Subject: SubGenius DVDs

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.binaries.slack,alt.religion.subgenius
Date: Thu, May 8, 2003 10:59 PM

WHEW!

I have been bird-dogging this project since the Gription Clench gave me
a DVD burner, unable to proceed at any speed on other projects until
this bastard was done. Or at least underway. ARISE is still to be done,
but we now have THREE SUBGENIUS DVDs in the Bulldada Time Control
Laboratories Online Catalog.

http://subgenius.com/scatalog/video.htm

I have also started putting "TM" on the word SubGenius(TM) all over
SubSITE. We have to do this, it seems. I know it looks like a corny
joke, but it's not. I mean it IS, but it's not. Technically, like
Coke(TM) or Xerox(TM), we're supposed to make constant irritating
efforts to prove our trademark is not a generic term.

Anyway, check these out. (Box art is posted to a.b.s.)

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DOBBSFILM Shorties DVD

30 short SubGenius(TM) films, computer animations, and music videos from
The Church of the SubGenius(TM).
Champion Jack Codini * Fernandinande LeMur * IMBJR * Rev. Ivan Stang *
Saint N and Hellena Handbasket * The El Queso All Stars * Burning Man *
Onan Canobite * FEDCOMS * The Bishop * Lamprey Systems * many more
Includes DAY OF THE SUBGENIUS (Bolex Brothers) * MTV-SubGenius (Stang,
Mothersbaugh) * XXX-Days barrage (ADULTS ONLY) * ADVENTURES IN TEEN
LIFE (Codini) + LOST TV AD STARRING "BOB"!

1. SubGenius Foundation Inc. Intro Saucers
Video and Music: Champion Jack Codini

2. Titles Sequence and Dobbshead Morph
Rev. Ivan Stang
Music: The El Queso All Stars ("Save Your Soul 4 "Bob"")
Dobbsheads: Huey, Nenslo, Mavrides, Funway, Vandewalker

3. MTV-SubGenius ad
Rev. Ivan Stang
Music: Mark Mothersbaugh

4. "The Day of the SubGenius"
bolex brothers
from "The Brag of the SubGenius" by Ivan Stang

5. Adventures in Teen Life
Champion Jack Codini

6. "Let's Visit DOBBSTOWN"
Rev. Ivan Stang Music: The Bishop

7. "We Have Total Faith"
Music: Saint N & Hellena Handbasket
Video: Stang

8. The Happy Art of Fernandinande LeMur
Vol. 99a Music: Rev. Ivan Stang

9. Fascist Funnies -- Champion Jack Codini

10. Web Animations by Internet Subgenii
Animations: Codini, Elvis Bond, Palmer Vreedeez, IMBJR, Stang, Numen
Remissionis; Goo-ing Dobbshead by Stang and Princess Wei R. Doe
Music: The Bishop ("Dance of the Rockets")

11. "Instant Instructions for Those Who Follow No Master"
Song by Saint N & Hellena Handbasket
Video: Stang

12. Bob Luvs U --Rev. Sinphaltimus Exmortus

13. The Art of IMBJR Vol 99a
Music: Einstein's Secret Orchestra "Winterstar 521 Jam"

14. A Guy, A Girl, A Dobbshead
Champion Jack Codini

15. "Save Your Soul for "Bob""
Music: The El Queso AllStars
Video: Stang

16. Desert Fox Redux
Champion Jack Codini

17. Let "Bob" Smoke You
The Bishop
18. Il Arte de Stangke
Video, Art, Music by Rev. Stang (One painting by St. Byron Werner and
some Puzzling Evidence photos also crept in)

19. Get Down With My Sickness
Champion Jack Codini

20. "The XX-Day Experience"
Music: "End of the World" by St. N & Hellena Handbasket; "Planet X or
Bust" by The El Queso All Stars
Photography by the SubGenii of XX-Day 99 and XXX-Day 2000 (Stang,
Princess Wei R. Doe, Dok Frop, Geddyns, Popess Lillith, Sister
Decadence, Codini, Dr. Legume, DJ Shaver, Prostata Contata, Lust in
Space, Quijibo; art: IMBJR, Gordon, LeMur)

21. INTERMISSION
Champion Jack Codini

22. Rare 1960s Slacks Ad Starring "Bob"

23. Burning Man SubGenius Camp
Music: Lamprey Systems
Photos: Wei, Stang, Philo Drummond

24. Wei-Stang Recitation
Photoshop Effects on Digital Still-cam Video: Pater Nostril

25. Onan's Confession
Dr. Onan Canobite

26. X-DAZE 1996-98
Champion Jack Codini

27. Single Gun Theory
Dave Ellis

28. "Bob" Is Stupid

29. Sect, Satire or Satanism?
Kurt Kuersteiner

30. Whine of the Famous Yeti
Champion Jack Codini

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AS THEY SEE "BOB" DVD

A complete remix, much of it previously in the VHS tape called
"SubGenius Interviews." These are various reports on the Church -- some
from the world of Big Pink Media, others by SubGeniuses working in
disguise within Pink media.

Main feature is the legendary SubGenius classic, "Something New to Die
For," by the late Rev. Sverre Kristensen, which is an expertly edited
remix of bits of all our other videos. This version is made directly
from one of his Danish PAL original dubbing copies.

1. Title

2. Channel 4 News, Dallas, 1980

3. Showtime's What's Up America (1981) (At World SubCon #1, Dallas)
directed by Rev. Larry Sulkis

4. CNN 1983

5. Channel 7 San Francisco (1984) Shot at Victoria Theater, San
Francisco, just before the Night of Slack devival.

6. Ch. 11, Dallas talk show (1985?)

7. MTV news ('87) with Kurt Loder

8. Protest 1988 CNN

9. BBC's "Things to Come" (1989) -- With the Bay Area Drs.: Howl, LIES,
Puzzling Evidence, & Cordt Holland

10. A Current Affair (1990) Shot at SubGenius Foundation HQ

11. SOMETHING NEW TO DIE FOR by Rev. Sverre Kristensen/Rev.Gutzilla
Bloat '93

12. BENEATH THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS (Kurt Kuersteiner)

13. Rev. Ivan Stang on The Jon Stewart Show (Fox) (Feb. 7 1995)

14. CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS: SECT, SATIRE OR SATANISM? (Kurt
Kuersteiner)

15. Minneapolis TV News - SubG World Tour (w/ Legume & Circus
Apocolypse) 1996

16. Stang on Ch. 8 Fox News, Cleveland 1999

17. Dr. Philo Drummond on Fame

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Pre-Dobbs STANGFILMS DVD
Short Films and Videos
by Rev. Ivan Stang

(from the program notes)

1. PRE-DOBBS STANGFILM title
Music: Lamprey Systems ("Brain Pan")

2. Reproduction Cycle Among Lower Life Forms Under the Rocks of Mars
1978 This was made strictly so that I could watch clay critters doing
gross things. The sound effects took as long as the animation (about 3
weeks each). Originally it had no narration; my wife insisted I write
up some sort of script. I got some 7th-grade science textbooks and a
16mm film called LIFE AONG THE MOLDS from the library, and word-spliced
'till the cows came home. This has never been shown on TV, although
for a while a CHILDREN's film distributor rented it out to schools --
!! -- they stopped after teachers and parents complained. Can't say as
I blame 'em.

3. Let's Visit the World of the Future
1973 -- the ultimate "underground movie," written when I was 18 and
filmed when I was 19, total cost about $2000 (all for film and lab
costs), which I earned as a dishwasher. I made this during my second
and last year of college; the school provided the equipment, which was
the SOLE reason I attended at all. I flunked ALL my courses. Despite
this film's obvious flaws, I'm proud of it because it does express
quite vividly what a fucked up 18-year-old was feeling in 1972-3. At
the time I was learning the full hideous truth about the Conspiracy,
but didn't have a clue as to "Bob" or Slack -- hence the relentless,
intense antiSlack of this film. It is painful for me to watch this film
now, especially the Bozo Mating Season scene, but I'd sure like to
remake it with about a million dollars -- this time featuring constant
background hints of anti-Bozo sabotage being committed by that pesky
rebel group, the "SubGenii." To answer the inevitable question: these
bozos did exist as a concept before the Firesign Theater album I THINK
WE'RE ALL BOZOS ON THIS BUS, but that album influenced their script
development profoundly. These are those same Firesign bozos a hundred
years later. I didn't even bother to enter this in film festivals, or
send it to distributors. It was universally loathed by the politically
correct hippies of its day. The punk generation, however, seemed to see
it more for the documentary that it is. My father, incidentally, was
'proud' of me for making this film, but never understood what was
supposed to be FUNNY about it. My in-laws saw it a month before I
married their daughter (now my ex), who did just about everything on
this film that I didn't. (I play 30 or so parts in this, she's seen as
28 different background bozos.)

4. MTV-SubGenius Commercial
It was in 1991 that I made this 1 minute
SubGenius ad for MTV for $17,000, paid for by them, as part of their
"artists' eye" series. (I got to keep $1,000.) It is our slickest video
production by far. One minute is cheaper to enslicken than 80 minutes.
Josh Greenberg from MTV called me up and asked if THEY could do a
one minute SubGenius art piece. I said no, why don't *I* do it. It was
my hand drawn storyboard that sold them. That and my low pay
requirements. And I had done this kind of thing before.
The way the ad was conceived was very simple. I made a list of
what visual images had to be in the one minute -- a saucer zapping a
city, "Bob" surrounded by Devil Babes, money magic, the logo, etc. A
certain amount of T&A and some monsters. A Hapless Guy getting Revenge
on Pinks, and Slack. I had specific attainable cheapo special effects
techniques in mind for each scene. Once I knew what it had to LOOK
like, assembling the script to go with the pictures, using timeworn
Dobbs slogans, was pretty much paint-by-number.
Everybody was paid! The one SubGenius project where that happened.

5. Love Without Anger animation sequence
1980 -- When Mark Mothersbaugh became a SubGenius, I sent him a copy of
WORLD OF THE FUTURE. He and Jerry Casale had already planned to put an
animated Barbie and Ken fight scene in their new music video, so the
timing was perfect. I only had a weekend to shoot it, unfortunately.
Hellswami Satellite Weavers built the set (and incidentally sculpted
the "Bob" mask used in the MTV/SUBG shots). It was not easy to shoot.
Barbie's shoes had to be nailed to the set and invisible wire used to
hold her upright. When I cut off the cables holding Ken's (G.I. Joe's)
legs in place, his head and arms popped off too -- watch his head
closely at the end and observe it jitter as your animator vainly tries
to keep it fastened in place.

6. Mononucleosis
1979 -- some Hollywood executive yoyos saw REPRO CYCLE and wanted me to
do a "safe, toned-down rip-off" of it for some TV variety series pilot.
They only gave me a weekend and a pittance to do it. The pilot never
went anywhere.

7. ARISE Out-Takes
1987 Pils, Dokstok & Bleeding Head sequences -- Well, this isn't really
pre-Dobbs, but what the hell. ARISE at one point was almost 3 hours
long. This is one long continuous chunk that was removed in order to
get it down to 80 minutes before the final sound mix (it's in the older
versions of ARISE that we used to sell). Also, we were afraid people
would get the wrong idea from the Pils and 'Frop scenes. Note how
'flat' this seems compared to the finished ARISE stuff... that's the
difference the DK Jones music makes.

8. Red Light
Music: Indian Rope Burn
Sadly, lead singer Rev. Clay Animation died not long after this was
made.

9. The Wad and the Worm (1969)
1969 -- I was 15 at the time. I had been making little 8mm claymation
films since I was 10. A Dallas business film producer saw some, and
invited me to refilm one in 35mm.

10. Mojo Bag (1970)
1970 -- When we were out driving around, skipping school, my friend
Mark Hundahl used to fall into weird character bits like this. I was so
taken with his "Mojo Bag-selling creep" character that I filmed him
doing it as a mock commercial. This guy was class president, believe it
or not.

11. Incident in the Morning (1970)
Made after THE WAD AND THE WORM in my junior year of high school. I was
dying to do live-action 'art' films. The script was adapted from a
short story I found in an obscure sf fanzine, by a Doug Lovenstein, who
probably doesn't know a film was ever made of it. 'Joe Cool' is played
by the late Monte Dhooge, the 'Dr. X' of early SubGenius legend -- he
contributed at the very beginning of the Foundation but then dropped
out.

12. Ducks Yas Yas (1971)
Made in lieu of becoming an actual junkie. I think I was fascinated by
drug addicts because I was so afraid of becoming one. Also, I was
dying to do a Crumb comic on film, but since I couldn't draw, it'd have
to be a Crumb story that could be filmed live action. Crumb saw it
eventually and wasn't particularly impressed, and I don't blame him. It
isn't a very good adaptation. But the gritty photography seemed very
cool in that year; MIDNIGHT COWBOY made a big impression on me and this
was my attempt at that 'gritty telephoto' late-60s filming style. Gimme
a break, I was only a senior in high school.
Incidentally, I made most of these movies with 16mm equipment
bummed from camera stores in return for credit, or from schools. I
never owned anything but home equipment.

13. X-DAZE 96-98 Compression (1998)
Home Movies: Stang; Animation: Codini
This also appears at the beginning of the X-Day '98 two-hour
documentary.

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Now I can erase all this crap off my hard drives, all except the DVD
dubbing files, and they're "only" 4 gb each.

WHEW.

So I can start on the next one, REVISED ARISE.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 204206, Austin, TX 78720-4206
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com
For SubGenius Biz & Orders: call toll free to 1-888-669-2323
or email: jesus@subgenius.com
PRABOB

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