It's Business Time

As with most things, I'm a little late to this game. I received Flight of the Conchords, season 1 for my birthday from a long time friend and it sat on top of my DVD player for months. Well I started watching it finally. And not only are these guys from New Zealand, like Lord of the Rings New Zealand, but they're hilarious to boot. Plus my Murray impression is spot on, or so I've been told.

Below is my personal favorite from the series so far. Good for a laugh, especially in the middle of that weird ass Friday you're having.

As promised...

They were on my laptop the whole time!

Time to tell the world.

"Chick Magnet" goes public! Congrats Team!

Chick Magnet from Jim Kenney on Vimeo.

The executive summary by Jim:

This was created for the 2009 48 Hour Film Festival in Boston. Over 100 Boston teams all made short films within 48 hours, given the following parameters: a magnet as a prop; "Yes! I mean I hope so." as a line of dialog; and Marty or Mary Quinzani (2nd in command) as a character. Our team drew Mockumentary as our random genre. We created a basic storyline and then went off and shot about 2 hours of footage. I edited like mad and we turned it in just a few minutes before the deadline. We won audience choice for our screening night, best editing, and best performer (Ryan Petti). Thanks for watching!

The Kenneys hit the Big Screen, Part 2

One Saturday about a month ago, I ran around both Dorchester and Harvard Square with one of my dad's tank tops from 1973 and ate a TON of ice cream. Jim and Rheri, collectively World From Scratch (such genii behind all of these magnificent pieces), were there getting everything on film. Other participants included Lisa "Environmentally Friendly" Cordner, Erin "Good Sport" McGhee, and Johanna "Jim's sister" Kenney. What resulted was a beautifully put together short film entitled "Chick Magnet" that has yet to be released online.


Incredibly, our tiny little movie was picked as Audience Favorite of our group during the initial 48 Hour Film Project screenings and is being shown at the Best of Boston screening tonight at the Kendall Square theater! As far as I can tell tickets are still available, but will most assuredly sell out before the show.

If you're around, it's pretty much guaranteed to be a fun night of good quality local film making!

Email from my beloved brother

Matt Petti

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UPDATE: Another brotherly sentiment:


Matt Petti

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"This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or action taken in reliance upon this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify sender immediately [by replying to this email] and delete the message and any attachments from your system. Any statements or opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of the sender's employer, its affiliated companies or any other person. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, secure, error or virus free. The sender accepts no responsibility for any of the foregoing."

In honor of folks and their achievements, both major and not so

I've recently revamped and dusted off this here blog. In doing so however I've discovered that way back when I started this particular incarnation of my online rants, I short changed a friend of mine, ignoring his request to post a certain set of pictures. This friend is Sir Eric Pope, and the set of pictures (or a single picture rather) is that of yours truly riding Calvin Swaim as if he were Falcor the Luckdragon. Now, while I don't have this exact one he was refering to on hand (I'll need to find it later tonight at home), I did stumble across these gems. They're from a party back in aught three where Calvin , Pope and I were so bored and drunk. I show them now as consolation regarding the slight slight dating back over a year and a half but also in celebration of said friend's appearance on Jimmy Fallon. (What?? I know! I'd like to know more too; this was all heresay, California Raisins style.)

So shown here are first the photo's inspirations, then their interpretations, crafted by the celebrated Eric Pope.

It should also be noted that said party was the same one wherein yours truly broke a window, to the delight of all...well, some.... Note also that my fat kid impersonation was spot on.


UPDATE: Just found the video of Pope rock banding with Jason Sudeikis:



Congrats Pope!

Damn. Let me try that again.

My life is filled with, among other things, movie and video game quotes that nobody understands.

Moving on.

Contrary to what 90s grunge and Holden Caulfield will have you believe, there are delightful, goofy, happy things in the universe. One such thing is this:

The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake

Yes, cheese rolling down a hill followed by men and women rolling down a hill after the cheese. Picture courtesy of Boston.com, AP Photo/Barry Batchelor/PA Wire, so back off.

See the rest of the images of people taking humorously horrible dirt biffs here:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/05/coopers_hill_cheeserolling.html

After viewing these, I thought my life a tad improved, as it was an enjoyable personal discovery and an online adventure definitely worth a chuckle or two. Thusly, I planned to go about my days thinking back fondly on these frozen moments and most likely never stumbling upon this Cheese Rolling fiasco again.

Then THIS MORNING happened. The Maccabees, a UK band I heard once on WFNX's only decent radio show, a band who sadly never comes to the states, a band that now I am clearly only trumpeting to boost my own cred (if such a thing at 28 exists anymore), blasted an email out to their email list with an announcement of their new video, a DOCUMENTARY on the CHEESE ROLLING COMPETITION.  It's goofy, fun, heroic and best of all, puts actual motion to the absurdity one viewed above.

Strange connections. Happy Friday indeed.

I Know Exactly Where I'm Going in Boston

Hi.

I have a show this week. Two in fact. These facts in themselves aren't so mindblowing. But what lies beneath them is slightly on the intriguing side, if not a bit on the dramatic.

Wednesday is our first NXT show without having rehearsed the night before. So we'll see how that goes. Again though, your mind is still in tact. But on top of that this was supposed to be our last Lost in Boston show, and quite possibly our last show with this particular cast. The big idea was to have an all out NXT blowout of complete lawlessness, wherein all nine of us would share in the last show's lineup. Then word came down from the big house that we were extending the run another week into September and The Pandemonium Show got moved to the 3rd.

So in short, this Wednesday marks the last Lost in Boston show at the Asylum that won't be entirely overrun by castmembers vying for their last scraps of stage time before everyone's fired. So come September 3rd, instead of six people on stage at once reading Lines from a Hat, there will quite possibly be nine. I wouldn't be surprised if there were ten or eleven somehow.

At any rate, come see both shows. Compare and contrast. They'll both be pretty great.

Oh and Bastards is Bastards. 100% improv this week. It's so much improv, you probably can't even handle it. That's a challenge, McFly. Are you in or out?

Now let's hear the right answer.

It's a B-tarded Wednesday

So if you're reading this, you've probably already read Erin's blog and thus probably already know that there's a Bastards Inc. show tonight at Improv Asylum. So...you'd better be going.

But there's there's a Bastards Inc. show tonight at Improv Asylum. A full hour and a half of Bastards creamy comedy sprinkled with stand-up and who knows what else jimmies. Plus the Bastards family is fully reunited!!

BASTARDS: ALL IN

C/O Bohara

This is my favorite thing today, and the way things are going, probably this week.

http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com

My favorite is evil Jon after he's notified of the restraining order.

I wondered if this would work with Calvin and Hobbes but then realized it already is that way. Anyway, funny.