A Blast From The Past

Today the phone rang and I saw it was from "Vin Da Bon". I wasn't going to answer it but then I thought, could that be "Vin Da Bonna", the company that makes America's Funniest Home Videos? It was. A long time ago I sent them a video and they did reply but wanted a lot of clearances so I never followed through on it. Seems they want to use my clip in some spin-off called "The Worlds Funniest Home Videos" Talk about something coming out of the blue.

Contemporary Short Films and Videos at the BMA

I went to the Contemporary Short Film show at the BMA today. Fun stuff. Here's the program (I starred my favorites).

• Stephanie Barber: The Hunch that Caused the Winning Streak and Fought the Doldrums Mightily (2010)*
• Tom Borax: Journey to a Star (2012) *
• Mark Brown: Growing/Innit (2008) *
• David Gatten: How to Conduct a Love Affair (2007) 
• Lawrence Jordan: Solar Sight II (2012)*
•  William Knipscher: Can't Remember, Can't Forget (2012)
•  Leida Lertxundi: A Lax Riddle Unit (2011)
• Jonas Mekas: Andy at Work (2006) *
• Rebecca Meyers: lions and tigers and bears (2006) 
• Miranda Pfeiffer: Dark Windows (2011)* 
• Luther Price: The Biscuit Song (2008) 
• Jennifer Reeves: Landfill 16 (2011) 
• Tasman Richardson: Eyecandy (2005) *
• Karen Yasinsky: Audition (2012)

Links to two of my favorites on YouTube:

Eyecandy

Growing // Innit

Get In The Cage

Oh Vicki

Link to article on People Like Us (Vicki Bennett)

YouTube Downloader

I'm going to try this freeware out. It seems pretty straight forward. I used KeepVid a couple of times but it didn't work last time I tried it.

Download.com's video about the YouTube Downloader.

Downloaded and installed YouTube Downloader and it works as advertised. I used it to download videos and convert them for an ipod. There's an option for setting the quality used for the conversion. I used "Optimal" for my stuff. Below is a table listing the settings with the resulting file size.

• Original - 18 Meg
• High - 29 Meg
• Optimal - 11 Meg
• Medium - 6 Meg

The Road to Knoxville

VH1 Reality Show Bus Crashes In California Causing Major Slut Spill

Good Old Mae

Upgrading to Digital with Mae Laborde



Digital Conversion Update PSA

Soprano's - Every Curse From Every Episode

the sopranos, uncensored. from victor solomon on Vimeo.

God Bless Them

12-Year-Old Boy Scouts Volunteer To Give Women Breast Exams

1,000,000 Records

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

They Might Be Giants - How Do You Spell TLA

They Might Be Giants - With The Dark

Watch Video at YouTube

Mike's 50th Birthday Party

Watch Video At YouTube

Jocelyn and I threw Mike a surprise 50th birthday party today. Jocelyn and Mike had gone to Catonsville for a double header earlier in the day, and we were a little worried about him getting home before the guests arrived because they had moved the start time back to 11:00 AM from noon. Joc got him to stop in Hampden for a little while and he arrived right on time, about 4:50. We had told everybody to be there at 4:30. He seemed genuinely surprised.

A lot of people chipped in with the food and beer (Mom and Dad did a lot). The cake came from BJ's. We had a fire going out by the pond. The kids did some fishing and canoeing and later on they made smores and hot dogs over the fire. Jim and Matthew each caught a pretty big bass. I think everybody we invited showed up. Let me see if I can remember who all was there. The Brushes, The Sanzas (except Chris, who had a wedding to go to), The Hubers - Bob and Bunny, Steve and Kelly and all their kids, even Miss Sandy all the way from OC. Cindy, Megan and Aaron Schilling, Rita's companion/helper Judy, Mikes friend Pat and his wife Mary Carol and there two kids, Karen,Steve and Chris, Jim and Dan (there friend Russell brought them out and stayed a while), our gang, Mom and Dad, Joc and a couple of her friends, Ken Qualiano. I think that's it. Everybody seemed to have a good time. Mike even did a beer bong out by the fire. The party lasted till about 10:00. Oh, we also watched the Indians get creamed by the Red Sox, who eventually beat the Indians in seven games after being down 3 games to 1.

They Might Be Giants "The Mesopotamians"

Click on Anne & Robbie to see "The Mesopotamians" Video

Performed Live On One of Conan O'Brian's Last Shows

Photo Story from Picture It! Photo Library Program

Doesn't work to well does it? The video was uploaded directly to Blogger who "processed it" to death.

Ocean City 2006, Pt.1

I finally got this movie online. It's been split in two.

Ocean City 2006 Pt.2

Dirty Found on SexTV

The Residents

My Name Is Earl Season Finale