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my 5 seconds on television…

so, jessica called me last night before I headed out to the Explosions in the Sky show with t & bjurk, and said her Dad saw me on the news last night. Hilarious, right? well, I found the clip this morning on the ABC website:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6054575

Keep an eye out at the 1:11 mark and check out the label under my name…

LOL! :)

Comments 24

  1. bjurk wrote:

    that clip is so funny. I’ve watched it a half dozen times now. great stuff.

    btw, what exactly would you consider “putting the money to good use”?

    Posted 02 Apr 2008 at 4:28 pm
  2. von wrote:

    Your faith in the CTA is disturbing, young taxpayer.

    Also: that you’re no longer a “young” taxpayer is disturbing. Because what does that make me?

    Addendum: Or, heaven forfend, what does that make The Young Tobias, who is older than us all?

    Posted 02 Apr 2008 at 4:31 pm
  3. Lara wrote:

    I think the most pressing question is…what the heck is up with that anchor’s hair? Is she in a “Flock of Seagulls” cover band?

    Posted 02 Apr 2008 at 9:20 pm
  4. tpepp wrote:

    improving service for all the commuters! THAT is what ‘putting the money to good use’ means to me!

    shorter trips, less crowded, more reliable….

    ahhhh…to dream. LOL!

    Posted 02 Apr 2008 at 9:54 pm
  5. mike wrote:

    Young Thomas, all growed up!

    Posted 03 Apr 2008 at 11:42 am
  6. theffer wrote:

    I am now The Guru Wolf

    Posted 03 Apr 2008 at 1:49 pm
  7. von wrote:

    Now off to buy the Arrested Development box set ….

    “Hi, I’m Dr. Tobias Funke, the first Analyst/Therapist”

    [Business card: "Dr. Tobias Funke, Analrapist".]

    [Brilliant.]

    Posted 03 Apr 2008 at 3:18 pm
  8. Dr. T_Bone wrote:

    Lookin’ good Thomas.

    Posted 03 Apr 2008 at 8:16 pm
  9. tpepp wrote:

    Feelin’ good, Bone!

    LOL!

    Posted 04 Apr 2008 at 9:13 am
  10. von wrote:

    OK, plug #2:

    I tried; I fought vainly; I resisted to the upmost.

    But.

    In a moment of weakness, distracted by the imminent purchase of a Misfits’ CD and struggling to recall the name of a band that Terry had suggested I check out, I grazed the new music section at my local independent record store. And there it was. Vampire Weekend. I had heard some of the buzz a bit ago and a snippet from a song or two, but had decided to resist this next purchase.

    Except: this time I didn’t.

    If you have not purchased this CD, you need to. It’s the catchiest collegiate crap that I’ve heard in the last couple years. It’s as if The Shins got They Might Be Giants drunk and began making sweet, sweet love to them – but, mid-coitus, started to lose their interest. Desperate to continue, The Shins locked on to a fantasy about Paul McCartney getting it on with Yoko Ono. Thereby bolstered, The Shins finished the job to everyone’s mind-blowing satisfaction.

    Yes, it’s Shins getting-it-on with They Might be Giants good. It’s McCartney-screwing-Ono good. It’s John Lennon cuckholded good. It’s just plain good.

    My apologies if I’m the last person on this blog to have recognized it, but I have now played the entire album through three times in a row this morning, and it’s not even 9 a.m. Yesterday, I drove around listening to the same song – “Oxford Comma” – four times in a row. It took me an entire day to get past the first four songs on the disk, because I kept hitting replay. I haven’t enjoyed an album this much since Arcade Fire and, before that, Jawbreaker and Pink Floyd.

    Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 7:48 am
  11. tpepp wrote:

    von, that’s hilarious.

    Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 10:44 am
  12. von wrote:

    It’s a really good disk. It’s an even better disk to listen to when you’re doing something else.

    Back when I was going to be a writer, I had U2′s Joshua Tree on continuous loop when I drafted the middle three the chapters of my first novel. (As always, the middle of anything is the toughest.) U2′s JT created a mood without being distracting. It propelled the writing forward.

    Now, as a lawyer,* I’ve just polished off twenty pages of a brief in six hours with VW in the background. It is similarly excellent; the words just flow.

    von

    *Yes, I write for evil now.

    Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 2:31 pm
  13. csh wrote:

    Well you’re certainly not the last person to have listened to them – this is the first I’ve heard of them but you’ve definitely convinced me to check them out. I’m currently listening to a lot of Metallica but think it might be worth exposing the foetus to some new beats… I wonder how much he hears when I listen to music through headphones…

    Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 4:13 pm
  14. csh wrote:

    Oh, and I know fetus can be spelt in a couple of ways and that foetus is not one of them, but Mike likes to pronounces it “fo-eetus” and therefore I’ve become accustomed to doing that too.

    Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 4:15 pm
  15. csh wrote:

    ok – last post, apparently there are a zillion ways to spell that word and foetus is one of them, at least in England…

    Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 4:16 pm
  16. von wrote:

    Give a listen here before you buy:http://www.vampireweekend.com/music.php

    Re: “Oxford Comma”, I’m a fan of any band that “doesn’t give a fuck about an Oxford comma.” Who does?

    Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 4:39 pm
  17. von wrote:

    Oh, and definitely a change of pace from Metallica. (Of course, I’m currently alternating this with Misfits and PE (“Apocalypse ’91″), so what do I know?)

    Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 4:41 pm
  18. Lara wrote:

    My high school boyfriend and I had a competition in which we could only talk about bands if we could pronounce their names backwards. Acillatem and Stifsim were two of our favorites. Which is why this particular post is so nostalgic for me.

    I just read about Vampire Weekened in the paper this weekend and thoiught about getting the album. Thanks Von.

    On another note, Henry has a new word. “Dude.”

    Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 9:56 pm
  19. mike wrote:

    Proper spelling, by which I mean my intended way, is Phoetus.

    He’s from Thailand.

    Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 11:32 pm
  20. theffer wrote:

    He’s from Thailand.
    Guess Mike really wanted a new pair of Nike’s.

    Posted 08 Apr 2008 at 7:24 am
  21. von wrote:

    Guess Mike really wanted a new pair of Nike’s.

    Pick me up a pair too, Mike. Or have your unborn child sew me one. I gotta get in shape for spring. Size 13EE, of course.

    Posted 08 Apr 2008 at 7:28 am
  22. tpepp wrote:

    you’ve all tainted my post with this talk of fetus. :*(

    Posted 08 Apr 2008 at 9:51 am
  23. Dr. T_Bone wrote:

    Too late Von
    http://www.chicagolive.com/entertainment/vampire_weekend_at_metro/

    Posted 09 Apr 2008 at 1:37 pm
  24. von wrote:

    Yeah, I saw that. Not surprising that they’re unpolished. It’ll be interesting to see if this is a one-time good album or something more.

    That said, they pretty much captured my current feelings as a young partner in a law firm with their song about “the pin-striped men of morning” –

    I didn’t like the business
    but that was at first glance
    your pillow feels so soft now
    but still I must advance

    Posted 10 Apr 2008 at 8:50 am