K-OS was in town for a show at Flames Central and stopped by the Rock Report before the show for a chat. Here’s how it went:

K-OS Interview

Curb Your Enthusiasm is the best show on television. And if you’re in Calgary, you have to wait many months after it originally airs to see this Emmy-award winning HBO series. The sixth season debuted on The Movie Network in Ontario and HBO in the U.S. this past Sunday night. Movie Central here in alberta doesn’t carry it. I sent an e-mail to them and got a pretty generic reply offering various excuses, but it’s not good enough. If Shaw/Corus/Movie Central claims to care about quality programming as they claimed in a recent newspaper ad, then they’ll carry this show. Here’s a link where you can write to them and tell them they should carry it. If enough people ask for it they’ll get it. 

Write to them here:

I want Curb Your Enthusiasm on Movie Central!  

What have friends of X92.9 the Dudes been up to? They’re playing a show here in town on September 22nd, and will be dropping by our studios at 17th and 2nd to play some live songs. They’ve been holed up in Toronto recently recording a new album and caught the attention of the CBC:

Kinda cool. Better than Louie, Louie.

I’m in Toronto this week on vacation. Watching the news with my parents, a familiar face (with more hair and more chubby) came on the screen. It was a commercial I shot for Best Buy almost a year ago that’s run a few periods since. In the commercial, two guys pull into opposite parking spots and have a quick staredown. Then, it’s on! A race for the front doors with all sorts of obstacles. I’m sort of the yuppie guy with glasses and hot wife, racing a red-headed slacker guy. They actually had stunt doubles for both of us (see pic. I’m on the right.)I usually find out it’s back on again by e-mails and calls with stuff like “are you in a Best Buy commercial?” or the people who are sick of it already, “your commercial’s on again.”

Quite a bit of controversy about this Bush picture by British artist Jonathan Yeo. What’s all the fuss about? Click on the pic for a bigger version. 

THINGS A MAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DRINKING (Esquire)

• There is no such thing as a chocolate martini.
• There is no shame in club soda and cranberry juice.
• Visiting the pub will be cheaper in the long run if you tip the bartender regularly and more generously than is necessary.
• Never order a frozen drink in a place that serves pickled eggs. Actually, never order a frozen drink.
• When throwing a party, break the seals on all liquor bottles, lest guests should hesitate to open them and come to doubt your hospitality.
• Adopt a new favorite cocktail on a seasonal basis.
• Drinks that give you bad breath: beer, anything sweet, anything with milk.
• Drinks that give you good breath: gin and tonic, gimlet, vodka and cranberry, anything with citrus.
• Decent wine costs 15 dollars. Good wine costs 35 dollars. Nobody can tell the difference.
• Sitting at the bar works only for two people. Three or more requires a table.
• Never utter the words I and love and you if you’ve had more than three drinks.
• If a bartender makes you flail your arms or beg for service, well, obviously, leave.
• Instead of trying to remember whether it’s “beer before liquor” or the other way around, just be an adult and stick to one or the other.
• Acceptable drinks for men: beer, wine, whiskey, cocktails that are neither sweet nor made with dairy or fruit other than lime or lemon or orange.
• Never question a woman’s drink choice.
• If you’re the first in the group to arrive and you start a tab on your card, you deserve exactly what’s coming to you.

I’ve been a fan of writer (now director and producer) Judd Apatow since his work on the critically acclaimed but poorly watched Ben Stiller Show. He has a comedy midas touch. Some of the TV he’s done: Larry Sanders Show, Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. Film: Cable Guy, Anchorman and 40 Year Old Virgin. He’s involved with two more movies coming out this summer. Knocked Up opens this week, and Superbad opens in August. Some samples below, but keep in kind THE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE ARE VERY GRAPHIC. MATURE VIEWERS ONLY. 

Deleted Scene From Knocked Up:

Trailer for Superbad:

OK, I’ve been a little annoyed and haven’t posted because when the station recently switched servers, I lost about a half-dozen posts. Well, I’m over it, and we’re back to business. I’ll start with contact info again. When I’m on-air and you want to rant or rave about anything, the number is 238-X929. If you want to fire off an e-mail it’s josh@x929.ca. If you’re into the social networking sites you can get show pages here:

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