Tag Archives: 2000s

08/19/2017 · 4:53 pm

Million Dollar Extreme

I love great sketch comedy, and as demonstrated on this site, I have tremendous nostalgia for the video industry of the 1980’s and ’90s. By nature I am protective of those things, out of love. I have little tolerance of exploitation of them.

I believe the modern peak of sketch comedy came with two shows; Mr. Show with Bob & David, and The Kids In The Hall (both on HBO). Since the 1990s, these programs set the gold standard. Inevitably, new sketch comedy shows are compared to them, and they seldom hold up. I don’t think The State gelled until they became Reno 911. Broken Lizard has fantastic moments; generally one or two per film. Too many comedy groups nowadays are post-UCB; all manic energy, no focus. That’s fine if the group is performing live for an drunken bar audience. TV is a different matter.

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Tagged as 1990s, 2000s, 2002, 2004, 2017, Adult Swim, Atlanta, Bob Odenkirk, Bumfights, Charls Carroll, comedy, Eric Wareheim, Everything Is Terrible, Family Guy, Gwar, HBO, Internet, Jackass, John C. Reilly, Kids In The Hall, Million Dollar Extreme, Mr. Show, music, Nick Rochefort, political correctness, Sam Hyde, Saturday Night Live, Tm Heidecker, underground, vaporwave, Will Forte, Wonder Showzen

08/08/2017 · 12:47 pm

Dire Straits

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee, Thousand Listen Club

Tagged as 1970s, 1977, 1980s, 1981, 2000s, 2007, Bands I Useta Like, David Knopfler, Dire Straits, John Illsley, London, Mark Knopfler, movies, MTV, music, My Dinner With Andre, Neil Young, New Jersey, Pick Withers, Sting, strips, The Princess Bride, Wallace Shawn

06/16/2017 · 11:38 am

Name Your Rock Band

A long, long time ago, on a website far away, there was a thing that pulled in page-views like a drunken champion. It was about 50% my creation. The rest was appropriately and totally ripped off.

It was called “Name Your Rock Band”.

For the first handful of years of the 21st century, it was the most popular page on my site, Mike The Pod. In truth, it goes back even farther than that.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1985, 2000s, 2005, behind the scenes, comedy, laughter, Mike the Pod, National Lampoon, New Jersey, satire, The Fugs, The Simpsons, underground

05/05/2017 · 2:07 pm

Declaration of Intellectual Immunity

Q: What can hurt you on the Internet?

A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

It’s impossible. You cannot read or see something on the Internet and become injured. You can only allow yourself to be manipulated.

So don’t.

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Tagged as 2000, 2000s, 2010s, 2017, censorship, Facebook, Internet, social media

02/17/2017 · 1:51 pm

Channel FUM

I propose a concept for a new 24-hour network.

FUM. The Fucked-Up Movies Channel.

By watching FUM, you agree to the terms and conditions of the network. In short:

All the movies aired on this channel are fucked up.
If you get fucked up by watching it, too fucking bad.

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Tagged as 1970s, 1990s, 2000s, 2005, Bling Bling, Bumfights, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chloe Sevigny, Divine, Dr. Phil, Ewen Bremner, Gummo, Happy Campers, Harmony Korine, Indecline, John Waters, Keanu Reeves, Lars Von Trier, Las Vegas, movies, Nicolas Winding Refn, Ninth Cloud, pre 9/11, Sixtoo, underground, Willem Dafoe, YouTube

12/15/2016 · 5:00 pm

Invisible Legends

DIY stands for “do-it-yourself”. You knew that, right? It was once a point of pride in music production. People love DIY, because it lights that little bulb in the mind that signals “I can do that”.

Ideally, you should feel that way about anything people do, aside from brain surgery or bomb disposal (and you can learn how to do those). Shoot, you could change your gender if you set your mind and wallet to it, but that’s a personal matter, and not something you want to capitalize upon. Still, there’s a lot to be said for taking a grass-roots shot at an admittedly lofty goal. For example, producing a homemade movie.

Random duders from an early series of Invisible Inc. ©Matty Boy Anderson.

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Magazine Rack, Nostalgic Obsessions, Robot Toy Fetish

Tagged as 2000s, 2003, Art-O-Mat, Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding, Hasbro, Jay Lynch, Jim Woodring, John's Arm: Armageddon, science-fiction, Star Wars, Tailothepup, toys, Transformers, underground

11/20/2016 · 2:25 pm

The Kook Who Sat By The Door

If I could go back in time 20 years, and tell my 24-year-old self that I’d be signing my own comics at Criminal Records in Atlanta’s Little 5 Points, I wouldn’t believe it. Mostly because at 24 I was incredulous about the feasibility of time travel.

Three years ago, in jail, more than one dude told me I looked like Bruno Mars. I don’t see it.

I’ve guested at comic conventions before, but this was Criminal Records. They’ve had an almost mythical status since the 1990s, and their old location (it’s now Stratosphere Skateboards, another local business I highly recommend), which I visited often even before I lived here. It had cartoons drawn on the walls by Skip Williamson, Evan Dorkin and Bob Burden, just to name a few. I want to say Patty Leidy was up there too, but I’m going on memory here. Continue reading →

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Filed under Comix Classic & Current, Eatable Things, Girls of BIUL, Idiot's Delight, Magazine Rack, Uncategorized

Tagged as 2000s, 2001, 2004, 2013, Atlanta, Baby Sue, Blab, Bob Burden, BUST, Carol Tyler, Cut Chemist, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Evan Dorkin, Georgia, Hunter S. Thompson, jail, Jim Goad, John Prine, Justin Green, Kim Deitch, Little 5 Points, MAD magazine, Marilyn Manson, Media Play, Mental Floss, Nabisco, Neil Gaiman, New Jersey, Okkervil River, Patty Leidy, Peter Kuper, pre 9/11, Rose MacGowan, Sally Cruikshank, Sam Viviano, Skip Williamson, Tori Amos, trigger warning, Trina Robbins, Ward Sutton, Will Sheff, women, Zap

10/25/2016 · 2:10 pm

Freddy vs. Jason

Horror icons are sparse in the 21st century for a very simple reason. Horror used to be adults scaring children. Now it’s all about creepy children scaring adults, and adults don’t scare the way kids do. Hence, a decent slasher flick gets forgotten after four or five years, regardless of how many sequels it has (witness the interminable Saw franchise of torture-porn).

Two of the most enduring figures in terror are Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, of the Nightmare on Elm St. and Friday the 13th franchises. Both are bogeymen; mythical killers of young folks, in familiar settings. Therein lies the key to their longevity and appeal. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 2000s, 2003, Angelo Badalamenti, Beast Wars, breasts, Fangoria, Freddy Krueger, Garry Chalk, Heather Langenkamp, horror movies, Jason Voorhees, Katherine Isabelle, Kelly Rowland, Lochlyn Munro, Monica Keena, movies, Nightmare on Elm Street, Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Optimus Prime, Patricia Arquette, Robert Englund, Ronny Yu, Sean Cunningham, Wes Craven

09/19/2016 · 10:12 am

Thrills: A Retrospective

The life of a hardcore junkie.

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Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, acid, Bands I Useta Like, Brad Garrett, Disney, Fight Club, Independence Day, Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Kelsey Grammer, Mike the Pod, movies, New Jersey, Optimus Prime, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Boondocks, The Phantom Menace, thrills, Transformers, Tyler Perry

09/12/2016 · 12:07 pm

I Left Out ‘Kast

I would call Outkast the greatest rap group of all time. The thing is, we’re from the same city (ATL), and I’m afraid I’ll sound like a local promoter.

That’s why I always forget to bring ’em up. This is a problem, because the media tends to focus on the wrong aspects of rap; the guns, the gangster fetishism, the bitches and hoes. These things don’t really exist in Outkast’s oeuvre. Integrity? Quality? Talent? Those do, in excess. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 1990s, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2000s, Andre 3000, Atlanta, Big Boi, Dungeon Family, Georgia, hip hop, Killer Mike, music, Organized Noize, Outkast, rap, Savannah, Source Awards, underground

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