Preview of Flight of the Conchords at HBO Asia Office!
Thanks to the Su Min of Text 100, I got invited to attend a Blogger event at HBO Asia office for a tour and preview of one of their latest additions to the HBO lineup, Flight of the Conchords. I am a big fan of many, many, MANY TV series and I haven’t heard of Flight of the Conchords ever. It wasn’t until Claudia posted an entry about the show that got me interested. And boy! It was hilarious and entertaining!
“Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie – a.k.a. Flight of the Conchords – may be “New Zealand’s 4th Most Popular Folk Parody Duo,” but in the USA, finding someone who knows their act is about as easy as finding a kiwi nest in Central Park! To rectify this oversight, Jemaine and Bret have moved to New York’s East Village to conquer America, one fan (literally) at a time.
In this irreverent half-hour musical comedy series new HBO series, Jemaine and Bret (playing naïve, fictionalized versions of themselves) move to downtown Manhattan, where they try to land gigs and pursue relationships with elusive women, both with marginal success. As we see, the duo’s innocent, misguided efforts rarely yield dividends, but they do spawn an abundance of plaintive Conchord tunes about life, love, and the pursuit of an elusive music video.”
-Extracted from HBO
I arrived with Claudia at our destination and bumped into Nadnut on the way to the HBO Asia office. We were greeted warmly by the Text 100 & HBO crew and plenty other bloggers joined us like Jerrick, Nicholas, Hillary, Rinaz, Sheylara, Musxzart & many other bloggers accompanied by their +1s.
The HBO crew took us for a short but informative tour around their superb office and we got to see the various departments and crew that are responsible for bringing life to the movies, series and trailers that you see on HBO. In the sound editing room, a volunteer was asked to do a short recording and guess what? I was ‘volunteered’.
Into the recording room I go and I was asked to grunt, “ARRRRRRGHHHHH!!!” 3 times.
Not being sure how I sound as my ears were muted from my voice, I went out to see that the sound guru was ready to incorporate my grunt into the trailer. Roars of laughter filled the room as my voice was in heard in that HBO trailer. Seeing that he could squeeze more laughter from the crowd, he played that portion of the trailer a few more times to the delight of the ‘I-can’t-believe-this-funny-shit’ crowd.
The genre of the trailer was ‘Horror’ by the way.
We ended the tour of the office at the lounge that many employees will kill for to have and stuffed our faces with the delicious food catered by Absolutely New Zealand. After having one too many of their fabulous desserts, we plonked ourselves on the comfy couches and watched 2 episodes of Flight of the Conchords. What a great way to end the event!
[Image from Claudia]
Some pictures of the stuffs in the goodie bag!
Flight of the Conchords OST! WOOO HOOO!!
Flight of the Conchords premieres on HBO today at 10.30pm! There is also a video contest in which you can take part to win a Mac Book Air!!
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September 3rd, 2008 at 5:15 pm
If I’m an Australian and don’t know about these Kiwis, then it is okay for you not to either.
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September 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm
It’s not very every day that we got to hear Krisandro grunting like a pig. Hope they archived the audio recording in the terabytes of storage for future use.
WAHAHAHAHAH!
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September 4th, 2008 at 12:52 am
doh, wish i had tagged along on the tour – your recording sounds funny! and hope u’ve got your, erm, ONS stash… =)
thanks for coming ya!
September 4th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
*ahem* I also want the ONS clips can? haha
Anyway don’t worry lah anyone going ‘aaaarggghhh!’ in a sound-proof room will feel weird, like what are you ARGHing about! haha glad the sound room left a big impression on all. I hope you submit an entry to our contest too yah..Mac Book Air!!
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September 5th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Love that goodie bag. Hey, I like Heroes and Linkin Park too! I think I was too engrossed with the video till I missed the desserts!
September 5th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Kym> And know you know!
Hillary> First and the last for you! HBO better delete it!
ssumin> You didn’t miss much. REALLY! And Jerrick has the ONS Stash. Got to get it from him!
Yin Qi> Asking for ONS clips sounds weird girl… HAHA! ANyway, I haven’t got the tools nor the skills to create the video. I got to find partners in crime!
Wilfrid> The desserts very VERY GOOD! I think you should visit the restaurant at Sunset Way to make up for it!