New Stucks on VCAM TONIGHT!

Lordy, I can barely keep track of it all. Between Facebook status updates, learning TweetDeck and Twitter, producing my weekly vlog Stuck in VT for Seven Days and posting it to Facebook, YouTube, Blip and VCAM and re-running my cable access show The Deadbeat Club - which way is up and which way is down?

OK, this I know, tonight you can see some fresh Stucks on VCAM where they look much nicer than all pixelated on the internets:

Stuck in Vermont
VCAM, Channel 15
Mondays @ 8:30pm
Tuesdays @ 9:30am

Playing in February/March 2009:

January Episodes 111-114, 7Dtv15
Champlain Island Farmer's Market, Obama-rama, The One Fashion Event, Peace & Justice Center's 30th B-Day, Mayoral Debate 7Dtv

And also, a "new" rerun of The Deabeat Club started last night. I watched it with my mom and we had a hoot. As mortifying as it can be watching yourself blab like a mad hatter, DBC has been an interesting way for me to judge days gone by.

I get to hear myself talking about my dream job making a weekly arts and culture video featuring local VTers and then voila, 2 years later, I am living the dream baby!

Last night was an episode from the early days of Stuck in VT when I was trying to figure out what the hell I was doing. Stucks on the tremendous 07 VDay blizzard, Cindy Sheehan and Sonic Youth - I look back on those days fondly since I am now on Episode 118. Speaking of, I better get back to work. Like the rest, this episode refuses to edit itself.

The Deadbeat Club
VCAM, Channel 15
Fridays @ 11:30pm
Sundays @ 9:00pm

Playing in March/April:
RERUN! DBC30, March/April 2007
New episodes when we can!

New Dec Stucks on VCAM

Stuck in VT
December Episodes 107-110
Airing January 2009
Channel 15, VCAM

And a new rerun of The Deadbeat Club playing this month as well! It is the New Year's episode from 2007, what fun. It features Suzanne M0nroe trying to hijack my show and lots of talk about the end of the world. Wow, that sounds just like this year! Apparently, I always think about the end of the world when a new year arrives?! Little did we know in 2007 just how impressively shitty 2009 would be...eek.

In 2007 I started vlogging for the first time but had not quite gotten the format down. Those early vlogs were really long, free form and experimental - basically me babbling. And in this episode I talk about how I wanted to make a well-structured vlog in which I interviewed VTers about their lives and what do you know? I did it. ;)

It is always nice watching old DBC and seeing how much has changed, especially when I am feeling like I move in slow mo and never get anywhere.

In the 2 years since I made that episode, I've produced 110 segments of Stuck in VT, interviewed just about everyone in town, got featured on Boston's The Chronicle and written about in the Freeps, not to mention having Stuck viewed all over the world. I got my dream job at Seven Days, bought a weird old house, and am continually excited by the work I do for the very first time in my life.

Who knows what 2009 will bring, but please let Mad Max be a way down the road. I still have to tile the front porch and figure out how to fit a ping pong table in the basement. I have plans, so many.

I'm Alive!

Oh bloggy, I am so sorry for having forsaken you all these weeks. The lure of Facebook is so strong though. Why post here when I can post on FB and automatically reach out to hundreds of friends across the globe? My little online diary just pales by comparison, feign to deny it.

And to think that one year ago Facebook meant nothing to me. That status updates were not my hourly source of amusement. That I was not able to easily click on over to see photos of friend's of friends Halloweens and Thanksgivings.

Facebook is the brightly lit window on a cold winter's night that I love to peak into. Only I get to peak into windows across the world! Croatia, England, Denmark, Belgium and all over the USA - it is a Voyeur's Delight!

My old Stuck in VT blog got a face lift thanks to Don at 7 Days. For some reason people keep going to it despite its long ago retirement (turns up high in google searches for some reason or other) so we are resuscitating it. Happy days!

This weekend I learned that I need to buy some real boots. If I am going to live in VT, I need to be prepared. After a 5 hour shoot in the freezing cold (pics here), I was frozen through and through thanks to my stoopid fashion boots. This week, I search out some Mucks. It is time to embrace being a VTer, long underwear and all.

100th Episode of Stuck in VT

Last week was sort of like Stuck in VT's birthday. To celebrate, I threw a party for myself which, as my friend Freddy pointed out, can seem both "lame and desperate," but also very, very fun.

Thanks Seven Days for giving me a job AND these colorful happy flowers! I'm not worthy!!!

Sept Stucks on VCAM

Stuck in Vermont
VCAM, Channel 15
Mondays @ 8:30pm
Tuesdays @ 9:30am

September Stucks include the Art Hop, the Burlington Book Fest, the VPR Listener Picnic and Langdon St Cafe's Army of Fun. Music vids of Amadis and The Smittens thrown in for fun.

2 Senators, Batman and Supergirls

Saturday was a wild day.

Here are the highlights:

Interviewed 2 Vt Senators, Bernie Sanders on Church St and Patrick Leahy in Montpelier.

Had assistance interviewing people and filming my Intros/Outros from Maggie and Anna (below).

Maggie is a member of the Supergirls Comics Club (run by the most awesome fellow comic book nerd Aubry) at the Kellogg-Hubbard Library - I wish I could join too.

Says Maggie (wearing my headphones below) in a careful-not-to-hurt-my-feelings-sort-of-tone, "You are doing a great job. But try to SLOW DOWN A LOT."

9 year old girls are SO SUPERGIRL cool.
Appreciated Ben T Matchstick's most awesome Batman haircut.

Enjoyed a tasty Mexican meal with Zombie Fighters (seen briefly in a former Stuck, Burlington Zombie Walk), post-apocalyptic kickballers (future Stuck?) Aubry and Pete, Ben the Beloved Storyteller and Cardboard Wielder and my Joker-loving sister.

Saw the premiere of The Dark Knight DAYS BEFORE everyone in the world got a chance to see it - KABLAMMO!

This Batman event was covered in The NY Times, USA Today and the Boston Globe. VT MADE HEADLINES!! Thanks Leahy!


Rocked out to Space Tiger.

Talented 9 yr old band leader Aiden helped me fix my camera mike mount.

Bought a cool 10 in 1 tool at a hardware store to keep in my camera bag for the next time something needs screwing.

Interviewed the Mayor of Montpelier and Scudder Parker and some other political big wigs.

Ate FOUR cheese puffs IN A ROW without getting reprimanded.

GADZOOKS Batman what a day! Thanks for being so entertaining Montpelier!

Back in Burlap, I spent all of Sunday recovering...and digitizing...

June Stucks on VCAM

Playing during July on VCAM, Channel 15:

Stuck in VT 82-85: Green Mountain Derby Dames, Walk for Animals, Rene Kirby, Phantom Theater

7Dtv 3-4: Alice Eats Church St, Project Porchlight

Stuck in Vermont
VCAM, Channel 15
Mondays @ 8:30pm
Tuesdays @ 9:30am

Man, time flies and these are late AGAIN. Argh. Why can't I slow time to serve me?

Phantom Theater is STuck in VT

Phantom Theater [85]

Rene Kirby is Stuck in VT (and AWESOME!)

Rene Kirby [84]

Having a woe is me day? Watch this damn video. There is cussing.

New Stucks on VCAM

Yes, yes, they are late but they are here! May Stucks and some May 7Dtv as well! Tune in Monday night and Tuesday AM during June for some full res fun!

Animals are Stuck in VT

Walk for the Animals [83]

Open Studio is Stuck in VT

Jericho-Underhill Open Studio Tour [81]

Phinn Sonin is Stuck in VT

Phinn Sonin [79]

Often, editing can be quite a grueling process. Whittling 2 hours down to 5 mintues HURTS SO BAD. But not this week. Watching Phinn is better than TV.

Even though I am in the cabaret with Phinn, I barely know him. So it was a pleasure to spend the afternoon watching him socialize with folks at Junktiques even though we were both groggy and post-cabaret-pooped.

Sheriff Phinn, seriously, you should run for President. You have my vote.

Inner Fire District is Stuck in VT

Inner Fire District [78]

I should also mention that everyone but Tim is also in the Spielpalast Cabaret band. That is yet another reason why they kick serious butt.

King Lear is Stuck in VT

King Lear [77]

I think you will agree after watching this video that Brian Johnson (above) as the coolest eyebrows ever.

Pure Pop is Stuck in VT

Pure Pop Record Store Day [79]

Pure Pop makes me glad. I can still recall how excited I was when we drove from Johnson to Burlington to get records there. I had to pester my mom for days to make the trip and it was my only access to real culture.

Zach Ward introduced me to Lou Reed and David Bowie and it was at Pure Pop that I finally understood what all the fuss was about. Oh, holy shit, now I get it.


Sigh, those YouTube haters are right, this is too much of a close up for me. But the problem is that I am shooting with a monopod and I have to hold the camera while I am blabbing. The worst thing is that I was thinking about those vapid assholes while I was editing this vlog. Grrr.