in what i consider to be startling news, EA has released the cover for Madden '09. this is always big news because the madden curse is an interesting concept, because so far no one has really survived it. some try to argue that vince young made it through alright, but he was 24th in TDs while being 7th in INTs...26th in qb rating. doesn't really sound like the season of a highly touted young qb to me, but who cares now...
i say "who cares now?" because the question now stands...will the madden curse follow you off the field, because this year's cover-boy is no longer playing...
ta daaaaa
Brett Favre! i'm pretty happy with the choice, although i'm now curious to know if this will be a recurring theme, or if ea is just run by a bunch of cheeseheads. if they really are trying to get away from current players, i also wonder if the names pat tillman or sean taylor were tossed around...
so the story is a simple one...a British government organization pays a ridiculous amount of money to have a logo designed...the logo looks alright as it is, it's just three letters...but when you turn it on its side, it looks a little...well....just look for yourself:
normal
ahhhhh hahaha.
the only thing that bothers me is that representatives from the OGC have already taken some of the best innuendos away in their own press releases:
“It is true that it caused a few titters among some staff when viewed on its side, but on consideration we concluded that the effect was generic to the particular combination of the letters OGC - and it is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.”
and:
“They’re going to get more column inches than they could ever have expected before. If I were them, I would be pretty pleased.”
but will they ever be as pleased as the logo itself?
why is it that your life can be so boring for so long and then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, there's more than you can handle? it's crazy.
i want school to let up so i can finally do all the writing i want to...but there's really no relief in sight. it's just that i have so much i want to do...now...that it's frustrating to sit around studying all the time! i want to get crackin'...i want to hit the road. if you're just stumbling across my blog, allow me to take this moment to shamelessly self-promote myself a little by asking you to please add me on blogger, add me on myspace, follow me on tweeter or pownce, whatever you can, please do it...because around the second half of summer, i want to start planning a tour of the comedy clubs, coming to your town, telling you about my obsession with meshach taylor or whatever.
anyway, on to the stuff you want to read about...like how i watched "super high me" yesterday and developed a new affection for doug benson. sure i thought he was pretty funny on best week ever, but this man's stand-up is great. his style is probably the closest to what i would love to do with stand-up because sure he has some jokes, but he's also just naturally pretty funny, and so a lot of his material is just recounting things that actually happened in his day or recently in his life...i've always wanted to go that route, and definitely have parts of my sets that are like that, but i still feel like i "write out" my stuff, whereas doug just lets it flow. he's very good, and super high me is entertaining, even if only for all the cameos it brings to the table.
i also ate at cracker barrel, and my longtime desire to write a book called: " "my boyfriend works on dirt bikes" and other ways to know you're failing life." returned with full force.
i leave you (once again) with a video courtesy of funny or die. i promise i will return with more classic greatness soon, but i am just TOO excited about the kids in the hall making new sketches! i [hopefully] get to see them live this week which will make the second time i've seen them live....it's gonna be amazing...
oh man, some days are just better than others. thank god this one went in the right direction, because it sure as hell didn't start off that way.
i went to get my car inspected, and apparently no state inspection place on earth will sneak you through if your tint's a little too dark. i still see cars trolling around puffing smoke everywhere, and yet my car is just too shady. so i have to say goodbye to the tint, until i can afford to tint again. ugh.
however, i have been in a burning mood today, and i'm actually managing to reclaim some of my hard drive from all the perfectly legal public domain files i've downloaded recently.
i also caught up on comedy night done right, thank you internet.
watched "look who it isn't"...in case you don't follow my tweets, it's an awesome collection of zach galifianakis footage. apparently he compiled it himself and wanted people to see it, so i did. i had seen most of the stuff before, but it was nice to relive some of the fun late world with zach moments and also see him performing early versions of jokes we've all come to love.
also, speaking of zach...there's a new between two ferns. i usually know i said my daily youtubes would be old favorites, but i can't help posting this up for everyone.
i might as well admit it, i'm basically a slave to my computer...more than just my computer, i'm addicted to the internet. in a big way. i can't help it, i love this shit. i love the fact that when i want to know anything...whether it's the price of sushi at mr. chopsticks or the score of the game, or whether or not wilfred brimley is still alive (he is, and he still has diabeetuss) i can. instantly. it's awesome.
i say this because lately i've become addicted to more and more websites, and i'm sore my blogroll on the side over there will probably start growing rapidly. expect it.
my latest addiction is twitter. i've spent the last couple weeks debating whether or not i wanted to buy into the hype, and at one point figured i'd just join pownce in an effort to get the twitter effect without directly endorsing twitter itself. it was ok, but i really made no effort to befriend anyone on pownce, which is kind of vital to the concept. this time, i'm just so excited that i can't help but try to get my friends in on the action. if you're reading this and you don't have a twitter yet, give it a shot. if you have even one friend on there it can be a real blast.
our cable's still out, but apparently we couldn't have watched our thursday night tv anyway since our local NBC affiliate had nonstop storm coverage. apparently there was some pretty bad weather somewhere around here...all we got was a little rain...point is...i've been watching a lot of kids in the hall and fawlty towers lately. today's youtube clip for you is a hilarious snippet of the amaaaaazing fawlty towers.
just got back from seeing "smart people". i enjoyed it...there were parts of it that seemed weak, and several that were just plain unnecessary, but then again, life's the same way. sure dennis quaid sometimes seems a little too caricaturish...sure, sarah jessica parker's character didn't make any sense (it didn't help that she was a woman)...it all really centered around lowell and juno. good 'ol THC charms his way into every characters life and steals every scene he's in while he's at it. personally, i would've liked his storyline to be the main premise while dquaid and SJP set off on the side, as their awkward relationship drags on. ellen page, lovely and crass as usual, not as gimmicky as juno, thank god.
anyway, since i didn't incorporate one earlier...here's a classic THC moment.
Band of Horses Foo Fighters Beck John Fogerty David Byrne The Mars Volta Conor Oberst N.E.R.D. Erykah Badu G.Love Gogol Bordello Silversun Pickups The Black Keys Jakob Dylan Stars CSS Del! MGMT What Made Milwaukee Famous Jenny Lewis Shooter Jennings Louis XIV Mates of State...
oh man. Austin City Limits is a festival that never disappoints with its lineup. I need $170 now.
man, i consider myself a bit of a nerd, but this guy takes the cake. the man reprogrammed bejeweled so that it would expose a ring and a proposal when his girlfriend hit a certain score...
i can't help but wonder how he came up with the score that she'd have to hit. Did he look through her high scores...set it up around there? Maybe he set it low so she matched up a couple sets and TA-DAA...either way, everyone's happy, she says yes and the guy's happy because the whole thing worked...but if that had been me...the fact that she saw the proposal would not have been good news..it just means the girl was really fucking good at bejeweled, cause i would've set that shit high...i'm talking ridiculously high. like snoop dogg high. she'd come running in "oh my god, yes! yes!" and it would take me a while just to figure out what the fuck she's talking about until she says something about jewels...i guess out of pure shock i would just deny it, "what? no...did it glitch or something? there's no way you hit...that score...oh god."
no time to write too long of a post today, this week is ridiculous. i just found out i missed a quiz on friday in a class that offers no extra credit, i have to write a one page paper, a three page paper, prepare for my group project AND learn some physics all before thursday. son of a bitch.
i decided yesterday i'm entering this el chico video contest...if i can talk a location into helping me out. i'll keep you posted on it...if i can do what i'd like to, i think it will at least be funny...who knows though, maybe it'll score me $2500!
by the way...anyone actually watched waterworld? i ask because i never had, then this morning i catch the end of a warren miller film...because i'm extreme...and waterworld comes on. as of right now i've watched maybe 15 minutes of it, and i can't believe there's actually two more hours. i feel like this is the biggest prank ever pulled...like sometime in the next 20 minutes they're just going to start rolling credits, because no one...i mean NO ONE should've sat through a movie like this for 145 minutes.
anyway, today's old video comes courtesy of the kids in the hall, who i will be seeing live in just over a week!!!
"Milkshake murderer" Nancy Kissel, is currently serving a life sentence for beating her husband to death after lacing his strawberry milkshake with sedatives. Unfortunately the beating did not take place on a seemingly out of place bowling alley, and sources close to the family say Kissel's husband, Robert, had no connections to the oil business.
well at least i refuse to let it go longer than a week.
it's hard to get in the habit of writing something online when you know no one is reading it..but of course, no one will read it if you don't write consistently. it's like getting a credit card, or an 8 year old girlfriend.
the first show at the prophet bar was hugely successful from my point of view. we had one really good table of non-comics that stayed through the whole show, and really helped provide some feedback on everyone's material...sure, the audience could've been bigger, but with almost NO promotion whatsoever, it was just nice that people showed up. there were probably close to 15 comics, and since it was pretty small we just let everyone do what they wanted. some people did 5 minutes, some did 10-12, but no one really hijacked the mic and made it their own. we all talked, we all laughed, and i'm pretty sure we all are going to try a little harder to get more people out next time (may 1st).
in other news, i'm currently beefing up my material to compete in houston's funniest person competition. there's only 60 competitors this year, and my goal is to at least make it out of the first round. i'm still relatively new to the performing of comedy, so i don't want to set my goals too high or anything, but to make it into the second round, you have a 1 in 3 chance. I'll go up may 6th against 14 others, and 5 will make it. i want to be one of those 5.
in case you're curious what i've been really interested in lately...i spent a good deal of time yesterday reading about MIT's social robotic experiments. it's so awesome to know that this shit is finally happening, it's just scary because i always thought that before the smart ones, we'd at least have a generation of robots that only did specific things like clean your house, cook dinner, give you a blowjob....you know, the usual things. but instead, we jump straight to the ones that can think and learn on their own....how long before Nexi there realizes that i have no job, no money, a fear of commitment, and she leaves me for someone better...or worse yet, stays around but just looks bored all the time, and sings old negro spirituals every time i ask for a beej...just like my ex girlfriend.
anyway, i've decided that at least for a while, i'm going to dig up some old gold off of youtube each time i post. today's clip comes courtesy of dana carvey and SNL...hope you like it.
it's a terrible thing, but goddamn if their countdown shows aren't incredibly hard to turn off. of course i want to know the top 50 celebrity confessions...who wouldn't!? how else would i get such up to date information on the celebrities i REALLY care about...like kristy swanson and usher...
in other news, this is a huge week for me, and i am starting to feel the pressure of what i am taking on. i have two big assignments due tomorrow, and then i'm making the trek to hyena's on wednesday for an open mic/all out promotion frenzy to support the launching of open mic at the prophet bar in dallas which is on thursday. all this for a guy who spends most of his days sitting on his couch watching cash cab and reading digg. anyway, better get back to the homework, i'll probably post later with various links and, of course, witty commentary...
