Blogtonite .....or Kryptoblog
Have you ever found a topic that seems completely outside of your ability to blog about?
Keep in mind my idea of a blog tends to be stream of consciousness, poorly spelled and quite often chockablock with made up words. yet...
I cannot blog about comedy without it turning into nonsense.
I took numerous passes at attempting to express my dismay with Dane Cook's HBO documentary (reality show) "Tourgasm" and how it really ruined most of the comedy by
a) being a reality show and not a Doc
b) by representing Cook as a comedian with extreme chops in the business when he's really just an amazing marketer, energetic and goddamn lucky (who I honestly did enjoy prior to the show)
c) dragging one of my favorite comedians Gary Gulman into it
d) Representing comedy as something that can only successfully be one way. Cook once says you can never say that your act is an act, it has to be like you are hanging out with buddies. It steamed me. In the last year two of the best comedians I saw (mike and warren you were there) got the biggest laughs from self-referential comedy (i.e. guy who pointed out then said "maaaaan shit's crazy" when he bombed).
Were this not unbloggable I would have also compared it to "Comedians of Comedy" the honest to god Documentary series which not only deconstructed reality t.v. and comedy shows but did a better job of representing people who are constantly funny and showed the chops of some real comedians (Oswalt, Poshein, Galifinakis and Bamford) by showing just how constantly funny the comedians were rather than rubbing your faces in it.
THEN I wanted to talk about the comedic abortion that is the third season of "The Chapelle show" and my thoughts on it and it's "special talks" but I'll just give up entirely. Just don't watch it.
Someday perhaps i'll get a hold of this curse.
until then all my blogging will be strictly tragedy focussed.
CAM
P.S. regarding the previous article, yes co-incidence is strange especially since I found it in a totally different way. And while I do tend to agree I think it manages to miss out on trends in, say, The U.K. where that style of artistry is back in and indeed the drunker and fightier you are the more artistic you tend to be. Also I thought Jonathan Safran Foer was a bit of a cheap shot as at least in "Everything is Illuminated" he is literally deconstructing the ideas of the swarthy drunken sexual dude as opposed to simply being a wimpy guy who writes books and/or champions wimpiness.
Have you ever found a topic that seems completely outside of your ability to blog about?
Keep in mind my idea of a blog tends to be stream of consciousness, poorly spelled and quite often chockablock with made up words. yet...
I cannot blog about comedy without it turning into nonsense.
I took numerous passes at attempting to express my dismay with Dane Cook's HBO documentary (reality show) "Tourgasm" and how it really ruined most of the comedy bya) being a reality show and not a Doc
b) by representing Cook as a comedian with extreme chops in the business when he's really just an amazing marketer, energetic and goddamn lucky (who I honestly did enjoy prior to the show)
c) dragging one of my favorite comedians Gary Gulman into it
d) Representing comedy as something that can only successfully be one way. Cook once says you can never say that your act is an act, it has to be like you are hanging out with buddies. It steamed me. In the last year two of the best comedians I saw (mike and warren you were there) got the biggest laughs from self-referential comedy (i.e. guy who pointed out then said "maaaaan shit's crazy" when he bombed).
Were this not unbloggable I would have also compared it to "Comedians of Comedy" the honest to god Documentary series which not only deconstructed reality t.v. and comedy shows but did a better job of representing people who are constantly funny and showed the chops of some real comedians (Oswalt, Poshein, Galifinakis and Bamford) by showing just how constantly funny the comedians were rather than rubbing your faces in it.
THEN I wanted to talk about the comedic abortion that is the third season of "The Chapelle show" and my thoughts on it and it's "special talks" but I'll just give up entirely. Just don't watch it.
Someday perhaps i'll get a hold of this curse.
until then all my blogging will be strictly tragedy focussed.
CAM
P.S. regarding the previous article, yes co-incidence is strange especially since I found it in a totally different way. And while I do tend to agree I think it manages to miss out on trends in, say, The U.K. where that style of artistry is back in and indeed the drunker and fightier you are the more artistic you tend to be. Also I thought Jonathan Safran Foer was a bit of a cheap shot as at least in "Everything is Illuminated" he is literally deconstructing the ideas of the swarthy drunken sexual dude as opposed to simply being a wimpy guy who writes books and/or champions wimpiness.
posted by Cam at 10:03 PM
2 Comments:
True "Everything is Illuminated" is a very good book, but the idea of it being a "cheap shot" goes against the article itself being self-righteous. Cheap shots are part of it. I can't tell if this article is serious or not. It either is or it's the funniest thing to date I've read in a while. Anyway...
I have one of those myspace degrees of seperation things for you...If you go to my friend dan rowes myspace, or click on the group I belong to...the Montreal lit-geeks group...you'll find that sophie person. Who, if you remember is on your myspace. Wow. That's one degree! Bam.
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