Yup,

our master builder, Jonny Grindstaff, today delivered the new Nightmare City arcade game.

It is amazing. Both Skye and I have been trying to play it, to no avail.
Actually, with a little practice, I got up to level three before a guest arrived for the 7pm showing.
But take my word, this game is stunning, a feast for the senses.

So far everyone who has come in has oohed and aahed over it.

See for yourself

In the meantime, here’s my favorite part of the arcade:

Oh, and for those who don’t read the business page, Nightmare City is the organization that won control of 23E Studios and The Museum of Viral Memory in a hostile take over about six months ago.

Disembody just became a little more wonderfully Angeleno.

The other day I put ads on craigslist advertising that we have 4″ pink foam to sell cheap.

Today Santiago dropped by the Morgellon to buy two pieces. He is modding his car, and is using the foam to carve out the parts he wants. He then will cast them for molds and make the exterior parts himself.
How cool is that? Materials from the Morgellon are going to become part of L.A.’s custom car culture!

While downstairs getting the 4″ foam, Santiago spotted all the leftover 1″ foam panels from the ceiling, and asked what we wanted for those. He thinks they will be perfect for making interior parts for his cars. We were going to throw those pieces of foam out, so I just gave them to him.
So he loaded up his car with pink foam, which will become a part of the glamorous streets of Los Angeles!

I am so happy! Yesterday we get asked if we’ll rent the theater out for a film series, today we contribute materials to the cult of the automobile!

Disembody as a love letter to Los Angeles continues.

Last night the Morgellon hosted me, Skye and Arthur, with our new friends Jordan, Annie and Dane.
We watched Mike Kelley’s Day is Done, disc 1 (maybe 100 minutes of the 169 minute total).
It was great.
The other night Skye and Amy and Jack and I watched Showgirls.

I really have a desire now to have my own theater, wherein I can show movies for friends and strangers (who may become new friends) all the time.

How cool would it be to show Showgirls, Wizard of OZ, The Wall, Battlefield: Earth, The Devils, Zardoz, and Day is Done one night? With popcorn and hot dogs and soda and candy? In a theater with a mathemagical ceiling, a chandelier collision, ratty old seats that feel really lived in, crushed velvet curtains, and a twelve foot wide screen?

Super cool.

If only we could relocate the Morgellon to someone’s house, and 23E Studiots could take turns programming and hosting.

In other news,
we’ve had a lot of people come in inquiring about what movies we’re playing. And many who thought we were a new business in town, a little theater showing second run films it seems.
And yesterday I received a call from a gentleman who was at the Chinatown movie night (where one of the other gallerists shows curated flicks in the courtyard) Saturday. He stopped by the Morgellon after the first set of flicks down the way and picked up a card.
The next day he called to see if he could rent the Morgellon one night a month for a film series. I saved the message for the archive.
We spoke yesterday and I explained to him that we weren’t a real theater. He was very surprised.

All of which leads me to believe that we have created a really stupendous piece here with the theater and lobby and iconography. Despite being the work of 30 plus people, the Morgellon is a unified and coherent space. An act of true transformation, worthy of our patron saints, Athanasius Kircher and John Dee.

A year from now, we may need to build the New Morgellon Theater to show all the different films that come out of our footage.

since the tapes had not been numbered yet, as in serialized, i wrote in tiny numbers on all of them.
The point of the numbers was to give each tape a unique identifier. The numbers i put on there are preceded by the letter ‘J’ for jonny blaze. The numbers are just there as ID numbers and they don’t signify anything else (like what tape was shot when, or by whom).

So far the tapes that I would like to have recaptured on another camera are:

J01
J02
J05
J07
J13
J15
J16
J21

some other tapes have more glitchy audio, but i’m not sure what ones right now or how bad it is.

PS: looks like we have a collection of 35 tapes, J00-J34