Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 202 Side A - Per Aspera Ad Astra (To The Stars By Hard Ways) a.k.a. Humanoid Woman
Hosts: Jeremy, Mike, Tanya
This is about weird chicks with super short hair and psychic powers, robots that eat watermelon with their butts, and crazy sperm whales.
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Pics and video after the cut.
There are approximately 70 zillion posters or VHS covers or DVD covers for this movie. I really dig this almost Soviet constructivist style art.
This one has a spooky horror vibe to it.
This one looks like it's a poster from the '50s, yet this movie was made in 1980. The effects of cinematic isolationism?
This one looks like a '60s flower child kind of thing. Weird.
Not super fond of 2000s version with CG.
And here is the only US release of this, a Sandy Frank produced, badly dubbed, and insanely cut version that is pan and scanned and only available on EP tape. It is a mess.
This is the UK equivalent. Still pretty awful!
This movie has some of the best dialogue in film history.
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14 comments postedUsually I flinch when I hear recordings of myself, but I like this! Thanks for having me on the show. Also, sorry for getting off on tangents a few times. Can't wait to hear part 2!
I heard a preview of part 2, your accent in pretty and surprising! It reminded me of how I talk when talking to someone who has a strong accent, but yours is genuine!
Thanks D'Arcy! I hope we can be on a podcast together soon!
When I seen the cover of this I first thought that was Angelina Jolie...regardless that was pretty interesting. Sounds like an interesting flick.
Woah, she does look a bit like Angelina. Especially the "Hackers" Jolie.
Good podcast so far. And I LIKE when you guys go off on tangents. I think the three of you are a good combination. The conversation was interesting and moved around well. I always like it when Mike is on :) And Tanya had that great Russian accent when pronouncing things. Good stuff. Looking forward to part 2.
And yes, we did mildly tease Tanya about her accent after the podcast was over.
But then, the other day knin and I were helping a friend move, and one of her other friends was making a snacks run. I had to tell him three times that I wanted a bottle of water, because he couldn't understand me. (for some reason I pronounce it as "wooder". I'm not sure if this is a Philly thing, an Eastern Pennsylvania thing, or some other kind of thing entirely.)
I remember where I saw it before; in some old Heinlein YA book. In fact, it's a plot point; the main character's family lives in a house with a window looking out over the Grand Canyon. The father describes how a salesman had tried to get him to buy a "holo-wall" which would show a videocamera image of any landscape he wanted, but that he preferred the real thing "because wine, weather, and women should never be simulated!"
So my rambling theory wasn't TOO far-fetched! Do you know the name of the YA book?
BTW, while we're on Heinlein YA, I read "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" in Russian when I was a kid, and was very happy to re-discover it in English a few years back. It wasn't as great as I remembered it... But still fun!
I think it might have been "Tunnel in the Sky", the one where a group of space Boy Scouts get marooned on an alien planet when their teleporter fails. They rebuild an idealized version of 1950s American society. (The book is sort of a rebuttal to "Lord of the Flies"; there's an amusing part where they get the teleporter working, and the first people through are reporters eager to film the barbaric society that they expected to form in the absence of adults. When they don't find it, they smear makeup all over the guy they're interviewing and hand him a toy plastic spear.)
"Have Space Suit" was fun, but you're right that it's a bit dated. A lot of Heinlein's early stuff was Young Adult focused, and "Space Suit" is definitely one of them.
The audio quality seems worse than usual. It's not the recording, cause the intro was the same way. Did you do anything differently with the file?
I just started listening, so I'll comment on the actual podcast when I'm done. I feel like I don't do that enough.
Hmm, you may have something there. I listened to the posted MP3 and my original and it sounds weird. I'm going to re-upload it.
Here, try it again now.
Aw awesome, now you can REALLY hear that sniffle of mine at the beginning :D