Loading ...What are we all going to do when this movie comes out and we find ourselves incapable of loving anything else? I just finished The Wire, which I feel totally confident saying is the BEST SHOW EVER, so now obviously TV is dead to me. I mean, I’ll try to stay up with Dexter and The Office and Weeds as they come out on DVD (because I don’t have/watch normal-person TV) but really, part of the magic will be gone. I just have to deal with that. Nothing will ever be as good, and I guess that’s part of growing up or something. But I worry that Kick-Ass will be so good it will ruin movies for me too, and then I’ll be stuck with just podcasts or something.
Aren’t you happy and excited for your day right now? Aren’t you totally charmed? I have an essay to write about King Lear (who, by the way, was totally NOT the King of wishful thinking. More like the King of being mean to your daughter am I right?) right now and a three hour legislative behavior class in 90 minutes, and yet I am totally pumped for my day. Also, if you’ve listened to this once, you are already playing it again, aren’t you? I knew you were! Carpe Diem, you know? You’re welcome. We’re adding Lauren Zettler (who is on twitter, b the w) to the HEROES LIST, which, according to a quick search of my previous posts, also includes Edith Zimmerman and Allison Schulnik. It’s kind of weird that there are no guys on the heroes list by the way, so I will add three right now: David Simon, Tom Waits, and Corey Booker. Now our heroes list is balanced, gender-wise.
So if you follow me or Jory on Twitter, or see us in real life on a regular basis, you will know that we’ve been talking about The Wire pretty much nonstop for weeks. The only reason we haven’t done an AFO on The Wire is because it went off the air in 2008, and also Ryan and Josh haven’t seen it. The other night we were at a concert for my brother’s band The Mild Revolution, and we kept talking about how we wanted to go down to some train tracks and get drunk and smash bottles and shit, and everybody else was like, LOLwut, and we were like, you just don’t understand. But I was telling Jory he needed to see this documentary Street Fight, which is about a mayoral election in Newark (in 2004, I think). It is basically The Wire, but in real life. The trailer:
Also– Mitt Romney got involved in an altercation on a plane last week. A guy punched him, or something. And it turns out that it was a semi-famous rapper? That kind of makes sense, because it’s not like Mitt was flying coach. But anyway, TMZ has the story, if you can deal with their horrible Web 1.0 look and double-spaced text and shit.
So right now I am at work, so I can’t watch this, but later I will, and I will be psyched. The full-length red-band trailer for Kick-Ass is here, via TDW.
I have put together two new videos for my brother’s band! We went to see them Friday night! They were great, obviously.
So I totally wish I thought of this, but someone has created a website called “ShadyURL,” which alters links the the fashion of TinyUrl. So for instance, the most recent installment of Blogging Twilight comes up from TinyUrl rendered as http://tinyurl.com/y8udy5r. Put into ShadyURL, it comes out: http://5z8.info/nic_cage_naked_g2q2u_hateminorities. Our blog homepage? http://5z8.info/the-most-dangerous-game_s4z3e_dogs-being-eaten.
Go try it out!
Finally, this is a Craigslist Ad for the record-books.
Whenever we fail to produce an AFO for some reason, I have endeavored to bring you the weeks news in some other format, because hey why not, and sometimes people read it. So last week there was apparently some kind of editing disaster and the episode died. We made the AFO blastocyst, but Jory aborted it. So that’s on his conscience. And okay, it’s Tuesday now, so it’s not last week anymore, but it was a holiday weekend. So what happened last/this week.
Google launched “Google Buzz” which is apparently another social networking thing, and we all need more of that right? Seriously, my chances of getting a job doing anything anywhere are pretty much ruined by the sort of insane shit I write on the internet on a daily basis. Every time I get a chance I say something stupid. I’m like John Mayer, without the casual racism. And I’d really rather Google not know anything else about me. I Google-Imaged Searched Robert Pattinson once, and now it auto-fills in his name when I type in “R.” How am I supposed to explain that to people? Once search! Okay, well it was five separate searches, but that still seems unwarranted to me.
And also the Olympics are apparently happening. I don’t have cable or anything, so I really have no idea. I heard that a guy died, and they showed it on TV a bunch, so that was really classy of them. I don’t have TV for a reason. I sound really self-righteous and all but the reason is not that TV is vulgar and exploitative. I actually usually like vulgar exploitation. I am glad I did not see a guy die. But I don’t have TV because I’m broke.
So Rock and Sock and Robot is a year old today. 55+ episodes later, I am still very happy to be making this show every week. So thank you for watching.
“What the hell are these videos supposed to mean?”
-SpiderRider3
“This show deserves an Oscar!”
-Taramushi
“i now have to contemplate me entire existence”
-AdamovitchQuwelton
“oh thank goodness an upload that isn’t drilling liberal politics into our skulls oh-so-subtly!!!! thanks RSR!”
-arequipa1
“Is it childish that I giggle every time they say the F word?”
-rbrown2697
“After all this time I just got the Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots reference of rock sock and robot. How dumb am I?”
-costavista84
“Today, on this 20th day of January, the bar for prank calling has been redefined.”
-NinjaxCad
I’m posting a lot of stuff today, which is funny because the AFO this week is delayed and/or dead. Unintentional good timing, I guess. So BLOGGING TWILIGHT pt. 14 is out, and if you missed it earlier this week, I tried my hand at Twilight Fan Fiction.
I’ve also posted a few new videos of my brother’s band, The Mild Revolution:
Kick-Ass trailer, bitches:
But that doesn’t even hold a goddamn candle to the red band, Hit-Girl centered trailer, which you can’t embed apparently. But it is here. Go forth, and be moved. This is going to be the best thing in the world. I know I have already said that about a lot of things. But this is real.
So, first of all RIP JD Salinger. I’ve been meaning to go back and read The Catcher in the Rye because as a child I think some people overestimated my reading comprehension – I was able to understand the basic plot of many novels above my grade level but at the time I didn’t realize they were not supposed to be about plot anymore – and I will probably do that soon. After I read Twilight, obviously. So Dave Eggers wrote an obit for the New Yorker, and I didn’t read it because I have this thing where I hate Dave Eggers and the goodwill engendered by Where The Wild Things Are has yet to completely cure me of it. But I did read this, and it was great.
Why aren’t conservatives funny? I’ve wondered about that for a while myself. I think this guy has hit upon a few answers. I wish a few of the YouTube trolls who keep showing up on the comment boards would read this shit. I’m looking at you, MalesCantMarryMales!
Also, this is just priceless. Epic fail.
Scott Brown, by the way, can apparently take a joke. Good for him!
This week I came across a message board for White Supremacists, and it’s pretty great. Here’s my favorite three comments so far, which you can click through and go to the site itself if you wish.
And also this:
Part of me feels like, if you haven’t actually seen WTWTA yet (and my wife and I are the ONLY PEOPLE I know who actually have seen it), then you shouldn’t watch this. But it’s really too funny, even still. Just put this out of your mind when you finally see it.
