mark proksch is a gift
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
feel like i gotta talk to my therapist about the whole james dean subplot
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
I've been watching the trial in bits and pieces over the weekend (which is a must for any On Cinema head, as the highlights don't fully capture the awe-inspiring magic) and just got to Tim calling Nicholas Meyer (co-writer of Star Trek IV) to the stand. OMG, I must've laughed for a solid minute at Gregg's muttering 'no...no...' from the gallery as Meyer describes the plot of the movie he wrote. This is really the culmination of every ridiculous thread of the On Cinema universe, just astounding.
― My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 21 July 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
Yeah that was an amazing capper to that running joke
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
the best part is that Gregg gets escorted out of the courtroom believing he's been proven right
― Vape Store (crüt), Sunday, 21 July 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
Believer interview with Tim:
JP, our tour manager, who I’ve worked with for many years, and who I’m very close with — we are picking up some VHS tapes for Gregg, which we sell at the show, and Gregg is finding them at various thrift stores as we drive all over. And Gregg really gets into it, and he’s going on about some horrible movie we found, and I look at JP and say, “The funny thing is, there’s a lot of Gregg in Gregg.” And he looks at me and goes, “There’s a lot of you in Tim!” And I go, “Really?” And he’s like, “Yes.”
also, a real review:
I’m not kidding when I say that Paddington 2 is the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. It’s so clever and funny. I’m not kidding. Watch it. First of all, everyone in the movie is a great, accomplished actor. It looks like Wes Anderson, but without being so heavy-handed. I liked this way more than I liked Isle of Dogs, which I feel is so in on its own joke. Paddington 2 has great British humor; it’s unpretentious, genuinely funny. Emotional. Very emotional. And [the first] Paddington is also good, but this one is better. And I wept.
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 22 July 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link
I read a few years back that Gregg's character is based largely on his 12-year-old self.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 July 2019 03:11 (five years ago) link
With that in mind, how much do you identify with your character on On Cinema?I think when I was 12 or 13, that was probably about where I was at. It was really before I got into punk rock, which was something I was only into for about a year before the corruption started to become apparent and I moved on. I was super, super into watching movies when I was a kid, and this was before home video was really readily available—or at least not readily available to me, because we didn’t really have any money for that—but I didn’t know anyone who owned a VCR or anything, so I was really into going to art house theatres and going to the multiplex and paying for one movie and then trying to stay there all day, slipping from one to the next trying to see as many movies as I could. I had a little book where I kept track of everything that I saw and rated them all. I was super into it.I think that I kind of lost that interest at some point. I still like movies, but I might watch a couple a month—as opposed to that point, when I was 12 or 13, when I would watch, like, 40 a month and document them all. But I think that that character on On Cinema is less like me than Neil Hamburger is like me.
I think when I was 12 or 13, that was probably about where I was at. It was really before I got into punk rock, which was something I was only into for about a year before the corruption started to become apparent and I moved on. I was super, super into watching movies when I was a kid, and this was before home video was really readily available—or at least not readily available to me, because we didn’t really have any money for that—but I didn’t know anyone who owned a VCR or anything, so I was really into going to art house theatres and going to the multiplex and paying for one movie and then trying to stay there all day, slipping from one to the next trying to see as many movies as I could. I had a little book where I kept track of everything that I saw and rated them all. I was super into it.
I think that I kind of lost that interest at some point. I still like movies, but I might watch a couple a month—as opposed to that point, when I was 12 or 13, when I would watch, like, 40 a month and document them all. But I think that that character on On Cinema is less like me than Neil Hamburger is like me.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 July 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link
from: https://hazlitt.net/feature/im-playing-one-percent-who-do-it-interview-gregg-turkington
can irl Gregg move his neck or is that particular physical tic specific to the character himself? The way he has to move his whole upper body to turn his head towards somebody seems like such a wierd affectation.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
that's a great interview that chimes with the experience of meeting the great man
― imago, Monday, 22 July 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
love it
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 15:43 (five years ago) link
Here's a clip where he's pretty mobile lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfu4XJ4qqKY
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 July 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
oh man, didn't know there was a Caroliner connection
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
Tim name dropped this guy in that interview; apparently the work of two guys. New to me at least!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzWw910b2zM
― Evan, Monday, 22 July 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
yeah those guys seem promising
― Οὖτις, Monday, 22 July 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, July 22, 2019 8:11 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
been wondering this myself
― gbx, Monday, 22 July 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
Until yesterday I did not know that Gregg was Neil Hamburger. Despite doing an (awful) internship at (interning here is) Drag City in 2006, I’ve never heard or seen any of his Hamburger material
― Karl Malone, Monday, 22 July 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
wow
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
i mean he's not very neil hamburgery out of costume so i only knew who he was due to knowing the name. "gregg" is a very different character and performance
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:41 (five years ago) link
yeah I don't think I would've ever put that together either. there's like one brief scene in one of the Oscar Specials (maybe the first one, after Tim pukes on the tapes) where he lapses into the voice.
― frogbs, Monday, 22 July 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
hah, I just posted that on the things I learned thread
I mean, I had read about Neil Hamburger, including his real name, a bunch of times. But it wasn't until now that I saw it mentioned and thought "wait... that Gregg... is this Gregg"
― untuned mass damper (mh), Monday, 22 July 2019 17:51 (five years ago) link
I’m glad you all didn’t know, either. Felt like some big obvious thing that was I was already supposed to know
― Karl Malone, Monday, 22 July 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
I've readily associated him with Neil Hamburger at least since McSweeney's put out Tim & Gregg's 'Bicycle Built for Two' screenplay in 2011, but I think I knew his real name before I even knew what a Neil Hamburger was (pretty sure they mentioned it in the Zip Code Rapists entry in the '90s Trouser Press Guide).
― My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 July 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
(Mentioned that Turkington was Hamburger, I mean.)
― My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 July 2019 18:16 (five years ago) link
I'd like to hear more about your awful internship at Drag City Karl
― badg, Monday, 22 July 2019 18:18 (five years ago) link
there's not much to say. i was hoping to learn something about how record labels work but instead they stuck me in another room away from everyone else working there, cutting cardboard squares to be packaged along with record shipments all day. i think after ever 8 or 16 hours i was given a free record of my choosing as my payment. no one talked to me, and i wasn't enough of a networker to saunter into the main office and try to convince them that i was worth talking to. on my last day, literally as i was walking out the door toward the train, one of the label people realized that i was old school good friends with a key musician that they were looking to work with and suddenly they became very interested in talking to me for the first time. but i so cool that i just let them know that i'd tell him drag city said hi next time i talked to him
the reverse side of this is that i looked like i was 13 even though i was 23, i looked like a drug addict because i'm really skinny, i was socially awkward, and actually i'm not sure if i ever talked to that cool musician i thought i was good friends with ever again, because he was busy playing one trillion shows and being cool and i was busy piling up life experiences that will good for my memoir which i plan on writing and publishing in a nursing home someday
― Karl Malone, Monday, 22 July 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
Sad lol? Sounds like a fairly universal intern experience. If it makes you feel any better there's a possibility one of your cardboard squares protected a record I love.
― badg, Monday, 22 July 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
but i so cool that i just let them know that i'd tell him drag city said hi next time i talked to him
Roasted
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 22 July 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
five bags of popcorn and a *vapes furiously*
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
colin filth
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 22 July 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
I was not prepared for Al Jardine's appearance in Decker 4. Although I probably should have been since my only time spotting Gregg in the wild in LA was outside a Brian Wilson show (w/ Al in the band) at the Greek a few years back. He was wearing a bowling shirt and holding court with a bunch of Gregg-heads. As always a true class act.
― methanietanner, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
fuck, the edm remix of "empty bottle"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxDsA82_-e4
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link
xxpost Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude, I just watched that ep of Decker tonight! I was all like 'man, that sure looks like Al Jardine but it can't possibly be Al Jardine'. Thanks for saving me a trip to IMDB!Holy shit, it'd probably be cinch to get Love on if you showed him a few episodes out of context.
― My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 00:53 (five years ago) link
Jardine/Beach Boys talk has me digging out this trivia:
Did you know.... that Gregg has unironically sung a shockingly-faithful cover of "Good Vibrations" (the "sMiLe" sessions version, not the more famous single version):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I56Hmf7wKUY
That's Gregg doing Carl's lead and Trey Spruance doing the Mike Love parts.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 03:47 (five years ago) link
This podcast talks about Jardine's involvement if you're interested in interviewing Tim & Gregg out-of-character (though slightly drunk?):
https://talkradio.co.uk/funny/late-night-alternative-iain-lee-bonus-podcast-tim-heidecker-and-gregg-turkington-17090518193
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 03:59 (five years ago) link
I love the little motor boat sound he makes when decker shoots him in the forehead.
― Evan, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 04:06 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJpI377Akg8
if we've gotten to posting Caroliner clips we should definitely be posting Faxed Head
THERE'S A BIG DROUGHT WHERE WE COME FROM. YOU DEPEND ON OUR CROPS, YOU GUYS. DON'T LAUGH.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 23 July 2019 06:04 (five years ago) link
On the Japanese wikipedia page for Taco Bell, there is a mention that heavy metal band Faxed Head recorded at least one of their albums in the Coalinga Taco Bell mens room.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 23 July 2019 10:22 (five years ago) link
tim coughs all over the VR camera and then returns it to best buy
― Vape Store (crüt), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 05:21 (five years ago) link
Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi were never real brothers, they were "blues brothers." So you can have other "blues brothers" in life. John Goodman, I think, is a legitimate "blues brother," from Dan Aykroyd. And some of these other guys — you've got James Brown, B.B. King, the Blues Brothers Band, Paul Shaffer — these are all blues people, and this is a blues movie, and I love it and it will cure the blues.
― Vape Store (crüt), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 05:43 (five years ago) link
ok, reading these quotes at work are bad unless I want to die trying to choke back laughter
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 16:30 (five years ago) link
Re: the Gyllenhaaal sci-fi/horror film Life
Tim: So...that's Life. (sings) 'Thaat's liife', one of those old sayings from Sinatra, and it is almost an homage to Sinatra.
Gregg: When i walked out of the theater after seeing Life this year, I turned to the ticket taker at the door and he said, 'how was the movie,' and I said, 'it's a wonderful Life,' and he got a kick out of that. That was a reference to It's a Wonderful Life from 1946, Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart. But this is a very different movie than It's a Wonderful Life. If you liked It's a Wonderful Life, I wouldn't say don't watch this because, if you liked that you're probably a movie buff and this is definitely a movie buff's type of film.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
Gregg's anguish when Tim blows up his VHS collection at the end of Decker: Port of Call Hawaii looks all too real. It kind of hurt to watch.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Saturday, 27 July 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
This show rules. Part of the joke is the bewilderment at discovering how much content they've already produced and kept going without much promotion, quietly adjacent to the Decker universe. This is what Andy Kaufman would have been up to today.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
I don't typically catch up with this show on its own, but it's fun to watch within a personalized hour block with videos from other YouTube channels.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
Now I'm going to read this entire thread.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:53 (five years ago) link
Also I really hated "The Comedy" and "Entertainment."
― billstevejim, Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't say 'hated' but The Comedy is pretty safely my least favorite Heidecker thing.
― my but is not working it kept telling me device not found. (Old Lunch), Sunday, 28 July 2019 01:50 (five years ago) link