Will Hines Dot Net

My friends are all doing these movies at xtranormal and now so am I. Here is Cone of Mud.

Yep.

Charlie Sanders’ “Second Fattest Man” video is in this week’s “Showdown” at atom.com. If you are so inclined, please go to atom.com/showdown, register and vote for “Second Fattest Man”. They show the winner on Comedy Central, which we think would be cool. Voting is open through the end of the week.

I totally understand if you don’t want to do this. It’s a blatant gimmick to boost their registrations, and force word-of-mouth for their site. Then again, atom.com isn’t so bad. Used to be Atom Films, which was a decent site. I met some of the folks who work there currently at the Channel 101 awards, and they seemed cool. And they make original films, including one featuring Curtis Gwinn — so maybe they’re cool?

Also, I really like “Second Fattest Man” and want people to see it. Yeah, it’s a little long. But it’s weird and Charlie’s script and performance are hilarious. I almost kinda like that it’s long, if only because I feel like I’m fighting back against all the pressures I feel to be “successful” which I put in quotes because my version of success is having a video on the front page of YouTube.

If nothing else, please listen below to an excerpt of Charlie’s “eating” noise:

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In the tradition of YoungMe, NowMe, the original (1977):

Recreation. 2008:

So that was fun.

The Hines children, such as we are, were on YoungMe before.

Hines Xmas was fun. This year, Booyar gave Kevin a giant remote control.

As usual with a nice note:

Looks like Booyar learned script! He still needs the bold lines and dotted line down the middle, but that is how you learn. Good job, Booyar!

Who is Booyar? This is the story of Booyar.

Doesn’t it feel like every “comedy” video on YouTube — including many I have directed — are rushed, desperately-paced, mean-spirited and ham-handedly parodying the pop culture reference of the moment? Here’s an antidote: Randall Park (creator of the awesome Channel 101:NY show Dr. Miracles), wrote and starred in this short “Blueberry.”

Ok, yeah, there’s a guy who calls his penis a “vagina.” But it’s hilarious and has characters who are nice to each other. I’m jealous of the nice confident pauses.

It’s FIVE MINUTES people — an eternity in web video, right? Not if it’s a good video.

A handful of months ago, I started using Google Reader to track RSS feeds. Now I track 105 blogs — usually by just skimming but still reading a decent handful of them. Exposing myself to so much information is eye-opening but also overwhelming. I feel like Ozymandias watching his TVs. Writing my own blog seems more useless than ever, and it never seemed THAT useful! But anything I think about or even half-articulate, seems to have been said better and with more diligently-selected links and pictures by my friends. Certainly any new videos (not made by me) are tumbled, re-blogged and trackbacked a bunch of times before I even know they exist. But now even text adventures — a subject I thought relatively exclusive — is being covered by The Onion’s AV Club! Text adventures at the AV Club!

Maybe it’s just that the barrier to entry is lower. Just having a blog in 2002 required a know-how of the web that few people had. But now with wordpress.com and Tumblr, anyone can do it — so anyone does? And now it’s a survival of the fittest where Kottke.org rises above us all, and the rest are just re-blogging Lonely Island videos?

Well, I’m still not stopping NOW. But that’s why my entries tend to just be plugs for shows I’m in and videos I’ve done. Anything I might say has just been said by someone in my Reader!

Dark Hard Thunder Man cleans up gentrified Brooklyn:

This couple — and in particular I assume this GUY — named his son “Adolf Hitler.” This is the kind of asshole that instead of writing term papers in high school would hand in a photograph of a vagina and say “What I’m doing is ART, man!” And then the teacher has to stop class and explain to this guy that photos of genitalia aren’t acceptable, because it’s just weird if nothing else and also can’t you just write a paper? And don’t make me explain things that you know. What’s wrong with you?

Maybe that’s a weird non-example. But you know what I mean. He finds way to make himself the center of conversations that weren’t about him, even at the expense of his child’s happiness. And here I am giving more attention to this crazy father!

Story warmly pointed out via RSS feed by non-jerk Porter Mason.

John Frusciante put together this very funny video of people freaking out while watching the trailer to Adam Sandler’s new movie.

Help! by The Beatles live at Shea Stadium in 1965.

Posted here only because my friend Greg emailed it to me yesterday and it put me in a good mood. Actual song starts at around :40 seconds. With what I assume were terrible monitors, they nail the harmonies. And the song is catchy, personal, artful and under three minutes long.

I forget it now and then, but when I see things like this I remember that The Beatles were so good that anyone who doesn’t love them should be kicked off of the planet Earth.

That the gentlemen at 1:30 look completely ridiculous does not deter my enthusiasm, even though they are probably me.