this is the best video of all time.
and here is a link to the vote:
Vote Quiet Company for ACL Festival
I had to put this back up. Still one of the funniest things to happen this year.
A little something from the Flight of the Conchords, just to freshen up your day. And remember, when everything looks bad, put down your gun, and pick up a girl:
Redheads not Warheads
Blondes not Bombs
Brunettes not Fighter Jets.
Enjoy.
Well, if you havent seen it yet, you are missing out. To me, this movie immediately jumps over Anchorman to become the single most ridiculous comedy ever made. Every single scene pushes the limits of what it can do, with ample non-sequiters and cursing to round it out. You even get to see Will Ferrell’s prosthetic nutsack. And for the record, they would have fit just fine into any scene in Boogie Nights. This heart-warming tale of two 40-year-old man-children is an instant classic, and to say the least, I cant wait for the DVD to come out. Basically, John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell are on a roll, with this movie following up the awesome movies Walk Hard and Semi-Pro (rent those if you havent seen them), and this movie kicks the shit out of Talladega Nights. Don’t belive me? Here’s a sample of a rap video from the movie. Enjoy.
See more Will Ferrell videos at Funny or Die
Long story short, see this movie.
It’s sweeping the nation!!! Get on board before the train passes you by. This drink was invented by me, The Hutch, and it is officially delicious. And ever since I ordered one at the steakhouse in Las Vegas, it’s been a staple of all my friend’s drinking escapades. Some of their dads as well. Long story short, it made a big splash at my buddy Tom’s wedding, and definitely made the reception just a little more fun. Make one for yourself, or order it at your favorite bar. Be sure to call it a Whiskey Hutch when ordering, though: name recognition is everything.
Whiskey Hutch Recipe
Ingredients:
Jack Daniels (bourbon will do in a pinch)
Coca-Cola Classic (or Coke Zero, but definitely not Diet Coke)
Bar cherries
Lime
To make:
Fill a glass with crushed ice. Small ice cubes will also do. Fill glass 2/5 of the way full with Jack, and fill to just under full with Coke. Add cherry, smushing it while adding, to release its flavor. Sqeeze lime wedge over the top. Stir thoroughly. Enjoy.
Side Note: A proper Whiskey Hutch will always be ordered as a double, with 2 cherries and 2 limes. Anything else would be uncivilized.
Well, I was in Vegas last month for a bachelor party, and besides spending a shitload of money at Scores, I played alot of craps. And for some reason, alot of slots. And although slots have the worst odds of anything in the casino, until the last day, I was up about $300 on them. Until I went on a drunken rampage and accidentally started betting $25 per spin on the world’s most confusing slot machine. Guess how that turned out.
Anyways, using a slightly modified version of my system, I was up $600 heading into the last day, and then I blew all of that. But that’s neither here nor there. The point is that I like my new modification, and if everyone else in the bachelor party had let me take a nap instead of going down to gamble for 2 more hours, I’d be REALLY happy about my modification.
The mod is a minor one: basically I do everything the same as I’ve described in my last 2 posts, only now I lay off the Odds bet if the point roll is a 4 or a 10. This saved me money just about every time I did it. And I took the extra money I was going to put on the Odds (usually $10-15 bucks), and lumped it on top of my numbers bets (6 and 8, always) for some extra action. Long story short, there were 7 of us playing in our party, and every time, I walked from the table with the most winnings, excluding the last 2 times, when I left with $4.
I didn’t lose everything I played, though: I did manage to put a bet down on the Lakers-Celts while I was at the Venetian sports book, and I won that, so for the trip, I ended up $75 in gambling, and down $450 on strippers. It’s a good trade-off. And by the way, if you have the money, stay at the Venetian. Awesome. And definitely go to GhostBar at the Palms.
Then check out this relatively new site: VIRB
It’s essentially Myspace without all of the bullshit and spam, and in a much more pleasantly viewable format. I have a site there myself for my music biz, so if you are bored, and if you are here, then you are, check out my music page to see a few things I ahve been working on. I will keep adding to the VIRB site in the future, as I get the chance to convert over some of my older projects. Here’s the link:
Also if you are interested in contacting any of the bands/artists I have worked with, feel free to get in touch with me and I can give you their info: hutch@bighutch.net . Or you could just look for them on VIRB and/or myspace like a normal person. Enjoy.
Maybe you guessed it, but it turns out I cant figure out how to get all of my posts from the last 9 months back, so fuck it, let’s go from scratch. I think Aristotle said that. Anyway, I’ll be posting here much more regularly now that I am resigning myself to the fact that almost a full year’s worth of comedy GOLD has gone down the toilet. Kill me now, and happy reading!!
Love,
Hutch (a.k.a. the guy who needs to remember to back up his shit before installing “experimental” blog plugins)
5. Max Toth
Max is an old buddy from Trinity U, and he’s an artist. He has always been a cool guy who made really cool art, and I want to use this space to promote him a little. I really love his work, and he is going to be doing a big show in New York this month, on the 7th. If you are going to be in New York, swing by, and tell him Hutch said “what’s up”. The info for his show is on the front page of his site, and there are examples of his works on there too. Check it out.
4. Quiet Company
This is a band I have recorded from here in Austin, Texas. I got to know them through the guitar player, Tommy Blank, who it turns out I went to Trinity U with. It was one of those things where I was looking for a band to track, and a friend said “well, Tommy has a band” and I was like “who the hell is Tommy?” and then it turns out I knew him already. So in the picture above, Tommy is the one with the beard. Just kidding, he’s the one on the right.
So moving on with this recommendation, Quiet Company recently won a spot at the MP3.com showcase at Antone’s in Austin, on Sept. 12th, along with 4 other bands. The showcase is a contest, and the winner gets to play a show at the ACL Festival, also in Austin, on the Dell Stage. This is huge. If you are in or near Austin, try to make it to the showcase to vote for the guys, but if you can’t, at least you should know about this band. They make epic pop music of the best kind, and are really doing something great. As soon as I started listening to their songs, I knew that this was a great band that people needed to know about. And after working with them and knowing some of their new songs, I think that this is a band that people WILL know about. Check out some of their tunes on myspace, and if you are so inclined, you can buy their first record on iTunes.
Quiet Company on Myspace
3. Friends with Ranches
If some of you are wondering why this post didn’t come in on the 1st like the rest of my recommendations posts, I have a legitimate reason. I was in Kerrville partying it up with some old friend’s at the Twin Boar Ranch. The Twin Boar has long been a party destination for the Trinity cool kids, thanks to the generous spirit of our host, Melyn Duncan. The ranch features 2 ranch houses with room to sleep 30 comfortably, and up to 50 uncomfortably for those last 20, a barn with a basketball/volleyball court in it, ATV’s, a lake, a slide into the lake, a pool, a hot tub, and various wild animals that can kill you, including a cougar (in a cage) and longhorns that roam the property. Sufficed to say, this always make for a good time, and there is nothing like dragging a keg or 3 out to the middle of nowhere and getting a little wild.
2. Switching to Mac
I fucking hate my current computer. It’s a dual-core AMD that I put together myself, and it should be fast as hell, but it runs slower than the first heat of the 100 at the special olympics. And my recording studio is all Mac-based, so I can’t bring my portable drive home to work. But more than that, the computers at the studio are “slower” than my home system in terms of processing power (with equal memory), but they run so much faster that it’s ridiculous. Thats pretty much it. OSX just runs faster than Windows. Switch if you have the opportunity, you won’t look back. I haven’t switched yet, since I am poor, but hopefully sometime this year, I’ll make the leap. Stay tuned.
1. Not Speeding on the Highway And Driving Like an Asshole With a Donut Tire
So I was driving up I-35 the other day from New Braunfels to Austin, and traffic is shitty, like always. Not stop-and-go shitty, but kind of thick. Anyway, this dude in a white Honda Accord comes zipping up on my right. I see this, because I am a good driver and check my mirrors often. But let me set the scene a little. On my right, ahead of me, is another car. I am going to pass this car in the next 10 seconds. On my left is some more traffic. Now, back to the guy in the Honda. This fucker is coming way too fast. As in, I can tell that in my side mirror. He flies up on my right, as I am just starting to pass this other car, and he has to slam on his brakes and swerve into the shoulder to not hit this other car from behind. He wanted to cut between that car and mine, which would have accomplished nothing, since there was another car in front of me. So, this is almost accident #1. It was seriously close. So now, I am thinking, “what the fuck is this guy thinking?” He slows down, crosses behind me, and punches it again. I look, and it’s a kid no older than 20 driving, and he has a donut for a front right tire. So now I am thinking about how dumb this is, and how this guy is actually going to cause a wreck. Anyway, he zips up behind the car on my left, which is obviously not going anywhere, and he has to slam on his brakes AGAIN. This is just stupid at this point. If he can’t see that the car in front of him wasn’t moving that fast, this guy has some serious depth perception issues. So this is now almost accident #2. At this point, the guy weaves in a tiny space from the left to the middle, ahead of the car in front of me, and zips off, just over the top of the hill. 3 seconds later, I top the hill, traffic is slowing down, and what do I see? This fucker has FLIPPED his car, and hit another one. What an asshole. There were already 5 other cars stopped to help, so I didn’t feel the need to stop, but sufficed to say I was hoping he was injured. Not dead or anything, but this jackass deserved a few broken ribs.
So the moral of the story is to not drive like a total asshole, especially if you have a donut for one of your tires. It’s just not good for business.
Well, that’s it for this edition. Keep checking back for more updates.
http://www.birdsbarbershop.com/
This is a kick-ass local barbershop here in Austin, and i just went and got a trim the other day. For those of you who don’t know, which should be almost all of you, I haven’t cut my hair in about 7 months. It’s long as shit. Or at least it was, until my haircut. Now its just shaggy, but you get the picture. Anyway, I just wanted everyone to know how good Bird’s is. Not only are the haircuts awesome, they do things like throw parties with free Tito’s Vodka and Shiner Bock, and they often have a DJ on the weekends to spin while you are getting a chop. Well, the other day, when I was in for my cut, I once again had a barber tell me I have great hair. Not that it looks cool, necessarily, but that it is nice and soft and thick (insert sexual innuendo here). I swear I have been hearing this from barbers since I was 6, but this time, my stylist added something new: she started playing with my hair, and said, and I quote, “You have the BOMBEST curls!! I just want to play with them!!!” Seriously. True story. She loved my hair. Alot. Sufficed to say, I did not get her number. But the point of all of this is that Bird’s is a great place to get a haircut. Check it out in south austin on S. Lamar about a mile north of Ben White, or the north location on Burnet north of 2222, or on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/birdsbarbershop (check out the myspace for updates on parties).
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