Suicide. Unrequited love. Deception. Obsession. The end of the Earth, and dispersion of the Universe. So ends Season 2 of Next To Heaven . . . Enjoy!

Thanks to everybody who worked on Yellow Socks: Producer/Sound – Tom Mallan; Actors – Ian Armstrong and Victoria F. Gaitán; Cinematographer – Paris Bustillos; Make-Up Artist – Vanessa Strickland; Music – Belinda Holmes and The Plums. Also, big thanks to the Bowerman/Wall/David Family for allowing us to shoot on their lovely riverside compound. In particular thanks to Richard Wall for the use of his beautifully restored 1960 Buick Invicta.
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Thanks to the wonderful Victoria F. Gaitán for lending her voice and acting skills to this episode!
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Music by The Plums
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This episode goes out to my friend Adrian Parsons. Adrian has been active in the DC Occupy movement and is currently conducting a hunger strike to draw attention to the lack of DC voting rights. Good luck and thanks for standing up for what’s right Adrian!

Adrian, along with Sandie Black, star in this episode which is a companion piece to NTH 2.18

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Episode 100! Recursive and Meta . . .
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ARE YOU READY FOR THE APOCALYPSE!? This video won’t help, but watch it anyway to see one of the worst marionettes ever.
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Ok, sure, first you kill them . . . but what happens to them after that? Here’s one theory. And, Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
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Toaster pastries, drugs, Brad Pitt, antique cars in Technicolor, and three-way sex . . . yep, time for a new Next To Heaven.
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Rob Parrish’s “Next To Heaven: Judy’s Smile” tells the story of a young boy having murderous thoughts about his sister, Judy – a girl who smiles continuously. The darkly humorous short film, constructed from a 1950’s educational film about personal hygiene, captured a Rosebud Award at the November 13, Rosebud Film Festival Awards Ceremony.

For 21 years the Rosebud Film Festival has recognized and honored the innovative, experimental, and deeply personal filmmaking originating in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Each year the festival features 20 films chosen from hundreds of entries, and awards five Rosebud Awards, which includes $1,000 prize.

This year’s Rosebud Award is Parrish’s fourth, and the third awarded for work originating from Parrish’s experimental web series “Next To Heaven” (NTH). Previous NTH winners were “The Tapes of My Father” (2007) and “Rest” (2009).

NTH’s second season is winding down with the 52nd and last weekly episode of Season 2 to be released on January 4, 2012. As well as being a regularly featured series on the Blip TV video portal, NTH was the UK’s Guardian Newspaper headline “Internet Pick of the Week” earlier this year. The Guardian declared NTH’s second season, “more brilliantly bizarre than ever” and “superbly executed.” NTH was also featured in: the DC Shorts Film Festival, “The Final Girl” Exhibition at the Washington Project for the Arts; the “BITE” Exhibition at the Greater Reston Arts Center (VA); Power Pop-A-Licious (Ashbury Park, NJ (curated by Jayme McLellan)); and was the basis of Parrish’s “Haunted Drive-In” performance piece at DC’s Fridge Gallery.

Hey mister. Mister! Please don’t cut down my giant tree. Mister!

Music played by Belinda Holmes.
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