4/12/2007

Earlier this week, I gave you a whole list of random lines from e-mails and letters that I’ve received here, with no comments from me…but, it’s back to business as usual today, as I go over some of the feedback we’ve received from all of you! People still are putting their two cents in (these days, with inflation, shouldn’t it be at least a quarter they put in?) about the songs that I do on the show, and whether they should be oldies, more modern tunes, or whatever. Our friend Al checks in, and says he’s in his thirties, and doesn’t know anything that’s in the Top 40 anymore (IS there even a Top 40 these days?) Al says he doesn’t listen to rap or hip hop, so he doesn’t recognize any of those songs when I do them. He likes the 80s songs and disco tunes, and also movie songs –like “a Goon Full of Sushi” that we did during “Sgt. KabukiMan, NYPD” (don’t ask me to explain, or to run it again- we no longer have the rights) to Mary Poppins’ “A Spoonful of Sugar.” So, I’m guessing Al prefers songs from an earlier era. For the most part, most of you who respond said that it didn’t matter, and that, if it was a newer song you didn’t know, it kind of made it more fun when you actually finally heard the original! Andrew wrote in and asked if we knew how Bela Lugosi felt , playing all these terrible monsters. Well, from what I’ve read, Bela was very proud of his role as Dracula, having performed it on stage even before the movie…but, later on, was very bitter about the monster roles, feeling he had been type-cast. He felt he was a great dramatic actor, and highly acclaimed in Europe- but, obviously, his accent and over-the-top acting (he had difficulty toning down his stage-style acting for the closer camera)- and had to accept whatever roles he could wrangle just to keep money coming in. His sad ending has been well-documented- we did an Ed Wood documentary on the show back in the mid 90s that chronicled a lot of Bela’s final years. Maybe we’ll get into that again in the future. I heard from Dale in Idaho- Dale used to live in central Illinois, and first saw me on WFLD via cable. He was bemoaning the fact that they can’t get our show in Idaho. He says that watching the movies I used to show is not the same without the Sven bits sprinkled in. Dale, I wish we could export Sven to Idaho, as well as the various locations around the country (and outside it!) that we get mail from, wishing for a healthy dosage of Sven! We’ll work on that…who knows? I do know that I’m running out of space- so- let’s continue this tomorrow!