Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Comic Book Review
If this picture doesn't make you need to read the review for Tarot #53, we are no longer friends...
thanks joey comeau... for being you.
thanks joey comeau... for being you.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Welcome to Crapstone
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Ripped, Literally, From Tim and Eric's Website
Jingles... yes ma'am!
Jingles
Recently, TimandEric.com began writing and
producing clever, catchy jingles to some of America's
top companies. Here is a small sampling. Note: If
you are a representative of one of these companies
and would like to use this jingle in your next campaign
or if you are a company who wishes to have timanderic.com
create a jingle for you, please contact us: corporatesales@timanderic.com
Jingles
Recently, TimandEric.com began writing and
producing clever, catchy jingles to some of America's
top companies. Here is a small sampling. Note: If
you are a representative of one of these companies
and would like to use this jingle in your next campaign
or if you are a company who wishes to have timanderic.com
create a jingle for you, please contact us: corporatesales@timanderic.com
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
Plan 9 from Outer Space: The Musical!
Sometime in the fall of 2003, I took a young lady to see this original musical during its debut (and, to my knowledge, only) run at the Box Theater in Fort Worth. The performance was held on the second story of the Ridglea Theater in an old broom closet with a thrust stage and a dozen seats shoved in it. An all death metal lineup had sold out the huge house downstairs, and the thin walls and ceilings of the complex permitted us to experience both shows simultaneously.
Unique to the cast, the narrator could match pitch, which was a welcome relief. The part of Bela Lugosi was played by a cardboard cutout of him as Dracula stolen from the window display of a Hollywood gift shop - when his character died, they pushed it over. One of the two male singing and dancing cops was actually female, and did a hero's work trying to sing her part in the written octave.
Flying saucer sightings were illustrated by a model spaceship, which was hooked to a laundry line about 7' above the front of the stage and launched across by an awkward, semi-visible stage hand. Except when the saucer got stuck in the sag stage center and the stagehand had to run out and push it the rest of the way. There were no blackouts - the cast just sat around for while when each scene ended, then picked up their props and shuffled off. Perhaps most impressively, they were able to accurately recreate Ed Wood's exact cockpit set.
Anyway, I saw the movie earlier tonight, and was wondering if anyone else had put on the musical and filmed any of it, so I looked it up online. Turns out the Box Theater filmed the first two nights of their production and put the whole thing on youtube! Go the Box Theater! I can only assume that I saw it much later in the run, after multiple talent and set modifications, because this video does not entirely line up with the above recollections, but it is still fantastic.
Unique to the cast, the narrator could match pitch, which was a welcome relief. The part of Bela Lugosi was played by a cardboard cutout of him as Dracula stolen from the window display of a Hollywood gift shop - when his character died, they pushed it over. One of the two male singing and dancing cops was actually female, and did a hero's work trying to sing her part in the written octave.
Flying saucer sightings were illustrated by a model spaceship, which was hooked to a laundry line about 7' above the front of the stage and launched across by an awkward, semi-visible stage hand. Except when the saucer got stuck in the sag stage center and the stagehand had to run out and push it the rest of the way. There were no blackouts - the cast just sat around for while when each scene ended, then picked up their props and shuffled off. Perhaps most impressively, they were able to accurately recreate Ed Wood's exact cockpit set.
Anyway, I saw the movie earlier tonight, and was wondering if anyone else had put on the musical and filmed any of it, so I looked it up online. Turns out the Box Theater filmed the first two nights of their production and put the whole thing on youtube! Go the Box Theater! I can only assume that I saw it much later in the run, after multiple talent and set modifications, because this video does not entirely line up with the above recollections, but it is still fantastic.
Piggybacking on The Last Post...
...and stealing from what Viper sent me last night....
RUNNING WITH THE SONGSMITH!!!
You haven't lived until you've heard it...
RUNNING WITH THE SONGSMITH!!!
You haven't lived until you've heard it...
Thursday, January 15, 2009
This ad totally made my day
Key quote: "Microsoft, huh? So, it's pretty easy to use?"
Actually, if you watch some of the other videos, you notice intuitiveness is more than a trend in this program...it's closer to a chip on the shoulder. "That's simple, right? RIGHT? Look, it's RIGHT THERE. It's GLOWING. COME ON."
Edit: I want you to notice that inside the super-intuitive interface, there are only two faders - one marked "Happy", and one marked "Jazzy". YES.
Actually, if you watch some of the other videos, you notice intuitiveness is more than a trend in this program...it's closer to a chip on the shoulder. "That's simple, right? RIGHT? Look, it's RIGHT THERE. It's GLOWING. COME ON."
Edit: I want you to notice that inside the super-intuitive interface, there are only two faders - one marked "Happy", and one marked "Jazzy". YES.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Journalistic excellence.
This incredible blogger deserves some sort of award. If you haven't already seen it, here's his source.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Between Two Ferns
Zach Galifianakis hosts this brilliant interview show. Notice he tries to molest Michael Cera.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
The Secret changed my life
Amazing Amazon.com review. Yes, I know it's on digg, but it's still funny.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Thursday, January 01, 2009
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