Q: what did the pizza say to the popcorn?
A: get the f**k outa here, turd-muncher, i should be the one served at movie theaters!
Man, those guys are jerks!
“Rivals”
Cal and Kitty run into Nick and Stevie.
Starring Lance Rubin and Katie Schorr
Featuring Eric William Morris and Jeremy Morse
Good times, USA! Me and Katie’s bedroom makes its web debut!
Efficient Officiant Episode #2 - “The Website”
Written by Katie Schorr. Starring Lance Rubin and Katie Schorr.
A super-fun new web series made by Katie, starring the both of us! BAM!
Episode #1 of Efficient Officiant
“I Do-ers”
Starring Katie Schorr and Lance Rubin. With Cody Lindquist and Paul Welsh!
60-Second Briefly Relevant Songs!
“Geese”
this is a super collection of dark, sometimes-funny stories, predominantly featuring flawed, stubborn, but smartly self-aware, manly men. lots of fun interactions with nature and animals, too. and also there’s vikings at the end.
for the past week, i have been unable to read on the subway. instead, i flick like a madman.
this app is a summer delight. and pretty much a huge waste of time.
BTTF2 →
As a sort of sister-post to a link I put up earlier this year showing things Back to the Future II was accurate about, here’s a link that shows where it completely missed the boat.
And it did. Lookin’ damn good, MJF.
A nanny in one of the baby-music classes I teach told me today that I look and sound just like Bollywood superstar Saif Ali-Khan.
I actually can kinda see the resemblance. But maybe that’s just because we have the same “my-shoulder-is-busted-and-has-been-sewn-up-poorly” tattoo. So cool.
officially do not need two times to know how incredibly delightful and great this movie is. the opening sequence alone made me smile and “ooh” and “aah” and will most likely be better than any other action sequence this summer. (though the expendables might actually be kind of amazing, so hold that thought.)
pixar is one of my favorite things ever. i am perpetually astonished at their ability to be so fantastically, consistently good.
Ray Dates! I am very excited.
Agreed! Very looking forward to this. And not just because I’m the thumbnail photo.
Weirdly enough, in the months leading up to his death, I had somewhat randomly bought this album and was listening to it a lot. I knew all the Michael Jackson mega-hits, but I wasn’t familiar with his lesser-known slightly under-the-radar songs, many of which are equally awesome. This album’s got a few mega-hits, but lots of modest hits, too, and they’re soooo good. It’s produced by Quincy Jones, and it’s immensely dance-able. The bass line in “Off the Wall” is one of my favorite things ever.
A year ago today, me and Katie and Ray were teching our shows at UCB-LA when my brother Dustin came in and said, “Michael Jackson just died." Ray’s jaw dropped down to his knees, and after about 30 seconds, he said, "Guys, this is gonna be the biggest celebrity death of our lives." And I said, "Well…come on, not the biggest." Still not sure if he was right. But it’s definitely one of the biggest. And he helped make some superb music.
ha! this truly is my dream come true.
on a side-note, grown-ups looks pretty (not) awesome. you know it’s never a good sign when the jokes they feature in the trailer are ones involving kids (un) hilariously mis-using the word “wasted” and the five lead actors peeing in a pool. (gross, man.)
Lance Rubin! Your initials are on Adam Sander’s teen-head! This is your midsummer night’s dream come true. A very weird dream!
RM
I don’t know if I’m obsessed with old-people protagonists lately or what, but I recently finished this book (the latest in me and Z’s 2-Man Book Club) and competely loved it. Highly recommended by both Katie and my mom, I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect from this novel-in-short-stories, but it’s a moving, powerful, insightful book about life and loss and regret and aging and human beings, with the title character - a tough, complicated woman in her late 60’s - weaving her way through all 13 stories. This sounds sorta ridiculous, but it gave me new insight into, and appreciation for, old people, especially old married couples. Very worth reading.
Just watched Up for the second time, and man, is it incredible and awesome and man, did I sob like a little baby-man.
It’s funny because the first time I saw Up, I recognized it was great, especially its mind-blowing, gut-punching first 10 minutes, but then I had issues where I thought the second half became too much of a conventional movie.
But re-watching it just now, I didn’t feel that at all. I was blown away that a cartoon with such silly, beautifully fantastical concepts could be so grounded in reality and tap into human feeling way more profound than most movies ever scratch the surface of.
And that happened the first time I saw Wall-E, too. I recognized it was really good, but I also thought it got slow or something in the second half, and it took a second viewing to truly get that it is really fucking good. Like masterpiece good. Said by someone who thinks the word masterpiece is kinda dumb.
Maybe it’s because these movies so subvert film conventions, and I’m so primed to love them already because they’re Pixar movies, that my expectations are always thwarted, and my brain can’t quite keep up in the moment to adapt to what the movie actually is, as opposed to what I was expecting it to be.
Haven’t seen Toy Story 3 yet, but I’m hoping I can just appreciate that fully and completely the first time around. Probably won’t, though.
This leads to a bigger realization I’ve been having about art and the expectations we bring and how insanely that affects our response to said art, but I’ll save my ramblings on that for another Tumble.
I kinda wanna watch Up again.
enjoy this fun summer jam from Coldfighter!
New song from Coldfighter! Lance wrote and produced and I’m singing.
Play it up!!!!
lanceandrayst makes Pop Candy! →
our video made it onto my very favorite pop culture blog!
thank you, katie s.
the latest Lance and Ray vid. yay!
also featuring jeff “the man” de picciotto. with sweet camerawork by him and the loveliest katie schorr.
Lance and Ray watch LOST.
so, bloodsong of love’s run at ars nova has ended. it was a beautiful experience full of joy, fantastic people, and lots of laughing. and the show will live on. both in our hearts and hopefully on some other stage somewhere at some point sometime soon.