It's fun seeing this discussion going on. I loved that
show. Brack and Moltar, but the songs that they did...

There was also The Brak Show but I don't remember if they gave Moltar his own show also?

Liquid Television was something else. Aeon Flux was wild
and there was just one off animations in there that were
really little musicals. I seem to recall one with a sort
of space stock car race where the pilot ran it till
failure but I think Cake was used for the soundtrack,
maybe going the distance, back when that was new.

This seems somehow familiar, but I can't remember anything more than what you wrote, I didn't even remember that much until I read what you wrote. I do love Cake.

Just watched a Japanese stop motion called Junk Head
this weekend what was a brain bender. It's wild the
dialogue is mumble Japaneses so I suspect subtitling was
always necessary, but there's English subs. It's sort of
manga like and by a director who did it as a labor of
love, no film experience. Found it looking for DelToro
movies and got to it as he endorsed it. There's no
resolutions only questions. So be warned.

Junk Head does sound interesting, may have to check that out when the mood is right.

Back to the late 80's into the 90's for a moment, it seemed all around weird. It's like there were no rules.

I feel like in a way, the limited (but expanding) number of TV channels available meant that if something new and different was on, I was more likely to check it out. Maybe in part because there was some level of curation (almost always SOMEONE had to make the choice to air it), maybe also because there was so little available and I was just hungry for more.

Pee-Wee, Max Headroom, MacGuiver, Sledgehammer, Airwolf...

I don't remember Sledgehammer.

Airwolf I was a little bit young for - I remember the show, I remember the badass helicopter, but I don't remember anything else really.

Another great series - Tales From the Crypt. I've been watching it recently and it's incredible how many familiar names starred in episodes of Tales From the Crypt. (also, the Cryptkeeper is a spitting image of Canadian billionaire Jim Pattison, I don't know if there's an actual relation.)

As Hunter Thompson said, "It still hasn't gotten weird enough for me.."

Agreed! :)


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That early [Adult Swim] fare was peak for my peers and I. We spent a long time goofing off with Macromedia Flash and Photoshop, just making things NL> for the hell of it. Those shows really took the concept of 'did it NL> because we could' to a funny place,

The discussion about the early Adult Swim cartoons made me think of a newer Adult Swim show I've been enjoying - PSI Cops. A cartoon about paranormal detectives. I don't know how to describe it other than "every character is ridiculous".
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Junk Head does sound interesting, may have to check that out when the
mood is right.

Yes, that's exactly the right approach. I remember watching Pi when it came out. I was not ready for the level of grit a movie about math would contain.

I don't remember Sledgehammer.

It was a cop show where the detective had a huge pistol and people would ask, is that a silencer and he'd reply no, it's a loundener ironically. So sort of a hodgepodge Bronson/Eastwood/Gibson over the top cop.

Another great series - Tales From the Crypt. I've been watching it recently and it's incredible how many familiar names starred in episodes of Tales From the Crypt. (also, the Cryptkeeper is a spitting image of

Yeah! I forgot about that, there were horror movies on TV. TV specials too. I seem to remember watching Ripley's Believe it or Not hosted by Jack Palance a lot too.

A lot of people panned Where the Buffalo Roam but I think there's something in that story that's as important to then as it is now about politics, change, and the people who are left behind.

HST- Lazlo and Nixon are both gone now, but I don't think I'm going to believe that 'til I can gnaw on their skulls with my very own teeth. Fuck those people, huh? If they're out there, I'm going to find them, and I'm going to gnaw on their skulls. Because it still hasn't gotten weird enough for me.

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You know one I liked was Ugly Americans,

It was panned as flat, but it was comic book like. The Guy worked at the Social Services department and was going out with Satans daughter?

Where's my scootch tape!

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I don't remember Sledgehammer.

It was a cop show where the detective had a huge pistol
and people would ask, is that a silencer and he'd reply
no, it's a loundener ironically. So sort of a hodgepodge Bronson/Eastwood/Gibson over the top cop.

OK that does sound like fun! Speaking of over-the-top cop shows, are you familiar with Axe Cop? "Created by a 5 year old and his 29 year old brother."

A lot of people panned Where the Buffalo Roam but I
think there's something in that story that's as
important to then as it is now about politics, change,
and the people who are left behind.

I need to watch Where the Buffalo Roam again, it's been a while. Since Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was my introduction to HST and it's such a masterpiece, it's hard to fully enjoy any other HST film. That first time watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, with a snack of a handful of delicious (or NOT) mushrooms, has burned it into my brain very effectively.


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You know one I liked was Ugly Americans,
It was panned as flat, but it was comic book like. The
Guy worked at the Social Services department and was
going out with Satans daughter?

I remember the show but I don't think I ever really gave it a chance at the time. Maybe it'll be one I dig up later and enjoy as a forgotten gem. :)


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OK that does sound like fun! Speaking of over-the-top cop shows, are you familiar with Axe Cop? "Created by a 5 year old and his 29 year old brother."

Yep, I actually bought the comic books when they first came out to send to my brother who was getting deployed to Iraq.

masterpiece, it's hard to fully enjoy any other HST film. That first
time watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, with a snack of a handful
of delicious (or NOT) mushrooms, has burned it into my brain very effectively.

Ah yes, I have similar memories and I really started adding his books to the shelf. I think Phillip K Dick might have been the first author that really made sens like Thompson did later. Then again, the 90's were rather a psychedelic time around a small city in central NY, 10 square miles surrounded by reality..

I later kept his final words on the mirror with some other odd art bits and clipping. I can't how the post truth world would have set with HST.

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I remember the show but I don't think I ever really gave it a chance at the time. Maybe it'll be one I dig up later and enjoy as a forgotten
gem. :)

If I remember right at that point in my life we were starting to come out of the 2008 recession. It was 2010, we had left a position in Vermont and were back in NY and I was working a road job as a security guard in big energy doing 12 hour shifts usually 1800-0600 in block tours or 2 weeks...

Shale gas is a hellofa drug and it fueled a boom when I was broke and out of ideas so with that down time I was consuming the surreal or riding my bike literally around the county in my down time. I was only a guard for a year and a half before getting back into survey, still in the industry but the stuff you see when you're paid to be up while the world sleeps.

I want to say Ugly Americans probably peaked early and it shifted from a regular cable channel to a boutique one and I didn't follow.

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AKAcastor wrote to N2qfd <=-

I need to watch Where the Buffalo Roam again, it's been a while. Since Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was my introduction to HST and it's such
a masterpiece, it's hard to fully enjoy any other HST film.

Good to know, I've been wanting to see it. I did note that both Johnny
Depp and Bill Murray attended HST's funeral. Nice show of respect.

I just wish HST was here to see the mess we're in.




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If I remember right at that point in my life we were
starting to come out of the 2008 recession. It was 2010,
we had left a position in Vermont and were back in NY
and I was working a road job as a security guard in big
energy doing 12 hour shifts usually 1800-0600 in block
tours or 2 weeks...

It's always interesting the memories we link to certain times, and how we may have phases when certain things (like TV shows) just seemed to "fit". Sometimes even the silliest stuff ends up holding a lot of importance.


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I was going through some young adult self actulization while watching Adult Swim around 2006 through 2009. So much of the programming was funny, witty, well written and performed, but deeply cynical. I wondered if it was a relection of some of us at large. Spoiler alert: it was.


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