"12oz Curls" Music Video - The BLB

VBC Records band, The BLB, releases its first music video. Check it out.

Click here to buy the song and listen to clips from the rest of the hit album Drunken Banter in the iTunes Music Store.

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Making the Video: "12oz Curls" (5 of 5)

In August The BLB hired director Elliot Rudmann to film their first music video. They shot it on the shores of Lake Michigan over the course of two days, for the song "12oz Curls."

I was on the set to oversee my investment and decided to shoot a behind the scenes companion video.

Click here to view "12oz Curls" and the rest of the hits from their debut album Drunken Banter on the iTunes Music Store.

Be their fan on Face Book.

Be their friend on My Space.

Making the Video: "12oz Curls" (4 of 5)

In August The BLB hired director Elliot Rudmann to film their first music video. They shot it on the shores of Lake Michigan over the course of two days, for the song "12oz Curls."

I was on the set to oversee my investment and decided to shoot a behind the scenes companion video.

Click here to view "12oz Curls" and the rest of the hits from their debut album Drunken Banter on the iTunes Music Store.

Be their fan on Face Book.

Be their friend on My Space.

Making the Video: "12oz Curls" (3 of 5)

In August The BLB hired director Elliot Rudmann to film their first music video. They shot it on the shores of Lake Michigan over the course of two days, for the song "12oz Curls."

I was on the set to oversee my investment and decided to shoot a behind the scenes companion video.

Click here to view "12oz Curls" and the rest of the hits from their debut album Drunken Banter on the iTunes Music Store.

Be their fan on Face Book.

Be their friend on My Space.

Making the Video: "12oz Curls" (2 of 5)

In August The BLB hired director Elliot Rudmann to film their first music video. They shot it on the shores of Lake Michigan over the course of two days, for the song "12oz Curls."

I was on the set to oversee my investment and decided to shoot a behind the scenes companion video.

Click here to view "12oz Curls" and the rest of the hits from their debut album Drunken Banter on the iTunes Music Store.

Be their fan on Face Book.

Be their friend on My Space.

Making the Video: "12oz Curls" (1 of 5)

In August The BLB hired director Elliot Rudmann to film their first music video. They shot it on the shores of Lake Michigan over the course of two days, for the song "12oz Curls."

I was on the set to oversee my investment and decided to shoot a behind the scenes companion video.

Click here to view "12oz Curls" and the rest of the hits from their debut album Drunken Banter on the iTunes Music Store.

Be their fan on Face Book.

Be their friend on My Space.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 60

Thursday, May 22, 2008

"Have you guys seen my skater boyfriend John?"

Another "Sixty Days" ends; another new adventure begins.

"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his.”
-W. H. Auden

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 59

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Serene.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 58

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

I'm not going to talk about it.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 57

Monday, May 19, 2008

Posing for a staged photo, pretending to be passed out on a dirty couch in a back alley.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 56

Sunday, May 18, 2008

A day off between hectic schedules, all night benders, and quick changes.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 55

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Commencement.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 54

Friday, May 16, 2008

Poetic.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 53

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Night three of the Deuce-Deuce recording sessions, tracking The BLB's sophomore album.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 52

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

This is the first thing I did when I got my robe for graduation.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 51

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Partying with The BLB and Lazer Dan. No one turns down an hour of power, not even at 4AM. Happy Birthday J-Forest!

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 50

Monday, May 12, 2008

I finally got home and crashed.

“They will build statues in my honor. There will be parades held in name. Days will be set aside to commemorate me.”
“What are you talking about?”
“The apple monkeys told me to dance, but I didn’t have a spatula.”
“Get some sleep.”

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 49

Sunday, May 11, 2008

The end nears. I was up all night this night again.

I wrote a ten page term paper, a three page case analysis, and completed a take home final. I was up all night long. I may have done some other things too . . . I have seemed to lose my sense of time during this past week.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 48

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Tonight's "Graduation or Bust" session is brought to you, in part, by:

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 47

Friday, May 9, 2008

Here I am at the studio. At 6PM they told me I could leave, I stayed another 15 hours - working on finals projects in the lounge. Here I am taking a short break in the A Live Room.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 46

Thursday, May 8, 2008

The excitement continues as I prepare for finals.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 45

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Trying to wake myself up, so I can stay up and keep working. (I burned through my Taurine supply).

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 44

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Study break.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 43

Monday, May 5, 2008

All right. So this is how it works. Two weeks left in school and I stay up all night working. I wake up looking like that. And I head out looking like this. Think what you want, but you can’t argue with results.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 42

Sunday, May 4, 2008

I listen to music all day and all night.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 41

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Five years can go by awfully fast.

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 40

Friday, May 2, 2008

Looptopia

“Where’s Tom? Ugh . . . TOM! STOP THAT! The bean is not a vanity mirror for you to put on eye liner!” -Green Lady

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 39

Thursday, May 1, 2008

This one thing; it's always on my mind. It consumes me entirely. I am completely at its mercy. I was almost struck by another vehicle again today as I crossed an intersection while drenched in thought about it. It drives me as it haunts me.

"There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it."
-Mark Twain

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 38

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

You know that one movie, with Jim Carrey . . .

. . . yeah . . .

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 37

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Rock Star sponsored my class’ event. It’s no Monster, but after six of these I didn’t really care, (and you can see it in my tweaked-out smile).

"Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life."
-Benjamin Franklin

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 36

Monday, April 28, 2008

Taking the sparsely used back staircase. (Fourteen flights, twice a day, while carrying a computer is actually pretty easy. Elevators are for deadbeats).

[ A narcissist will often have a sense of time urgency or appear to be impatient. ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 35

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Finding books for a research paper with ease thanks to Melvil.

[ The narcissist often behaves very differently in public situations from private situations. ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 34

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Here I am praying to an oil-stain-false-idol on the wall of an underpass.

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.”
-Hannah Arendt

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 33

Friday, April 25, 2008

Twenty years in the future: “Don’t give me that attitude. When I was your age I painted the walls of I.V. Lab Studios. And I was glad to do it.”

“If only I had a little humility, I’d be perfect.”

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 32

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Vanilla ice cream bubbles and popcorn butterflies!
“If it hadn’t been absurd it would have been quite romantic.”

[ A narcissist feels entitled to special privileges. ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 31

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

“Every now and then I get a little bit terrified, but then I see that fuckin look in your eyes!”

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm – But the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
-T.S. Eliot

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 30

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The walls are closing in on me. The work just keeps building up. Did I graduate yet? Thirty days until homecoming.

“Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.”
-Todd Solondz

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 29

Monday, April 21, 2008

Look at how cultured and collegiate I am as I study under a tree in the park.

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
- Gore Vidal

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 28

Sunday, April 20, 2008

“It says here that by the age of 21 he had already stabbed his girlfriend once in the abdomen, who bleed to death, and he then died of a heroin overdose when he was bailed out of jail.

. . . it really makes me wonder what I’m doing with my life.”

“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.”
-Sherry Turkle

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 27

Saturday, April 19, 2008

“This is like that time we were in Vienna, at the sausage festival. Except there’s no girls here.”

“I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.”
-Diana Vreeland

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 26

Friday, April 18, 2008

"I’m gonna steal your girlfriend."

“Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.”
-Leo Rosten

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 25

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Yeah, I know . . . I know.

“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
-Anthony Powell

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 24

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

“I wrote a song about her. I bet that’s more than her boyfriend the drummer can say.”
“Yeah, what does he do? Keep time in honor of her?”

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
-Sigmund Freud

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 23

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

“Go to class, Tom!” -Chelsea

[ The narcissist is preoccupied with himself, his preferences, needs and aspirations and with his fantasies of unlimited success. ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 22

Monday, April 14, 2008

I didn’t take this of myself, nor did I ask anyone to photograph me sleeping.

[ The narcissist is inclined to lie or deceive. ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 21

Sunday, April 13, 2008

You can't really see the tears, but they're flowing, (because of the quote below).

"Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.”
-Mason Cooley

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 20

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Meghan’s first birthday!!!

"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
-Andre Dubus

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 19

Friday, April 11, 2008

Bouncing reference mixes for the new Umphrey’s McGee album.

"The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”
-Bertrand Russell

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 18

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Singing/Playing a song of mine.

"Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.”
-Samuel Johnson

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 17

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Politics, Philosophy, Religion, Life, Love, and a 6 A.M. one-mile walk home east through the dawn mist as the sun rose.

"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.”
-Thomas Szasz

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 16

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

"Why you at the bar if you aint poppin' the bottles?"

[ The narcissist appears to be devoid of empathy (although it is sometimes suggested that the narcissist can, to some extent, empathise with other narcissists). ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 15

Monday, April 7, 2008

Shot-gunning a Monster. It's probably not good to stay up all night . . . two nights in a row. But time will tell.

"Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge."
-Todd Solondz

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 14

Sunday, April 6, 2008

In the park having a picnic with Taylor, Timmy C, and Elliot.

"The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.”
-Mason Cooley

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 13

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Some say he’s nothing but a big teddy bear. I think some misspeak, and mean to say that he’s nothing but a big ferocious grizzly bear.

"It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one’s own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.”
-George Eliot

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 12

Firday, April 4, 2008

"I handled my charm with time and slight of hand."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
-Oscar Wilde

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 11

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Starting off the night, dancing to Girl Talk in my room.

"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens . . . to stumble upon it.”
-George Gordon Noel Byron