Things I Like

Warning: This half-assed Friday post may become a weekly occurrence.

In light of the fact that the thing I actually want to write about on this here blog is not quite in the ready to write about category, I'm going to sell out and post links to other things.

So recently I've become slightly addicted to some of the videos on the Borders channel on youtube. They do this thing where authors/famous people that are making appearances at the mothership Borders in Ann Arbor walk around the store and talk about their favorite things. It's kinda like that one show Oprah does every year, but it's more believable that they actually do like the things that they're talking about. Also there's less "We've got John Travoooooooooooooltaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Oh, and it's awesome.

The best ones are Ira Glass and Wes Anderson/Jason Schwartzman. This may be simply because I love This American Life, and all Wes Anderson movies, not to mention my unabashed love for Jason Schwartzman. Jamie Lee Curtis' video is decent, but I can only stand her for about 2.3 minutes before ripping out my own hair.


Here's Wes/Jason.




Like I said, awesome.


In other "obsessed with" news, Jon Favreau had (has?) this show on the Independent Film Channel called Dinner For Five. Basically he asks four random actors (or comedians, writers etc.) to have dinner together and talk about their films, and other random experiences. Of course, during every single episode he talks about Swingers for about ten minutes, but it usually is really funny and very interesting. There aren't tons of episodes on youtube, but there are a couple of winners including the episode with Kevin Smith substitute hosting and the one with Henry Winkler as one of the guests. I've downloaded 3 or 4 from iTunes and there are some quality bits. Here's what I've learned so far:

Vince Vaughn is kind of a jackass. Ok, maybe I already knew that.

Kevin Smith is a lot funnier than I thought.

This was not in the actual episode, but comes from one of my favorites. It is, however, kind of hilarious.

Stan Lee = Awesome

Kevin Pollack does probably the best Christopher Walken impression I have ever seen.



Enjoy, and don't worry, I will update and you know, put some effort into this very soon.