3 posts tagged “digg”

Wednesday I went into NYC to see the live Diggnation taping, the first on the east coast. I've been a fan of Diggnation from very early on. I dragged along a friend of mine, who as none too pleased to be there. We waited on line for almost two hours, nearly didn't get in due to crowds and raising the age limit, but at around 7pm we finally got in. It was packed, like people all around, but my friend and I weaselled our way to near the front. I never pegged Diggnation to have an opening act, but they did. It was kind of a Revision3 lovefest, starting off with Scam School, which was this dude who did crazy shit with fire and lots of awesome stuff. Cool, dude, he wanted everyone to subscribe to his iTunes podcast, basically to break iTunes and rising to the top spot in the Tech News section. So if you get a chance, maybe help him out. It was awesome.

Then Kevin and Alex briefly appeared, and I totally wigged out, because like KEVIN ROSE FTW. Yeah, I kind of love him. They told us how there were people out in the rain, this was about an hour after we actually got in, so everyone was pretty shocked how many fans came out. So after a lot of waiting around and a lot of sweating, Jay Adelson and Kevin came out and talked about new Digg features, mainly the new comment system, which everyone agrees was a great improvement over the old one. Finally things started moving along, with Kevin and Alex coming out with "boy band" mics and trying to get them working. They killed time by chugging beer and being generally awesome. Eventually, they gave up on the new expensive tech and resorted to mic stands. I was a little bummed about where they did the actual show, because there was the super tall guy in the very front who completely blocked my view of Kevin and Alex. But I thoroughly enjoyed the whole show, which you'll see when you watch the podcast. There were all these little jokes and mentions that I'm not sure how people who weren't there would get, but maybe that happens every live show, which I've seen. Kevin and Alex said they wouldn't do shots, designating some girls in the front (I wasn't the only one!) to be the "shot girls", but that kind of broke down and they did a shot of whiskey. After that they started getting drunk, which was hilarious for me and my friend to watch. Seriously, the alcohol just makes things even better. Sure they cover top stories, but the booze gets them on tangents and other amazing stuff.

After the show, the guys had to pee, announcing it like any proud drunk, and said they would make their way around and say hi to everyone. Well, that didn't exactly work out as they planned, they kinda got mobbed coming out of the bathroom, then hopped back on stage, jumping off towards the back of the crowd, which then led to a new crowd forming. Basically, by this time I had already told my Mom I would be out over an hour earlier, so I just quickly looked for Kevin, picking to say 'hi' to him over Alex. After locating, I snuck around and I did get to say my piece, "ZOMG I'm a big fan... Really appreciate you coming to the east coast... Waiting for this for a long time..." Kevin was really nice, I got two pictures, both are awkwardly zoomed in because the kid operating my camera couldn't figure out the zoom, which I forgot to unzoom. But you can definately tell that's Kevin, and I'll know it's me, which is really all that counts. ZOMG I totally got to touch Kevin, like he put his arm around my waist and I was just so glad to be there. I've been watching the podcast since summer 2005 in its early episodes, first listening, then watching. And I've been waiting ever since they announced their first live show for them to hit up the big apple. I was thrilled to be there over two years later, when they finally did!

I have a ton of pictures which I will upload sometime between now and eternity, I like having my pictures for myself, as opposed to on flickr, because no one I know really sees them, anyway. I showed my mom, who I needed to BEG to let me go out to Greenpoint, Brooklyn, which was a pretty nice area, but wasn't always. She and my sister saw Kevin and agreed that he is so adorable. Because he really is. Kevin, if you ever see this, marry me, dude. Seriously.

The past few nights I've been watching all the Indiana Jones movies. I can't believe I'd never seen them before. Major lapse in judgment on my part. They're fun and exciting and actiony. I'll probably see Crystal Skill tomorrow or Friday. Still haven't gotten around to see Speed Racer, I'm considering waiting until it comes out on Blu-Ray or on the HD movie channels.

In other news, there's going to be a live Diggnation taping in NYC next Wednesday, and I'm so going! I'm not sure who'll I'll go with, but it's going to happen. I've been waiting for so long to see Kevin and Alex live, I'm not missing out on this! Whee!

Oh, and Lost tomorrow. Yeah, I still haven't written up any pre-finale thoughts. I'l do that after I finish up with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

My schedule's been so frakked up lately, so I've missed a lot of shows...and sleep. But thanks to a nap this afternoon and a five-day weekend, I'm ready to catch up...and do SAT prep.

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
So I missed the last two episodes, but I finally caught up tonight. Here's the problem: Sorkin can't write sketch comedy. I think there are hilarious moments involving the characters, but once he tries to have these supposedly brilliant sketches...they just fall flat. Like two weeks ago, they showed a sketch with a credit card representative calling a customer about a purchase...That was not funny...what did he think having someone do a stereotypical Asian accent was funny? I feel like if they could just get the sketch comedy right, the show would all just fall into place.

This week's episode irked me...I do not like irony if it involves blatant product placement. I know NBC's in a fix, but they are just abusing product placement... Staples and The Office? Sure that shredder gag was funny, but I felt like that little scene would have been a great commercial, just not in the show. This week's episode of Studio 60 was just dropping labels left and right. And yeah, I get it was ironic to have them argue against product placement when the actual show was swimming in it, I just hate it. I cringe at product placement, and even the best efforts (see The Office and Staples...and Chili's...and Hooters) just always rub me the wrong way. At least it wasn't like "VAUGHN! THE F-150!" I guess if you're going to do product placement, be subtle...like going to Hooters or Chili's...but slapping a big label on something or being like "wow I just love [insert product name that no one would ever use in casual context]"

OK now, I have zero interest in Matt and Harriet...I just don't care, they are no Josh and Donna... I just find their scenes very out of place, like you're doing this humor and this type of drama, and then you cut to this mushy stuff... Dunno, I know some people love this show and I know some people who can't stand it. I guess I'm falling more on the liking side, but I have issues with it.

I'm so happy Lucy Davis has a larger role. I miss The Office, good thing we've got Gervais's US episode airing in two weeks :-)

Heroes
HEE! They saved the cheerleader!!! I really liked this episode, it had so much going on, but I was actually interested in the action. And Peter and Claire meeting up was great! Anything involving Sylar creeps me out, he's like everywhere and no where all at once. Looks like Peter was able to save the world by slowing Slyar down, leading to Horn-Rimmed Glasses's minions capturing him. I think Sylar has the power to permanently absorb other Heroes' abilities. Kinda like what Peter can do, but Sylar can maintain the powers or he figured out he can use the Heroes' brains to keep their powers.

OK, as with every episode of this show, I have character development issues. Claire. BAH. High school is a great exploration of how her gift would segregate her. I would love to have seen the process by which she was dropped from being popular... You know instead of just hearing about it. It just felt like we should have seen more of that...well seen any of that.

OK, time travel blabber that is hurting my head. So, if the PTB's at Heroes know what their doing, Charlie will die. The moment Hiro jumped back in time, the timeline change. So Charlie is still dead, meaning that in the past, Hiro could not save her. Now, the problem is two-fold.

This is referring to the timeline Hiro created when he jumped back to save Charlie: Hiro and Ando still arrived at the diner together. So if Charlie had met Hiro 6 months back, wouldn't everyone at the diner have recognized him. Let me clarify. Once Hiro jumped back, the past had two simultaneous Hiros. So in the changed past we didn't see, Charlie would have already known when Ando and Hiro walked in. Also, that lady who identified Hiro in the picture, wouldn't she have been like "you and him walked in!" because they still would have. You see, everything we saw with Hiro and Ando and the Diner was changed the moment Hiro jumped back. It may not have changed Hiro and Ando's experience, but it would have changed Charlie and the people in the diner. Unless Hiro warned Charlie not to be overt in greeting Hiro and Ando when they showed up 6 months later. And if Charlie still died, it would give Hiro the reason to jump back in time in the first place, therefore completing the loop and making sense. Otherwise he would effectively disappear from the timeline without reason. But did I mention I hate time travel paradoxes? Odd seeing as I've got serious love for Doctor Who. Maybe that's because the time travel there takes place thousands of years apart, not just months, so we don't have to bother with the after effects.

The problem is I think Hiro's going to end up saving Charlie somehow. That would screw up the whole thing... Or Hiro could come to the realization that it isn't in his power to do this, and he'll jump back and only a few seconds have passed between the time Hiro left and when he returned... So when Peter Petrelli comes, Hiro will be there, therefore making Isaac's paintings about the Homecoming true. Or whatever. Maybe because Hiro changed the timeline, Isaac's paintings wouldn't include Hiro and Ando at the Homecoming. GAH I hate timetravel. Why can't it just be linear like in Harry Potter when everything occurs at once, and you don't realize the other end until you go back in time. See POA.

So, BSG is moving to Sundays at 10, and that news story got me my first Digg article on the homepage! It's funny, as of last night, it had 8 diggs. Here's hoping Kevin Rose diggs it and it gets on Diggnation. I have lame aspirations.

So I bought People 's Sexiest Men Alive issue, and dude...