The winner of the Family Guy Volume six giveaway is Tristen G.!
Congrats Tristen! And if you’re interested in finding out what it will be like to open up your Family Guy DVD set, here’s a YouTube clip of someone doing just that. Take a look. It’s like the Blair Witch Project, but there are no ghosts and no scared film students. You do, however, get to see a tortured soul.
Sure, this isn’t about “real” TV, but why have a blog if you can’t promote your stuff? I had a web-based video series called “Truth @ 15 Frames Per Second” way back in 2006. They were crazy times. YouTube still put everything 4 frames out of sync, and nobody had even heard—let alone forgotten—the name Jessica Rose yet. Some time soon I’ll have a video airing on Current TV (it’s a channel!) about the series and people’s reactions to it. Check your local listings.
Well now everybody has a web series and I’m back with another one. It’s called “Time Travellin’” and it’s about the wacky time travelling adventures of the same two people who are in all my movies. Here’s the first episode. Please tell all your friends. Future episodes will be at my new website Canny Valleys.
Listen — I was about to do a post defending the newfangled line-up of the Smashing Pumpkins. Even though they are nowhere near as wonderous as they were when we were adolescents, they are still making okay music. Listenable, at least.
However, I just spent about three and a half hours trying to embed the new Smashing Pumpkins video — a nine minute monstrosity that is basically a lot of strumming and boring poetry. And it’s only embeddable through AOL (it was taken off YouTube). And it begins playing immediately, whether you press play or not. Thanks for being a pain in the ass, Smashing Pumpkins.
So, as petty revenge, I’m embedding a YouTube clip of Bullet With Butterfly Wings. It’s a dated song — I don’t know how I’d respond to it if I heard it for the first time today, but I can enjoy it based on nostalgia alone. If you want to to take a snooze and listen to the new stuff, it’s after the fold.
But if you want to remember high school, acne, and the era of television where Murphy Brown reigned supreme, watch the clip below.
I was at work, but yours was probably good, right? Someone probably made cupcakes. There may have been some Yellowtail wine served in Solo cups. Microbrews? Trader Joe’s everything?
In any case, last night was nice for bunches of reasons — mostly because we have a president who doesn’t think he’s a cowboy for Jesus. But I also like the fact that we were all kind of in the same room — toggling between CNN, MSNBC and the networks, trying to see who would call which state first.
A few reflections:
I would say that CNN’s hologram correspondents would constitute a jumping of the shark by cable news. I am trying to imagine the brainstorming session that birthed this concept. Perhaps they had the technology lying around and decided this was the opportune time to launch it? Perhaps they asked themselves what a television broadcast from the future would look like — and implemented it, Back to the Future Part 2-style?
Watch here as Anderson Cooper interviews the hologram of one of the Black Eyed Peas.
By the way — there must be something better to cover on election night besides Will.I.am, right? Even if they have to take a few minutes off of election coverage and talk about the rest of the world. There certainly must be something going on in the world worthy of being covered more than the philosophical musings of a commonplace pop star.
Meanwhile, I also think that I’m over Anderson Cooper. I’m not certain I was ever really under him, so to speak. But watching CNN last night and throughout the election, I got to thinking he’s known how hot an item he is for quite a while. He’s gone from being the thinking-gay’s pin-up star to a commonplace teenage hearthrob. It’s a shame, really.
In other news, while they are easily mocked — I’m a fan of the fancy electronic maps, if for no other reason than I wish I could rearrange things on the television just by touching it. Nudging Meredith Grey’s scalpel, etc.
Any thoughts on the coverage? That is, thoughts that are completely independent of real issues or the election results? I’ve had it up to here [my hand is really high] with thoughtful analysis and heartfelt reactions.
There are a lot of funny-slash-poignant-slash-shocking political ads on during this election season. I’ve shared a lot of No on Prop 8 ads — half because they’re funny, half because FUCKING VOTE NO!
Here’s another one:
Most political ads stress me out these days — thank the good lord this election will be done by (hopefully 9:00 or so) tonight. After that point all these ads will instantly become ancient history.
In any case, here are some more if you feel like watching.
This first one is for Kay Hagan, who’s running against Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina. Kay is actually given old Liddy a run for her money, and this ad has apparently been pretty effective.
And who would have thought that getting peed on would become part of the political discourse in Kansas?
And Mark Udall gets razzed for being a damn dirty hippie.
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