TE and EG reach American soil

zacharyrussell — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:28:40 +0000

It’s here: episode 1 of my new animated series The Adventures of Tiny Eyes and Enormous Glasses: Gay Couple. Love it or there’s something wrong with you. Watch it with your dinner guests to stimulate conversation. Watch it with your grandmother to acquaint her with 21st century sexual politics.

Always listen closely

zacharyrussell — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:14:17 +0000

I was listening to the song “The Deeper In” by Drive-by Truckers for the fifteenth time or so, and realized that it was about incest.

Your oldest brother was away at a home
and You didn’t meet him til you was nineteen years old
Old enough to know better, old enough to know better
but you took to his jaw line and long sandy hair
How he made you feel like none off the others
and the way he looked at you touched you deep down in there.

Oh… deep down in there. I get it. It’s a really humanizing portrayal of an incestuous couple, based on the true story of the only two people ever convicted of consentual incest. They had four children. It makes sense as an opening track to Decoration Day, an album that deals mostly with family, youth, and marriage. I recommend it.

My favorite line from the album: “Well my daddy didn’t pull out, but he never apologized.” From “Marry Me.”

Here’s the song.

CuGooJu Sundays #3

zacharyrussell — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:49:42 +0000

These deltoids aren't flesh; they aren't CG... they're something else entirely... something new

“Cuba designed this poster himself, based on a dream he had while napping on set. We said ‘Cuba, where are you going?’ but he just ran straight home and stayed up for three days straight watching Photoshop tutorials and building this… piece by piece.”

~ Larry Blanford — Cinematographer, Hero Wanted

I’m flipping for this Lady Gaga video

zacharyrussell — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:39:10 +0000

Dig Alexander Skarsgard

voted the sexiest man in Sweden in 1999. Son of this guy

No relation to this guy

because there’s a K in there.

Also dig the sexy-half-robot-cripple-dancing.

You guys wanna see butts?

zacharyrussell — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:27:17 +0000

Introducing the washlet. Also introducing several aspiring actors who didn’t tell their families what they were doing that day.

Not sure of this ad’s significance

zacharyrussell — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:31:33 +0000

Nothing tones abs like the continual seething burn of rabid racism. If you really work at it, bottling all that rage when you see a mixed-race couple holding hands in public really does wonders for your core. Also, it’s hot in the summer, so you should probably shave your head.

CuGooJu Sundays #2

zacharyrussell — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:59:27 +0000

CuGooJu enjoying some sunflower seeds between takes.

“Cuba refused to put those guns down for anything. He wanted to stay in character I guess. You should have seen him try to eat. Totally classic.”

~Hero Wanted director Brian Smrz

I made a thing!

zacharyrussell — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:47:40 +0000

I spent about eight hours this weekend putting together the promo site for the OINK! sketch show, The 2009 Middle American Existence Expo. For the next 72 hours or so I’m going to remember a few things about HTML and CSS. Something tells me it’s going to look like hell in your browser.

New episode of Dollop

zacharyrussell — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:57:19 +0000

Take a look at this fun bunch and their very nice internet television program. Props to Amanda Lester and Dannielle Owens-Reid*, stars of the sketch show I’m directing for OINK!

*The cut-off-upside-down brunette on left and upside-down-redhead to the left of the right-side-up guy with the hat, respectively

CuGooJu Sundays

zacharyrussell — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:08:58 +0000

CuGooJu Sundays will now be a tradition.

Honestly, I initially thought this was from Radio

“To me, acting is mostly making a face like I’m crying or about to cry, then letting the chips fall where they may.”

~ Cuba Gooding Junior, “Acting with Cuba,” KPBY, San Jose Public Access Television (Thursdays, 3:15am)