Subject: Find the Secret SubGenius Line - tobytrailer.mov (00/10)

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.slack
Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2002 2:50 AM

This is the movie trailer for an as yet undistributed film by MY SON!!
Not a video, a film!

He plays the lead role of Toby. Chip off the old stage-hog.

This 22 year old stud is the same kid as the BABY seen in the author
pic at the back of the old HIGH WEIRDNESS BY MAIL book.

He just moved to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune!

He has no job yet. (GULP!)

Even I can barely comprehend the amount of SHIT the lad went through to
finish his movie, and I was the SAME WAY when I was his age. Only I was
DRUNK when I was making my big college movie. And I dropped out of
college instead of finishing it, got married, fathered this kid (and
his little sister, who is hiding from the likes of YOU GUYS!) and had
to work for "Bob" or GIVE UP. The kid picked up where I left off by NOT
GETTING MARRIED at age 20. God DAMN am I relieved.

Anyway, this was made partly with college equipment and help from his
costudents, and partly by the most torturous routine of finagling and
coercing, borrowing and probably everything short of stealing. I like
to think. Towards the end of shooting, he went without sleep for
something like 3 days straight while having to drive a van load of
rented and borrowed gear back and forth between Sleepy Hollow, NY and
NYC each day. Scared the hell out of me when he told me about it
afterwards.

This kid's mom went back to teaching very soon after he was born -- I
was a free lance business film cutter then and mostly stayed home with
the new baby. SubGenius Pamphlet #1 was born about the same time he
was. I nursed both of them. The poor guy is as hyper as I am and it's
probably because I was toting him around during his first months of
life. To him this Emergentile behavior is perfectly normal.

Believe it or not I used to look just like this kid looks, only with
glasses, and not cursed with such normal humanlike proportions. His mom
didn't smoke.

There is one overtly SubGenius line in this movie, which is also in the
trailer.

I count my blessings on a daily basis because my two kids SOMEHOW
turned out to be the kind that I not only don't have to worry about,
but can TURN TO for SUGGESTIONS frequently! For instance Ydnax here is
the first person I go to for advice about Mac related video and modern
day film tech. He even knows Maya animation AND can DRAW, and SING,
REALLY WELL. Some of those good genes must have skipped a generation.

My daughter moved to Tennessee to pursue a personal-trainer type health
career.

Just about everybody's hauled ass out of Dallas.

I will probably end up living in Texas again after a decade or so...
but not in Big D, nossirree.

"Goin' down to Dallas, take my razor and my gun
'Cause there's so much shit in Texas, WHOO you're bound to step in
some."
-- old Johnny Winter record is where I heard it

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Original file name: Find the SecretEÃÅer.mov (00_10 - converted on Monday, 21 July 2003, 13:44