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Can’t Film Festival

I just can’t with you anymore.

It was a mashup.

Yeah.

Movie plus a band plus a book.

I understood it. The premise was understandable.

I was working with time-old tropes, but I feel I subverted them.

How so?

I made the stuffed guitarist hump the spaceship. Very subversive.

zhhWOMPF

SCHNIFT

FEEeeeeeump.

Thumpity thumpity thumpity PLORP

Did you just cut off your own head with a lightsaber, and then your head rolled down a flight off stairs onto a linoleum floor?

Yes.

Where’d you get a lightsaber?

Same place you got a time machine.

You really can find anything in Little Aleppo.

With A Surprise Cameo From Spider-Man

Where is this coming from?

I produce my content in-house.

That’s not what I meant.

I literally make it in my house.

Right.

Plus, and I don’t know if you noticed this because you’re not a film director like me, but there is no CG in any of my films. All practical effects.

I hope you get eaten by a donkey.

For example, the shield gag–in the business, we call that sort of thing a “gag”–was accomplished with nothing but a piece of twine.

You don’t say. What about Spidey’s descent into frame?

Also twine.

Wow. Seamless.

Ask me how many takes.

Was it–

One take.

–one take?

I insist on the first take. It is the rawest meat from which I will dine. First takes are truth! They are song! Plus: I’m only gonna do one take, so I might as well have some artistic bullshit to justify it.

Yup. Please stop repaying people’s kindness with whatever this is.

You mean the great Buzz Poole, whose book about Workingman’s Dead can be purchased here?

This has got to be the most plugs you’ve ever given a book.

To be fair, none of the other books got sexually assaulted and bothered by superheroes.

That is fair.

The Assassination Of Julius Caesar, As Recreated Using Books About The Grateful Dead

What’s wrong with you? Honestly; no joke: what is your problem?

There’s not just one.

No. Ran out of steak knives?

Why would you need more than one steak knife? How many steaks can you eat at a time?

Sure. Please stop doing this.

It’s educational!

Yeah, but not about the thing you think.

I shot according to the Dogma 95 rules, except I made the toga out of paper towel. And I didn’t have a purple marker, so I drew the stripe with the red and blue ones at the same time.

Again I repeat: what is wrong with you?

Besides the fact that I put society on trial every damn day?

Yeah, besides that.

Little bit crazy.

Yeah. Plug the book.

You mean the latest in the acclaimed 33 and a Third series written by the great Buzz Poole about one of the only halfway decent records the Dead ever made, Workingman’s Dead?

Yes. Stop making weird videos.

I’M AN ARTIST.

I No Longer Want To Be A Paperback Writer

Why are you like this?

The bullying has escalated.

You need to rethink your life.

I didn’t even know books could rape one another.

I hate your parents for making you.

What we saw was non-consensual.

Stop being you.

I’m trying to sell a book, man.

So say nice things about the book.

Oh, sure. Here’s a nice thing: took that pounding like a man.

We’re done.

Go buy Buzz’ book!

Read, Poole

What the fuck was that?

I made a content.

I detest you.

Hee hee.

Stop laughing.

I’ve been laughing for ten minutes.

Why?

The great Buzz Poole’s new book about Workingman’s Dead got here today. And, as you know, the 33 1/3 series of books are physically small, whereas the rest of the books I’ve been sent have been hefty tomes.

So you imagined the bigger books ganging up and tormenting Buzz’s book?

Yeah. It should send away for that Charles Atlas course.

Sure.

shaBOOOOOM

DECOMPRESSION SOUND

thMUPPF

sssssshhhhhhhhLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOORRRRRPPP

POP!

Did you just shoot a hole in the fuselage of a 747, then throw yourself on the hole and then your whole body was sucked out through said hole?

Yup.

Cool.

You gonna actually read the thing or just play with it like an action figure?

Who can foretell the future?

At least tell the nice people where to buy the thing.

Right here

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No. That’s David Browne’s book, So Many Roads.

Good book.

Helluva book.

Here?

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Gans and Jackson.

Okay, what about here?

<——————

Nothing over there, chief.

This is getting tedious.

For all involved.

Now?

No.

What about–

No.

–now?

Now.

YAAAAAAY

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Missed it.

Fuck you.

How did you manage to get the video sideways AND in portrait mode?

The aristocrats!

Fuck you, too.

We’re terrible at commercials.

Yeah.

我々はどこにでもあります

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Most of the time, the innertubes are a terrible place full of capital letters and lies, but occasionally you find out that there are–and have been for a while–Japanese Deadheads.

The great (and greatly named) Buzz Poole even attests on Twitter that he saw a Dead tribute band in Osaka back in ’91, and not one made up of ex-pats and Marines and English teachers: the whole band: Japanese guys. Authentic ones; locally sourced. (Something as deeply weird and inspiring as the Dead making it to Japan is more than worthy of a plug: go pre-order Buzz’s new book on Workingman’s Dead. It’s part of the critically-acclaimed 33-and-a-third series and comes out in April and there are no spiders secreted within the books pages, probably.)

The odd thing is that this happened in Osaka. Kyoto? Sure. But, Osaka? Wow.

Anyway, the above picture comes from an old post on Friend of Thoughts on the Dead’s (FoTotD) David Gans’ website. A guy named Nabe threw a festival based around a band that never got within 3,000 miles of his home and 600 people showed up. Also: the bands–at least one of them–were not terrible.

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A Japanese Fake Jerry. God bless America.

ps I had originally intended to post that tape of Majestic Circus–whoever in God’s name they may be–simply as proof that the festival actually happened, but these guys are not bad at all. They are actually killing this Playing, and Fake Jerry-san has really got Garcia’s tone down. Also, they have clearly learned the words to Playing phonetically and that is always good for a laugh.