January 21 movie: AV Geeks: Greatest Hits. Does this count as a movie? It lasted for two hours, it was fiction, and I saw it on a movie screen. So I think it counts. This episode of AV Geeks was all films with catchy and/or annoying songs. My main reason for being there was Shake Hands With Danger, a Caterpiller safety film from the 70s full of guys falling off heavy equipment, getting their hands mangled, and so forth. And yes, it includes an obscenely catchy song, called "Shake Hands With Danger," of course.
The bad thing about the evening was a horrifyingly bad puppet show that Skip showed in its entirety before the program began. He said it was made by some friends of his. I'm sure they're nice people, but the show was awful. It was all shock value, no funny. The low points were so gross they made me feel kind of ill. He said he might do an entire program of the puppet show. I hope he does, because that will reduce the chance of him showing it before another regular show. I would walk out if that happened again. I would have walked out this time if I had known how bad it was going to be and how long it was going to last. Even though I was in Raleigh, a 40 minute drive away. The puppet show was that unpleasant.
Sorry about the gross-out puppet show (Wonder Showzen). Generally, it's popular with the Kings crowd, but I'll try not to show it in the future.
Hi Skip! You obviously don't have to edit your format just for me :) Normally if you showed something I wasn't into, I'd just talk to my friends and ignore it. But that time my friend had brought a friend who did not get AV Geeks at all (what's up with that? he must be some kind of mutant killjoy) and his obvious displeasure made it hard to just laugh it off. Especially since I felt responsible because I had invited them.
I'm more likely to go to your Durham shows, but I have a friend in Raleigh so sometimes we go to Kings. If the Kings crowd likes the vulgar puppets, by all means give them what they want :)