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Post by Mr. Atari on May 5, 2011 21:39:23 GMT -5
Somewhere there's a MSTie who saved up his hard earned cash dreaming of a volume 10 set with Godzilla vs. Megalon only to reach the store with it out of stock that hates you, Mr. A. I only bought the one set. I was that MSTie with his hard earned cash. I just opted not to open it when I got home. A good choice in hindsight.
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Post by Mr. Atari on May 5, 2011 17:40:10 GMT -5
I've been a MST since 1990. I've been an Admin on this board since 2003. And I just now, finally, at long last, it's about time, what took you so long, acquired my first 'bot. It's a life-size Servo, made by my man Robert in Michigan. He goes by sledge_riprock on eBay, where he has a new Servo up every week, and a Crow about once a month. It's great work, and I'm quite satisfied. The squat crimson pig is much bigger than I was expecting. He currently hovers on my office armoire, looking down on me with a condescending gaze of superiority and disappointment. But the best part of the story is how the deal materialized: Back in 2006, I grabbed a copy of Volume 10 box set. Knowing that the Godzilla episode wouldn't stay in print for long, I kept it on my shelf as a collectible- still in its shrink-wrap. After almost 5 years, I started to wonder just what I would do with it. I've seen them listed for $500+ on eBay & Amazon, but I never saw them actually sell for that much. Plus, I didn't want to be one of those guys who ripped off another MST, or got all sweaty at the thought of something "still in its original packaging!" So I offered it in trade for a freshly-built Servo, and Bob's your uncle. Just another case of MSTie on MSTie crime support. And now you know the rest of the story. Good day. "I'm huge."
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Post by Mr. Atari on May 5, 2011 11:38:53 GMT -5
I like the speculation that the astronaut was River Song. After all, she keeps saying she killed a great man in her past (our future). Maybe it was a Snape-Dumbledore thing, where he needed to be killed and trusted a friend to do it.
I went back and watched it again, and I don't like Delaware's quote, "That's really the doctor, and he's really dead." It could be a red herring, but to include that dialogue, Moffat seems to be setting the rules about it all.
So is the girl Amy's baby? Is she another incarnation of The Master? Is she the one in the suit at Lake Powell? It seems like we're being set up to draw those conclusions.
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Post by Mr. Atari on May 2, 2011 21:48:14 GMT -5
I couldn't understand what the "Silence" alien said on the video that the Doctor patched into the moon landing footage. Any help?
I loved the idea of villains that you immediately forget about, and all the cool methods the good guys devised to remember them.
I'm going to predict that the Lake Powell death scene will be overturned eventually. Otherwise, the gravy train for the BBC ends with the Eleventh Doctor.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 30, 2011 14:57:54 GMT -5
Literally. It's not a synonym for intensely. For the love of God.
Resiliency. The proper noun form of resilient is resilience. I watch a lot of sports, and color commentators love the word resiliency. As in, "This team is literally showing a lot of resiliency." Wrong, no, wrong, stop it, wrong.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 28, 2011 16:50:50 GMT -5
Squee.
A truly awful word that brings shame to the user. It can't go away fast enough.
Not to be confused with squish, which I find to be quite pleasant.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 27, 2011 19:01:39 GMT -5
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 27, 2011 18:42:24 GMT -5
Giving a bump to see what's next. I've been waiting to find out if there's more Melville or Flannery O'Connor coming up.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 25, 2011 8:45:20 GMT -5
"Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?" "Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 23, 2011 17:25:19 GMT -5
Forsooth, I've quaffed from my flagon of mead. Someone point me in the direction of the strumpets in corsets.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 21, 2011 13:13:40 GMT -5
His new stuff ("Craigslist", "CNR", and "Ringtone") isn't lyrically all that funny or clever. But the music is great. Anyone who can do a style parody of The Doors, The White Stripes, and Queen that well is going to get my attention.
Other tremendous style parodies he's done are the B-52s, Frank Zappa, They Might Be Giants, Talking Heads, Brian Wilson, Oingo Boingo, and the Police, just to name my favorites.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 21, 2011 13:08:17 GMT -5
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 21, 2011 1:07:28 GMT -5
This thread should be locked now. Says the guy with the Hamburglar avatar. You're a burglar. You could steal anything. Why settle for styrofoam-tasting, rubbery, meat-like substance with a pickle slice? Way to shoot for the top. Then again, where would you fence all the more lucrative loot? The cops are watching those fry guys pretty closely since that near miss with the black market kidneys. And you're probably hungry, being that you're broke from paying Grimace all that child support; and you no longer qualify for the food stamps or welfare, what with your felony conviction on ungulate sex trafficking. Or that time you only had implied verbal consent from Major League Baseball. Plus, you're a dirty foreigner.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 20, 2011 17:12:11 GMT -5
If you think he's a hack, you should really listen to more of his stuff. Especially his original material. Everything I've seen of him for the past 25 years is one boring parody song after another. You can basically write those in 10 minutes if you're bored enough. He may be a good musician, but I have no idea since that's not how he's made a name for himself. Just like Gallagher might be a funny person, but all I ever saw were the same old sledge hammer gags that I found funny when I was 5 years old. That's my point. His parodies only constitute half of his albums' material. I agree that the parody schtick gets old quickly. That's why you should check out his other material, and then you mightn't find him such a hack. It would be like someone saying they watched 20 minutes of "Manos" and deciding that it's boring because, "the skit wasn't funny and the rest of it was just them watching a terrible movie." We MSTies know that it's way more than that.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Apr 20, 2011 15:37:52 GMT -5
I've always felt Weird Al was a hack, but on the other hand, Lady Gaga isn't interesting at all. I don't know if I can pick a side in this fight. If you think he's a hack, you should really listen to more of his stuff. Especially his original material. Unbelievable musicianship & an incredible band. James Blunt did this to him on his last album, saying he didn't want to be pigeonholed as a one-hit wonder. Not only did Blunt disappear into obscurity as precisely that, but Al ended up doing "White and Nerdy" as his lead single instead. Game. Set. Match.
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