Looking Forward To It!

I like comedy. It’s good to laugh. Here is short list of some things and people (in no particular order) that have made me laugh and/or whose work I look forward to in the near future.

Comedy Whirled.  This is a brand new site that is worth looking at.  Check out the Open Mic section where you can lay down a new joke or one-liner.

SKIZZLEPLEX! This is the online magazine created by hollywoodphony that you can download for free, print out, and take to a picnic.  Or the mall.  Or the bathroom.  I guess you could read it online but that’s not the proper way to go about it.  I have no idea when the next edition is coming out.

Heather Anne Campbell.  If you’ve seen any of The Midnight Show shows or sketches, you have seen Heather Anne.  She writes great shorts and now she’ll be writing them for SNL.  That’s very exciting for a fan like me.  And exciting for her too because Saturday Night Live pays so well!  That’s why no one ever leaves that show.

Good luck in New York, Heather Anne!

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The Pet Petter (video)

This was my entry for the COMEDY WHIRLED 15 second video contest.


Find more videos like this on Comedy Whirled

No more explanation available.

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Bennie Goes Crazy in the Park (video clip)

Bennie Arthur brings the energy in this short clip from the independent film, “Birds of LA”.  Coming Spring, 2011.

Coming Spring, 2011.

Left to right - Jesse Bernstein, Bennie Arthur, Parker Bingham, Eric Filipkowski

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Go Salem Kickers FC!

Well, the Salem Kickers got their fall season schedule and there are no surprises. Five games in Portland and five at North River Road park in Salem. The fields North River Road look great as does the park itself.

Our team looks almost as strong as the one that lifted the championship t-shirts last year.  One big blow to our side is that we wont have one of our best players, Sal, who is still battling an illness.  Most of my teammates, especially our keeper, our not thrilled about me sliding into that stopper position.  Hey guys, sit on it.

Vince Duggan (in blue) was the team's 2009 points leader.

On a positive note, the Bigfoot Bar and Grill has come through as our sponsor for the second year in a row.  Thanks, Bigfoot!  You have our unwavering patronage and support.

That’s all.  Go Kickers.

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Simple Pulled Pork Recipe

Pulled Pork Recipe

Pork portrait of my wife. She was not impressed.

I love making this recipe if we are having people over for dinner.  It’s a fun meal and super simple to make.  I like to tweak the ingredients sometimes but today, I made it like this:

Ingredients:

  • country-style boneless pork ribs – 3 lbs
  • 3 jalapenos
  • 1 chopped sweet onion
  • BBQ All-Star Original Blend spice rub
  • barbecue sauce
  • orange juice

Fire up you outside grill and put the pork on it.  I leave it on long enough to brown it and I shake the spice rub on as I turn it.  Country-style ribs are pretty fatty which is why I like to brown them on an outside grill.  On my grill, it took about 20 minutes to get them looking good.  Oh, I grilled the jalapenos too.  After you take ‘em off the grill, cut them into 1-2 inch chunks and put them in a slow-cooker.  Add the onion and jalapenos, about a cup of orange juice and a cup of BBQ sauce.

I’m going to let them cook for about 5 hours.  The pork will be super tender and ready for buns.  I might add some chopped cilantro to the crockpot a few minutes before I turn down the heat.  Serve with extra barbecue sauce.

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Jokes of August

Sometimes it seems like the finer things in life are in someone else’s life.

And we didn't get kicked off the course.

Put on my game face today and now I reek like elk carcass.

Going into the hot tub with my wife. It’s a talk-quality-family-time trap but at least it has bubbles.

Let’s be real, not all babies are beautiful. But every single sleeping baby is beautiful. – Butch Jackson

All my short films are three acts. Fade in. Fuck around. Roll credits.

At 41, my only regret is never walking through a threshold of hippie beads before making love to a woman. Can U say eBay search?

I lost my little piggy in the Baden-Württemberg range. Has anyone seen it? (Black Forest joke)

One cool thing about autism is always knowing where the Smoky Joe BBQ grill is. It’s on the trampoline.

Tried to have a threesome with a guy named Dex. He just laid there like a stiff book.

I’m working on an elaborate joke about brevity.

Seems like every piece of sh*t has had an out-of-body experience.

Sometimes I wish that Old Yeller had just broken his arm while Pollyana had become rabid.

If you trim out all the scenes where Kevin Costner is posing in “Dances with Wolves”, it’s a 25 minute film.

If you wonder why I haven’t been at the swank parties lately, it’s because I ain’t shopping anything. “So…what do you do?” Me: “Laundry”.

I bet fat vampires are pretty happy about the whole “no reflection” phenomenon.

When I feel the need to have people think I’m smart, I tell them I understand 65% of Dennis Miller’s jokes.

Being married means you sometimes have to listen to Coldplay. For me, that’s the hardest pa-a-a-art.

I don’t know anyone who likes hot wax on their nipples but I’ll bet money that person likes to fry bacon with their shirt off.

To the guy that got a BJ on his BD…Happy Felated Birthday!

I think there might be a strong correlation between cooling your house with box fans and chilling out with box wine.

“Costco Warehouses are enormous. I’m proud to captain this team.” – Stock Manager James T. Kirkland

The Eagles were originally going to call the hit song, “Hotel California”, “Hotel Pangaea” but they didn’t want to date themselves.

Nice to wake up in your own bed. Exception: you’re a time traveller and you wake up with a snake-skinned freak named hduebnùacndj.

if I had a dollar for everytime I failed math class… This is a word problem, isn’t it? Fuck.

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MEET THE BAD GUYS

MEET THE BAD GUYS….FINALLY

One of the best parts of being an amateur filmmaker is that you get to work with the people you like: friends, family, and neighbors.  Basically, anyone that you can get in front of the camera for free.  A couple weeks ago we shot some great scenes out at our friend Merrill’s farm with Matt Perron and actor/writer Dave Jenkins.  It was hot out there and Dave was wearing black and we ran over him with our truck.

Dave Jenkins. Birds of LA.

We ran over him three times.  He was sweating by the end of it and I gotta say, the hood of the truck was about 120 degrees F.  The F stands for “f*cking hot”.  When I finally thought we had the shots complete, Dave said, “No.  Let’s do it again”.  I admire that about him.  And I probably wont let him know that the first shots looked just fine.

Vince, Stein, and Ritchie.  Very bad guys.

A couple weeks ago, I finally got three more bad guys in front of the camera.  Three bad guys who also happen to be my buddies.  In fact, making a film can become very challenging if you don’t have family, friends, and neighbors who are willing to participate in your project.  Fortunately, the Perron brothers have a huge pool of talent to pull from in the Salem, Portland, and Sandpoint areas.

This youtube clip features Dave Jenkins who plays “The Swede” in “Birds of LA”.  We stole this shot at Owen’s birthday party on Saturday.  We’ll be using it in some form in our finished product.

That’s what a passion for film-making has done to me.  I steal shots from my own son’s birthday party.

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