How to Unwind After Cranking Out Copy All Day

[RyanHealy]

My wife and I love to laugh. Thing is, good comedy is hard to find.

Recently I stumbled on Flight of the Conchords, a folk parody band from
New Zealand that happened to get their own show on HBO.

Now I don't have HBO or even regular TV programming, but I do have a DVD
player. And the entire first season of Flight of the Conchords is available for
rent/buy.

Anyway, after a long day of writing copy and taking phone calls, it's nice to
unwind and get some good laughs in. If you don't mind a few swear words... and you like Napolean Dynamite... I'm pretty sure you'll love
Flight of the Chonchords.

Their songs have great lines like...

"you're the most beautiful girl in the whole wide room"

"and when I get down to my business socks, you know what time it is, it's
business time, that's why they're called business socks"

It's hard to convey the humor here. If you want a peek, just look up
Flight of the Conchords on YouTube. They've got some of their live
performances posted there.

Ryan

P.S. I'll post something that's REALLY about copywriting next time.

[Bensettle]

Very cool, Ryan, will definitely have to check that one out. Heck, I get burned out after 30 minutes of copywriting

I have cable, but rarely watch it. I would MUCH rather get entire seasons of a show and watch like this.

Ben

[JosephRatliff]

Ahhh come'on Ben...you can work on copy for 36 hours straight can't you?

Ryan, I am going to check this out right now...

[RayEdwards]

[Bensettle]

[MommyEnterprises]

[JosephRatliff]

[RyanHealy]

More ideas...

--Kicking back with a Fat Tire (amber ale available only in the midwest).

--Air hockey.

--Taking a long walk.

--Hitting the gym.

--Solving cast puzzles.

Barnes & Noble started carrying these cast puzzles by Hanayama. They're
super fun if you're into spatial reasoning.

I've bought five of them now, solved three, still working on two. A great
way to get your brain engaged in something that does NOT involve words. :-p

Here's a link:

http://www.frontporchclassics.com/games ... .php?id=48

Ryan

[Darrel Hawes]

[James Palmer]

[Kyle Tully]

My girlfriend and I are nuts about Arrested Development. We've got all 3 seasons on DVD and just cycle through them non-stop. We both work from home so get plenty of "time outs"

Hitting the gym or going for a walk are always good to clear the brain. I'm usually chomping at the bit to get back into it when I get home.

And the Wii is hours (too many if you're not careful) of entertainment. Just need to convince her that a game of tennis is not a real workout...

[Bensettle]

I enjoy renting entire seasons of shows when I'm burned out as well.

Although due to my comic book fan-boy nature combined with my gnat-like attention span, I'm partial to the action/adventure and SciFi shows like Prison Break, 24, Smallville, Lost, Supernatural, etc.

I especially like Prison Break.

Not only is it a (for the most part) "thinking person's" show, but it also has that "Lethal Weapon" flow to it the late (great) copywriter Eugene Schwartz talked about. (i.e. a couple minutes of dialogue, then some kind of intense scene that leaves you on the edge of your seat, a few seconds of story, then another action scene, over and over...).

Except Prison Break is like Lethal Weapon on steroids.

24 does this, too.

Ben

[JosephRatliff]

[Bensettle]

Hey Joseph,

If you like that type of movie with the action flow, here are some more (if you haven't seen them already) you may enjoy:

North By Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock!)

The Rock & Transformers (both by Michael Bay)

National Treasure

Batman Begins

Any others you've seen with that kind of action flow Schwartz talked about?

Ben

P.S. Nothing like getting paid to watch movies...

[JosephRatliff]