My summer job requires me to travel a lot. I’ve spent most of the summer living in hotels/motels. You start to go crazy when you’re alone in strange places every night.
Alone in a hotel room #1 from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.
Alone in a hotel room #2 from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.
Hair modelling is weird from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.
Here’s how they turned out. Freshair Salon – Ginger Photoshoot
Oh boy. If you can’t get enough there’s even more pictures here.
Not pictured: Me making an uncharacteristic embarrassment of myself at the fire at the end of the video. There was vomit.
A little while back I wrote a song for a girl. I was going to release it as part of an EP entitled “Embarrassing Songs I Wrote for Girls”, but that probably won’t be happening right away so I thought I’d just release it now on its own.
The song is meant to be funny and sorta romantic I guess. I sampled the beginning of Taylor Swift’s “You belong with me” (that’s where the hilarious song title comes from) and messed it up a little bit. I thought the results sounded kind of like a Magnetic Fields song, so I tried to channel Stephen Merrit while I was writing the lyrics. I threw in the Bon Iver bit at the end because I needed an excuse to use auto-tune. It is so much fun to play with. It was really hard for me not to auto-tune the whole song.
Who is this girl? In the song I refer to her as “Internet Dream Girl” so she’s a girl I know mostly from the Internet. Let’s just leave it at that for now.
Did the song work? I suppose it served its purpose. See, this nice young lady doesn’t live in Winnipeg so I didn’t really have a shot anyways. I just wanted to… I guess let her know. She probably already knew, but now I know that she knows.
The song is a bit sappy but I’m a sappy guy. I hope you enjoy it.
I’ve Given Up from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.
Halloween ’09 from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.
Some of you may not know this but this website has existed in one form or another for over 5 years. In terms of “the internet” that is pretty long, a year before youtube even.
Anyways, this is what the site looked like in what was potentially the best time of my life…
Come watch. Look at the fine print at very bottom right corner. Oh yeah!
www.flickr.com
|
Copyright © 2008 mukelarvin.com
