PSY is KIM JONG UN!

WORST WEBISODE EVER!

PODCAST with BANKSY (FOR REAL!)

SICK HOST HOSTS SICK SHOW WHILE SICK

ERIC ANDRE DESTROYS MY CHANNEL!

How Obama Will REALLY Be Remembered

THE ELDERS: OLD SKETCH, OLD PEOPLE

PATRICIA'S PRACTICE: BEST SCENE of UNRELEASED EPISODE

THIRD SESSION

"WRITER'S ROOM"

TBT: KANGAROO ATTACKS FAMILY (2009)

ADULT SWIM'S "THINKTALK: PATRICIA EGOMAN

BRONX MAN SELF-DECAPITATION! & Other News

SPRING CLEANING: AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL

IMPROVISED EXPERIMENTAL PODCAST

Audio Zine

Confusing "Join Or Die!" with "Don't Tread on Me"

SHOCKING NEWS About SNOWDEN and BIN LADEN

ADVERTISING with SPACE GHOST COAST to COAST?!

JULY EDITION: THE PIASTRA FACTOR

MOST EPIC SPIRIT SPOT

FAMILY GEICO

"SPRINGTIME": A Semi-Trippy Anthology Audio-Visual Mixtape (+playlist)

WORST JOB INTERVIEW! (+playlist)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE CARLIN! A COMPILATION (+playlist)

LITTLE KNOWN FACT...

The classic board game “Monopoly” actually was conceived to inform people that Capitalism is  shitty. Originally called “Landlord’s Game”, inventor Lizzie Magie patented it in 1903.

     The object of the game was to demonstrate the machinations of greed that was making city tenants poor, then show a resolution through a Robin Hood-style tax based on Land Value.

     The version we all know now excludes the “happily ever after” and just teaches folks what fun fucking each other over is.

     And now they even got rid of the “Go to Jail” part! 

EASTER FUN-DAY: A PIASTRA FACTOR SPECIAL

"GO BANANAS" A Beat Poetry Tribute to Snapple (+playlist)

Instagram Exposé: InstaSHAM? (+playlist)

 I was the first 15 year old to legally run for the office of United States presidency. But do you think the Illuminati would allow such news out on the lame-stream media platforms? Hell no! 
This was the one and ONLY report, which was "lost" before airtime on eyewitness news. 
Now, 6 years alter, a loyal fan who wishes to remain anonymous--named Jim, age 37 from Arkansas--sent me the betaMax, yes, betamax!

"Bad Winter"

"Bad Winter"

Art that "Speaks" to Us: A Promo for "The Piastra Factor"

you folks should always make that extra little effort to make sure that you are watching my uploads on the highest resolution possible. in this case ya gots to set the darn thingy to 720p or whatevs

Battle for Head of the Table (Re-Upload)

Battle for Head of the Table (Re-Upload)

ONE-MAN SHOW: "KEVIN PIASTRA EATS LUNCH AT YOU" (Revised Re-Upload) (+pl...

This is the revised, re-upload with all new music and stuff. I wish I knew the late, great Andy Warhol had beaten me to this type of performance art...sorta like an Andy Kaufman kind of thing. Notice they're both named Andy. Actually, every Andy I know has something mentally off in the up stars areas, if fin ya knows what I mean!



The sad thing is we cut out a lot of footage. No, there won't be outtakes in this, but I eat take-out!



WARNING: If you have been diagnosed with ADD you will not be able to sit through this tiring drivel. Seriously, a pointless, uppity, snarky, avant-garde, experimental art-house, cinema short that almost makes Mitt Romney seem interesting. See how little Kev accomplishes within the standard running-time of a Spongebob episode.



 Kevin Piastra's debut internet one-man show is really a satirical parody on the bullshitting and pretentiousness rampant in avant-garde performance art and French New Wave and experimental filmmaking.

Kevin illustrates his point through the use of humorous Dadaism. By simply sitting in front of a webcam for 12 minutes, eating his lunch, this unstoppable auteur comedically reveals the common narcissism and context-less self-importance that modern technology and pop culture has infused and instilled into  America's youth.



Simultaneously Piastra mimics forms of so called "high-art" with irony, thus becoming his own concrete example of a genre he does not understand at all. He expresses his confusion and frustration at the fact that motion pictures often give their audiences no clue about the use of metaphors, symbols, themes and motifs in modern movie-making, just as in classic and contemporary literature. By frustrating and boring the viewers of this very video, Piastra is an intentional depiction. He is demonstrating the thesis, specifically feeling slighted and ignorant. Suspecting that there is not more in a lot of art than meets the eye, rather it is a scam put on by artists of all mediums in order to appear more sophisticated and intelligent. That would certainly make it easier to apply for grants and have access to all the best money, drugs and pussy!



As if a white canvas with off-white paint splashed on it is supposed to speak volumes in the eye of the beholder. Well, so too is the very one-man show you are reading about.



 Is Piastra REALLY making these points or is he just some young guy with a webcam and a sandwich who thinks he's clever? if you aren't reading this, you are getting nothing out of the short. That's the problem, artists are lazy. They never make up meaning the way Piastra is for this video. It's usually up to the audience to see what they want to in each piece, thus inserting their own deeper meaning into a work.



This strikes Kevin as lazy on the artists part and stupid on the part of the masses who are doing all the work of enriching the oeuvre of someone who doesn't wish to directly and clearly communicate their ideas and emotions, probably because there aren't any!



Just as with the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird", all the deep meaning and analysis was added years later. Harper Lee herself only claimed, "I wanted to write a simple love story"

Final Vine Compilation

REAL Reason O'Reilly Blew Up!

YODELING BILLY GOAT! (+playlist)

CURRENT EVENTS

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/file-federal-charges-against-officers-who-beat-homeless-and-mentally-challenged-kelly-thomas-death/DcVvTKcg

SPALDING GRAY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT OCD?

Read these 3 in order. Spalding Gray sums up OCD perfectly, though I don’t think he realized that’s what it was. Reminds me of the struggles I’ve had with it.

Spalding Greay

In May 2008 I read Spalding Gray’s “Swimming to Cambodia”, as you can tell by my previous post. My next post will also be partly about things in the book that stuck with me.

I guess cuz it’s the new year I’m getting reflective about the past 5 years that flew by faster than I knew possible. 

Anyway, for some reason this small, inconsequential scene was festering on my cerebellum for a very long time and I just had to share. I guess the anecdote is kinda humorous and a part of me can’t help wonder if that’s common practice in such a situation.

By the way: It’s said Spalding was a “major voice from the American theatre avant-garde”. I don’t see what’s avant-garde about a humorous one-man show.

But what is interesting is Wikipedia claimed in his very early career he was in a porno called The Farmer’s Daughter. Makes ya wonder if Sasha GRAY is related.

LONG-ASS POST to MY DEAREST FELLOW INTERNET HUMANS

I don’t “blog” anymore really, not in the form of paragraphs of text. I consider myself a writer but I don’t show that side online enough. You should see my near-thousand pages worth of comedy material, scripts, pitches, half-formed business ideas, etc. etc. I have neatly filed and organized on Evernote, that Godsend of an app.

BUT! What I’m here to talk about this morning (never mind why I’m awake right now, that’s for another post) is about writing and reading.

A lot of folks don’t see me as the voracious, avid reader that I am. From a very early age I’ve been constantly educating and entertaining myself with books on a myriad of topics that most adults thought were too advanced for me at the age I was when I read so much of the stuff. EXAMPLE: in 5th grade I was reading stuff about product design and filmmaking, particularly sneaking SCREENWRITING for Dummies into class. I’m serious.

But that’s just me showing off. What I really wanted to mention was how swamped and overwhelmed I am with the stacks of books I wanna get to, which happens to me every winter. Stuck in the house, ya know? 
And more importantly than how many books is that I wanted to vent a little about Hunter S. Thompson. I saw the movie version of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” on HBO-GO last year or so and liked it, plus I’ve always loved illustrator Ralph Steadman. People tell me I kinda draw like him…and those same people would agree my mother is like a 60-year-old, female version of Mr. Thompson. Scary and funny.

I was also struck at the sorta similarity between he and Spalding Gray. In 2008 I read Spalding’s “Swimming to Cambodia” and in his introduction he touched upon his creative process. Aside from the similarity between stand-up comedy and a one-person show, I just liked the euphony of his writing and his explanation of inspiration, which sort of reminded me of Gonzo journalism.

I am super fascinated by the processes of famous creatives, so one of my favorite things was in the introduction….

COMMENTARY by CREATORS/STARS

Russian Mute Comic Does Jokes Telepathically!