Thursday, June 04, 2009
On Way To The Poor House
Please tell me that you all know about Mystery Science Theater? If you do not, do yourselves a giant favor and go out and purchase any random DVD you find of MST3K and watch it. You will die laughing.
Back in the day, when I was but a wee lass, I used to watch Mystery Science Theater late at night on the television when the host was Joel. Then I started to purchase all the videos I could find. Then everyone switched over to DVD players and my VCR broke and my videos were pointless. I started to accumulate DVD of MST3K. And even though Joel was no longer the host, Michael was pretty funny as well, thought not as funny as Joel. Then I realized I couldn’t afford to do this anymore and I didn’t get any new DVDs. (Meaning, I had not completed my library of MST3K.) And life was bland, boring and colorless.
Until now. Now I’ve found a way to get my fix for only 99 cents a shot from RiffTrax! You play the DVD that you have and at the same time play the RiffTrax! MP3 that you just purchased to go along with that movie. It’s like having Cameron, Tom Servo and Crrrrroooooooooow right there in your living room. Well, you don’t get to see the silhouettes of their heads in front of the movie but the voices sound familiar.
In the meantime, you can watch and listen to the little samples they have on the front page. Now, sometimes, this was the best part of the whole MST3K movie; the little black and white bullshit school films they used to show to make us drink our milk and sit up straight. From these films we learned that appearance is everything and life on the farm is not back breaking labor but a whole lot of fun!!! (The Simpsons make fun of these old school films in their own way...Troy McClure anyone?)
Currently there are riffs for 70 movies and I haven’t checked the catalog to see if I actually have any of those movies, (I doubt it), but instead of purchasing shitty movies just to enjoy the MST3K making fun of them, just rent the movie and d/l the MP3.
This is not a paid advertisement, you just don’t understand how much MST3K meant to me. It was right up there with Monty Python and Black Adder. And I’m beyond thrilled that I get to see/hear new stuff.
For those of you who have never understood my sense of humor, (and, from some of the comments, I can see some people don’t get it....(and please do not get upset about that and stop commenting or be too scared to comment, it’s an observation only)), now maybe you’ll start to understand that a lot of this, while venting, is also tongue in cheek. Yes, sometimes I am full out venting and pissed off, (animal abusers), but a lot of times, try not to read the entries in an angry voice. Try reading them with a shit load of sarcasm instead.
