Post by mummifiedstalin on Oct 16, 2011 17:32:14 GMT -5
It was a great time, as usual. I got there a bit late because Elgin is only nominally "in Chicago." So I missed most of the warm-up stuff from Gruber, Mary-Jo, and Frank. Trace was going to read from his kids poems, but there were technical problems. Then J. Elvis did the theme song on the bass. Joel did a magic trick (rip up a newspaper, and, voila!, it's not ripped).
And, I don't know why, but the funniest thing in the opener (to me, not to those around me), was when Frank introduced Trace. Trace came out, waved, shook hands with Frank, and then just walked off stage with him. Simple gag, but for some reason it got me.
The first movie was Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks. I thought the riffs were much better than they have on the DVD, many were similar, but they've obviously revised a lot.
Then, in between, I found RAD, and we just chatted the whole time while most of the audience lined up for autographs, which pushed the second movie back about half an hour (no big deal...just about all the same people, anyway.) RAD wanted me to be sure to tell you thanks again for all the DVDs, sky.
Second movie: they had sound problems which were annoying. Gruber and J. Elvis did a fun little "spoken word" thing that was actually really hard to hear because the music was too loud. Frank did a standup set that was much darker (and funnier) than I've heard him do in the past. Trace's tech problems with the poems were finally gone. Then they started the movie, which had sound problems: it was just too quiet and hard to hear the actual dialogue.
But it was Blood of the Vampires, the Philipino Mexican movie with people dressed in blackface to play the servants ("And now introducing the candidates for Miss Movie Hate Crime of the Year!"). That one and Tiki Island tie for my favorite CT movie, so I was still pleased.
After, I just hung out with other people who knew RAD from the RT and CT discussion boards. Mary Jo kissed my copy of her book (lipstick and an autograph...cool). J. Elvis initialed my little Servo figurine from whichever collection it came with: J-E-W. Sweet.
This was my third CT show, and I started to recognize faces from the first two, also in Chicago, which was cool. But it was just a good time, great to see the Brains, and nice to catch up with RAD a bit, who was as southern-gentlemanly as ever.
Sia and McCloud can go suck it for ditching, though. Evil, evil people.
And, I don't know why, but the funniest thing in the opener (to me, not to those around me), was when Frank introduced Trace. Trace came out, waved, shook hands with Frank, and then just walked off stage with him. Simple gag, but for some reason it got me.
The first movie was Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks. I thought the riffs were much better than they have on the DVD, many were similar, but they've obviously revised a lot.
Then, in between, I found RAD, and we just chatted the whole time while most of the audience lined up for autographs, which pushed the second movie back about half an hour (no big deal...just about all the same people, anyway.) RAD wanted me to be sure to tell you thanks again for all the DVDs, sky.
Second movie: they had sound problems which were annoying. Gruber and J. Elvis did a fun little "spoken word" thing that was actually really hard to hear because the music was too loud. Frank did a standup set that was much darker (and funnier) than I've heard him do in the past. Trace's tech problems with the poems were finally gone. Then they started the movie, which had sound problems: it was just too quiet and hard to hear the actual dialogue.
But it was Blood of the Vampires, the Philipino Mexican movie with people dressed in blackface to play the servants ("And now introducing the candidates for Miss Movie Hate Crime of the Year!"). That one and Tiki Island tie for my favorite CT movie, so I was still pleased.
After, I just hung out with other people who knew RAD from the RT and CT discussion boards. Mary Jo kissed my copy of her book (lipstick and an autograph...cool). J. Elvis initialed my little Servo figurine from whichever collection it came with: J-E-W. Sweet.
This was my third CT show, and I started to recognize faces from the first two, also in Chicago, which was cool. But it was just a good time, great to see the Brains, and nice to catch up with RAD a bit, who was as southern-gentlemanly as ever.
Sia and McCloud can go suck it for ditching, though. Evil, evil people.