Christopher Finch, �Of Muppets & Men: The Making of the Muppet Show�
Due to my sleep schedule being so out of whack from working at the club five nights a week, the Netflix subscription turned out to be a good idea since it gives me something to do while I�m lying in bed at five in the morning, trying to get to sleep. Hence, I�ve been tearing through the movies in my queue. I went through the two disc set of Angels in America, then watched The Fog of War, and last night I finished the sixth disc of Freaks and Geeks.
As if I weren�t feeling geeky enough for having just finished a play and a documentary on Robert McNamara, watching that television show had some genuine wince-inducing moments for myself. The three �geek� kids kept making references to things I either liked or owned. They quoted incessantly from Airplane! and The Jerk, which I�ve done on more than one occasion. They made a thinly-veiled reference to Daredevil. Hell, Sam, the main geek character, had the same Star Wars bedspread that I just gave away six months ago when I moved.
�Hey, hey, hey!� I�d think, wincing at the stereotypes. �Just because a guy likes comics and has the good taste to realize Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a great fucking movie, it doesn�t make him a total loser virgin!�
The next thing in my queue, Steve Carell�s The 40 Year Old Virgin, came today. The opening establishing shot has him getting out of bed and to the right is a huge, framed poster for Mystery Science Theater 3000 � The Movie.
It�s the same huge, framed movie poster I have to the right of my bed. Later in the film, when he decides to sell his toys, they show a close-up of the same Elektra figure I own, still in the original box.
And now I�m reviewing a book on the making of The Muppet Show, and I loved the book. And yes, in my queue for upcoming discs is Season One for the Muppets.
Fine, so I�m a geek. And seeing as I can admit that, I may as well paraphrase Monty Python and say, �But I�ve had more women than any of you!�
Now if only I can convince somebody to let me use The Carl Stalling Project as mood music. Luva gets dibs.
And finally, just to solidify my geek status, allow me to say Manahmanah.