West Week Ever – 1/4/13

I put all my thoughts and whatnot into yesterday’s post, so sit back for a mostly video post. If your job blocks YouTube, well, you’re out of luck. Read it when ya get home!

I guess they stopped stealing sunshine, because skin cancer. Well, Len’s back and singing about the joys of Toronto. The intro to this video is begging to be sent back in time and appended to the opening credits of an 80s sitcom. The rest of the video looks like some newsteam commissioned the song to make it look like they’re really all about the local community. Anyway, give it a glance:

This clip could be pulled by the time you read this, as the station is yanked all the footage. Here’s the deal: some independent LA channel hired Jamie Kennedy to host a New Year’s Ever special, which was clearly just a way to sell more ad time to Carls Jr. Anyway, the production values were terrible, the biggest stars were Shannon Elizabeth and Bone Thugs & Harmony. Nobody knew to bleep anything, so EVERYTHING was going out live. Oh, and the special ended with an onstage fight between partiers. Click it fast, ’cause it may not be here tomorrow:

I’ve really liked Jamie Kennedy ever since I read his autobiography. Sure, he’s not known for many successes, but he got a pacemaker at 19! Shit is crazy! And he seems like a normal, insecure, yet likable, guy.

I’m more excited for this than I have any right to be. Full disclosure: one of my favorite movie scenes in the last 15 years was the Stars of the WB (and Topher) poker game from Ocean’s Eleven. I really like when the 4th wall is broken, and I’m intrigued by which actors interact with each other, and what happens when they get together. Had they been playing characters in this movie, I probably wouldn’t care as much. I mean, I hate “end of the world” shit. However, the fact that they’re playing parodies of themselves, riffing on each other – that’s GOLD. Unless you’re one of those people who hates everyone in it. Fine, I’ll give ya Rogen and Hill, but everyone loves Robinson and Franco. EVERYONE!

I totally stole this from Jaime over at Shezcrafti.com, but I hope she won’t mind. This is AMAZING! I demand a full season an Adult Swim cartoon based on this.

This was awesome to me. I was a musical theatre kid, and I obsessed over Les Miz years before I finally saw it in London. Anyway, while there was singing at my wedding, I kinda wish we’d done this. Here’s my issue with it: roughly 3/5 of the guests were in on this. I’d have felt like shit if I attended that wedding and I was in the other 2/5. Sure, I’d hesitantly applaud, but I’d be all in my feelings, wondering, “What’s wrong with MY voice?”:

This is kinda cool. Just watch:

I think my favorite part of that whole video is seeing “Winston” plastered over everything. Man, to live in a world where all your entertainment was sponsored by either cigarettes or soap!

Anyway, that does it for this week. I’d remind you to enter Geeks For Tots, but I don’t even know what’s going on over there. I think it’s over. I dunno. You can still funnel money into my venture, Will’s World of Wonder!

And if you haven’t already, check out West YEAR Ever – 2012!