http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:16:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I found these two Mister Glasses storyboards in a file marked "Comedy.” The numbers in the corner seem to indicate there were at least 4 of them. Pretty fun, I think. It's funny—I used to rather meticulously storyboard my videos, partly because that’s what Steven D. Katz told me to do ... http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog/2010/02/02/old-mister-glasses-storyboards/ Big shifts are happening at New York’s public radio stations, 93.9FM and AM820. Most of the music programming is being folded into the classical programming of NYC’s tepid classical station, WQXR and moving to 105.9FM. So now we have three public radio stations. Fine. What is not fine is that Jonathan ... http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog/2009/10/05/programming-changes-at-wnyc/ Yesterday, I saw the movie, Objectified with Dyna at the IFC Film Center. It’s a documentary on contemporary industrial design—interviews with designers, an endless parade of cool products designed within the last 20 years, discursive bits on the nature of “good design.” You see how certain products (say, an OXO ... http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog/2009/05/12/on-objectified-and-rams/ Art History books are full of errors. I read art history books from time to time. Sometimes I’ll read a passage where a work seems misinterpreted and I’ll wince. If I see this error repeated over and over again in several different books, I’ll go to my blog and write an ... http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog/2009/02/18/not-sure-what-to-call-this-rant/ I muscled my way into an improv set at the UCB Theatre last night. Actually, the way I remember it, Neil Casey asked me if I wanted to do a Harold and I said “sure”—the way Dyna remembers it, Neil asked her if she wanted to do a Harold and ... http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog/2008/12/17/i-did-a-harold-last-night/ This past weekend, Kaveri and I flew out to Seattle for the Rawstock Film Festival. The organizers promised to partially pay for the trip, so I said “why the hell not?” I had never been to the Pacific Northwest before and so, when I had to venture a guess, I imagined ... http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog/2008/10/22/seattle/ I’m like James Brown—I’m begging you. This weekend is the New York Television Festival (NYTVF) and my show, “Sexual Intercourse American Style” will be featured. I loved working on this show. I loved writing for Will Hines and Julie Klausner and Matthieu Cornillon and Eliza Skinner. I stand by this show. And so ... http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog/2008/09/10/please-please-please-come-see-my-show/ As I write this, I am wired on tea. I’ve switched from coffee to tea because I exhausted my coffee supply and am too lazy to buy more. So tea it is. I thought tea had less caffeine—what gives? I feel very jittery. Last week YouTube took down my video of ... http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog/2008/08/07/banned-from-youtube/ Walk in any 20-block radius from where I live in Brooklyn and you will stumble upon 3 or 4 enormous turn-of-the-century theaters that have either been completely abandoned or converted into a church. It’s a weird experience, like walking through the ruins of some ancient civilization, or like coming upon ... http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog/2008/07/01/enormous-forgotten-theaters-in-my-neighborhood/ “Swingtown,” the period drama from CBS, premiers in 2 days and the reviews are decidedly…mixed. Which is a shame because I have a lot invested in the “swinging couples” genre of TV shows. “Swingtown” was created by Mike “The O.C.” Kelly and follows the adventures of an attractive couple that ... http://www.mitchmagee.com/blog/2008/06/03/i-got-there-first-cbs/