May 2012
3 posts
April 2012
6 posts
Channel 101: The Jogger - Episode 1 →
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Oh! The Jogger, a pilot Mike McCafferty made that was going to be a mobisode thing but then that unfortunately fell through, is on the “new” site! It was taken down when the rights were on the table.
Enjoy, hopefully it’s not a mistake having it up again.
Mike McCafferty himself gave us the go-ahead - The Jogger is here to stay!
I regret nothing
I’ve been out of a job for almost two weeks. Rent has come due and been paid. And I will rapidly be passing the threshold from which I am financially comfortable. Did I quit my job? Yes, I did. Will that, in all probability, put me in a very precarious monetary situation? Yes, it will. Do I regret what I did? No, I do not.
In the week-and-a-half since I worked my last day, I’ve...
March 2012
7 posts
30 DAY MOVIE CHALLENGE
Day 5: Favorite Underrated Movie
This is where my severe lack of extensive background in movies is exposed. My tastes have always been geared toward more recent movies, which means I overlook a lot of older gems. These movies were all made in the last ten years. Most people probably know them. But I don’t think any of them got their due, for one reason or another.
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I'm a quitter
So, I quit my job yesterday. For the first time in my life. I did it for a lot of reasons, but the main one is that it made me intensely unhappy. I hated working nights. I hated that I was never really “off.” Even when I wasn’t at work, I always had one eye on my tether (aka work phone) to see what crisis might be emerging that I’d have to deal with later. For five days a...
WatchI realized yesterday that I never posted the Channel 101 Classics segment for “Laser Fart.” All of them will eventually be posted on the new website. So consider this one a placeholder for now.
February 2012
4 posts
Watchactor:
My really, really good friend Ben Pluimer is having a birthday today. Despite me giving him shit with this video (from a project we shot about 6 years ago!), I am actually very happy to call him a close friend. I’m also excited to see what happens to his career now that he’s an “adult” and doesn’t have to worry about music, fashion or anything else that burdens you when you’re in your...
New Rule
If me and my drunk friends can’t yell outside your house at 2 AM on a Friday night, you can’t loudly try to corral your three toddlers at 8 AM on a Saturday morning in front of mine.
Nothing like waking up to this. “No, no, no…sweetie. Isaac! Isaac! Come over here! Come here sweetie. Look, here comes Dada!”
It’s only fair.
January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
9 posts
WatchJust in time for Christmas! JD Ryznar did red carpet interviews before the 2011 Channy Awards. As always, he’s hilarious. Do yourself a favor and watch his face during Kyle Reiter and Kate Freund’s interview.
I guess this closes the book on the 2011 Channel 101 season. I’m sure great things are in store for 2012!
WatchA very creepy Happy Holidays to you and yours. Made (quickly) for Movie Night.
WatchChannel 101 Video Week - Day 5: The last Channel 101 Classics of 2011 features the “Your Magic Touched Me” franchise. I’m excited to do one more year of these. Channel 101 has no shortage of great shows to spotlight.
Coming up on Monday, I’ll be posting JD Ryznar’s red carpet (minus an actual red carpet) interviews from the Channies.
WatchChannel 101 Video Week: Day 4 - I totally spaced on putting this online back in September. Mike McCafferty’s “Quest” has always been one of my favorite Channel 101 shows. Every excuse that I’ve ever had for not making a pilot is completely invalidated by the existence of this show. I hope this does it some justice.
WatchChannel 101 Video Week: Day 3. I stuck this in the Channies preshow because I liked the concept but lacked the time to execute it correctly. I originally had much bigger plans, but they slowly fell by the wayside as the days leading up to the Channies passed. So I present this, a so-so example of what compromise can deliver.
WatchChannel 101 Video Week: Day 2. I made this Bud Light ad for the Channies and was really happy with the reaction. Downside: I now have a six-pack of Bud Light in my refrigerator.
WatchI cut this together for the Channy Awards this year. I’m sharing it mainly because I have pages of notes in my room with the phrase ‘Channel 101 Death List’ written at the top and all my friends’ names listed underneath. In case I drop dead, I didn’t want anyone to think I was plotting the murders of everyone I know. Super thanks to the always amazing Derek Mears for...
Channies
As always, the Channies were an amazing night, preceded by three days of sheer terror. Working alongside people like Morgan Locke, Dave Seger, Julie Gollins, Tom Kauffman and Josh Sasson makes it worthwhile. Congrats to all the winners and nominees - without awesome work, an awards show would be meaningless.
There were a lot of moments from tonight’s show that will be stored in my heart...
November 2011
3 posts
NBC
First you came for “Freaks and Geeks” and I said nothing. Then you came for Conan and, again, I said nothing. Then you came for “Community” and I said…fuck you. www.save-community.com
WatchOfficial link doesn’t seem to be working yet.
So…Channel 101 proudly presents the 2011 Channy nominees. Enjoy!!
October 2011
5 posts
Tales from the Heart
Being from Arkansas, I see quite a few of these “homilies” show up on my Facebook wall from old friends and family. This one is a doozy:
An 11 year old girl asks her father, “Dad, what are you gonna get me for my 15th birthday?” The father replied, “Daughter, there’s much time left.” When the girl was 14 she fainted and was rushed to the hospital. The...
September 2011
8 posts
Fall TV Review Preview
Last week, I took an E! Online columnist to task for writing a particularly gutless, possibly dishonest review of NBC’s new show “Whitney.” You can read my original post here if you want the whole sordid story. In the days since then, I’ve closely monitored the site’s fall preview articles, and I may owe the writer of that article an apology. It would appear...
Socks on the floor
Human memory is a bizarre thing. Of all the memories that come flooding back from a decade ago, the one thing that is foremost in my mind is the sound of my socks on the aqua green carpet of my dormitory hallway. I’d had 20 minutes or so to process what was happening before I decided to go to the lobby of my dorm and tell the desk attendant that America was under attack.
I had entered a...
Today's Review Review
I’m a big fan of reading reviews. I am, in fact, a lapsed amateur reviewer myself. And with the new fall lineup on the horizon, most entertainment websites are chock full of new reviews, previews, pre-review previews. And so it was that I found myself reading a review on E! Online for NBC’s upcoming new sitcom “Whitney.”
Full disclosure: I have no plans to watch...
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“So, like, the scene had the dude from That Thing You Do in it…”
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A fragment of a conversation I heard while walking to my car in Los Feliz that’s now driving me nuts.
What scene? What movie? Did she just refer to Tom Hanks as “That dude from That Thing You Do”?
There are only four men to whom this could reasonably apply:
Tom Hanks - God, I hope not
Tom Everett...
WatchErni, Chris and the great people at Wonders were nice enough to let me edit an episode of GAMEZ. This was some of the most fun I’ve ever had editing because I had complete control to take it wherever I wanted. And with that newfound freedom, I decided to go to a very….weird place. I don’t think Wonders will let me play with their nice things again.
WatchI usually wait longer to post these, but this is the first one that I wasn’t at the Channel 101 screening to see the reaction for. I’m going into what I call a ‘lack-of-feedback paranoia spiral’. “Gregory Shitcock, P.I.” Awesome show. Have a look back, won’t you?
August 2011
9 posts
Sound recordist thoughts
“Hmm…,” thought the sound recordist, huddled over his mixer, “I keep getting interference and audio peaks from these body mics. In every take. Oh well, they can always cut around it.”
“Hmm…,” thought the editor, huddled over his keyboard, “every audio take has a lot of noise and peaks from these body mics in it. So much so that I can’t...
