May all your good dreams and fine wishes come true
In a thread titled "the best movies no one has ever heard of" on the Brick forum, the classic and woefully under appreciated Wizard of Speed and Time is currently being discussed with great gusto. This prompted me to watch it again tonight. Although I watched it countless times as a kid, I have only watched it once as an adult, after meeting the first person I knew of outside of my family who had ever heard of it (hi Mykwud). That time it was all about nostalgia, all "Oh I remember this!" As a result of the aforementioned discussion, I sat down and watched it again tonight, after work. This time, I was better able to marvel at how much amazing work really went into the film. When David came home, he came over and sat down with me. After a few minutes he, that jaded bastion of scenesterism, said, "Wow. This is actually kind of brilliant."
And it IS. Which is why all of you need to find a copy however you can and watch it immediately. I don't know how hard it is to find, exactly. My family has had this copy since 1989, and the only others copies I know exist are one my dad bought from a video store in Oregon that is going out of business, and one that, if I recall correctly, Mike's friend Connel allegedly owns. That one I could be misremembering.
But find it if you can, and watch it. Revel in it. Then go to the writer/director/star/etc Mike Jittlov's website and marvel in the fact that this man truly lives!
I am suddenly struck by the terrible mortality of my video. I must enlist Ryan and his deely-bob that makes videotapes into digital files to make me a DVD copy posthaste!
And it IS. Which is why all of you need to find a copy however you can and watch it immediately. I don't know how hard it is to find, exactly. My family has had this copy since 1989, and the only others copies I know exist are one my dad bought from a video store in Oregon that is going out of business, and one that, if I recall correctly, Mike's friend Connel allegedly owns. That one I could be misremembering.
But find it if you can, and watch it. Revel in it. Then go to the writer/director/star/etc Mike Jittlov's website and marvel in the fact that this man truly lives!
I am suddenly struck by the terrible mortality of my video. I must enlist Ryan and his deely-bob that makes videotapes into digital files to make me a DVD copy posthaste!