Update: dear readers, this giveaway has reached its dramatic conclusion. We have our winners. A special thanks goes out to all of you who responded so quickly. First 5 responders: keep checking your inboxes because we’ll be getting in touch with you soon to send you your free DVD and pound of marijuana. 6th responder: can we interest you in a back massage?
You read that right. It says “NOT LIVE.” This Tuesday, Tim and Eric are returning to Super Deluxe. But instead of doing their “NITE LIVE” show from Los Angeles, they’ll be debuting the first in a series of “NOT LIVE” videos from the road.
Which may be the closest you’ll be able to get to them these days if you haven’t already bought tickets to their Awesome Show, Great Job!™ Tour 2008. As you can see from this helpful MySpace calendar, they’re selling out everywhere.
Except Asheville. And Lawrence. And Seattle. And Los Angeles. They haven’t sold out in those cities.
OK, now for the DVD giveaway part. We have 5 copies of Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Season One that we want to rid ourselves of.
Seeing as our other DVD giveaway is going so well (only 2 people have responded), we’ll make this one a bit easier: all you have to do is write a short essay in the comments below explaining why you should receive a free DVD. That’s it. Type up a persuasive lil’ paragraph for us and it’s yours. Easy.
What? You haven’t heard of Wack Magic yet? Apparently, you weren’t in Austin for SXSW this year. Because that’s the only place in the world where we’ve given it away so far.
We’re proud to announce that Wack Magic is our first-ever promotional DVD. And it’s quite the collectible treasure, if we do say so ourselves. Especially for fans of Brad Neely. Not only does it feature a healthy hoard of I Am Baby Cakes and Professor Brothers videos (as well as some other assorted Neely gems), it also comes with this two-sided mini-poster which Brad drew specifically for this project:
But that’s not all! Wack Magic also has a sampler platter of other Super Deluxe videos on it from geniuses like Devin Flynn, Dave Willis, Louis Katz, Dave Hill, The Post Show, Team Tiger Awesome and Nick Goossen. And they’re all viewable on a DVD machine.
Now for the contest part : we’ve got 10 copies of Wack Magic that we want to give away. Free. Gratis. Sans the filthy lucre. All you have to do to win one is show us your best and most creative “wack magic.” What does that mean? We’ll give you an example. Here’s something we did around the office here with the blog’s ombudsman and resident wizard, David Levin:
Got it? Now, once you make your wackical magical creation, here’s what you do: upload it to Super Deluxe, make sure to title and tag it WACK MAGIC CONTEST, and then paste the URL in a comment on this post. That way, we can’t miss it. When we get 10 good videos from you (or even 5 decent ones), we’ll post them all here on the blog, announce the winners and send you your free DVDs. Just like that.
Voila!
Before we attempt to fulfill our lifelong dream of seeing The Clipse immediately after seeing Motorhead, I present these captured images from the first day of the SxSW music festival.
The day started with Zombie Eaters—ie: The Sword channeling their love of Faith No More—with a half-hour cover set of damn-near the entire Real Thing album. (Video is forthcoming!)
From there, it was a steady diet of Swedish stoner rock, Brit indie rock and even a stop at America’s Def Jux showcase. Below is some photographic evidence:
Witch with J. Mascis:
Saul Williams:
The Duke Spirit
There was no way I was going to let it happen. Sure, El Douche A and the Senatorturer are going to cover South By Southwest from very their own salvia-skewed perspectives, but there was no way I was going to let those boys have all the fun.
Let me explain: I’ve been coming to SxSW since before I was legal to drink (and Lord Satan knows, that was a while back), so perhaps there’s a little bit of entitlement being felt here. I’ve been there, done that, watched it perform a killer set, eaten it covered with Iron Works sauce and made out with it AND its brother - so I will call it “South By” if it damn well pleases me.
But I digress. So while the guys are providing the majority of the Lost In Austin dispatches, expect an interjection or two from me about the heavy metal bands in attendance, the dudes (No recollection of name? No problem!) and all the collective awesomeness that makes South by Southwest one of the most exciting destinations on Earth for a media whore like me.
And just because it’s how I roll… I started the party early by catching the Air Raid show on Tuesday night. Co-headlined by the D.R.I.-worshipping Municipal Waste and Midwestern punk legends, Naked Raygun, the event was a packed, smelly affair full of Shiner Bocks and stage diving.
Here’ a pic:
All this, and I haven’t even picked up my badge yet.
Beat that, Douche.
Less than 24 hours to go before we touch down in Austin and the feeling around here is positively electric. We can’t wait to get out on on 6th Street and soak up the hip, cool music and the warm Texas rain (no worries; apparently Zappos.com is handing out free slickers to grinning white people). And then of course, there are our two big parties that we must plug: MAKE FUNNY NOT WAR on Friday night at Esther’s and MESS WITH TEXAS 2 on Saturday at Waterloo Park.
But what about right now? SXSW 2008 Interactive just ended and our very own Sane Dave was in attendance. We sat down with him today over Skype to get an earful of what he learned and what we can expect on the Music side of the event when we arrive tomorrow.
Which means, we missed it. We don’t get there until this Wednesday but who knows? Maybe they’ll be screening it in some dark nook of the Austin Convention Center or something.
Either way, We Are Wizards is a fitting vehicle for Brad Neely’s first foray into the magical world of cinema. It’s a documentary about the rabid subculture of Harry Potter fandom and from what we can tell from the trailer, Brad figures prominently in it.
For the uninitiated, that’s Brad reading from his epic Wizard People, Dear Readers (available for download at Creased Comics). It’s an unauthorized alternative soundtrack to the first Harry Potter movie. The story goes that before he started doing videos for us, he used to do readings of Wizard People synched up to the Sorcerer’s Stone in various venues around this great country of ours. Just Brad, a microphone, a movie screen, a six pack of beer and an audience. Then Warner Brothers issued a “cease-or-we-will-sue-you-for-everything-you-have” order. Which Brad did. But clearly they haven’t silenced him from talking about the whole ordeal.
The funniest thing about all this is that Brad has told us that he’s never even read any of the Harry Potter books. Not a one. How’s that for fandom?
I was just recently in New York over the weekend and checked out Dave Hill’s band, Children of the Unicorn at The Highline Ballroom. I was excited to see that the headliners were Gibby Haynes with the School of Rock All Stars, playing Butthole Surfers songs.
As you can see, it was pretty awesome.
Afterwards, I managed to talk Dave and a some fellow comedian friends to go get some wings and talk some shop.
“What the fuck was that?”
“I almost had a seizure.”
“Wow! 2 bad acid makes me dismember the naighberhood [sic] animals.”
These are a typical batch of viewer comments posted on Devin Flynn’s Y’all So Stupid series. And they speak to the breakneck experience of watching one of Mr. Flynn’s shorts: a lot comes at you in a short amount of time. Before you can focus on the UFO taking a dump on a mountain, there’s already a brain-eating zombie crawling out of the ground, followed by a strobe-lit pair of eyeballs floating towards you in some weird K-hole tunnel. And then you laugh and wriggle around in your seat nervously before getting blasted with the next overwhelming image of insanity.
Sure, it’s “trippy” and “drug-induced” and it seems to make viewers want to shave their heads or whatever. But there’s also a lot of loving detail and brilliant imagery crammed into every frame of Y’all that can easily be overlooked. So, we decided to slow things down a bit, and go back through the past six episodes to pick out our favorite stills. Only the most visually arresting ones that could be framed and hung in a gallery without any mention of a Super Deluxe or the Internet or continuous play options. And on top of that, we bugged Devin to give us a word or two about each one. And he did.
Love the face on the pipe. Do you believe in Animism? Rastafarism?
Objects know. But you don’t know what they know. That’s what I think, you know what I’m saying? Furthermore, Haile Selassie I is roughly an anagram for “door stopper” in The Hall Of Mirrors in Versailles. And “rasta” is “door stopper” in patois (Doh-Ra-Sta-Pa).
New York is such a wonderful city to visit this time of year. The weather is perfect. The women are still all beautiful and summerfied. And the plane ride up is un-fucking-bearable.
Last night, we went to Ground Zero. Ground Zero of alternative comedy in New York City, that is. BOOOOM!!! OK, that’s not cool. There’s a lot of other places in Manhattan that probably would contest that they are the nexus of alt-comedy. But we weren’t at those places, were we? We were at Rififi’s in the East Village enjoying the crap out of Bobby Tisdale and Eugene Mirman’s weekly comedy show, Invite Them Up. If you love these guys’ Super Deluxe videos, chances are, Invite Them Up is where some of the original ideas for them were conceived and/or fleshed out. Or not. It’s a pretty “whatever the fuck goes” kind of night. Like when the multi-multi-talented Reggie Watts (seen here with fellow hair models) wrapped the evening up in a pretty bow with a beatbox-loop pedal-mindfuck improv performance that defies further categorization.
Here’s Super Deluxe stooge, Senatorturer, Bobby Tisdale and Invite Them Up co-producer and gracious hostess, Holly Schlesinger.
Of course, both Eugene and Bobby performed, as well as Adam Lowitt, Seth Herzog, Larry Murphy, and Chelsea Peretti. We got a ton of amazing footage of the performances that’s going up on the site and on the podcast soon. We also have to add that big, evil gentrification is threatening to shutdown Rififi, and consequently give Invite Them Up the boot. So, there’s going to be a special podcast about that.
And that’s not to mention all of the random folks that just happened to show up last night, like Zach Galifianakis (who was sporting those big headphones that everybody seems to be wearing these days).
Anywho, if you’ve made it this far down in our ramblings and you’re in Manhattan tonight, come and join us at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. The all-lady comedy revue that is the Variety Shac (Chelsea Peretti, Andrea Rosen, et. al.) is performing. And we’re going to be front and center and paying lots of attention.
Atlanta’s very own Corndogorama just finished up and I am fucking exhausted. I consumed 16 beers, 5 corndogs, handed out 600 buttons, watched about 25 bands, and took a ridiculous amount of photos. Mastodon played. Brent kicked a guy’s camera into his face. I drank too much.
All is normal in the universe.
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