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Here is a song I like.
The Comealongs - from the solo album of the not-famous Jimmy Smith, a member of the barely-famous Gourds. In solo projects, he refers to himself as “Clocker Redbury/Dusty Slosinger” to distinguish himself from the much more famous jazz musician (I had “reggae musician” here but that was powerfully inaccurate).
The song is slow and twangy and about handcuffs. Read this paragraph out loud and tell me you don’t love the sound of the words (exclamation points are mine):
“Let me tell you about the comealongs! The more you resist, the tighter they get! Around your wrists, the pain will break you! Then for a moment these humbling toughs turn you into baggage whereas before [...]
That is awesome.
Wikipedia: Sunken Cities
If you’d like, please suggest some other intriguing Wikipedian categories.
So some 1985 compatriots helped me make this video recently:
YouTube - Link to News Anchors
Gavin Speiller plays “Gavin Speiller” and Ben Rodgers plays “Will Hines.” I play “offscreen voice of reason.” I originally had a more ambitious idea and then decided to just have them read and make up a bunch of silly headlines because… er, I don’t know why. Because I’m drunk on the freedom of YouTube to do whatever I want, I guess. It’s nice to have funny friends who will show up and shoot for an hour with zero prep, too.
Gavin and the [...]
I listened to a handful of This American Life episodes this weekend. I simultaneously enjoyed the subtle naturalism and was annoyed by the wry smugness. My antidote was Kasper Hauser’s hilarious parody. Those guys are amazing! If you’ve heard even 10 seconds of This American Life, I recommend it.
“I was one of those kids who grew up literally less than 400 miles from the beach. Other kids would go home after school? I would go home and think about the beach.”
“You really loved the beach.”
“It was my favorite. My second favorite thing in the world.”
“You favorite was… peeing?”
“What?”
(Guitar intro from ‘These Days’)
I found an old mini-DV of UCBT Cagematch from December 20, 2001. Mitch and I watched it and felt nostalgic and impossibly old. This was back before Curtis and DeCoster and Rocco joined Monkeydick and while Berrebbi was still on it. Curtis was filming it though so you can hear him laughing at his soon-to-be comedy partner Gemberling (and the rest of us). On the Respecto side, Owen had a mohawk and Riggle was overseas. Monkeydick won this, and you can see the surprise on our faces since Respecto was so clearly funnier.
I encoded the files for the other Monkeydick guys to see, but here they are in case anyone else is interested in seeing them.
http://64.90.181.100/will/cage_2001/
Note: You have to [...]
This video from Matt Evans cracks me up.
YouTube - Link to Rick Kant - Commercial Actor
“Fields of Gold,” the song which plays over the beginning, is the worst song ever written ever, counting the random clanging of pots and pans that happens at restaurants as songs.
Kurt Vonnegut died today. Everyone is sad, which is nice. I’m amazed at his ability to connect with so many people. I feel like when I was in high school, everyone — EVERYONE — loved Catcher in the Rye, 1984 and a Vonnegut book of his/her choice. Is that right? I loved when that “sunscreen” graduation speech got passed around a few years ago, everyone just ASSUMED it was Vonnegut — the Internet collectively decided that it sounded like him and so therefore it was. We liked him.
My favorite book of his was Slapstick, which apparently was a terrible one. It featured twins who were mentally retarded when separate, but brilliant when together. They become president on the platform [...]
There’s a very cool bio-comic out called Lucky by Brooklyn cartoonist Gabrielle Bell that’s being well reviewed by smart people. Most fun for me is that page one of this book shows her going to attend a Team Brooklyn show at The Charlie Pineapple Theatre. See the first page about halfway down this page:
http://smithmag.net/memoirville/2007/01/08/excerpt-lucky-by-gabrielle-bell/
No, she doesn’t say it’s Team Brooklyn, but I know it is because the week after she drew it she walked up to me at that pizza place on Bedford Avenue and showed me her sketchbook and said — “Hey, you were in this show I went to.” We talked comics and [...]
Some points:
- My improv team 1985 is in Cagematch tonight. 11pm at the UCB Theatre. Maybe you go, yes?
- Here is the video I showed last night at A Week of Kindness‘ and Bare Handed Wolf Chokers’ “Funny Video Night.” The dialogue is Not Safe For Work. I thought it was hilarious when I made it at 1:30am late Tuesday night, and still pretty okay when I woke up Wednesday morning.
- Looking for a new apartment. $1200 or less. I’m open to roomates but I have two insane cats that will not tolerate other animals and I like to walk around criticizing things out loud so I should probably find a place just for me.
- Great interview [...]
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