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I made another film. I seem to be making a lot of them at the moment. This one isn’t about Dane Cook.

Star Wars: Reservoir Squads

I need to get around to fixing up the film pages on this site. It’s all terribly out of date.

At some point, I’m going to tire of making these things. Unfortunately for the general public, I still have at least three more titles queued up and ready to hit the production line. In the meantime, here’s Dane Cook Gets Sicked Up On By A Little Girl With Demonic Possession. It was mostly thrown together while I was filming, rather than being planned out in detail beforehand. The vomit effect could have been better but I think it turned out ok otherwise.

Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them. Similarly, those who forget to pepper their standup sets with funny bits are doomed to suffer endless indignities at the hands of amateur animators.

Dane Cook, from what I’ve seen of his work, belongs to the shout-something-obvious school of stand up comedy. Not really my cup of tea but he’s become very popular off the back of it, so I suppose someone must like that sort of thing.

Anyway, a few days ago, Youtube user and close personal friend SpastikChuwawa made a short film celebrating Mr Cook’s achievements, Dane Cook Gets Slapped By A Hobo With A Fish. I was so moved by this film that I felt I ought to somehow try to convey my own complex feelings about the man through the medium of film. And that is what I have done in Dane Cook Gets Goosed By a Pirate With a Hook for a Hand.

If you have feelings of your own about Mr Cook, please don’t be afraid to share them in the comments.

Well, it’s been a while since I updated this place. Not sure why I stopped on such a cliffhanger, but stop I did.

As some may know by now, I won the Video Wars competition and got to go to London and sit in on the Adam and Joe radio show. Twice, in fact, because they very kindly invited me back again to appear on their Christmas/New Year’s show. Unfortunately, both for me and for the listening public, they made me do a song the second time.

Apart from that, I had a great time. Adam, Joe, the production folk and top Hollywood director Garth Jennings are all lovely people and did their best not to make me feel like a freak for being a grown man who plays with Lego for fun. I’ve saved recordings of “my” shows for posterity and you can download them from the links below.

Right now I’m looking at starting work on a new film. It’s actually an idea that’s been kicking around in one form or another for about four years, sometimes getting as far as the script stage, sometimes as far as having bits filmed. Will it be worth the wait? Will it get any further than it has the last few times I’ve tried to resurrect it? Only time will tell.

Those links:
The Adam and Joe Show - 6th September 2008
The Adam and Joe Show - 27th December 2008

The announcement of the results for the Video Wars competition was put back a week so that Adam and Joe could swan off to Leicester to do a show from the Summer Sundae festival, so I won’t find out how my video did until the 16th August.

In the meantime, I’ve put up a proper page for the film with higher quality downloadable versions of the video here and some juicy behind-the-scenes nuggets here. If you follow my Youtube stuff, you’ll have seen most of it already but there’s a nice new wallpaper available there. For certain less well-known definitions of the word “nice”.

Another year, another competition.

This is my entry for Adam & Joe’s Video Wars competition. They do the Saturday morning radio show on BBC 6 Music and one of the more popular features on the show (out of a grand total of two) is Song Wars, where Adam and Joe create a song each based on a theme suggested by a listener. Other listeners then vote for the best song, and then Joe wins.

In a spirit of openness and inclusiveness, the boys launched the Video Wars competition to allow listeners to battle it out amongst themselves by creating a music video for one of two Song Wars songs. I chose Adam’s song, Jane’s Brain because it was shorter and it was the first one I came up with an idea for. The idea, like pretty much everyone else who entered with that song, was to interpret the lyrics literally.

This is my entry: Jane’s Brain

It’s only thirty seconds long, so it doesn’t outstay its welcome.

Adam has a ton of stuff on youtube as well. You can watch that as well, if you like.

I won! The competition results were announced today and Bowling for Sandercoe came out on top. I now get a load of cool guitar stuff to distract me from making more films.

The film has also made it onto the front page of YouTube, generating over 400,000 views and a ton of comments at the time of writing. Fame and fortune can’t be far away now.

In other news, I got around to putting a page up for the film here and a page of fascinating and informative special features to enjoy. See? I haven’t forgotten about the little people now that I’m a minor internet celebrity.