festival asked them to put together a cabaret tent, and they put together the coolest show ever with lots of other acts from the Bay Area and elsewhere. To kick things off, they had a little parade through the festival grounds, led by Fishbone's Angelo Moore. If you'd like to compare, here's an unedited version of this that I posted on YouTube.

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Now Powered by Mac

2006-09-14T21:26:00.000-07:00

How psyched am I? I still have a bunch of video on my PC, but soon I'll be doing all my vlogging and most of everything else on the mac.

Washington Interns Gone Bad Episode 9

2006-09-12T06:31:00.000-07:00

Here's the 9th episode of my feature film, Washington Interns Gone Bad. I highly recommend you start at the beginning, so here's part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, and part 8.

On the DVD, this chapter is called "The Setup." Becky and Scottie put their plan in motion to get the sleazy congressman.

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A Guy Walks Into a Bar

2006-09-09T20:51:00.000-07:00

For those of you who have been watching this vlog for a while, this video is not new. But this is the first time that it's available to download. For the tens of newbies out there, this is a short comedy that I made in the spring of 05 for a short film contest run by the local wuss-rock radio station. I heard about the contest and thought that I only had two weeks to get it made, so I enlisted the help of the funniest people I knew and we came up with the concept, banged out a script, rehearsed and shot it all in the course of a week. Then I edited like crazy before finding out that the deadline was actually a month later than we thought. It never did make it into that contest, but it's played in a few festivals to a good response and was even highlighted by Salon.com's vlog. So without further ado, I give you A Guy Walks Into a Bar...

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Washington Interns Gone Bad Episode 8

2006-09-05T06:44:00.000-07:00

Here's the 8th episode of my feature film, Washington Interns Gone Bad. I highly recommend you start at the beginning, so here's part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 and part 7.

This episode features the congressman getting really sleazy with Becky and is another showcase for Adam Kroloff's great physical comedy.

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Happy Labor Day

2006-09-03T21:20:00.000-07:00

Here's a rousing labor anthem from Billy Bragg to celebrate more than just a 3 day weekend. Labor Day is about the people who fought and died to bring us things we take for granted today. Things like the 40 hour work week, job safety, and the end to child labor and company towns. In this day and age of corporate mergers, outsourcing, benefit cuts, stagnating wages and race-to-the-bottom globalization, it is absolutely vital for workers to continue fighting for our rights. And to drive that point home, here's video of Billy Bragg playing a rousing labor anthem in the lobby of the AFL-CIO building in Washington, DC. Solidarity forever!

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YouTube has officially Jumped the Shark

2006-09-02T20:47:00.000-07:00

Just see for yourself.