Tom's Blog

January 04, 2009

Okay so I am having a bit of trouble with the computers today.  That's why I haven't uploaded a new video.  But we did shoot one, and edited something pretty fun.  I happened to zip down to Koo Koo Roo chicken with my good pal Andy Milonakis.  He's a great dude.  Good times were had, eating chicken and recording some music.  You can check out a funny song we did about our day.  It is posted on Andy's Youtube page. Here is the song we made, after we made the chicken video.  I can't wait to show you guys this video.  There is a great scene where Andy washes his face in the Koo Koo Roo chicken bathroom.  Really something to be seen.  Coming soon!

December 31, 2008

December 29, 2008

What a fun night!  Thanks to all the great acts that kept us all rolling in the aisles all night long.  I had a lot of fun as always at Spaceland.  Neil Hamburger organizes these shows on the last Sunday of every month at Spaceland!  Rob Schneider came out with us for the show, and we all had a blast.  Watch this clip to see some of the characters, comics, and novelty acts, who also showed up for the fun.

December 28, 2008

So gang.  I hope you are having as much fun this holiday as I have been.  I personallyam really enjoying sitting around and doing a whole lot of nothing.  It's going to get a bit busier in the New Year.  Lots of fun stuff going on.  I'm especially excited about recording lots of new music.  I'll bring the video camera along for the ride of course.

I hope you guys are doing good.  I think I'm going to make some hip hop beats today.  I will be sure to shoot some video of the process.  Also I am going out tonight to a fun event, with some very funny people.  So I will have lots of great video to post up on the website tomorrow.  Good times.  I am excited.

I am hoping you guys may want to start sending some more video this year.  Is there a way we can really get that going?  I would love if you could link some of your Youtube videos to me here at the channel.  We have a fun video sharing community here that you can join.  We are really going to improve the specs on that this year, but really, it's all about the video.

I would love if some of you from overseas could also send in some cool videos, for the Channel.  Take us on a little tour of your home town.  I would love it if you could show the gang around your part of the world.  And say hello to The Gang, and everyone at The Channel in your video.  Personalize it for The Channel and I will post the video here in my blog.  It's simple.  Just make your video, post it on Youtube, and then send me a message here at the website about it.  I will go grab the video and link it here into the Blog.  Lets interact gang!  I am taking a bit of time off the talk show, so I will have more time on my hands for fun stuff like this.  Lets's rock!  And have a Happy New Years Eve!  Send me New Years videos!  That would be cool!

Tom

December 27, 2008

Hey guys and gals.  I think I may have just come up with a fun idea for 2009.  An interactive multimedia experience.  I think I want to start doing stand up comedy.  But with you guys helping.  How can you help?  Well here is the idea.

I think I am going to start blogging on here.  Alot.  And in these blogs, which you will be able to read right here, I am going to try out material.  We will write it together in a way.  Like, you guys can go to the Contact section, and email me ideas for jokes.  Things that you might find funny.  And then I will craft them into a routine, and we will go film the reactions.  I will go try out the jokes that we write here together.  Of course the jokes will be outrageously hilarious, and then we can all celebrate them together on video. 

So I guess we have to get started.  I'm not going to write jokes, but more throw around a few topics.  I definitely know how I want to come out of the gate.  I want to be honest.  I will probably start with a joke about my testicular cancer.  That should be good for a few laughs.  Jeez.  But you know, in fact I think it will be good for some material.  So, using that as a baseline, that we are going heavy but real and serious, right off the top, well, maybe another good topic would be death.  I'm sure there are plenty of jokes to be made about death.  And dying.  You know I almost died a couple of years ago.  I was in a horrible fishing accident.  Forgive me if I have already told you this story.  But I was hit by a massive wave, while fishing on rocks, in Costa Rica.  On the Pacific ocean, during what turned out to be very stormy seas.  I was standing too close.  Like an idiot, not knowing tha waves came in sets, and that most likely a massive one was bound to come along eventually and sweep me off the rock.  I was there about 5 minutes.  Putting a shrimp on a hook, and I look up, and BAM... Explosion.  I was thrown 20 feet off a ledge and down onto sharp volcanic rocks.  I broke 2 ribs, and had a horrific drive on a bumpy dirt road, 2 hours through the jungle.  I drove myself.  To this tiny little costa rican hospital for the night...  Wait.  This is probably not stan-dup material.  Too long and boring.

We need jokes people.  I am looking for jokes.  I could probably make some pretty funny jokes about Freddy Got Fingered.  And what it is like to win 5 Rasberry awards.  That might be good for a chuckle.  Hmmmm.  Or maybe that's too negative.  Who gives a crap about the Rasberry awards right?  They can't even get a TV deal for that awards show.  You know the dude who runs it, whatever his name is, some old guy... anyway, he has been trying to get a TV deal for that thing for years.  Nobody cares.  Ha.  I'm just joking.  I don't even know if that's true.  Maybe that would be funny to talk about.  Who knows.

Send me some joke ideas in the contact section.  Obviously there are plenty of things I can write jokes about.   I want Universal themes.  Things that everybody can, or can't relate to.  Love, Relationships, Drugs, Money, Sex, and Rock n' Roll.  Stuff like that.  I bet we could write a lot of jokes together about stuff like that.

It might be fun, when I actually do this, to tell the audience that you guys wrote some of the jokes.  But then I can read the really bad ones and make fun of them too.  Might be interesting.  To pull out some emails and read them on stage.  Who knows.  I have a lot of ideas.  But the cool thing, is that we'll film it, and then watch and critique it here together.  In the form of a video blog.  Might be fun.  But I still need those jokes.  What are some jokes that I could tell.

Maybe some funny stories about pets?  Everybody can get a good chuckle out of that?  Or crazy videos that we have seen on Youtube?  That could be funny.  Do you guys and gals out there have any funny stories about that?  Any crazy videos you have stumbled on on Youtube lately?  That could be good for a chuckle too.   Anyway, let me know if you want to play.

If you want to take part in this video experiment, then send me some jokes.  Just email me here at tomgreen.com by clicking on the Contact section on the front page.  Talk soon.

Tom

December 25, 2008

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December 23, 2008

December 22, 2008

So the dogs were just lying there.  It's so quiet at night up here at the house.  Or should I say The Channel.  I don't think I have done that much filming lately when I am home alone at The Channel.  After all, I do live here.  Over the last year we have done so many shows, that I hardly ever had the house to myself.  It's nice having some time to myself to be honest.  Not meaning away from you guys... But more the massive commotion of doing a nightly talk show in your living room.  It's been busy up here the last couple of years.  Not that it hasn't been really fun. But after all, I do live here.  Sometimes you just need a little time to yourself.  Not too much.  Just a few more weeks.  I want to get back to doing more shows soon in the new year.  Plus a bunch more changes here at The Channel which I will tell you about soon.  Anyway, back to the dogs.  And my new Kodak zi6 camera.  It has a cool Macro lense.  You guys should go pick one up and send me some of your videos.  It's a cool camera.  And it's really affordable.  You can find em for under 200 bucks...  Pretty crazy.  Good video is getting a lot easier to make.  We live in exciting times.  Say hello to Steve and Annie.  I will check back in a bit.  I am staying home today, making music, in cold and rainy Los Angeles.  Stay tuned.

tg

December 22, 2008

As I mentioned yesterday I am going to begin blogging and posting video updates again.  Tell all of your friends!  :)  There should be a good amount of new video being updated regularly, if not daily, here at The Channel. 

I have this great new Kodak zi6 camera that I have been using.  It looks like a cell phone, so I can just slip it in my pocket and take it anywhere.  Plus it takes AA batteries, which is really cool.  You can just pop a couple of energizers in there if it runs out of juice.  I like this camera a lot.  So I should be shooting a fair amount of fly on the wall stuff.  Just because it is so easy to take everywhere.

I hope you guys and gals are all having a great holiday season.  My sleep cycle is a bit off.  I have been up all night recording music lately.  It's kind of throwing me off kilter a little bit.  Normally I am such an early to bed person.  Seriously.

I think this is going to be an important year gang.  I honestly feel it already.  I think this year is going to be a good year.  I think, quite possibly, that this is going to be the beginning of a very good year for all of us.  I feel a definite attitude shift, at least in myself, that I hope will lead to many good times.

I don't know if it is that I am just over the bull shit, or if there is simply less of it.  One thing is for sure, I have been choosing to keep my distance from people and things that make me unhappy.  I think over the years, I have at times been a pessimistic person.  This is where a lot of comedy comes from, or at least so I thought.  But who can really know right?  All I know is at times it can be a bit of a drag.  So I think I have decided to turn this around.  The results have been pretty fantastic.  I am definitely in a much better mood, and enjoying the process of putting shows together a whole lot more.  I think we are in for a funny year.

One thing I am definitely going to do is worry less.  I spent a lot of my time worrying about The Channel here.  But we have gotten to a place now where we can coast along nicely.  The studio isn't going anywhere, and the video and technology stuff is just getting cheaper to maintain every day.  It's definitely continuing to be fun.  So the pressure is off around here.  I don't have any commitments to deliver shows right now.  We can comfortably take a break and plan the next move.  I think the new year should be pretty exciting.  I'm looking forward to it.

So gang.  Here's what I want to do today.  Why don't all of you go get a video camera and post a video message on Youtube to The Channel.  And link it into your deputy blog, here at the website, if you can figure out how that works.   We are going to definitely expand this section in the new year, and make some vast improvements.  But make a video today!  I would particularly like to be taken on some adventures, out and about, in your cities around the world.  Don't just send videos sitting infront of your desktop.  Boring.  I want to be taken somewhere.  I want you guys to show me, and the audience, something cool in your town.  Lets do some stuff like this today.  Sound fun? 

Once you load up a cool video, send me the link in the contact section of this webiste.  I will post some stuff up in my Blog, and we can all follow along.  Talk soon gang!

December 21, 2008

Man.  I am really enjoying watching this hilarious show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I also am really enjoying my new Kodak z16 camera that I am going do some shooting with around town over the holidays.  I had a pretty great day yesterday.  Lots of fun being had in los Angeles over the Holidays.  I will post a few web clips soon.  I think I will be posting a lot more video over the next few weeks and months.  I have a new system in place that is making it much easier for me to edit and post clips.  So expect more updates.  You can start coming back to tomgreen.com every day again, as I will be posting far more regularly starting now.  Just ramping up slowly here, with some more fun web clips.  Send me you comments in the Contact section of this website.  If there is anything you might like to see, send me a suggestion.  I may incorporate it into my life.  :)  Cheers gang.  You guys rock!  Check in with me and let me know how you are all doing.  Happy Holidays!

tg