INT. THEORY BUILDING: ON THE APPLICANTS:
BUTTERCUP: "Only two slots left, and there's dozens of girls ahead of us. It doesn't look good!"
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
PHILOSOPHY GIRLS AUDITIONS (PART 1)
PHILOSOPHY GIRLS AUDITIONS (PART 2)
VIOLET: "Well, maybe she's right, Gladys. Rand says we're born with fundamental rights, which no Nietzchean Superman or Leviathan state can morally withdraw." |
Thursday, August 12, 2010
THEORYBOY INTERVIEWS MILT GRAY
Well, slightly exaggerating. Above, the heroine of Milt Gray's new web comic, "Ms. Viagri Ampleten." |
Sepia sketches by John Kricfalusi |
UNCLE EDDIE: "I'll put a few of the panels up (that's them above, cropped badly by me, and in a different format than the one Milt uses. I was just too sleepy to do it right). Boy, you can tell that an animator drew them."
MILT: "Thanks. There's a lot that's different about this comic. I hope it influences things. The web is a great vehicle for comics, and it'll get even better if we continue to experiment."
Milts web comic: http://www.viagriampleten.com
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Sunday, August 08, 2010
WHAT MADE JOHNATHAN WINTERS SO GREAT?
I'm not sure. Maybe it had something to do with Winters being mischievous. People like that quality. Maybe that's why mischievous people make good joke tellers. They make you aware of the absurdity of the fact that you just dropped something important to listen to something that's going to be incredibly stupid.
I don't remember many jokes, and I'm not really good at telling them. What I do remember is the way they were told. I love the way joke tellers look both ways then grab your arm and lean in furtively. I love the whole ritual that's associated with joke telling. Mischievous people are experts at creating the atmosphere that precedes a joke.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
JONATHAN WINTERS IMPROV
All three of these YouTube videos are of Jonathan Winters, from the period when he first started to do improv on TV.
He was far and away the greatest hero of my childhood. Unfortunately he was only on late at night when I wasn't allowed to watch. To see him I had to wait til my folks went to sleep, then sneak downstairs in the dark, taking care to avoid creaking floorboards and barking pets. I'd feel around for the TV controls in the dark, then with infinite patience slowly turn on the set, with the brightness and sound almost as low as they could be.
The films you see here include some of the very same sketches that I watched in the dark. I never saw them with this clarity, though. The screen was always so black that I could barely make out the shapes as human, and I had to press my ear hard against the speaker to hear what was happening. My grandfather was a light sleeper and more than once he caught me and terrible yelling ensued. Then there were the ghosts, but I won't go into that.
I guess you appreciate what you have to make sacrifices for. All these videos have great meaning for me.
I read somewhere that the young Bach had to do something similar in order to get access to his dad's music library. His father was certain that his oldest son would be the musically gifted one, and didn't want Bach, the little kid, to get a taste for something that was so obviously beyond his meagre ability.
Thursday, August 05, 2010
ROBERT CRUMB'S SURPRISING NEW BOOK
The book (above)..... |
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE "DANDIZETTE?"
The dandizette is a female English dandy. Their peek period coincided with that of the male dandy, roughly from 1810 to 1820. |
Girls are strange. They seem to prefer men who are either ultra-masculine, or who look and act like girls. No doubt the truth is more complicated, but I make no claim to possessing the truth.
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Were dandies of the Regency period really as over the top as they were portrayed in etchings?
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I hope so. It makes the period much more interesting. |
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