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Piece about Joel in the NYTHoly moley, there’s a big ol’ story about Joel in today’s New York Times!
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No big revelations in it, but it sounds like Joel is congenial as always. Good to get some major exposure.
Nice but nothing new for anyone who is on this web site. But any press for the live shows is always good press.
Hmm. Feminist valkyries. WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END!
Would have been interesting to see them take on Peter
Graves’ giant grasshoppers (somehow I can’t help but feel
he was partially responsible for the bugs).
I enjoyed this column a good deal, mostly because I will be at the Colonial tomorrow night for the Riffing with Joel and his students. It was good to get backstory on the college course.
Nice article, but did reading all those “Mr. Hodgson”s making any of you long time MSTies feel really old?
Nah, that’s just the NY Times style. A good, well-written article, IMO. I’m glad Sampo gave us a heads-up – it wasn’t in the print Times.
Funny how Mst3k (both the Joel and Mike incarnations) never got the press it deserved when it was “alive.” Thankfully, it’s getting some greatly overdue respect and coverage while its principals still wear their mortal coils, though they’ve gone one to other things (and some of those even get a mention too!). Keep circulating the tapes!!
Side note – I was always the gal who (whether at the TV or in the theater, very quietly and sequestered away from others so as not to raise any ire) would “riff,” to the best of my meager ability, long b/f I found Mst3k, aka the promised land and much-needed personal validation, my 1st yr of college.
Question to the group – how many others were like me? You watched something odd/stupid/really bad/otherwise worthy of note and you just couldn’t help but “riff” it (I personally, distinguish “riff” from the usual, generic responses of “gee, that’s really bad” or “boy that was cool,” as I always believed, even b/f Mst3k, that a true “riff”, as all of you of course know, must contain an element of culture, observational humor or something that lifts it up and beyond the mere “huh, that’s bad” verbal vomit of too many others.) Arrogant? Sure. But isn’t that an essential, albeit subtle (sometimes?) element of “riffing” as many here would characterize it, or am I reading too much into this?
Well, right, wrong, or otherwise, I was a fairly smart, observant kid w/a hyperactive imagination and an obsession for movies (esp. bad horror/sci-fi ones, I will always adore those and my collection has probably grown large enough to warrant an intervention of sorts; “Jerry, your face hurts us”), but always had to watch them, if not by my lonesome in the theater, then w/a few like-minded friends who would riff long into the night (who can resist the potential in a gem like “Metalstorm – the Destruction of Jared-Syn” or, even more bang for your buck, “Zardoz”, though the latter was, admittedly, far harder to endure; we actually had to pause it a couple times and take a break, get our electrolytes back into balance, etc.).
Anyway, sorry for the over-long message; any comments or the very welcome “hey I did the same thing” or even better “hey don’t worry, I still do the same thing” (b/c I do), would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading, if you’ve stuck w/me this long! Karen in AZ
Hey Big… that was DEFINITELY me. Long before MST started, I loved to get terrible movies and some suitable beverages, and then hunker down with my friends and tear them apart. There was a local video store that rented their older movies for $1 over a weekend, so we’d go down there and get a stack of awful horror/sci-fi movies, and THAT was our big weekend back in ’86 to ’89. Some of our favorites: the original BOGGY CREEK… BURIAL GROUND (cheesy, violent Italian zombie movie)… CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (ditto)… RAT FINK A BOO BOO (oh, wow).
Then one weekend, my buddy brought over a VHS tape, and he says “YOU MUST SEE THIS!” and it was the MST version of ROBOT MONSTER. It was Love For A TV Show at first sight. :)
I’m sorry to interrupt the conversation, but I wanted to correct my earlier post that the NYT article on Joel wasn’t in the print edition. It WAS – in the Sunday Times! On a whole page by itself. Well, along with an ad for MIB3. Huzzah!
Right, #3, because anyone that takes a women’s studies course at a community college is a feminist. Kinda like how anyone that takes an anatomy course is a surgeon.
Big, I did the same thing as I worked in television as a master control operator for many years and had to sit through a lot of crap. A friend of mine who worked there and I would riff on the really bad sitcoms before we knew what riffing really was. My friend then discovered MST and showed it to me and it was love at first sight, as Mr. Shemp says.