Outfest 2007: Bootleg Video Edition

[badatapologies]

Someone--and for legal purposes I won't identify the culprit, though the audio will make it obvious--used their camera-phone to record a few seconds of the preshow video presentation of my Outfest reading. The quality is terrible but it's all we've got, at least until I convince them to hand over the actual DVD. Here now, for those whose craven weakness of personal character (or what-have-you) made them unable to attend, is 15 seconds of actual footage of actual footage from my Big Hollywood Debut. Enjoy!

Comments

[albatrossity.livejournal.com]

sorrow! i can't understand the last line you say. the one which elicits such laughter.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

Rough transcript:

"Hi, I'm M. C. Brennan--Cait--nice to meet you. I'm a writer and director. Oh, and also I used to be a dude. Which is...awkward. Yeah. "

I wish someone had taped the whole thing with an actual camera. It was fun.

[aila76.livejournal.com]

Haha that line made me laugh too. You've got some natural comic timing and a nice sense of the absurd...

[revme.livejournal.com]

That is hilarious and awesome.

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

I prefer to dispatch that "is-she-or-isn't-she" bullshit up front (as well as its evil twin "if she is, we must never, ever mention it because she's Overly Sensitive".) Kill two birds with one stone, etc. Plus it sometimes leads to that lovely conversation that goes something like "OMG! No way! You're kidding!" which always sounds disingenuous to me but hey, maybe they're telling the truth, I dunno. Life is absurd, my life in particular. I figure I should be the first to mention it, not the last.

[revme.livejournal.com]

I dunno -- if I didn't know, I'd probably have a "Really?" type reaction, too. At least from pictures, anyway. I don't know, maybe to meet you in person, you, like, have a trucker hat on, a beer in one hand and your other down the crotch of your pants, belching between telling Peg Bundy "No" to sex.

(This is as opposed to the other option of talking about how much you looooove chocolate, but it's so baaaaad for you, but sometimes a girl's gotta live a little!)

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

I go back and forth on this question. Sometimes I think I look okay. I thought I looked insanely fat in my Outfest video, and I saw myself last night in Itty Bitty Titty Committee and was horrified, I looked so awful. But in other stuff I look okay. So honestly I have no idea. I do only post the flattering photographs here (mostly), but then again I don't have to sift through big stacks of pictures where I look like Chuck Norris. Anymore. Watch out for my hardcore roundhouse kick!

Who could tell Peg Bundy no to sex? Madness, I tell you.

[revme.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I'm not alone on that... I was all "Man, Al, are you nuts?"

[mcpino.livejournal.com]

I love you just the way you aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrreeee!

[mcbrennan.livejournal.com]

"I love you just the way you aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrreeee!"

...which is easily explained by the blurred vision chart. And also explains why Billy Joel drinks so much.

Thanks, Pino. :)