I actually don’t remember 1975, since I was three at the time. But if I could remember 1975, I think it would look a lot like this:
These are stills from an intro to a trade show piece for a company called Applied Materials that I was in back in 1999. Remember 1999? Nope, doesn’t ring a bell for me either.
I had forgotten about this little thing until I was putting together some other silly clips for another project I am working on, and thought, hmmm, didn’t I have sideburns and a kick-ass Cadillac at one point in one of my lives?
Applied Materials is a nanomanufacturer that makes semiconductors and ultra-small transistors. This intro was intended to remind us about how inconvenient life was way back then–when you were running late for a meeting and were forced to find a pay phone, all the while keeping your hair in place and your big-ass gas-guzzling Caddy on the road.
To see this bit of Academy-worthy acting (I won’t say which academy), click here or on either picture above.
Note: No sideburns were harmed in the making of this film. Special thanks to Mary at Intrepid Productions for getting this uploaded for me.
While posting about this twice, and in a row at that, may be as uninteresting for you as it gets, it should be no surprise that I can get preoccupied with the wildlife out here. The knockingbird blues have got me in such a rut that the little bastard is all that I can think about. He has become the bane of my existence, waking me up with Morse code attacks around 04.30 every day.
Dash dot dash dot dash.
I think that means, Let me in, you prick. Or something like that.
This is the excellent tit, …er great tit, that flies around the house and knocks on the windows several times a day. I don’t know what he wants, but I am thinking about letting him in. Maybe he left his keys in here or something…
Funny that the Catster decal on the window (01:32) doesn’t scare him off. Seems to get him all riled up, actually.
Tailer ended up being Will Ferrell, Athena (the Great Dane that has shared her house with me for the past month) turns out to be Oprah. Pretty accurate this latest Dogster/Catster quiz. I guess the logarithms and mathematical formulas behind the whole thing are ground-breaking. That’s my guess, anyhow.
So the most important things to know about when coming to Austin are:
1) Queso, queso, and then queso. This hot, gooey cheesey madness is on just about every menu. It’s velveeta with salsa mixed in, but some places do it better than others.
2) Having a super cute 2-year-old on hand to push lime quarters into your Dos Equis bottles is simply a wondrous thing. Here is Jude Scarbrough showing how it’s done:
I think when Shakespeare said that ‘all the world’s a public restroom,’ he definitely had not yet set foot in an American public restroom. Because all the world is definitely NOT an American public restroom. Especially not one at O’Hare international airport in Chicago.
I was a little frightened when I walked in and saw the SaniSeat. I sort of thought that I had walked into a stall for disabled individuals (how PC was that wording, btw?) by accident, as there were more levers and tubes and bars than I am used to seeing when I walk into a public stall. No, turns out that’s just the ridiculous waste of time, energy and money that rotates a fresh section of plastic over the toilet seat after every visitor. Unbeleivable.
Makes me think of my recent trip to Morocco and the toilets there. ‘Toilet’ is a bit ambitious, actually. ‘Room (or not) with hole in floor’ is much more appropriate. Talk about sanitizing – if you want to avoid touching a toilet seat with your bare ass, best if said toilet is invisible.
And haven’t we all seen the investigative shows that prove that bacteria 1) can not live on the cold, uninviting surface of a toilet seat and 2) can not penetrate the skin on your ass? Your chances of picking up some sort of infectious disease are greater in the bowl of peanuts at your local bar than they are on the toilet seat at your local, cleaned 3-5 times a day airport public restroom.
In any case, on my list of The Most Asinine Waste of Resource Inventions on the Planet: The SaniSeat. Only in America:
Everybody and their mother is talking about Flickr video, so I had to check it out before my mother started talking about it. If she beat me to it, then I’d really be in trouble.
LOVE the fact that the maximum length is 90 seconds. This is exactly what we need - a little time censorship. Those of us who have a hard time watching vids on YouTube that are over a minute in length are clapping and chanting and singing and dancing now.
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