Rainy Day Video Constitutional

I don't think I need to say anything other than Kenny Powers IS Darth Vader.



This 15-year-old girl going all beat-box on a flute is amazing. I would have been friends with more floutists in high school if they were able to do this.



I didn't want to post this because I didn't want to give this damn "church" any more publicity, but it's the Foo Fighters, and this helps to prove their awesomeness.



Once again I missed the Emmys, and these clips make me wish I hadn't.

Here's Jane Lynch's full intro. Most of it is only slightly below average, but the Mad Men stuff is wonderful. I tried to cut out the bad stuff, but I couldn't. If I did this correctly, though, the video should start at the right time.



I've never watched Mike & Molly, so I don't know how deserving the winner for Best Actress in a Comedy Series was, but I refuse to believe she was better than Pollen, Fey or Plimpton. Regardless, the presentation of nominees and the winner's speech were excellent.



This was my favorite of the dreadful Emmytones. I felt bad for Joel McHale and Zachary Levi, only slightly bad for Colby Smothers.



Despite the talent involved in this (Andy Samburg, Emma Stone, Bill Hader, Zach Galifiankis, Seth Rogen, Ken Jeong, Ed Helms, Emma Stone, Samuel L. Jackson ['cause he's in everything], Aziz Ansari), it's a big pile of meh at best. But hey, it's funny people delivering bad Star Wars lines, so there's a BIT of entertainment to be had, and Emma Stone is just a delight to watch.



I don't have time to watch all the late-night talk shows that I want to, so I'm glad highlights are almost instantly available. And I applaud Conan for his reaction to Nicole Scherzinger's bust (PUN!).



I like Joseph Gordon-Levitt as much as the next guy, but this movie looks like a joke. It looks like the plot of a '90s action movie with dialogue that is just corny as hell.

This trailer has no dialogue, just two minutes of pure action and violence, and I want to see the movie so badly now. And the music is by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, so that's a plus.



It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia outtakes? I guess I know what I'm going to be doing this morning.



More Star Wars fun! This time we let Porkins have the day he deserves.



And here we have Vader reacting to various things.



I watched this video, like, 10 times and I STILL don't know how to play rugby. And I'm sleepy.

LYNX - Rules to Rugby from Soap Creative on Vimeo.


Probably for the rest of the month I’m going to whore myself out with an impassioned plea: click on the ads. PLEASE click on the ads. I don’t care if you exit it out of it immediately or actually look around. This isn’t some professional blog where I believe in the products I’m shilling. These are automatic ads placed by Google. But my experiment this weekend proved to me that I actually AM making a spot of cash whenever the ads are clicked. So I’m going to put this little disclaimer on the bottom of all my posts for the next month or so, and I hope you’ll take an extra 10 seconds after reading my blog to click on an ad. Thanks so much!

First Video Dump of the Summer

Gotta throw this in at the top spot. It's the video for Matt Mahaffey/sElf's new song, Could YOu Love Me. He's singing backwards, man. Backwards!



The music really helps the creepiness factor of this video. Apparently it's from a Sherlock Holmes video game, and Watson just disappears and reappears near you. Creepy.



Can't stand the song or the singer, but it really works as a Star Trek video. I'd party with the crew of the Enterprise.



Okay, I've been hearing about Auto-Tune the News for quite a while now, but I've stayed away. I hate auto-tuning, and I just assumed I'd hate it applied to comedy. Oh how wrong I was. Looks like I'll be going back and watching the previous 11 installments.



When I first heard that there was going to be a Green Hornet movie with Seth Rogen, I rolled my eyes and dismissed it. Now the first trailer is out, and it actually looks like it could be pretty fun. As a plus, it's got Christoph Waltz as the villain. As a minus, it's got Cameron Diaz.

FIRST TRAILER FOR RED!!!!! I love Warren Ellis and just about anything he writes. I love Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Mary Louise Parker and Morgan Freeman. I think the chance to see Helen Mirren portray a retired CIA hit woman is priceless. This movie looks like tons of fun.

It's time for an awesome video dump!!

“The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret” starring Will Arnett and David Cross. It's in Englad, though. Me sad.



You're watching Sons of Anarchy, right? See if you can spot Jax in this clip from the pilot of "Undeclared," a show created by Judd Apatow (40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up) and starring Seth Rogen (again, 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up) with a strong recurring role for Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother).



Why does England have shows I can't watch? Here's a new show following a group of delinquents with super powers.



Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman. It's Barney. As Frosty. It's awe-wait for it...some.

Funny People

From the creators of 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, you sort of expect this to be a laugh-out-loud movie, but it’s not. It is, though, a great movie. You can really see an evolution between this and the other two movies. Virgin was very much a juvenile movie. You’ve got knee slappers and LOLs. Knocked Up was a bit more grown up, few if any knee slappers, but it was still a very funny movie. This one, though, was a very adult comedy.

There’s a very sad and heart-wrenching story behind all the stand up and jokes. Adam Sandler brings it. He does all the stuff that makes his other movies juvenile and stupid, but it’s very meta here, a really incredible performance. It’s like seeing Steve Martin in Parenthood, Jim Carey in Man in the Moon, or Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society. I know there were a couple of serious movies before this, I didn’t see those. Sometimes you get wary when a known comedian goes in a different direction. This is a good transition movie for Sandler. He’s a comedian, and yes, he’s pretty funny at times, but there’s this subtext. No matter what he’s doing, you can see it in the way he walks, in his face, in everything he does.

Seth Rogen didn’t really do it for me in any serious scenes. His stand-up scenes are great, and they feel natural, but his serious scenes with Sandler didn’t work. The restaurant scene was particularly brutal, and not because of the subject matter. He cries. It’s hideous. Same with writer/director Judd Apatow’s wife Leslie Mann.

The cameos are great. A ton of comedians show up, including Sarah Silverman, Paul Riser, Andy Dick and others. One of the best (and slightly surreal) exchanges is between Eminem and Ray Romano. Yeah, Eminem. And James Taylor gets to toss out a dick joke. Jason Schwartzman and Jonah Hill are great in their sidekick roles.

This is a very adult comedy with equal parts humor, heart and pathos. I highly recommend it. And as a little bonus, here's a deleted scene from the movie. If you're reading this on Facebook, visit my blog to watch the clip.

Who doesn't like Judd Apatow movies?