Chatterbox

In the spirit of O'Tim's Monthly Max post, it's time for a gratuitous Sam post. He and I had a very meaningful conversation recently. Luckily, I caught it on tape. And yes, you will LOL. TTFN.

You asked for it... Hempmento

A few years ago my friends and I made the short film Hempmento, a 28-minute parody of the indie hit Memento. It's played in some film festivals, and always gets some good laughs. A number of you (and by you, I mean Looney) have asked to see it. Well, we finally got it on iFilm, so here it is. Again, it's 28 minutes long, and is quite, um, adult in language and subject matter. But if you've seen Memento, I think you'll enjoy it. If you haven't seen Memento, you'll still probably thing it's goofy because, well, it is, but it definitely helps to see its inspiration.

UPDATE: I just noticed that for some reason the video didn't show widescreen when embeded in my blog, but instead was stretched top and bottom. The link to watch it at the iFilm site, however, looks right, so I've removed the embeded video.

Just follow this link to watch the movie at the iFilm site.

Stand-up-and-move-a-lot comedy.

This guy must have adult ADD.



UPDATE: Yes, this guy is this guy performing at a fundraising benefit last year.

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Paula is one messed-up chick.

No, not Paula from Ultrablog! How dare you...

I'm talking about Paula Abdul. Have you seen this? I can only imagine what was going through the heads of the interviewers.



I'm not an American Idol fan whatsoever. As a matter of fact, I've never watched a complete show. Every so often I've heard rumblings about Paula Abdul suspected of being drunk on the show, but I'd never witnessed it. After watching this video, all I can say is she ain't all there. She's hopped up on something, as the kids say.

I'm almost inclined to start watching this season.

Naaaah.

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Paula, even you will enjoy watching this.

Seriously, watch it. It's Denis Leary doing commentary during a Red Sox game. Specifically, he finds out the first baseman is Jewish and starts going off on Mel Gibson and it is absolutely freaking histerical.

Mobilize This!

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Birthday wishes; BFE trailer

First of all, I'd like to wish my beautiful wife Julie the happiest of happy birthdays. Happy birthday, babe. You're the best!


The director of our show put together a little video trailer thing for it. It's a bit long, but kind of fun.

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Ingenuity.

For those of you who are all, "I never watch videos, so don't put them on your blog," you can ignore this post because I'm putting a video on here.

For those of you who want to see and hear something pretty freaking impressive, watch this. There's nothing offensive about it, so turn it up (unless you work in a library, of course). It's music, and it's a pretty cool tune. But it's not the song that's impressive, it's how it's made.

Watch all the way until the end.


Via: VideoSift

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And now for something completely silly.

Can't keep the mood around Boiled Dinner somber for too long. When shit gets bad, I like to laugh. Just yesterday a new Brain Break was released. It features my friends Eric and Jane, and this will give you a hint as to why Eric is one of those people who continually makes me laugh. In this one, Eric doesn't take his evaluation too well...

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The Power of Advertising

From Mr. Show, the greatest sketch comedy of all time.

More comedy!

Above is a scene I wrote for Spackle the Crack, which was the first sketch comedy we performed at Rattlebrain back in the day. It's called "Biddies." Don't let those two sweet-looking old ladies fool you -- they'll kick your ass if you front 'em. It's a Quicktime movie file, and it's fairly large (about 11MB). See if you can pick out which of the gang bangers is me.

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Only 16% more to go, and another Brain Break.

You've Experienced 84% of Life

You have an amazing amount of life experience. In fact, you've seen and done more than most people. So congratulate yourself on what you've done so far. The future is only going to be more of the same!

How Much Life Experience Do You Have?

Looks like I'm nearly finished. I think I'll try to stretch out that last 16% over the next 58 years.

Found at Paula's, who swiped it from Shelly.


Brain Break #3: Jane Teaches a Lesson
This was a joy to shoot...



If you had trouble with watching it imbeded here in my blog, try this link instead.


Finally, I put a link to my commercial and film acting reel (aka Show Reel, as Sour Grapes calles it) in my side bar over yonder under the "Me" section. Do check it out and do tell me what you think...

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Another Brain Break.

This is one of my favorites. I track down Eric for an impromptu meeting.



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Brain Break

My comedy troupe Rattlebrain shot a series of videos called Brain Breaks. Since a big chunk of our business is corporate entertainment, we did these videos to send out to clients, potential clients, and other folk who might forward them to potential clients. We just took normal, everyday work situations and had some fun with them. Here's the first -- Brain Break 1 - Take Your Child to Work Day.



The "repeater" girl at the end is my step-daughter Maddie. She's too good at that...

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The Internet is a series of tubes.

Did you know that?

Freaking hilarious.

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Big dose of funny

Very, very funny commercial sent to me by a friend. Click here to watch. Enjoy!

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My Acting Reel, Take 2.

Updated with a couple new things.

Just click on the image at left. It's a QuickTime .mov file, and it's pretty big, but if you have the QuickTime plugin it should start playing before it's fully loaded. It's about 4-1/2 minutes long. Lemme know what you think.






If the link above isn't working, you probably just need to update your Quicktime. Otherwise, click the image to the left for the Windows Media version. The quality isn't nearly as good, but it works.

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Holy crap, I'm back.

One of my many New Year's resolutions was to reanimate Boiled Dinner. Using the past five years as my basis, I'm tending to follow through annually with 22.5% of my New Year's Resolutions. Given that I had four this year, and one of them was to do what I'm doing right now, that's 25%. I can blow off the other three, and my average will still rise. I am feeling really fucking good about myself right now.

I just finished eating a most delicious salad that I assembled by my own self at the fabulous Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck) behind my suburban Denver home. I do appreciate a good salad bar. I'm the kind of guy who makes the salad as large as the container. I am unable to fill only half the container. As I'm making the salad, I believe I'm filling half the container, but when I'm finished I'm like, how the hell did that happen? I filled the whole container. So it was a huge salad, it was, with the following ingredients:

• Hearts of Romaine Lettuce
• Cheddar Cheese
• Jack Cheese
• Blue Cheese
• Parmesan Cheese
• Ham, Cut Into Cubes
• Turkey, Cut Into Cubes
• Fresh Croutons. Well, As Fresh As Dried Bread Can Be
• Boiled Egg Bits
• Mushrooms
• Tomatoes
• Organic Ranch Dressing

It's a fabulous list of ingredients, isn't it? Do me a favor: Take another look at the list and see if you see celery on that list. I'll wait.

No? Didn't think so. That's because I didn't choose to put celery on my salad. However, as I was chewing my final bite, I tasted an unexpected taste that I hadn't tasted during this particular salad excursion. Celery. Somehow a chunk of celery made its way into my salad. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it came from the hearts of romaine lettuce bin. That singular, surprising flavor completely ruined my entire lunch. All of the glorious ingredients I'd so painstakingly mixed together into the taste I desired were trumped by the taste of celery which, I'm not afraid to tell you, I fucking hate. There are four -- yes, merely four -- tastes which I fucking hate, and those are lima beans, avocado (and no, I wouldn't like your guacamole either), beats and celery. And one of them showed up in my salad. That, as the kids like to say, is a pisser.

Oh, I'm in some new ads for Frontier Airlines. Check them out here. Just click on the TV. I'm the reporter.

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