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.

we are about to have a meeting to talk about out feelings and shit. I feel sick. and I craving spaghetti. Amy is happy!!!!!! i haven’t killed Jonny yet but soon

Two (Sunday) days ago I drove around SF with lee after renting a truck. I woke up at my friend Jordan’s apartment that day. Lee and I walked from the loin to the truck rental place by CCA, so that would be 7th St. and 16thth St. I think. Lee and I stopped at Carol-Anne’s to get keys. We picked things up from Carson’s studio… and the popcorn maker, calendars from the printers, foam and so on. I don’t know who all to thank for helping us that day. For sure Skye went out of his way to pick things up so that I would not have to drive the big truck trough town too much.

Oh yeah, Christan Einfeldt the producer of Digital Tipping Point interviewed Lee and I on Saturday. It was the first inter view we have given for our project. He kindly captured all the footage from the interview and gave it to Skye on a harddrive the next day!
So that was one stop we didn’t have to make before taking the truck to Oakland to get beautiful hoddies from Alexandria’s studio. She made mine brown and I really like it. I think Terry made the concession stand? It looks awesome! Sky and Lee and I loaded the concession stand into the rental truck, tossed in some spare lumber and away I went down to LA.
Got to LA around midnight. Arther let me in and parked his car behind the truck so as to discourage the many looters living in his neighborhood (he lives in a nice neighborhood, so that was a joke about looters but for real that he parked his car behind the truck). I slept and had nightmares related to driving the truck.

the next day I left the house at the same time as Arthur. He was off to pick up Carson. I was off to the gallery. Parked the truck in front of the gallery as close as I could manage. Skye, Lee, Carson and I worked like leaf-cutter ants unloading the truck. Arthur was videoing us.
Once the truck was empty we headed to home depot to get scaffolding and a bunch of sheise.
We didn’t know how to get to the more reasonable aka less expensive lumber store so I called the place and gave a dim description of where I was, got directions and started driving. Of course since I was getting board and whatever I decided to start driving with out really looking at the map. We were going basically in the opposite direction for a while before we called Arthur with our location/desired destination. Arthur got us going the right way. I decided I would look at the map and that super good before driving anywhere in the future.
Lumber store was awesome. Only about a foot clearance on each side of the truck box … max. We loaded 40 2×6 and 30 sheets of lewon with the help of the lumber yard staff.
On the way back to the gallery I missed a turn and decided to pull into an epty parking lot to turn around. I may or may not have come close to crushing a little white car driving the opposite direction while turning into the parking lot.
Carson, Lee and I unladed the truck.
Alex showed up at the gallery and Skye. Lee and Carson helped them unload. Then we all went to Amy’s to drop things off. She wasn’t home yet so all of us excluding Lee went to go buy refreshments. I learned that the Clamato beer they sell in the store tastes just like the tomatoe seasoning packets that you get with the ramen noodles.
Amy got back while we were having our make shift tailgate party and invited us all in.
Skye and I stayed at Amy’s. The truck was parked outside and needed to be returned by 8:31am the next day a few miles from her place.
We watched a bit of All that Jazz until Amy noticed I was sleeping, Skye was asleep as well. Amy gave me a turkey burger and Skye offered his food as well before the movie. That was really nice of them as I had eaten all my snacks.
So today Amy and I gassed up the truck and returned it to the rental place. And now I’m here with Carson and Alex setting things up.
Carson is building the confession booth and Alex is setting up the basement office.
The others are at the store I think. My eye is a little puffy and I think maybe infected. tty world!

I’ve uploaded several clips of Amy describing the project. Check out our library at the Internet Archive.