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Posted on 04.05.09 by Widge @ 11:36 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. So I've mentioned before how I love Spike Jones because seeing him and his crew perform is a lot like the inside of my head. This admission has earned me my fair share of people backing away slowly, but so be it. Mark Evanier, because this is what he does, told the story of how he lucked into meeting members of Spike Jones' family, got access to a bunch of original concept art (among other things), and met the man who sketched up the piano playing bit that was featured in the vid we posted here. Here's a bit of unrelated Spike just because we can and because it's damn fun. Direct link for the feedreaders. And here's where you can read the post from Mark. It's fantastic. Categorized as: TV
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Posted on 04.01.09 by Widge @ 7:30 pm
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. I try not to just post vids with nothing else because you can get that at any old website. But sometimes vids just need no introduction. Like this one. Direct link for the feedreaders. I will concur with the commenter on the YouTube page who asks why Steve Martin isn't funny anymore? Don't you miss him? I sure as hell do. Thanks to Graham Linehan for sharing. Categorized as: TV
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Posted on 03.28.09 by Widge @ 12:44 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. So Ken recommended this highly and said I would want to share it with others. He wasn't lying. So here we are. And you know this is good, because I seldom share full episodes of anything--the last time was, well, Brian. I didn't upload this, but because the BBC is terrified that somebody outside of the UK might want to enjoy their quality programming, I've had to resort to embedding what some nice person on YouTube did for us. Here is the first episode of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe. Direct link for the feedreaders. His previous series, Screenwipe, is not yet available on DVD. Sadly. Categorized as: TV
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Posted on 03.16.09 by Widge @ 12:37 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. I had no idea until Bill Corbett Twittered it that yesterday was Judd Hirsch's birthday. He asked what everyone was doing to celebrate. I figured we could have a little of this: Direct link for the feedreaders. And an awful lot of what comes next... Categorized as: TV
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Posted on 03.07.09 by Widge @ 5:50 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own. So Ken and I were discussing David Letterman and how amazingly cool his shows used to be. He was a bit wild, what with his monkey-cam and Larry "Bud" Melman and his various stunts he'd pull. Like grabbing the Helen Hayes Suite at the Milford Plaza in New York City and filming his show there, with special guests Carly Simon and Hunter S. Thompson, plus some other people he coaxed out of their hotel rooms. It's utterly manic...and funnily enough when Ken was playing part of this for me, and I heard Milford Plaza--I've actually stayed there. At least a couple of times. In the mid-90s, anyway, it had decent prices that included meals in the rather better than decent restaurant downstairs. Takes me back, so it does. Anyway, here's some Letterman back when he was perhaps a bit more out of control than these days we're used to. Categorized as: TV
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