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Post by Mr. Atari on Oct 7, 2010 1:40:02 GMT -5
Roy Halladay, who is a local hero around here (he grew up about 20 minutes from where I live), is an absolute man among boys out there.
I'm not pleased that he's in a Phillies uniform*, but we're witnessing a legendary talent right now.
*For one, I'm sick of seeing them win so much lately; and for two, he'd look so much better in Cubbie blue or Rockies purple & black.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Oct 5, 2010 13:05:40 GMT -5
Woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. For no reason. I'm just an angry jerk today. I'm working hard not to take it out on my kids. They're getting yelled at for not doing anything wrong. I hate when I do that.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Oct 3, 2010 15:31:43 GMT -5
For "The Greatest American Hero", I am forever in your debt. Rest well, Mr. Cannell.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 30, 2010 10:04:58 GMT -5
The first one that comes to mind would be "The Incredible Melting Man". It was decently gruesome. Then I remembered "The Screaming Skull". You have a movie so scary it might kill you (or so the tagline said). Plus, you have Peggy Webber in a monster mask for the whole film.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 29, 2010 22:37:59 GMT -5
Thanks for the respect. But I still like Woody.
I do have a couple volumes of the Golden Collection from Warner Bros., though. And between those DVDs and the Animaniacs DVDs, my children are growing up with good role models.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 29, 2010 15:32:16 GMT -5
Gotta go with the first one. I just watched these back to back recently, and found myself falling asleep in "War". I like them both, and Mr. B Natural gives points to the sequel. But the office argument scene in the first one is still my favorite part of either episode. Such great riffing and reactions from Joel & the 'bots. Joel's impersonation of the grumpy & skeptical investigator is hilarious.
Plus this: "When 60 or 70 percent of a person's body is burned..." "It's icky."
And here it is (starting about 45 seconds in until about 3:40):
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 29, 2010 14:49:09 GMT -5
After a bit more searching, I need to fix my earlier post. The "Car of Tomorrow" and Droopy shorts were MGM, so they must have been on the Tom & Jerry telecasts, and not Woody Woodpecker.
Still, Woody was the best. But this one was great, too:
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 29, 2010 14:38:16 GMT -5
I love the old Warner Bros. cartoons, and Tom & Jerry. Who doesn't?
But my favorite series growing up was always Woody Woodpecker. I've never seen those classics get the same treatment. I remember the syndication version I watched as a kid in Chicago also included great Chilly Willy and Droopy shorts. They also had some great spoofs of the "World of Tomorrow" type shorts we know and love from MST.
My favorite Woody moment was the short where the psychiatrist sent the guy having a nervous breakdown to a resort, only to be harassed by the noise coming from the neighbors in the next room, who turned out to be....the psychiatrist and his nurse.
Oh yeah, and this one:
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 29, 2010 12:22:41 GMT -5
The 2011 nominees were announced yesterday. It goes without saying that the R&R HOF is a joke. So who do you think is the biggest omission? I was very happy to see Genesis make it last year, and hoped that the progressive rock wing was finally open now. I guess I was wrong. Still no Rush? What a crock. Like them or not, their body of work is inarguably deserving. Other artists MIA? Cheap Trick comes to mind. 30+ years of the same 4 guys knocking it out of the park. Number 1 songs? Check. Multi-million selling albums? Check. Huge influence on bands that came after? Triple check. I was amazed to learn that KISS still isn't in. Ditto Joan Jett. No Steppenwolf either. This year's nominees include Bon Jovi, the Beastie Boys, Alice Cooper, and Tom Waits. Then again, so are Chic, Neil Diamond, and Donna Summer. Discuss.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 27, 2010 20:54:18 GMT -5
Since so many of you are voting season 8, I'd love to see a defense of the view that...
a) A full season of Bill as Crow is better than a whole season of Trace as Crow
and
b) A full season of Pearl, Brain Guy, and Bobo is better than a full season of Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank.
Go.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 27, 2010 19:06:52 GMT -5
It's been a while since I made this point around here, so here it is again (apologies to the old guard).
For someone like me, who watched the eps when they originally aired, season 4 is the best, without question. The group had found their groove, the writing was at its tightest, it included the right mix of off-the-wall crazy with laconic esoterica, and it was the last season before all of the personnel changes hit. Later seasons (6-10) were missing a lot of the charm and randomness. Can you imagine the "who's Merritt Stone?" or the "throwing singers from the lighthouse" or "what would you do with an hour in Chicago?" host segments in season 6 or 8? Not a chance.
Season 3 was good, but the high Sandy Frank quotient makes it lose some points. The show picked up momentum, but it was more of a setup for the greatness of season 4. Season 5 was good, at times great, but the first few Mike episodes were spotty. Understandably, the transition took a while to get used to, but it takes down the overall score.
Finally, for all of you season 8 voters...I like Bill, I like Mary Jo and I like season 8, but Trace & Frank are a required component of anything considered "greatest" MST. Period. No Trace, no vote.
All of the seasons are great, but when I think of prototypical MST, I think of season 4.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 26, 2010 13:47:21 GMT -5
Well, he's definitely not the U.S Virgin Islands, amirite? *wink wink, nudge nudge*
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 26, 2010 13:19:39 GMT -5
Gas. Definitely gas.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 26, 2010 1:03:04 GMT -5
I thought by about the 3rd one, Rowling was pretty much just filling in her own Mad Libs.
Harry needs to find a (proper noun), so he can fight Voldemort. Along the way, he'll struggle with (emotion) while he fights with Ron over (noun). He also gets blamed by Snape for (verb), which was really Draco's fault. [INSERT BORING, DRAWN-OUT QUIDDITCH DRAMA HERE]. And he'll get into extreme danger during (holiday), which Hermione will inexplicably know exactly how to help him using (Latin-esque spell). Afterwards, no one will believe him, especially (authority figure). No one, that is, save for Dumbledore, but he won't say anything because (implausible plot device).
Bam. 10 million copies shipped.
Still better than Twilight.
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Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 26, 2010 0:18:15 GMT -5
"Good Morning, Good Morning", The Beatles Underneath all those horns and animal noise is a nice, straight forward rocker. I actually prefer the boot with Paul and Ringo chugging away - only problem there is that George's great lead guitar is missing. So I'd remix it by taking out all the horns and just let the Beatles rock out. Agreed. The version from Anthology is much better IMO. Speaking of that song, I just listened to Cheap Trick's phenomenal live cover of the Sgt. Pepper album and it made me wish for a lot of the '60s classics to be updated with current production values (like deeper drum tones, better guitar presence, and a whole lot more oomph). As for the thread, I've recently been listening to a lot of Stevie Wonder. His stuff is so good, but he often ruins it with talking or odd sound effects. I would totally remix "Isn't She Lovely" without the baby crying and all the invasive noise during the last half (Sounds of giving the baby a bath? Really?). Or "Do I Do" without the last 5 minutes of nonsense. Or "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" without the awful talking at the beginning. Such great songs with such distracting junk in them.
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