{"id":3706,"date":"2006-10-17T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T03:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/10\/17\/3706.html"},"modified":"2006-10-17T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T03:33:14","slug":"video-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/10\/17\/video-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Video roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few video items:<\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=CXSTzQEgoc8\"><cite>Brokeback!<\/cite>: The Musical<\/a>, a Nathan Lane number from Letterman. The best bit is the reinterpretation of the Cole Porter song \"You're the Top\" in the second half.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6lWgXDOAJ5s&NR\"><cite>Heat Vision and Jack<\/cite><\/a>. This one looks like a joke, but it isn't: it's the actual (intentionally goofy) pilot for a proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heat_Vision_and_Jack\">TV series<\/a>, featuring, among others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jack Black as Jack, a former astronaut who, via exposure to \"inappropriate levels of solar energy,\" is smarter than anyone as long as the sun is up.<\/li>\n<li>The voice of Owen Wilson as Jack's roommate who was accidentally merged with his motorcycle, so now is a sentient motorcycle named Heat Vision.<\/li>\n<li>Ron Silver as \"himself\"--which is to say, the character is Ron Silver, the well-known actor, but he's also an assassin working for NASA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and the one-shot villain in the pilot is played by Vincent Schiavelli.  The series was meant to be kind of a spoof of peripatetic-heroed shows like <cite>Knight Rider<\/cite>, <cite>The Incredible Hulk<\/cite>, and <cite>The Fugitive<\/cite>, plus extremely silly special effects and plots and goofy dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The first few minutes of the pilot are pretty entertaining, but after that it kind of wanes, imo.  My two favorite lines were both from Jack:<\/p>\n<p>\"Apparently the human mind is not unlike cookie dough.  Mine was baked by the sun, causing it to rise, increasing its cognitive capacity.\"<\/p>\n<p>And:<\/p>\n<p>\"You're not listening to me!  NASA is evil!\"<\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p>Finally, completely unrelated to either of the above, the fine folks at the Stanford Juggling Research Institute have posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=1901296861130335028\">video of an SJRI performance<\/a>. Um, I mean, of a presentation of their research, of course. They dropped clubs a little more often than usual in this particular presentation, but it's still way cool.<\/p>\n<p>Sample line from that video: \"SJRI is a typical academic institution, so our actions are governed largely by petty jealousy.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few video items: Brokeback!: The Musical, a Nathan Lane number from Letterman. The best bit is the reinterpretation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-video","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}