I was interviewed by fellow Song Fu alumni Mike Lombardo and Jeff MacDougall for episode 4 of the Too Much Awesome podcast.
It can be found here → click me!
This is what we talk about, in the order in which we talk about it.
- undergraduate debauchery
- my childhood career goals
- strange jobs that someone out there definitely has
- the states of matter, and the gray areas in between them all
- my confusing the primary shades of pigment with the primary shades of light
- serendipity
- Mike doesn’t want to date Felicia Day’s avatar
- Katy Perry vs Gwen Stefani vs Lady GaGa
- The Discovery Channel & inter-logger drama
- cable TV
- Christmas
- Song Fu
- Jon Brion
- the EP I’m not going to make yet
And since I know you’re going to ask, here is the “Someone Out There Has This Job” list.
Someone out there…
- …designs camping tents.
Just look at them. That was someone’s idea. - …designs maxi pads.
They have to account for the feminine shape, and the distribution of the absorbent bits, and the placement of wings, etc. (Ew, I know.) - …names interior/exterior paint colors.
Skim through the names on the paint chips next time you go to Lowe’s, you’ll be blown away. - …concocts the fictional liquids you see in movies and TV.
e.g., Exorcist vomit, the Fluffy drool from Harry Potter I. - …designs remote controls.
They have to account for what will fit most ergonomically in your hand, which buttons are important enough to be placed within the comfortable range of motion of your thumb, etc. - …designs the system/error noises on computers, DVR boxes, game consoles, etc.
- …writes/designs shirts with captions like “If You Can Read This, The Bitch Fell Off” and “It’s Not A Bald Spot, It’s A Solar Panel On A Love Machine”
Well I believe Brian Eno actually did work for Microsoft, designing some of those windows noises. And threadless now lets users submit “slogans” to get printed on shirts. But yeah, there are a lot of weird jobs out there. Knowing that you think about these strange things makes me like you even a little bit more.
“Interlogger drama”? lol
First: I just found you through Dinosaur Comics, and you are amazing!
Second: The guy you mentioned from the Military Channel show is R. Lee Ermey. He’s the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket.
Thanks for being awesome!
Listening through the podcast.
Don’t worry about the light/pigment primary color thing. The fact that you know there’s a difference puts you ahead of 98% of the population.
And I understand your non-embracing of Christmas music. However, may I recommend the Canadian Brass CD that has their rendition of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. They do the song, but each “gift” is a genre of music. It’s awesome–It’s a staple around our house around Christmastime.
I know how you feel about the Pee-Wee’s Christmas special. I watched Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam) very young and it made a very powerful impression. Later in life I watch it with other people and all I can see are the bits that make other people cringe. It still has great bits but most of it’s not quite ever the same.
So, I came across from Wil Wheaton. I’ve listened to this podcast and a couple of the videos. I must have watched your cover of “Poker Face” a dozen times since I first ran across it yesterday. At “…between a generic person from the 80′s and Janice from the Muppets…” I was hooked.
I’ll keep looking around but your stuff sounds great so far. I expect I’ll be buying a CD in the very near future.
Your stuff is great–I’m looking forward to more of it.
Take care and continued good luck!
I always wondered about those guys on every rap and hiphop song. You know, the “Heeeeeey, hoooooo” chorus?
I wonder if they travel around the country in a bus going to gigs and recording studios to peddle their talent. And one of then is extremely gay, and there’s always some drama on the bus. It could a reality show, or a Christopher Guest movie.
And I wonder why they are always there. I wonder if it’s like some kind of union rules. Like, “You wanna make an album with us, you gotta use our Hey Hoes.”
The fluffy drool was real. It’s just a breed of dog that drools a lot, and they used perspective tricks to make the dog look huge. Watch Tango & Cash (or not–average movie at best) and see the same dog spewing the same drool. It’s fairly epic.
But what about when it drips onto their face in a big way? I hope they didn’t meticulously collect dog drool just to drop it on Rupert Grint’s face.
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Does it make me a bad person if I kinda hope the opposite?