Episode 35...back on the wagon.

Hey Hey! Welcome back Fat and Skinny fans. Episode 35 marks a new landmark in Fat and Skinny history. This is the first episode where we recorded from two separate, remote, locations!!!! Sure this technology has been around for a while, but our film fortresses only just got internet...so there ya go. Sounds pretty good all things considered...and let's face it, we really don't want you guys to grow accustomed to a certain style of recording.
This is also the episode where we seem to fall right off the wagon, but that should be fairly obvious right off the bat. And speaking of bats...wait, I'm getting ahead of myself.
First, we get into Season of the Witch (the Nic Cage version) If you ask me, we spend more time on it than it deserves. (That's one of the first scooby clues that we're loaded) However, I would say we were talking less about the movie, and more about Nicolas Cage, the man. We are into enigmas here at Fat and Skinny. If only Uwe Boll would direct a Cage video game, superhero movie. (With Ron Perlman...the newest FSGM movie crush)

(I'm saying watch the Romero Season of the Witch...and Knowing)

Cage may be a batty actor. That's why we love him. Speaking of bats...finally. We get to Chosen Survivors. The 1974 post apocalyptic, animal attacks film. With bats. It rules. It seems to have Panos Cosmatos fingerprints all over it.

The whole movie is up on Youtube. It was also teamed up on DVD with The Earth Dies Screaming. (Because both movies were written by Harry Spalding)

Harry Spalding did NOT write The Last Days of Planet Earth. I just happened to watch that movie after Chosen Survivors at The Vortex Room. It's a Toho production. I dug it. I was pretty boozie.

And to bookend with the concept of the right film for the right time...we present Pop Skull!(directed by Adam Wingard)The Southern fried, J-Ho, post-psych drug movie. The Ring meets Enter the Void...on 2000 dollars.

It's a wild one.

Yup, it's another signature episode alright.

~Fat and Skinny 2012
xoxo

Thinner was a Bachman Book, The Bachman Books are not Different Seasons, and I thought Different Seasons was Skeleton Crew.

Just when you thought we were gone...we come back like champions.
Off the cuff, totally exhausted, makin' stuff up as we go, beer drinkin' CHAMPIONS!
Or, at least, I was.
Thought I should get that outta the way.

Sorry, about the lag between Episode 4 and 5. That was largely my fault. As it turns out one of my roommates bought a house 5 months ago and then gave us a 30 day notice...my other roommate is a vampire....so there ya go. Epic, wild, and crazy.
Actually, Episode 5 was recorded on Friday night just moments after Jason came over to the 'Attic Oasis' to help take apart furniture. That Saturday, I woke up to move all my stuff into storage.
....thus, the inaccuracies. I even knew that Thinner was a Bachman book...  Le Sigh, it was that damned 1996 movie that confused the heck outta me. Couldn't picture the book cover in my mind, just that ultra-photoshop-surreal movie poster. Yeesh.
And have you ever thought about how many Stephen King movies have been made. Start to make a mental list, and you start to go mental. From obvious ones like Carrie (1976).  To ones that one may forget (cuzz it's so unlike his other work),  Stand By Me (1986). To stuff I know you forgot (or at least should have) The Langoliers (1995). Remember, it was that TV movie starring Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot) as the dick executive who gets eaten by a silver CG pac-man.

We should totally do a King episode!!!!!
(but, we probably won't)
Oh, and considering all the King movies that have been made. The Mist was actually the last one made in 2007. Crazy, huh?

Anyhoo, expect us to get back to our regular schedule ASAP. We got all sort of movies ta talk to ya about.
Episode 5 is awesome, I think you'll really dig it. Take a drink every time you hear me make a slurping sound, say "basically" or "what I'm saying" and you'll sure to be fucked up by the end.

In closing, big ups to all our fans/listeners.
Stay Posi

~matt delight 2010

Just a few words...

Well, it’s been awhile since we did a show. I assure you we have been very busy in our day to day lives, it ain’t easy being superheroes. Art, parenting, moving, Wondercon, it’s a big ticket to fill. Yeah, you read it right, Matt will be behind a table somewhere in Wondercon selling stuff. I will be attending but not showing. You should check it out. They have celebrities, comics, movies, toys, and people dressed up like stuff. I go for the ladies. My favorite is the Artists’ Alley. last year I met Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy. Our good buddy Josh is there doing sketches and selling prints. There is a premier of “Kick Ass!” too. It looks to be a real hoot.

Fat and Skinny has been downloaded over 500 times as of this posting and we want to thank everyone for the support. Keep spreading the word. We plan to do a new show first of the week.  I’ve seen some good stuff in the last two weeks and can’t wait to get Matt’s opinion. The weekend is upon us, fire up the grill, drink some beer and watch some movies.

Cheers, Jason

Episode, FORE!

Hollywood ending. its all nice. The “Good Guy” Wins. Why wouldn’t he? Last night I watched “Law Abiding Citizen”. I thought, “It didn’t do well, maybe it took the other, everybody dies, everybody learns road.” Maybe it was a tough as nails thriller that took no prisoners and set the failing prison system on its ear. But noooooo, I was wrong. After an hour and a half of potential it decides the lawyer wins. But Why? He is the bad guy. If he isn’t, make it possible. I root for the “Bad Guy” the whole film. And that’s weird because it’s Gerard Butler. If I ever though I would root for him, it would be because of the booze. Fernet-Branca was what I was drinking tonight. In retrospect, it was more of a tequila movie. I still think I would have been disappointed. I think Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler are to be commended. This film had the all the earmarks of a good thriller, but someone didn’t want to step on any toes...

(some time later)

Let me explain: I wrote that first paragraph completely loaded. I think I did okay. Anyway, Law Abiding Citizen is one of the movies we talk about in episode 4. I think 4 is pretty good. Matt drops knowledge about Freddy, opines about The Crazies, and almost cries over one less Corey. I can’t even keep up. I am excited about having the opportunity to talk about The Hidden, one of my old stand-by recommendations. We had so many problems recording it, I’m surprised we actually got it done. Sorry about the lack of beer openings. We drank all our beer during the first take. I hope you like it.

cheers, Jason