To show you what happened to Jesse this week, we present you The Five Levels of Drinking by Larry Miller:
BURSTDAY!!!
Today is June 7th and it’s my candle blowin burstday!! Confused? Watch the video below
YouTube
This week we talked about social media sites. Which one will last, facebook, instagram or twitter. What I realize now is that no one thinks YouTube is going anywhere. Sure you have your social aspect of it that is rarely used (I couldn’t care less about what you’ve just watched). Plus there are SO many other sites that offer videos, and the ability to make your own videos in a more social aspect than YouTube.
Take Vine. Good enough, a little funny, but Vine is to Twitter what YouTube is to Facebook rants. You are giving a limited amount of time to bore me. Where as with Facebook you can have an hour long video I’ll never watch. Vine is part of what is great about YouTube though, user driven content. The fact that guys who’s talents were being wasted could come together under one man’s leadership and make FreddieW the greatest most consistent source of action since James Bond. There are no longer millions of dollars on the line and instead of just telling people about a new video we can just share them…or post a daily blog about it!
So with Hulu and Netflix doing some original programming is the fate of YouTube doomed!? Nah, we can still get most old TV shows on there, fresh content from people who weren’t given a chance anywhere else and music videos from all ages and genres. The one thing we can’t get on YouTube? Copywritten content…well, unless you want to watch it in parts?
How To Be An Actor
What’s the first thing you need in an audition? By the time you get into the door and are standing in front of the casting director, the director and a few suits, you’ll need a monologue. So here’s mine…well not MINE obviously, but here’s the one I would use in an audition. I love me some Ed Norton and this is from an underrated movie called The 25th Hour (I’m a sucker for “all in one day” movies).
Series
There’s a development that happened in TV over the years that we didn’t talk about on the show. It’s the progression of the season. It used to be that when you watched a show it ran from fall to around Thanksgiving, then started up again mid February, finally ending in May. The last week of may to be more precise. Eventually producers realized they couldn’t hold every series one hour season finale on the same night. They would have to move them to end a few weeks ahead. Then other studios got wise and realized that with the main school time taken up, you could get good viewing during the summer or winter breaks with an alright show. Then the networks realized their competition and started moving their show’s schedules around too. I don’t mind any of this, it’s just that there are a few times when having a season start in Fall and end in May are a good thing.
Take The Simpsons for instance. Too many games to worry about scheduling around and with only one season left, The Simpsons eventually moved their first episode to the first Sunday in November instead of September. 30 Rock is another example. A show that ended it’s many years on TV with mostly good writing in the middle of March. I do miss having all my shows end at the same time. I do miss having Corey and Topanga’s wedding around the same time as graduation. I miss having that sense of appointment television. And I know we’ll never go back to the days where you were glued to your TV at 8 (7 central). I do wish we would at least go back to finding out if Rachel got on the plane in May while still wondering if Kelly and Drew would actually get married.
I guess I should be thankful that in these interweb connected days, I can find out that my favorite show is ending years before so it softens the blow. Now I can watch Ted meet his wife, I can watch Bones finally catch the bad guy and settle down with Booth, I can watch The Simpsons…do whatever one would do after 25 years and a movie…and be well prepared for it. Box of tissues in hand, ready to pause, rewind, and buy the box set, so I can watch it from episode 1.













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