Unique Regularly Scheduled Programming

For those moments when you're jonesing for something clever (say...biting satire on urban stereotypes?) on the tube...and not even TiVo can help...

Through the genius of the guy over at Worship the Glitch (via the guys over at TiVo and the guys over at Blip.tv) comes GlitchTV, a free subscriber service that takes cool video in the public domain and aggregates it for your TiVo viewing pleasure. Glitch P-udding himself explains it better than I ever could:

WTG will be programming a daily "TV Station" for your TiVo called GlitchTV." Once you're set up, the only manual labor you'll endure is plopping down on the couch, hiting the TiVo button, and reading the list of what's on. We'll try to have a variety of programming and we're open to suggestions regarding what to program and how much TiVo space and download time is reasonable.

GlitchTV is filled with everything from old cartoons to bizarre community access television...but back to my point about urban stereotypes...

Last night, my TiVo presented me with Metropopular (2001):

an animated short film about what the cities of America would say to one another if they could talk. Frantic about a popularity contest in which these cities are competing, they jockey for top position while arguing between themselves. Highlighting their separate personalities, each city had his or her own reason why they should be ''America's favorite city.''

For anyone who's ever generalized about the entire population of a city...and believed it...this hysterical 3 minute short is totally for you.

Not a TiVo user? Check out metropopular over at Blip.tv...

Fix your jones for unique TiVo programming @ worshiptheglitch.com
Fix your jones for urban stereotypes (in Quicktime) @ metropopular on blip.tv

Posted by sarah t. at 1:03 PM