Live Music!

Hello again, music lovers. OK, OK, now sit back down and put away your beers. This is not the kind of music you heard in the clip below.

This is culture, dammit!

The day after that great Hackensaw Boys concert, We Here at the Comfy Chair were to play our big-ass clarinet solo/duet with the mighty and feared Blacksburg Community Band. The band's spring concert was Sunday, May 4.

My clarinetting partner Mary and I practiced, together and with the band, for many a month bringing this together. Here are the fruits of our labor.

By the way, speaking of fruits, some nice Lemonheads would go great with such a performance. Be sure to visit Ethel at the concession stand and buy a pack.

Live Music!

Hello, music lovers! We at the Comfy Chair have a special treat for you.

As you know, We Here at the Comfy Chair are particularly fond of the Hackensaw Boys. WHATCC went to see them in the lovely town of Floyd, VA in May. A great day, great music, lots of dogs and hippies.

Below is a little song from The Boys as they strolled out into the crowd. It's a personal favorite, "We Are Many." (The line from Ward about "confiscating the camera" was a little joke to us, the Comfy Chair.)

Grab a beer, get it from your kitchen, the Comfy Chair doesn't have its liquor license yet, and dance around, please!

We're Back!

Peep Opp Ork Ah-Ah

Well, hello, cinemaniacs! Bet you thought we'd closed down the Comfy Chair Cinema for good, didn't you?

You were almost right.

See, something amazing happened here at the old cinema. We Here at the Comfy Chair adopted a dog. And sure, we could board him and go on trips and make movies of the giant rubber stamp, but as far as getting out a bunch of crap and actually making a movie? Forget it. And so our moviemaking has suffered.

But strangely enough, on the Easter Weekend, a weekend in which We Here at the Comfy Chair had an extra day off our day jobs, we sat down and made an actual movie. The doggie (Milo, for those of you keeping score at home), was surprisingly good throughout the entire process, which bodes well for later movies.

Last year WHATCC made a little short movie starring Peeps, the Easter Candy. It was called "Bollypeep!" Well, this Easter we decided to continue on a theme. And so we bring you this year's Easter offering, "Peep Opp Ork Ah-Ah."

Anyone familiar with the Jet Screamer episode of "The Jetsons" will know the song in question. It's our (here at the Comfy Chair) favorite Jetsons episode. It features the singing of no less a person himself than the wonderful Howard Morris.

So please, sit down, relax - we bet you haven't relaxed in ages! - grab some popcorn from Ethel there at her post, and watch "Peep Opp Ork Ah-Ah."

The Giant Rubber Stamp!

Hello, cineophiles. Welcome to a new opening at the Comfy Chair.

And yes, we at the Comfy Chair have yet another travelogue movie for you tonight. It came about during another trip to Cleveland, one we took last weekend with Mr M. Oh, but this isn't snappy car banter - this is something else!

See, back in 2005 we at the Comfy Chair had the chance to see the Giant Rubber Stamp in Cleveland. Of course we were awed, but we didn't have the Comfy Chair Cinema at that time, and couldn't give it its due. So we did just that this time around.

And in a stunning twist of events, this movie ends with a bang - a surprise none of us was expecting. So be sure to stay tuned until the end!

As with anyone's home movies, pop some popcorn (or buy some from Ethel at the popcorn stand - remember, she didn't get a raise in Social Security this year) and get a cold drink. Then sit back and enjoy "The Giant Rubber Stamp!"

Triple Feature!

Hello, movie lovers, and welcome back to the Comfy Chair Cinema.

We here at the Comfy Chair know we've been gone a while. It's easy to explain. We at the Comfy Chair got a doggie.

It's very hard to make movies when there's a puppy bounding all over the sets, and we've been trying to get some footage together to turn the puppy into the movie, but so far when we've pointed the camera at him, he simply looks at us and goes, "Huh?"

But never fear!

We've made up for the lack of movies with a triple feature. The Cleveland Trilogy, it is, and it's a travelogue of Bet & Mr M's weekend trip to Cleveland to see the Big Air Show. And with three installments all over six minutes, there's enough to here to keep you occupied for some time, hopefully until the doggie stops looking at us and gonig, "Huh?"

So sit back, relax, get a snack and a drink (sold in the lobby for a nominal fee), and enjoy "The Road To Cleveland." Parts One, Two, and Three.

Ciao!

Hello, movie lovers, and welcome to the opening of another offering at the Comfy Chair cinema.

Talk about happy accidents. The latest film, "Ciao!" is just that.

See, the movie started out as nothing more than an experiment. We at the Comfy Chair have seen a thousand times old movies where a character is driving, and it's quite obvious that the "driving" is simply the character sitting in a stationary car and has a screen behind them containing the road and background.

And we here at the Comfy Chair wanted to see if we could do that for ourselves.

Last week WATCC got invaluable technical assistance from friend the DeepFatFriar (who will be appearing in the credits as "boa"). He came up with the camera placement idea and made it work. Afterward we had 25 minutes of car trip around B'burg that was beautiful - all that remained was editing it to a suitable length, putting a car and driver in front of it, and letting the good times roll.

However, the good times, which consisted of Comfy Chair favorite Sherman in his convertible, did not roll. Filming the finished product was fairly miserable, but was completed, edited, given titles, and wrapped up. The Comfy Chair was left with a finished movie that was over seven minutes long and not making us happy.

But sometimes things take a turn, movie lovers, and on Saturday while in B'burg, that turn came. See, we here at the Comfy Chair had gone to B'burg with more toys in tow, for we had the idea of a little "extra" to have as a companion piece to the original driving video. It would be about a minute of Sherman on his Vespa toodling through town.

WATTCC took a few minutes to film that, brought it back to the Comfy Chair Labs, and started playing with it. And realized that our seven minute original was not the newest Comfy Chair movie - this was. And so the Comfy Chair went all out and played with it some more and here is your new Comfy Chair offering.

So sit back, relax, get a snack (sold in the lobby at a nominal fee - please, we need the revenue, and after attending the real cinema last week, we at the Comfy Chair realize we're underpricing our snacks), and enjoy Sherman in "Ciao!"

What's on TV?

Hello, Comfy Chair friends, and welcome to a new feature at the cinema.

This movie, "What's on TV," was a long time in the making. It also features some new things for me. It's certainly the most stop-motion I've ever done at a stretch. It's the first time I've built scenery. It's also the first time I've tried to time the action to the music. And the first time I've tried to link scenes together instead of doing one long continuous scene.

It features my toys, most of them are the toys I have around my office at work, a couple are from home.

And now that it's done, I'm going to go rest.

So get a snack from the lobby (sold at a nominal fee), relax, and check out "What's on TV?"