Good Morning
Dyna Moe will be making videos for Marvel Comics. That is cool. I got to be in the spec video that she pitched. I had linked it above but it is now private and un-viewable (note to corporations: why, when you get content do you go to such great lengths to prevent it from being seen, ever?)
Other nonsense:
Here’s a hilarious video of Andres du Buchet describing crazy actresses in general and his crazy actress roommate in particular. “That phrase ‘crazy actress’ — that’s like saying ‘this sphere is round’ or ‘i am talking with my voice!’”
Doing more stand-up recently, albeit mostly at open mikes. I have yet to take Kevin’s advice to end every joke with “Check, please!” though I’m not totally against that strategy.
Tabitha has got me watching Deadwood. Guess what: it’s good!
Watchmen: I know, I know. We’re all sick of it. But here’s a defense of how cool the Silk Spectre II character is in the comic book (compared with the lobotomized version in the movie) which shows again how well planned and thought-through the book is (similarities between she and her father throughout).
Google Chrome seems cool and I want it for the Mac.
I tried watching Suspiria last night starting at 1:30am but decided I didn’t feel like creeping myself out and watched Planet Terror instead. That movie is funny, though I saw Death Proof two weeks ago and was surprised how much I enjoyed THAT talkfest more on a second viewing.
My cats have become weirdly needy over the years, compared with how they avoided me for the better part of the first year they were here.
way to make a callback to your own video, pompous ass.
Corey Brown
23 Mar 09 at 5:34 am
That’s me! And that callback was Dyna’s decision.
Will
23 Mar 09 at 5:39 am
Damn the ending was hilarious!
Domenico
23 Mar 09 at 6:41 am
Am I one of these “crazy actresses”? Hmmmmmm?
Tab
23 Mar 09 at 8:55 am
You are so right about the crazy actresses.
tony
23 Mar 09 at 10:17 am
I wrote this video. All call-backs are my own and technically it’s a Ben Rogers callback not a line scripted by Hines.
“what’s like saying ‘this sphere is round’ or ‘i am talking with my voice!’””
But you’re not talking with your voice because you typed that.
D. Moe
23 Mar 09 at 12:14 pm
Thanks for the Silk Spectre link! I was just thinking the other day, I really wish they had just left in her final line in the comic, that implies she’s gonna be like her father. It’s one little line, in a scene that’s IN THE MOVIE, and that one line says SO much.
Hal
23 Mar 09 at 2:33 pm
Thank you also for the Silk Spectre link. The more I read about it, I’m realizing that the director (Zach Whatshisname) is a well meaning guy who just doesn’t perceive subtlety. The visuals of the Watchmen movie were sharper than the comic, but the words and ideas were all blurrier.
When I watched the motion comic (I know I am a poser) the moment when Laurie figures out that Eddie is her father surprised me: I honestly did not see it coming, but saw how all the clues fit together at the same time as Laurie did. I’m usually ahead of the story, so it was a pretty cool feeling. (I wonder, though, if I had been reading it, if I would have felt the same way, since I wouldn’t have somebody else setting the pace of the panels or cueing the orchestra to swell.)
Benjamin Ragheb
23 Mar 09 at 5:04 pm
“But you’re not talking with your voice because you typed that.”
Andres, whom Will is quoting, was talking with his voice.
tony
25 Mar 09 at 4:27 am
Very funny! However, I am your Dad.
Dad
25 Mar 09 at 12:08 pm
Will as your intern I must advise you that although I agree with the ideas in that article, it is also a large lump of shit. The one comment that set me over the edge was too say that Silk spectreII is funny because she is the comedian’s daughter. The comedian calls himself such because he thinks, like Jon, that life is meaningless and that the hopeless way people galavant around caring so much about its preservation is funny to him as a professional killer; it is not because he’s got a whole bunch of knock knock jokes. I am willing to explain all other examples of bullshit if needed.
mike
23 Apr 09 at 1:06 pm