Rodney Ascher
@rodneyascher.bsky.social
'Thanks to' credit on Boorman & the Devil, Gallagher, and The Adult Swim Yule Log. Edited Andy Kaufman's posthumous comedy album, Directed Rolling Stone's 10th Best Music Video of 2016. NOW PLAYING: GHOST BOY (SXSW 2025 Audience Award Winner)
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They’re reissuing the first two ALAN VEGA solo records (1980/81) and somehow there’s a new video for Ice Drummer!
youtu.be/2nxCodtSows
youtu.be/2nxCodtSows
Alan Vega - Ice Drummer (Official Video)
YouTube video by ALAN VEGA OFFICIAL
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
They’re reissuing the first two ALAN VEGA solo records (1980/81) and somehow there’s a new video for Ice Drummer!
youtu.be/2nxCodtSows
youtu.be/2nxCodtSows
Any day an oral history of Dark Star appears on the timeline is a good one.
Dan O’Bannon said: '“Fuck ’em. If I can’t make them laugh, I’ll scare the shit out of them.” And that was the seed for his screenplay for Alien.'
‘We used a beachball as an alien!’ John Carpenter on his gloriously shonky sci-fi comedy Dark Star
‘The control room buttons were upside-down ice-cube trays, one space suit had a dish-drying rack on it – and the special effects guy wrote the theme tune lyrics’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Any day an oral history of Dark Star appears on the timeline is a good one.
1. Phantom Menace Teaser Trailer
2. Empire Strikes Back prevue in Time Magazine
3.Secrets of the Empire VR experience with my 8 yr old, his friend, and his friend’s dad
4. Hardware Wars on 16mm at the Omnicon
5. Rise of the Resistance Star Destroyer reveal
6. Star Wars Hotel doc by Jenny Nicholson
2. Empire Strikes Back prevue in Time Magazine
3.Secrets of the Empire VR experience with my 8 yr old, his friend, and his friend’s dad
4. Hardware Wars on 16mm at the Omnicon
5. Rise of the Resistance Star Destroyer reveal
6. Star Wars Hotel doc by Jenny Nicholson
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
1. Phantom Menace Teaser Trailer
2. Empire Strikes Back prevue in Time Magazine
3.Secrets of the Empire VR experience with my 8 yr old, his friend, and his friend’s dad
4. Hardware Wars on 16mm at the Omnicon
5. Rise of the Resistance Star Destroyer reveal
6. Star Wars Hotel doc by Jenny Nicholson
2. Empire Strikes Back prevue in Time Magazine
3.Secrets of the Empire VR experience with my 8 yr old, his friend, and his friend’s dad
4. Hardware Wars on 16mm at the Omnicon
5. Rise of the Resistance Star Destroyer reveal
6. Star Wars Hotel doc by Jenny Nicholson
Shame about Udo Kier, one of the coolest to ever do it. Somehow he once materialized at a 237 party while we were in full swing and pitched me on the idea of rebooting ‘The Hands of Orlock’ which I sure would have loved to do.
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Shame about Udo Kier, one of the coolest to ever do it. Somehow he once materialized at a 237 party while we were in full swing and pitched me on the idea of rebooting ‘The Hands of Orlock’ which I sure would have loved to do.
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Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.
November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Finally saw Weapons - and liked it a lot! Barely worth a post, I suppose, admittedly late to the game and co-signing the consensus opinion but I've already sunk well over 160 characters into this post - 200 now, may as well see it though to the bitter end.
November 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Finally saw Weapons - and liked it a lot! Barely worth a post, I suppose, admittedly late to the game and co-signing the consensus opinion but I've already sunk well over 160 characters into this post - 200 now, may as well see it though to the bitter end.
Somehow I still don’t know what these hamburger helper jokes are talking about, seeing if I can keep it going until they fade away.
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Somehow I still don’t know what these hamburger helper jokes are talking about, seeing if I can keep it going until they fade away.
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THE VANITY PROJECT PODCAST: TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THE STORY BEHIND STUDENT CONFIDENTIAL!
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
THE VANITY PROJECT PODCAST: TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THE STORY BEHIND STUDENT CONFIDENTIAL!
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Love those classic Looney Tunes? Thrill and delight as Porky Pig is flattened between two sheets of glass!
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Love those classic Looney Tunes? Thrill and delight as Porky Pig is flattened between two sheets of glass!
I don’t think Cavett or Carson ever ended a show with a game of Russian Roulette (in this case Angie Dickinson firing a gun with 5 blanks and one live round at him while blindfolded and tied to a chair)
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I don’t think Cavett or Carson ever ended a show with a game of Russian Roulette (in this case Angie Dickinson firing a gun with 5 blanks and one live round at him while blindfolded and tied to a chair)
He really directs the heck out of them Muppets www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_U...
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
He really directs the heck out of them Muppets www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_U...
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Happy 89th Birthday Dick Cavett, thank you for making television that would absolutely never be made by a major broadcast network any more, like letting Orson Welles perform a 9 minute monologue on ABC
Orson Welles Performs A Monologue About Noah's Ark | The Dick Cavett Show
YouTube video by The Dick Cavett Show
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Happy 89th Birthday Dick Cavett, thank you for making television that would absolutely never be made by a major broadcast network any more, like letting Orson Welles perform a 9 minute monologue on ABC
In 1979 Orson reinvented the talk show in ways they still haven’t caught up to. Imagine if there were a few seasons of this and not just this never-aired pilot?
youtu.be/i-gR0_pcFJE
youtu.be/i-gR0_pcFJE
The Orson Welles Show (1979)
YouTube video by Reeder Brand Management
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
In 1979 Orson reinvented the talk show in ways they still haven’t caught up to. Imagine if there were a few seasons of this and not just this never-aired pilot?
youtu.be/i-gR0_pcFJE
youtu.be/i-gR0_pcFJE
Thought-provoking piece on Gilbert Hernandez, exploring both the more outrageous aspects of his work (stuff that is often left out of the discussion) and the idea of 'Late Period Work' in a way that applies to most any artist who is lucky enough to have one.
www.tcj.com/latesploitat...
www.tcj.com/latesploitat...
Latesploitation: An examination of recent works by Gilbert Hernandez - The Comics Journal
How do we read Gilbert Hernandez? The question gets harder, not easier, the more Hernandez adds to his body of work, but Greg Hunter takes a stab at answering it anyway.
www.tcj.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Thought-provoking piece on Gilbert Hernandez, exploring both the more outrageous aspects of his work (stuff that is often left out of the discussion) and the idea of 'Late Period Work' in a way that applies to most any artist who is lucky enough to have one.
www.tcj.com/latesploitat...
www.tcj.com/latesploitat...
After his rude, lecherous, and unfunny treatment of Debbie Reynolds on last night’s Cavett, Groucho is banned on our tv for 6 months.
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
After his rude, lecherous, and unfunny treatment of Debbie Reynolds on last night’s Cavett, Groucho is banned on our tv for 6 months.
The 1st episode of my friend Nick McCarthy's 'THE VANITY PROJECT' just dropped. Now you can hear in one beautifully presented (by @grahamreznick.bsky.social + others) package a story I've been following in jaw-dropping bits & pieces for years...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTtM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTtM...
Episode 1 | Before the Internet
YouTube video by SpectreVision Radio
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The 1st episode of my friend Nick McCarthy's 'THE VANITY PROJECT' just dropped. Now you can hear in one beautifully presented (by @grahamreznick.bsky.social + others) package a story I've been following in jaw-dropping bits & pieces for years...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTtM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTtM...
Mandatory listening
Been cooking this up w Nicholas McCarthy: 6 part audio doc tracking down the director of one of the strangest lost films ever made, and the battle to save it from - and for - the director himself. This story goes to a lot of surprising, intense places.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Mandatory listening
Some double feature ideas:
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Some double feature ideas:
Dick Cavett Hollywood Greats Disc 4, Orson Welles then Disc 3, Mel Brooks/Frank Capra/Robert Altman/Peter Bogdanovich, paused midway to watch the avalanche scene from Buster Keaton’s Seven Veils on YouTube, then resumed, followed by The Other Side of the Wind, and now what? youtu.be/H_kOsnGzfYY
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Dick Cavett Hollywood Greats Disc 4, Orson Welles then Disc 3, Mel Brooks/Frank Capra/Robert Altman/Peter Bogdanovich, paused midway to watch the avalanche scene from Buster Keaton’s Seven Veils on YouTube, then resumed, followed by The Other Side of the Wind, and now what? youtu.be/H_kOsnGzfYY
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Rainy Saturday morning let’s go
November 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Rainy Saturday morning let’s go
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Finally—back to my drawing board. It's been a long, long time I couldn't even set foot into my studio (our late son Mike did the electrical wiring & work; the hole in my soul the size of Mike was just... to... raw). Relieved I still have some drawing chops left.
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Finally—back to my drawing board. It's been a long, long time I couldn't even set foot into my studio (our late son Mike did the electrical wiring & work; the hole in my soul the size of Mike was just... to... raw). Relieved I still have some drawing chops left.
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This is wrong. We should not trap the souls of dead people in computers. Souls should be trapped in amulets
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This is wrong. We should not trap the souls of dead people in computers. Souls should be trapped in amulets
Thx @cinemaeyehonors.bsky.social so glad to see Syd, Chris, and David (among other folks) work called out!
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Thx @cinemaeyehonors.bsky.social so glad to see Syd, Chris, and David (among other folks) work called out!