Rocco and I are in Toronto shooting another round of commercials for BrightHouse Networks. We had done the first round in March. Tonight, we walked along College St. and had pizza at Vivoli’s, which was good.
Speaking of pizza, 37 signals has a great post about Domenico DeMarco, who’s made pretty much every pizza in his restaurant by hand for the past 40 years. Ptolemy introduced this place to me. It’s way out in Brooklyn — you have to take the subway to a bus to get there — and once you’re there, you wait an hour at least for this amazingly slow-moving man to make your pizza. But the whole time you’re watching him do it, you wonder [...]
The panel above is one of my favorites in all the comics I’ve read. It’s on the last page of Zot! issue #12 (published circa 1985) where Zot, a superhero from a alternate reality Earth where everything is perfect, kisses Jenny, a “normal” girl from our Earth. It was sweet, optimistic and refreshingly NORMAL. Why did Spider-Man so often turn away from Mary Jane? Shouldn’t the hero be happy to have a girlfriend, and just kiss her? Zot and Jenny were in love and so they kissed each other. It shouldn’t have been a big deal, but at that time, it was. Comics never ended simply or sweetly. [...]
That movie was great! Maybe the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen. A blast.
Still, let’s not ignore the awesome intro to the 60s cartoon Iron Man (and cell phone music of Terence Howard in the movie). Thanks Kevin for digging this up.
And as Kevin tells you in his blog post, The Hulk’s 60s theme song is worth a listen, too. “Ain’t he un-glamma-rays?”
My brothers and my recreation of us in Superman underoos has made it on to the hallowed pages of neatorama.com, a site I just discovered when Jon Gabrus sent me this link.
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/young-me-now-me-photographs/
Happy birthday Brian Hines! Both Kevin and Brian are Pisces. Make what assumptions you will, astrologists.
Things that exist in the mind of all Hines brothers and likely few other sets of three people: the image of Zot!, Booyar, the landscape of Clapboard Ridge, They Might Be Giants as seen through a net at Toad’s Place in New Haven, The movie Batman as seen at the Palace Theater on Main Street Danbury, Outer Limits Comics, The Pembroke Panthers and Spite Magazine.
Canada + Cleveland + Connecticut = wryness off the muthaeffin charts!
Human Giant’s new sketch about viral videos is hilarious. I don’t enjoy “comedy” videos which are just idiots summarizing the plots of hit movies. I’m not even gonna dig up a link to any.
Hines Bro Kevin’s birthday is today.
I moved to NYC 12 years ago this week.
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 [...]
[funnyordie 8212431415 nolink]Kevin and I made this video (thank you Cat for filming) and showed it at our Cagematch two weeks ago. Previously, our videos had been deliberately overly-cute montages of our childhood photos. This was more of a sketch and even though it went over well, it’s probably not as appealing as photos of Kevin at the age of 12 holding a model of a solar system in our kitchen.
Still, I was glad to do it. For Christmas, Kevin had received a DVD of the He-Man Christmas Special. Brilliantly, they include a montage of the morals that ended each He-Man episode. Watching just the morals — all stilted and weird — was hilarious! I really wanted [...]
I got cable installed in my apartment yesterday. I hadn’t had it in — maybe three years? Time Warner is a horrible company, but I needs my high-speed connection. A weird part of TWC is it seems that the only deal close to fair is getting all three service — phone, cable and internet. Getting a subset of the three seems to be not that much cheaper. They want us all on the hook for everything, and I’m falling for it!
Brothers Hines lost Cagematch, but we had a fun show that we enjoyed. Kevin initiated every scene in our show, and I think I edited all but one. That’s how we do. I’ve come to believe that our shows are [...]
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Ex Lion Tamer by Wire from "Pink Flag"
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