NCTV Promo (Reject)

Here is the rejected NCTV promotional video I was meaning to put up a long time ago but I didn’t. NCTV executive director P. Al Williams asked me to create one on the opening day of broadcast for the new station. The plan was to get someone from two businesses in Northampton to answer three questions:

1. Would you like to get involved with your community television station?
2. What would you like to get out of your community television station?
3. What kind of shows would you like to see on NCTV?

I called Josh @ Turn It Up! Records, seeing that he was hoping to submit some experimental films, to say a few things of what he’d like to get out of NCTV. Unfortunately, the shoot was a disaster so I couldn’t use Josh’s footage. I then asked NCTV president Bill Dwight if he’d like to be interviewed for this promo. The video above is what came out of it, but as you can tell it has many faults. The sound was bad and some college students were goofing off in the background. It was never used and replaced with a promo set around the 2001 spoof I did for my video “Pockets of Discontent.”  Just recently I asked Al if he could air the video just for the “hell of it.”
Again, he said no. So that’s the reason why it’s now on YouTube. I gotta do something with it and it needs to be seen. Thank God for Bill Dwight encouraging people to participate in NCTV, even if they don’t know how to handle a camera. As he said, regular TV is rehashed and it’s exploitive and is just plain nonsense. This is the new NCTV so let’s make it happen.

How To Get Even With A Doctor Quack

Have you ever been so mad at a psychiatrist that you’d like to punch him out? Really. A doctor who refuses to listen and goes by what he thinks is right, even if you plead and plead for him to think of you as a real human being with basic life struggles and ups and downs. If he refuses to listen you’d just want to rough him up a bit. Tell him who you are and what you really need, understand? Well, roughing someone up ain’t gonna get you nowhere except a place in prison. Your gonna spend a good chunk of time chewing this one over, asking yourself “Oh, what have I done? Why couldn’t I’ve used some anger management skills?” Take my advice: use a pillow, use a couch, or maybe even create a life size dummy of your doctor and take it out on him. In my opinion, this is the best way. Now you have almost the full flesh and blood, so use it to your heart’s content. On that note, here’s what me and my friend Antsy Niles did in dedication to all those who feel they are not being heard. The best possible thing to be these days is to be nonviolent. If you have to get it out on your doctor, then do what I do. Maybe it can ease the pain a little bit. I do hope so. Good Luck!

See See Rider (Elvis Impersonator Nonsense)

Promised videos? In the form of “See See Rider (Elvis Impersonator Nonsense).” A dadaistic piece which has been airing on Northampton Community Television these past few weeks. The video was centered around a public access television clip I found on YouTube called “Elvis Fanboy.” The user monolith0 has many other inspiring public access videos but this was the one I set my heart on. I later found a clip of an Elvis impersonator performing in some nightclub. I added a karaoke track of “See See Rider” and played around with the editing. After that I re-created my own version of “Elvis Fanboy,” a la, Andy Kaufman. NCTV has been airing this as well as the famous “Wocksy Poem.” You might see it once in awhile if you channel surf. If not, here it is on Google Video.