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Holy smoke.  This is Kevin Farley. Yes, he is the late great Chris Farley’s brother.  Now I knew that he had been doing some comedy and there’s even a national TV commercial running for Hertz where you can see and hear the resemblance. Well, while trolling the intertubes last night looking for a video to post today, I stumbled across this trailer for a movie called  An American Carol. UPDATE: FIXED LINK

He looks and sounds exactly like his brother! It’s like they cloned Chris Farley. Or did some weird CG. Now the movie looks dreadful and I predict box office failure but it feels so weird watching this thing.  Anybody else feel that way? (Fat guy in little coat….)

Hey have you seen this commercial for the Discovery Channel?

Pretty cool.  It won MSNBC’s “Best” Commercial of the year.

Now get back to work!

Like a few other million people, I saw Batman (The Dark Knight) last week and I have to say that this spoof video is pretty good.

Someone turned me on to this site the other day at work.  It’s some sort of the conference that deals with Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The video that caught my attention deals with a gentleman named Benjamin Zander….”Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it — and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.”

I like most classical music and the fact that the Chopin song he plays in this presentation is one that I learned oh-so-long ago helped make this short video absolutely brilliant (in my opinion).

If you have a few minutes, I strongly encourage you to check it out.

TED and Benjamin Zander on music and passion (opens to a new window)

If you have 5 minutes to kill…this is all kinds of awesome.

My new camera arrived today. It was cheap yet very cool!

I really dislike Bill O’Reilly. I think he is disingenuous at the very least and this old clip make me giggle.
WARNING: NOT FOR YOUNG EARS- MULTIPLE F BOMBS DROPPED!

So I have been producing videos for a long time and back in college in my TV 2 class, we had to produce the latest craze on TV. That’s right, the exciting MUSIC video. What? There’s pictures with my music? How insane! Remember kids, this was back in 1989. Anyway, I put up this music video featuring a Gino Vannelli song (not “Black Cars” but from the same album) on youtube almost a year ago stating that it was an extremely rare,  never-before seen Gino Vannelli music video . And if you watch it, you can tell there was quite a bit of production value and I think it could have played on MTV. Or at least Friday Night Videos. It’s received over 7,000 views and on some of the comments, you can tell that people think this really was a professionally produced video for the band. How cool would it be if Gino saw this and called his label and said, “Hey, why didn’t we release this single? That video is awesome!”

The tall young guy is Loren Lasley, the brother of one of my classmates from back then,  Shaun Lasley. And the guy in bed with the glasses is Shaun’s husband, Monard. Cammie Mitchell was also part of our little group. She and Shaun were seniors at the time and I was just a junior. And I had a secret crush on both of them as well as a huge crush on our starring lady, Elaine Frontain. (I did get to kiss Shaun in another class video project,  but I haven’t had a chance to upload that one yet.)
The video was shot all over the TCU campus including the bedroom scenes which were an elaborate set that included very nice mood lighting IMO. (did you know that one way to portray “night” lighting, you can use blue light even though there really is no blue light at night. Unless the cops are outside, I guess)

For your weekend enjoyment I proudly present: The Other Man.

This is HULU. I tried to embed something from it the other day and it didn’t work unless you were a member. Now it’s supposedly free and you should see a clip of the MAV/NUGGETS game on the NBA’s Top 10.