You all seem to be able to sing, on cue, “You’re the Best — Around!” from the finale of Karate Kid.
Why can’t you all do that with “Win in the End” — the song from the finale of Teen Wolf. Snarky irony aside, it’s a better song and better movie.
I am assuming, based on how this man’s visage has been plastered on every other subway poster in Manhattan, that I am supposed to both a) know who he is and b) care.
I posit that this man Bello is not actually famous but simply has remarkable looking hair. Barnum and Bailey’s circus present him as an already-famous person in their advertising posters and we humans assume that they are correct. And after enough of us have seen these posters, then he IS famous. A self-fulfilling prophecy.
Like all clowns, Bello creeps me out.
The members of my family — and perhaps many of you — enjoy overstatement. Kevin put “The Fellowship of the Ring” on his top ten movies for 2001 — in December of 2000, after seeing the trailer for it. “This is my favorite movie of all time” he said of this film which was not yet in post-production.
Along those lines, I love finding gushing reviews on allmusic.com. The interface is annoying, but you can’t beat the breadth of information available.
Like the last line of its review of Van Halen’s first album: “Everyone on the planet should own a copy of this landmark release.” Love it.
Or the opening of its biography of The Beatles: “To start with the [...]
I read a blog written by two economists called Marginal Revolution. The authors post often with short, smart thoughts that contain bold opinions. The one small downside is that I never understand anything they’re talking about. I don’t know or understand anything about economics. But I’m still addicted, because the posts SOUND smart. Like this one about parking lot prices in New York City. I don’t totally get it, but I devoured it. It’s weird. They talk a lot about libertarianism. I’m not even sure if the authors are libertarian or what that is. I think libertarians don’t want there to be speed limits and maybe hate things like the gold standard, or maybe all money or maybe [...]
Someone recommended me for an audition but said I needed a reel. Overextended as always, I made one last night between the hilariously nonproductive hours of 1am and 4am. Since I’m not a great editor, I simply took 10 clips that were about a minute each and set them up as chapters on a DVD. Each one starts with a title screen describing what the clip is from. It’s more like a visual resume.
Usually a ‘reel’ is a slick montage of 10-15 second clips, from what I can tell. The upside of my method is that someone gets to see more than 1 line of me doing something. A few clips are longer than a minute, but I figure [...]
I’ve become enamored, big-time, with Sunrise Earth. This might be my favorite television show of all time. For the uninitiated, it’s just quiet footage of a selected location in the very early hours of the morning. Sample titles: Stonehenge Dawn. Foothills of Turkey. Scandinavian Waterfall. I first saw it last week, when I stumbled into work early and found it playing on my office’s HD television (yes, we have one). I was mesmerized for a good thirty-five minutes by Asian fishing villagers cleaning their nets. No narrator; no explanation, no dialogue — just crickets, birds chirping, water lapping and the morning sun.
Could I write a spec script for Sunrise Earth? [...]
You’ve known for a long time that “Ghostbusters” sounds a lot like Huey Lewis and the News’ “I Want A New Drug.” I mean, there was a court case.
You also might have known that Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” sounds a lot like John Mellencamp’s “Jack and Diane.”
But did you know that Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” sounds like Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like the Wolf?” It DOES! It DOES!
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Mitch Magee and I will be performing at Rob Lathan’s “Get Psyched for St. Patrick’s Day” at UCBT tonight at 7pm. Come out for it, won’t you? Details here!
The Journalista blog from The Comics Journal is outstanding. Tidbits linked in just today’s entry:
Can’t beat that! In other linked goodness, Pete Rose admits he bet on the Reds (to win) every night he managed. He also bet while playing. This guy is a jerk, but I still think he belongs on the Hall of Fame. 4,000 hits is 4,000 hits.
And here’s something about a redesigned alphabet.
Come out and see me do the stand-up at Rob Lathan and Adira Amram’s “Get Psyched” show. Also appearing: Sean Conroy, Jackie Clarke and Julie Klausner, Harry Terjanian, Richard Jones! Get Psyched! at RiFiFi. 332 East 11st street (btwn 1st and 2nd ave). Five measly bucks. 8pm
In honor of Rob Lathan, here’s a true story about the time Rob and I pitched sketch ideas to Richard Belzer. A few years ago, National Lampoon was (or maybe still is) putting together a radio show and solicited sketch ideas from the UCBT. Rob submitted some sketches he and I had put together. The editor didn’t read the material, but was impressed Rob had emailed [...]
