Yikes! That video is not going to win any awards for sound editing. I think every single one of the voice tracks were re-recorded and dubbed back in post and none of them were original recording to match the video that were shot.

I thought I was watching a Bad Lip Reading production for a second there and I was trying to figure out if that was somehow part of the joke.

The vignettes as they were were somewhat comical though. Although only about 2-3 of them were really "Allston Xmas"-specific.

Best line of the whole thing was:
Woman: "Hey, hamburglar, get back here with my chair!"
Student: "I hope I'm not sidewalk shopping for furniture on move-in day when I'm 31."

The poor audio detracts too much. Much of the video is well done however. The thing as a whole just reminds me how much I miss the Real Housewives of Southie and how it was well-written, well-produced, and very well packaged (at Jackie's Packie?).

ADR is ROUGH

By mattgriffin on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 3:15pm.

That ADR is really, really, really distracting.

I'm going to send this to a friend who is moving here

By Nancy on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 1:15pm.

I have been begging and pleading with her for weeks not to move here on Labor Day weekend and for the love of the Blessed Mother in Heaven, not to move to Allston. (For reference, she's in her late 30s and will be working in the Back Bay).

She's coming here almost sight unseen from Texas (been here once for a weekend) and she has this idea in her brain that Allston is cool because of all of the places to hang out.

Maybe this will convince her to scootch on down a bit to Brookline or over a bit to JP.

If she wants to walk to work

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 1:43pm.

The South End is an easy walk to the Back Bay and has plenty of places to hang out.

Had to unfriend Allston friend last night

By Nancy on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 7:17am.

She's moving here from Texas and from the looks of things she's in for a BIG surprise when she gets here. I suggested the South End, she did some research on it and texted me "So it looks like all the gays live there. Will people think I'm gay if I live there?"

You may be asking yourself what attracted her to Boston in the first place. It's irony at its worst. She thinks that Texas is too conservative and Boston will give her a chance to be around intellectually stimulating people. I guess she means intellectually stimulating people who don't identify as anything but non-straight.

UNFRIEND and thanks for reminding me why I live here. It's a little thing called acceptance.

She's in her late 30s?

By The Beer Guy on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 8:23am.

And she cares what other people think?

...ok.

Poor kid, it's probably like coming from a taliban-lite

By Chris Rich on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 8:57am.

..situation where she's still trying to get used to the idea that a burqa won't be needed.

Who knows what bizarre formulations rise in a knowledge vacuum?

You can always cut her a bit of slack at some point and maybe this acceptance thing you aspire to will be contagious.

Point taken

By Nancy on Thu, 08/14/2014 - 10:26am.

I should be more accepting of her, especially coming from Texas. Maybe once she lives here for a while she'll learn that they're just like you and me. Maybe they are you and/or me.

But she persists, Allston it is.

Yes , Brookline , close to

By kvn on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 2:36pm.

Yes , Brookline , close to Krafty and Tom's estates will work ( http://bostonherald.com/inside_track/the_inside_track/2013/10/tom_brady_... ) .

Convert her from being a Cowboy fan, G will have her over for tea.

Screaming into the abyss...

By erik g on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 3:16pm.

I've never been able to convince anyone from out of town just how bad it is in Allston/Brighton/Camberville on September 1st. Most folks seem to think it's just students moving, and how many of them can there be in this residential neighborhood a mile from a major campus?

I think you have to be stuck behind a caravan of U-Haul trucks double parked in the middle of an intersection on Comm Ave before you realize what an unholy mess this whole town becomes on Allston Christmas. My commute doesn't take me anywhere near the affected areas, and I still won't drive anywhere on September 1st; you're almost certainly going to interact with a dozen rental trucks on the road, each driven by a 19-year-old who has never handled anything bigger than mom's Impala.

Real Estate Agents Steer People

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 3:37pm.

We had a research assistant, and we knew that he was going to be a good researcher when he rejected Allston and the green line after doing his homework. He ended up in Southie. He ended up buying a place there a couple of years later.

I mean, he worked near the red and orange lines, his wife worked at Tufts Med ... why the hell would the realtors keep showing them Allston apartments anyway?? JP I would understand, but they seem to think that all the young people belong in a single neighborhood, commute be damned! If you are relocating from out of town and under 30 or so, that's where you are pushed if you don't do your own research and put your foot down.

That's why railing against realtors

By Chris Rich on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 3:50pm.

..is one of my favorite past times.

As my friend Doberman notes, it's one of the few lines of work where a criminal background isn't a liability.

What is this garbage?

By MatthewC on Tue, 08/12/2014 - 5:11pm.

This looks absolutely stupid.

I'm looking forward to Allston Xmas'

By Waquiot on Wed, 08/13/2014 - 12:12am.

The web series, not the actual event.

(anti-disclosure: I have no connection to this thing. I thought it was a joke trailer at first, but then I realized it was real)

Allston Christmas: The serial

Allston Xmas Trailer

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Rats, rodents, roaches, and Anwar Faisal

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How so? Renters want none of

From what I've read in the globe

Roaches aren't vertebrates.

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