Some of my favourite Take Away Shows. This got kind of long, but they're all worth watching. Multiple times, haha. I'm sure I missed a bunch of gems hidden in their archives, so browse through them and see what you can find.
They talk Bloc Party into playing a song, and they decide to do This Modern Love, which is really very awesome.
Man Man serenade a head shaving and then play around in the street.
Two rad kids rocking out to Menomena:
Vampire Weekend playing Walcott and Blake's Got a New Face in a small Parisian bar:
The Arcade Fire cram into an elevator.
Sufjan Stevens on a rooftop (despite the cold).
Axe Riverboy and Of Montreal do a cover battle in the streets of Paris. Zombies vs Bowie!
Jose Gonzalez in the back of a truck.
Beirut has trouble finding a place to ambush with The Penalty.
Grizzly Bear crammed into a bathroom. A bathroom in Parisian apartment, mind you, so it's especially tiny.
I'm From Barcelona take over a street.
The National in a wine cellar.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
The Cosby Kids have made it to the FUTURE.
I walked into "College Road Trip" tonight, to check the theatre, and holy crap that's Olivia up there sass-talking Eddie Murphy! Little hilarious Olivia from the Cosby Show. I was a little taken aback.
Let's watch Olivia explain where babies come from to Dr. Huxtable:
But c'mon, we all know Rudy was better. She was cuter, more empathetic, and just more of a bad-ass. Rudy was busy hiding school notes in medical books and not eating her vegetables while Olivia was being wrong about where babies come from. Which of those is cooler?
So what's Rudy doing now?
Let's watch Olivia explain where babies come from to Dr. Huxtable:
But c'mon, we all know Rudy was better. She was cuter, more empathetic, and just more of a bad-ass. Rudy was busy hiding school notes in medical books and not eating her vegetables while Olivia was being wrong about where babies come from. Which of those is cooler?
So what's Rudy doing now?
I'm not even sure if she's anywhere in that specific trailer, but she's in this movie. Rudy is in this movie about guns and drugs and awkward looking threesomes, while Olivia travels from college to college with Martin Lawrence having no doubt wacky adventures and fighting terrorists or something. What happened, Rudy? What happened to the countless life lessons the fictional character you played learned?
Monday, March 3, 2008
The Most Dangerous Television Show
You're in the wilderness, miles from home, maybe from civilization itself. You're handed a rudimentary map of the area and a compass, along with a sympathetic pat on the back and a look that says “you poor bastard”. “Mantracker is three kilometeres behind you”, they say, “so you should maybe start running.”
Mantracker is Terry Grant. He knows a thing or two about finding people in the wilderness, having spent twelve years of his life rescuing people in the Alberta Foothills. While this was no doubt an exciting line of work, it seems that it wasn't enough for Mantracker. He craved more; exchanging looks of heartfelt gratitude for panicked fear, he now chases hapless volunteers through the forest on his horse. The prey have thirty-six hours to make the sometimes thirty kilometre hike to the goal, usually with multiple paths to take. Stick to trails for speed? Press through the bush for cover? The slightest of errors can give them away. Mantracker takes notice of out-of-place leaves, broken twigs, rocks that have been moved, things the average person wouldn't consider an obviously followable trail. He tries to guess what his quarry is thinking, predicting what they will do. He's usually right. The prey have managed to outwit him on a few occasions, but the odds are stacked heavily in his favour. One episode saw two girls actually hitching a ride to the end point; a visibly frustrated Mantracker dutifully followed their trail, watching it turn from footprints to car tracks, cutting away before he drank a saloon dry, or dueled someone at high noon, or whatever it is cowboys do when they're angry these days.
The natural evolution of reality television demonstrates that within the next few seasons Mantracker will be hunting down washed up celebrities instead of average folk. Imagine the epic battle that would be Mantracker vs. Hillary Duff; the evenly matched pairing of Mantracker vs. fellow OLN superstar Survivorman; the hilarious taunting that would spring from Mantracker vs. Nardwaur the Human Serviette. Ratings would soar! Canada is sometimes lacking in its pool of widely recognized celebrities, however, and our politicians often end up filling this void for us. This could mean a few special episodes where we get to watch as down our most beloved political leaders are ruthlessly hunted down. The odd-couple pairing of Paul Martin and Jean Chretien, for example, could make for some pretty good television.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Magic Highway USA - 1958
The highways of tomorrow...
The animation in that was really great; they achieved a lot with what seemed to be pretty limited resources.
The animation in that was really great; they achieved a lot with what seemed to be pretty limited resources.
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