This van is parked on my street near a major gas pipe repair project. The stark Helvetica front makes this look like a state agency. Or a van of Thought Police. Or a bloodmobile from Scandinavia.
That movie was great! Maybe the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen. A blast.
Still, let’s not ignore the awesome intro to the 60s cartoon Iron Man (and cell phone music of Terence Howard in the movie). Thanks Kevin for digging this up.
And as Kevin tells you in his blog post, The Hulk’s 60s theme song is worth a listen, too. “Ain’t he un-glamma-rays?”
Goodness gracious, everyone! It’s a new Sue Galloway video!
This was a sketch in Sue’s one-woman show (which goes up again this Friday 6:30pm at UCBT, by the by). It’s very funny, and Sue and I assumed it would be easy and painless to film and edit. It was painless to film (maybe not so much for Sue as she did 9 unbroken takes of this) but editing was… well, maybe not tough, but not quick. Let’s just say it was tough so the story doesn’t get too wishy-washy. Nine improvised takes does not make for easy cuts. But we figured it out.
Thanks to waiter Brandon for securing the location, as well as Porter, Violet and Megan for maintaining “bewildered straight man” faces for hours. And to Tabitha for coming along with her boyfriend while he shot a video and ending up working crew!
Yeah, this blog is really just plugs now. Sad, right? Hey here’s more! Today at work we finished this video of Mo Rocca interviewing Tim Gunn about the polygamists’ wives’ fashion.
Here’s Ask Bobby — a Rob Lathan sketch from the Osgood-Schlatter days. I had the pleasure of shooting and editing these. Greg Tuculescu and Violet Krumbein are the callers.
Spoiler Alert: If you’ve watched it already, you’re probably trying to put the pieces together. Ok, a few pieces of advice: watch what Bobby does with his hands right in the opening credits of the show, then compare that with the record sleeve that comes into view towards the end. Remember that FDR had a cat named “Ben.” If you watch the timer at the bottom, you’ll see that a significant confession always seems to arrive when the clock is on a prime number. That’s not an accident. The color green figures prominently throughout the piece. The Shakespeare quote is not actually from Shakespeare but Marlowe, which is significant since Marlowe had huge jealousy of Shakespeare — and that matters since Bobby is the one doing the quoting at that time. The parrot is not a red herring. Everything the callers say is true. Email me with questions. I won’t give away the answer but I’ll let you know if you’re on the right track.
Spoiler Alert Spoiler Alert: The spoiler does not really apply to this or any other video.
My previous post, upon reflection, was weirdly sexist.
I do get annoyed at either men or women discussing reality shows, and I don’t really know why. But that is a separate point and probably something to do with my desire to be at the center of attention and maybe 65 years old.
I’m basing this on people at my office only. The woman who sits across from me gets really excited to talk about television; and the three guys who sit near me don’t. A small sample set, but I’m ready to extrapolate that poorly-founded hunch onto the entire American population.
So: do women like television more than men?
We were playing trivia here at work. And I said a “fun” trivia challenge is to name the vice-presidential candidate on the losing side of the last 10 elections. So we tried that and got to Dan Quayle and laughed about the millions of amazingly dumb things he would say. Then we remembered that our current president also famously says dumb things. So now: I want a video of our current President playing Dan Quayle in Simon.
Is that really that funny, my co-worker asked? It’s worth a blog, I replied.
Is there a food shortage? Or am I letting Drudge get to me? I remember as a kid hearing my Dad say “Brazil will someday be a superpower, because they can grow the most food” or something like that. It made sense even to my seven-year-old brain.
For Earth Day, my company gave out compact flourescent light bulbs to everyone. A fine idea, though since they were each wrapped in generous amouns of non-bio-degradable plastic — are we breaking even on helping the Earth?
I’m reading It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis, a 1936 book which describes how America might elect its own version of Hitler. A weird fact: it was pitched as a TV series in the early 80s. Producers decided it was too cerebral, so changed “fascists” to “aliens” and came up with …. “V!”
Since Tabitha showed me how to manage bit torrenting, I’m back on the downloading-music-and-videos train. But sometimes I still buy singles through iTunes, mostly for the convenience. One search and click and you’re done, for only a buck. That usually happens when I’ve been drinking. The last few songs on my “Purchased” playlist: Only You by Yaz, Cool it Now by New Edition, New Song by Howard Jones, She’s Not There by The Zombies.
When returning from the laundromat, I balance my bag on my head. No matter how foolish that looks, it really is easiest to carry it that way.
I had to dig through some archives at AOL today and stumbled on this. It is, technically speaking, Amy Winehouse’ U.S. debut — last January 2007. She was performing a concert somewhere in NYC and stopped at AOL for an interview and to record some songs. I was told “Someone named Amy Winehouse is recording some tracks here; we might as well videotape it. Grab a camera, set it to auto-everything and get it.” I was also told “She’s supposed to be a handful so get ready.”
But in the audio engineer’s office, she walked in and was as sweet as pie. She might even have been nervous since when she introduced her songs she had a slight stammer. But when she started singing — she was confident and great! I was nervous to even zoom in for fear of breaking the spell. It’s amazing how casual this all was — that’s her coat resting on the arm of her chair because she had just walked in and plopped down behind the mike. In two months I was hearing her songs in every Starbucks and whenever I was on hold — but this is my favorite version of her singing. Sara did a great interview with her right after. The other tracks are on YouTube here. The audio tracks are here on AOL’s The Interface.
On my iTunes now:
Polkarama! by Weird Al Yankovic from "Straight Outta Lynwood"
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