Alabama Miracle, The Opening Of The Stephen Colbert Museum & Giftshop

When my kids ask me someday what do i remember most about my highschool years, 2 things will immediatley come to mind. First will be the making of my movie Choopy, The Forlorn Bastard. The other is the arrival of The Stephen Colbert Museum & Giftshop here in Colbert County, specifically in Tuscumbia.

I still remember to this day anxiously awaiting the school bell to ring, so i could hurry on over to the museum and join the throng of anxious spectators. It was supposed to begin at 2:30 so i was naturally worried that i would miss part of it, thankfully the parade and the grand opening of the museum didn't happen till after i got there. After the parade, tad cut the ribbon and people literally swarmed the museum, rushing through the front door. what we didn't know was that they werent ready for us to actually go in yet haha, so we quickly had to be ejected from the museum (not before i grabbed up 3 entrance passes to the museum). Then everyone was lined up and tad greeted each person entering by handing them a pass as we went through the front door. Me and my friends michael and dylan were the first three in the door. Unfortunately they didn't use footage of us in the actual broadcast. We circled the museum looking at paintings, drawings, stephen colbert's epic novel (upon inspection i discovered that behind the cover lied a cd review guide), among mannnny other amazing artifacts from stephen's life. My friend Russell ended up having a line in the show when they filmed him looking at a picture of Stephen and President Bush. Then we were presented with a pre-taped message from Stephen, and then we were asked to leave so they could film some extra bits of an old woman taking a tour of the museum. Overall I think we were in the museum for a least an hour or more. There are several other stories from that day i can tell, and i'll probably get around to it eventually, but for now just enjoy the video.

oh and i can be spotted briefly at 3.58, and 4.24 :)
and Stephen, pleasssssse come back at some point, Colbert County needs you.

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Oscar Update & RIP Robert Quarry

Well not too many surprises with the oscars this year. The only surprise for me came when they gave Sean Penn the oscar for best actor instead of Mickey Rourke.
oh and did anyone else think that Bill Maher was acting like a complete douche?

Any other news actor Robert Quarry has passed away :(
Robert Quarry played one my fav movie vampires, Count Yorga, in the films Count Yorga, Vampire, and The Return Of Count Yorga, and starred alongside Vincent Price in the classic Dr. Phibes Rises Again.

Phantoms Of My Youth

I still love kids songs, I'm not gonna lie. Even at my age where I'm now listening to Dylan, Waits, Cohen, Prine, Zevon, among many others, the genius of sesame street, the muppets, and other fine young-un music is not lost on me. Well I shouldn't call it kids music, its for all ages :)
So yeah here are some memories.

Let's start with absolute fav song as a young-un. WET PAINT. I watched this to death when i was little, and i even had a pair of red boots like how now brown had in the video and i would put them on whenever i watched it. It probably is the reason why i like paint, rain boots, and general messyness to this day.
so here's how now brown and the moo wave with Wet Paint


Following up with something else about rain boots, this one is a new favorite that i saw for the first time on noggin not too long ago. This is Boots by the Laurie Berkner Band :)
B-O-O-T-S


Umm one of the best bands ever, and a realllllly good movie. (oh and check out the Robot Chicken episode that does the Behind The Music on them, its hysterical)


ok this next one was shown to me numerous times in 2nd grade to encourage our class to our wash our hands and it always stuck with me. I mean how often do you see rapping germs!
This is the Germ Rap


These next 2 numbers are from one of the best animated movies of all time, The Brave Little Toaster. This is Worthless, and B Movie Show. I still sing along with the first one :), and the second one i always loved since it involves the love of horror movies ive had since...forever




I was determined to fit my second fav animated movie on here, so here's a little number from The Great Mouse Detective.


It's the oogie boogie man!!!


and we shall close with a few more classic numbers i loved on Sesame Street :)






Nah, they don't make em like they used to.

Oscar Predictionssss

While I was somewhat upset by The Dark Knight being ignored for Best Picture, its not really that surprising. Every decade you have a couple of "big event" movies. Movies that wow audiences and critics, but ultimately don't win cause the Academy thinks they know better than everyone else. The best examples of this include Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Star Wars, which didn't win, BUT were nominated for best picture. I wish TDK had been at least nominated, but oh well at least its been nominated for a bunch of technical oscars, all of which it deserves. If you don't believe me watch the special features on dvd and look and how they accomplished a lot of the effects. Many movies like TDK overuse computer effects, when the film makers could've put in a little extra effort and really created the effect. Most movies would have just used computer effects to flip a big rig truck, or to blow up a whole hospital, but not TDK, and this little extra effort makes the film look even more remarkable. The hospital explosion i still think is one of the best explosions ive seen a movie in a lonnnng time. A big grin came across my face when i saw it on the big screen :) So yeah i think it richly deserves its technical oscars. Oh and I'm pretty sure Heath Ledger is gonna get him an oscar. I don't think theres anybody else in the category (except Robert Downey Jr.) who really deserves it.

I'll be honest I haven't seen any of the big oscar contenders this year, but I'll probably get around to watching a few of them eventually (I'm mainly looking forward to Frost/Nixon and Slumdog Millionaire). I have been reading up on them though, and listening to what friends have to say so here are my predictions.

Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire (its gonna be a toss up between this and benjamin button, but i think all the good word of mouth about Slumdog is gonna push it to victory)

Best Actor: I can't be definite on this one, but I personally want Frank Langella to win, The guy's a phenominal actor, but movies dealing with either race relations or gay rights tend to win over the academy so they'll probably give it to Sean Penn.

Best Actress: Kate Winslet

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger

Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz

Best Director: Danny Boyle: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Original Script: Most likely Milk, but I would prefer In Bruge to win

Best Adapted Script: Most likely Benjamin Button since it expands greatly on the original short story, but I would prefer Frost/Nixon.

Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Art Direction, Sound, Sound Editing, Visual Effects: The Dark Knight (yeah i know it's wishful thinking :p)

Best Costume: Benjamin Button

Best Makeup: Hellboy II (WHAT you mean I didn't pick TDK to win this one!, why yes. Let me explain, Del Toro is a visual genius and the creations he comes up with are amazing. The Dark Knight does have some good makeup, but really the only thing that stands out is Heath's makeup while in Hellboy, it has tons of cool looking creatures) To be honest though, they'll probably give to Benjamin Button.

Best Original Score: Benjamin Button

Best Original Song: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Animated Film: Wall-E

Best Foreign: Vals Im Bashir

Best Feature Length Documetary: Man On Wire (I'm really wanting to see this)

Best Short Documentary: The Conscience Of Nhem En

Best Animated Short Film: Ubornaya istoriya

Best Short Live Action Film: Grisen

well lets see how my predictions go on Feb 22 :)