The Final Countdown

"This is a song... a song about counting."

Gotta give it to 'em. This is pretty great. We've taken the stage to the same song, but never like this...

In other news, thanks to everyone who came out this weekend for our performance at the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival. We always have a great time, and it was really cool to hear from so many people who are fans of the show. Thank you!

North Carolina: Feels Like the First Time

Remember that song? Not the North Carolina part... the First Time part. Foreigner? Anyone? They had some good tunes, man... not that one in particular, but some other really good tunes. Look 'em up.

Anyway, we're all headed down to the Chapel Hill area for our first show since the Richmond festival in November. And while that would usually make me a little nervous, it almost feels more like a reunion show somehow, which is awesome. Like the world is brand new again and full of possibilities. Or something.

We'll be playing at the DSI Theater on Saturday night at 9:30 if anyone wants to drop in and check us out... I can promise we'll be having fun, which is usually contagious...

From the Lads...

Valentine's Day falls on a Sunday this year. For football fans in the UK, that's Game Day. So what to do?

Puma has a simple, classy, touching solution... send your gal a song from the pub.

Sure, it's a crap song. But don't the ladies love those? I dig the tagline at the top of the site... "They want to be in your arms, you want to be in the stands." Problem solved.

Avatar: Holy Shit

In L.A. for work and just went to the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood to (finally) see Avatar in 3D.

Damn, dude. Just... damn.

Killer Spots: Dante's Inferno Super Bowl

Already famous/notorious for getting rejected by CBS (the version that will air on Sunday actually ends with "Hell Awaits" instead), the Super Bowl Spot for Dante's Inferno is pretty tight. Great move getting the Bill Withers track... I dig it.

Killer Spots: Vanquish

Wow. Gorgeous new trailer for Sega's Vanquish produced by the gang at Logan.

The bad news is that this genre has so many games in it that all of them start to look like Halo after a while. And I'll admit that it's been entirely too long since I logged on to Live, so maybe I'm just the last guy to see this, but I'm really impressed with the spot regardless.

The surface textures, lighting and movement at the end remind me a lot of District 9, and I've always been a sucker for detail shots of power suits being assembled (Iron Man didn't do much to curb that enthusiasm. By the way, check out Danny Yount and Prologue's amazing schematic end titles from that movie if I never posted them before...).

Shades of the Gears of War 2 trailer at the top as well, although fans have apparently already been talking about the praying mantis moment in different terms than that (something to do with an alien invasion?). I'll have to look in to the story a little more to see whether or not the title is worth checking out, but it seems the promo has already done its job... here I am talking about it!