News Anchor Interrupted by Farting TV Show
A local broadcast of a tragedy is interrupted by Artie and Fartie, two farting roommates promoting their TV show.
Written by Jeff Sloniker & Curtis Rainsberry
Directed by Frank Howley
Starring Jeff Sloniker, Curtis Rainsberry, and Heather Anne Campbell
Visual Effects by Robert K. Smith
Here’s a new video Rob and I made for The Midnight Show.
Josh Fadem Tries to Read
Here’s a new video I edited for comedian Josh Fadem.
Shadows and Fog
Woody Allen | 1991
Carlos Di Palma | Cinematographer
I really enjoyed Shadows and Fog. It’s a German Expressionist comedy that obsesses over death, one of Allen’s favorite subjects. It has an insanely talented cast including John Malkovich, John Cusack, Jodie Foster, Mia Farrow, and Kathy Bates, with cameos by John C. Reilly and William H. Macy. It’s funny, dark, and has great style.
I have 16 more until I’ve seen Woody Allen’s complete filmography.
![I’ve never re-evaluated my life. I’ve always kept my nose to the grindstone. All I do is work, and my philosophy has always been that if I just keep working, just focus on my work, everything else will fall into place. It’s irrelevant whether I make a lot of money or don’t, or whether the films are successful or not. All that is total nonsense and superfluous and superficial. If you just look at the work and try and keep working and striving and setting ambitious goals for yourself, the rest is unimportant. You find that, if you just do that, everything else falls into place.
- Woody Allen [x]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/5ca0dfaaab0718d82850861bbfc709b3/tumblr_mmp5kjlxtU1qai243o1_500.jpg)
I’ve never re-evaluated my life. I’ve always kept my nose to the grindstone. All I do is work, and my philosophy has always been that if I just keep working, just focus on my work, everything else will fall into place. It’s irrelevant whether I make a lot of money or don’t, or whether the films are successful or not. All that is total nonsense and superfluous and superficial. If you just look at the work and try and keep working and striving and setting ambitious goals for yourself, the rest is unimportant. You find that, if you just do that, everything else falls into place.
- Woody Allen [x]
I sometimes feel that art is the intellectual’s religion. Some artists think that art will save them, that they will be immortalized through their art, they will live on through their art. But the truth of the matter is, art doesn’t save you. Art to me has always been entertainment for intellectuals. Mozart of Rembrandt or Shakespeare are entertainers on a very, very high level. It’s a level that brings a great sense of excitement, stimulation and fulfillment to people who are sensitive and cultivated. But it doesn’t save the artist. I mean, it doesn’t profit Shakespeare one iota that his plays have lived on after him. He would have been better off if he was alive and his plays were forgotten.
When you’re younger, you think, I will be an artist and it will save me. Maybe you don’t think in those words, but the thought is there somehow. In Stardust Memories I used the term ‘Ozymandias Melancholia’. That’s a symptom I’ve invented that describes that phenomenon specifically, the realization that your works of art will not save you and will mean nothing down the line. Eventually, there won’t be any universe, so even all the works of Shakespeare and all the works of Beethoven will be gone.
- Woody Allen [x]
Street Mobster (1972)
This movie is rad. It’s an early high-energy Yakuza film from Kinji Fukasaku, the director of Battle Royale and Battles Without Honor and Humanity. The plot follows a young thug who is released from prison after a 5-year sentence only to find that his former gang disbanded. Filled with rage, he forms a clan of street punks to take on the new reigning Yakuza families. Its style is incredibly wild for its time, filled with bloody violence, shaky camera movement, dutch angles, and rapid editing. There are a TON of brawl scenes and the action never slows down. It also features a love story with a prostitute that culminates in a tragically great ending. I’m only just starting to dive into the world of classic Yakuza cinema, but I liked what I saw here.
Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead (2011)
Noboru Iguchi is the king of Japanese trash cinema. The creator of such lovingly bizarre masterworks as The Machine Girl, Mutant Girls Squad, and Bad Butt always follows a simple formula: hot girls, crazy gore, and vulgar humor. Zombie Ass, like all his other movies, is super fun and completely ridiculous. It’s about a mountain village plagued with farting zombies. In other zombie movies the monsters come out of graveyards and moan, but in Iguchi’s world, they emerge from toilets, fart, and eat their victims using their butts. If you weren’t sold enough, watch its awesome grindhouse trailer.
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