Andy Dick sucks

last night was business as usual.
by business as usual i mean Comedy Death Ray at the UCB theater.

standing in line for the show is never bad except when it's cold or when i am far back in line and i get panicked that i won't get my seat. last night wasn't too cold and we were in front of the line so i thought the night was going to be pretty smooth, complete with the hotness that is Human Giant.
imagine the horror when my friends and i were met with a PA and a clipboard with releases for us to sign, and at the top of the release it says "YOU DON'T KNOW DICK".
Oh Sweet Lord. Andy Dick is going to be here. The PA actually said "yeah sorry".
So if you see an Andy Dick reality show on VH1 in the future you might see me, covering my face and gasping in disgust in reaction to some fat dude barfing (real barf) on Andy as he stood onstage not being funny.

another reason to hate Andy Dick: he might kind of be responsible for Phil Hartmans death in a way.
this is from wikipedia but i believe it.

Conflict with Jon Lovitz

Comedian and actor Jon Lovitz has long blamed Dick for reintroducing Phil Hartman's wife Brynn to cocaine (after 10 years of sobriety) just five months before she would murder her husband and commit suicide. On July 11, 2007, Dick had a run-in with Lovitz at the Laugh Factory. The club's owner, Jamie Masada, said that Lovitz picked Dick up by the head and smashed him into the bar. Dick had on a previous occasion said to Lovitz he would "put the 'Phil Hartman hex' on you - you’re the next one to die." Lovitz told Page Six, "All the comedians are glad I did it because this guy is an asshole."


BUT...
there was some goodness from the aforementioned Human Giant, including a skit called Kiditentiary.
here's the season 3 trailer. I can't wait to see Will Arnett on HG. that should rule.

interview with a gondry

A/V Club did one.
in it i learned that Michel doesn't like cynical people.

"But I don't think I have any cynicism in me. And if I had some at some point… I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. "

Yikes. I guess a friendship between he & i is out of the question.

Newsweek did one.

in this interview Michel Gondy pronounces his love for Mr. Show.
that is awesome....but those dudes are cynical....make up your face Michel.

whatever

~ the Oscar ballots are due today. hopefully all the jackass voters saw La Vie En Rose so Marion Cotillard will win.

~ hipsters love hip hop. i am kind of excited to hear this:

This summer, the imprint responsible for launching the careers of Tone-Loc, Young MC, the Pharcyde, Brand New Heavies, and many more will celebrate itself with the remix compilation Rmxxology. Hot Chip, Diplo, Spank Rock and Amanda Blank, Ed Banger's Mr. Flash, Phillipians, and Bobby Evans of Brother Reade are among those who will contribute tweakings of the Delicious Vinyl catalog. read more at Pitchfork

~thanks to the other half of the research department, Cary Swaaaaaaaarz for giving me a Zinger. it made me a little less suicidal today.

also preventing suicide is tonights UCB lineup:

ReelzChannel + Ebert & Roeper = TV I Love

i just got this email in my inbox and i LOVE it.

REELZCHANNEL TV NETWORK ACQUIRES EXCLUSIVE
POST-SYNDICATION CABLE NETWORK TELEVISION RIGHTS
TO ‘AT THE MOVIES WITH EBERT & ROEPER’

Series To Make Its Debut on ReelzChannel® February 26

Los Angeles, CA (February 19) – The popular movie-review television program “At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper” will join the programming lineup of ReelzChannel®, beginning Tuesday, February 26, 6:30 PM ET/3:30 PM PT (with encore presentations at 8:30 PM ET/5:30 PM PT). Television’s seminal movie-review series will be presented weekly on ReelzChannel, the only cable/satellite network dedicated to “Everything About Movies, 24/7”™.

p.s.
i really miss Roger Ebert, although I do like the revolving critics that are guests each week with Roeper. Especially A.O. Scott (N.Y. Times), Robert Wilonsky, and Christy Lemire (AP). Christy is super cool and married to one of my bosses and on "Dailies" a lot.

p.s.s.
the At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper web-site is great because they have archives with every movie they've reviewed in the last 20 years.

spike & kanye & lance

Shots Rings Out has this cool 5 part video interview with Spike Jonze & Kanye West, filmed by the kick-ass Lance Bangs.

"To prove their worth once again, Lance Bangs, Spike Jonze and crew go off the deep-end and into the lair of Kanye West, working on his new video for ‘Flashing Lights’. They talk about all kinds of things that you should be interested in, and you get to a see a milder side of Kanye that I know you have been dreaming about."


fun fact about Lance: he is married to Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney and together they have one child, Marshall Tucker-Bangs.

fun fact about Spike: his real name is Adam Spiegel and he is heir to the Spiegel catalog fortune.

fun fact about me: i brush my teeth in the shower.

there will be a 2 disc

Cigarettes and Red Vines says this:


The DVD will be released on April 8th, 2008 on a 2-disc collector’s edition. The cover is very classy; personally, I was hoping they’d use the original one-sheet “bible” poster, but this isn’t too bad either — it’s an image of Daniel Plainview looking down into the oil well, taken from a frame near the beginning of the movie. DDL is credited at the top; in the center lies the title “There Will Be Blood” and directly underneath “written for the screen and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson” and at the very bottom “2-Disc Collector’s Edition”.
cover art should be surfacing in a couple weeks, apparently.

sweet motion graphics dude

go here to see the ridiculously good looking opener for the Slamdance Film Festival that my BFF Bill created.