Insomnia–You and Me Both, Bob

Hey, Bob Nanna. Nice guitar.

Somehow I always manage to avoid sleep on the three nights a week I need it most–the ones right before my 9AM Newspaper Design class.

Tonight, Bob Nanna of The City on Film (among other bands, like Braid, Hey Mercedes, and the recently formed Certain People I Know) voices my sleepless, restless, and lethargic state perfectly with his song Insomnia.

At least I’ll be done with school for at least a year come May.

Enjoy.

TV Club: Lost

Miles and Hurley, debating the physics of time travel.

I’ve never really been a TV guy.  Sure, there are a select few shows that I’ve followed–The X-Files, Arrested Development, The Office and, most recently, Lost.  Still, I try to keep my watching habits moderate.  But somehow my obsession with Lost has actually turned me into someone who reads about the show immediately after it airs.

God help me.

My source? The TV Club from The Onion’s AV Club.  It’s gotten so bad that I even sift through the hundreds of comments posted by site visitors more impassioned than myself.

Some of my own thoughts on last night’s episode:

• Loved the Back to the Future references.  I’ve been invoking the trilogy regularly when trying to explain Lost to confused newcomers.
• I also thought the conversations between Hurley and Miles were fairly illuminating with regard to a subject that a lot of Lost fans have been debating:  The rules of the Lost universe’s time travel.  Seems to be somewhat fate-centered.
• Can’t stand Kate, or her episodes.  The TV Club fawned over her flashbacks, but they just bored me.
• Sawyer and Juliette=best Lost couple yet.
• Jack’s words are starting to take on a Locke-like mysticism.  Chilling, in my opinion, since they used to be dubbed as somewhat antithetical characters.
• Locke’s smirk adds so much to his character.  Can’t wait to see the confrontation between him and Ben next week.

I was skeptical of this season when it started.  It seemed to be subverting any sort of logical rules.  But I’m totally digging it now.  Just took a little while for me to get acclamated.

It’s probably only a matter of time before I join the fold of TV Club commenters.  But for the time being, I’ll keep my thoughts here.

Until next week.

Adult Swim’s Special Airing of “The Room”

Tim and Eric of the Awesome Show. Great Job.

Adult Swim is also playing a pretty good April Fool’s joke with a special airing of “The Room.”

“The Room” was released by Wiseau Films in 2003, and you can buy it on Amazon.  From the user reviews:  “It is, without question, the worst film ever made. Including movies made on beta max video cameras in special education high school classes.”

Tim and Eric seem to be behind the airing of the soap opera/softcore feature film starring their recent guest director, Tommy Wiseau.

The acting is terrible, the story barely follows a logical thread, and a message saying “Do NOT duplicate this copyrighted material!” keeps flashing on the bottom of the screen.  Another message asking “What are you fools watching?” also keeps popping up during commercial breaks, and I’ve seen a few advertisements for a spring break update in 15 minutes from Tim and Eric’s MTV personas, Jim and Derrick, but still haven’t seen it in the 45 minutes I’ve been watching.

It’s definitely the purposefully botched brand of humor Tim and Eric love.  And in typical Tim and Eric fashion, it’s infuriating people on the Adult Swim message boards.  I personally am finding the whole ordeal hilarious.

Great job.

Read more about “The Room” and its cult success at NPR.

The Pirate Bay’s April Fool’s Day

Warner Brothers loves The Pirate Bay.

Wow.

I logged onto TorrentFreak for the first time in a few days to be met with a shocking announcement:  “Warner Bros. Acquires the Pirate Bay.”

If you know anything about filesharing, you know that this would be an unprecendented corporate embrace of the underground, unfiltered filesharing culture that so many of today’s youth are engulfed in.  Especially since the two have recently been locked in a court dispute that threatens to take down The Pirate Bay.

For a second, I thought I might now have a good place online to legally acquire new music, rather than lamenting over the low quality, Apple formatted, DRM infested files over at iTunes.

April fools.