David: Podcasts and Me

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When I was a very small boy, somewhere around age 4 or 5, I had a Fisher Price tape recorder. It went with me everywhere. I interviewed my grandparents (as well as 5 year old can). I recorded myself talking about nothing. I recorded my friends talking about nothing. I recorded my Fisher Price record player playing my Masters of the Universe LP.

Point is, I recorded a lot of stuff.

When I got older I made a friend who also had a tendency to record things. We started recording what you might call "skits" but what was really just improvised nonsense. We'd record running commentary of ourselves playing Contra. We'd pull out a Casio keyboard and do a mock news program. All of our other weirdo friends (Brandon included) would get pulled in as well.

I got older still. My parents got a video camera. I swiped it from time to time and we'd record even more complex bits. Some of it was so nonsensical you'd almost consider it avant-garde (I insist it was nonsense) but it made us laugh.

We'd edit clips of movies together with a stacked set of VCRs and talk our high school drama teacher into letting us show them in class. My favorite moment from this is when we made a 2 minute trailer for the movie "Hard Target" into a 10 minute segment, complete with a 3 minute sequence of a voice over announcing "Hard Target" and then an image of a shotgun shell being ejected. To this day the phrase, "How does it feel to be hunted?" forces me to laughter.

We got older, we moved on. In college I met a couple of fellow odd ducks, and we played with the idea of movies for a bit. I still regret that we didn't take it further, but the timing was just off.

I tell you all of that, because every time I play an episode of Smodcast, The Nerdist Podcast, The Pod F. Tompkast, or Tell 'em Steve Dave, I realize that we had the seeds of the future in our hands way back in 1989, and we blew it. Granted, the distribution model didn't exist then, but the spirit was the same.

Where's all of this going? I don't know. What I do know is that there is a creative monster inside of me that is no longer satisfied with only writing. Right now I'm a Laurel without a Hardy, a Fry without a Laurie.

Where the fuck are you?

David: So I Bought an Apple TV. (Or is it tv...)

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Of course I did.

At $99 how could I not? If it was only a Netflix box it would be worth that, but the ability to effortlessly stream (the keyword is effortlessly) my content from my computer pushes this in to no brainer territory. Looking forward to the ability to stream content from my iOS devices to the screen.

As for rentals, I highly doubt I will ever pay $5 to rent a movie for 24 hours in the age of Redbox, but you never know. Convenience has a way of sneaking up on you. If more networks get on board I could see myself canceling my TV service and watching shows a la carte. Even if they don't, well, there are always torrents...

David: DUKE NUKEM FOREVER IS COMING OUT!!!11!1!

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the me of 8 years ago is so excited.

David: Starcraft 2 is Out

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Although, not being much of an RTS fan, I'm not all that excited.

It seems the rest of the world is, however. (I'll bet the cash contents of my wallet that Brandon is playing today...)

David: Inception Micro-Review

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Christopher Nolan's best. I really didn't think that The Prestige could be topped (probably due to my fondness for Victorian era England and illusion), but it has been.

There's little about this film that is predictable, and it spans genres so well that you don't even notice it's doing it.

I give it 16 out of 16 arbitrary metrics.