Yep. After all this, I just NEED to know what's going on, and all the answers to #####ing everything. That #####ing island. It really is some good stuff.

So, yeah, I don't think I updated you guys on how my second stand-up performance went... but it went well. I had a heckler but I tore him an asshole and it was great, and fun.

I'm still not good at all. Like, this performance was better than my first one, but in comparison to every stand-up comedy performance ever, it was absolutely terrible. Though, I'm REALLY hard on myself.

Like, I love Roomhates and I'm doing it for fun and experience, but I always hate the final product and I don't understand how people actually find it funny and keep watching. But sooooo many people do. I keep meeting people that I've never met around campus and they'll be like "Oh, hey, I saw Roomhates man, it was awesome! When's the next episode?"

Friends keep showing other friends who keep showing other friends and it just kind of balloons and a LOT of people like it.

But I think they're crazy.

Anyway, we pretty much wrapped on filming today.

The series was supposed to end with a rap-style music video sort of thing with rewritten lyrics to In The End by Linkin Park, but I finally decided at quite ltierally the last minute that this is a terrible idea.

And we thought of something SO fantastic that I can't wait 'till this weekend when we're going to film most of it. It's just some hilarious stuff that'll really wrap up the whole series and be that single final exclamation point.

I went to see a comedian tonight who was in town with some friends. Dan Cummins, maybe you've seen him on TV before. I've given up expecting other people around me to know these obscure comedians.
He's actually pretty good, I've seen him before and I still liked him a lot tonight.

One of my new buddies in the stand-up comedy club opened for him so that was pretty cool.

Anyway, Dan Cummins was telling a joke about blind people, and Krysten, one girl I was with, leans in to me and says "Does he know there's an actual blind guy in the audience?"
So I whispered loudly back to her: "IT'S A JOKE."

And Dan heard this, so he was like "What's goin' on over here?"

I didn't feel like explaining what actually happened, so I threw Krysten under the tire and said "She just didn't get the last joke."

Which was awesome because then Dan went off on her for a good two minutes just making fun of her.

I'm an asshole. She was not happy with me - I haven't seen someone get so embarrassed in years.

Anyway, cool stuff is that I talked to Dan Cummins after the show. He's already met some of the guys in the Stand-Up Comedy Club. The cool part was that he didn't really try to give me pointers or advice, he was just genuinely chill about it and boosted my confidence and such.

Overall, I've been in a good mood lately.

Send 'em to me later, too.

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's REALLY easy to dislike Lost, and it's a struggle for me when I haven't seen it in a while. But when I'm back to regular viewings of it, I remember why I keep at it because even when things dip down, they generally make it all worth it soon after.

I want your professors.

Good man.

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LOST PULLED THROUGH, GENTLEMEN.

LOST PULLED THROUGH.

It seems like they did away with Flashbacks and Flash-forwards, and now they're evenly progressing the two storylines of the Oceanic Six trying to get back to the island, and the survivors still left on the island trying to cope with the ##### going on back there.

There's a lot more apparent progression in the plot and it definitely feels like they're going somewhere now and they know exactly where it is that they're going. With only about 33 or whatever episodes left in the series to wrap everything up, I feel like they won't let down too much steam for the rest of the series.

This could be a great season.

It's not so much scary as it is disruptive to your psyche. It'll make you feel uneasy if you spend too much time reading it and getting lost in the labyrinth of pages.

SOOOOO

I'm going on stage again tonight for stand-up.

Want to gauge my devotion to this?

I have to miss Lost tonight if I want to go the stand-up comedy club meeting and then to the place where we're performing.

I have to wait 'till TOMORROW to watch Lost. Grah.

Ha, that makes me laugh.

It's so fun to mess around with. I keep going back to it. Like, I'm writing jokes right now and preparing for going on stage tonight, but every 20 minutes or so I keep going back to mess around a little more.

It's really overwhelming but I'm getting the hang of it. I'm borrowing it from a friend, and this is the first time I've touched my DS in... oh, at least a few months.

I might even buy this for myself if it doesn't get old really quick. It's really fun to mess with. And it's fully functional as a synth if hooked up to an amp, which is awesome, if useless to me.

It's not so much a GAME... well, check this out:

KORG DS-10


I'm having SO much fun with this.

Like, here's what you can do with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJYTGJkcJjU

That was SO awesome.

I don't know WHY I like it so much.

But I did.

"What if he did/What if he didn't/What if the world was made of pudding" are such... odd lyrics. But so great.

I don't think I'll ever change my ringtone.

And no:
[spoiler]She just used the money for her own means and that's that.[/spoiler]

Anyway... for Episode 5... the most fantastic #####ing thing EVER has happened.

We built a full-on Breakfast Machine-type dealio.

It took up half the room.

And it all worked.

It's absolutely AMAZING.

I wrote in the script something like: "Alvin builds a crazy contraption" and didn't think of how we were going to do it.

BUT HOLY CRAP.

It literally starts with me pulling a string and a 30-second machine goes and magically activated different levers and fans and chairs and umbrellas and action figures and holy crap.

I just can't believe it all worked.

When you watch it with all the footage edited together, you might not think it all worked without us tampering in between, so I'm just letting everyone know that everything worked ON ITS OWN.

Even though you won't see it for a while.

GOOD ANSWER.

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EPISODE THREEEEEE

Well, I wasn't going to name it "The complex extricately detailed paper-sculpture artwork stylings of Peter Callesen."

Though now I don't really see why not.

Yeah, I looked at the photos, and they're actually pretty big.

Well, you just get less rich and popular and famous as time goes on.

I used to do The Crimson Room back in the day. That's the one that started them ALL off, pretty much the first. I used to do a lot of these.

I'll try this one later.

He does, they're on his site on the sidebar.

And Wind, you can't even pretend this stuff isn't awesome.

http://www.petercallesen.com/

I can't get over this guy's work. This stuff is unbelievable.

Here, look at these:
http://www.petercallesen.com/index/A4PAPERCUT_000.htm

ALL WITH JUST PAPER.

I mean, look at these:

Well, can you tell me how rich, popular, and famous I become in the future?

But how far in the future? Like, I hope not right-before-I-die future, because by then I hope to have 40+.

Save the sea kittens... Save the world.

Hillbilly is the best, and for some reason I got a weird kick out of the second one.

And that is just a #####ed up dog.

Actually, it's NOT me! I just counted and I only have 19 green shirts. "Only."

Yep. Watch it.

Everyone needs to read the storybook thing on that site.

But yeah, I'm trying to remember some of the other things PETA's done that made me laugh. I remember posting them here, so maybe one of you guys remember.

Don't cha' know?

Haha, did you have to say "that's not what fingerbanging is?" Because my mind can only come up with one or two other meanings.

WHO'S THE ONE WITH 20+ GREEN SHIRTS

PETA has done so many absurd things in the past and this is hardly the craziest.

Huh, I figured you'd already seen it. I really loved it. I think I mentioned that Brandon T. Jackson (Alpa Chino) went to my high school. And yeah, Jay Baruchel was great.

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Just watched the movie Cube.

It was fun.

Yeah, I mean what were you expecting? The women wear 70% more clothing there.

Very much the best episode. The scene where they get Brian to do the fingerbang stuff is among the greatest moments.

I do not possess sock-color-reversal technology, otherwise I'd get right on that.

How were your recent trips to the Arctic?

I'll pass. I don't doubt you.

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So I just watched Fargo.

If I wasn't already irritated to death with Palin's accent, then Fargo finished the job.

Decent movie, though.

Beverly Hills Chihuaha. And I said animated, anyway.

Disney's made plenty of foul live-action films, especially if you count the Disney Channel... though some of those are awesome if you were the right demographic when they first came out. Smart House anyone?

EDIT FOR MIKE'S POST:

Cars and A Bug's Life are actually my two least favorite Pixar flicks, but I still love them, and they're still good movies. But Cars was one of the weaker ones. A Bug's Life was just... it has a different vibe than the rest of Pixar's library.

And fine, I'll give you that maybe not all the old animated Disney movies were as good as I'm making them out to be. I just have a soft-spot for 'em.

At least the gravity-themed levels were cool.

It's not even the childhood memories - Disney just has top-notch quality control. Sure, Pixar's flicks stand out as the tip-top of quality in recent years, but there isn't a single animated Disney movie that you can really say is BAD. The Lion King and Aladdin and Mulan and Hercules and so on and so forth... every one of them is fantastic. Even newer ones like The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo & Stitch are awesome in their own new-age way.

Even as an adult, they'll always follow through and leave you satisfied.

Every Pixar movie is perfect in every sense of the word.

I remember Mike, Jake, and I think Edge had good ones, but DZX9 is still king.

DKC3 was a solid game, but DKC2 was so much better that I never really played the third much.

That was the lamest Drunk Post (TM) the Matrix has ever seen.

WHY WERE YOU SKIPPING SCENES

Also, it's funny that you picked that frame, since that bottle of pills in the right-hand corner is an ACCIDENTAL FORESHADOW FOR EPISODE FOUR.

Generally if I'm watching something funny, I IM it to a few people online.

I'M NOT TRYING TO BE THE BAD GUY HERE

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87nkJquHnAU

Just finished watching Stranger Than Fiction for the first time since I saw it in theaters.

SUCH an underrated movie, absolutely fantastic.

It's Will Ferrel's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I still don't know how he pulled it off.

NOW YOU TELL ME