Hilarious
Gibbity, one of those web searches stood out in my mind...
"free tuba song lyrics i can print out to play on my tuba and don't have to pay money for the tuba lyrics and is not hard to play"
Too funny.That is plain silly.
Thursday, April 28 at 7:59 PM
Plasma Monkey Halftime?
Some of the actual search engine terms that got people to okaysamurai.com this month (according to our stats): garage escape solution, burn cassettes to my hard drive, samurai shampoo, hippogriff origami, video of a samurai getting his head cut off, panda dance, plasma monkey halftime, jesse spano caffeine pills, don't ever mess with a panda bear, amount of caffeine in klondike bar, concept sketches of bowling centers, the story of the hadoken, vin diesel's school years, free tuba song lyrics i can print out to play on my tuba and don't have to pay money for the tuba lyrics and is not hard to play, chances of making teach for america, which soda has the most fizz?, killin me smalls, gangsta pikachu, build you own plaster hogwarts castle, midget superbowl halftime, what is an open-space classroom, stephen hawking rap shootings, why is hamburger helper s hand so big?, samurai firefighters, how to freeze water, castlevania yellow dress and realistic dolphin sidewalk art.
Tuesday, April 26 at 9:26 PM
It Complimented The Virtual Boy Hat
Back in the days when I wore an Illusion of Gaia tee-shirt to school, an album was released by a guy named Tommy Tallarico. The cover was of a guy in shredded jeans using a video game joystick in outer space. The music, as you can probably guess, was comprised of cheesy instrumental rock versions of songs from the 16-bit era. But I got it as a Christmas present anyway, and the band actually ended up basing one of our songs (Instant Oatmeal Road) around one of the melodies. Fast forward eleven years later; as I'm flipping through the channels up here in Brooklyn I come to G4, a station devoted entirely to video games. It's pretty low-budget stuff, but a show pops on called "Judgement Day" and guess who's one of the hosts? None other than Tommy Tallarico. He and another guy rate recent games, and Tommy always plays the cynical critic who isn't afraid to tell it like it is...a regular Simon Cowell (quick sidenote: Constantine was horrible tonight on American Idol). Anyway...glad to see that Tommy's still finding work.
at 7:35 PM
Sonia Had A Pet Kangaroo
The New York "I'm Walking Here" movies will be back on the site next Monday with the brand new April installment!
This weekend was off the hook, chain, and other metaphorical means of attachment. My Aunt Sharon works for HBO and was nice enough to pass along some tickets for several tapings of the newly-revamped stand-up series "One Night Stand". On Friday night a bunch of Pentagram interns joined me to see Bonnie McFarlane and Flight of the Conchords. Both were entertaining, but the Conchords, an acoustic duo from New Zealand, had me laughing in tears. Then Andrew and Lindsay paid a surprise visit on Saturday, and we saw Omid Djalili and Caroline Rhea, which were hilarious too. I'm also going to see Patrice O'Neil and Bill Burr on Monday night. These tapings will be aired during the summer, so definitely check them out if you get HBO.
It's Sunday, so you know what that means: it's Okay Samurai TV gossip day. The Contender has been full of incredible fights and big upsets (I love it when they slo-mo the big punches). I'm liking Jesse's chances of winning the best. 24 is getting pretty exciting as the final episodes begin; Jack Bauer is nuts and awesome, what with the lamp electrocution and finger-breaking. This season's American Idol started out crappy without any William Hungs, but it's getting good now that we're down to the final 6. Carrie and Vonzell are the favorites, but I'm rooting for Constantine (not the Keanu Reeves one, the one that dared to rock out to the Partridge Family). Project Greenlight is painful to watch, given all the politics and egos of moviemaking, yet the end result (a horror film named "Feast") might be pretty entertaining. Survivor has been excellent this season; Janu's insane quitting last week had messed all the alliance stuff up. I'll be happy if Stephanie, Tom or Ian wins. And finally, this is the first time I've watched The Apprentice, and I'm hooked. It's gotta be either Tara or Alex.
Sunday, April 24 at 9:58 AM
Friendster, Two Years Late
I was skeptical of Friendster at first, but I've been coverted. It's pretty entertaining to search for friends you thought dropped off the face of the planet. Once you find someone, you look at their friends and see someone else you know and the vicious, addictive cycle continues. If you haven't joined, try it...I mean, if Eugene's on it, it can't be that nerdy.
Wednesday, April 20 at 5:57 AM
Where The Wild Things Are
The New York adventure is a little over halfway done now. Knowing that I'm only a temporary resident, I've never really felt settled in since I'm not at home (the Graham Home for Old Ladies) all that often. Still, it's been great to live in four of the major east coast cities (D.C., Baltimore, Atlanta, New York) and get a good feel for each. B'more ("where the B stands for body bag, son" or so I was told) as a whole was probably my least favorite, but three entertaining roommates and a rooftop deck just about made up for it.
The District, the ATL, and the Big Apple are about equal in my book, with favoritism towards New York under the current circumstances. Wherever I've lived, it never fails that people are quick to tell you about their city preferences through euphoric gushes or jaded complaints. The common attitude at PC is "Oh God I have to get out of Atlanta." Some (especially the highly-motivated) will never be satisfied unless they're in New York, which is understandable since this place rocks, but I feel they're missing out in not appreciating what each city has to offer. Your friends and living/work environments are more important than the physical city anyway.
Eventually I'll probably have to do that settling down thing, but for now, moving around has been invaluable. I've met some amazing people and done some insane things that never would have happened staying put in one place. Burke, Charlottesville, Baltimore, Atlanta and New York have all provided unique experiences that couldn't have happened anywhere else. So it's okay to have an allegiance to your favorite city, just don't discredit the rest of the world in the process (which unfortunately seems to be the American way as of late). Change is good.
Oh yeah, on an unrelated note, Katie got me to join Friendster. Good to see fellow samurai Eugene, Jeff and Ferenczy on there.
Tuesday, April 19 at 11:25 AM
A Samurai in Brooklyn
Thanks for the positive response to the video...I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. A few changes have been made for purposes beyond my control (i.e. ninjas), but most of you saw and read the uncensored version last week. On Friday night I ran (camera-less, unfortunately) into comedian Greg Giraldo (Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn) crossing the street in Greenwich Village. After a couple of glasses of wine, all I could think of was yelling "YOU'RE THE MAN!" and shaking his hand. Oh well. I also caught Sin City at the AMC Empire, an 11-story movie theatre downtown, and it rocked as expected.
Sunday, April 10 at 6:05 PM
I'm Walking Here!
The first of the New York movies, entitled "I'm Walking Here: Three Months in New York", is now up on the site. Unlike previous movies that a few of you had trouble downloading, this one is entirely embedded in Flash so everyone should be able to view it.
Pentagram continues to be a great learning experience while moving at a breakneck speed. I've been mainly working with animation so my Mario Paint expertise is coming in real handy-like. Even though work has stretched into a few late nights and weekends, it's never due to something tiresome or boring. Lisa and this team produce extremely innovative and fresh work. That's why the all-encompassing term of "interactive" is so exciting: it covers so many different applications.
A lot of deadlines fell into this first month. I helped animate sequences for a media screen and five rectangular columns with huge embedded vertical screens for the lobby of the Time Warner building (and sat in on the company presentation!). And some other insanely cool stuff which I'm not allowed to talk about due to non-disclosure agreements (aren't those fun!).
Overall, I'm having the time of my life up here. It seems like everything is meshing together well; great work with great clients, amazingly talented and inspiring co-workers, various daily adventures in New York, and a digital camera to capture it all.
Hope you enjoy the movie. Now it's time to start shooting stuff for April!
Sunday, April 3 at 9:49 PM
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