Schadenfreude’s Tired…
We thank everyone who came out last night and we thank you for letting us sleep in today. We will be back with video, photos and observations from the CIF whirlwind weekend. Tomorrow. But today? We rest.
CIF: Schadenfreude Cover Set
Here is the rundown for the CIF Closing night “cover sketch”, this Sunday night at 8pm. It’s at Martyrs. 10 bucks. Guests include: Bassprov, Susan Messing, Mike and Duane, Jill Benjamin, Pat O’Brien and Jet Eveleth, Gay Co., Gillian Vigman, Jon Barinholtz and Rob Belushi, Pimprov and many more. Tributosaurus plays. Not to be missed!
Hey Schad-head, Still on the Fence?
Still on the fence about coming to Sunday’s CIF closing night party? We have given you so many reasons to come – beer specials, Tributosaurus, comedy covers, but what about the return of the mack? Ladies and Gentleman – he’s just landed back in town…..Mr. Adam Witt.
Some Useless Information Derived from Recurring Crossword Clues, Part III
“Seven-Emmy Actor” is ASNER
“Arthur of Tennis” is ASHE
“Ghostly” is EERIE
“Curious ____ George” is BOY
“Not Approved by FDA” is ROOFIE
“Hey, Nice Looking _____” is POOPER
More to Follow . . .
Ghosts of CIFs Past…
Yo! Check out the pics from previous CIF shows – Martyrs’, Double Door, Pudding Parties, Athenaeum – it’s a blast. Check us out Sunday Night @ Martyrs’ – April 29th – 8 PM – 3855 N. Lincoln!
CIF: Schadenfreude Cover Set
Last summer, we stole Eric Zorn from the Chicago Tribune to do a “cover” short film for one of our favorite shows, “The Office”. We bring back the video today just in time to promote our full on cover set at the CIF Sunday night. Martyrs 8pm.
What I’m Listening To Right Now
SMODCAST! How exciting is this? Kevin Smith has a podcast, he talks for like an hour with his Producer Scott Mosier, it’s pretty much an online (weekly?) Evening With Kevin Smith, that probably would’ve been a better title than SMODCAST, An afternoon with Kevin Smith. Anyway, go on over to you iTunes browser, click on the Podcast portion and add it to your subscribe list along with Sam And Jim Go To Hollywood, Creative Screenwriting Magazine, Real Time with Bill Maher, and This American Life.
If you’ve ever seen An Evening With Kevin Smith you know that Kevin is a really great storyteller, I just rented AEWKS 2: Evening Harder and Kevin’s answer to the first question was twenty minutes long, so filled with funny detail and tangents that you forget what the question was, but Kevin doesn’t and brings the whole long detailed story all the way back around to answer the question, very funny, very well told. He’s almost like Garrison Keillor, with shit jokes.
Don’t mind me I just have to ask my sister a question, hey Jessi, you want me to send you mp3’s or audio cd’s?
Where’s Waldo!
Check out the Time Out photo for the article on the 10th annual CIF. Remember, big party on Sunday at Martyrs. Can you spot us? And don’t we look like the accountant/agents/producers of the festival?
S**t I’m done with
Shitty cellophane bags that rip downwards and dump all over your hands and spill out even if you’re careful not let any spill out. Especially the bags with the paper creased top, those type of bags that hang in volume in big racks all matching each other and you can choose between 12 Cashews, like a billion hot peanuts, or the trail mix. When I was a kid that rack offered a choice between the wax soda bottles and the necklace you could eat (or the really thick bracelet you could eat). Yeah, the bags those things come in. I’m done with those. Peanut bags too, anything you can’t pull apart at the the top. Done.
CIF: Schadenfreude Cover Set
Check out the Schadenfreude Cover Set, 8pm at Martyrs – Sunday 4/29.
This sketch unfortunately didn’t make the cut.
Schadenfreude.net Reader, I was going to do your family a favor and hook up the Disney Channel, for free…
…well forget it.
What I’m Watching Right Now
Speaking of Scorsese, from my earlier post. The reason I went back to Marty’s early movies is because I had also seen The Departed and there was all this talk of Marty winning the coveted “we’re-sorry-we-didn’t-give-you-the Oscar-for-the-film-you-really
deserved-it-for” Oscar, and I couldn’t figure out what a Martin Scorsese film was, I really couldn’t. I could name ten style choices that make up a James Cameron or Coen Brothers film but who’s this Scorsese guy? and if Casino is what it is, then what’s New York New York? Sure we all know him for his crime drama’s, but what about the other 85%? So I went back to the beginning (the VERY beginning) and I’m still working my way through (the film festival has had other misqueues like Employee of the Month (which is a lot like a Scorsese mo…), but so far I highly highly highly suggest Mean Streets and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. I couldn’t imagine what it would be like to see Mean Streets in 1973, I mean the typical film was more along the lines of The Sting and here’s this film that almost looks like a documentary with performances by twenty-something Harvey Keitel and Robert DeNiro that really are fire hot. These kids were hungry to act. DeNiro plays a role that I don’t think he’s played since, a young punk, the neighborhood chucklehead jerkoff, and Harvey Keitel plays a man he’d play many more times, the guy trying to hold himself and everyone else together as it all goes to shit. Bottom line it’s Marty’s first crime drama and the only one that comes from a place of innocence, the crime drama’s that would follow would be about BIG names and BIG events and BIG heists and BIG Casino’s. This is about the little guy just trying to get by and keep his nose clean on the mean streets of New York.
Click continue to see the best scene in the movie, a five minute improv between Keitel and DeNiro. You just didn’t see acting (or directing) like this often back then, or maybe you did, I was 1.
This is my phone…
This is my phone, I’ve had it for two years. I really really really like it. It’s clear, loud, great reception and the screen is really really bright. It has twelve ringtones (one of which is the Close Encounters theme) and you can choose from a Panda or a Tiger for the screensaver image. That’s it. That’s all it does. That’s all I need it to do. I love gadgets, but there’s something I love about the simplicity of this phone. I saw Steve Jobs’ presentation on the iPhone and it’s the best piece of technology I’ve ever seen, a five year jump in where cell phones should be. I want one badly, Mac doesn’t make crap, the quality of Mac products is practically unbelievable, always exactly what you want plus ten things you hadn’t thought about.
I only post this because of one question I keep asking myself.
Every time I drop my Samsung R225 SGH-R225 I wonder to myself…how many pieces would my iPhone be in right now?
If it’s one thing that L.A. knows…
It’s adverstising. I present to you the ad for a movie about robots who fight, the size of a building.
Hey, S***head
Hey, Jones Cola, enough. Seriously. I think we’re all good with the beverages with the personality. Your drink has a shitty personality.
The MisQueue Film Festival
I’ve been a subscriber to Netflix since 1999, best idea ever. I remember when I joined I was impressed that they bragged of having 4,000 movies, and so much obscure stuff that you could never find in a shitty Blockbuster.
One thing that’s always caught my attention is the MisQueue Film Festival. If you’re like me, you’ll get in a jag and look up a certain subject matter, director, actor, genre, and throw a couple of that into my Queue making a little film festival. For example around the time of Schadenfreude’s writing retreat I added a bunch of Scorsese movies as that was an influence on our script Phudie Mart. Well Casino and Goodfellas soon became Mean Streets, Boxcar Bertha, Who’s That Knocking At My Door, and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, early Scorsese. Then, in the middle of that fest a movie came from my previous festival, which in this case had been a Rocky film festival for the release of Rocky Balboa. Bottom line, Rocky V came in the middle of my Martin Scorsese film fest. And I gotta say, it’s kind of a Scorsese movie. In Rocky V, Rocky loses all his money and is forced to move back to his old neighborhood and re-open Mickey’s Gym, the neighborhood’s shitty, it’s a little Mean Streetsy, he’s a boxer, a little Raging Bull, now if only Rocky beat the shit out of Adrian.
Rocky V is exactly why I think all movies should be forced to make sequels. Even the shittiest sequels can’t help but create or expand mythology, Jason didn’t even have a hocky mask until Friday the 13th part Three , and by the time they had gotten to Halloween 6 Michael Meyers was a descendent of an ancient Irish Cult. The only place left for Rocky to go was back to his roots. Rocky V catches a lot of crap but I think the script is really good, it’s the casting of a kid with adult braces, or who clearly had his adult braces taken off that becomes problematic.
Unconfirmed Rumor! I’m In The New Dennis Quaid Movie! (Unconfirmed)
SCOOPSVILLE!! So yesterday afternoon the new Dennis Quaid movie “The Express” was filming down the street at a nearby high school track. There were about 10 antique cars near the football field, and about 5 intersections blocked-off by cops and PA’s. So while on my running route, I started to jog back and forth in the general area — hoping that I’d accidentally drop into a shot. Again, UNCONFIRMED, but there were cameras in the nearby area, so if you’re at the premier for “The Express” and you see some douche running in the background, it might be me! My character is pretty recognizable, I was playing a guy who was running in the middle of the afternoon, regularly checking his watch and listening to Rush. My character’s secret was that he had Lupus. Be on the lookout!
Congrats to the Gadlins!
Our good friend Steve Gadlin from Sasha and the Noob fame has a new prop! In a good way. Steve and his wife Becky welcomed Isabella Jane Gadlin into the world. You can see a picture and wish Steve and Becky well at his blog.
CIF: Schadenfreude Cover Set
If you are a fan of “Goatboy”, then you’ll love Schadenfreude at Martyrs, 8pm 4/29.
