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Goodbye Jacqui!

mukelarvin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:17:50 +0000

My roommate Jacqui is moving to Toronto. She’s lived with me for a couple of years now and it has been really great. I’m going to be sad to see her go. Who am I going to watch/hate Gossip Girl with!?!

She's a big Zach Galifanakis fan.

Her coworkers got her a cake.

I (nearly) got Facehuntered

mukelarvin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:10:25 +0000

He only got my face. If you’re not familiar with Facehunter that might sound normal. The Facehunter should be after people’s faces right? Well you’re wrong. He’s famous for taking photos of nicely dressed people. I’m on his personal blog where the portraits are more about faces rather than clothes.

Facehunter = Clothes

Yvan Rodic = Faces

Got it?

Alone in a hotel room #1 and #2

mukelarvin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:39:21 +0000

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

mukelarvin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:15:26 +0000

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.

Icelandic Dreamgirl, Gimli, Sentimentality

mukelarvin — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:04:40 +0000

Not pictured: Me making an uncharacteristic embarrassment of myself at the fire at the end of the video. There was vomit.

You (May or May Not) Belong with me

mukelarvin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:53:29 +0000

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.

You (may or may not) Belong With Me

Trying to Sing Really High and Loud

mukelarvin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:46:24 +0000

Trying to Sing Really High and Loud from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.

Improv Everywhere – Redhead Protest

mukelarvin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:44:52 +0000

I’ve Given Up

mukelarvin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:01:13 +0000

I’ve Given Up from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.

Halloween Mini Vlog

mukelarvin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:26:34 +0000

Halloween ’09 from Luke Marvin on Vimeo.