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Nov. 9th, 2005 12:43 pmI am really and truly hanging out in the diesel for the first time in a long time. As I type this, the air starts to smell like spoiled milk. It's actually really horrible. OK it's gone now. (I have been returning to this graf to update you on the smell. It actually lingered quite a while as I wrote. Peeee yew. Aren't you relieved.)
In the spirit of fun becoming work, and work being the thing one avoids, my procrastination project yesterday involved redoing The Gameshelf's homepage. It now has links to the snazzy new comment-accepting episode guide (gee, how do you suppose I managed that) and more obvious instructions on how to watch the show, including a hyperlink to its iTMS entry.
It also reflects the fact that I primarily think of the show as a video podcast that happens to be on TV if you're in the right city at the right time. Though hmm... now that I write that I know that's not entirely true, since I love working Somerville references into the show content, so it's definitely aware of where it is. I cross-think about one of the show's models, Ebert & Roeper, which ostensibly takes place in a sealed theater balcony floating in the middle of nowhere, but manages through its hosts to assert its intrinsic Chicago citizenship every so often. (For example, did not hide the fact that they gave Batman Begins extra marks for choosing Chicago for its Gotham City.)
(It occurred to me last night that E&R, which is probably the only show I watch every week without fail, is probably the reason I decided to make a TV show and not a print zine, which was my original idea last year. I don't love the show, and yet I am driven to watch it religiously. I just like to listen to competent experts talk about other people's work. (Even if one of them is an ass.) I like Book-TV on C-SPAN, too. Sigh.)
Does anyone feel like helping me design a logo for the show? It needs to be square and look OK at 100x100 pixels. Give me a yell if you have any ideas.
I need to write Jim's Big Ego and ask permission to use Cheat to Lose as a theme song or an end-credits song or something. I only recently remembered that I was listening to that song late last year, when I was still scheming how this TV thing would work, and thought yes this would be perfect. It has both a groovy instrumental intro and relevant lyrics. Also, yet another sneaky Somerville connection.
In the spirit of fun becoming work, and work being the thing one avoids, my procrastination project yesterday involved redoing The Gameshelf's homepage. It now has links to the snazzy new comment-accepting episode guide (gee, how do you suppose I managed that) and more obvious instructions on how to watch the show, including a hyperlink to its iTMS entry.
It also reflects the fact that I primarily think of the show as a video podcast that happens to be on TV if you're in the right city at the right time. Though hmm... now that I write that I know that's not entirely true, since I love working Somerville references into the show content, so it's definitely aware of where it is. I cross-think about one of the show's models, Ebert & Roeper, which ostensibly takes place in a sealed theater balcony floating in the middle of nowhere, but manages through its hosts to assert its intrinsic Chicago citizenship every so often. (For example, did not hide the fact that they gave Batman Begins extra marks for choosing Chicago for its Gotham City.)
(It occurred to me last night that E&R, which is probably the only show I watch every week without fail, is probably the reason I decided to make a TV show and not a print zine, which was my original idea last year. I don't love the show, and yet I am driven to watch it religiously. I just like to listen to competent experts talk about other people's work. (Even if one of them is an ass.) I like Book-TV on C-SPAN, too. Sigh.)
Does anyone feel like helping me design a logo for the show? It needs to be square and look OK at 100x100 pixels. Give me a yell if you have any ideas.
I need to write Jim's Big Ego and ask permission to use Cheat to Lose as a theme song or an end-credits song or something. I only recently remembered that I was listening to that song late last year, when I was still scheming how this TV thing would work, and thought yes this would be perfect. It has both a groovy instrumental intro and relevant lyrics. Also, yet another sneaky Somerville connection.