MTV Overdrive on The Nines
Josh Horowitz from MTV News wrote in to point out that The Flash business wasn’t the only thing they ran from our Sundance interview. In fact, the full version, now up on MTV Overdrive, succeeds in making both Ryan and me sound coherent, which is no small feat.
Here’s what you can’t see in the video:
- Ryan is sick with strep throat.
- I’m wearing a Daring Fireball t-shirt. (You can see it in some photos from that day.)
- There are about 30 people just off camera, being occasionally shushed.
Josh was a good interviewer, honestly, so I’m sorry to harsh on him for The Flash business. I soon hope to have comic book news of my own to avoid discussing.
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January 30th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Nice save there at the end, Dr. Reynolds!
January 30th, 2007 at 9:52 am
they won’t let anyone outside the US see it due to ‘copyright restrictions’… BOOOOOOO!
January 30th, 2007 at 10:48 am
I really wanted to try to hear the shushing,
alas I can’t view it ‘cos im not in the U.S.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Daring Fireball t-shirt? Dude, you are SO my kind of geek…
-mike
January 30th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Is there a YouTube version of the video, or any other way to watch it? The MTV site is restricted transmission for non U.S. viewers. And here was me thinking we were all on the same kind of web…
January 30th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
MTV’s video system is remarkably closed. I’m surprised it even works on Macintosh. If any enterprising geeks can figure out a way to let international readers see the video, please share.
January 30th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I’m in Australia AND on a Mac, and it worked fine for me. Maybe I’m just lucky.
January 30th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
If you have already tried checking the U.K. (or other) version of the website
try it with a web proxy site based in the U.S.
The trick with the proxy sites is that they don’t always work with embedded applications like the MTV video player.
January 30th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I’m in Australia and I was able to view it from John’s link. Not sure how that helps anybody, but it seems at least some folks overseas can see it. Too much background noise here at work for me to hear the shushing. I’m not shushing people so I can hear shushing.
January 30th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Am i missing something? The “on parade” thing you are doing recently i find pretty bad… i mean is it different in the original context?… i don’t find it at all funny or smart without some positive responses but i wouldn’t want to read it even if it had those truthfully… i love this site and this parade thing is really putting me off… i wish i could put this somewhere more apropriate but comments are off… Am i missing something?
good luck with the movie… hope you get a australian release so i can see it, this is a criticism of nothing but the parade…
January 30th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Just a counter-balance to the above, I’ve raelly enjoyed the Walter Scott Parade parodies. I find them wonderfully vapid and sarcastic and show your great versatility as a writer.
As ever, I remain surprised you have the time / energy to devote to this sort of writing (ie. that doesn’t pay), really appreciate the effort and the generosity and quality of thought in each post,
All the best with The Nines - I hope it will find it’s way to the New Zealand Film Festivals at some point.
Regards
Richard
January 30th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxLlBwNvOc
January 31st, 2007 at 1:51 am
I can view the MTV video and I’m an ‘international reader’.
I don’t find the Parade thing remotely funny (and I strongly suspect it’s because I’m an ‘international reader’ and couldn’t care less about the whole thing).
But I have no problems with it, I just skip it.
January 31st, 2007 at 4:50 am
from what richard says, I guess i really must be missing what it is thats being parodied… reading some of the other on parades, a lot of them dont seem so sarcastic and rude…
January 31st, 2007 at 4:51 am
from what richard says, I guess i really must be missing what it is thats being parodied… reading some of the other on parades, a lot of them dont seem so sarcastic and rude…
Anna tells it better then i ever could…
January 31st, 2007 at 5:35 am
If I have a process question, can I ask that here or is there another way I should ask the question?
January 31st, 2007 at 10:21 am
John,
Just so you know, Chris Danvers writes for Parade. Please keep up the good work.
January 31st, 2007 at 3:03 pm
“In fact, the full version, now up on MTV Overdrive, succeeds in making both Ryan and I sound coherent, which is no small feat.”
John, it’s “both Ryan and me” — not “Ryan and I.”
There’s a language epidemic concerning this usage. Smart people think it sounds correct. It isn’t.
Love your site.
January 31st, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Cineman (18) is right. I almost never do that.
January 31st, 2007 at 9:03 pm
so its a parady of parade?… not parade itself?… but was on there site wasnt it?… parades a mag right?… havent seen it in australia…
thanks for clearing that up will…. crickets… a tumbleweed rolls by…
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