New Video | The Brave Little Toaster
Added 2025-05-02 20:00:09 +0000 UTCDug up this track from a few years ago much like Master dug up a bunch of shitty old appliances to show off to his hot new girlfriend, or whatever she is to him. I do not care for The Brave Little Toaster but I did love watching it with Allison! ENJOY before it goes live on YouTube later!
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Eric, you asked jokingly who came up with this, but to provide a serious answer, I highly recommend you look into the tragic life of Thomas M. Disch, the author of the book this movie was based on. He was born in Des Moines (my home city) and puttered around aimlessly for years around the country working odd jobs to support his writing. He struggled with his own mental health from childhood and from his wikipedia "At the age of 18, a penniless, friendless teenager, he attempted suicide by gas oven but survived due to not having had enough money to pay the gas bill." Mostly he wrote primarily new wave sci-fi, and his most celebrated adult work is Camp Concentration, a chilling account of the American germ warfare program developed during Vietnam for use in genocide campaigns across east Asia. He also ventured into plays, opera librettos, metaphysical horror, and video game designing, but he liked to consider himself a poet first and foremost. He wrote The Brave Little Toaster in the early 1980s not as a children's story, but actually to subvert the tropes of children's fairy tales and simply to use that format as a way to tell a story with adult themes, which explains somewhat why the movie version contains themes of death and destruction that seem overly heavy for children. However, he couldn't get the book published because it was considered too strange, so it was published chapter by chapter in magazines until it was picked up by Disney for a film adaptation, which they decided would be solely for children. After the success of the first film, he wrote a sequel titled The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars in which the Brave Little Toaster and his companions travel to Mars to stop an invasion from hostile appliances who have a colony there (I cannot confirm if they succeed or not, I haven't seen it). The most tragic part of his story however, comes from his political affiances and betrayals. Disch was an out gay man and a communist and both were used against him to attempt to blacklist his work. Although he was out as a gay man after 1968 and this facet of his life was occasionally foregrounded in his work (most notably in his poetry and On Wings of Song), he did not try to write to a particular community: "I'm gay myself, but I don't write 'gay' literature." He rarely mentioned his sexuality in interviews, though he was interviewed by the Canadian gay periodical The Body Politic in 1981. This, as well as his working class upbringing, was used by publishers and critics as reasons to deny his work its place and censor it significantly. then there's this, again from Wikipedia: "Disch was an admirer of and friends with the author Philip K. Dick, Dick wrote an infamous paranoid letter to the FBI in October 1972 that denounced Disch and suggested that there were coded messages, prompted by a covert organization, in Disch's novel Camp Concentration. Disch was unaware of this letter at the time, and he would go on to champion the Philip K. Dick Award. However, in his final novel, The Word of God, Disch got his revenge with a story in which Dick is in Hell, unable to write because of writer's block. In return for a taste of human blood, which will unlock his ability to write, he makes a deal to go back in time and kill Disch's father so that Disch will never be born, and at the same time to kill Thomas Mann and thereby to ensure that Hitler wins World War II. Disch also referred to Dick in a blog post stating "May he rot in hell, and may his royalties corrupt his heirs to the seventh generation." Anyway, after years of his work being edited down and censored, and after his partner Charles Naylor's death in 2005, the man whom The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction called "perhaps the most respected, least trusted, most envied and least read of all modern first-rank SF writers" lost his partner of more than thirty years after a long and expensive and painful illness, and was fighting a losing battle to remain in their rent-controlled apartment—all while crippled by sciatica, diabetes, and severe depression. He had to abandon his house, as well as fight attempts to evict him from his rent controlled apartment, and he became steadily more depressed. On July 4, 2008, Disch fatally shot himself in his apartment in Manhattan. On the blog he kept for his last three years of life, his musings were often melancholy or pessimistic, obsessing over religious intolerance, his own insomnia, "the immanent [sic] end of the polar ice caps, of glaciers everywhere, and the extinction of polar bears." In the blog's last post, two days before his death, he points to rising global food prices as an ominous sign of coming catastrophe. Naylor and Disch are buried alongside each other at Saint Johns Episcopal Church Columbarium, Dubuque, Iowa
TJA
2025-05-06 02:06:06 +0000 UTCWe’re aiming for Wednesday to spread out Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays sometimes we’re a little behind. We’re not committing to a day so we just call em “weekly videos” haha. Maybe I’ll poll folks on YouTube to see if they prefer Friday over Wednesday 👀
Pretty Much It
2025-05-02 21:57:08 +0000 UTCI'm loving the Friday highlight videos lately, it's a great end to my week!
Gillian
2025-05-02 21:52:29 +0000 UTCYour 9/11 joke in the og track has become a full time vocal stim of mine
Daniela Culver
2025-05-02 20:16:14 +0000 UTCThis movie scared the crap out of me as a kid
Lance Elliott
2025-05-02 20:02:23 +0000 UTCThis is so crazy, we just watched this one on a whim the other day. However the copy I had was to fast so it kept in syncing. So we watched chipmunk adventure. Now I get to see more!
Macauly Leiher
2025-05-02 20:02:18 +0000 UTC
