Lonely Island is mofoin’ hilarrrrrrious. In case you didn’t know, the news is, it’s hilarious, and the music isn’t have bad either…
Artist Bio
The Lonely Island is a group of filmmakers founded in 2001 by Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, and Andy Samberg (aka The Dudes). The group was originally from Los Angeles, California but now resides in New York. The Lonely Island has created numerous comedic films, shorts, parody songs, and music videos. They have written shorts for the popular television show Saturday Night Live, most notably “Lazy Sunday,” “Dick in a Box,” and “Jizz In My Pants.” They have made three full-length television pilots, all of which were rejected. The group operates a web site under the same name that showcases their collaborations. The site also includes a blog from second-tier member Chester Tam, often referred to as Chez (pronounced CHAY). The blog, titled Chez Chat, gives humorous summaries of the site’s updates.
The three core members currently work together as writers on Saturday Night Live. Recently, principal photography has wrapped on the Lonely Island’s first feature film, Hot Rod.
Development in long-range travel and the growing importance of the Arctic and Antarctic regions make it necessary to understand how maps may be misleading. Experiments with a grapefruit illustrate the difficulty of presenting a true picture of the world on a flat surface and it is concluded that the globe is the most accurate way of representing the earth. – National Film Board, Canada
So I plop down on my comfortable bed around, well, 10 pm this past Sunday Night. Don’t worry, this isn’t going to turn into some Penthouse Forum letter…
Anyways, MTV2 has a completely new lineup for Sunday. I think they might be trying to compete with Adult Swim and let me tell you, at least for me, it worked!
First of all, I’ve never seen an episode of Chuck before. After seeing this “3D” episode, I’ll probably check out a few more on hulu.
Alright, on to the review. The show is funny, fast-paced, and has lots of good action. Plus, there is a hot blonde lady who kills fools! What’s not to like? Well, how about the so-called “3D” aspect, for starters.
When I put on some stupid glasses then I have to construct myself, I expect some fuckin’ eye-popping 3D explosions, some real Disney shit. You know the Honey I Shrunk/Blew Up/Had A One Night Stand With/ the Audience thing. The cobras, dogs, shit flying at you. Instead, we got some strange-colored bullshit where Charlie from Lost appears slightly closer to the screen than Chuck. GREAT!!!
Seriously, that was the worst “3D” episode of anything that I’ve ever seen, period. They put in one, count ‘em, one, shot of a thrown knife that was actually pretty cool. Other than that, biggest stupid glasses wearing experience of my entire freakin’ life. My girlfriend and my roommate just took their glasses off after about 2 minutes. Half the time you can’t even see the difference between the show normally and the “3D” parts.
Final score:
Show: B+
3D: F+
Seriously, NBC, if you’re going to make me run around town like a crazy fool trying to find some goddamned 3D glasses, then shit man, at least make it halfway decent. You goddamned bastards.
By now, you all have to have heard of Hulu.com… right?
I’ve been using it almost daily for a few months, and it’s basically changed my life. I used to sit at my desk and cry over my peanut and jelly sandwiches, but instead, I cry from joy, because I can watch hundreds of TV shows and movies right in my browser. It even works (mostly) on my 4-year-old mac.
Hulu is owned by Fox and NBC, so it is mostly their shows on there, but they do offer a lot of great stuff, like full episodes of The Simpsons, Family Guy, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and Arrested Development, which has the whole series available for free. Not everything has a ton of episodes, and they do have expiration dates, but there is definitely enough to keep you occupied. Hulu is an ad-supported site, but they only put 2 minutes of ads per show where normal networks stick on 8.
One of the cooler features is that you can embed full-length episodes right into your blog:
Enjoy the pilot episode of Arrested Development.
If you want to find out more, Wired has an interesting article about it, giving a detailed background about the company’s founding, a cool read.
Just when you thought VH1 couldn’t get more ridiculous, here comes “I Love Money.” A whole gaggle of contestants from the recent celebrity dating competition shows, but with no pretense of “love.” I guess this show is more honest about its intentions (and don’t worry, Pumpkin will be there), but it’s kind of a sad state for the human race…
Okay, time to post an inspirational story about a cute animal… anything that doesn’t make me (who even watched Rock of Love 2) vomit a little.
