For this Sunday night, I ain’t got nothing!
Well, nothing except this vintage Sesame Street clip, with Kermit the Frog doing his reporter gig from the studio of master songwriter Don Music, as Music bangs his head on the piano in frustration over his latest work…
This video made my day! While at Disneyland with her family Sariah Gallego got picked to jump on the stage of the Jedi Training Academy feature. But this was one girl who wasn’t satisfied with being a mere Padawan learner! No, she wanted something… more. She wanted to follow her passion. Even if that meant turning to the Dark Side of the Force.
And so in front of everybody including no less a person than Mace Windu, Sariah swore allegiance to Darth Vader and became his Sith apprentice! Behold the video…
Don’t know what else to say but… you go girl!! 🙂...
Saw this GEICO commercial for the first time earlier this morning and I’ve been cracking up laughing about it since!
It’s like “Toonces the Driving Cat” from Saturday Night Live meets The French Connection!...
Goodness gracious… it’s been ages since I’ve posted a clip from Sesame Street on this blog, or anything else having to do with the Muppets! I’ll try to do better from now on gang.
This is one that I remember seeing a few times in my childhood: Kermit the Frog doing a report for Sesame Street News on what makes people angry. I laughed when I watched it then but now that I’m older…
…Well, is there anyone else who sees Kermit honked-off and thinking that he’s a lot like Howard Beale from the movie Network?
The more I think about it I could totally see Muppets Network happening, with Kermit screaming “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” In his reporter gig he even looks a lot like Howard Beale, right down to the raincoat. Yup, “Kermit the Frog, the Mad Prophet of ...
Very, very disturbing (yet funny) trend I’ve caught lately happening on the Intertubes. Some clever chaps are taking 1982’s beloved film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial and giving it the Frank Miller/The Dark Knight Returns treatment. Namely, producing faux trailers for grim, dark sequels to E.T.
And so far I’ve found two of these pieces of work!
This first one splices together footage from E.T. with another Steven Spielberg movie, War of the Worlds. Here is E.T. Returns…
Not bad! I like how it takes Tom Cruise’s character from War of the Worlds and turns him into the older Elliot.
But the trailer for E.T.-X, made with overwhelmingly original footage, is so crazy insanely ludicrously… AHHHH just see for yourself! If E.T. didn’t scare you at the theater before, it sure will now!
Michael Bay should team up with Spielberg and make that ‘un after he finishes this ...
Just got back from Opening Night of Theatre Guild of Rockingham County‘s production of Gypsy and it was a scream! The house had a good crowd and everyone was laughing harder than I’ve seen in this county in a way long time!
I must admit: I wasn’t sure about being in this show at first. But now I’m glad that I’m doing it. This has been some of the most fun that I’ve had in quite awhile.
Well, can ya blame me?
And here’s me in my Cigar getup holding the real star of the show: Tebow Wasmund!
Now, I can’t post any video from the show itself, ‘cuz that would be some bigtime copyright violation (and in spite of ...
“It’s the holy trinity of pop culture!”
Look gang, the next few days I’m gonna be swamped with stuff. Especially with the lead-up to opening night for Theatre Guild of Rockingham County‘s production of Gypsy. I’m not gonna have much time to entertain you, enlighten you and otherwise play around with your heads like I usually do.
So here’s something to tide you over until The Knight Shift resumes regular blogging. It’s a YouTube clip that blurs the line between reality and imagination… well, more than most things that readily come to mind. From 1982’s The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show, it’s Tony Clifton!
Depending on how old you are, this video will either make you laugh… or confuse the heck out of you. Ironically it’s the older viewers who are likely to be scratching their heads in wonder.
“If you believed they put a man on the moon…”...
A guy named “petermolyneux2” on YouTube has… well he might have some issues, if his short film “Nintendo: A Sad Story” is any indication. I’ve watched this three times now, trying to make sense of what exactly I’m looking at. And now I CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD!! No sound sleep for me tonight.
No sound sleep for you either, maybe, if you choose to let enter your gray matter this clip that surely must resemble what the 1993 Super Mario Brothers movie would have been had Neil Gaiman written the script…
I ain’t seen the new Hawaii Five-O series on CBS yet, but I bet it’s got nothing on what my lifelong best friend Chad Austin did when he visited the Aloha State a few months ago! Turns out that he’s been holding back on me and has been doing some filmmaking of his own: witness this AWESOME spoof of the opening credits from the original Hawaii Five-O series!
Speaking of Chad, I’ve heard that people who’ve seen The People vs. George Lucas have really enjoyed his portrayal of George Lucas from our film Forcery (clips of which appear in the award-winning documentary). And Chad swears that he’s going to start blogging again soon. Maybe we are witnessing a new cinematographer in the making? 🙂...