The Good Die First, but Everybody is Morally Ambiguous, Which Explains The Random Death Pattern
After the nightmarish scenario of Thursday, things got a little better for the weekend. Friday night, Aaron and I hung out with his grandparents and ate salmon. Saturday was game day as usual, which was quite good. Sunday saw me lounging around the flat in my pajamas and a bathrobe watching the History Channel. And only one of the shows dealt with WWII! The others were basically paranormal historical incidents (zombies, ghosts, random disappearances, lost continents, conspiracies, aliens, that sort of thing). Missing my UnEx fix, this was welcome. In the evening, Justin came over and we watched some MST3k, as is our practices, this time the flick Teenagers from Outer Space, and by teenagers we mean "late twenty-somethings." At any rate, I sit here without a car and await a call from the mechanics, who may or may not have an automobile for me.
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I must agree that Manos Hands of fate is the worst movie ever made. I'm not sure if you have seen it yet, but if you haven't then know this: it was shot with an old porn camera which could only do 90 second clips. That in and of itself is telling. I don't know that I will ever be the same after seeing Manos.
The best MST3K ever (aside from the shorts) is the moive Mitchel! ("Miller"!) Find it and watch it!
And who could forget good old Torgo? Interestingly, several members of the cast of Manos committed suicide after the release of the film and its subsequent trashing by all sensible individuals, including Torgo. Mitchell is also a work of genius, and it's follow-up episode, Final Justice, is even better. After Mitchell, Joe Don Baker (Mitchell) publicly threatened to beat up the MST3k guys if they ever did that again. They took this as a challenge, and thus Final Justice was born. Picture fat and chubby Joe Don running around Malta in a cowboy hat and spouting the repetitive catch-phrase "Think you can take me? Go head-on. It's your move!" over and over again. It is quite good.
Ah Joe Don Baker... how the mighty have fallen... errrr... something like that!
I think my favorite character in Manos is Torgo. I guess he's everybody's favorite, but go figure.
I leave you with my favorite quotes, some of which do not come from either movie.
"Hey, Mitchel, did you sleep with that thing?"--"Yeah, then I kissed her!"
"Trains are holy, blameless creatures!"
"He'll start smoking thin black ciggarettes and rejecting the triune God!"
I don't think Joe Don could ever have been considered "mighty," so I guess it would be "oh how the puny have fallen even further."
Careful or Joe Don will beat you up!
Well, given that we have established that the level of Joe Don's might is comparatively tiny, this is not a very frightening prospect.
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