YouTube link here. So expressive!
This week, we (Tony) psychoanalyze(s) William, and send him off for testing. We learn more about school, and talk a lot about movies. Also, Tony doesn’t love Tig enough, apparently, and we finally delve into the mysteries of Exploding Head Syndrome(tm). Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
Have you discussed exploding head syndrome yet? If not, please do so. –Craig
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
I don’t think Star Wars was called “New Hope” until later. I saw it when it premiered and am pretty sure the title was just “Star Wars.”
The internet agrees (though that is not, of course, definitive).
https://the-take.com/read/why-was-star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-originally-released-under-another-title#:~:text=When%20Star%20Wars%20Episode%20IV,the%20subtitle%20A%20New%20Hope.
https://www.inverse.com/article/43533-star-wars-a-new-hope-title-change-episode-iv-1981-1977
https://www.cbr.com/movie-legends-revealed-when-did-the-first-star-wars-become-episode-iv/
I’m too dignified to rub it in if I was right about something.
I’m just saying that, apropos of nothing, right here.
I didn’t see Star Wars in 1977.
But… my brother Scott confirms that the version we saw was in 1978 (a re-release of the film) and it did not have the chapter or title at that time and he would know better than I.
Either way, though, there is pre-1977 documentation that Lucas at least had the notion that Star Wars was starting “in the middle” of his overall story. But the overall story wasn’t fleshed out at all. It certainly didn’t look like the prequels.
Oh, give it up, you Lucas fanboy! 😛
I can’t watch any conjuring movies, because I feel the same about the Warren’sp. I don’t even feel bad about it.
I’d never stop mocking someone you threatened to go half inch something.
I also had trouble with coins, digital clocks and multiplication tables.
Uh-oh, William. Your issues might be more disturbing than I first thought… Azuretalon had them, too! And he went on to become Azuretalon!
I learned to add and subtract by selling people snow cones and cotton candy. Actually, before that, I sold these booklets that were titled “What Every Father Should Tell his Son” and “What Every Mother Should Tell her Daughter.” These were sold at movie theatres after “Public Information” movies, and after my father did a “lecture” (under the name “Dr. Elliot Forbes”). I remember the books cost 50 cents so it was pretty easy to figure out change. (I think I was around 3 at the time.)
I’m pretty sure most of my peers did not learn to add and subtract in the same way.
Was this before or after you would pretend to have lost your doggy, to distract people while a slightly older urchin stole their wallets?
I swear, you had the coolest/weirdest upbringing I’ve ever heard of.
Right??
It all sounds made up. Like for a Wes Anderson movie or something. But it all really happened!
The director for my movie would be David Lowery and it would consist entirely of “Rooney Mara eating pie” scenes.
Yeah, when I saw “Paper Moon,” it really reminded me of my Dad and me.
Not that my Dad ran any actual cons that I know of. I’m pretty sure some of my older uncles and my grandfather did. But my Dad would use “techniques” that were pretty closely related. Like when my brother was born, he got me to change my brothers diapers several times by pretending that he didn’t know how it was done and asking me to show him how. I was 3 and a half.
Or the way he got to be friends with this guy, Morty, who became his best friend. Morty was keeping the books at one of the movie theatres in the Bronx. Morty was 18 at the time and my Dad was in his early 30s. Morty had figured out a way to skim money and hide it in his bookkeeping, and when he met my Dad he thought my Dad wouldn’t be able to figure it out and offered to go over the books with him. But my Dad just said, “Oh, that won’t be necessary. I trust you completely.” Morty said, he felt so bad, that he stopped taking the money. My Dad was always pulling the same thing with me as a parenting technique.
Good thing you and Morty weren’t sociopaths! 😀
Okay, Morty is OFFICIALLY a fictional character! But I’m not calling you a liar. I now am just faced with the possibility that Jas is also fictional.
Not fictional (yet), but I do make a very brief appearance (as a toddler) in Dave Friedman’s “A Youth in Babylon.”
Morty eventually become a novelist in his old age, (after many, many other enterprises (a fiction-maker, rather than being fictional). (Both my brother and I worked for him at some point in our lives. I worked in a store selling used jeans and iron-on printed t-shirts, and my brother worked doing IT related stuff at a health-food store that Morty ran.
He now lives out in California with the woman who was his first girlfriend who he reconnected with many years later. This girlfriend used to babysit for me, and gave me a copy of “The Little Prince” (which I still have). Her name is Isadora Alman and she used to write the “Ask Isadora” column that was a sex/relationship advice column. I think she might currently write for “Psychology Today” at times.
One of Mort’s books is called “The Gaia Trilogy” which is speculative fiction people might find interesting. You have to search for “Morton Chalfy” on amazon to find it.
This is really too much! You’re like an SNL character. More things happened to you by the time you were 10 than will happen to me in my entire life! 😛