Podcast Numero “UNO”!! (i.e., the second podcast)
In this episode:
Midred makes fun of Aussies.
E_B_A’s Top Ten list of Women lots of guys think are hot, but aren’t.
Song: “Noam Chomsky Spring Break 2002″ by Department of Eagles
Movie Reviews for Movies We Haven’t Even Seen: “An American Haunting”, “Stay Alive”, “X-Men: The Last Stand”
PEZ gifts from Steffanie and thoughts about PEZ
This Day in History: 1884: Kellog patents corn flakes.
Song: “Vent (E_B_A Remix)” by Chairleg
Robot Zombie Pirate Monkey Ninja News: 2006 Inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame
Some Rubbish about ISP’s passing laws to charge access to websites.
Mildred Reviews the World: “Oldboy“, “Six Days” by DJ Shadow, “Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth”, “We Love Katamari”, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, Nome, The James Brown Music Festival, Hanging Christmas Trees Upsidedown, Henry VIII, and the 80’s.
Shoutouts.
June 7th, 2006 at 7:35 am
I can’t hear it on my sidekick but I heard good reviews from other people..so I will say..wow.yeah it IS good. I follow trends. I lead by example. I like toast with jelly. Pants are over rated.
June 7th, 2006 at 7:43 am
You should try toast and peanut butter and butter.
August 28th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Okay, the movie you’re talking about when you’re reviewing “Stay Alive” is “Mindscan,” and stars Edward Furlong (the kid from “T2″) and NOT Robert Englund but some other guy as the villian. Robert Englund isn’t even in it! (Though Frank Langella is, which is kind of similar…) Get your shit straight, due!
September 10th, 2006 at 11:19 am
Also, one of these days I’ll explain Trek as a cultural phenomenon to you so that you’ll get it.
February 14th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Also also, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the 1956 version) director Don Siegel never admitted to doing the film as a political allegory, and had always maintained that he just wanted to scare people. Many film historians are convinced it is political allegory, though, mostly due to the subject matter and a couple of minor details that are too fine to go into here. One film historian-type allegedly got Seigel to cop to the political allegory theory a few weeks before Siegel died in 1991, saying that the director feared being painted as a Red sympathizer initially, but because the movie has since become legacied as a solid horror film Siegel himself decided that he’d rather it be remembered as such than as a Red scare allegory, which was its original intent. That film dude’s story has never been verified, though, so take it with a grain of salt.
Incidentally, Seigel ‘mentored’ the filmmaking careers of Sam Peckinpah and Clint Eastwood, both of whom EBA’s a big fan of.
February 14th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
ALSO also also, to answer your in-’cast rhetorical question, in the original Trek, the crew compliment was supposed to be like 340+ people (bumped up to 430+ for the movie version of the Enterprise). By TNG, that number ballooned to 1000+, including families of the crew. The idea with the TNG Enterprise (and this was an oft-referenced part of the show’s backstory) was that since humanity and the other Federation species were spreading out into the galaxy, Starfleet was experimenting with the idea of sending starships farther out with whole families aboard, to function as sorts of spacebound cities, the better to colonize the cosmos and boost morale (by not having long periods between seeing loved ones at home). Of course, the dramatic purpose behind it was to be able to rotate out regular guest stars who were ‘always part of the crew’, and to up the stakes whenever the ship was threatened. It met with mixed results both dramatically and in-story, which is why later incarnations of Trek more or less abandon the idea.
Incidentally, all those people in the background are making the ship run. I know it seems silly, but think about our contemporary aircraft carrier crews… They’re about as large as the original series Enterprise, and they crew out around 1000. You’ve got to remember that both examples are complex systems; it takes a lot of maintenance to run a ship. Then add in the fact that the ship has to be run in shifts (who’s captain when Kirk is asleep?), and the idea of a huge crew becomes a bit more understandable… though I think they mostly needed the human scenery to look cool and ’space-agey.’
November 12th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
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