My friend Megan sent my Toyota Recalls Everything video to a friend who works on a car blog. He got it linked to their front page, and then it got linked to the front AOL for a while. It got up to 24,000 views within a week.
That means it is 420 percent more popular than my short film about Wilford Brimley in Prospect Park.
I guess mammoth automotive recalls have a bigger pull on the Zeitgeist than gruff, lovable actors wandering through the woods.
(Thanks, Megan!)
Nuclear War Comedy
As a child who lived through the tail end of the Cold War, I had my share of nuclear war themed nightmares. The scariest part was always that hour I imagined we’d have between finding out a bomb was coming and when it actually arrived. What would you do in that last 60 minutes of your life? As you get older, I think that question becomes easier to answer — you’ve experienced enough things to know what’s left on your list or what you want to be the last thing you ever do. But at 13? You have no idea.
Then the Soviet Union collapsed, everyone got happy, and I survived long enough to make a comedy video about nuclear proliferation.
I guess my generation wasted all that time we spent listening to songs like “99 Red Balloons” and “Forever Young.” Thanks for nothing, Alphaville and Nena.
Here’s the video. Made with Will Hines, starring Pam Murphy.