Jess, Kai, Nick and Dylan do what we do best – b.s. about our recent film watching experiences, spanning from The Boondock Saints 2 to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and more. Also on tap:
* Listener Feedback
* LAMB of the Week: Rachel’s Reel Reviews
* Trailer Talk: I Am Number Four
* Last LAMB Standing
For the LAMB of the Week, we take a look at LAMB #43, Rachel’s Reel Reviews:
If you’d like your site to be a future LAMB of the Week, hit me up via email and I’ll add you to the queue.
If you’re interested, you too can be a LAMBcaster – we love new blood! For more information on the LAMBcast, check out the topic at the LAMB Forums. Music provided royalty-free by Kevin MacLeod’s Incompetech website. Big thanks to Kevin for providing this service. The LAMBcast loves feedback, too. Either here in the comments section or to blogcabins@yahoo.com or to our Facebook page. Also, we’re on iTunes, and would still love a review, even if it’s a bad one.
Thanks for listening!
Tags: Insight Into Entertainment, rachel's reel reviews, Random Ramblings of a Demented Doorknob, The List
Thanks for the feedback and compliments, guys. I’ve already made some suggested changes, but here’s what I have to say in response (aka my defense):
Jess-The red text is actually for links. Since I have a tri-color site with a black background it had to be either white or red. Since the regular text is white, I made the links red so they could be spotted easily within the body of a post. I agree the darker red is harder to read, so I’ve made it a brighter red, but left the dark red for visited links. I hope this change helps. As for the “reviewed by Rachel” bit, I think most people have that at the bottom of their posts, but I just moved mine to the top and changed “posted” to “reviewed”. It is redundant for anyone unless you have multiple contributors to the site, but I liked it for the date, since I hate the actual date header in the template. Without the “reviewed by Rachel” the date looks stupid. So I’ve removed it completely and will see what else I can do to get a good looking date header back on there.
Nick-I’m not doing more reviews during the week or changing the site name. Sorry (I do see your point though). Reviews are virtually all I did for three years and I grew really bored and almost quit, which is why I changed to a daily features schedule. Not to mention my movie reviews get less feedback than most of the other features on the site. The only way this may change is if I take a lesson from Jess and start doing mini reviews for any films I watch for Reel Insight’s star of the week, then I will do those on Sunday when I post the podcast, time permitting. And I know I need to update the FB page more often, but don’t know what to put except for links to the daily posts, which I use to do but that too got old. Any ideas would be welcome.
Kai-I know you didn’t really mean it, but I was hesitant to do any t.v. because of the “reel” in the site’s title. But since it’s only one day a week, I try to let it slide. As for the Sims game, you’re not the first to say something about some of them being too easy. I’ll try to make them a little more obscure, but when I started the game I wasn’t trying to make them super difficult. There will still be some gimmes though.
Dylan-Sorry, not changing to a different background/text. I know it sounds like a simple change, but I’d have to do a major overhaul of the banner and everything else. I’ve tried changing out the backgrounds/text colors and hated it. I actually agree with the FB fan page widget and the Reel Insight widget. I may move the FB one to the sidebar and delete the RI one since I’ve created a separate page for it now. I never thought about a lack of pictures in the sidebar being an issue and the text never really bothered me, but I have a couple of ideas to change that, one you mentioned of putting movie posters for what I’ve recently watched. Please do not fear for my sanity. I do update The Movie List frequently (maybe 3 times a week), but the numbered list auto updates whenever I insert a new title, so I don’t renumber everything manually each time (that’s just crazy). “Podcasts I listen to” has been fixed and the LAMBCast is now at the very top and the now dead TDE is at the bottom. Sorry if I offended you:)
Thanks again!
Rachel <3 .
Rachel – PERFECT changes to the text color. Whatever you did I don’t notice an actual difference except that I can actually read the links. And I kind of miss the date line, but I’ll look forward to how to you change it up later.
Kai was AWESOME! You should have him on more.
Someone needs to tell Kai to turn his mic down or to shut the hell up and let someone else talk for a change. The reason Nick and Jess didn’t join in on the GI JoGo bashing is cause no one can get a word in over Kai and his ego. And another thing, who thinks that Kai is a good judge of what anyone elses blogs should look like?! I mean, has anyone SEEN his blog. Talk about “blog 101″ over there. And I’ve deciced the only memorable thing about Kai is that he is regularly intoxicated. And if he isn’t, he references it enough for me to think that there is definitely some sort of substance abuse going on over there. What, you need alcohol to be interesting, clever, witty, or funny?! Guess what, the alcohol isn’t working Kai. Cause you’re none of those things! You’re loud, obnoxious and repulsive.
I don’t know how my Dad found out I was on LAMB… but in response…
Let’s start with the positive…
First, thanks for supporting the JoGo movement. Class move on your part!
Second, my mic was VERY loud! I will work on that. You forgot to mention that it sounded like I was recording in a wind tunnel… silly me!
Third, thanks for the blog bluster. You’re right! My blog is pretty basic. It’s basically a Ross v. Ross rip-off. I’m currently working on that. It is a wordpress template after all.
Now, the other stuff…
First, I have no intention of shutting the hell up. What I can’t stand is dickless, spineless assholes who don’t have the balls to say what they really feel, “anonymous”! If you really want to talk shit I’d be fine with that. I realize I have a very polarizing personality. But if you at least said who you were I would have a shred of respect for you. Were you afraid you’d get in trouble for writing mean messages from your mother’s basement.
Secondly, I don’t have a substance abuse problem. I replaced it with alcoholism and, I have to admit, my life has been so much better since I made the switch. In fact, I’m drinking right now and this one’s to your mother… fuck her!
But it doesn’t matter cuz I take it you’re not a MILFcast fan so, to tell you the truth, I could give a shit so go back to playing Worlds of Warcraft and talking shit “Anonymously”. I’ma go to bed with my beautiful wife and look forward to reading your comments on my podcast. Thanks for the fuel, ya filthy animal!
Kisses and hugs…
KAI
PS. I could probably do better if I wasn’t a bit tipsy… oops! There I go again! Shucks!!!
Anon – I hate to risk losing a listener for either just Kai episodes or all episodes, but plainly, I like what Kai brings to the show, and I welcome him and his drunken enthusiasm and humor for any and all shows. Like he says, he does have a polarizing personality, so I can at least appreciate where you’re coming from, but I don’t support the manner in which you chose to do so (or the anon nature).
@ Fletch: let the grown ups talk!!
@ Kai: ooooh! Ouch!! Another alcohol induced clever quip!! Bravo!! Why do I have to be a video game geek living in my parent’s basement to just not really like you? I’m sure I’m not the only one! Polarizing personality is very much of an understatement. “Maybe that’s why daddy didn’t love me?!” And you’re right, I AM dickless, but not in the way you think!
Excuse me?
See, even you said I’m clever… what’s not to love?
I’m gonna do this before I start drinking so you can have the clarity you so desperately seek from me.
I love how you say “Let the grown-ups talk” and then follow that with “Ooh!! OUCH!!!” What was next on tap? “Sick burn”?
I think the Dad thing was supposed to hurt but was little more than a tickle. He talked to me like you did once…. ONCE!
I don’t know why you hate booze but I think if anyone needs a drink around here it’s you! And I think the audience would agree with me there!
The dickless rebuttle I guess was meant to reference the fact that you’re a chick… I meant it more in the sense that you have no balls. I mean talking shit back and forth on an internet chat board is an exercise in futility as is, since there are no reprecussions, but to do it Anonymously is just seven kinds of coward!
Personally, I could give a shit if you don’t like me. You’re welcome to come on MILFcast and tell my listeners all about it. I had no problems with your points just the BS manner in which you choose to express them. I mean, grow a pair!
And the Mom’s basement thing wasn’t fair. Though you did reply in the middle of the day which means you have no real job so I was probably more right than wrong but whether it’s your Mom’s basement or your studio apartment where you live with your Parakeet and 19 cats named after all the guys that wouldn’t fuck you doesn’t matter. It was a testimony to your charcter which I’m guessing is weak at best. I mean, you even took a potshot at Fletch up there… a guy who is loved and respected in this little community… WTF? He’s half the reason I do LAMBcast (and question my sexuality at times). Snootch!
Seriously, this is as fun as yelling at a statue for looking at you crosseyed! Come forward or shut the fuck up, you puss!
Again, I had no problem with your points. Fletch can attest that I apologize for half that shit you mentioned every time we finish doing the cast. It’s just a BS move to do it this way.
PS. My only other question is what set you over… I’ve done like 10 LAMBcasts… did you just hate GIJoe?
See, even you said I’m clever… what’s not to love?
I’m gonna do this before I start drinking so you can have the clarity you so desperately seek from me.
I love how you say “Let the grown-ups talk” and then follow that with “Ooh!! OUCH!!!” What was next on tap? “Sick burn”?
I think the Dad thing was supposed to hurt but was little more than a tickle. He talked to me like you did once…. ONCE!
I don’t know why you hate booze but I think if anyone needs a drink around here it’s you! And I think the audience would agree with me there!
The dickless rebuttle I guess was meant to reference the fact that you’re a chick… I meant it more in the sense that you have no balls. I mean talking shit back and forth on an internet chat board is an exercise in futility as is, since there are no reprecussions, but to do it Anonymously is just seven kinds of coward!
Personally, I could give a shit if you don’t like me. You’re welcome to come on MILFcast and tell my listeners all about it. I had no problems with your points just the BS manner in which you choose to express them. I mean, grow a pair!
And the Mom’s basement thing wasn’t fair. Though you did reply in the middle of the day which means you have no real job so I was probably more right than wrong but whether it’s your Mom’s basement or your studio apartment where you live with your Parakeet and 19 cats named after all the guys that wouldn’t fuck you doesn’t matter. It was a testimony to your charcter which I’m guessing is weak at best. I mean, you even took a potshot at Fletch up there… a guy who is loved and respected in this little community… WTF? He’s half the reason I do LAMBcast (and question my sexuality at times). Snootch!
Seriously, this is as fun as yelling at a statue for looking at you crosseyed! Come forward or shut the fuck up, you puss!
Again, I had no problem with your points. Fletch can attest that I apologize for half that shit you mentioned every time we finish doing the cast. It’s just a BS move to do it this way.
PS. My only other question is what set you over… I’ve done like 10 LAMBcasts… did you just hate GIJoe?
Great LAMBcast guys. And funny as usual.
I think Fletch hit the nail right on the head here, and while Kai you’ve ripped this coward a new everything, and ANNON you deserve it. Maybe your message would have been heard if you delivered it in a manner that wasn’t so insulting not just to Kai, but to everyone who takes part on the LAMBcast, to every LAMB member, and anyone who is proud enough of who they are and their words to at least have the dignity to back themselves up with an identity. The fact that you returned to continue the argument shows you care enough to wait for a response, which means you weren’t some random person passing by and listening to the cast. Any reasonable point you would have made has been lost in the bitter way you expressed yourself.
And insulting Fletch? That’s beyond rapport.