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Drinking With Ian "Season 1 DVD"
Like so many torrid affairs that have come before, your liaison with Ian will begin in a dark, smoky rock club, and it will be fueled by booze, so very much booze. He ll sweet talk you, regaling you with tales of absurd nightlife in this city of his; impress you with his vast knowledge of as-yet unknown bands just on the brink of brilliant stardom; and ply you with exotic shots, about which the most you will ever know is that they are full of alcohol, supplied gratis by a bartender who seems to know Ian like his own brother, and are only too easy to drink.
You'll love his wit, his cartoonish coif, his comfortable manner, even his friends, and soon you'll find, you'd follow him anywhere. Be it into the basement of Minneapolis famed 7th Street Entry (kid brother to its better known half, First Avenue) for a zombie makeover, like the volunteer in the first episode; into the back of an ambulance to yell over the loudspeaker while trolling rich neighborhoods and drinking warm beer, a la the episode wherein our rag-tag band of misfits is ejected from their erstwhile home; or even out onto a street corner to wave protest signs at passers-by and Hard Rock Cafe patrons in an attempt to drum up attention for your lothario, oh, you'll happily accompany your host on his adventures. Along with his improvisational chanteur, rotund bartender, sage-like haiku master, and an array of local yokels, beauties, weirdos, and geniuses, Ian Rans invites you to join him for Season One of Drinking with Ian, the public access sensation which invites you to sit back, have a drink on the house, and enjoy the show.
Special Features:
-All ten original episodes, eight with commentary by the creeators and stars of the show.
-Never before seen uncut and uncensored interview and band segments.
-The Drinking with Ian Halloween Hootenanny.
-Dolby sound
-Hidden stuff
Drinking With Ian "Season 2 DVD"
Set up the shot glasses, champ, it’s time for another round of Drinking with Ian! Season 2 of the eponymous Ian’s popular, Minneapolis-based cable access show finds our hometown hero back in his old haunt, the 7th Street Entry (the servants’ quarters to First Avenue’s elegantly decayed mansion). With his well-marinated band of revelers, including bartender Ollie Stench, house poet Haiku Jim, and the show’s resident chanteur, Neil, Ian hits his stride in this second volume of late-night, on-tap entertainment. In some sort of Joseph Conrad trip to the mythical past, viewers will delve into the origins of DWI, watching long-lost tape of the 1990-something pilot for Drinking with Ian… and Troy? But nevermind Troy.
They’ll learn the mysteries of shots including the Uncle Frank, the Fonzie’s Office, and the Boz Skaggs – not to mention the champion bleep-inducing cocktail, the C*cksucking Motherf*cker. They’ll explore Midwestern musical greats from the legendary (the Mighty Mofos) to the critically acclaimed (Low) to the perennially hard-working and under-appreciated (Building Better Bombs). They’ll even delve deep into the world of independent films, with hilarious shorts like the animated “Day Off the Dead.” But most of all, through the second season’s more ambitious pre-taped skits, on and off-site interviews, and the pure joy exuded by the Drinking with Ian crew, connossieurs of Season 2 will be forced to agree with their host when he enthuses, “This crap’s getting better all the time!”
