Jul10

Twitter in Focus: Travis Bowe, Family Guy Writer

by tonyd on July 10, 2013 at 12:01 am

Hey Bros!

Welcome to Twitter in Focus where media comes to die.  Today contestant is Family Guy writer, Travis Bowe.  Let’s see if he tweets match up to the show.

@BoweKnows

July 2nd:  “I don’t need to go wine tasting I already know I like it.”

Good point.  But it is a chance to drink the wine.  Peter did that in an episode I believe.

July 3rd:  “The only thing I’ll eat for breakfast is steel cut oatmeal. What is steel cut oatmeal?”

First rule of steel cut oatmeal, don’t talk about steel cut oatmeal.

July 3rd:  “Workplace tip: Make people think you’re cool my referring to your weekend as “my adventures.””

I could see “The Adventures of Travis Bowe”.  Something animated.  And you have a talking pet.  Probably a lemur.

July 3rd:  “Dwight Howard should just sign with the Yankees and get it over with.”

Or the Mets.  Can’t do any damage there.

July 3rd:  “Hat ”

That’s a good Vine.  I gotta get that app.

July 3rd:  “My mom’s catchphrase is: “where are my glasses?””

Mine is “Have you gotten a job yet?”

July 5th:  “People on Friends had a lot of leisure time.”

And enough money to live very comfortably in New York.

July 7th:  “”We’re calling you up to the big leagues.” “Nah. I have a cool apartment here. Nice little floor plan. I’m gonna stick with AAA.””

Hey, good feng shui is hard to find.

July 7th:  “”Shaken… and stirred.” Dumb James Bond”

“Do you expect me to die?”  Even dumber James Bond.

July 8th:  “It’s a good idea to let kids pre-board flights. You want those little guys on there as long as possible.”

Plus if the plane talks off without you, you’ll be kid-free to meet with your lawyers.

July 8th:  “I can’t believe Andy Murray won Wimbledon. That other guy was no Djokovic.”

You really do write for Tosh.O.

Okay, let’s rate Travis’s tweets.  Pretty solid stuff, could use some more behind-the-scenes, but otherwise nice.  I give Travis a 7 for Style, an 8 for Mustness and a 9 for Insanity.  That’s a solid 8 overall.   Follow Travis.

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Jul08

Movies You Missed: Wet Hot American Summer

by tonyd on July 8, 2013 at 12:58 am

I had always heard about this movie and never caught more than a scene or two on television.  Out of context, I would always change the channel.  I never truly thought about giving this movie a chance until I read it was directed by David Wain.

This is Wain’s first direct feature and has several members of the State including Ken Marino, Michael Showwalter (who co-wrote with Wain), Michael Ian Black and Joe Lo Truglio.  But as I said, I hadn’t really seen the whole movie and was shocked to see that it also stars Janeane Garolafo, David Hyde Pierce, Molly Shannon, Amy Poehler and crazily enough, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper in very early roles.  But crazier still, Christopher Meloni has probably the funniest role and H. Jon Benjamin has the most amazing voice cameo of all time.

The whole movie is a send up of 80’s movies with a summer camp theme.  Showalter and Wain set out to destroy and parody each and every moment.  I had no idea so many famous people were in this thing and how much funnier it is if you watch it from the beginning.  (You really need to watch the entire thing from the beginning to appreciate it and don’t miss the after-the-credits bit.)

In a lot of ways, it’s one long series of comedy sketches strung together with a very flimsy premise.  Even when it doesn’t work, you don’t really mind.  Wain’s early work is not to be missed.

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Jul08

Movies I Wish I Missed: Primer

by tonyd on July 8, 2013 at 12:45 am

I’m beginning to think that Netflix is the place where bad movies go to die.  I love time travel movies and this one had a great premise: Two engineers accidentally discover time travel.  That, to me, is a very organic introduction to time travel because that’s how a lot of inventions are created.  The set up is actually very good.

A group of small time inventors with their own company are experimenting and desperate for cash.  After two of the inventors accidentally discover that one of the objects they used their machine on is covered with a strange fungus, analysis proved that it moved through time.

Unfortunately, their own analysis confuses the plot to begin with.  This fungus takes a long time to grow and they eventually figure out that it grows at the rate of 1344 minutes for every 1 minute.  Okay, assuming they didn’t just invent a machine that ages fungus, sure, it’s traveling through time, but only forward.  One of the inventors has a theory that the age is created by an infinite loop that eventually collapses, meaning that the item is actually traveling back and forth in time, eventually ending up in the future.  But one of them theorizes that if the process was stopped at the right moment, they could step out in the past around the time the machine was turned on.

I was willing to accept this theory, but it was hard to hear and the movie just gets more confusing from there.  The duo exercise stock options, but in such a boring way, we never get to see the pay off.  Where’s the scene with the champagne?  Or spending way too much money?  At some point, the movie just becomes devoid of any other characters and the development of said characters is non-existent.

By the time this movie ends, you feel like the makers inserted a twist just to have one and it is so poorly explained and visualized that I don’t know if I could explain it if I tried.  This movie needed at least another rewrite, two or three more scenes and at least one more character with lines.  It’s really just unfinished.  So skip Primer, unless you have a working time machine that can prevent yourself from watching it later.

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Jul07

Your Fratoscope: July 7, 2013

by tonyd on July 7, 2013 at 12:01 am

If your birthday is this week:  You’ll be so busy this week, even you will forget your birthday and in anger, stop talking to yourself.

Aries:  Your online friend Edward asks you to check the apartment rentals in Venezuela and not to ask anymore questions.

Taurus:  You will be visited by three ghosts, all of which would like to borrow money.

Gemini:  The stars say, check your pockets before you launder them.  Typically, Girl Scout cookies don’t survive a wash.

Lemini:  Your long lost brother returns and insists on seeing the Lone Ranger this week.  You decide to wait another few decades to see him again.

Cancer:  You will be struck by a baseball and mugged by the San Diego Padres.

Leo:  Your car will be towed out of your parking space and back into the same space before you notice, but you’ll know.

Virgo:  Your girlfriend will finally reappear and you will be able to sue that magician.

Libra:  A crackhead will whisper the secrets of the Universe to you, but you’ll be too uptight to listen just because he’s peeing on you.

Scorpio:  This week, you’ll have to cut back and will decide you’re putting far too much make up on your genitals.

Sagittarius:  You’ll get a golden ticket!  Unfortunately, it’s just the cops making their speeding tickets look nicer.

Capricorn:  You’ll find that thing you were looking for last week and lose something else that you need right now.

Aquarius:  The sixty-eight cents you have in your pocket will change to another denomination of money as you’re reading this.

Pisces:  You’ll sneak out of the house to eat sushi again, because $9.95 per person, all-you-can-eat at this place, is fucking unbelievable.

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