Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll

For Immediate Release

Stuart Davis’ new television series Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll is being filmed this fall in Boulder, Colorado. The show is an hour long format of comedy, news, and in-depth interviews with spiritual teachers and unconventional icons. Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll blends Davis’ spoken word comedy and playful reporting of news from around the World with conversations you won’t find anywhere else. KEN WILBER will be joining Stuart via satellite phone in each week. Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll will be launching a subscription-based site to anchor its community, and will feature High-Def 60 minute episodes, as well as an enormous amount of free extras and bonus gift bundles (including dozens of free downloads of Davis’ music, and regularly ‘behind the scenes’ sketches shot exclusively for members). The series will be shopped to national networks upon completion. Join Stu and his cute spokesmodel Marci Davis as they take comedy Beyond Irony…

Episodes and Guests include:

7pm, Saturday November 1: How Big Is Your Love?
Stuart explores Polyamory with dead-sexy experts Kendra and Decker Cunov. Plus news from Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll and a special talk with Ken Wilber

7pm, Saturday November 8: Impossible + Inevitable = Monogamy!
Stuart finds ways of redefining monogamy with super novas Liyana Silver and Sera Beak. Plus news from Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll and a special talk with Ken Wilber.

7pm, Saturday November 15: LS-Deity
Zen Master Jun Po helps Stu divine the Zen of Drugs. What is entheogen-enhanced meditation practice? We learn from the man who invented Window Pane and founded the Hollow Bones Rinzai Zen School. Plus news from Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll and a special talk with Ken Wilber.

7pm, Saturday November 22: Thank God For Evolution!
Reverend Michael Dowd, author of Thank God For Evolution and one of the nations most inspiring speakers, will have Religion and Science making integrated babies by the end of the interview. Plus news from Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll and a special talk with Ken Wilber

7pm, Saturday November 29: Femi-Gnosis
Swami Sally Kempton and Diane Musho Hamilton tune in a more integrated approach to the feminine in self and culture. Tired of the same flat tirades of sexism, patriarchy, and matriarchy? This show is the antidote to the old limits! Plus news from Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll and a special talk with Ken Wilber.

7pm, Saturday December 6th: UFOs and Extraterrestrial Presence.
Sound far out? Prepare to have your assumptions about this subject challenged, as expert Dr Steven Greer (to be confirmed) details The Disclosure Project. Dr Greer has gathered and corroborated the sworn testimony of 450+ top government officials, high-ranking U.S. military officers, NASA astronauts, and agents with security clearance. What they reveal may rock your World, and alter your reality. Zero bullshit. We focus on assertions from sober officials who risk their lives to share their truth. Plus news from Sex, God, Rock ‘n Roll and a special talk with Ken Wilber.

All episodes filmed in front of a live audience! For tickets to the show, email Joe@ImmersiveStudios.com or call 303.413.1131. Tickets are $10, non-refundable, and limited. Brought to you by Boulder Integral and Immersive Studios. Written, directed, hosted by Stuart Davis.

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A Perfect Short

Short films, like short stories or poems, don’t have the luxury of length and exposition. The necessity of brevity often creates the purest, simplest, and often the best stories. Witness, The Lunch Date, Oscar winner in 1990 for best short film.

Saw this sometime during my film school days and it always stuck with me. Thanks to YouTube and the net, gems like this no longer get lost in time.

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Pretty Fireplay Video

This is pretty awesome.

Fireplays from Jon Thomas on Vimeo.

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What Would You Do for a Klondike Bar?

Would you vote for our video and enter yourself to win $25k? I hope so!

Watch here: http://tinyurl.com/59bcyk

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Incredible Stop Motion

This is one of the most creative frame-by-frame animation I’ve ever seen. Wicked. Tip to Marco for the find.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

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Falling Fruit has gone viral

You can now embed falling fruit talks across the web! Share away!

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Killer Daft Punk Video

yes it helps that these girls are quite attractive, but this is also just a damn fine video for a damn fine song

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Incongruency at the Corporate Level

Thanksgiving and Christmas are pretty much the only days I watch pro football on TV. I’m generally back in IL on these days and at our big family gatherings, where everyone else watches the games and thus so do I.

So anyway, watching a game last week on TurkeyDay and hey, that’s cool, the NFL has started a new program called “Play 60” that’s supposed to encourage young kids to get outside and play at least 60 minutes a day to stay physically fit.

That’s totally an awesome program and great idea, obesity in children is an increasingly growing problem!

But hey what’s this, the entire game was SPONSORED BY WENDY’S. Every 60 seconds or so Wendy’s was mentioned or the logo was flashed.

No one seemed to mention this rather glaring inconsistency. If you want kids to get fit, don’t encourage them to eat 2000 calorie meal at a fast food joint.

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Futurama is Back!

I had forgotten these DVDs were coming out, wicked! I personally think the day Futurama was born was the day the Simpsons more or less died…

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Bikini Tetris

Japan is crazy.

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Daily Show take on Writer’s Strike

Finally just watched this, seems like a logical argument to me:

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Lowered Expectations Episode 2

I started working with Boulder director Josh Shayne on his webcom “Lowered Expectations” in late June and early July. Here’s the first episode I DP’d for him, along with 2 accompanying shorts!

Full Episode 2: (watch Episode 1, which wasn’t shot by me here)

Easter Island Shorts:

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Buddhist Geeks

Interested in cool podcasts/articles about Buddhism in the modern day? checkout Buddhist Geeks for a wealth of information.

Created and hosted by my friends Gwen, Vince, and Ryan (I don’t actually know him) its some of the best stuff on the web, whether you’re Buddhist or not (ala me)

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death

the trip back from chicago went well, thankfully no further problems at the airport. Spent the week applying for some jobs, nothing too exciting or promising. The rest of the week I sat around the house mainly watching netflix movies. Most notably, I just finally finished Six Feet Under, which I started a little over a year ago. While I think the show lost its way a bit in the middle few seasons, the first season and last part of season 5 are particularly amazing.

The final episode, and specifically the final 15 minutes of the last show, make for probably the best conclusion to a series I’ve seen. The final montage in the last episode is painfully beautiful and straightforward, and a logical fulfilment of the premise of the show. It’s one of those beautiful moments of film/video where the music and the images magically combine to create something neither of them would be alone. With the images showing us what to feel, and the music informing how we should feel it.

For me, the best episodes of the show were the ones in which the ‘death’ of the episode informed and revealed something about what the characters were struggling with at the time. The technique is similar to the way the island ‘manifests’ shadow issues or undigested material for the cast to deal with in LOST. The deaths in Six Feet Under do much the same I think, though the episodes that do that are certainly more prevalent earlier in the series before it turns into more typical soap-opera esque character issues.

While a little cheesy, predictable, and overly dramatic at points in the series, overall I’m so impressed. This is a show about how life is, not how we want life to be. Nobody is perfect in the show, but everybody has moments of perfection. Issues don’t always get resolved, things don’t necessarily end happily, and people don’t always come around as we might hope. Check it out if you haven’t already.

Death is that strangest of things; the one universal experience that every living being in the world shares, something completely universal, but also simultaneously the loneliest thing in the world for anyone to experience or witness.

That probably wasn’t the best show in the world to watch during my unemployed-what-the fuck-am-i-doing-with-my-26-year-old-life period right now. Meditating on death does little to alleviate existential angst.

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The Dark Side of Oz

So what’ve I been doing with all my recently acquired free time? Well, for one, I finally made a DVD dub of The Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon. No more hitting play and pause and shit, just pop in the disc and go! Sweet. I’ll make copies for those that want them. $5 plus shipping and handling. haha….

I’m fairly proud of the image I whipped up for the DVD Menu on the right, I think it looks cool. Bless photoshop.

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In the airport again

In the airport again, seems like I’m always blogging from the airport.

Anyways, in Phoenix on a layover on my way to Honolulu for the U2/Pearl Jam concert saturday night. I’m very excited to get out of boulder/denver/integral for a while, and kick it with my old Santa Cruz homies while waiting to see two of the best bands of all time.

I’m officially unemployed now, and back on the prowl for a job. The tension between making money and working on a film career has arisen yet again, and I’m not quite sure how I’m going to deal with it.

However, I’m going to work hard on some side projects to make some extra cash, regardless of what job I get.

I took the photos for SantaCruztraveler.com last fall, and am finally going to sort through those next week.

Also, far more exciting than that, part of the old 514 Broadway crew (Daniel, Matt, and Lee) will be joining me in the creation of eye-strain.net; a cooperative blog dedicated to film, television, new media, and everything else. It’ll mainly be for fun at first but if we get good could certainly bring in some revenue one day!

contact me if you have e good job suggestion…

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