I got engaged over the weekend. Here is my beautiful fiancée’s account of the elaborate lies I told her and why she agreed to marry me anyway.
The Step
Music video for “The Step” by Mr. Danceman. © 2013 Danceman Records.
Get the extended “The Step” single on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/album/step-f…
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Step-feat-D…Starring: Dan Chamberlain as Mr. Danceman
Featuring: Alison Bennett, Tim Dunn, Jared Hacker, and Laura Willcox
Written and produced by The Bilderbergers (Lucas Klauss, Matt Moskovciak, Ben Stadler)
Directed by Ben Weinstein
Director of Photography: Adam Sacks
Music: John D. Ivy
Editing and Visual Effects: Alden Ford
Sound: James Leggero
Choreography: Kassia Miller
Wardrobe: Andrew Clancy (http://anyoldiron.net/)
PA: Bob Garramone
Transportation: Ramsey Ess Car Service
This might be my favorite thing we’ve done. Dan Chamberlain is fantastic in this. The whole thing is a collaboration between all the good people mentioned above, and I’m very grateful to everybody involved for helping make this weird idea into a real sketch.
Thingstarter - iNotRacist
The first video in our new Thingstarter web series with Above Average!
Starring Zach Broussard and featuring Sasheer Zamata and Nathan Min.
Directed/Edited by Ben Weinstein
Director of Photography: Tyler Ribble
Sound Mixer: Jeff Gaumer
Graphic Designer: Bowen Yang
Original Music: Alex Weinstein
Art/Props: Kayla Nadel-LaMotta
PAs: Zoie Mancino and Eva Gross
Above Average Producer: Josh PooleWritten and created by The Bilderbergers.
Had so much fun making this, everyone involved was incredible. We’ve got two more in the can, really excited to release those.
We’ve (i.e. my sketch group’ve) been working really hard for the past couple of months on this new web series, so it’s pretty gratifying to see it out there in the world (i.e. the Internet) today. The whole cast and crew are very great at what they do.
Source: thebilderbergers
I don’t have a car trunk, let alone speakers in my car trunk, but this song makes me want to.
Source: SoundCloud / BlackIce Bell
If we take the future at all seriously, which is to say as a time period that someone is going to have to live in, then we need to leave a big percentage of the planet’s coal and oil and natural gas in the ground.
Chambaland - My Heart Will Do It Right (Celine Dion vs. Daft Punk)
Quick and dirty and French.
Do I have such a passion for sublime 80s beats, as exemplified in “Falling” by Haim (above) and Tegan and Sara’s most recent album, purely out of nostalgia (for college more than the actual 80s) or, rather, out of some kind of genetic predisposition for sublime 80s beats? Both? Both and? I don’t know. I guess I ultimately don’t care.
Love Is Blindness
Friend and fellow YA author Terra Elan McVoy has a new book out called Criminal, about a teen girl who falls for a piece-of-shit guy and, as a result, gets caught up in a murder investigation. It is truly outstanding––one of my favorite YA novels of the year.
To celebrate the release of the book, Terra asked me and a few other authors to write about a time that love for someone or something blinded us. So of course I wrote about the time (college) that I was in love with Ayn Rand.
