Hello Greenpoint! We’re back again after our New Year’s Pubcast/Boys’ Party with a special ode to a newly reborn film festival, originally First Sundays, now The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Series, hosted by Jay Stern and Victor Varnado.
The duo came on, alongside Iron Mule “producer”/better-than-yours-truly-at-hosting Ray Privett, to talk the history of their rather epic local film series, the retiring of “Monkey” from audience participation shorts, and the horrors of YouTube deleting content they otherwise worked hard on.
We also talked the deaths of Khan, Number 6, and Batman; Left 4 Dead; Ray summing up the podcast in a hilarious nutshell; Victor’s short film Roboto Supremo—with Michel Gondry as the Mayor of Tokyo, natch—and my death.
Yes, it appears while talking during the podcast my body, pickled with various toxic fluids and stuffed with delicious Yakitori Taishi, finally started to break down. Or my eyes were watering. Or maybe I finally learned to cry at films. Who knows.
Join us next time as Matt Prigge (we explain how to say it) watches from the back of Grassroots while Vadim and I suffer from awful hangovers and talk Taken. Until then, if you see either Vadim or myself at the bar, buy us a drink per chance. We’re feeling much better now—and I’m not dead!
This article was originally published on The House Next Door.
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