MNN: An Insomniac's Paradise.

While Dave Attell's Insomniac is certainly required watching for anyone planning on staying up all night and going out, it doesn't reach out to those people planning on staying up all night and not having fun due to stress, too much caffeine and/or other keeper-uppers.

Enter MNN, New York's O.G. Video Blog. It's public access. On crack. While pouring heroin into it's eyes. On a unicycle.

For a nominal fee, and no real choice in time slot, you can put whatever you want on TV. Take the Checkerboard Kids, one of the longer running shows on MNN. A variety hour filled with ska and irreverence, its one of the better produced slots on MNN. Tonight? Guest stars SonicUke.

There's the guy who plays records while bouncing his Gund bear in front of the sleeve. Not bad, but doesn't go far enough. Then there is Miss So-and-So (I forgot her name): a guy who has painted a face upside-down on his chin, still using his mouth as a mouth, and complete with wig waxing poetic on anything. And she eats. 29 minutes of sheer delight.

It would be virtually impossible for me to describe the brilliance which is free reign television, so I figured that I would just show you. I don't recall the name of this show. I'm sure it's not important. But I think you can admit that it...is...amazing.

There was one show, in my youth, that I used to watch called 'Psycho T.V.', which made underground music videos with old movie clips, heavy on the Russ Meyer and Kung Fu. But I haven't been able to find it lately.

My Friend Alex and I talked about our own show. We were going to call it "Dancin' Shoes." But like all good projects, this one never got off the ground because of laziness and apathy. Which is strange, because those exact criteria beg for this type of programming.

If you are in NYC, and you have access to this late night programming consider yourself lucky, because by morning you will be dying to get out of the house.

Other shows include: Roboshithead
Talking Meatsticks
Team Spider Television
Church of Shooting Yourself
Wild Record Collection
Outside My Window
A Show for the People
Mr. Greg
To the Hills
Lake Ivan Exists
Jack E. Jett
Knit Bootie

Sorry about the video clip quality, I recorded it on my digital camera.

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