Odradek's Hopefully Weekly Fringe Media Stream

Kormit

http://synchtu.be/r/Odradek_Stream Linkity.

Ernie Bushmiller

I'd be open for doing this on either Wednesday or Sunday. Of course, my availability may change as I go back to school in the fall.

I would recommend using the 6irc service for your streams. It allows you to use almost any media you can think of, including Livestream embeds.

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SECRRT OF KELLS! WATCH IT AND GET TWELVE ROZPOINTS!

Yarrun XIX

Cobbler or Kells

And again, I tend to be AWOL during the Jewish Sabbath. 

Sredni Vashtar

Cat Soup, because I will not rest until everyone on this site has experienced it.

thenamelesssamurai

Section42L said:

I'd be open for doing this on either Wednesday or Sunday. Of course, my availability may change as I go back to school in the fall.

I would recommend using the 6irc service for your streams. It allows you to use almost any media you can think of, including Livestream embeds.

To piggy back on top of this, I have a room setup for this kind of thing on both synchtbe.6irc and cytu.be (synchtube is a fork of cytu.be, both made from the same code) at http://synchtube.6irc.net/r/HeapersHangoutAltJukebox and http://cytu.be/r/heapershangoutaltjukebox respectively, so if you use either of those streaming services, we have a dedicated room set up to use.

thenamelesssamurai

Also, backing Cat Soup.

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Sredni Vashtar said:

Cat Soup, because I will not rest until everyone on this site has experienced it.

I will not want h that for less than 48 Rozpoints, and everyone starts with 36.

Any of the following will get you 12 rozpoints:

The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Alder

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskina

The Man From Snowy River

The Adventures of Tintin

The thief And The Cobbler, any version

The Secret Of Kells

Water ship Down

Arthur's Almost Live Not Real Music Festival

Merriam Webster's new Collegiate Dictionary, Ninth Edition

The Pogo Special Birthday Special.

Sredni Vashtar

Already read The Westing Game, and reasonably familiar with Tintin from the series that aired on HBO when I was a child.

Cat Soup has a very special place in my heart, especially the ending.

Kormit

This is going to happen! We will be starting out with the movie that kind of killed Disney's animation department The Black Cauldron!

Tentative date is Thursday 9:00 EST

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YESH!

DOOOOOO IT!

Ernie Bushmiller

I'm thinking of going on a Off-Beat Disney Movie Marathon leading up to Thursday.

I have Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, and The Emperor's New Groove in mind.

Are there any other recommendations that you guys have for me?

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Section42L said:

I'm thinking of going on a Off-Beat Disney Movie Marathon leading up to Thursday.

I have Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland, and The Emperor's New Groove in mind.

Are there any other recommendations that you guys have for me?

The Black Hole, which everyone just kinda forgets exists.

And Kidnapped and Napoleon And Samantha.

And the 1952 live action Robin Hood.

Kormit

Bump.

Reminder that this is still happening tomorrow at 9:00 EST

Kormit

Still happening. Room is here http://synchtu.be/r/Odradek_Stream

Kormit

Stream starts in a little under two hours

Kormit

Stream is in one hour.

Now would be a good time to grab synchtube accounts for the chat.

Kormit

Ten minutes to showtime

Kormit

Okay thanks guys! That was fun even if the movie itself didn't hold up that well.

Anonus

continuing my credits thing: Andreas Deja animated Gurgi, Glen Keane designed him and Elionwy

not seeing who animated the witches

Quip

So, the Black Cauldron

was merely "okay", neither a great in Disney's catalog nor utterly repulsive

though it had some inspired bits, on the whole, it was a bit too bland for its own good (and, as basically everyone pointed out, felt too Star Wars-y without the same level of impact)

Kormit

I think the biggest problem was the tonal and narrative inconsistency. 

It was clearly be pulled in several directions, and it doesn't go far enough in any of them.

Pippi Longstocking

Odradek said:

I think the biggest problem was the tonal and narrative inconsistency. 

It was clearly be pulled in several directions, and it doesn't go far enough in any of them.

Yeah. As a result, you're kinda left not really caring about any of the characters.

There was a princess, though, so it wasn't all bad.

Anonus

And a cute piggy!

Ernie Bushmiller

The designs of the villain and the "Cauldron Born" felt like they were cool designs in search of a good story.

Sredni Vashtar

I missed the screening, unfortunately, but it's worth noting that the story is basically the Cliff Notes version of a series of books that was explicitly written to riff on the clichés and archetypal narrative themes in Arthurian and traditional Welsh fantasy stories.

Also the Horned King is the real villain's lieutenant in the books; apparently they only vaguely allude to Arawn in the film with the implication of what the cauldron contains.

Kormit

Sredni Vashtar said:

I missed the screening, unfortunately, but it's worth noting that the story is basically the Cliff Notes version of a series of books that was explicitly written to riff on the clichés and archetypal narrative themes in Arthurian and traditional Welsh fantasy stories.

Also the Horned King is the real villain's lieutenant in the books; apparently they only vaguely allude to Arawn in the film with the implication of what the cauldron contains.

There's an exposition dump at the beginning about how the Cauldron was created by the gods sealing a super-evil king inside a cauldron but it doesn't get brought up again.

Also they never explain what the Horned King's deal is.

Ernie Bushmiller

The main problem with the film is that, for the most part, they played the story entirely straight.

With that in mind, I think you can imagine what the film feels like.

Kormit

There were also way too many comic relief characters.

I mean Fflewddur Fflam and the witches were fun, but Gurgi and the fairies were odious, and Creeper was just kinda there.

Kormit

Next stream is at the same time. This time we'll be watching a youtube queue of old cartoons(Felix the Cat, Popeye, characters you haven't heard of) on synchtube. If anyone has any suggestions, get them in.

Kormit

Actually, let's move the stream to 8:00  PM EST tomorrow.

I forgot I have a busy day Thursday

Kormit

Oh shit, I guess it really is Thursday.

I totally forgot.

Sredni Vashtar

Friday?

Kormit

Sredni Vashtar said:

Friday?

We'll see how fast I set up.

Kormit

Okay tonight sounds good. I will get a queue up.

Kormit

8:00 PM EST unless anyone objects.

Sredni Vashtar

But that gives me so little time to ready myself!

Whatcha watchin' anyways?

Kormit

Sredni Vashtar said:

But that gives me so little time to ready myself!

Whatcha watchin' anyways?

Various old pre WWII cartoons. The playlist will play for about an hour.

Sredni Vashtar

Ooooh, OK!

...have you watched Cat Soup? (Asked the good missionary.)

Kormit

Sredni Vashtar said:

Ooooh, OK!

...have you watched Cat Soup? (Asked the good missionary.)

It's on our suggestions, so I was planning on watching it then.

Sredni Vashtar

Yay! ^w^

Kormit

Fifteen minutes to showtime.

Kormit

Five minutes.

Everybody who's anybody start checking into the chat.

Sredni Vashtar

Thank you, Based Klinotaxis, for gracing us with "Koko's Earth Control".

Ernie Bushmiller

"Koko's Earth Control" easily won the night, although some of the other cartoons were pretty good in their own right.

Kormit

I think the strength of old Fleischer cartoons was that they knew nothing mattered in the anarchic world of cartoon shorts, so they weren't afraid to go dark.

Sredni Vashtar

Also, despite it being one of the weakest cartoons of the night, "Frozen Frolics" still gave me the seal playing the snowshoe. I am totally using that seal as an avatar at some point. Just sayin'.

Sredni Vashtar

You know, this is probably too fucked up and weird even for this venue, but the experimental animated film Midori: Shoujo Tsubaki is on YouTube. It's only about fifty minutes long and was literally the sole work of one director mostly known in later years as a storyboard artist and key animator. It's based on one of Suehiro Maruo's surrealist horror manga and apparently it's hella messed up.

Crystal

I would certainly be up for it.

v Yeah, understandable. I guess you could say I'm the same way. Unfortunately it might not go over so well...

Sredni Vashtar

I would be less hesitant if descriptions of it didn't make me think "this is Trigger Warning Central."

I am not easily phased by horrible things, but other people can be, so I'm cautious.

Klinotaxis

i'm weirded out that something i suggested half-jokingly was popular

i mean it's not a bad cartoon or anything but still

it's neat how "experimental" it was in 1928 though, in a "there are no conventions yet" way rather than a "fuck conventions" way