NinetyForChill dot Com: The Podcast - Episode 4: Capital B-Fest and Capital C*-Fest

NinetyForChill.com: The Podcast

Episode 4: Capital B-Fest and Capital C*-Fest

*Cronenberg

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And of course the text layout makes it look like I meant the actual capital C-word. So went the production of this episode.

The initial plan for this episode was just to get some quips from previous guests Ally from AllysAccessoriesShop on Etsy and Letterboxd's ThePoeticCritic. In other words, I did not have a new guest lined up. If you want to chat about sub 100-minute movies for 35 minutes over Zoom, shoot an email to russthebus07@gmail.com.

It was supposed to be as simple as press play in Audacity and get 20 or so minutes of us chatting about movies. The laptop was opened and the mic was out, so neither should have been caught by surprised, but I just started recording. And then...

ThePoeticCritic became more laser focused than I have seen her and gave me over an hour of material. Oh how the tables had turned.

 

This seems to be the only promotional material B-Fest.com had to offer.

 

I cannot say that my older sister is overly empathetic, but damn can she be passionate, especially towards her friends and their pandemic plight.

The first weekend of February is usually the weekend of B-Fest, an annual 24-hour movie marathon of the finest B-movies that are available to the students and staff at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Being in Chicagoland, her friends from all over the country would fly in to take part in this extended:

audience-participation version of an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000; viewers are encouraged to voice their opinions of onscreen events, especially if such comments provide entertainment for the other festival attendees. (B-Fest.com)

Big sis has yet to attend the festival, and with the current state of world affairs, romanticizing any nerdy gathering cannot be helped. The result of this is her giving us quite the oral history of an event she has only dreamed about. If we do not get our shit together about COVID-19, she can only dream about shouting out her original riffs towards Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space".

Take it from experience, one can only dream so much before that dream becomes a chip on one's shoulder. Christian teachings (not practices) and Eastern philosophies has kept me from flinging that boulder at the world, but my sister has never attended a martial arts class to develop that discipline. I would hate to see her go Cobra Kai on some anti-maskers who denies her the simple pleasures and escapes.

Fortunately, she has not finished the Stuart Gordon and David Cronenberg filmographies, so she can still maintain a cinematic zen-like state. We explore Gordon's work like every movie podcast should and take an even deeper dive into Cronenberg's "The Fly". We even ebate whether "A History of Violence" is more heartwarming than the Goldblum flick.

To further the length of this podcast, Ally lets me bullshit with her about cinema and life. That went on for 10-minutes, so I cut the cat and tat chat from this pod's intro. But who does not want to hear about cats destroying condos? Stick around till after David Tenant calls for a "Woo Hoo" to get all of the Realtek audio.

I think it sounds alright (thanks Audacity), I just need to be a little more attentive to the input setting to assure that Blue quality is what I provide every week. Thanks for your patience.