Fu’s AM Video. Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Dinosaur Jr. On the Jenny Jones Show. I am 100% serious.

Hip-D PodBlast » Mixer » Inspired by TV’s “Lost”

While WinAmp was rolling through some random tracks earlier today, a certain song (one of those listed below, in fact) set off the lightbulb above my head to try and put together a Mixer with nothing but songs that could be loosely associated with the hit ABC TV series Lost.

As you’ll hear, some of these tracks fit the theme perfectly, while others are a complete reach. Regardless, I hope you have as much fun listening to it as I had putting it together.

If nothing else, maybe it will help satisfy your Lost urges until the next episode airs…

• “Plane Crash” – Toadies
• “Marooned” – The Webb Brothers
• “Jack Never Crashes” – The Deathray Davies
• “James” – Josh Rouse
• “Shannon” – Volebeats
• “Lottery” – Damien Jurado
• “O Claire” – Cheap Trick
• “Charlie Freak” – Steely Dan
• “Smoke Signal” – The Band
• “Michael” – Franz Ferdinand
• “Do You Remember Walter?” – The Kinks
• “Give My Love to Rose” – Johnny Cash
• “Ana Lucia” – Sloan
• “Desmond Don’t Go” – Daryll-Ann
• “The Closets of Henry” – Guided by Voices
• “From My Own True Love (Lost at Sea)” – The Decemberists

Hip-D TV » Lo-Def Theater » “Celebrity Mugshot Chat Room”

Watch what happens when celebrities in trouble with the law get together to chat…

Yail Bloor » TV » Cable News

I am a cable news junkie. There is no easy way around it. While most normal people watch sitcoms, reality shows, sports, movies or whatever it is that people watch, I–if left to my own devices, am completely content to sit in for two or three hours of half witted hosts, barely literate “experts” and [no adjectives necessary] politicians, all jabbering at each other like the toothless denizens of a crystal meth convention. It probably says something about me, but I can get enough.

The main problem is that I like The News, and aside from the network news, there is no such thing as news anymore which is kinda funny and ironic: we now have all of these cable news outlets but very little actual news. Now our news is delivered with an endless side helping of commentary or not at all because these news genius’ occasionally abandon the news altogether in favor of documentaries. To wit: Last Sunday night at 11:00 PM EST I just wanted to know what was going on in the world and was faced with this lineup:

CNN: CNN Presents (a North Korea documentary)
CNN Headline News (Nancy Grace or Glenn Beck)
Fox News (Oliver North’s War Stories)
MSNBC – Lockup (those “inside a prison” documentaries)

NO NEWS! What the hell happened to CNN Headline News? I remember when you could know what was on Headline News just by looking at a clock. And now they have mussed up the works trying to compete with the others when they should be doing what they were chartered to do. Here’s a suggestion: Your ratings couldn’t be any worse if you just showed the news on a loop again; even the loneliest guy in prison can’t stand to look at Nancy Grace, and while Fox has done well with a radio talker in Sean Hannity, at least he delivers something even if that something is ghoulsh and frightening. CNN’s cheap imitation of the Hannity/O’Reilly juggernaut is Glen Beck and it feels like what it is: cheap.

Dammit. I really wanted to devote this to the new primetime lineup at MSNBC and why I hate it, but I guess I’ll have to save it for next time.

Hip-D TV » Lo-Def Theater » “The Garage Sale”

We here at Hip-D are proud to introduce our latest recurring feature: “Lo-Def Theater.” Because I am not blessed with any semblance of God-given artistic ability, including anything remotely approaching drawing skills, my only hope to visually put forth my creative vision is to do so by hook or by crook. In this case, “by hook” means jerry-rigging PowerPoint and Windows Movie Maker, while “by crook” very accurately desribes my blatant intellectual theft of copyrighted still photos and licensed music.

So, until a series of exorbitant fines and eventual jail time separates me from my laptop, throw some Jiffy Pop on the hibachi, sit back and enjoy the show…

FT » TV » Shatner Sings “Taxi” on “Dinah!”

“Another Sunday Shat to Hell”

So, here I find myself smack dab in the middle of this glorious four-day weekend (God bless America!) with more free time than I’ve had before me since Spiro Agnew was still drawing a government paycheck, and instead of doing something productive like dusting the blades of my ceiling fan or shampooing my landlord’s blood out of the carpet, I’ve spent the vast majority of this Sunday doing nothing but watching clip after brain-rotting clip at You Tube.

My greatest find so far has been yet another William Shatner vocal interpretation of a ’70s pop classic; this time: Harry Chapin’s poignant “Taxi.” Here’s the first of what will likely be countless instances of leeching existing online content in lieu of actually coming up with something original…ENJOY!

Shatner sings “Taxi”