SGAOJ Holiday Episode

Scotty Got An Office Job: Holiday Special from Scotty Iseri on Vimeo.

SGAOJ Review Round-up

With season 1 behind me, thought i'd link out to some of the folks who were kind enough to review the show. I'm including the egregious Pull Quotes that we'll use for SGAOJ: The Movie.


Daisy Whitney says "Entertaining enough! And Short!"

Online Video Reviews, (which, for some reason has anonymous reviewers) says "Scotty seems to be a genuinely fun person to be around."

Tilzy.tv's Alex Crowley says: "put yourself in Scotty’s shoes and understand the crushing weight of the existential dilemmas office workers internally debate every day." (He goes on to say some nice, complimentary things, but i thought this was funny.)

MyMediaMusings.com says "Great Sound effects!", which, it should be noted, on average, i spend more time getting the sound right on the clips than, you know...filming 'n stuff.

And finally: Gabriele Niola of Punto-Informatico.it says: something. I don't know any italian. Google translation has me thinking he either thinks the show is a rip-off of "The Office" or is funny like The Office. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Scotty Got an Office Job: The Season Finale

Scotty Got an Office Job: The Season Finale from Scotty Iseri on Vimeo.

Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 25

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Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 24

Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 24 from Scotty Iseri on Vimeo.

Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 23

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Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 22

Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 22 from Scotty Iseri on Vimeo.

Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 21

Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 21 from Scotty Iseri on Vimeo.

The Best moment of yesterday's election

Yes, even though i was in grant park last night. from Scotty Iseri on Vimeo.

Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 20

Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 20 from Scotty Iseri on Vimeo.

Halloween awesomeness!

I'm in LA running about with Tim The Roadie and Mrs. The Roadie, but here's some Fab Halloween related, socio-drama from our good friend BellaRosa



Also, did you know there was a full length version of werewolf bar mitzvah?

Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 19

Scotty Got an Office Job Episode 19 from Scotty Iseri on Vimeo.

All this talk about real americans,

I got your real American right here!



I get the sense that Nancy Pfotenhauer has a book deal coming out of this election?

Evidence?

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

What is it with Republicans and their crazy-cat-ladies-to-be?

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Evil League of Evil Application Awards

So...i'm biased since i did one of these, and it seems dumb to do a "top Five". So instead, i'm awarding some coveted Award for Evil Awards...er...the Evil-ies.


Best Script : St-evil

A lo-fi effort, that overcomes the crappy youtube compression with a great script, acted well, with a zombie backup singers. Love it.

Best Name (Pun Division): Tur-Mohel


Tur-Mohel -- Evil League Of Evil Application from Ryan Lewis on Vimeo.

High production values and a great couple of dick jokes. The song at the end is a short-but-sweet jingle that works for the character despite the synth-y backing track.

Most effective Special Effects/Best Integration of sociopolitical themes: Lady Laday


There's flashier, more expensive-looking effects out there right now, but this video shows really great choreography of the mayhem.


Honorable Mentions

Best Name (Evil Division): The Stabbington

Special Award for Technical Achievement: The Garnisher.
Holy crap, this group put up a website and everything. The vid looks great...(i assume due mostly to the efforts of DP Max Rush), and a great sound mix from the location sound to the pre-recorded.




Best High Concept WTF: Plaid Mistress

I'm not hating, i promise. I've watched this three times and i'm just not entirely sure what's going on here. There's a ton of story going on in this three minutes. Tiny pink bikes? Psycho Mouse? Weird ESL lip-sync? Can you help decode this?


Evil Power that would truly destroy the world: Caffiend

Best Evil Laugh: Super Vulnerable
Happens about 45 seconds in. Made me snort.



Everyone gets points for participation.

Scotty Got an Office Job...next week. (probably)

I get questions occasionally about Scotty Got an office Job

Shoot me a message, or leave a Q in the comments and i'll answer them "live" during a staff meeting

The Evil League of Evil Application

Evil League of Evil Application: Final Straw from Scotty Iseri on Vimeo.

I have a small favor to ask you...

Could you go here:

and vote that you like it?


It'd be nice if you watched it too, but don't feel obligated.

I mean, i think it's pretty neat, and it's pretty catchy, but you know...your time is valuable.

Scotty Iseri, Cowboy Telecommuter

The Veep Debate

Let's get a couple things straight:

Well...basically if Palin managed to make it through this one without drooling on herself and telling the moderate to suck it, then it'll be seen as a success. I was really hoping for some kind of blast from Biden.

Palin's kind of a jerk. That's part of her appeal to the base...she's the tough talkin' no-nonsense, one-of-us

If Hillary had put in a performance like that (and refused to answer a direct question) there'd be hell to pay.

I think she says "Nuke-you-ler" for the same reason my brother drives an SUV...to piss off bleeding hearts like me.

*sigh*

I need help convincing my parents that she's a joke.

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The Wedding Video

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After 7 years as a freelancer, i finally got an office job.

That doesn't take quarters!!!

First 5 people to subscribe and send me their address will get a free photocopy of my face.

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Sneak preview

The wedding suit.





Who's that looking super fly?

It's me.

It's me.

Who's that flying in the sky?

Scotty.

Iseri.

New job, new videos

so where do i wait for my fries?

At the pizza place by my house.

Wedding Deets

If you wanna come, we want you to come.

If it's rough to make it, no worries. Reception to follow...a few weeks later.

http://scottyiseri.com/Wedding.html

take off your pants and jacket

Ladies and gents, boys and girls...allow me to announce that I, Scotty Iseri, have conquered yet another apex of adulthood and got m'self a grown-up job.

My official title is "New Media Director" but it looks like what i'll be doing is producing a radio show, and making videos and other multi-media goodness for a website.

But the biggest trouble is that after years of the freelance lifestyle, wherein the uniform consists of whatever passes the smell test, now, for a couple days a week anyway, I am resigned to what is popularly known as business casual.

For example, my first day of work...wherein i dressed like this:





Note the nice slacks...the belt...the shirt tucked in...with no coffee stains. The whole package. Now compare that with day 2 wherein i was working from home



Note the smug sense of self-satisfaction...the lack of shower or contact lenses. I don't even think i'm wearing pants.

By day three, another day at the home office, i had devolved into shirtless cereal slurping.




You'd be surprised how much more work i get done the less i'm wearing. If only they'd let me tech in the nude.

Day four i barely got out of bed.



And again, i discovered exactly how productive i can be without pants on. Booked guests, started editing...even wrote a report on web media strategies (which is far more interesting than it sounds...especially when you're not wearing pants).

Unfortunately all good things must come to an end, and by friday i was back in the office, be-tied, and be-slacked. Friday is casual friday which essentially means no tie and jeans, but i felt the need to make up for my week of pantsless productivity.




And here's where the jackassery started. There should be a study done on length of exposure to harsh flourescent lighting and cubicle dust to the amount of time spent on boingboing in an office environment. Perhaps that's my lot in life...discover the link between business casual, and dicking around on the internet. Until then, i've got an interview to edit.

In case you missed my birthday

I don't care who you are or what you do.

I don't care what you believe in or what kind of screwy crap you have under your bed.

I don't care what your kink is, as long as we're all consenting and legal.

I don't care if you're a good person or an evil scumbag.

Just BUY ME THIS

I wanna try role playing games

No...that's not what you're thi...this is hard to admit, okay?

The past few months i've gotten back in touch with some childhood passions: I've started reading comic books regularly again. I bought an NES emulator and had a field day downloading all the games I ever wanted to play, but could never afford when they were going for fifty bucks a pop at the toys R us.

But i've only played roleplaying games twice. Once in college where Dan Walker tried to walk me through creating a some kind of cyberpunk, skateboard hacker/thief type thing but we got too drunk to actually start hacking mainframes and fighting orcs (or whatever).

The second time was when i worked for Idaho Shakespeare festival where the entire shop crew got together to play a campaign (as they're known) on our days off. It was fun, from what i remember, but we never got to finish it for a variety of reasons...one of them involving sexual shenanegins with a church going mormon, and another involving derogatory language towards a lesbian. Neither of which i was involved in BTW.

It's the damndest thing. If i wanted, say, to try skiing, or kickball, or any number of other hobbies...i know who to talk to. But for RPGs? is that the final frontier of nerd acceptance? When comic book movies are the #1 movies in America, and the video game industry are worth billions, are Role Playing Games still in the closet kinda?

At the very least, I don't know who to go to for this particular need, but if you're reading this and you have a "Friend" that might be interested in taking my hand and lead me into this strange, and orc-filled world...well, let's just say i'm "Try-Curious."

Highly personalized survey that will tell you absolutely nothing about yourself or your friends.

Get it?

Should i start considering that jewish people might be offended when i ask questions about their religion. To wit: "passover? is that the one where you get drunk and wear a costume?"

I am worried that I will have to purchase new clothes for my new job. This is only a problem because i spent all my money on a brand new scooter, which will be decidedly more difficult to wear to the office. So on that note, what, exactly, is "Business Casual"?

On a related note, please list, in order of preference, the best title to put on a business card:
Scotty Iseri: New Media Poobah, Audio Barbarian, Resident Geek, Intarwebz Consultant, LOLProducer.

On a completely unrelated note: If this song isn't the #1 smash hit single of the summer I'll eat my hat. Exactly how wrong is Lori to hate this song?

Nude photos of me have recently surfaced. I was under the impression that these photos were long since destroyed.

Why is Mike Doughty's latest album so bad? Did i get old, or did he? I'm going to lean towards him, but what do i know?

Does anybody know where to find a Karaoke bar that has private rooms in Vegas? Private rooms for karaoke, not for...you know...marital things.

I accidentally wrote "Martial Things" instead of "Marital Things" in the previous question. What exactly are "Martial Things"?

Have you been to billclintonturdblog.com yet? Why not? It's not a scheise site. Would you be more inclined to go if it was?

I'm working on a fiction podcast. Are you more likely to a) download and listen to a fiction podcast, b) poke a sharp stick in your ear?

How often does the surgeon general advise eating Ice Cream for dinner?

How much should i worry about proving my heterosexuality to my fiancee if i asked for tickets to this for my birthday?

Both R.E.M. and the B-52's have a new album out this year. Discuss. Discuss how old that makes you feel. I know, right?

Append the phrase "gone wild" to a well known title for comic effect. Example: "Little Women: Gone Wild!" "The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Gone Wild!" "American Girl Gone Wild Place". Show your work.


Repost! On teh Myspace! Or teh Facebook.


Bonus question: how many years before "teh" becomes the default setting for "the" in microsoft word?

Maximum Podthing Episode Four: Maximum Podthing Mustachetown

Tim and I are back, with 50+ minutes of maximum podthing:

Just, just deplorable sound quality this time around. So if you want to fast forward past the mustache talk, the doomsday praise, and the discussion of whether or not drinking diet coke plus transforms one into a homosexual, head straight to the last 6 minutes for the unveiling of the newest member of the maximum podthing family:

www.billclintonturdblog.com

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The Dr. Demento Show

So I finally got a copy of the Dr Demento show that "Sports" appeared on. The most exciting bit for me, was not just hearing the blessed Dr. say my name, but he pronounced it correctly.


You can listen to it here:

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Or if you just want to hear the song, it's on the new album, or you can download it here:


OR!

If you want to help continue to make my childhood dreams come true, you can go to Dr. Demento's site and request the song (or other hits from the new album) here.

So How's the Album Selling?

Dramatic re-enactments of actual post-show conversations.

Prince and Radiohead can do it, why didn't I? I 'unno, but all the blogs I read (as well as the latest issue of Wired) seem to be telling me that it's absolutely retarded to charge money for music in this day and age.

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The Westboro Baptist church is a joke

I mean, it has to be doesn't it? There's like 20 of 'em and they get more press than Eliot Spitzer's hooker.

Evidence? Look at this: watch the whole damn thing.



Hilarious right? They can't be serious. This has to be Joey Skaggs, or Alan Abel, or even Ashton Kutcher's brilliant plan.

Politickin'

While i'm not dropping out of the 2020 race, people have often turned to me, wondering who i'll be endorsing in this political season.

Well, the good folks at adaptive media have put together a little thing, wherein I'm using the latest techonology...um...to fight a giant evil voting machine.



Download it here.

Because i'm a big ol' softy:

For the love of god, we have to help Corey find his goddamn cat!

Work Related Voicemail #8

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We paid him well...

For this review.

or so you'd think. Jesus.

Maximum Linkage

The new album and the PDX shows are getting some traffic, so with that in mind i present the following shameless self promotion:

Bella is a good friend of TBRS and an awesome comedian and writer in her own right. We did this fun little web interview for her site, which you should check out for the pulse on Chicago comedy. Link

Citizen sugar is a group of blogs in the vein of aolblogs, and the gizmodo/lifehacker/wonkette collective. They seem to be geared towards the ladies (or so i'm told), but that seems to mean just a pastel-er layout. Link

It's like he read our press release, and reworded things so that we could use pull quotes. This is some fine journalism. Link
Hee hee..."as his bad self" Link


This is my favorite review of TBRS ever. Link

It's a Dream Come True

Many musicians have goals with their music. Some want to have a #1 hit single. Some want a gold record. Some want to get a song in a Mazda commercial. Me? I've had one goal, really, since I was a skinny, zitty little bastard in the 9th grade playing Nirvana covers in the back of the theatre classroom hoping it would make girls think I was deep and sensitive.

Today, ladies and gentlemen, I have achieved my dream.

I got a song played on Dr. Demento.

This won't mean much to you unless you were the specific type of nerdy pre-teen who huddled by his/her radio every saturday night waiting for the good Dr. to drop some hilarious science on your eager ears, but I can't tell you how honestly, sincerely giddy I am to discover this. I was googling around, looking for Big Rock press and it popped up. Next stop, dare i dream, the funny five?


Other highlights of my vanity googling:

TBRS is the Concert Pick for the First Unitarian Church's Good Times Committee. Thank God we're listed under "adult programs".

Arthur Delaney is the real star of TBRS. This guy reminds me of Buck Naked a little. Only, you know, without breasts pressed to his face.

Yesterday I went down and visited my alma mater (Willamette University), where I hadn't been since I graduated in 2001. I'll spare you the details of getting the gibblies while standing outside the building where I lost my virginity, but I will post this picture of the last time I defiled the stage as an actor:



Also, no, blondes don't have more fun. But that outfit got me so much pussy.


p.s.
D'ja get a chance to listen to it yet?

New album's out

The new album is out

and it's available exclusively online at www.scottyiseri.com.

and it's only six bucks!

(Why so cheap? Because i'm not goddamn Radionhead, that's why. * )

and it includes 12 awesome songs, 3 videos and six bucks goddammit.

Track Listing:
1)Your Face
2)Scotty Iseri You Can Do Anything
3)Fat Girl
4)Giant Robot
5)Goddammit, I’ve Had It
6)Coffeeshop Writer
7)I’m Sorry
8)Lilly’s Song
9)The Greatest Xmas Ever
10) The Big Rock Show Theme
11) SI, YCDA (Live at Davenport’s
12) Secret Bonus Track (oops)


Go here, you buy now.



And god bless amurica.



*Also, If your name's not Justin Timberlake, it takes 6-8 weeks to get an album on itunes. Then, when it finally shows up, they make you download their crazy format that doesn't work on any mp3 player except ipods. And at the end of the day, they charge me 4 bucks for the privilege. We here at TBRS say hooey on that. We make the same amount either way, so until Steve Jobs gets his act together and uploads our album, the only place to get it is gonna be here: http://www.scottyiseri.com/SI4Pres.html

What i wouldn't give for a drummer to tell me "that's not funny"

So, i think i finished the album last night. I did the last couple of mixes and it sounds...well, it sounds okay.

And suddenly I'm all anxious about it. This is the problem with not being in a band...there's no checks and balances.


I'm sticking by my guns, but i did send out whiny, nigh incomprehensible emails to a select group of friends saying "AHHHH!!!! Freaking out! Listen to this and tell me what's wrong with it!"

And i make fun of actors for getting stage fright.

(not really)...i love actors.

But in the end...well, in the end, conclusions will have to wait because my break is over and i'm going back to work.

The New Album cover

with tentative track listing.





I'm not entirely sure why the button is all effed up, but on the physical copies, it's actually a full circle.

The Preponderance of Early-Onset Male-Pattern Baldness in Indie Rock Fans: A Photo Essay

Last night we went to see our friend Ryan's band, La Scala play. They're pretty awesome. But a certain pattern emerged amongst the crowd. (A certain "male-pattern", har har). Amidst all the women in their 20's who dress like it's the 80's, and the ubiquitous skinny jeans, lies the tempestuous swirl of hair surrounding scalpflesh like water getting sucked down a drain. Is there a medical connection to the amount of Yo La Tengo albums on one's ipod to the early onset of male pattern baldness?

A (Cautious) Love letter to Samsung

I hate corporations. If you knew me in college, this is no great surprise. The difference is, I've gone from one of those neo-hippies, who smash the starbucks window with their 200 dollar, sweatshop nikes, to taking, very very personally, every single interaction that could possibly be construed as negative. For example: Every time a flight on United Airlines is late...which they always are...i might as well have written, every single flight on United Airlines is late... in fact, let's go with that. When I fly United Airlines, and they have told me that the flight they advertised as leaving at 9:15 will in fact, be leaving at noon, I have revenge fantasies that range from slapping the surly ticket agent (racial tensions be-damned), to imagining plausible reasons why i could conceivably sue them. I've gotten into the habit of calling their complaint line just to hear what fake name the Indian call center representative is going to give me.

Another example: the automated customer service for my cell phone company. Let's call them Shmerizon. I can't believe how difficult these people make it for me to give them money. I long ago gave up trying to jump through the hoops of any voice recognition system and just start muttering threats anytime I hear a computer say the words "let's get started!" This has only bitten me in the ass once, when I thought I was waiting on hold to pay my Shmerizon bill, and was, in fact, telling "Jeremy" how I was going to shit in his optical drive if he didn't get a human being on the horn A. to the S.A.P.

But one company has recently melted my ice-cold heart, if only just a little. And this is a love letter to Samsung.

Samsung makes all kinds of crap. Their website is extremely flashy (and flash-y) and therefore incredibly dull. They make TV's, smartphones, camcorders, printers, microwaves, and (pertinently) mp3 players. Now, I, for a period of about 6 months, was the owner of one of their low-end models, (the m230). Just a little 512MB jobby that i'd use for jogging, or when I didn't wanna "lug" my 30Gig Cowon Media Center around. I got it on clearance for something like 10 bucks so when the thing stopped working i'd written it off as another casualty of the planned obsolecense era. I'd popped the thing opened and monkeyed around with it to see if i could fix it, but no such luck. Seemed to be a software problem and that's out of my depth.

I did a quick google search to see if anyone else had had a similar problem and it turns out that someone else had. Buried in some random forum from 2004 (when the m230 was spankin' new and probably cost 8 times what I paid). The author of the post had the same problem i had and was directed to call samsung.

So I screwed up my courage and dialed the 800 number. To my surprise i got a human being on the phone. "Beth" was helpful, but to the point: "Give me your model number and your email address and we'll send you a UPS slip to send the player back to us." Seriously? "Yes sir."

And she wasn't lying. Within minutes, a UPS shipping label appeared in my inbox. I stuck it to an envelope, mailed the thing back, and i got the damn thing sent out, free of charge.

I haven't received the new one yet, but it's sitting waiting for me at work. How do I know this? SAMSUNG CALLED ME! That's right. UPS tried to deliver at my house when i wasn't home. They left one of their special brand of incredibly weak and streaky post-its telling me they were gonna try to deliver 2 more times, but I wasn't home, so they'll try twice more before I have to travel to their warehouse in B.F. Egypt to pick up my package where they'll hold it for 20 minutes before feeding it to a junkyard dog. Or whatever it is they do. But, out of concern, Samsung called me up on my cell and said "Hey, UPS said they couldn't deliver....they're going to try two more times before blah blah junkyard dog, and we just wanted to see if you needed us to schedule a different delivery time.

Samsung, not UPS, made this call.

It should be noted that I'm not writing this in order to confess a change of heart. In fact, it pisses me off a little that this isn't the norm. Why is it shocking when you immediately get a human being on the phone within 30 seconds of calling? Shouldn't that be the norm? Shouldn't I lead some sort of uprising against the computer voiced customer care centers? Did we learn nothing from the Terminator? This is the first step in a skynet uprising! Still, let's not other companies misdeeds (and genocides) ruin our current warm fuzzies for Samsung. I'm sure there's people out there that have horror stories that'll make my little wet dream a nightmare. But still, I'm shocked at how easily this all went down, and how well they treated me. After being treated like a used wet-nap at the penny slots by United, Verizon, Sony and Comcast, it's nice to finally be treated like a lady.

Work Related Voicemail #7

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Who's Hung?

we are!


Happy new year