The cats who brought you “SERP SERPBACKS Badass Song” and “SEO Soul” introduce you to Funk 2.0, “I’m Gonna Git You Spamma!,” the newest flick from the Calacanis Collection. Veronica Belmont stars as the foxy heroine, who fights the ringleaders of the spam underworld. Can you digg it?
In the words of head “angstologist” Dave Nadelberg, Mortified is a “comic excavation of teen artefacts”. Based in several theaters across the country, Mortified features the thoughts and writings of people’s inner children, who all get on stage and perform everything from anti-Nazi poems, to embarrassing love stories. We sat down with Dave to find out about the show.
In case you weren’t watching TV this week (we weren’t), here’s the weekly 60 second wrap-up of what happened in the land of plastic anchors and bad make-up. Sit forward, pay attention, and then get on with the rest of your life.
Starbucks introduced their newest blend of java called the Pike Place Roast this week, kicking it off with a 30 minute period where people could try the coffee for free. We took to our local Starbucks stores to find out what was so special about this newest blend, and got the opinions of the caffeine-craving Mahalo staff.
For the last 15 years the music industry has been grappling with the problem of how to make money from music using the internet. New technologies are inevitably disruptive, which is shown clearly in the sales charts across the record industry. We spoke to Ethan Kaplan, Vice President of Technology at Warner Bros. Records to find out his views on how the music industry is coming to terms with the internet.
To learn about the history of the pinball machine, we visited Lucky Ju Ju Pinball in Alameda, California and spoke to the founder of the pinball museum, Michael Shiess. We also spoke to Greg Malenic, the maker of a documentary called “Tilt“, on the subject of the pinball machine market.
The Rolling Stones and Martin Scorsese teamed up for the new rockumentary “Shine a Light” opening in IMAX and theatres everywhere April 4th. Paramount Pictures was kind enough to release footage and phone interviews with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards exclusively to Mahalo Daily. In the words of the Stones themselves, start me up!
Although I love my kitties, I can’t say no to a roomful of puppies, so we went to the Zoom Room in Culver City, California to learn about Dog Agility Training. The dogs weren’t the only ones who got a workout!
We spoke to Stan Lee all about comic books and his history in the industry, but we wanted to get a fresh perspective! Scott Johnson has been making web comics for years, and we figured he’d be the perfect person to teach us all about creating, promoting and publishing comics online. Now, if only we could draw….
Most of us have used eBay in one way or another — either buying rare items we can’t find in stores or selling the stuff we no longer need — but Greg Kusch has taken it about ten steps further. He’s made an entire career out of not only powerselling, but also teaching people to get the most out of eBay. On today’s show, he shares some of the tricks of the trade.
