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For bourbon, I tend to stick with Old Granddad bottled-in-bond. It’s a little rough, but I like it that way.
For Rye, my true love, I actually really like Wild Turkey’s offering and Bone Snapper.
For scotch, Laphroaig if I want to live that peat life. The Macallan if I want it casual.
Yes, I am seeing the basicness now that I’ve typed all that out.
I will bravely step in for Eddie on this. Also hi.
It's goddamn indisputable. Don't dispute it.
The Constantine movie got very close to the essence of the John Constantine character- he's unpleasantly cynical. He's Gregory House, Demon Fighter. That matters more than the fact that he's supposed to look like Sting, and more than the fact that he's English- though that DOES factor into his personality and the setting a bit.
I haven't watched the show yet, but I'm just wary of anything as intense as Hellblazer being done on TV (unless it's HBO or maybe AMC). Sure, TV shows have gotten far better in quality over the last decade, but few networks are going to be willing to translate the deep, unnerving, unhappy nature of the character and his work. The movie doesn't go as far as it could, but I'll forgive it because it showed more balls than I thought it would. I don't want the opportunity for a Hellblazer TV show to be wasted, and as such I worry more about this.
I care almost as much about this as the Preacher TV show, and though the Preacher announcements show promise, I'm always going to worry about stuff sacred to me being spoiled. Because the scary part isn't that they'll suck, the scary part is that they'll suck and that will mean nobody will ever try again.
I feel like sending Mike an Indianapolis postcard would be about as interesting to him as my buying him an NRA membership. Oooh, Indianapolis shot glass!
This is actually tremendously funny. Can we turn this thread into "advertise things the way this guy would?"
I mean Goot's fine and all, but how the fuck are you gonna do a movie with Ralph fucking Garman in it and THAT not come up on your podcast.
That is an absolutely absurd typewriter layout. I cannot imagine getting any work done with that thing. And that ruins the music for me, which is otherwise crafted with a level of talent that my brain cannot begin to conceive of possessing.
Thanks a LOT, Fig.
The best news is that there will be plenty of time for solidarity after Mike pulls through all this. Plenty of time to recoup the money needed.
I won't speak out of turn about updates, as Teague hasn't decided to post anything yet, but I will say that everything I've heard today about Mike's condition has given me a little more hope. Mike is a tough son of a bitch.
I'd be totally down for a bro-tat, Neddard, but frankly if I had a couple hundred bucks to spare on that sort of thing I wouldn't be comfortable spending it on my body instead of Mike's. He needs it more.
I know I said I was gonna get a dumb Hippogriff on my chest as my first tattoo. I am now -seriously- reconsidering that.
Well, I guess their heartboner rivals mine.
I've been in the e-mail chain of updates, for which I am very grateful, and though there are many many replies at this point I've only been able to say one thing, to the effect of this being one of the times in my life that I deeply wish I weren't an atheist so I could pray to someone about this. Beyond that, I've started several replies and never finished them, because I realized it wasn't the proper place to express my feelings, nor did I really have anything meaningful to say.
I'm going to say some things here instead of cluttering up that vital information source. I don't want to come off as though I'm eulogizing the man, but I'm hurting right now and I just want to talk.
I disagree with Mike about a lot of things, and sometimes we've had heated arguments over them. I've found him to be occasionally rude, dismissive, and a bit haughty. I also admire him more than almost anyone I've ever encountered in my life. He's INCREDIBLY witty, talented, funny, and above all his brain works on a level entirely out of my understanding when it comes to the creative process. I've listened to every episode of this podcast, from the start, and I don't think there's a single one I've listened to only once. This place is called Friends In Your Head for a reason- I consider every guy on the show to be a real friend in my life, even if those friendships are entirely one sided. I've been extremely fortunate to have been best friends with one of them and over time I think a couple of the other DIF (yeah I said it) regulars might call me a friend at this point as well. Point is, I got to meet Mike for the first time during the Malariathon last year, and even though I also got to meet Eddie and Ryan and Miki and a bunch of other great folks for the first time that day too, I have to say that on the entire flight to California and walking into the room I really was most excited to get to hang out with Dorkman for the first time.
Mike's the reason I spent so much time on that goddamn couch. I'd been up for like 40 hours by the time I got there, and I maneuvered my way on-mic for almost the whole damn thing because it meant getting to sit next to that guy and talk about a mutual interest for hours. I mean it- I was thrilled to be there for a million reasons, and I love me some Potter, and I was grinning like an idiot just to be on the podcast- but the 100% honest reason I stayed awake for the entire thing and kept nudging my way towards a microphone was because I considered it one of the great opportunities of my life just to get to rap with that guy for a while. If that makes me a creepy fanboy, fine. The point is, I could not possibly hold Mike in a higher regard, and I'm gutted that something this objectively fucking unfair could and did just happen to him.
Whether I'm his friend or not, he's my friend, and while there are people hurting a whole hell of a lot more than me about this, I've felt like vomiting all day. I wish I could end this with some kind of "get well buddy," but to be honest with you, WHEN he pulls through, I'm deleting this post so he doesn't know what a gigantic embarassing heart boner I have for him. I just needed to say it.
Green Arrow's whole thing is that he's a super liberal.
That's why he dresses like Robin Hood and goes after corporations.
Called it. Y'all heard me call it.
Agreed on all counts, Doc.
Dorian, don't worry. He basically disappears from the movies until Deathly Hallows.
Thank you, that's very kind. I would love to do as many of these that they'd like me back for, if any. Getting out to L.A. is a bit of a pain but I would come back for something like this in a heartbeat.
I looked around after 24 hours on mic at my friends, old and brand new, that I'd just done this insane thing with. I'd been awake for 55 hours, and in that time I'd worked a full day at a factory, explored the secret conspiracy of Denver International Airport for 9 hours, and helped save the lives of hundreds of people by talking about Harry Potter for 24 hours.
So I said it- "Seriously guys, this is the best thing I've ever done. This was the best spent day of my life."
Thanks for not booing me off the mic, guys. Thanks for everything.
Double stomps are one of those wrestling moves that basically are what they are. Raven's description isn't far off- you CAN reduce some of the danger and pain by letting your legs go a bit limp upon delivery, but that's almost less safe as you lose some control that way. Low Ki specifically is a complete lunatic and is generally kicking/stomping just as hard as he can. Twice as hard if he hates or loves you.
The real secret is how you TAKE the double stomp. If you watch the video below, take a look at what all the guys getting stomped are doing. They're clasping their hands and squeezing their ribcage together with their biceps so that hopefully it doesn't, y'know, explode inward or shatter or whatever.
Double stomps to the chest hurt, but they're usually the fun kind of wrestling hurt where they get a huge reaction from a crowd and make you feel like a tough guy for taking the move like a man. I have been double stomped while laying on my stomach, and got two boots to my kidneys. Urine shot out of me involuntarily, and that was less fun.
I got laid for the first time in 2007, listened to Down in Front for the first time in 2009. I can state without much hesitation that despite a two year head start and absolutely zero dry spells, I have absolutely spent more time listening to Down In Front than having sex.
The fact that I got to name the podcast is therefore a more mathematically significant event than when I get to name my first child.
When you do the first commentary with the new name, can you say it reeeeeally slowly? Like maybe all four of you take turns saying it really slowly one after the other, then you all say it at once really loud? And then maybe... maybe Trey says it in his Dinsawr voice?
Uh. Guys. Just hit me.
Electric Boogaloo
It's a known phrase, it references the "sequel" to DIF, and it works for just about anything you do.
Where The Seats are Sticky
Tentpole Cowboys
The Rotonauts
Low Budget Independent Podcast
Here There Be Opinions
Abandon All Tropes
Subtextual Content
Unsuitable For All Ages
Hack Bullshit Overwatch
Hitler Saves Christmas
I burdened my lists down with joke names. After reading Zarban's insight and thinking about it, I would like to make my official one suggestion be Creative Hindsight Commentary.
I like it because it is not specific to film but encapsulates what you guys are really good at and what, for me, makes DIF the only podcast I have stuck to religiously since I discovered it- using what you have learned through trial, error, and observation to find what defines quality in creative endeavors. Over the last four years or so you've taught me how to not only really appreciate good movies on a higher level, but how to have a good time thinking about bad movies. And also, as someone who has always been a storyteller in one capacity or another, that insight applies over all types of art. I have applied what I've learned from DIF to what I do in wrestling rings, if that gives you an indication of the span of application this kind of insight has.
And it's a humble sort of name, just short of self deprecation, admitting that you have the advantage of post-release context. And that fits too- you came together as a group of acquaintances having a few drinks and tearing apart Crystal Skull and Episode one and realizing what could be learned by picking up the pieces, observing them, and trying to put the whole thing back together properly. And the real fun of DIF is that these aren't lectures- we get to watch you guys learn and get better at this. One of my favorite things tangential to the podcast is watching your individual or team side projects and seeing concepts I listened to you hammer into shape in DIF deliberately utilized to the benefit of the project.
It's simple, catchy, efficient, casts a wide net, represents you guys perfectly and most importantly I thought of it.
Creative Hindsight Commentary.
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