 | It's a brand-new dance/We're bringin' it back (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ms_xeno) wrote,
@ 2008-03-04 19:05:00 |
Convalescing In America's Dairyland, PLUS "The Lonely Man" Has A Beautiful Child
Last week just wasn't all that great, and as a result I was, er, inspired to rent The Trial of the Incredible Hulk*. It's a bad habit of mine when sad to fill the nearest large container with cut-rate fondue and soak my head in it for as long as it takes to feel less like crap. It was a decidedly entertaining way to kill an hour and a few minutes. In fact when it was over, I felt a vague and decidedly upside-down disappointment. Trial wasn't anywhere near as mind-blowingly awful as presumably non-depressed humans (or even those who know a lot about actual comic book heroes) implied in their reviews. Also I regret not having time to watch it all over again tomorrow so I can create an exhaustive checklist of all the plot holes. Not the least of which is that the Hulk's alter ego has a beard but the Hulk doesn't. [snerk] Luckily the bigger, stronger, faster mice were gleefully chewing away starting about forty-five seconds in. Once again, I'm spared having to do any heavy lifting while in a deteriorated emotional state. :/
Posthumous message to Bill Bixby: My heartfelt congratulations on A) Finally finding a pair of straight-leg jeans and B) Letting yourself get talked for once out of yet another plot where you're messing around with some woman young enough to be your daughter. If you'd left that to the other 99.9% of show biz, I'd have even fonder memories of you.
Since it's all connected, I leave you with a Viva Voce clip, which might help to salvage whatever aesthetic cred I still had before the first sentence of this post. "So Many Miles," from their disc Get Yr Blood Sucked Out. Just a tasty bit of jam from a clever, multi-textured rock album from yet another local band I've never seen because I never go out. :o Still, any band that writes an instrumental called "Bill Bixby" is aces with me.
(Kevin Robinson: Drums/Anita Robinson: Guitar)
"...[Q:]Why the nod to Bill Bixby on the album? Are you guys big fans of The Incredible Hulk TV show?
[A:]At the end of the old show of The Hulk each episode would end with a shot of David Banner, played by Bill Bixby, hitch-hiking and walking down a deserted road somewhere. While he was walking they ended the show with the saddest fucking music I'd ever heard as a kid. I have vivid memories of loving the show and tearing up every time the show was over. It was a crazy mix of emotion consisting of being pumped to see The Hulk kick everyone’s ass, then crying when the end came. That's what this song was to me - the sad walk away after some songs of kicking ass... -- Kevin Robinson, Viva Voce's drummer, interviewed by Brandon Forbes at Thirsty, February 2007.
*As a card-carrying Generation-X nerd and one-time Marvel junkie, I consider the schande of watching this now to pale considerably next to the schande of having initially missed it. How could this have happened ? Oh, never mind. Virtually nothing I was doing in 1989 is worth discussing here. Also I didn't have a TV.
