With the skill of gymnastics, and the kill of karate, Matt Singer, host of the IFC.com podcast and on-air host of IFC news, joins us to talk about his lifelong scholarly pursuit of watching and discussing the cinematic merit of Gymkata. We also talk about his time interning with Troma Entertainment, and comics reviews!
The Rundown
- You can find out more about Matt Singer on IFC, on twitter, at the IFC Movie Podcast page, and also at Gymkommentary, which he performs with comic artist Chris Moreno.
- If you haven’t seen Gymkata
yet, what is wrong with you?
- Check out Troma Entertainment, as well as The Stablizer and Tales from the Crapper. Also check out Lloyd Kaufman, founder of Troma and all his books on Amazon.
- Just one of the examples of Matt’s Termite Art blog coverage of Spidey and the Electric Company.
- Check out WFMU.org and The Best Show. May 4, 2010 is the show Chris showed up on. Also check out our ep with Dr. K where we talked about South of the Border.
- Check out Adam WarRock “Girl Comics.” Isn’t Jubilee dreamy?
- Check out Sims at The ISB, Comics Alliance, his new webcomic Awesome Hospital, as well as the complete Solomon Stone at ActionAgeComics.
- Go check out Mocktopus, by Max Huffman. Because it’s awesome, that’s why. Max, we stand in solidarity.
- Check out Euge’s music at AdamWarRock.com.
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Outside of maybe the reasoning that a first movie will have more impact in terms of being introduced to the characters and effects for the first time…
…I don’t think I’ll personally understand anyone who likes the first Iron Man over the second one 😀 They should at the very least come out even, and personally throughout this movie I was laughing and thrilling a lot more than I did. All 3 times I saw it (the last of which I saw alone in a mostly empty theater).
Chris, if you dig Twin Peaks you have to check out a newish x-box 360 game called Deadly Premonitions, it’s more or less twin Peaks by way of Silent Hill and is generally insane. The main character divines clues from his morning cup of coffee and hold lengthy conversations about real world movies with someone named zach (who’s isn’t there and is never explaned)
Great show!
Fantastic episode! More Troma talk! I’m sure Lloyd would do your show. That would be the definition of a train wreck.
Good ish bros
you guys are slipping. no link to the old wolverine website and you haven’t seen eraserhead!! i thought everyone had to watch eraserhead.
thanks for another great show! bird out.
Great show, but what’s the song when you guys are talking about cinco de mayo? The latin one? It sounds quite lovely.
Oh c’mon Bird! We want you to go to Gymkommentary to find out for yourself!
Thunderbat, the song is “Para Siempre” by Vicente Fernandez. Search for it on iTunes. It is a beautiful, dramatic song. Perfect for a comic book podcast.
You guys need to check out Dune – it is a bad movie, and it has creepy David Lynch imagery, AND it’s on WI. I watched it for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and it was rough.
I was coming in to say the same thing–I’m surprised neither of you have seen Dune. I freaking LOVE it so much, thought part of it is almost exactly because of it’s WTF-ness. 😀
Thanks for answering my question. I think I’ll carry rope rings with me in a pouch to use on streetlights.
I would like to thank you Matt for introducing me to The Stabilizer.
All the talk of secret passages and such got me to thinking about the home of Richard Garriott, designer of the Ultima videogame series. The place is apparently filled with traps, secret passages, and boasts among other things, dinosaur fossils, a human skeleton, a working cannon, and an authentic vampire hunting kit. When a burglar once broke into the place, Garriott warded him off with an Uzi. Of course, this same guy that once had a Titanic-themed party, which involved him crashing a barge, designed to look like an iceberg, into the party boat, forcing his guests to swim to shore.
Or there’s this NYC apartment, where the architect built various puzzle games into the residence, without telling the owners: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/garden/12puzzle.html?fta=y