Jordan Schmidt

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"Like Paul Dano took the shape of Kurt Russell." You may have heard me in a podcast about cartoons or 90s movies, or seen me in a rather niche video essay. Who knows where you'll see me next. Be warned, I talk about my autism a great deal as well. [he/him]

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smooth jazz quartet called Lorenzo Muzak is this anything?

New! I watched 11 seasons of a Dutch reality competition show and all I got was this moderately amusing 90 minute video essay! youtu.be/jO9WVDh018o

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The Rolling Stones lips but it's a butthole. Do they still sue people? I have an idea.

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Some personal news I’m excited to share: It sounds crazy but I’ve discovered a frog who can sing Tin Pan Alley classics. I’ve rented out a theatre for his debut performance season. There’s a lot of my own money invested in this but with how amazing the frog is there’s no way I can lose!

Something very funny about pulling a ‘red wave’ parallel of a Dallas Cowboys player

The way he’s been hitting this spring, this is a good problem to have:

I’m at a one-year old’s birthday party and these are some of the things you can find on the tables

I wrote a bit about having a baseball card blog for more than half my life. It went places. smittyscards.blogspot.com/2024/02/fift...

Fifteenssmittyscards.blogspot.com This whole thing goes back to devotion. The whole story. The whole blog. Everything. If no one was devoted then none of this happens. My ...

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bluesky: a place where i can say something like 'wayne's world is essentially structured like a french new wave film' and the most irate the commenters will get is a '....I GUESS.'

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Adding “Noted muralist” to Wile E. Coyote’s Wikipedia page.

The latest video essay is up. Last year I watched every season of the Mole in English. Now I tackle the original Belgian version. 11 seasons, 3 nonsubtitled ones, and a whole lot of wonderful outside-the-box thinking. youtu.be/N0GeVtgUZS0

I kinda love that there’s a character actor that looks a lot like Elon Musk that specifically plays punchable villains, and he’s been getting a lot more work in the past few years.

This one has always made me feel the happiest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vqg...

Hey. What’s your favorite music video? I don’t care if it’s all-time favorite or I’m-feeling-this-right-now favorite. I just like great music videos and love to see what people are into.

R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life (Official Music Video)www.youtube.com "Imitation Of Life" from R.E.M.'s 2001 album, "Reveal"Buy the album: https://rem.lnk.to/RevealYDTo learn more, visit http://www.remhq.com———————Subscribe for...

I regret to inform you all that I will no longer be making any attempts to like Ari Aster's films. Instead, I will carry on with my silly films where good things happen to people.

How are we autistic people expected to keep adapting and modeling after situations and people who don't stop changing for us?

New video essay is up! I dove into The Predator, its terrible autism representation, and why I think it happened. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK5Z...

'You May be Right' by Billy Joel is actually a country song, much like 'Scenes from an Italian Restaurant' is a prog-rock multi-section epic

smooth jazz quartet called Lorenzo Muzak is this anything?

did you know that the keyboardist from genesis cut an album with the lead singer of wang chung? now you know. [it went about as well as you'd expect, for the record].

Tonight the drummer from Toadies followed my podcast’s Twitter. I’m flabbergasted.

AI is bad. Except for the AI that cleaned up John Lennon’s audio for Now and Then

in the last month I've written full outlines of scripts that are way too wild for words. a few weeks ago was 'macaulay culkin is the logical successor when james bond dies in action'. tonight is 'the true story of the minnesotan who brought roxette to the american pop charts'. i've gone mad.

I watched the original House on Haunted Hill. Then I watched the remake. Then I learned it was part of a plan to bring back the chiller genre. And then I got an idea for a video essay youtu.be/dQ1nWDX6Dks

Dark Castle's Killer Chiller Quadrilogyyoutu.be In the late 90s, some brave souls tried to channel the spirits of William Castle and Vincent Price to imbue the horror climate with true chiller energy. The ...

friend: "i know i do this thing that's common in a lot of people with autism or adhd, but i don't think i'm autistic." me, who a.) knows this person and b.) has the autism radar: [nods politely without saying anything]

Nothing Ever Happens by Del Amitri is a 34 year old song that sounds like a 18 year old song and seems to be written like a song released any time in the last two years. It fascinates me.

I spent the whole summer working on a video essay about the history of The Mole in English language countries. It is feature length. And I am proud of it. https://youtu.be/YAU8bPmfhwg

The Mole Chronicles: Twenty Two Deceptive Years and Countingyoutu.be The Mole began life in Belgium, then conquered the Netherlands, then claimed Australia for its own: at that point, the rest of the world was toast. Altogethe...

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Well that’s not good

I have begun a foray into video essaying. My first one, though not the first I've worked on [that one is still a few more days away], concerns Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, and why such an ingenious experiment in blending animation and improv didn't entirely work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=svhN...

What In Blazes Was Drew Carey's Green Screen Show??www.youtube.com In 2004, Drew Carey and a band of improvisers made a television program that combined animation with live improv. There were no survivors.00:00 Introduction0...

Listening to Easter Theatre by XTC and just getting more neurodivergent by osmosis