Bon Vonage

Chihuahua on Cheeseburgers

Saul Alinsky Quote

“Life is there ahead of you, and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys in a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of an illusory security and safety.”

Murphy Art

Introducing... The Teal Tiger

Bow down before the greatness.

Wienermobile!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Love you.

Epic Random Crossroads

A Tree Fell On My Car

Nice surprise during my lunch hour.

Two Men and a Horse

I wonder what their wives think?

Monkey on a Motorbike

Dreams do come true.

Spontaneous Road Trip Ruled

Glad I Don't do Drugs.

Is Your Shampoo Killing You?

From Best Life:
"Nearly 90 percent of the chemicals in the products you slather onto your skin—the body’s largest organ—have never undergone any testing for toxicity. That’s because the Food and Drug Administration doesn’t regulate the safety of ingredients used in cosmetic products. They defer to an industry-funded panel, called the Cosmetics Ingredient Review, which comprises just seven individuals, including a nutritional scientist and…a veterinarian. To date, they have examined a mere 11 percent of the ingredients you use to groom yourself, according to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C.

Scientists and toxicologists at EWG recently compared all the ingredients in nearly 25,000 grooming products (information is available online at http://cosmeticdatabase.com/index.php) with lists of potential chemical hazards compiled by 50 scientific regulatory institutions worldwide. Their findings? “Sixty percent of products on the U.S. market contain chemicals that are potential endocrine disrupters,” says Jane Houlihan, vice president of research at EWG, “and a third have ingredients that are likely carcinogens.” In the last 30 years, the United States has banned only eight ingredients from personal-care products, while the European Union has banned almost 400 ingredients by some estimates."

FYI My body wash rate a 5 out of 10 on their hazard scale.

Take The Test

Life is Beautiful

Tami Fights Justin

Legally, I can't tell you to click on the ads after the video.

Showalter with Jack McBrayer

SXSW Random Shots

Just a few things that caught my eye.

Clothes Horse - Premiere

Thanks to everyone for their support. Also, please send me money.

Clothes Horse - World Premiere Tonight

Get ready world...

SXSW DAY 1

Craig and I look at all the "regular people" in line, while we "filmmakers" get the special no line treatment.

SXSW Day 2

Apparently the filmmakers lounge has several classy amenities I didn't notice yesterday.

Since I love lists:
1)Free popcorn (get it?)
2)Free Fuze (I don't know either)
3)Cell phone text preventative force field

Maybe you should make a movie.

Craig, Joey, and Froggy

Jesse smacks Jason

Legally, I can't tell you to click on the ads after the video.
Also, Jessie's name is spelled with an "i" which I forgot. Sorry Jessie.

Happy Birthday

Make it good, sir.

IT Through The Decades

Arthur Simone, Just a Man?

SXSW 2008 Screening Times

Here

We Had Fun

World Debut - 7pm

Tonight is the "world debut" of my improv troupe. If you are going to go, you best get there early. The show is free and it's going to fill up FAST.

Magical

Justin Turns 30 - Get Official Octopirate Shirt

Two Masters

I'm eating gum, dad.

Goodbye Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You Are Pretty Amazing

My friends are so talented is it down right wicked. St Idiot Collective puts on the ritz for you and yours. Go check out You Are Pretty or just give them money.

Gabe is a Star

Can anyone find this picture so I can download it?

HERE

Dreams Do Come True

This video makes me wish I did drugs.

Reporter Vs Bird

Semantical

Murphy Will Kill you

Catchphrase Will Make Enemies

My Current Food Envy - Hummus

A quick google search
Don't read the blog, I just like their definition.

Billy Wilder on I.A.L. Diamond

This is a clip that someone has decided to translate into Spanish.

If you know:
1)Where it's from
2)Who decided it should be in Spanish
or
3)Where I can get it on dvd in English

Please place a white briefcase with a pinstripe ascot tied in a sheep shank on my fifth stair. Inside please include a treasure map that leads me to said booty (with ample time allotted for food breaks).

Now, that being said, there is still a free prize in the clip. You will know it when you see it. If you don't, then you don't know me.

Quentin Tarantino Gets Coffee

David Lynch On

Watching movies on a phone:


Product Placement:

The Perfect Steak? Easy Steakhouse Recipe

You can't tell from the picture, I just got a digital camera, but this is the best steak I've ever had.










It's made steakhouse style. What is steakhouse style? Well, it's the style of cooking that a steakhouse uses.Got it?

Here's the recipe.

Master Recipe
2 steaks; cut strip steaks or rib-eyes about 11/2 inches thick, filet mignon, 21/2 inches
2 teaspoons grapeseed or canola oil
Kosher salt

• Remove steaks from refrigerator 2 hours before cooking time. Dry them with a paper towel.

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees, with a rack set in the middle.

• Heat a heavy, cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat, until a few drops of water sprinkled in the hot pan evaporate within 3 seconds.

• Coat the bottom of the pan with 2 teaspoons of grapeseed or canola oil.

• Liberally salt the steaks with kosher salt, about 3/4 teaspoon for each steak.

• Place steaks in pan and sear for 2 minutes on each side, flipping only once with tongs.

• Transfer the steaks, still in the pan, to the oven and roast for roughly 8 to 9 minutes for 11/2-inch steaks to achieve medium-rare (an instant-read thermometer should register between 125 and 130 degrees).

• Let the steaks rest, under a tent of aluminum foil, for 5 minutes before serving.

It's easy and the best thing I've ever had.
I highly recommend you use Prime beef.

Coldtowne Theater Rocks

Just got off stage from my first ever live performance.

I was asked to be in a show where you don't know the other two people, you don't warm up, and you don't talk to the other players before you preform.

<-It felt like this.

IFH Mondays

Mel Gibson's Gay ponytail?

Want to laugh?

IMG_1392
Originally uploaded by krilov

Great Movie

Go watch it again.

Simply Audiobooks Review Coming Soon...

Make your commute enjoyable

Now I have a Machine Gun

Ho Ho Ho

I Am Disappointing

2 Questions

“Have you found joy in your life?”

“Has your life brought joy to others?"

Sir Ian

Good Advice

"It's never going to be over, so stop waiting for the good stuff. As of now, spend a minimum of one hour a day doing whatever you are waiting to do until your finances are more secure, or until the children have grown and left home, or until you have finished your obligations and you feel free to do what you really want to do. Don't wait any longer. Don't believe in the myth of "one day when everything will be different." Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now."

Elephant Ass

I could talk for a half hour about this clip, or you could ask me what I'm searching for on youtube.

Birthday

Today is my birthday.

I just finished Steve Martin's autobiography.

This means something to me.

Clothes Horse Outtake (This Rules)

These guys are fantastic. They made our movie sooooo good. Here's a take where we let them loose.

Clothes Horse Video

Watch more here

Trust me

While it's in theaters.

Pre-production 3

5 days til we shoot. Can you feel it?

Pre-production 2

We have a movie. It's going to be fantastic.

All we need now is free food to feed people.

On Pre-Production. Sort of.

Making a movie is an amazing thing. You should try it.

I'll share something.

Sometimes in the beginning you can get so lost in the scramble you don't stop to look up. Balls deep in emails, text messages, and trying to make the pieces fit.

I'm taking classes at coldtowne theater and one of their phrases is "improv is life". Wait. Maybe it's "improv is everything". Hold. See, now I think it's something else. Either way you should check out coldtowne.

What was I saying? Movies, ok. The point was that "movies are life" and "everything is everything". Perhaps if I would have payed more attention in class and "applied myself" instead of making people laugh, I would have the ability to articulate my thoughts on this matter. I know, I 'll use a movie quote:

"Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

Here's what I'm saying:

Take a step back.

Remember to breathe.

Enjoy the things that matter.

Owen Wilson is Totally Fine and Happy

Artist on Artist: Owen Wilson and Wes Anderson

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What a day.

From a really shitty start, something beautiful has occurred.

Damn, I'm eloquent.

Austin Chronicle Bacheloser Ad

Starring the amazingly funny Alan Metoskie

Sex Doctor Sings

Clip from something we shot with the fantastically talented Jason Newman a while back.

Do you have this?

Working on a movie and need to borrow:

an old cooler





















lawn chairs




















an 8 track player

a sprinkler

Let me know if you have any of these things and you can be my hero.

I'd only need the stuff for a few days.

Thanks

What song is this?

I know it's Octopus Project, but what is the name of the track?

I told you so...

Congrats to Coldtowne for earning an award from the Austin Chronicle.

They deserve continued success, wealth and happiness.

Did I mention they're fucking hysterical?

Best Comedy Troupe: ColdTowne
What do you get when a bunch of displaced NOLA kids start doing improv locally, gaining enough exposure and word-of-mouth to turn the ever-empty Space in to something useful: a place to laugh? You get ColdTowne, changing tragedy into comedy, their fate into a movement of laughter, right here in our lucky town. No one could ever be grateful for Katrina, but our readers are very grateful for ColdTowne coming to our town.
4803 Airport, 524-2807 Coldtowne

Quote

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing"
-Helen Keller

Hand Vagina (sorry mom)

Fantastic Website

SFW

Things I've Learned

1)Never cook shirtless

Free Fun

I've been taking improv classes at Coldtowne and LOVE them.

They're having a free class to show you how much fun it is.


I HIGHLY recommend it.

Info here

Steve Martin Infomercial

This American Laugh

First of all, I'd like to point out how clever this blog post title is. On so many levels, you know?

If you've heard "this american life" before, you will laugh at this clip.
If you've heard this clip before and didn't laugh, please delete my number.

 

Last Day

Today is my last day at my current job.

Tonight's preview:

Paris on Letterman

Letterman should do more of this:

Three more days.

I have three more work days at my current job. Usually, I'm a little nervous when I quit a job. Thoughts of whether or not I made the right decision run through my head.


Not this time.

Meet Marlon Brando

This is a short and amazing doc by Albert & David Maysles.

Colin Farrell Interviewed

What are your childhood dreams?

What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance?

For Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, the question isn't rhetorical -- he's dying of cancer.

Jeff Zaslow narrates a video on Prof. Pausch's final lecture.


Full version here (It's over an hour):

If I were President:

1)Houseflies would be renamed Outsideflies
2)Spiderwebs would glow and smell like vanilla
3)The educational system would actually educate

What would you do?

Are you connected? Or need a couch?

We're raising money for our next film and are in need of donations for our silent auction.

Do you work at a restaurant that will donate dinner for 2? Can your boyfriend get us tickets to a show? Will your cousin steam clean someone's three bedroom duplex?

Please email us if you have any connections.

Also, we hope everyone can come out to our event. More details soon.

Thanks for your support.

PepperIslandFilms@gmail.com

One more thing. We're selling the couch. Interested?
http://austin.craigslist.org/fur/424421193.html

Odenkirk Pitches

How to Podcast

Do you want to learn more about podcasting? Are you dying to find out about podcasts?

Then, click here
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Home Made Slide

What have you done lately to have fun?

Turtle Soup

Happy Monkey

It writes itself...

Baby Laughing

If you don't laugh at this, we can't hang.

Thank you Ms Noone

The Goof

From the hilarious movie The Ten

Goldblum on Conan

I love romance.

Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina

I heard she's into smart funny guys.

I.A.L. Diamond

I guess it never stops.