Separated at Birth?
Your personal invite to a virtual Memorial Day Hollywood Party:
Episode 7 of "PILOT SEASON"
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My Damn Channel on 5/24/2009 10:21:28 AM by Rob Barnett
A wise friend named Abe just reminded me to share these words of wisdom from Mr. Bob Dylan.
Happy Birthday Bob: Thanks for your life-altering, constantly inspiring opinions.
"Oh ... there's always people trying to tell you how to do
everything in your life. If you really don't know what to do and you
don't care what to do - then just ask somebody's opinion. You'll
get a million different opinions. If you don't want to do something,
ask someone's opinion and they'll just verify it for you.
The easiest way to do something is to just not ask anybody's opinion. I mean if
you really believe in what you're doing ... I've just asked people's
opinion and it's been a great mistake, in different areas. In my
personal life, I've asked people what do you think about doing this
and they've said ... Oh Wow! ...! You know, and you end up not
using it or else using it wrong....
Yeah, you know what's right. When those things come you
know what's right. A lot of times you might be farming around and
not knowing what's right and you might do something dumb, but
that's only because you don't know what to do on the first place.
But if you know what's right and it strikes you at a certain time
then you can usually believe that instinct. And if you act on it, then
you'll be successful at it. Whatever it is."
Posted on 5/22/2009 1:51:34 PM by Rob Barnett
Web Tanning
Can't sunshine cause skin cancer?
Spend your holiday weekend
downtime online at our all-new, totally redesigned My Damn
Channel.
Wishing you too much fun and a web tan watching our new videos.
Season 4 is getting big love & attention.
Entertainment Weekly, NY Times, NY Magazine, Ain't It Cool News n' more.
Master the Art of Dating with David Wain here.
Master the Art of Watching all New "Wainy Days" here.
Play catchup this weekend. The first 6 episodes from our hot new series are posted
now.
Say it with us: "Mockumentary!"
Sam Seder, Sarah Silverman, Andy Dick, David Cross, and Isla Fisher vs. Hollywood!
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My Damn Channel on 5/20/2009 1:49:21 AM by Rob Barnett
Dear Most Important Humans, Co-Cons, Fans, Friends & Others:
Thank all of you for attacking the new relaunched My Damn Channel. Feeding back to your feeeedback as it comes at info@MyDamnChannel.com.
Safari shit's been fixed. All's getting weller. Keep us honest as always. Keep ideas coming for the site, the channels, the artists, the vids - and for ways to keep helping us help you help.... - u get it.
Yer almost Memorial Day weekend pal.....rob
It's been a week since we relaunched My Damn Channel. We're 90-95% of where we need to be with the new redesign. We're attacking that last 5-10% with the help of loyal co-cons writing and attacking us with ideas to fix last fixes. We're also gathering your hit lists for additional ideas to make your house and this new Enterprise more 'be all.'
The new Star Trek entered our brains the same night as our relaunch.
The amount of online communication bout our fave TV franchise is staggering.
Full disclosure - before we continue - somewhere here - in a box - there are 79 memorex audio cassettes - the ones with the 2 little white things in 'em - holding the recordings of every single original episode of the series - taped by a little fat white kid - off the speaker on the tiny TV in our kitchen back in Fort Lee, NJ. When you listen closely - you can hear Mom YELLING: "DINNER!" And you can hear me YELLING back: "SHUT UP! I'M TAPING "STAR TREK!!!'"
If you published any form of digital media in the past week, you're likely part of a mass collective of humans who are 'one' with the 43 year-old phenom of Star Trek.
Here then - a list - to ask ourselves WHY:
Star Trek Assumptions:
1. We need to believe in heroes and in the possibility that we are capable of heroic acts.
2. The future needs an organizing principle to deliver answers we seek.
3. We long for the past while embracing the future.
4. Obama reminds us of Spock.
5. Kirk represents the ideal leader (or father figure, brother, husband, best friend, lawyer, coach, boss, starship captain.)
6. We want to have sex with a green-skinned goddess.
7. We like to see things explode.
8. We like to sit in dark rooms and fantasize with an about others.
9. J.J.
10. Nerd is the new black.
Found this amazing video yesterday of William Shatner being made to watch the new movie trailer. Watch his face: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDEJXdEcV7U
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David Cross on 5/8/2009 10:22:40 AM by Rob Barnett
My Damn Channel Reborn
Like a re-animated monster,
or a crack ho / daytime TV makeover...
witness the ALL NEW look, feel & smell of
My Damn Channel.
You made us one of the most viewed spots
on the planet - so we built you a brand new home
to love, loathe, devour, hate, whatever.
Take a weekend stroll through the site.
Do our artists this solid ...
EMAIL, POST, TWEET, STATUS UPDATE...
David Wain's Back
Amanda Peet guest stars
in the first new episode of Wainy Days.
If you're new to this party,
catch up on the past 26 episodes.
If you were one of the lucky hundreds on Thursday...
thanks for an amazing night
at our first-ever WAINY DAYS LIVE.
Tooooo fun.
Dangerously Delicious Stats
Stat crunches:
Our site has a 133% increase
in Video Views 4/08 - 4/09
Pilot Season launched 2 weeks ago
with over 2 million views already!
See the first 4 episodes now
starring Isla Fisher, Sarah Silverman,
Andy Dick, David Cross & Sam Seder
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HBO on 5/7/2009 3:20:00 AM by Rob Barnett
Welcome to the rebirthing. My Damn Channel is all new.
For 21 months, we slowly built a world to co-create the best, original series with the pros that we love in film and television, music and comedy.
We crunched stats last night during our all-night reincarnation and our year-to-year comps for eyeballs are awesome. We can’t thank you enough for taking 3 or 4 or 5 minutes to be here from time to time & support the likes of Harry Shearer, Don Was, David Wain, Daily Grace, Sam Seder, Sarah Silverman, “You Suck at Photoshop” and every artist that decided to create for you here.
We gave our pros a safe haven where ‘the suits’ are never welcome. We gave our artists direct access to you – without the layers of show business bullshit that normally get in the way.
We raised less than most – we spent less than most – we’re staffed tinier than most. But when triple-digit audience growth brought big sponsors, we were finally ready to re-invest in what we hope is a much better viewing experience.
Take this baby out for a test drive – share the ride – spread the news – post our link – status update us – tweet this re-launch & let us know what you think.
DAY ONE features the season 4 premiere of WAINY DAYS. We worship David Wain. Tonight’s first-ever WAINY DAYS LIVE show is now sold out.
We just learned that the first 2 weeks of PILOT SEASON racked up over 2 million views!! You can watch the first 4 episodes now starring Sam Seder, Sarah Silverman, Andy Dick, David Cross & Isla Fisher.
Thank you for getting us this far. We’re going to continue to unleash the audacity of HBO and bring you the best stuff that outdoes the rest.