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  3. Posted

    So I thought that I would compile everyone's suggestions into a ranked list so that Scott and Scott could take a look at it and decide what the new series should be.  I have ranked them from 1 (best) to 33 (worst):

    1.            Urinals/Trotsky Icepick

    2.            Pere Ubu

    2½.         Rocket from the Tombs

    3.            Yo La Tengo

    4.            Steven Soderbergh (movies and TV)

    And a 29-way tie for last place:

    33.          Talking Heads

    33.          The Smiths

    33.          Steely Dan

    33.          Pearl Jam

    33.          The Cars

    33.          Radiohead

    33.          Modest Mouse

    33.          Camper Van Beethoven

    33.          Guided by Voices

    33.          The Wu-Tang Clan

    33.          Elvis Costello

    33.          Beck

    33.          Foo Fighters

    33.          They Might Be Giants

    33.          Look Who’s Talking (movies)

    33.          REO Speedwagon

    33.          John Waite

    33.          Clocks (as in the timekeeping instruments)

    33.          UB40

    33.          George R.R. Martin (books)

    33.          J.R.R. Tolkein (books)

    33.          Perfumes worn by cooks (scents)

    33.          Right Said Fred

    33.          R2D2 (the Star Wars franchise character)

    33.          Ticks (as in the arachnids)

    33.          Nine Inch Nails

    33.          The Undertones/Protex/Donkey Show/Buster’s All Stars/?

    33.          Vampire Weekend

    33.          Coldplay

    You're welcome.

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    "Just really like a ... what do you call that on the--you would know this, you're a painter--when you do the painting that's not a triptych necessarily, but when you're doing a wall and it goes from one color down to a darker color but it blends?"

    Since the word that Scott Aukerman was looking for wasn't "gradient", is it possible he meant "Ombre"?

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    So there was a band called Servotron. Its conceit was that the band members dressed up as and pretended to be robots working to overthrow and destroy humanity to usher in a glorious period where robots reigned instead.

     

    And they did a great cover of "Finest Worksong". The song was subtly changed to become an anthem of mechanical uprising and throwing off of shackles. Oh man, do I love it. That link is to iTunes (you can also buy it on Amazon Music). It's the best 99 cents you can spend.

  12. Posted

    Perhaps I missed it, but I was surprised that the Scotts didn't bring up "Shaking Through", which is, to my mind, the best song on the album and in my personal top ten of all of their songs.

     

    Okay, so I relistened and they did bring it up in their song-by-song rundown. Never mind.

  13. Posted

    Perhaps I missed it, but I was surprised that the Scotts didn't bring up "Shaking Through", which is, to my mind, the best song on the album and in my personal top ten of all of their songs.

     

    Also, I had the opportunity to briefly chat with Mitch Easter on Facebook and wish him a Happy New Year on January 1, 2018. I told him that I had just heard

    earlier that day and gushed about how awesome it is.

     

    And one more bonus Mitch Easter fact: his daughter Tamara Easter makes a cameo appearance in "Steven's Last Night in Town" by Ben Folds Five ("He's charmed everyone here / Except Tamara Easter / Who later revealed to him / Her innermost secrets").

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    Ed Brubaker, at 36:16: I think it's ... it's what we're seeing now, where everything is some preexisting IP that the marketing firms are "You need to put out the Battleship movie, because everyone knows what Battleship is." And it's like ... but I don't think anyone even in the Nineties, other than your girlfriend's dad, knew who The Phantom was.

     

    Paul Scheer: Yeah! Who was a 70 year old man, and he should know about it!

     

    Ed Brubaker: Yeah, exactly! If you grew up in the Thirties and the Forties as a kid, you knew who The Phantom was, and The Shadow. But if you were like ... like l grew up reading comics, and I'm like, when that movie came out I was in my mid-to-late twenties ... I didn't give a shit about The Phantom. I cared more about Billy Zane. Which is weird, because I don't care about Billy Zane.

     

    So I had to check Ed Brubaker's wikipedia page just to make sure, but he's actually older than I am, and I read quite a bit of The Phantom in comic book form. The reason for that had to do with the sort of comic books available in India in the early and mid-1980's.

     

    I'm sure that things are different now. But the sort of comics that were around at that time were -- in addition to the Amar Chitra Katha books, of course -- Tintin, Asterix and Obelix, and the King Features heroes such as Mandrake the Magician and, yes, The Phantom. The Marvel and DC heroes didn't have as much mindshare back then, even for middle-to-upper class English-speaking Indians.

     

    There are a whole lot of things that are problematic about those books and their treatment of non-whites, and Paul, Jason, Eliza and Ed get to that in the episode. But kids want to read comics, and watch and listen to heroes, no matter how offensive they can be to their own ethnic and racial groups. It's my guess that you'll find a lot of people my age who grew up in parts of South America, Africa, and Asia who gave a shit about The Phantom and older pulp heroes.

     

    P.S. -- I didn't watch the movie, but one of the things I enjoyed about The Phantom in the old comic strips and books was that he would go into bars and order milk, then inevitably get into fights over it. I hope they at least had a scene like that, just as a sop to fans of The Phantom. But I'm not going to actually sit through the entire thing just to find out.

     

    (Edit: changed "he's actually younger than I am" to the correct "he's actually older than I am".)

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    I should have commented 3 years ago, back when people were still discussing this episode, but here goes: L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg, on his website Brunching Shuttlecocks, once invited his readers to list every plot hole, logical flaw, and continuity error they could think of in Godzilla. Here's what they came up with.

  17. Posted

    Does anyone else remember the story arc in the comic Concrete in which Concrete is recruited to help with the special effects for a Masters of the Universe-esque movie? Just like the real movie, there were money problems. Presumably unlike the real movie, the first director of the movie is put into a coma when the special effects guys decide to sabotage the production in an attempt to make Concrete look dangerously incompetent.

     

    Paul Chadwick was, among other things, making a point that even irredeemably crappy movies like Masters of the Universe can manage to wring out moments of beauty. As much as I enjoyed his comic back in the day, I'd like to force him to watch the new Fantastic Four movie and then dare him to make that argument again.

     

    (Edit: the story arc was titled "Fragile Creature", and thinly-veiled Masters of the Universe analogue in the comic was Rulers of the Omniverse.)

  21. Posted

    Anonymous 37 - It's not a parody of skinemax films but the film is intended to be funny. The director is famous for mashing up genres and using a heavy hand with physical comedy and punchlines.

     

    If you have a mystery -- even a mashed-up mystery that's meant to be funny -- where what's meant to be a huge reveal to the viewer (the fact that Jane March's character is impersonating multiple people) is obvious from the first moment that you see the second person she's playing, and the movie isn't a parody, then your movie has failed.

     

    As I mentioned, I didn't see the producer's cut, but if anything, the movie would have been improved by removing material and making the plot more confusing, because at the very least, the viewer would be more engaged in connecting the dots.

     

    I'll take your word that the movie was not meant as a parody. It's a shame, because it reduces what could have been the single best movie parody I have ever seen (well, maybe tied with Starship Troopers) to camp.

  22. Posted

    The Director's Cut of COLOR OF NIGHT is a camp classic because it features great talents in front and behind the camera going balls to the wall. The cinematography is beautiful, the transitions are clever, and the performances are deliciously over the top. Plus, the extra 18 minutes allow the mystery more room to unfold--there's too many characters/suspects otherwise. The producer's cut tried to simplify and shorten the film but only succeeded in creating an unwatchable mess.

     

    I saw the VHS version, and I can't speak to the cinematography, because I was agog at everything else.

     

    I'm willing to provisionally defend this movie, but only because I can't be sure that it isn't a brilliant parody of Skinemax "erotic" thrillers played with deadly stone-faced seriousness by every single actor and actress. If that's what the producers and directors had in mind, then this really does deserve five stars.

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