Tonight is the night of great shows! 

• Law & Order - NBC – http://www.nbc.com/Law_and_Order/
• Dollhouse - FOX – http://www.fox.com/dollhouse/
• Medium - CBS – http://www.cbs.com/primetime/medium/
• Stargate Universe - SyFy - http://www.syfy.com/universe/index.php
• Psych – USA Network – http://www.usanetwork.com/series/psych/index.html

Dollhouse will not be on this week!  Sorry about the mixup!  It returns next week!  But in the meantime…  Be sure to watch it on Fancast or Hulu, or at FOX.com for that matter!  Let’s save the show Whedon-fighters!  Viva la Dollhouse!

On Law & Order tonight:

When Larry Johnson arrives home from picking up his adopted, physically disabled children from school, he discovers his wife’s dead body on the floor of their home. Detectives Cyrus Lupo Kevin Bernard question Vaughn, who explains that he and his wife had adopted a child with special needs and felt it was their calling, so they adopted nine more children. While the detectives question the children for suspects and a motive, they uncover an affair and an offer for the Vaughn family to appear in a reality show causing tension in the household and with another family.

So, this week’s episode is ripped from the headlines…  Expect that the king of losers, Jon Gosselin, hasn’t killed his wife, Kate, yet.  Here’s to hoping this week’s episode is better than last week’s!

Then on Dollhouse (which will get at least 13 episodes this season!):

Sierra’s introduction to the Dollhouse is revealed when she faces her connection to the Rossum Corporation, a link that leads to obsession and murder. Matthew Harding: Keith Carradine.

While some episodes of this weird show are better than others, I am really hoping that it gets better.   Keith Carradine will be a nice addition in this week’s episodes, you really can’t go wrong with a Carradine! 

And on our favorite psychic show, Medium:

Allison starts having visions of strange symbols that may hold the key to learning the identity of a notorious serial killer.

Nothing is better in a murder mystery than a serial killer!  Although for some reason, Allison never trusts her dreams when they always seem to be pretty spot on, every week.  Come on Allison, I know that Joe is the best TV husband and all, but seriously…  You are interpreting those dreams right!  Jeez!

As for our weekly Stargate fix, on Stargate Universe:

When the Destiny s power reserves drop to a critical level, the crew is ordered to use power for essential services only, but the rationing isn’t enough to keep Rush from announcing that the all the crew on board will die within a few days.

I am just not a fan of desert planets, so as long as we don’t land on another one of those for the rest of the season I am all for the show to continue.  And I am totally loving Eli! 

And on the Fall season finale of Psych:

While working on a case involving an ice cream truck, Shawn stumbles into something much bigger and deadly

Somehow this is is sounding reminiscent of The Goonies…  Chunk locked in the ice cream freezer with the stiff…  I am so mad that the season is nearing a close, but I am hearing that it is returning in the early ’10’s and that Alli Sheedy will be reprising her role!

What are YOU watching tonight??

Comment below!

I’ve just read some very interesting news; one of the cast of Dexter is due to appear for two episodes of Dollhouse’s second season. Find out who it is and what their character will be….

Keith Carradine has been signed up to appear as Matthew Harding, a powerful businessman, according to Ausiello. As he says, there are no further details at the moment, but can we speculate already? Could he be a Rossum Corporation/Dollhouse bigwig? The double appearance suggests he’s probably more than an engagement-of-the-week character.

I’ve enjoyed Carradine’s work on Dexter, and can see him fitting very well into the Dollhouse ensemble.

Dopo alcuni giorni di forzata assenza, ufficialmente Il Guerrillero vi saluta e vi augura buone vacanze.. ci rivediamo a settembre!

Vi lascio con questo video che non è recentissimo, è datato infatti 2008, ma scoperto solo pochi giorni fa.

Il protagonista è Matthew Harding che nel 2003 stanco del proprio lavoro partì con l’obiettivo di realizzare il suo sogno: viaggiare in giro per il mondo. Ad un primo video da lui realizzato, dopo il grande successo ottenuto, ne seguì un secondo (quello che vi mostro) sponsorizzato dalla Stridegum.

Credo che un video così sia un ottimo concentrato di ingredienti per iniziare queste vacanze…. A presto!

Il sito ufficiale: Wherethehellismatt

Links:

• A little McCain-Obama humor for you.  Very funny video.
• America’s Next Top Pastor.
• Ode to Joy as performed by Beaker.
• If you’re looking for more Muppets fun, also check out Gonzo and his chickens performing The Blue Danube Waltz, Beaker and the Swedish Chef (with guest appearance by Animal) performaing Habenera, and a group of Muppers performing Stars and Stripes Forever. My kids loved these.  I did too…
• Very cool video of acapella pop rock group Mosaic.  They are currently competing on MTV’s Top Pop Group show.
• Just in case you haven’t seen it… “Where the Hell is Matt?” is the 3rd video from Matthew Harding where he literally dances around the world. Pretty entertaining. Incredible locations.

Where the hell is Matt?

Matthew Harding es el personaje tras estos videos que hacen bailar al mundo con su particular estilo. Ya tiene varios videos disponibles en sus cuentas vimeo y youtube en donde documenta su paso por el mundo. Según anden de tiempo les invito a ver sus videos para que les contagie la buena onda y pasen un mejor día. Les recomiendo que no subestimen el baile de los “personajes” que acompañan a Matt

ya lo he visto unas 10 veces y siempre me saca una carcajada nueva al ver uno de los voluntarios que estan con Matt haciendo algo fuera de lo común identifica alguno y lo compartes dejando el tiempo (XX:XX) en que lo ves, ciudad y país.

Les recomiendo ver al de polera roja y jeans que salta y se saca cresta y media a los 00:54 en París, Francia. Y ustedes? … comenten

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I saved a draft of this link about 3 months ago, but have only now gotten around to posting it once the media sensation has died down.

Regardless of how popular it is, it still makes me smile to watch it.

I discovered this via Ray Waddle’s column in the Tennessean this morning.  As was Ray, I’m pretty late to this party and also, like Ray I was moved by the video.  Check this out…   I would love to read some of your thoughts about this.

PEACE!

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

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… ein Tanz – rund um die Welt …

»14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands.

Thanks to everyone who danced with me.«

von Matthew Harding auf vimeo

➢ wherethehellismatt.com

Matthew Harding è un ragazzo di 31 anni del Connecticut che, dopo aver lavorato in un’azienda di video giochi in Australia, nel 2003 ha mollato tutto e si è messo a girare l’Asia finchè non è rimasto senza soldi.
Matt è un tipo un po’ goffo, che conosce un solo modo di ballare. Un modo buffo, tanto buffo che un suo amico mentre erano a Hanoi, gliel’ha fatto fare, e l’ha registrato. Il video ha girato un po’ su Internet, fino a che non è arrivato a una ditta di chewing-gum, che hanno mandato Matt in giro per il mondo, a farsi registrare mentre faceva il suo ballettino divertente. Era il 2006, e Matt ha ballato in 39 paesi in tutti e 7 i continenti.

Dopo questo video, molte persone hanno scritto a Matt, dicendo che avrebbero tanto voluto ballare con lui. E così lui è tornato dai tipi delle gomme da masticare, e si è fatto rimandare in giro per il mondo, questa volta a ballare con tutti quelli che si sono voluti unire a lui. E in 14 mesi e 42 paesi, a ballare con lui sono stati tantissimi, guardate qua.

Where the Hell is Matt?

All attempts to embed the video from the above link have failed. This means that I have to simply implore you to click it and watch.

“But why should I, Mike? I’m a busy person. I’ve got a lot to do. I came to your site, and I’ll be damned if I get whisked away in a storm of hyperlinks!”

Settle down, imaginary person holding a contrasting viewpoint! I’ll explain.

The video there is from Matthew Harding. I must say that I know little to nothing about the guy, except what I’ve learned from watching the video.

Apparently, Matt has traveled all around the world, and done a little jig-type dance at each of the 42 countries he visited. And even better, he invited those around him to join!

The result is one of the most heartwarming things I’ve seen in a while. Men, women, children from all different cultures in all different parts of the world join Matt in dancing for a few moments without any music or form, without any rhyme or reason to it. They just dance!

The fact that I love the idea of this dance-adventure may surprise a younger Mike.

You see, until about last year, I used to say I hated dancing. I couldn’t stand it. I also couldn’t dance (which I readily admitted). I just didn’t see the point in doing all of these dances, or moving your body really.

I would say that I would only dance if I were “joking around” or when “I didn’t have to be serious.”

About a year ago I started going to see Gogol Bordello shows, and then everything started changing. Gogol Bordello is a self-proclaimed Gypsy Punk band. Everyone at their shows jump up and down, just letting loose and dancing.

They don’t have a format to their dancing. You just move your body and smile. It’s a community of laughter, where a kid with a mohawk can wrap his arm around the shoulder of a 280 pound muscular athlete and dance together.

It’s all about releasing yourself from all the expectations that come with being human in our modern day and age. But it didn’t always use to be this way.

There was a time when you couldn’t be good or bad at dancing. There was a time when anyone and everyone can, should, and would dance together. There was a time that dancing didn’t just mean getting up to dance to Cotton Eyed Joe at a wedding.

People would just grab instruments, start playing, dancing, and drinking for days.

Gogol Bordello made an anachronism out of me by placing my modern self back into this world. And I loved every second of it.

I started saying I would only dance at Gogol Bordello shows. Still claiming when I didn’t have to “be serious.” A month or so ago, I said this to Katie, who, with her way of finding the sunlight hiding behind my dunes of self-doubt, replied with something that really made me think:

“When do you need to be serious when you’re dancing?”

I didn’t have an answer. I’ve never danced in a situation where I had to “be serious” before. Even if I was slow dancing I didn’t have “be serious.” I just had to follow my instincts.

It made me look back on the past year and realized that I enjoyed dancing whenever I got the chance to do so. As long as I was in good company, I had a great time. A change had been made, and younger Mike would be very confused by my current attitudes on movin’ to the music.

But younger Mike definitely wouldn’t ever be confused as to why I loved that video of Matthew Harding’s.

It’s about bringing people together. No matter what age you are, sex, no matter your skin color, your religion, your ethnicity, what country you live in, what pants you’re wearing, the hat you have on, whether you have glasses or not, if you went to college or you didn’t, junkie or beauty-queen, president or pauper, there’s no damn reason in this whole wide world why we can’t all dance together.

Thank you for helping us remember that, Matthew.

Keep the love alive, everyone.

- Mike

A weekend ago my girlfriend showed me a clip of a guy dancing at various locations around the world either by himself or joined by others. She loved it. I thought to myself that it is a cool idea but have grown tired watching people’s good ideas. Skepticism aside, I sat down by myself to watch it and was captivated to say the least. I looked up the dancer’s background (a college dropout who actually danced exclusively by himself at the foreign locales in a first video, both videos were paid for by Stride Gum, which I had never heard of until then) and contemplated the power of a good idea. Since then, I’ve been meaning to put up a post and wax poetic about it: dancing, traveling, shared experiences etc. some sort of epiphany-based, culturely-speaking musing but the video has become quite the phenomenon (so I’m sure there are now plenty of those, if you are looking for that at least get it from the guy who actually did it) and just yesterday NYT did a great piece on it. Video is below. Here is a link to a hi-def version . Take a few minutes to check it out. Make sure you have the volume up. The music adds a great deal.

–jw

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008 ) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

My friend Sarah sent this to me, for which I am very grateful. This video has nothing to do with running but it will make you smile. It took 14 months to make, and it was filmed in 42 countries. If you like the song that plays in the background, check the credits at the end of the video. If you don’t actually see the video below, just click on the link to “Where the Hell is Matt” below. (I think you need Adobe Flash 9 on your computer to see it.


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

I’ll have to think of this as I avoid stepping on red newts, and “cow pies” this weekend – the race my brother is running takes him through cow pastures, I understand. This is going to be a race like no other, I can already tell.

Don’t miss this!

Where the Hell is Matt? 2008

the longer you watch, this goes from being goofy to kind of moving:      

 http://www.vimeo.com/1211060 

after watching it several times this morning….i like it alot. 

(moving, awesome, hopeful?  all in the simplest of ideas)

- AT&T’s latest ad shows that they think warrantless wiretapping is funny. From Consumerist:

According to AT&T, Ms. Suspicious “has nothing to hide,” so she certainly won’t mind when AT&T and their traitorous telecom buddies trash the Constitution and violate her right to privacy!

- Jay-Z opens up his headlining set at Glastonbury with Oasis’s Wonderwall following comments from Noel Gallagher that hip hop “doesn’t belong” at the festival. Buuuuuuuurn.

- Starbucks is closing 600 stores; laying off 12,000. Hopefully my former location isn’t one of them (tear). [NYT]

- Where the hell is Matt? is not my latest Where’s Waldo attempt, but something better:

Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 countries in order to produce “Where the Hell is Matt?”, a four-and-a-half minute video featuring Harding (and anyone else he could rope into it) doing an incredibly silly, high-energy dance in some of the most breathtaking scenery around the world. This may be the best four minutes and twenty-eight seconds of your week.

Video and more on Boing Boing.

- LeRoi Moore, saxophonist from the Dave Matthews Band, was injured in an ATV accident on his farm in Virginia on Monday. He was initially listed as in serious condition at a Virginia hospital, but has since been upgraded to fair. Jeff Coffin, the double-sax playing troubadour from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones will fill in indefinitely while LeRoi recoops. This marks the first time since 1993 that the band has performed a tour without one of the five founding members. Looking forward to seeing you back, Roi! Send eCards via the band’s site.

- Best of Craigslist: I have a dead moose (earlier: I am RICH and I want to spend it on you tonight)

- Geek out with these cool screenshots of iPhone 2.0 and iTunes 7.7.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

The original post is at Where the Hell is Matt.

Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 different countries to make this video. This guy is an awesome party dancer. Sometimes people don’t understand what it takes to be a good party dancer. You just need some  energy and a few key moves and you’re set. You don’t have to be a contestant on America’s Best Dance Crew to party. Anyways, I don’t know where the guy got the money for this project but it’s definitely pretty cool.

I had to do a double take when reading a post on BoingBoing this morning about the guy who does silly dances around the world. Hadn’t I seen that already, like, a couple years ago? Why in the hell is BoingBoing posting that?

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

Which goes to show you why it’s important to actually read the words that accompany the pretty video embeds (and the words in the embed). Turns out, this is the third dancing-around-the-world video by Matthew Harding, and the second one that he didn’t have to pay for.

Nice work if you can get it.

The quick story: In 2003 Harding quit his job and and wandered around Asia. During this trip, a travel buddy suggested Matt do his signature bad dance. This video made its way onto the Internet, where many people watched it.

In fact, so many people watched it that Stride gum offered to send him on another trip around the world to do his jig. So in 2006 Harding took his moves to 39 different countries on seven continents.

Not satisfied with getting Stride to pay for one trip around the globe, Harding went back to the gum company to ask them to fund another trip, and this time, he invited people at the places he visits to dance on camera with him. The result is at the top of this post.

Now Harding has had not one, but two adventures of a lifetime thanks to a video camera and some very silly dance steps. So what’s the takeaway of this story? Without getting all The Secret-y on you, anything is possible. And with this latest installment watched more than 4 million times since June 20th, Harding might want to pack his bags.

Check out our review of Harding’s work over at NewTeeVee Station, and rate it yourself.