Today was Hef's day out with the boys.

[thehefner]

PHASE 1: Spent day with themadhatter26, drinking Yuenglings and playing Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Video Game, which I far prefer to SP in comic or film formats. I chose to play as Kim Pine, because someone I know she'd be sympathetic toward my hatred of Scott himself. Also, because she's played by Allison Pill, who was frickin' brilliant on the Gabriel Byrne show IN TREATMENT.

PHASE 2: ? Remembering that food is good, and getting amazing carnitas verde enchiladas with a ginger beer mojito to power my way through beating Scott Pilgrim. Because seriously, I really dislike SP (the movie and the comic, for different reasons each), but I can't not love this entire game:

PHASE 3: Profit Drank wine and watched The Lost Skeleton Returns Again, the sequel to The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, with fiveseconddelay, tazira, tompurdue, and latecomer tommx. Not as strong as the original Lost Skeleton--a film which itself isn't universally beloved--but with enough hilarious moments and quotable lines to make it well worthwhile. "Let's go this way! It could be a trap!"

PHASE 4: Sobered up and watched Stingray Sam, the new film by Cory McAbee, frontman for the band The Billy Nayer Show, and creator of his previous film, The American Astronaut. I love Astronaut, but Stingray Sam surpasses it in pretty much every way. But it's hard to say how, if you haven't seen either. Both films are damn near indescribable.

I've heard American Astronaut described as "Eraserhead era David Lynch making a Firefly musical with Flash Gordon serial FX." That's a start. But it doesn't really capture the unique brilliance of Cory McAbee's first film, much less his superior second.

Best way to sum it up is... well, here, watch the first ten minutes of Stingray Sam yourself:

It only gets better and better from there. It's been a while since a film ended and I immediately thought, "I wanna watch that again! Now!" I almost never feel the need to buy DVDs anymore now that I have Netflix, but I damn well am buying this one. And American Astronaut, I need that one too. Plus the soundtracks. I'm just gonna devour them incessantly for a week.



PHASE 5: Came home, reunited with Henchgirl--who spent the day making cookies for us, with a batch to send to box_in_the_box, who needs cookies--ate cookies, had a Johnny Go martini, and got totally obnoxious with the gal I love.



IN SUMMATION: A good day. Smiley face emoticon here.

Comments

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

*watches game trailer* TOONIES AND LOONIES! XD ♥

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

The game was co-designed by probertson, of whom I learned after seeing his short film at an animation festival:



I was in utter awe the whole time. If you watch it, you might wanna track down an even better quality, but that should give you some idea.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh dude, I have seen that, in fact! I'm surprised the similarities didn't strike me! But then again, I read and replied to this post when I'd just gotten out of bed, so maybe not so surprised.

Clearly, I have gleaned the most important fact from your primarily film-focused post is, of course,

[kitewithfish.livejournal.com]

the recipe for what you were drinking while you watched them.

How in the name of all that is holy do you make a ginger beer mojito??

Re: Clearly, I have gleaned the most important fact from your primarily film-focused post is, of cou

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

The recipe calls for fresh muddled mint with rum, brown sugar syrup, ginger beer, and lime juice. I tried making it once but still haven't quite got the hang of muddling mint leaves for mojitos. They always turn out to be like having a glass full of unskimmed swimming pool.

[candidgamera.livejournal.com]

The Lost Skeleton sequel was good, but Dark and Stormy Night from the same folks and released the same day was better, in my opinion. I felt Lost Skeleton Returns Again was trying a little too hard.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Great to know. I was hoping it'd be good.

Returns Again was indeed trying too hard at times, but I have to give them credit for purposely not trying to do a retread of the first film, keeping reruns of routines to a minimum (at most, what did we get to hear again? "Row-ar"?). Upon consideration, I'll take a failed, ambitious risk that's trying too hard over a sequel that plays it safe and in no way validates its existence by retreading the first film.

[candidgamera.livejournal.com]

There were a couple of other callbacks. ("It certainly is a day for twins!" and Kro-Bar's "Come! Go." come to mind.)

There were a couple of the bits that were a little too extended or a little too goofy to feel like they were 'authentic', though. (I laughed at 'Slowly.. slowly..' .. then I got impatient. Then I laughed again. Then I got impatient again. Thirty seconds less of that gag would've been perfect.)

[themadhatter26.livejournal.com]

Regarding the SP game, don't forget to mention the super awesome soundtrack by Anamanaguchi.

[jackolantern.livejournal.com]

Wow, that video game looks just like one of Paul Robertson's shorts. Too bad it's not available as a stand-alone (looks like you have to be on PSN or XBox Live to get it).

[tommx.livejournal.com]

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Great seeing you buddy. So glad that we got to watch Stingray Sam with you guys. I am glad I saved it for you.