Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space is now on Superdeluxe. Cakey’s debut at Channel 102 is one of my favorite moments. It was a good sized crowd at Anthology Theater and the episode starts. By the time the OPENING credits were rolling, people were cheering as if Cakey! The Cake From Outer Space was a long-beloved character of American culture. Really fun. Cakey was a huge smash there — crowds cheered and gasped at every episode. At that time, each Channel 102 screening would end with episodes from Cakey and Puppet Rapist — a nice one-two punch of brutal cuteness.
I like [...]
Here’s A-Rod’s Baby, an awesome sketch by Brandon Gardner which I filmed and edited. Starring Anthony King and Molly Lloyd.
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I’m pretty proud of this one as it looks decently polished. Not in a showy way, but in a “you can hear all the words and the people are well-lit” sort of way. A boom mike helped part one and big open windows helped part two. I like the performances a lot, especially Anthony’s expressions after he has clearly lied to his wife– trying to hide that he is excited about her being pregnant with A-Rod’s baby. Molly rocks that shit too. I’m going to continue to crank these videos out until I hit one right on the [...]
I was exhausted last night. But I was dying to finish season 4 of The Wire, and so Tabitha watched three episodes in a row, not an easy task as it’s an hour each of densely-packed crime drama. It feels very dude to have someone watch a show you love. “I’m a guy! Come absorb this media with me! You HAVE to absorb this media! This media is so good!” But you know what? It really IS a good show, and the ending to season 4 was heartbreaking and good.
Separate point: lots of my friends are making smallish amounts of money acting or creating videos for the web. Good that my friends are getting some cash for their talents. [...]
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- Here’s a fun review of Jaime Hernandez’ latest collection, The Education of Hopey Glass.
- A fun project to do would be to show my favorite comics panels of all time. I’d scan the panels and list the title and date published — but not offer any context to the story at all. Just one per story. That would be fun. I might do that.
- My old improv team 1985 went to a karaoke club last night. New song I take away: Major Tom, by Peter Schilling as introduced to me by Risa Sang-Urai. Birch [...]
YouTube - Link to Connery And Danza
Here’s Connery and Danza. Why did I do this? After Rob and I did Kerry On two years ago, one of the biggest comments I heard was “That guy’s John Kerry impression isn’t that great” which bothered me because I had DIRECTED Rob to not do the impression well. I prefer “bad” impressions.
So I decided to make a show where there was absolutely no question that the impressions were not supposed to be on point. I also cynically believed that people are SUCH slaves to pop culture references that just by [...]
Dan Hopper of AWOK has an terrific entry on the BestWeekEver blog about how people are so quick to complain that “things used to be better” (Super Bowl Ads, SNL, etc) without really considering that it just might be that they are no longer 12 years old.
Also, Channel 102 happened — a rousing success, I’d say. Pianos, our new locale, is promising and excellent. Yeah, there were a few snafus but nothing I wouldn’t expect from settling a new frontier. One show I loathed with the pits of my being, but the rest were pretty damn good, and I think the audience made the smart choices. Connery and Danza went over well but did [...]
Channel 102 is tonight - 7pm and 8:30pm at Pianos in the East Village. Directions. Tis free.
My friends Craig, Rory and Damian made a show called Beyond Fact which was submitted but not selected for screening. I think this is funny so watch it. I’m also in it and I’m hilarious.
Also, my show Connery and Danza got in and will be shown. It has ACTION!
I’m hoping to submit a show each month to Channel 102 even if all I have time for is “The Adventures [...]
I’ve been making videos at a rapid clip lately, and plan to keep up the pace — hoping to hit one on the screws. Because I’m grinding them out, they’re not all gems. But friends try to be supportive regardless. I can sorta tell when it’s genuine “Hey, that’s great!” or “Hey, you…. finished something!” I love both kinda of support, by the way.
But what do friends of bad movie directors say when the directors release their terrible movies? What did friends of the guy who directed One Missed Call say at the premier? “Cool you got to make a movie, dude!”
Also, I’m almost done with my latest Channel 102 submission: Connery and Danza.
You all know Harold Night is tonight. So that’s good. But if you’re in Williamsburg and don’t feel like leaving, I’ll be dusting off my stand-up at a show at the Archers of Ha show at Spike Hill bar and grill right off the Bedford stop tonight at 9:30pm. THEN, if you need even more Will Hines Antics, I’m in the Blender at UCBT at 11pm. Lotsa Hines.
I did a rough cut of a Channel 102 show I’m submitting this month. It makes just slightly more sense then my last show The Fightin’ George Orwells, but with similar “I only have two hours to shoot this” production values. It features [...]
This one is so strange, I bet even Sue Galloway will shake her head. It’s “The Fightin’ George Orwells” which I was going to submit to Channel 102, but it ended up being too nuts even for that admittedly lenient arena. I had just read Orwell’s Down and Out In Paris and London and then re-read 1984 and was obsessed with creating a weird distorted view of those worlds. Basically, I like to do adaptations as if they were being done by non-English speaking Eastern bloc directors who are told only the titles of what they are supposed [...]
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