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[littlefallsmets]

Did anyone else see it?

I laughed my ass off and so did my friends but... I realize that such things might be made specifically for me and... I also laughed my ass off at the trailer for the action movie starring "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and I'm pretty sure that wasn't supposed to be funny.

It was, however, definitely one of those movies that's kinda inexplicable. I could tell you about the conversation we had driving back from it, about my love of peanut sauce, my friend Mark's hatred of peanut sauce and why this explains why he loves Indian food and hates Thai food and... it would tell you about as much about the linear plot of the film as anything else could.

[pmcd9]

Oh yeah I meant to comment on that Stone Cold movie.  I didn't see the preview just a poster, but it seemed like they were ripping off GOF.  I did see a trailer for Disturbia.  Hey lets remake Rear Window as a Slasher film.  Puke!

[slink]

Looked to me likea hint of Battle Royale ripoff as well. Though they're not making a western version of that too... fuck*ng end of civilisation is nigh! Ugh.

[theinevitable]

...this came out? How did I not know this?

[littlefallsmets]

Well, inev, opened on less than 900 screens so... like... you might not have had it out a screen near you and, hence, no advertising on anything other than Adult Swim itself.

I forget what your geographical location is but... hell, I live a half hour drive of actual Hollywood and even I only had two screens upon which ATHF was within a reasonable distance for viewing.

And, like, out here we're so media-saturated that even art films that you'd have to drive to a college town to see one screening a day of anywhere else are... so overpromoted and overexposed out here that you want to barf.

"Oh man, you're gonna see that three hour low-budget documentary about orphans in Afghanistan? Christ, I dunno. The ads are everywhere, it just seems so... commerical, you know?"

[KeithHernandez]

I found out about from here www.deadspin.com , but that is hell of annoying.

I used to like adult swim, then it just got old.

[littlefallsmets]

Are you watching the correct parts of Adult Swim, Keith?

Yes, a lot of the original great shows are off the air and... yes, there's a lot of Seth-MacFarlane-related hossshit involved these days and... yes, the older stuff that's still around that was good has been re-run so often that they've kinda lost their kick but...

"Tom Goes To The Mayor" "Awesome Show Great Job" "Metalocalypse" "The Venture Brothers" and "Saul Of The Molemen" are all fuck*ng completely amazing.

"Squidbillies" is always interesting and... reruns of "Futurama" "Home Movies" and "Aqua Teen" still usually pack a punch. Occasionally, they'll still rotate "Space Ghost" or "Brak" or "Sealab" reruns into the late-late slots.

Granted, yeah, "Family Guy" is completely terrible, "American Dad" is completely terrible, most of the anime stuff is completely terrible, "***** Chicken" is completely hit-or-miss, "Moral Orel" is a lot more interesting to look at than it is funny and so on but...

If you pick and choose ala carte style, there is still some amazing shit goin' on, Swim-wise.

[theinevitable]

damn. I watched the whole first season of Venture Brothers, and then my parents bought a new TV and apparently reset the tivo-esque thing. So, it stopped recording episodes, and I kind of forgot about it. That show was so good... I wrote a paper about it in 11th grade, it ruled.

Actually, this paper is entirely worthless. I seem to recall somehow "twisting" the paper assignment to say that the show was great. In fact (upon reading it over again), I basically said that the show was trash that taught kids that violence was cool. There were several places where I implied that the show was awesome and that the violence was all relatively tongue-in-cheek, but I never really said it.
Boo to me. Boo to that paper.

PS the fact that almost everything I've ever written is on this hard-drive had failed to depress me until now.
first pages of fantasy novels
saved AIM conversations in which girls implied that they might date me
saved AIM conversations in which I whine like a little bitch about some girl not liking me
bad poetry with thinly disguised sexual imagery which I thought was really clever and edgy
bad, bad, bad essays. for english class, for history, for college admittance.

although I have to say, I'm still kind of proud of a screaming man "thrusting himself endlessly into the dark mouth of the night". Although it's basically diction/concept stolen wholly from Ginsberg. Reading my old writing always reads like an archaeological study of what I was reading at the time. What sucks is that at the time, I always thought I was being really original and wasn't aware of any influences.

I really want to see ATHF. It's showing at a theater a short metro ride away... so maybe sometime this week.
LFM-- I am in St Louis, MO. But my hometown is Charlotte, NC. I will be back in Charlotte as of may 10th.

[Doc]

I generally do something monumentally stupid to my computer every couple of years so I lose all my old data and don't run into this problem.

The adult swim we get over here isn't the same as what you guys get but I do know it needs more Harvey Birdman, Sealab, Venture Bros and Ghost in the Shell. The rest can go hang, ATHF and Brak Show are alright but only in small doses. I don't get that Tom goes to Mayor show at all.
Oh but ***** chicken is ok so long as it's not reruns.

[Teatime]

I feel ya, TheInevitable. I'll look some of my writing and be fantastically embarassed by it. I have about ten first six pages of novels. Inevitably, the funny bits will have been inadvertantly stolen from Terry Pratchett throw-away lines. At least the fantasy pages are originally awful.

I miss Space Ghost and the Brak show powerful much sometimes.

[RMJ12345]

I saw the Aqua Teen movie tonight, completely blazed. I only really laughed hard at the intro thingy, which was hilarious and actually kind of cohesive. As for the rest of it....that whole thing doesn't make sense in 12-minute doses, and it made even less sense in 90 minutes. But I laughed a lot.

As for today's adult swim, I like it, but I don't watch that much television, and didn't when it was hot.

[linnea]

One of my good friends up here, Megan, is a huge fan of ATHF. She has all the DVDs. I did not find it funny. I don't know why, it just irritated me that she liked it and I thought it was stupid. I guess I felt bad for straight-up hating something that she really likes? 

[Nabubrush]

Does anyone else here not watch TV? I don't want to be that guy who is a cool dick for not watching TV, I was just wondering.

[iron_felix]

I only ever use it to watch Braves games.  TBS has a new deal where as of next year they'll stop covering the Braves exclusively, at which point TV in Arizona will be completely useless to me.  My roommate owns our current TV set, so I think when the lease is up I may just pay for MLB.TV instead and watch that on my computer.

On the other hand, I would need a television if I ever wanted to play video games and/or rent movies.  I guess can always go to the thrift store and pick up an old tube TV with knobs and rabbit ears for that purpose, though.  The aesthetic appeal alone would be worth it.

I used to watch ATHF back in high school, but since I went off to college I just can't be bothered.  Assuming it hasn't gone the way of Sealab since that time, I still think it's hilariously funny.  But don't feel bad, Somebody nice.  Personally, I find that it's one of those shows like Beavis and Butt-Head that's even more enjoyable when you know other people think it's completely stupid.  That might just be me, though.

[linnea]

I only ever use it to watch Braves games.  TBS has a new deal where as of next year they'll stop covering the Braves exclusively, at which point TV in Arizona will be completely useless to me.  My roommate owns our current TV set, so I think when the lease is up I may just pay for MLB.TV instead and watch that on my computer.

On the other hand, I would need a television if I ever wanted to play video games and/or rent movies.  I guess can always go to the thrift store and pick up an old tube TV with knobs and rabbit ears for that purpose, though.  The aesthetic appeal alone would be worth it.

I used to watch ATHF back in high school, but since I went off to college I just can't be bothered.  Assuming it hasn't gone the way of Sealab since that time, I still think it's hilariously funny.  But don't feel bad, Somebody nice.  Personally, I find that it's one of those shows like Beavis and Butt-Head that's even more enjoyable when you know other people think it's completely stupid.  That might just be me, though.

A bunch of my friends up here are Grey's fanatics. I watched it a few times at their houses, but watching telly is hard work! You've got to figure out when your stupid shows are going to be on, then you have to plan to be around a television around those times, and that's just too much work for something that's not even very well written. I don't think television is worth it. Even if I had access to a TiVo, I don't think there's much that would captivate me to the point of recording it and watching it. WAIT...Carnivale was incredible. I did love that show. And Oz, which was terrifying and yet riveting. I don't have HBO so I only rented them from Netflix.

I think I'm just wound too tight. I hate the news because it's so horribly reported and obviously biased and sensationalistic, I hate commercials because they just piss me off...it's just easier to not watch it at all. However, I do have fond memories of going to friends' houses in Denver to watch hockey games. If they showed Red Versus Blue on TV I would watch that.

But yeah... I didn't necessarily find ATHF stupid per se...but I didn't laugh one single time. Megan was cracking up and I didn't want to seem like a dick...but I just didn't think it was funny. She is one of the raddest girls I have ever met, and it breaks my heart to move away and not get to hang out with her anymore.  I know that I will find other cool girls to be pals with when I get to Denver... but the women that I got to know from the V-A-G-I-N-A Monologues and Megan are just too awesome. I'll have to send email updates to them, I guess. A poor substitute!