BEING BIPOLAR: Video Log 8: Depressive Episode #2, “Stop Thinking About Nothing”
How J.J. Abrams’ STAR TREK should have ended
Those wonderfully demented folks at How It Should Have Ended have struck again! This time the target is last year’s stellar smash hit Star Trek, which was directed by J.J. Abrams and used every lens flare plug-in on the market.
Here’s how Star Trek should have ended…
Charlie Chaplin stars in THE MATRIX
It could use some piano accompaniment. And the cards need some serious cleaning-up of translation. But those aside, this is still very clever: The Matrix as an old-timey silent movie featuring Charlie Chaplin!
That “dojo” scene is especially Chaplin-esque ๐...
Wanna see my appearance on THE JAY LENO SHOW?
Well, it was just “that Star Wars school board campaign commercial”… but at least I can now honestly brag about having made Jay Leno and a studio audience laugh on national television! ๐
I put the clip of The Jay Leno Show featuring my commercial (along with a few others from around the country) during this past Thursday night’s broadcast on YouTube. Click here to behold Yours Truly’s visual effects and Melody Hallman Daniel’s awesome voice-over entertaining the entire country in prime-time!
However I don’t know how long it’ll be up on YouTube, ‘cuz as soon as I posted it the system told me that NBC Universal had already flagged it for possible infringement… which I’m thinking is just an automated response to the keywords I attached to the video. But even so, after EVERYTHING that I’ve gone through in the past few years pertaining to copyright law (yeah I’m ...
Willy Wonka’s Tunnel of Hell… reversed!
Kinda makes you wonder what Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory would have been like had David Lynch made it…
THAT’s gonna leave a mental scar! ๐...
Darn you Steve Jobs!
Catch me anywhere out and about, and chances are I’ve got my iPod classic hanging on my belt. It’s the first iPod I’ve ever owned, the model that came out two years ago with the 80 gigabyte hard drive. And yesterday was the annual press event where Apple rolls out the newest iPod models. I was expecting to not update to anything new until sometime next year, when I figured that flash storage will finally catch up to the capacity I demand that’s currently only on hard drive. And that might happen then, since the latest iPod touch now maxes out at 64 gigs of flash memory (I’d way love to see at least that much on an iPod classic design).
Then I saw the 5th generation of iPod nano.
And I am now lusting for one terribly.
FM radio (with Live Pause – sorta like audio DVR – ...
THE BALLAD OF G.I. JOE
Thanks to Phillip Arthur for finding this. And I have not seen the new G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra movie but I have heard that “The Ballad of G.I. Joe” is gads better than that… film. Here it is, starring a lot of famous faces!
And in case you’re wondering who’s who, here’s the cast list:
...Laz Alonso as Doc, Alexis Bledel as Lady Jaye, Billy Crudup as Zartan, Zach Galifianakis as Snow Job, Tony Hale as Dr. Mindbender, Frankie Kang as Storm Shadow, Geoff Mann as Buzzer, Andreas Owald๏ปฟ as Snake Eyes, Daniel Strange as Torch, Kevin Umbricht as Ripper, Vinnie Jones as Destro, Joey Kern as Tomax, Joey Kern as Xamot, Chuck Liddell as Gung Ho, Julianne Moore as Scarlett, Henry Rollins as Duke, Alan Tudyk as Shipwreck, Olivia Wilde as The Baroness, Jamin Fite as Cobra Commander, Sgt.๏ปฟ Slaughter as Himself
Classic SESAME STREET: Bert and Ernie’s appliance war!
Dang, it’s been a long time since this blog has seen any vintage Sesame Street sketches! Here’s one that just got hosted on the official Sesame Street YouTube channel. From the very first season: Bert and Ernie do battle with dueling appliances!
This show certainly was darker and more violent in its early days. I doubt we’d ever see a sketch like this produced circa 2009....
Rough-cut final scene of THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Flicking through channels this evening and happened upon There Will Be Blood. I watched this movie for the first time last month and personally I think it’s one of the finest movies in many years. And right now I’m DVRing it in high-def. Boo-yah!
Anyway, when I first wrote about it my good friend Lee Shelton let me know that there was a rough version of There Will Be Blood‘s brutal ending floating around on YouTube. Here it is…
And by the way, CONGRATULATIONS to Lee and his wife on the new addition to their family: baby Olivia, who they adopted in China! Here’s wishing them all the best ๐...
HyperMind’s video for the Monsterpocalypse contest makes the Top Ten!
Two weeks ago I let y’all know about a promotional video that I worked on for HyperMind, that groovy game store in Burlington. The video was for HyperMind’s big Monsterpocalypse day this coming Saturday, and was also an entry in that game’s Monsterpocapalooza mega-event going on this summer.
Well, the votes have been tallied and our lil’ video has made it into the Top Ten! There wound up being about 22 entries altogether. We are very thankful to be in one of the top spots, and we wish to thank everyone who voted for us!
Here it is again if you haven’t seen it yet…
Again, thank you to all who watched and rated our video. The final winner will be announced on July 31st… and we’ll be keeping our fingers crossed ’til then! ๐...