Valentine’s Show @ Coco 66 Caroline Contillo,  Bad Credit No Credit,  Noveller and the Shivers. 9 pm, $8 -> 66 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn NY (the g train is maybe not running next weekend? so plan accordingly)

i am doing standup on VALENTINES DAY Sunday Feb 14th at Coco66. Sarah will be performing as well as my friend Carrie-Anne’s awesome band Bad Credit No Credit. It will be awesome.

I will soon be entering my final semester of my undergraduate career. Finally. No, seriously, fricking finally. If you feel like employing me once my commencement has, uh, commenced, I am NOTHING but ears about that. *nervous laughter*

be well, dudes.

Flushing Farms Opening, originally uploaded by ccontill.

I lived in Germany for a month, did some standup, played a scantily-clad mummy queen in a play, went to tangier island in the chesapeake, and canoed the pine barrens. My final year as an undergrad is now underway, and my internship at the Department of Environmental Conservation starts soon.

the north end of halifax, originally uploaded by ccontill.

went to halifax, nova scotia for the obey fest this weekend. 3 and 1/2 days of awesome/experimental music/film etc. I caught a cold by the end and slept through the zine fair as a result, which was a bit of a bummer. but it was awesome to be in halifax again. i freaking love that place. it’s like some manner of shambhala for me, a hidden city where I can feel tranquil for a modest sum of money.

baby fractal, originally uploaded by ccontill.

]]> http://www.carolinecontillo.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/20/baby-fractal/feed/ http://www.carolinecontillo.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/11/mutually-beneficial-relationships/ http://www.carolinecontillo.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/11/mutually-beneficial-relationships/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 01:19:15 +0000 caroline http://www.carolinecontillo.com/blog/?p=141 let’s face it. i don’t update this thing often enough. however, i have begun making use of twitter on a regular basis now that i’ve figured out how to phone it in. literally. i literally phone it in.

here is my twitter profile.

also, i’m doing stand-up next tuesday, May 19th, at Sweet-Ups bar in Williamsburg, for Giggles comedy night. i’ve never done stand up before so things could get really messy. come out and participate in the carnage.

here is a link to the specifics.

you can buy it at her website, here.

One night I was watching Grey Gardens with my friend Alana. Alana said, during the scene where Little Edie Beale comes down the stairs in order to dance around with an American Flag, “It looks like she’d dancing to Madonna.” So I made a video wherein i spliced scenes of Grey Gardens together and set it to Madonna’s song Hung Up On You. I posted the video on Vimeo. Somehow Perez Hilton found it and blogged about it, and all of a sudden it was all over youtube with millions of views. My mom even forwarded it to me, thinking i would find it funny. She didn’t know that I was the one who’d made it. After Grey Gardens hit broadway, there was increased interest in the film, and suddenly my video was mentioned in Entertainment Weekly. I posted it on my own youtube account, only to be accused of not being the actual creator. Blogs lauded the “young gay man” who’d put it together. It spawned numerous imitations. That halloween a group of women appeared at a local bar, each dressed as little Edie, in their ‘best costume for the day.’ When I told them I’d made the video they all collapsed into fits of surprise. It was really my shining moment.

Since then, Madonna’s people have taken down the Youtube incarnations of Hung Up On Grey Gardens, my amazing little mashup. My moment in the sun. Ungrateful assholes. Couldn’t they see I was doing that irrelevant woman a favor? Anway, it still exists on Vimeo, so here it is, linked, since I can’t embed it any more: Hung Up On Grey Gardens.

So, about the HBO verson. Listen, anyone who holds Grey Gardens as some sort of sacred cow is missing the amazing opportunity for extended campification via Drew Barrymore’s janky method acting. That’s really all there is to my excitement. The original Grey Gardens is pretty much the Susan Sontagian definition (or lack thereof) of ‘camp,’ and this meta-version of the two Edies’ story is like camp cubed. I can’t wait to see it.

CN Mystic Pizza Sign.jpg, originally uploaded by corvar.

So I filmed a spot for the show Cinematherapy, where Chuck Nice from Best Week Ever therapizes women on an inflatable couch, using a classic chick flick as a jumping off point. I lucked out and got Mystic Pizza as my film, and ended up talking with Chuck about scented candles and revenge. If you’d like to see what will probably amount to about 30 seconds worth of my face, framed by a shirt that is buttoned incorrectly, then here are the deetz for my televisation debut:

Mystic Pizza
Women’s Entertainment Channel
Thursday, April 23rd, 7pm & 9pm

I’m currently wrapping up my my Junior year at Hunter. I’m taking five courses this semester, including a colloquium on the Science and Politics of Climate Change. This summer I’ll be going to Germany for a month to study German in Kassel, then taking a few other classes at Hunter when I return. I just interviewed for a program in which I would intern for a government agency or non-profit. I specified that I wanted to work in either environmental conservation or sustainable development. Architectural preservation would be OK with me, too. So, hopefully I’ll be doing that program for the entirety of the next academic year, while also wrapping up my Creative Writing major, which will include some upper-level fiction writing workshops and seminars.

On the non-academic front, I’ve been helping out with Evolver.net, where I’m also blogging. I also just filmed a spot for WE Cinematherapy, and will post the air time when it becomes known to me.