Posted in 3 questions, Art, East Side Buffet, tagged 3 Questions, East Side Buffet, Howard Stern, Juan Wauters, Matt Volz, The Beets on 10 June 2014| Leave a Comment »
Three Questions returns for a chat and musical performance with Jean Wauters and Matt Volz of The Beets.
I originally heard about The Beets from The Safdie Brothers. Watch my 2009 interview with them at the bottom and our short “The Clippy” after that.
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e4fb6c7d35/3-questions-with-jean-wauters-of-the-beets
Juan Wauter’s and Matt Volz’s Sanity Or Not
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Posted in About Town Portland, East Side Buffet, tagged Benny Safdie, Burgerville, Claire Titleman, Dan Leif, East Side Buffet, Jack Lewis, Josh Safdie, Mikey Kamppmann, Powells Books, Safdie Brothers, The Shaky Hands on 6 May 2014| Leave a Comment »
A lost comedy skit I never released featuring the Safdie brothers.
Filmed in 2009. Took a year to edit and still wasn’t done.
The episode is essentially the third East Side Buffet episode after we got canceled in episode 2.
(featuring Claire Titleman, Mikey Kamppmann, Chess Hero and a live performance from The Shaky Hands at Burgerville)
Posted in East Side Buffet, Sometimes I Like Stuff on 15 January 2014| Leave a Comment »
I just re-watched this older video I made about musician Darren Hanlon talking about pinball. It was one of the first videos I ever made and I was actually pretty happy with how it turned out, editing and pacing were pretty good. I thought I’d posted it on this blog, but I guess not. So I’m re-posting it.
Via Wikapedia:
Darren Hanlon is an Australian singer/songwriter who plays urban folk music. He has released five solo albums, three EPs and eight singles on Candle Records and Flippin Yeah industries, as well as several compilation tracks. Before becoming a solo artist in 1999, he was a member of the Simpletons, and contributed backing guitar and keyboards for the Lucksmiths, the Dearhunters, and Mick Thomas. He has toured with Billy Bragg, David Dondero, Tim Kasher, Violent Femmes, and The Magnetic Fields and has recently completed his latest album I Will Love You At All, released on 16 July 2010 in Australia (Flippin’ Yeah) and 21 September in the United States (Yep Roc).
Posted in East Side Buffet on 15 December 2013| Leave a Comment »
I wanted to make some comedy videos a few years ago so I started working with Dan Leif. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work (I feel like I say “lot of fun” a lot. What else can I say to sound more literary?”) But it was time consuming and I had crap equipment (Flip camera, no mics, ect) and no urge to improve. And not many people were watching anyway. Not that big a surprise. We made a number of little videos and I posted two full episodes of the show which featured interviews, music performances and skits. This mind you, was before Portlandia. But I was caught up in the comedy craze. I still am, but have less time. Here is a old skit some people have seen before I did with Dan and also the follow up skit. We wanted to do a Mr. Show thing and have the skits blend into each other. You can watch the first two previous episodes at Vimeo.com/eastsidebuffet as well as other videos I made (including interviews with Craig Thompson, Martin Creed and more)
Posted in Art, East Side Buffet on 15 December 2013| Leave a Comment »
Posted in East Side Buffet on 15 December 2013| Leave a Comment »
On Saturday night my friend Matt invited me to watch him perform some magic tricks at a talent show his neighbors were having. He didn’t know what it would be exactly. I wasn’t planning to perform but a few hours before the show I was talking to my friend Paul who said he might want to tell a story at the show. I told him that was a great idea. We ended up throwing together some music to play with the story and turned it more into a sonic, music thing with the story. Later in the evening Paul told another story, which was amazing. In between there were many other talents on display, a great plate spinner, some vegetable impressions and a really fun idea: A hat the party hosts had filled with random weird talents people could perform. I didn’t video all the performers. I apologize. I would like to have another talent show at some point again. It was lots of fun.
Posted in East Side Buffet, tagged Burgarville, Claire Titleman, Comedy Is Ok, Dan Leif, East Side Buffet, EastSideBuffet, Hotel Fifty, Jack Lewis, LA, Mikey Kampmann, Portland, Powells Books, Shaky Hands, Wings on 30 September 2011| Leave a Comment »
After years of hard work, the 2nd episode of East Side Buffet: 3rd Anniversary Season Edition is here. This might be the last one. It’s taken so long I grew a beard, shaved it and grew another one. We recommend watching it in one sitting while at work.
Posted in East Side Buffet, Uncategorized, tagged Cormac McCarthy, East Side Buffet, Joan Didion, The Road on 2 September 2011| Leave a Comment »
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2162aff305/east-side-buffet-book-club
Go Vote (and pass around)
Posted in East Side Buffet, Sometimes I Like Stuff, tagged comedy, East Side Buffet, Lee Cohen, Lets Wrestle, Merge Records, Mississippi Studios, Music, Portland, Titus Andronicus, wrestling on 19 May 2011| Leave a Comment »
Oh boy here’s another video that’s taken me a year to finish: A little lo-fi profile on the UK band Lets Wrestle. Luckily it coincides with their new album on Merge Records.
Posted in Discussion, East Side Buffet, tagged "Josh Safdie" "Benny Safdie" Safdie "Daddy Longlegs" "Ronald Bernstein" "Ronny Bernstein" Frownland "Jack Lewis" "3 Questions" "East Side Buffet" Portland Comedy "Talk Show" on 6 January 2011| Leave a Comment »
Brothers Josh and Benny Safdie discuss their award-winning movie, “Daddy Longlegs” (on many top 10 lists of 2010, including: Film Comment, Art Forum, The New Yorker, SF Guardian and the Village Voice) in Jack’s living room in Portland, OR.
“3 Questions” is a production of East Side Buffet (Vimeo.com/EastSideBuffet)
The Safdie’s website: http://www.redbucketfilms.com/
the piñata. 