Personal Blog Posting #2: Family Guy: A Lens into Pop Culture

Alright guys, I am gonna try and open the discussion on something that has been on the tips of everybody's tongues for a long time now, Seth McFarlane has managed to turn his ever-popular television series Family Guy into a means of expressing his appreciation for well, things he likes. Even after it was canceled it was brought back to television by popular demand and has since taken over as one of the most watched shows on the air.

Whether it's his love for musicals and Broadway...


A recent popular film...


Or another equally classic television series...


There has never really been an animated series like it before. Family Guy and it's creators have done more to cause a major epistemological shift in television in comprising the bulk of their show with cutaways, flash-backs, and scenes completely unrelated to the story (if any) present during each episode. You would think that this would cause an outcry amongst viewers, but quite to the contrary it's ratings continue to sky-rocket and the show's popularity increase.

First Personal Blog Posting: Facebook...a nation?

So as part of a discussion had in class with Rob Williams at some point in the earlier weeks of this semester, it came up that Facebook is the largest "nation" in the world. Utilizing the ever popular tools of StumbleUpon and Digg in my regular internet adventures, I found this map which really helped to drive the point home. Then, it has been flodding the television and internet lately, but I remember seeing the trailer at some point last month for David Fincher's (Se7en) newest work The Social Network which claims to tell the story of Mark Zuckerberg, the "creator," his time at Harvard, and how he created this mammoth of a website and made it one of the most visited websites on the Web 2.0. In looking at Fincher's recent work we see that this film is anticipated to be in the visual style of one of Fincher's other works Fight Club (based on the Palahniuk novel by the same title) and is highly anticipated. I know I was planning on seeing it at some point. Whether I see it in theaters or wait till it comes out on dvd, we'll just have to see.

I was able to find a particular version of the numerous trailers circulating on the web and youtube and found this one in particular to be one of my favorites. The music is a cover of Radiohead's song "Creep" performed by Scala & Kolacny Brothers I've provided the link to the track here, but I think that it was very adequately purposed in the trailer for the upcoming film.



what did you think?

Hello Apollo, where shall I begin?

Good evening...or morning, or afternoon for that matter.

Hi there, for those who don't know, my name is Geoff Klane and it is a pleasure to have you here with me. I am a twenty-one year-old senior at Champlain College in Burlington, VT (Vermont) studying Digital Film Making. I have had the pleasure of living in this beautiful city for the past three years and to be honest, I have no intentions of leaving anytime soon. Pleasantries aside, I enjoy watching movies, listening to pretty much anything (aside from Country, Western, or Country/Western), I love biking, snowboarding, kayaking, rock-climbing, and last but not least, cooking.

My whole experience in living here, going to school here, working here, and most important, forming relationships here, have provided me with a singularly unique opportunity which I am ultimately thankful for. My goal in the creation of this blog is to provide you, the reader, with a look into exactly that which the title states, Klane's brain train. Not only that, but it will give us all, myself included, the chance to converse and build new and meaningful relationships that might have otherwise fallen by the wayside.

I look forward to anything and everything that this blog will come to offer you and me in the coming weeks, months, maybe even years. Man your jackhammer, man your battle stations, and let's do this thing!

-Geoff