As I noted yesterday, the season premiere of Chuck was last night and Kirsten and I were pretty amped about it. I actually saw a leaked copy last week, but Kirsten threatened to defenestrate me if I let slip any details. So, without any further delays, please enjoy our post-screening rundown presented in glorious AIMcast:
Kirsten: I just want to start out by saying that I was watching Chuck before it was cool.
Kirsten: I actually distinctly remember telling Neal to watch it and him saying that he didn’t think it was worthwhile
Neal: All hail Kirsten, the hipster of Chuck
Kirsten: Thank you
Kirsten: So
Kirsten: Premiere: awesome
Neal: I thought the premiere was suitably cute/dorky/funny
Kirsten: Yes
Neal: Also, do girls really put on their dresses all sexy like that?
Continue reading ‘AIMcast 04 – Chuck Season Premiere Postmortem’
It’s all about eMusic, TV themes, Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget, Pandora, downloading and streaming, beatcast and maw, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Be Kind Rewind, Son of Rambow, Zombie Strippers, Detroit Metro Airport, Garbage Pail Kids Movie, Black Panther #41, Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #3, and a whole lot more.
AudioShocker #49 [70:22m]:
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I must admit, I’m a bit nervous about my first post on the Audioshocker. Not that I should be (I did, after all, once upon a time, participate in one of the podcasts), but I am concerned that I am simply neither hip enough nor up-to-date with my pop-radar either. I was initially thinking that I could orient my posts around that very out-of-touchness, but have, at least for the time being decided against that. I will keep up with the world around me, dammit! And, with that in mind, let me get to what I’m getting to for this inaugural post: Ted Nugent.
Though you may not be as enthralled by the phenomenon of The Nuge as I am, you still must admit that he’s something of an anomaly. For all intents and purposes, the man should have been just another one hit wonder, with his one song “Cat Scratch Fever,” but somehow he has maintained a cultural cachet well greater than what writing a single hit song should command. He’s, of course, well known for his ultra-conservative radio show, and hosting his own reality TV series, and appearing on at least one other one. This is, perhaps, not so different a CV as any other flash-in-the-pan success, but bear with me. I am not claiming that The Nuge is hugely famous or wildly successful, merely that he has a greater piece of the pop-cultural pie than one would expect for the scribe of a song about venereal disease.
Continue reading ‘Culturology 001 – The Nugent Way’
The season premiere of Chuck is tonight (8pm EST) and I’m pretty excited. I got into the show during winter break last year and I enjoyed it a lot. As with Entourage, the main character is irrelevant. Chuck’s peers provide a steady stream of comedy and entertainment. Considering how popular aging comedies likes Scrubs and the recently shark-jumped How I Met You Mother are, I figured it would take off quickly. Unfortunately the WGA strike happened and the rest is history. But that’s all water under the bridge, Chuck is back with a full 22 episode season!
AudioShocker contributor and food blogger extraordinaire Kirsten will be joining me for a postmortem AIMcast directly following the broadcast; the transcript will be up tomorrow.
As regular readers of the AudioShocker, you have no doubt learned a lot about Nick and me. Nick’s forays into the comics industry, my proclivities, and our collective feelings on vocoders are far from guarded secrets.
Here’s the thing: The AudioShocker is a lot more than just me and Nick. Have you ever listened to an AFI Podcast? Perhaps you enjoy the occasional AIMCast? I know you read our book reviews. All of those feature one or two of our contributors, the AudioShocker Super Six: Justique, Pete, Kirsten, Conrad, Shannon, and Ro. By day they are ordinary professionals, but as the sun descends they lace up their boots and hit the mean streets for The AudioShocker.
Until now, these not-so-caped crusaders have stood behind the scenes content to put in work – but no longer! We can not stand idly by while these heroes go unnoticed and unappreciated. We have rectified the situation by creating a contributors page to put faces to names. The link is located right up there in the header in between Nick and Feedback. See for yourself just how steaming hot our in house super hero staff is. Spend some time reading their bios and learning about their secret alter egos. Who knows, you even may develop a super-crush!
Muffdive, a rude rock masterpiece by Dirty Weekend. This song rounds out our Dirty Weekend beatcast triple-play for September (see Scallions and Oh Wait for more). You can also check out video of a live acoustic performance of Muffdive on YouTube.
Muffdive by Dirty Weekend [2:40m]:
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It was way back last week when I wrote about The Top #9-5 Horror / Psychological Anime… but it feels like only nanoseconds ago! Oh well, time flies when you’re watching anime. Here’s the rest:
4. Paranoia Agent. Satoshi Kon strikes again. This psychological mind fuck had me addicted from the first episode. No more words…go watch this one.
3. Requiem from the Darkness. Scariest anime and above all most disturbing media form I have ever experienced. There is violence from the start and the last few episodes were really horrifying. I’m still in the process of rewatching, slowly inching my way toward what I know will only disgust me, though I’m probably a little numb to the horror by now. Great anime! A must see for both horror and anime fans alike.
2. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni & Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai. How could I possibly follow up that last choice…with a delicious little twist called When the Cicadas Cry! It seems like your normal cheesy harem anime, but right from the start you know there’s something wrong. It’s either the foreshadowed murders at the beginning of each arc or the actual conclusion at the end. Watch the first four episodes. If you’re not hooked then turn it off.
1. Doomed Megalopolis. My absolute favorite. Twisted in its own way, I fell in love with the first episode. I won’t offer any spoilers or character peeks or anything like that. Just watch this supernatural thriller and prepare to be haunted.
Next: The Top 9 Reasons Why Comics Don’t Need to Be Saved – Part One!
Why the Top 9? Because 10 is too many and 9 is better. 3 X 3 = Awesome. Now that’s what I call math.
12 Angry Men, Frankenstein, Mutiny on the Bounty, A Night at the Opera, and Duck Soup are on the menu as Conrad and Nick continue to plow thru their countdown of the American Film Institutes’s 100 Years… 100 Movies list. After the end theme, the guys talk about the pros and cons of M. Night Shyamalan movies.
AFI 100 Movies #5 [72:00m]:
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It was the summer of 2004. I was a recent college grad constantly searching for work. I found a job listing for “Assistant Editor at DC Comics” on the Warner Bros employment website and I somehow managed to get my resume over to the right human resources people at Time Warner.
I’m not exactly sure who helped push my status along to help me land the interview. It could have been the DC editor that I had been communicating with via email. It could have been my dad’s friend who worked for Time Warner and passed along my resume. It could have even been Neal (of the AudioShocker), who interviewed with Warner Bros around that time and possibly mentioned my name to HR.
I was up for the position of Assistant Editor to Joey Cavalieri and Joan Hilty, both in working in the DCU proper at the time (Joan was also running the Johnny DC imprint). The physical application process with Warner Bros was daunting, akin to taking a standardized test. I had to dig so far back into my own personal history that I actually couldn’t remember some of the addresses, phone numbers, and names that they wanted to see.
Afterwards, Warner Bros HR sent me over to the DC Comics offices, part of a large building nestled into the upper edge of Times Square in New York City. I can’t speak for how they look nowadays, but the interior hallways were covered in giant paintings of DCU heroes with huge smiles on their faces. It was both awesome and unsettling at the same time.
Continue reading ‘Sneaking Into Comics 003 – My DC Comics Interview for Assistant Editor to Joey Cavalieri and Joan Hilty’
I was totally convinced that I had something original for you today. I was so proud of myself that I decided to add it to Urban Dictionary. Of course, it turns out that pitching wedge has been around since at least 2004. *Sigh* Regardless, it is pretty obscure and we came up with it independently. If nothing else, it should get some you some chuckles on the links.
pitch·ing wedge [pich-ing wej] -noun
-noun
1. A girl that only looks good from about 20 yards away: Ed thought Mary was bangin’ from across the hall, but when he got up close he saw her busted grill and realized she was just a pitching wedge.
[Origin: The mean streets; see Butterface]
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