P 9-Billion Parody

Jason wanted to make a video for Tracy --- and we shot this thinking we had more of a storyline, but we didn't. In fact, the guys showed up and just goofed around. When they left - Jason apologized for wasting everyone's time, because obviously the footage was horrible and because we never did anything.

Well, I strung the footage together anyway. Here's what I got.

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Interesting Interwebs

Browsing around while at work, here are some interesting things I found.

Paris in 26 Gigapixels....

And if you are Conan O'Brien fan, he's taking off on a comedy tour. Check here for dates and locations!

More awesomeness for your day

The Final Countdown....

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today's Big Thing.

TV Chuck - Vs. The Fake Name - Crock Pots - and Life

The Olympics are over and our favorite Chuck has returned back to Monday nights on NBC.

For those of you, like myself (not Clower, he's had a pretty mellow attitude about the whole thing) who watched Vs. The Mask and saw Hannah and Chuck and Sarah and Shaw seeming like a possibly and got pissed, via invested emotional attachments in fictional television characters, I have a few things to say to that, and a short video.

The video first. One of my roommates loves the tv show, Lost, I found this video by Rett and Link - very apropos.



Perspective - and all is not lost.

I think both last night's episode - Vs the Fake Name - and what the show's producers have said will help put things into perspective.

[show spoiler]

So Chuck learns Sarah's real name is Sam. Sarah is concerned about Chuck because he's changing - he's no longer Chuck. Which is true - he's been so caught up in being a spy that he ditched Sarah for Hannah. For almost every episode Chuck is always the "good" / "nice" guy. He's the one getting dumped on. Even when he dissed Sarah (Sam) at the beginning of this season, it was because he wanted to be worthy of the person he thought everyone thought he was. She doesn't like what chuck's becoming --- perhaps a foil to her becoming what she already is and how she doesn't want to be that. In a sense, both Chuck and Sarah are evolving in character. For Sarah, the issue of redemption of heart, the struggle to work out what one believes and what one wants --- for Chuck, regret and being human and that not everything is so simple and without ramification. Sarah's arc is that she's always done the job. What happens when she wants something other than the job. We saw it sort of with Chuck - but not really in a humble way - the kind that comes from realizing life is heavy and burdensome, and you sometimes just make it, but that that's okay and good, too.

At least, that's my two cents on the take, and what I'd been pondering when I came across this snip it from producers Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak:

Q: Did you anticipate that the episode would elicit this kind of reaction?
SCHWARTZ AND FEDAK: We knew it was going to cause a bit of angst in some viewers. We didn’t expect this level certainly, though we are appreciative that our fans are this invested in the characters. One thing we didn’t anticipate when we made this episode was that it would be the last episode before a three-week hiatus.
Q: Why did you decide to have both Chuck and Sarah embark on new romances (with Hannah and Shaw, respectively) in the same episode?
SCHWARTZ AND FEDAK: Because we are masochists. We kid, we kid. It happens sometimes in life. If you see one person moving on, it can spur you to move on as well. But we want to stress, Chuck and Sarah are not emotionally in the same place at the end of this episode.
Q: Which of the two relationships poses the bigger threat to Chuck and Sarah?
SCHWARTZ AND FEDAK: There are things far greater than a relationship that threaten Chuck and Sarah… Stay tuned.
Q: Can you offer any hope to Chuck/Sarah fans?
SCHWARTZ AND FEDAK: As we’ve said before, [Monday's episode] was Chapter 7 of 19 of this season. We love and appreciate our fans. We know our fans are why we’re back this season. But we need them to trust us to tell the most emotionally satisfying story possible. This has been mapped out from the start, and we always knew telling this portion of the story would be difficult for some. But we need people to come to back to the show March 1st — now more than ever — and we think if they do take this journey with us, they will see what we had planned the whole time. This is part of a bigger story than just “will they or won’t they.”

Whether or not Chuck and Sarah consummate their feelings, and whether or not it's to satiate the desires of morbid Chuck fans, there's this idea that Schwarz and Fedak are alluding to - and it's growth. And just like in last night's episode where the CROCK POT showing en masse at the Buy More, patience leads to seeing a better understanding of what is really going on and what is really happening.

Which leads me to life in general. Raw emotion often can become the lens by which we perceive the world around us. If we're not careful, we often don't see the filter we're using and then make incorrect hypotheses. We see crooked and we still interpret anyway, and often wrongly so. If you don't think this is true - look at any teenager going through a break-up from their respective boyfriend/ girlfriend. If anybody needs perspective - it's them, no?

If you believe in God, and that He does have your best interest at heart, sometimes He's taking you to the most emotionally satisfying turn - even when you don't see it. Even when you don't feel it. Even when you're ready to give up and move on - to another "show". And even though you emotionally move at the microwave level - 60 seconds and it's done - life may move more at the crock pot level - hours upon hours to serve up the best dish that it can.

Just some thoughts...

There is still hope

So lately I've been in a slump... but all was made well today with Krispy Kreme donuts and this video:



Awesomeness - that's all I have to say...

EPIC WIN.

Great CHUCK clips

So Matt and I love Chuck. Even Matt's wife loves Chuck. [Yes, I (heart) Agent Sarah Walker.]

So to celebrate the new season of Chuck I thought we'd post some clips to support one of our favorite shows.






And because I (heart) Agent Walker...





Zach Levi, aka Chuck, imitating Yvonne's, aka Sarah Walker's, accent.





Some co-star chit chat about Best Buy...





And what's a post without some bloopers...



So support one of my favorite shows already. Watch it. Love it. Live it. And buy the t-shirt.

Why Fight?

I think that life comes with many ups and downs and that part of growing up is seeing those once high expectations come crashing down; the youthful dreams of what life should be - regardless of what influences were wrought into shaping those expectations.

I was asked at work today if I believed to be true the maxim, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

"I think what doesn't kill you can make you harder..."

Dashed expectations have a habit of making one colder. More lethal. And I think that if one is not careful, you can miss out on what exactly it is that makes fighting - well - worth fighting for.

There's the great quote from the Lord of the Rings movies - The Two Towers to be exact, and Frodo, in the middle of his journey to destroy the evil Ring of Power and despairing at his plight, turns to his ever faithful friend, Samwise Gamchee....

Frodo: I can't do this, Sam. 

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

If you forget the goodness - it makes fighting for it somewhat moot, doesn't it? Not the goodness, but the fighting. It means it's easier to blow off relationships with significant others because you've already forgotten why you even wanted to be with them to begin with. Maybe it's your wife, your family, your God... It's easy to forget. And it's easy to just arbitrarily fall into a direction and let the ship sail to wherever for however long... At least, it's easy for me to do it this way, and see it this way.

One of the senior high youth guys just asked me, as I'm writing this, via text: "What's the point in investing time outside of school with friends that I'll pretty soon leave and never talk to again? Why bother?"

I'll end with my answer to him.

The sum total of your life isn't what's practical or rational, it's how you choose to deal with what you've been dealt.With that logic why do anything in this cursory life? Why kiss the girl you love? Why climb the highest peak? Why anything...

I think I'm beginning to understand why Wilcox would say that we always have what we give to love --- why it is that the sum of the law and prophets can be found in, as my friend Erin would put it, passionately loving God and passionately loving other people.

Well, just some thoughts from watching another episode of Chuck.

I heart Chuck (well, actually) Agent Sarah Walker.