A little long, but amusing nonetheless:

If you know me, then you know that The Blues Brothers is one of my all-time favorite movies.  Jake and Elwood’s mission from God remains my favorite musical; I know what you’re thinking, but yes it can technically be defined as a musical. I remember watching it dozens of times growing up thinking the Bluesmobile was magical (which it was according to one of Aykroyd’s drafts) and that these two actors looked a lot like the real Blues Brothers on the album cover of Briefcase Full of Blues.

But one of my favorite scenes has to be from Ray’s Music Exchange.

2000 bucks and it’s yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I’ll throw in the black keys for free.

-Ray of Ray’s Music Exchange

A band, which will remain unnamed in the body of this post, has created a fantastic homage to the Shake A Tail Feather scene. Oh, and the song isn’t half bad either.

And be sure to check out Patrick Boivin’s “Making Of” clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94KO4UHOyk4

So there’s a great video that’s made the rounds at work.

We actually stumbled upon Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video: 2nd Attempt before finding the original video, so that’s how they’re presented here: second one first, first one second.

“Buy a house for the price of a VCR”

“Our main export is crippling depression”

Hastily Made Cleveland Tourism Video: 2nd Attempt

HASTILY MADE CLEVELAND TOURISM VIDEO

My new favorite website

Is Obama President?

Bars & Tones

From André at Vimeo

Blasting local TV weather coverage

Hilarious and true…

I was digging through old bookmarks and *.txt files and came across these four things. I thought they’d be worth a second look for me, and a good time-killer for you.

Movie Showtimes Map
http://hurwi.net/map/

The Movie Showtimes Map is extremely helpful if you know what movie you want to see, but have no idea where it’s playing near you. Just type in the ZIP code or address where you are, then select a movie from the list on the left.

Here’s a link to the Indianapolis map.

Shopping Cart Fail

Pretty self-explanatory. If you’re a fan of Fail Blog you’ve no doubt already seen this. If not, enjoy.

ABC Bohemian Rhapsody Music Video

This is really old, well September-old, but very good. It’s basically a clip reel of the then-upcoming 2008 season on ABC, set to Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.

The Promotions Office

If you’ve ever worked in the News or Promotions/Creative Services department at a television station you’ll see this is reality, not just comedy. This is really how my job goes some days…

A co-worker forwarded this my way the other day, and I’ve found myself giggling about the “Boston Market” line quite frequently.

Ooh Girl – An Honest R&B Song

“Cause I just had a big dinner”
Boston Market
“And I’m struggling with some negative body issues.”

Fair use is an interesting topic within copyright law. During media law classes in college, it was always a conversation starter.

Copyright law protects our property and creations. Movies, books, poems, blog posts, music, blueprints, videos and everything else you can think of are covered.

But there’s a great loophole that lets others use part of your work (and not technically as a derivative work). Fair use. It lets news programs and people poking fun of your work use your work. Keep in mind that satire and parody are two very different things, and I can’t remember which one is protected speech when I’m this many beers deep already.

Anywho, here’s a very helpful (and fun) explanation of fair use using fair use.

Genius. Simply genius.

This could be my biggest fear as someone who works in broadcast television.

Now, they claim this was supposed to be a recorded segment, and the wrong tease was cued up. Last time I checked, a station like WNBC (which is facing major cutbacks) would be on some sort of automation system. Which means a Media Manager-type would have to ingest the spot, and I’m hoping would catch “what the fuck are you doing?”

It definitely makes for a more exciting newscast, though.

Anyone in television have an opinion on that?

It doesn’t matter how many times I see it, everything I watch this clip I laugh my ass off.