01/04: Video at your fingertips that you actually want to watch
Greetings from UCLA!
My good friend Jack Black invited me out as his guest at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice awards. Of all the awards shows that I have been lucky enough to attend, this was the first one with Green Slime. Jack was the host and seemed to be actually looking forward to getting slimed on stage. Despite the mess, it was a fun night nonetheless.
Afterwards, Jack and I went to have dinner at a nearby burger joint he knew about called the Apple Pan. The place looked like it had fallen out of the fifties, but had the best burgers. Jack refused to clean up after being slimed, so I got a few towels from the waitress to cover Jack’s booth.
Jack and I go way back to his days in the rock band, Tenacious D. One night while we were out in LA, Jack seemed excessively interested in my business and a new team member, Lee. A few weeks later I get this disc from Jack in the mail. All it said on the label was ‘Lee’. Little did I know that Jack wasn’t really interested in what I had to say, he was just writing a song. I chuckle now when I see the video:
Back to the Apple Pan - Jack and I were getting into a very heated argument about the 80s hit tv show, ‘The A Team’. Jack was convinced that there was a woman on the early A-Team. While I couldn’t recall every episode, I was pretty sure that Mr. T, was the only one wearing jewelry.
Jack made me go out to my car and get my laptop. I wouldn’t let him type with his slime fingers, so he started belting out a web address in song. Luckily the site was a short named one, Hulu.com, and he sat down after I keyed it in.
Hulu.com is a great video aggregation site of TV shows, movies and more. Run by NBC Universal, this site offers thousands of shows and movies, all sponsored with advertising. In a few short clicks, I had the first episode of the A Team on my screen. Jack sat on my lap, slime and all, and we watched opening of the pilot. Sure enough, Melinda Culea played a reporter who tagged along with Mr. T and team. After Jack took a bite of my burger, he moved back to his side of the table.
Afterwards, Jack and I went to have dinner at a nearby burger joint he knew about called the Apple Pan. The place looked like it had fallen out of the fifties, but had the best burgers. Jack refused to clean up after being slimed, so I got a few towels from the waitress to cover Jack’s booth.
Jack and I go way back to his days in the rock band, Tenacious D. One night while we were out in LA, Jack seemed excessively interested in my business and a new team member, Lee. A few weeks later I get this disc from Jack in the mail. All it said on the label was ‘Lee’. Little did I know that Jack wasn’t really interested in what I had to say, he was just writing a song. I chuckle now when I see the video:
Back to the Apple Pan - Jack and I were getting into a very heated argument about the 80s hit tv show, ‘The A Team’. Jack was convinced that there was a woman on the early A-Team. While I couldn’t recall every episode, I was pretty sure that Mr. T, was the only one wearing jewelry.
Jack made me go out to my car and get my laptop. I wouldn’t let him type with his slime fingers, so he started belting out a web address in song. Luckily the site was a short named one, Hulu.com, and he sat down after I keyed it in.
