Mongrel Studios News

stay tuned

2010-04-30T15:37:00.000-07:00

The next time you see me, it won't be me.

Love,
the dead minotaur

making on

2010-03-29T00:34:00.001-07:00

Heeeeeey yoooooou guuuuuys!
Remember that movie those Mongrel guys were making? That The Roomies movie? Well it turns out they're still making it.

So I suppose we'll be hearing more about that on the eventual side.
I, for one, am totally stoked.
On the eventual side as well.

Love,
the dead minotaur

wakey wakey

2010-03-16T16:49:00.000-07:00

Time to get up.

Befriend the Entropy All-Stars on Facebook.
Or MySpace, because apparently it's still around.

Love,
the dead minotaur

Scratch of the Cat II - The Reckoning

2010-03-02T00:46:00.000-08:00

If this were a movie, and not an ad for a car, it would get an Oscar nod for sure. Ninja cat-people? Why didn't I think of it before?

three two one

2010-02-14T19:46:00.000-08:00

This year you're getting what you got last year.
Happy Valentine's Day.

Love,
the dead minotaur

singe

2010-02-05T12:41:00.000-08:00

Cold-switch trundle, uphill and gaining,
the morning ahead after hours.
Fluttering in ash, a scent
and the wrong memories of moisture on windows come cutting.
All these little miracles in hindsight,
all that burnt through,
all the sweeter for over.

Love,
the dead minotaur

I just want to tell you how I'm feeling

2010-02-04T15:36:00.000-08:00

You wouldn't get this from any other guy.

what wrap party

2010-01-12T12:08:00.000-08:00

Oh yeah that wrap party.

If you were holding your breath for these then I'm sorry you are dead.
Or if you aren't, damn impressed.

Love,
the dead minotaur

can't leave/have not yet left 200x behind

2010-01-04T00:35:00.000-08:00

Following up on my New Year's Resolution.
So far the most comprehensive lyrical deconstruction of Mega Man 2 I've seen yet.
And don't think I've stopped looking.

(more of this kind of radness by these "the adventures of duane and brando" fellows here)
Yes all we do now is look for and re-post rapping over Mega Man.
Forget about our upcoming feature film, the inevitable conclusion to Really Good Reason and whatever the hell else we do.
Welcome to the future.

Love,
the dead minotaur

the alpha and the mega

2009-12-31T22:09:00.000-08:00

I am done with you '09.
I am ready for the future.
I am ready for rapping over Mega Man.

I am ready for a future filled with rapping over Mega Man.

So **** off, '09.

(mash-ups by edco0o, thank you for your mashery)

Love,
the dead minotaur

and now it's time to parish

2009-12-30T20:05:00.000-08:00

Remember this?
Hope so. Wasn't too long ago.
If you were digging on F1v3.2's tunes, well, I've got some good news for ya.
One of our buddies just happens to sound almost exactly like 'em.
And now he has a home on Mongrel.

It's uncanny, really.
Here's to neither suing the other.

Love,
the dead minotaur

entry

2009-12-29T16:27:00.000-08:00

Duck and covered the one-fell-swoop, seasonal stashed as elements blanket.
Awash, sirens flirting in the backdrop, buck and sway,
shake and quake, knuckles white around the world.

Blizzard in the blood again, beating in the blood again.
Tempo and crescendo go it's beating in the blood again.
None to know, none to go and beating beat beat beat again.

This door was locked before.
No clue what for but it's not anymore.
Tuck and roll, the one-fell-swoop,
klaxon intercourse steaming powder sky,
knuckles blanket beat again.

Love,
the dead minotaur

this bag bags bags

2009-12-17T21:41:00.000-08:00

We're just rationalizing our surrender to physics at this point, objects at rest tending as you do, comfortable calling it comfortable, cozy and complicit in this old bag, the same old bag.

Born in a bag, buried in a bag, cozy and complicit.

Love,
the dead minotaur

don't bag for me, bag

2009-12-10T17:54:00.000-08:00

Perceptions shaped by natural selection would seem natural enough, yet in capturing the world in language the grammar twists translation until we're left with only an artifice in the image of our delusion. Whatever reality is out there has disappeared inside the bag of our means to understand it.

And once realized how shallow the bags really are, the tearing can begin.

Love,
the dead minotaur

before you wake up and forget me

2009-12-05T14:37:00.001-08:00

Mongrel Studios proudly presents a short dream by Gala Gershwin.

Love,
the dead minotaur

before you "before you"...

2009-12-04T19:28:00.000-08:00

A friendly reminder: tomorrow we're all watching Gala's new movie.
All of us.
For the first time. Ever.
So that'll be something we can share.

Leland Barnes has already seen it.
Don't let him spoil it for you.

Love,
the dead minotaur

a bag for your bag

2009-12-03T16:37:00.000-08:00

Minds weaned on cause-effect rationale used to be good enough damn it.
Used to be good enough to be mistaken.
Good enough to be wrong.
It's still okay sometimes.
Sometimes it's the best.
But it's still harder to fill the bag than it is to decorate it.

Such fancy bags, such room inside.

Love,
the dead minotaur

developments

2009-12-02T16:16:00.000-08:00

Here is the neatest-looking photo from the wrap party for The Roomies.

It was apparently taken by a lilliputian.
It's one of the few pictures of people not doing wiggly-face.
There are a lot of wiggly-face pictures.
I hear tell there's a production blog in the works now that'll pretty much just be wiggly-face pictures.
So if you were at the wrap party and would rather not have your wiggly-face all out there a-wiggling, then, well, gee, guess you shouldn't have spent the whole party doing wiggly-face then.
Figure you've got a day or two to voice your concerns.
Sending money might help more though.

Love,
the dead minotaur

When I stand here it makes me human

2009-11-30T15:52:00.000-08:00

I was sad and now I'm not and this is why.

Great for when you feel like the end of Altered States.
And would like not to.

chamber

2009-11-29T09:38:00.000-08:00

Ambient in holiday-frost, staircase velocity, gold-trim and
holding our noses all the way down.

(Marrow maple syrup thick isn't thick enough for thin, reminds you, riding down in bone and straps buckled in on each other, high-gloss and cozy, posed like surgical tools off the tray magnifique, incisor manifold while doll-forms croon in mahogany and veal carved in paths around the chamber as the sun is parodied below us, pursing lips cracking finish in the tide.)

Where they figured the theater for a womb and let the mechanism seep
in the all-alright, you hardly miss the concessions.

Love,
the dead minotaur

Is this the real life?

2009-11-25T17:35:00.000-08:00

Just the bestest thing ever.

"Gallileo!"
"meeemeeemeemee!"
"Gallileo!"
"meeemeemeemee!"
Bestest. Ever.

standing by

2009-11-24T22:30:00.000-08:00

Keeping our feet on the ground with Leland Barnes.
Lest they get out from under us.
Let's not lest that now.

Love,
the dead minotaur

The facts that will be presented are true.

2009-11-23T17:51:00.001-08:00

I am having a Larry Carlson kind of day.
Let's have a Larry Carlson kind of day together.

GOD MAN AND BEAST from Larry Carlson on Vimeo.

Ain't no day like a Larry Carlson day.
Tell you what.

welcoming

2009-11-22T09:52:00.000-08:00

Kick burnt shells out into the road and watch the sparks and the shadows in the dust depart in pairs.
Always in pairs and close enough to be one,
one four legged thing, elephantine, lurching into the fade
until they split at the edge of the dust
and leave each other with everything else.

This far out you wonder how people live even before you're sure they do.
Walls quivering, peeling off the horizon, slick.
Easier if it's just the feeling you're being watched.

Whatever happened here must've been bad.
So bad it keeps happening.
But the company's appreciated and the shadows are dimming
and drawing apart so early now
you can almost miss them.

Love,
the dead minotaur

this is not about finger business

2009-11-21T21:19:00.000-08:00

We're happy to report that Gala's new short film will be debuting on Mongrel Studios on December 5th.
That's two weeks from now.
Fourteen days.
That is more days than the fingers you have on your hands.
If you were planning on using them to remember how many days were left until Gala's new short film will be debuting on December 5th, then I am afraid they will be insufficient for the task.
Unless you start later.
This is entirely up to you though
It is not my place to tell you what you can or cannot do with your fingers.
Your finger business is not my finger business.

Nor is it Leland's finger business.
Let's all agree to stay out of each other's finger business.
Okay.

Love,
the dead minotaur