Upon our arrival in Vermont, Laura showed me to the room I was staying in. It was a spare bedroom in their place, in the back of the house. Now I was tired when we arrived so I through all the random stuff off the bed (extra blankets and stuff) and went to bed. I woke up around 3 am because I was freezing, apparently all the extra blankets were actually needed because the room was un-heated, so I understood all the blankets, but for the rest of the week I really was ponding what the use for the 14 pillows is. That's right 14 pillows were on this bed, I counted them as I was trying my best to lay them out nicely like they were when I got there. Below you can see what I settled on, after 5 tries.

On the way to Vermont I noticed a rundown church (photo 1 photo 2) on the side of the road with a "For Sale" sign on it. At first I told Brett that we should buy it and move into it as a summer home (it was just outside of Troy, NY so it was a little far from work for us both to commute). I figured it would be cool to live in an old church, I mean what other place could someone move into that has that much stained glass.

After Brett convinced me that it in fact would NOT be cool to live in an old church I came up with a much better use for the building, I figure we should buy it and turn it into a bar that we would call "Church", that way if you get pulled over on the way home when the officer asks where you are coming from you can just answer "I was at Church."

While Brett and I were skiing in Vermont a few weeks ago Brett decided he wanted to take a video of his trip down the mountain. (Video can be viewed here). He was inspired by a guy that we saw with a snowboard and a camcorder that we saw on our way up the ski lift.

When Brett first told me about his idea I really thought that is was really going to be the last thing ever captured by his 2 month old digital camera, in fact I told him that he really should title the video "Dad, check out how I broke that great Christmas gift you gave me. Luckily he made it down the mountain and he and the camera were both in one piece.

One comment I would like to make about the video itself is how it starts, if you haven't watched the video I'll just tell you that it starts with me on the ground on the ground and Brett asking me "what happened?" I responded that I fell, and the video goes on. What he failed to capture was the fact that it was the first time that day that I had fallen (quite a big deal for me as I spent most of the previous day tumbling) and that I only fell after Brett yelled out hey Kacz stop, at which point I came to a complete stop and proceeded to just fall to the side and to the ground.

Just last week I saw this clip from the Jimmy Kimmel show.

I think the reason that I'm so into this video is that it combines two things that I love, people being able to make fun of themselves and a hot female comedian.

When I found out that there was a follow up of this video (below) I was pretty excited, I mean a follow up to I'm F*cking Matt Damon would have to be just as good, right? I guess I forget that a sequel is hardly ever as good as the original, or maybe the problem is that there isn't as much of Sarah.

So the other night as we were sitting in our hotel room in Mississauga, ON and flipping through channels I came across "Tom Green's House Tonight" on the Comedy Network (Canada's Version of Comedy Central).

I would describe "Tom Green's House Tonight" as having production qualities somewhere between a public access TV show and home movies shot on a Hi-8 camcorder. However the show also has the same caliber of guests as you would find on a "real" late night TV show, the night we watched we watch the guests were Rob Schieder and Hailey Duff, 2 people who I would not call huge names, but I also wouldn't call unknowns that you would see on public access.

As we were watching the show I was kind depressed to realize that this show, which is obviously shot on 2 DV-cams and then broadcast live (a big part of the show is people calling in from there Skype video chats), most likely has a larger viewership than Music Is Art Live at the Center, a show that I worked on and won a Telly Award for.

Now I realize that the Telly Award is a fake a award, Stephen Colbert has made that quite clear (video1 video2). Also wikipedia helps to clarify that point used to help clarify that point. It seems that someone has removed everything that used to be on the wikipedia site and replaced it with something that doesn't make the telly award look bad.

But I've digressed, the real point I'm trying to make is that Music Is Art could do much better in the viewership department, maybe they just need to move to the Living Room of a quasi-celebrity, and find a host that's been married to Drew Barrymore.