Thursday, August 25, 2011
¡Hola Amigos!
Been a long time since I rapped at you guys. First of all, yes, I was in the Wall Street Journal this morning. The thing I love about my life, is way more people I know saw me on NY1's "In The Papers" segment than will ever read the WSJ:
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As for the Tell Your Friends! movie, we will be having a big screening/panel presentation at the Paley Center for Media on Sept. 22nd. More info, plus a discount code, coming soon--if you want to be kept up-to-date on the movie info, I'll add you to that mailing list. Just e-mail me at liam(AT)vanishinggirl(DOT)com.
And to learn more about Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film!, check the website.
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As for the Tell Your Friends! movie, we will be having a big screening/panel presentation at the Paley Center for Media on Sept. 22nd. More info, plus a discount code, coming soon--if you want to be kept up-to-date on the movie info, I'll add you to that mailing list. Just e-mail me at liam(AT)vanishinggirl(DOT)com.
And to learn more about Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film!, check the website.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
NEWS IN THE WORLD OF TELL YOUR FRIENDS! THE CONCERT FILM! and LIAM McENEANEY in general
If you haven't already, check out this review from Drew 'Moriarty' McWeeny on the popular review site HitFix. He really hits the nail on the head, especially when he talks about how funny I am.
1) June 2nd - 5th: TYF! at THE GOLD COAST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
For all you Tri-Staters who've been asking when there will be a public screening of the movie, well, good news on that front.
'Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film!' will be making its NY-area debut as part of the Gold Coast International Film Festival. We'll be playing in Manhasset, Long Island, at the Clearview Manhasset Theatre, a lovely Art Deco movie palace that was built in 1927.
Showtimes are:
Friday, June 3rd at 3:30pm
Saturday, June 4th at 4:30pm
Tickets and general information are available for sale through the festival website.
ALSO, TYF! is part of a NY Post-sponsored trailer contest through the GCIFF, so please visit this website and vote for our trailer so we can win whatever the prize is for having the best trailer.
2) June 15th: TYF! at THE TBS/JUST FOR LAUGHS CHICAGO FESTIVAL
Also, 'Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film!' has been accepted as part of the film program at the prestigious Just For Laughs comedy festival in Chicago. We'll be screening on Wednesday, June 15th,at 6:00pm, at The Gene Siskel Film Center, with an encore screening after the festival on Saturday, June 25th at 8:00pm.
You can get more info and I believe you can buy tickets at the GSFC website.
3) 'CAROLINE RHEA & FRIENDS' NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD
If you remember, I appeared in March on the Showtime special, 'Caroline Rhea & Friends.' Well, now it's available for you to own on DVD, and you can buy it here on Amazon.
When I checked out the Amazon page, it said that customers who viewed this DVD also viewed a movie called 'All Girl 69 Zone III,' so, you know someone on the cast has crossover appeal to dirtbag perverts (hi, fam!).
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1) June 2nd - 5th: TYF! at THE GOLD COAST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
For all you Tri-Staters who've been asking when there will be a public screening of the movie, well, good news on that front.
'Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film!' will be making its NY-area debut as part of the Gold Coast International Film Festival. We'll be playing in Manhasset, Long Island, at the Clearview Manhasset Theatre, a lovely Art Deco movie palace that was built in 1927.
Showtimes are:
Friday, June 3rd at 3:30pm
Saturday, June 4th at 4:30pm
Tickets and general information are available for sale through the festival website.
ALSO, TYF! is part of a NY Post-sponsored trailer contest through the GCIFF, so please visit this website and vote for our trailer so we can win whatever the prize is for having the best trailer.
2) June 15th: TYF! at THE TBS/JUST FOR LAUGHS CHICAGO FESTIVAL
Also, 'Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film!' has been accepted as part of the film program at the prestigious Just For Laughs comedy festival in Chicago. We'll be screening on Wednesday, June 15th,at 6:00pm, at The Gene Siskel Film Center, with an encore screening after the festival on Saturday, June 25th at 8:00pm.
You can get more info and I believe you can buy tickets at the GSFC website.
3) 'CAROLINE RHEA & FRIENDS' NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD
If you remember, I appeared in March on the Showtime special, 'Caroline Rhea & Friends.' Well, now it's available for you to own on DVD, and you can buy it here on Amazon.
When I checked out the Amazon page, it said that customers who viewed this DVD also viewed a movie called 'All Girl 69 Zone III,' so, you know someone on the cast has crossover appeal to dirtbag perverts (hi, fam!).
Friday, May 06, 2011
FINDING THE THING YOU NEED WHEN YOU NEED IT
A consequence of living in a building that is now a majority Russian, is that my neighbors tend to leave stuff they don't want in the hallways for others to take. Sometimes there's no way in hell I'm touching it (the tupperware container full of red beans, for instance, or the half-empty box of oatmeal packets), and other times I'll pick it up and give it a try.
Thus, I ended up picking up an old book by Elie Wiesel, called Souls On Fire: Portraits and Legends of the Hasidic Masters. Now, I’m no fan of the Hasidic faith—a lot of my objections boil down to the fact that in the year 2010, if your belief system is flexible enough that you can, say, visit she-male prostitutes, or live in the modern world and drive SUVs, badly, while I’m biking through your neighborhood, but you still have to treat women like second-hand citizens because a shepherd told a story to a guy who wrote a portion of the Old Testament, then you don’t really have what I would call a consistent intellectual foundation for your belief system.
That being said, I have a particular love for all kinds of religious faiths, as they inspire their best and brightest to create complex mythology, to write philosophy, to commit to paper timeless pieces of wisdom that are so universal that they apply as much to my life as they did to some rabbi’s hundreds of years ago.
And thus lies the title of this blog post. There’s many pearls to be plucked from the legends of these Hasidic masters, and perhaps my favorite (which was also Wiesel’s) is, “Man is the language of God.” Even someone like myself, who doesn’t believe in a Heavenly Father, can appreciate the deceptive complexity of that statement.
As with this one: “The rich need the poor more than the poor need the rich. Unfortunately, neither is conscious of it.”
But it was this following passage that really spoke to me, especially right now, when I’m at a crossroads in my comedy career, when after fifteen years things are starting to really pay off in every way but financial, and when I find myself struggling more than I ever have, even when things were much worse for me. The following passage genuinely inspires me, and I plan to print it out and put it up in my apartment where I can see it every day. It’s by one of the great Rabbis of the Hasidic movement, Rabbi Dov Baer, known as “The Maggid of Mezeritch,” (a Magid being a preacher/rabbi)…
Below, I quote Souls On Fire:
To Rebbe Zusia, he gave the following advice:
“Listen, I cannot give you the ten cardinal rules governing the conduct of a man wishing to serve his Creator. However, there are three things you can learn from a child and seven you can learn from a thief.
“From an infant learn how to laugh, how to cry and how to keep constantly busy.
“From the thief? First of all: that whatever he does, he does secretly.
Two: that whatever he does not obtain today, he will endeavor to obtain tomorrow.
Three: he is loyal to his accomplices.
Four: he is ready to sacrifice himself for the object of his desires, even though it may have no value to others.
Five: once the desired object is his own he loses all interest.
Six: he is not afraid of hardship.
Seven: nothing on earth could make him change trades, in other words, he does not want to be anyone but himself.”
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Thus, I ended up picking up an old book by Elie Wiesel, called Souls On Fire: Portraits and Legends of the Hasidic Masters. Now, I’m no fan of the Hasidic faith—a lot of my objections boil down to the fact that in the year 2010, if your belief system is flexible enough that you can, say, visit she-male prostitutes, or live in the modern world and drive SUVs, badly, while I’m biking through your neighborhood, but you still have to treat women like second-hand citizens because a shepherd told a story to a guy who wrote a portion of the Old Testament, then you don’t really have what I would call a consistent intellectual foundation for your belief system.
That being said, I have a particular love for all kinds of religious faiths, as they inspire their best and brightest to create complex mythology, to write philosophy, to commit to paper timeless pieces of wisdom that are so universal that they apply as much to my life as they did to some rabbi’s hundreds of years ago.
And thus lies the title of this blog post. There’s many pearls to be plucked from the legends of these Hasidic masters, and perhaps my favorite (which was also Wiesel’s) is, “Man is the language of God.” Even someone like myself, who doesn’t believe in a Heavenly Father, can appreciate the deceptive complexity of that statement.
As with this one: “The rich need the poor more than the poor need the rich. Unfortunately, neither is conscious of it.”
But it was this following passage that really spoke to me, especially right now, when I’m at a crossroads in my comedy career, when after fifteen years things are starting to really pay off in every way but financial, and when I find myself struggling more than I ever have, even when things were much worse for me. The following passage genuinely inspires me, and I plan to print it out and put it up in my apartment where I can see it every day. It’s by one of the great Rabbis of the Hasidic movement, Rabbi Dov Baer, known as “The Maggid of Mezeritch,” (a Magid being a preacher/rabbi)…
Below, I quote Souls On Fire:
To Rebbe Zusia, he gave the following advice:
“Listen, I cannot give you the ten cardinal rules governing the conduct of a man wishing to serve his Creator. However, there are three things you can learn from a child and seven you can learn from a thief.
“From an infant learn how to laugh, how to cry and how to keep constantly busy.
“From the thief? First of all: that whatever he does, he does secretly.
Two: that whatever he does not obtain today, he will endeavor to obtain tomorrow.
Three: he is loyal to his accomplices.
Four: he is ready to sacrifice himself for the object of his desires, even though it may have no value to others.
Five: once the desired object is his own he loses all interest.
Six: he is not afraid of hardship.
Seven: nothing on earth could make him change trades, in other words, he does not want to be anyone but himself.”
Monday, May 02, 2011
TELL YOUR FRIENDS! THE CONCERT FILM! REVIEWED ON HITFIX
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I'M HOSTING A PAIR OF BENEFITS FOR JAPAN
An estimated 350,000 are reportedly homeless from the devastation caused by the Japanese tsunami and 9.0 magnitude earthquake earlier this month. Over 10,000 are confirmed dead, and another 17,000 more are reported missing, according to the United Nations. So The Bell House is hosting not one, but two nights of rock n' roll, comedy, and dance-your-ass-off party awesomeness to benefit Global Giving, which sends money to humanitarian forces directly on the ground in Japan. 100% of the door goes to: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/japan-earthquake-tsunami-relief/
We're also hosting an amazing silent auction, including hundreds of dollars worth of gift certificates from Union Hall, Floyd, Frankies 457, Prime Meats, Bogota Bistro, Fonda. Also contributing items to the silent auction are Bravo's Watch What Happens Live! with Andy Cohen (a pair of tix to see the show), a signed Les Savy Fav skateboard from French Kiss Records, autographed copies of Stephen Colbert's I Am America and Steve Martin's An Object of Beauty. If you work for a company that can donate kickass silent auction items, please e-mail me and let me know.
THE BELL HOUSE
149 7th Street
Between 2nd & 3rd Aves.
in beautiful Gowanus, Brooklyn
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2011
HOST: LIAM MCENEANEY
WITH MUSIC FROM:
RA RA RIOT
SEAN BONES
DIAMONDSNAKE
and MORE!
COMEDY BY:
EUGENE MIRMAN (Bob's Burgers, Delocated)
TODD BARRY (Louis, his many Comedy Central specials and albums)
LISA DELARIOS (from Party Machine @ Union Hall)
A COUPLE SPECIAL SURPRISE GUESTS (from movies and television)
and MORE!
DANCE PARTY WITH:
DJ ANNIE HART (AU REVOIR SIMONE)
DJ BAIO (VAMPIRE WEEKEND)
7:30pm Doors / 8pm Show
$15 adv / $20 dos
Tickets to both shows -- $25
BUY TICKETS HERE: http://tinyurl.com/BKLYNHRTSJPN1
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FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2011
HOST: LIAM MCENEANEY
COMEDY FROM:
WYATT CENAC (Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
KRISTEN SCHAAL (Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Letterman, Conan, Flight of the Conchords)
KURT BRAUNOHLER (IFC, Tell Your Friends! The Concert Film!)
TIM HARRINGTON ("Beardo"/Les Savy Fav)
ARDEN MYRIN (MAD TV/Chelsea Lately)
and MORE!
MUSIC BY:
MIKE DOUGHTY (formerly of Soul Coughing)
HARD NIPS (from Japan)
THE SUZAN (from Japan)
and MORE!
ALL NIGHT AND INTO SATURDAY DANCE PARTY WITH:
DJ AARON LACRATE
AND SPECIAL CELEBRITY DJ TBA - DON'T MISS IT, TRUST ME!
BUY YER TIX HERE: http://tinyurl.com/BKLYNHRTSJPN2
7:30pm Doors / 8pm Show
$15 adv / $20 dos
Tickets to both shows -- $25
Monday, March 14, 2011
MY MOVIE IS HAVING ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT THE SXSW FILM FESTIVAL
THURSDAY, MARCH 17th
at the Vimeo Theater
at the Austin Convention Center
501 East 4th Street
10:00pm * $10 for non-badgeholders
MORE INFO AT THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Also, you can check me out on Marc Maron's popular WTF podcast here.
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at the Vimeo Theater
at the Austin Convention Center
501 East 4th Street
10:00pm * $10 for non-badgeholders
MORE INFO AT THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Also, you can check me out on Marc Maron's popular WTF podcast here.
Friday, March 04, 2011
I'M ON SHOWTIME!
This special I'm on, "Caroline Rhea & Friends!" (I'm one of the "& Friends") debuts on Showtime Saturday, March 5th, and then pretty much reruns all through the month of March.
You can check the airing times here.
And you can watch the trailer here:
You can also buy the DVD, but since I don't see a cut of that, fuck it.
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You can check the airing times here.
And you can watch the trailer here:
You can also buy the DVD, but since I don't see a cut of that, fuck it.
