Superherofest Approaches

Some on-the-set Spider-Man 3 pics for you while I formulate my Superherofest. Actually I'll probably have a mini-event for X3. Probably just X1, X2, maybe throw in Elektra for fun (have you seen it? just forget the little girl the way you forget Kim Basinger in the first Batman, it's good)



I'm helping Sean Cusick with his final directing seminar at Second City, putting up a good ol' classic Secon City review. It should be fun because we've only got five weeks to get it together. I haven't done a sketch show without Schadenfreude in 8 years so I'm kind of excited to use everything I've learned to help Sean knock a show out. That means the night Superman Returns opens I will be onstage. So in traditional Saturday morning fashion I'll crank up the superheroes early, start with a little breakfast and a couple superman cartoons to kick it off.



Anyone is welcome to come, ALL DAY SATURDAY. And then Sunday morning will be the big day where iI will believe, once again, that a man can fly. That's a long time after it opens but I want to do this right. It will be features divided up by episodes of classic Superhero tv shows, and the whole thing winds up with Superman I, II and the fabulous clipfest (all the bullshit, some hilarious, some just heartwarming because when you were a kid before Tobey McGuire was born, Nicholas Hammond was the only Spider-Man). Here's the potential lineup. If it can't make it into the feature contention, you go to clipfeat. I have to bump two from feature to clipfest because this looks long. I'm leaning Fantastic Four just because it sucks, but it just seems like it should be in there with the higher mythologies of Superman & Spider-Man.

In-betweener episodes
-Wonder Woman
-The Hulk
-Batman tv show
-Captain America serial
-Superboy

Features
Punisher
Daredevil DC
Blade (2?)
The Hulk
The Fantastic Four
Hellboy
X-Men 2
Spider-Man 2
Superman
Batman Begins
The Fantastic Clip Fest
Superman II
Superman Returns

The Fantastic Clip Fest
Judge Dredd
The Phantom
The Shadow
The Rocketeer
Conan
Red Sonja
Man-Thing!
Elektra DC
X-Men 1
Blade 2
Blade 3
Batman
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin
Batman serial
Captain America Serial
Darkman
Spider-Man Home video 1998
Aquaman Student Film
Jon Sable For Hire
Superman III
Superman IV
Elektra Woman & Dyna girl
Swamp Thing
Return of the Swamp Thing
Captain America ‘79
Captain America ‘78
Spider-Man tv show
Dr. Strange tv movie
The Justice League of America tv movie
The Hulk tv show
Wonder Woman tv show
Batman TV show
The Challenge of the Superfriends



That's how old I was when I saw Superman with Christopher Reeve, I would've shit my pants to have actually met him. Rumor has it I met Darth Vader in 1980, I have no memory of it. Seriously, while promoting Empire, they did a nationwide promotion and David Prowse would come to your grocery story. McMakens IGA in Brookville, OH won the contest. We stood in a long line, David overheated. Oh the humiliation of being hydrated in the fucking breakroom at the fucking IGA in buttfuck when you're in the highest grossing movie of all time. Promotion has gotten so sophisitcated and I know people bitch about it, but did Hayden Christianson have to show up at Gunckels in Verona?

And then that kid ran into this guy.


And ran away screaming.

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Happy Short Haired Chick Birthday!!!!

For many years we had a short-haired chick in our midst, her name was Julie Coe and moments after I thought she was cute because of the length of her hair...



My co-hort, friend, and business partner Justin Kaufmann stepped in and made his move because of the breadth of her personality, and our lives were all changed for the better.



So see, I'm not the only one, Justin was first wooed and eventually married a short-haired chick.



And who could blame him, look how cute!



And sassy.



And she knows how to roll.



Now these pictures were given to me by Julie, these are chef's choice. I don't know why of all the short-haired pics of her that these ended up in the mix.



Uh, Justin?



JUSTIN!!!!!!!???!?!?!

And as usual I save the sexiest for last.



Happy Birthday Julie, and Katie, and Josh Blaylock.

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Nothing Compares To SHORT HAIRED CHICK FRIDAY!!!

Sinead O'Connor, the ORIGINAL short haired chick, or at least the one that's referred to the most. The one that made it famous. The one that raised the ire of people who heard from a guy who heard from a guy who heard on talk radio that she worships that devil and dangerously feminist.



OF COURSE I loved Sinead. The year is 1988. My parents polite 10th request that I get a job results in me getting a job with a Mike "Stead" Winstead at Little Caesars where the entire store would listen to 97x (the future of Rock & Roll) from open, 9am, until close, 2am. 97x was one of maybe five "alternative" stations in the country in 1988 and you could hear a lot of Sinead in 17 hours. But you could hear more when "Babinsky" Chris Jones was working and giving me a thorough education in Sinead, The Cure, Stone Roses, got me up to speed. To this day I still have a cassette mix he made me that had a killer remix of "Stretched On Your Grave."



High School memories are strong anyway, but having them tied into a John Hughes soundtrack makes me incredibly fortunate. 97x truly was the future of Rock & Roll filling our High School working asses with non-fuckin-stop Janes Addiction, Bauhaus, Sex Pistols, B-52's, They Might Be Giants, Soup Dragons, Depeche Mode, B.A.D., R.E.M., P.I.L., Urban Dance Squad, Sisters of Mercy, Afghan Whigs, Daisy Chainsaw, The Pop Will Eat Itself, Buzzcocks, The Church, Echo & The Bunnymen, Crowded House, Gene Loves Jezebel, Daisy Chainsaw, Love & Rockets, Cocteau Twins, Living Colour, XTC, Camper Van Beethoven, Hoodoo Gurus, Iggy Pop, Bob Mould, Jesus Jones ("Liquidizer" not "Doubt") more Cure and more Stone Roses. Getting a little sad here.



97x made an 8 hour shift almost as sweet as having a boss that bought us booze and let us start drinking a couple hours before close, but not quite as sweet as having four phones for call-in orders. Whenver 97x would play the "PHONES FROM HELL!" that was your cue to call in for free shit. Four phones, four redials, you do the math. Boy would Winstead bust his fat ass from the very back when he heard the phones from hell almost killing himself for a fucking Danielle Dax CD.



We'd trade pizza's with the overnight guy Bill "The Stereo Slave" for requests. "Step On" by Happy Mondays was one song I could simply not get enough of. Winstead's number one request was "Anarchy in the U.K.", Jones' was "Never Enough" by The Cure. 97x was a phenomenon, there literally was no other station in Oxford. Even when you weren't at work it was in cars driving by, Bruno's Pizza, the video store, pretty much everywhere but the bank and the library. So Oxford was just one big 97x crossfade when you went out for the night.

So...Sinead.



So outspoken that she's scary to people, LOVE THAT! I remember a lot of hacking on the hair, the threatening shortness of the hair. It's actually the most conservative haircut you can get. The marines get that cut. People would call her a lesbian, and by lesbian they meant "bad thing." I do know she has kids, whether she got them from a penis I don't. She's independent and opinionated and sometimes opinions threaten other people. I think feminism is sexy.



I love that such a gentle little thing would rip up a picture of the Pope on SNL.



Awesome! I forget why she did it, but I don't care because the reason I liked it is one part kickass chick and two part THAT'S what SNL SHOULD be like! The controversy on that show has dissappeared into a giant jamba juice paid advertisement sketch. They would get so much ratings if they became radical again, less good natured. Political again. Kind of pathetic that SNL is still on sabbatical from Bush poking. You remember the decalration that they'd no longer make fun of him after 9-11. You couldn't do shit after that holiday, couldn't even eat fuckin' french fries without 9-11 having a say. Fuck. I hated that shit. But Sinead wasn't around then to be called a commie with the Dixie Chicks. She retired and grew her hair out.



Kind of a Tina Fey vibe. Actually when Tina Fey was on mainstage she was a short-haired chick.



A little like that. Very girl-who-sat-behind-me-in-French-Film-Class.



OH FUCK, funniest story ever, almost forgot. I lived next to the 97x tower, I'm sure someday I'll grow a third arm, but the most rebellious third arm possible. And we got 97x through every thing. For 8 years you could hear 97x on the phone for every phone call. Until we bought an elaborate series of dampers, it filled every silence on tv.

Look...

Up in the sky. Is there something wrong with me? I...I just can't handle it. As I type my palms are sweaty on the keyboard. I have the chills, my face is flush. My leg is shaking. I'm full of nerves like my first kiss, or having sex for the first time. I truly, physically can't handle this.


I just saw the new trailer for Superman Returns


And this stuff just, I can't even speak or type. It's not comic books. It's not a nerdy thing. It's a true love of heroism, heroism beyond normal human understanding. Super-heroism. It really gets me. For all these years of loving live action superhero movies it's always come down to that, the only thing it takes for evil to flourish is for a good man to do nothing. These stories have always been about the men that did something, men created to do something when others can't, and took the challenge because they are heroic men. Super-Men. My hands shake after watching this trailer because this movie is one giant version of that theme. It's the theme I love written large. Larger than Batman, Spider-Man.

Beyond that these films with this theme begs us to believe a man can fly. Begs us to be a kid in wild eyed wonder. This whole fascination began with Superman for me. That movie hit me like a ton of bricks when I was a kid. It's all I thought about. And in some ways it's still all I think about. I was always the kid with his head in the clouds, because that's where Superman flies.

Believe with me.

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