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| gavv |
Posted - 07/18/2005 : 15:08:28
ANIME HELL IKASUCON 2005: Heino, Fish, Firsts, Military Bases,
and Milk Duds
by Gavv
occasional assistance provided by:
Hell Minion Goofyrobo
Hell Visiting Deutschedigiarchaelogist Pochi (aka the Heino Hunter)
Hell Union Subcontractor Gyopi (former abroad-liver, original finder of Fish Fight)
The room was pretty cool. It was nearly completely ready for
me when i got there a half hour before showtime, got set up pretty smoothly
and got the slide show going while everything else got set up. Crowd showed
up early, and by the time the lights went down, the crowd already took up
all 100 or so seats in the room and lined the walls.
Throughout the first 10-15min there was a weird sound problem where the
audio would dip every minute or so. after some stealthy cable changes
we stumbled on the problem of the sound system amp being too smart for
it's own good. it had an automatic setting that guaged when it was getting
sound from the microphones and automatically dipping the video throughput
sound. since we were sitting up front on stage, it was picking up the video
audio feeding back through the on mics. after that, we were golden.
The Playlist
Highs: way too many, the crowd was *extremely* hot, nearly everything got
at least very good reaction, and the few favorites and surprises got huge
pops. Average pound per pound, person per person crowd enthusiasm
definitely rivaled any show i've been witness to. Also greatly encouraging
was that not only there were some experienced Hell-patrons, there were a
lot of the crowd that guaging by gut reaction alone had not gone thru the
experience and had that much more energy. Even some clips we thought
were fairly played-out got
Lows: About the only thing that got tepid reaction was Halcali Tandam.
Batboy Doomsday intro
CPF-Flexible Metal Hose
Cartoons & You
Non CPF Pong
"I don't know how old most of you are in the audience," (ed.
probably 95% younger than myself ^^) "but even as a child of the the
culture of the 80s, even i know that they came up with some fuuuucked
up ways to sell you crap."
Lazer tag vs the Commies
Pogo Ball (premiere)
Rejected
"Now when i say influential japanese invented toy line from the
1980s what do you think?" "Transformers!" "Yes transformers. But the
japanese got a tad bit wacky and decided to make transformers out of
anything..."
Them Japanese make Transformers
Outta Anything (premiere)
Tokyo Shock Boys
new dumbass car jump
GI JOE Saaaaacked
GI JOE alien fry
GI JOE false alarm
GI JOE sheeeet
Live & Learn
Eddie the Eagle
Booby Traps
(sets a small box on the front of the table) "I'll explain the
significance of this box of Milk Duds...just a little later in the show..."
Hai Karate
Masturbation Mega Mix
Germs & You
"Now that i feel that you're all well educated and now perfectly
safe from all the dangers of the world, it's now time..for...music!"
(chants and yells of "HEINO!" fill the crowd) "
Fish Fight (even more cheers than those who thought it would be heino ^^)
"As it was announced at Anime Expo a couple weeks ago,
ADV Films now has the rights to Macross. I've just been given a tape
of the actual opening to their release..."
Macross - SOLDiers of Warlords
Nincapella
"We took a poll at animehell.org and between the 3 or 4 of
us that got around to answering, we decided that Indiana Jones 4
should look a lot like this..."
CPF Indiana Jones & The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Harrison Ford sits naked with a fat japanese guy (premiere)
"When you come up with a consumer product to take on all
comers, you need the worlds greatest, the ultimate man's man to
sell it. That man is Segata Sanshiro..."
Segata Sanshiro the music video (premiere)
Cow Banana commercial
'Peel it' Dole banana commercial
HALCALI Tandam
LAVA- Cutey Honey (premiere)
LAVA- 3D Gundam
LAVA- Gravitation*
Lets go to the Refreshment Stand
"Here at Anime Hell, you don't go to the refreshments,
the refreshments come to you!" (surprising beginning of the candy
tossing!!)
"Also, myself and the fellows up here have been and will
be checking out the audience and at the end of the show, determine
the Anime Hell Fan of the Night. And that winner will get....
The MILK DUDS!" (huuuge cheer for the Milk Duds). Also make the
announcement that also at the end of the show there will be a significant surprise that has never before happened at Anime Hell.
Midnight Madness 2005 promo
"And now a little information from a land called..gerrrrmany.."
Dancing Heino
Robots are Cool
Liberal Party
Old Glory Insurance
DnD Commercial
CPF The Phone
TORSO!
Forklift Driver Klaus
Space Taxi
"And now from Germany by way of Canadia..."
Heino Das Booty
(aside: guy with a mullet in the middle of the crowd shaking his
thang like one of the Heino Booty Dancers in our minds qualified him
for Fan of the Night consideration...)
gun vs katana
Tokyo Food Battle
Law vs Lovely… (premiere)
katana vs machine gun
Bambi 2002
Ball Buster Commercial
Segata Sanshiro- The Finale (premiere)
cluckin chicken bathroom monkey
Heino Wigwam finale
At this point we announced that we had made some decisions
about the Anime Hell Fan of the Night. we select six people to come
to the front. they each draw 'raffle tickets' we ad-hoc made. The
jumping around girl dressed as Ed took away the coveted box of milk
duds, though it's doubtful she needed any more sugar at that point.
We told the other five to hold on, we have one more special thing
to do, something that has never ever been done at Anime Hell. Another
winning number was drawn, and it was Patrick Wilcutt?. For the first
time ever, the lucky winner of Anime Hell Fan of the Night walked
away with the back-up dvds of the night's performance.
Without dropoff, we transitioned into Midnight Madness, where we played Fisting the North Star, Evangelion: ReDeath, Fanboy Bebop, & Inuyasha:Lord of the Jewel, as well as some parody shorts from NonDE films.
thanks for coming to the show...
gavv
aside: With the show ending at 3am, and my company golf tournament back 120
miles away starting at 8am, on the lovely fort benjamin harrison course, I
lost my three-year reign as champion in a lovely 7 hour grind of 90 degrees,
95% humidity, drowned-rat producing showers. I sacrificed for Anime Hell!!!
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| ElevatorEd |
Posted - 09/15/2006 : 19:18:20
I just came across this forum and I would like to say...
I am the Ed that won those coveted MilkDuds.
They ended up half-melting and all sticking together, but in the end, they were delicious.
I am very nostalgic now that I found this place, for I am not allowed to go to cons anymore. lol |
| gavv |
Posted - 07/19/2005 : 13:17:19
quote:
Originally posted by FnordChan
quote:
Originally posted by gavv
Lows: About the only thing that got tepid reaction was Halcali Tandam.
Huh, that went over like gangbusters at AZ. It's interesting to see what pops at each Hell showing and what doesn't. Still, sounds like you had an awesome Hell - in particular, Segata Sanshiro is a Hell natural, and I'm looking forward to seeing some of the new Heino bits. I also like the idea of hurling Pixie Stix at the crowd, though that could be potentially dangerous when sugar crazed insomniacs start rioting. Sorry I couldn't get new clips to you in time for the con, but I'm hoping those will be out the door shortly.
i think it's primarily because many in the audience must have felt it went on about twice as long as it should :). perhaps if it were 2-2.5min rather than 4 minute song :)
Heino Wigwam is my new 'finisher' (edited together with the Porky sonuvabitch bit as the show ender) (after previously having done the '18 Weapons' ending. 'Heino Wigwam' is a segment from a german comedy show that makes it look like some Heino music video is starting (song called 'Komm in meinen Wigwam'), when 'something' interesting happens ;) ;)...
a lot of the heino stuff we've uncovered really doesn't work in and of themselves (and those that don't we usually grab appropriate stills from for use in the Anim Hell Slide Show), but a few do, like Harmonica Heino.
gavv
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| FnordChan |
Posted - 07/19/2005 : 12:57:52
quote:
Originally posted by gavv
Lows: About the only thing that got tepid reaction was Halcali Tandam.
Huh, that went over like gangbusters at AZ. It's interesting to see what pops at each Hell showing and what doesn't. Still, sounds like you had an awesome Hell - in particular, Segata Sanshiro is a Hell natural, and I'm looking forward to seeing some of the new Heino bits. I also like the idea of hurling Pixie Stix at the crowd, though that could be potentially dangerous when sugar crazed insomniacs start rioting. Sorry I couldn't get new clips to you in time for the con, but I'm hoping those will be out the door shortly. |
| gavv |
Posted - 07/19/2005 : 10:00:43
quote:
Originally posted by animehell
That's what I need to do at my shows! Throw candy at the crowd! I need to whip them into a sugar induced frenzy, it's so obvious!
Thanks for the report, Gavv! I really really wish I coulda been there...
-danno!
and as it turns out, in a totally unintentional coincidence, the candy was mixed bags of 'willy wonka' brand (nerds,taffy,etc) candy ^^
gavv
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| animehell |
Posted - 07/19/2005 : 09:31:05
That's what I need to do at my shows! Throw candy at the crowd! I need to whip them into a sugar induced frenzy, it's so obvious!
Thanks for the report, Gavv! I really really wish I coulda been there...
-danno!
"yatta@grafedia.net" |
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