Cool Shit 4/1

Summer 2014: Season of the comedic movie?

I so hope the potential for me to own a 13-foot Baywatch era David Hasselhoff" sculpture isn't some sort of cruel April Fool's day joke.

Yes, at the end of the day this is a commercial for GoPro, but after watching it, I really don't mind. I can now finally understand what it feels like to kayak off a 60 foot waterfall:



Read this before you hop aboard your next flight. Or maybe don't if you're skewed out by flying.

Check out a scratched Louis CK skit from the last Saturday Night Live. While I appreciate its weirdness, you can see why they cut it.

Cool Shit 2/13

Crazy GoPro camera plane fall and then eaten by a pig?



There's a lot of snow where I live. So this article about how to build an awesome snow fort is especially relevant.

5 Gallon Bucket survival kit ideas: This is completely fantastic and I'm going to get started on mine. Especially as the snow keeps hammering us.

Packing hacks: You'll never travel the same way again.

Racing through the streets of Chile

The GoPro camera is awesome - small enough to wear on your person while you're doing extremely awesome/stupid things, it shoots 1080p video.

And while this video is sadly not at that resolution, it's still dizzying/hypnotizing/nausea-inducing enough to make it awesome. Enjoy!

Podcast 12.002 – Loud Refrigerators, Just Letting it Be, and Boobicon

Goose packed up his Gateway 2000 laptop and microphones so we could go mobile with this one.  Either Goose’s wife can’t handle high levels of mirth or there’s possibly some other explanation.

Irregardless (my hot new word for 2011), our itch to record podcasts has again flared up. 

After the jump comes a lot of audio/visual references to references we made.

If you aren’t already subscribed, search iTunes for “Popcorn Trick” or click here.

UPDATE: It’s showing up in some people’s iTunes, but not others. What worked for me was right-clicking “The Popcorn Trick” in the Podcasts section and choosing “Show all available episodes”.  Also, removing and re-adding the podcast should work.

Enjoy yourself.

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A live version of the intro/outro music Goose chose:

The full list of movies that I extracted from Comcast On Demand and sent to Goose (note the solitary exclamation point by Hot Dog):

• Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid
• Cop & 1/2
• Darjeeling Limited
• Deck the Halls
• Great Outdoors
• Hot Dog: The Movie (YES!)
• Jack (Robin Williams as a kid in an adult's body)
• Loch Ness (Danson investigates Nessie)
• Nell
• Nine Lives (Paris Hilton trapped in a Scottish castle)
• Radio
• Robot Holocaust
• The Rock
• Ski School
• Ski Patrol
• Street Fighter
• Taxi
• Three O'clock High
• Time Guardian (Dean Stockwell, Carrie Fisher)
• You Belong to Me (Lifetime movie w/ Shannon Elizabeth: Alex discovers that her young colleague Michael has an obsessive interest in her. Driven by her rejection, he attempts murder-suicide. She survives, he does not. He returns from the grave and she must fight his supernatural power)

The original storyboard for Dolly Parton’s “Straight Talk”:

Because we mentioned Paul Harvey, here’s possibly the best spoof of his unique delivery and aesthetic style:

“Be that as it may, Alex, those people have never been in my kitchen”

Here are both of the Gylne Tider videos:

 

And an example of what Michael Winslow could have done, if he were only given the chance:

And what may warrant its own blog post/podcast at some point soonish, the most underrated celebrity all-star charity video:

A trailer for what should have been Sherilyn Fenn’s primary Gylne Tider credit:

A trailer for Goose’s favorite thing of 2010:

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Could not find an embeddable clip of “Louie”, but watch the poker scene and prepare to be blown away.  It manages to be simultaneously funny, insightful, moving, and then funny again.

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Goose’s favorite album of 2010:

Cline’s favorite album of 2010:

Saw this live and it was awesome (“I don’t know. Take it easy, bro.”):

 

Goose made a brief mention of the pool scene. We use a GoPro camera for that scene.  This is all a circuitous excuse to show this awesome video of a GoPro attached to a turtle:

 

Thanks for listening and reading!  Happy New Year!