Mystery Science Theater 3000: C/D, S/D.

so happy you're alive!

The box sets? Yup, just got the latest one from last month -- both Master Ninja episodes, The Magic Voyage of Sinbad and Project Moonbase from the first season. Hadn't seen any of them in years, great stuff.

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I still can't get over the fact that Timothy Van Patten went from his mumbling non-triumphs there to being the guy who co-wrote "Pine Barrens" for The Sopranos, not to mention directing a slew of other episodes for that and other various high-end cable series. Talk about bootstrapping! I would have loved it if they could have interviewed him as a bonus for this set.

Wait a minute, he also directed the first two episodes of Game of Thrones!

xpost Yeah, toxic paints, shmaints - whatever. I'm on Blu-Ray now baby

Oh weird yeah, I kept thinking Van Patten was Tim Olyphant (sheriff, Deadwood) for some reason. Good on him for surviving into a viable career

If anything I figure having gone through that show was a good object lesson in what not to do. (I also like how most of his directorial woodshedding was done on Touched By An Angel.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0lIOaq3oEY

WANT

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Can't wait. Due out midsummer.

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

"More fish flakes, my sweet friend?"

"Tibby...oh Tibby..."

Meanwhile, more on that Manos sequel:

http://www.polkio.com/archives/Story.aspx/20504/falls-city-fright

A creepy statue of a hand -- a model of Falls City resident Rick Zunck's hand made by Jones -- represents Manos in the film. Neyman carefully contemplates the statue and then tentatively reaches for it. Once he grabs hold, he screams and writhes in pain. This goes on for what seems like an excruciating long time before Neyman unleashes a chillingly desperate shout.

The performance receives applause from the entire crew.

"The man's got skills," Munch said to Jones, shaking his head.

This has basically been my homepage for the last month or so.

http://deep13.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=3

LOL, Angels Revenge on right now.

(Gunshot) "... My period!"

"Dworkinfest '78!"

Never caught that line until just now!

Aw dude. (But that's the joy, sometimes a rewatch turns up something totally random -- thus when I got the latest set with Master Ninja II and Joel reads a letter from someone having to study Derrida, Servo immediately follows it up with a sneezed "Foucault!" that sounds like he's trying to suppress a curse word. Had never noticed that once all this time!)

whoa that gamera box set might finally mean that everybody i know wont look at me like a nutjob when i slip "jailbait for gamera" into casual conversation anymore

Instead they'll look at you like a Cornjob.

lol @ boys in little pants

Love that long hair tips off canoeists a mile away that "that's a chick" reeling in the drug shipment.

Especially in the butt-end of the seventies.

I watched this show every week for several years, and you guys are frightening me

whoa that gamera box set might finally mean that everybody i know wont look at me like a nutjob when i slip "jailbait for gamera" into casual conversation anymore

hahaha cosign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHvRNIXzCbU

i didn't know that blast hardcheese and grandma daughter from space mutiny ended up marrying irl! i find this very precious and life-affirming.

blast hardcheese giving me irl lols all over again

Spider Island, home to the stars!

http://theronneel.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/horrors_of_spider_island1.jpg
I've been liftin', what do you think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY

dah dah dah-dah Ga-me-ra!!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5308/5875310341_6172a976d5.jpg

ROWSDOWER!

Rowsdower, sowsdower, bippity boppity bowsdower …

Just the floppy disk for breakfast, honey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UH_Tr6SgGo

I get to interview at least one and perhaps up to four or five members of Cinematic Titanic tomorrow afternoon!

Going to try very very very hard not to be starstruck.

No I'm not jealous. (I SO lie.)

What? I'm not sweating!

(runs in circles, pees on floor)

That is cool. I got to meet Bill Corbett a couple of weeks ago and am still impressed by how funny and nice he was.

How neat! He seems like he'd be pretty chill in general.

The new Gamera box set is a total treat of course, but that goes without saying. Next box up, along with bonus features:

Time of the Apes
extras:
INTRODUCTION BY AUGUST RAGONE (Author of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters)
MST HOUR WRAPS

Mighty Jack
extras:
INTRODUCTION BY AUGUST RAGONE
THE DVD MENUS OF MST3K

The Violent Years
extras:
ED-UCATION: ARCHIVAL INTERVIEW WITH DELORES FULLER
ED-UCATION: ARCHIVAL INTERVIEW WITH KATHY WOOD

The Brute Man
extras:
INTRODUCTION BY MARY JO PEHL
TRAIL OF THE CREEPER: MAKING THE BRUTE MAN
THE MAKING OF MST3K (1997)

All great in different, insane ways.

Interview was fantastic, other than me fighting like hell not to come off like a fanboy.

First CInematic Titanic experience was pretty awesome. Especially the three bro-ey gay dudes in what appeared to be a Jules et Jim situation were making out two rows in front of me.

Brilliant. What was the movie, anyway?

Doomsday Machine ... so bad it took two movie crews to ruin it.

Casey Kasem ...
Mission Control Officer

Well I'm sold.