ben chappel

one night, a long time ago now, a friend made a video of me and some other friends - they were like the apple switch ads...but for bloggers (or as he jokingly dubbed us "cewebrities"). he loved errol morris, who created the apple switch ads. he interviewed him for gothamist. he made me watch an errol morris film once, which i thanked him for afterwards while we ate burritos from san loco. he made me a great birthday party invitation. once we attempted to create the intellectual counterpart to misshapes, it was called "the glass family reunion" and though we had booked the club and created a website - we never followed through. he thought of the name "movable hype" for the gothamist shows. once we sat on a bed in my house in vermont and put makeup on eachother, like kids. last month he took me and jeff to see his friend amanda play the piano at joe's pub. this is all i can manage to say right now. 

there's always more left to say.

i will miss ben.

sing.mp3 - dresden dolls

Comments

[Katie]

Movable Hype is such a clever name for those shows...I've always thought so.

I'm sorry for your loss.

[suzan]

"the glass family reunion."

that does sound just like ben. i remember his roommate giving me franny and zooey and changing my life when i was 17.

i haven't seen him in years...

[cecile-maalaki]

thanks for our friend's memory :)