Hey, man, is that the ROX? Yeah? Well, turn it up, man!
Oh, the ROX? Well, it's all about the world of J and B and XY and T Black and cheap living and a lot of drugs and, well, living life high and low.
More specifically, it's the public-access TV show that's jumped the rails of its broadcast audience in Bloomington, Indiana and can now be downloaded by net viewers around the world.
J bartends, sort of. And cooks, to use the term loosely. He also does amusing, often self-exploiting things in front of the camera.
B edits "The ROX" and performs his own on-camera antics, when he's not doing a stint telemarketing. The amount of hair on his head tends to fluctuate.
XY's on-camera antics have included a discourse on the joy of eating ramen noodles, a slightly askew tour of New York City delivered during an internship she had at MTV, and dumpster diving (which won her the MTV job).
T Black is the Rox's resident anarchist clown (who could do without one?).
They, along with their cohorts (like Tao, who takes their insanity and makes it into HTML magic), bring ROX to life.

ROX began about 3 years ago when B - whose escapade streaking through Bloomington gave him some experience with video editing - approached his friend and fellow Indiana University grad, J, with the idea of putting together a weekly TV show. More than eighty episodes later they're still airing, going on public access each week and over the Internet whenever the unsuspecting Net traveler drops by their site, the ROX Quarry.
In the course of those three years, they've put hours of their lives on tape in a low-brow rendition of something akin to what MTV's 'The Real World' could be if it didn't suck like an industrial vacuum -- though don't make the comparison to them. "The first time I saw the Real World I thought it was a locally produced commercial for some kind of hair product," insists J.
So what's the ROX about? Hard to say. "The inspirations for the ROX come from all around us," says J. "The process for deciding what makes a good episode of ROX usually involves a frantic, last-minute panic, in which we curse our lack of planning and poor execution. Then B employs his considerable talent; turning lackluster, confused, stuttering footage into a coherent stream of video. Note that I use the word 'coherent' loosely."
Past episodes have witnessed them smoking dope on the local courthouse steps, sloshing around in the mud while giggin' for frogs (don't ask), and mixing such potent drinks as the Zima slimeball.
So what makes it worth putting on television? The fact that they're willing to show themselves living like this, and hell, no one else will.

The ROX crew have joyously opened themselves up to the world and elsewhere with their Web site while a lot of people with a lot of money sit on their asses and think about how cool it could be to be interactive if only they could find the right intern to work like a dog. And since the networks and cable have now expressed interest, the ROX kids may have a much wider audience in the future.
Until then, if you happen to be in Bloomington, tune in Tuesday night at 11, or drop by the Quarry and watch the Roxxers at work. It Rox.