As promised, here's the video from last night:



Jeff on Attack of the Show on Vimeo

Here's a bit torrent of my appearance on Attack of the Show. It's in Real Media. I'm intrigued that someone is nerdy enough to rip Attack of the Show, but not nerdy enough to know that Real Media is the worst video format. That's a very fine line.

I think it went pretty well. It aired live, so I haven't had a chance to see it yet. Hopefully I'll be able to take out my segment and put it on Vimeo soon, for those of you who I lost at the words bit torrent.

I appeared live via satellite out of an office whose sole purpose is to provide live via satellite interviews for various TV shows. That day, they had hosted appearences of Hank Williams Jr. and Chris Hansen.

The make-up woman and I had a nice conversation. I asked her who had the nicest skin of anyone she's ever worked on. I think she misunderstood the question, because she responded that I had the nicest skin of anyone she had worked on today.

In your face, Hank Williams Jr.

Tomorrow, I am scheduled to appear on G4's Attack of the Show. As far as I can tell, G4 comes with most digital cable/satellite packages.

Attack of the Show is sort of like SportsCenter for nerds. They discuss Internet news of the day, review computer related products, and don't have sex. I'm going to be talking about viral videos.

I believe it airs live, tomorrow, at 7 pm. You should probably check their website tomorrow to make sure.

Hey Aerosmith, it's 2006 already. Where's my virtual reality computer that lets me nail Alicia Silverstone while skydiving?




(While searching for that video, I just assumed it was spelled Amazin' with no g. It's not though.)

Trivia you probably could have guessed, even if you've never heard it:

David Hasselhoff got his start on a soap opera.

Dear Management of the Planet Hollywood of Toronto,

I was honored to receive your letter. I often tell people that National Treasure is my favorite of all the films I have ever directed. Your decision to include the special glasses Nicholas Cage used to read the Declaration of Independence and find the treasure has really touched me. Having a prop from one of my movies exhibited next to classic props like the baseball bat from Signs and Richard Gere's hat from Runaway Bride... well, it is truly an honor.

That is why it's with such a heavy heart I must inform you I simply can't attend the glasses' premiere. I am delighted to hear that Diane Kruger
will be able to attend. She's a doll - tell her Jon said hi.

I am of course happy to sign the poster you sent me.

Best Wishes,
Jon Turtletaub

Acoustic Spinto Band set MP3 on WOXY.

There will soon be a lot of pictures on this blog.

I knew I needed a digital camera when I saw a fat 9-year-old kid in a "Don't Hate The Playa, Hate The Game" shirt.

He was a nerdy 9-year old too. Trust me, we can smell our own. Another hint is that we were both in the videogames section of Target.

Beer Reaviwes
Tafsdinght, i'm revaiewing brolkyn lager, which had lts of. its prettttay awsome.

(found on allposters.com)

From the Wikipedia entry on Andy Capp:

Until the 1980s [Andy Capp] was always seen with a cigarette dangling from his lip until it was deemed politically incorrect. Similarly, he no longer indulges in fisticuffs with Florrie because of concerns about the depiction of domestic violence, even though their fights were always drawn in a stylised fashion so as to avoid offense, and in any case Florrie always gave as good as she got.

You don't get to read stuff like this in Britannica.

Why yes, this is the second consecutive post to deal with both Wikipedia and domestic abuse.

we'll get our chances, the second time around

Did you know Sasha Mitchell (who played Cody on Step By Step) was accused of beating his wife? I don't have the statistics handy, but I think a lot of people are aware of this fact.

For years, it was kinda an upspoken agreement among everyone that Cody from Step By Step maybe hitting a woman using Tai Kwan Do was hilarious. Oh, also, I'm assuming everone knows that Cody from Step By Step is a world champion kick boxer. Again, I don't have the numbers.

Well you know what? According to Wikipedia:

After the scandal of domestic violence charges being filed by Mitchell's wife, the Disney company decided to write him out of the script, and was only asked back for one episode on the last season of Step by Step. He later stated in court that his domestic violence charges resulted from attempts at protecting his children from their mother, whom he accused of being a drug user. He was able to obtain full custody of their four children, and their mother only receives limited, supervised visitation.

Not so awesome now that we rushed to judge, is it? Possibly, you know how the system works.

Wikipedia adds:

In an attempt to keep the comic relief of Cody around after Sasha Mitchell left the show, writers added three characters: Rich Halke (Dana's boyfriend and J.T.'s best friend, introduced in 1995), Jean-Luc (played by Bronson Pinchot, Carol's hairsylist partner whose role should remind people slightly of his role in the movie Beverly Hills Cop; he was a fixture in the 1996-97 season)

Try to imagine how it feels to be replaced by Belki.

My first Wikipedia article.

Writing it was a lot more time consuming that I originally thought it was going to be. I still keep finding little errors.

I'm open to suggestions for a follow-up.

Our intern Chris got this stuff called "magic sand." At first I told him to go back to the old beggar he got it from and trade back for the cow we sent him into town with, but it's actually pretty cool:



Magic Sand on Vimeo


More info on Wikipedia.

Sorry, Your Already Movie Sucks

From the May 9 - 15 issue of Hollywood Reporter
(by the way, does anyone have any idea why The Hollywood Reporter is sending every issue to my roommate? He didn't subscribe to it.)

Weinstein Co. Gears Up For Big-Screen Knight Rider

"I had a meeting with Harvey, and I could tell he had just seen the two-hour pilot for the series," [long time Knight Rider producer Glen Larson] said. "We agreed the film would be a darker, edgier version oft he series, somewhere between 'Knight Rider' and 'Sin City.' "

SEE YOU GUYS THERE!