Day085: Live From The New York City Subway 2!

Day 084: Kid606's "Phoenix Riddim"

Another music video, from electronic musician Kid606. Still love this song and animation.

Day 083: Shrag's "Pregnancy Scene"

Shrag was a cool band minding its own business in Brighton, UK when the world's first MP3 blog, Fluxblog, posted this song, their first single. It generated major (by 2005 standards) Internet buzz, and they ended up coming to New York City to play a few shows. I saw them at Cake Shop, and met them and they were so cool, and so amazed to be in New York City. And it's STILL a great song. Two more missing animations--I took a second weekend off and posted two pre-Bateman365 animations: Day082: Classic Batemanimation: The Elvis Room, and Day081: Classic Batemanimation: Latex Lobotomy. They are now both lost forever. Pour out a 40 for them today!

Day080: Live From The New York City Subway!

MISSING: Day079: Jeremy Scahill's Speech at the NYC Anti-Bush Rally 11/2/05. It's OK; the political stuff doesn't age super-well, anyway. The birth of another recurring series of animations--I carried a portable digital recorder around my travels across NYC and captured weird moments like this. There were a LOT more subway musicians in 2005 than now.

Day 078: Mike Lebovitz & His Roommate Watch Ted Leo's "Maps"

This is kind of the best: someone watched the Ted Leo "Maps" animation and sent in a recording of their reaction. SO GOOD.

Day 077: Will Durst's WMDs

A few missing Bateman365 animations: Day076: Zombie Grrrl 2, Day075: Autumn In New York, and Day074: Homies Theatre Troupe Presents Henry V. Really sorry about Zombie Grrrl 2, because #1 was wonderful. Will Durst is the best political comedian out there. And he's STILL out there. The best.

Day 073: Jandek's "I Went Outside"

Since he wasn't on the Internet yet in 2005 (he just started taking online orders for his CDs in June of 2014), I sent the Corwood Representative a DVD of this animation, hoping for his blessing. He wrote back: "Your film is superb. I watched it and thought it captivating and seems to reach all ages. I envisioned 5 year olds entranced on Saturday mornings watching it. It could be expanded to a 30-minute TV show." The Man From Corwood was prescient: in early 2007, the Bateman365 indeed DID become a TV show, "Scott Bateman Presents Scott Bateman Presents" on PlumTV. It ran for three episodes.

Day 072: Ted Leo's "Maps"

The second music video of the 365, from Ted Leo!