Anything Else
Anything Else
MISCELLANEOUS
"A LITTLE OF YOUR HEART"
On Martin Luther King Day parents did just like Judy and I did, got up, had breakfast, said goodbye to their son or daughter who had the day off from school, and went to work. Then they came home and had dinner as a family.
The parents of Aundria Hudson did NOT have dinner with her again. Aundria, a 17 year old classmate of Colin's was killed in an accident while crossing the road that afternoon.
On March 4th a benefit concert was assembled at the Tonawanda High School auditorium, run by one of Colin's classmates and featuring a number of his classmates doing musical numbers in honor of Aundria. Colin wrote this song both for her, and also for Hope Fuller, who was very near the end of her time on Earth as well. It's a beautiful song for two very beautiful young women.
"SAVE YOU FROM YOURSELF"
January 13, 2010, Colin rung in the new decade with a song he wrote himself, "Save You From Yourself" at the second "Tonawanda's Got Talent" talent show from Tonawanda High School. This was something of a first for him as you'll see he's backed by classmates Jordan Steiner on drums and Chris Kisiel on Bass. Chris stole first place with a stellar piano composition and Colin nabbed second place with this number. Special honors go to the sound team for the show who this year at least managed to keep the microphone working.
WILLY WONKA 2: CHARLIE'S FIRST DAY
In December, 2009 Colin and his pal Jeff Noworyta played the lead roles of Willy Wonka and Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka Jr. at Tonawanda Middle School, where Jeff was an 8th Grader and Colin was a newly-minted alumni. After weeks of backstage jokes about Willy's true motivations, the pair did a short video speculating on what Charlie's first day as factory owner would be like.
It should be noted that they were working without a script to produce this loony video. Enjoy!
More recently, Jeff and Colin co-starred as Oliver Twist and Fagin in Tonawanda High School's production of "Oliver!" - See the News page for a special announcement about that production.
COLIN'S MUSIC
From time to time TV's Colin likes to belt out a tune on one of his instruments. We like 'em, and we thought you might too.
1) All Along the Watchtower
2) Every Day I Write The Book
TONAWANDA'S GOT TALENT
On June 10th TV's Colin appeared in a year-end talent show for Tonawanda High School. There were many fine acts and a fun time was had by all. Below are a few of Colin's Favorites:
1) Caitlin Devlin-Brooks and Ben Streeter performing "Without You" from RENT.
Caitlin and Ben are two very talented people Colin has enjoyed appearing on stage with, and he was very impressed with their beautiful rendition of this song. Their voices mesh marvelously, and Ben's piano playing is very skilled.
KATSUCON (featuring Chad Dietrichs)
TONY BUTTINO
One of the earliest interviews, TV's Colin, then just known as "Colin", was looking for something different for his in-school TV news show. When we had the opportunity we took it, and here is the first interview with a bona fide Emmy winning TV producer, Tony Buttino. Tony co-created the PBS success READING RAINBOW. 'nuff said?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaTVLJPS5gA
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WIVB-TV'S GUEST "WHY-GUY" TRYOUTS
You don't get to be called "TV's Anybody" until you've been broadcast on TV by someone else's hand. So this past November 2006 that's just what happened. Local CBS affiliate WIVB-TV in Buffalo NY was holding open auditions for the soon-to-be-open "Why Guy", their local-color reporter. Many tapes were submitted, but for some odd reason Studio Kaiju holds this clip in highest esteem. Thanks a ton to WIVB-TV for giving us permission to include this clip on our site, and thanks even more for being so generous with TV's Colin.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9124227078239352550&hl=en
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KAPPA MIKEY PROJECT "STILL SOCKY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS"
TV's Colin entered the "win a part on Kappa Mikey" contest with this cool clip. Not only does he assay the role of "Suave Mikey", but he also plays "Argyle Footworthy", a creation of his, to Dad's "Socky". Sock Puppet theatre!!!! No.... he didn't win. But that doesn't mean he doesn't get to spend time with Mikey Simon himself, Mike Sinterniklaas. Check out more than a few interviews with the man on the "Animation" page.
The talented folks at Animation Collective, the company that makes "Kappa Mikey", generously gave a package consisting of a T-shirt, some postcards and an interactive disc to all the participants in the cameo contest. Here's TV's Colin enjoying his prize.
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LUCY-DESI DAYS 2003
The Reboy Family often attends the various festivals in nearby Jamestown, NY celebrating the First Couple of TV Comedy, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Here is the report Colin filed for his school TV station in 2003. He even participated in a candy-wrapping contest based on the "Job Switching" episode of "I Love Lucy". For comedic effect, he decided to deliberately fall way behind in his duties, which neither Judy nor the third member of their team, a local woman who actually had hopes of winning the contest, knew in advance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s04Y7th2P4