{"id":609,"date":"2020-07-17T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2020-07-21T12:56:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:56:25","slug":"fearsome-symbolism-productions-presents-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffcarl.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/17\/fearsome-symbolism-productions-presents-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearsome Symbolism Productions Presents (1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Fearsome Symbolism Productions Presents was our second FSP show and represents an escalation of cringe worthiness that has not aged gracefully on nearly every front. It starts with the violent armed takeover of the local community access TV station studio by white domestic terrorists to a soundtrack of Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power,” and I think that’s probably the high point<\/em> of the whole thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FSP Presents was our first show done specifically for broadcast on local access cable rather than for school. As a courtesy to our millennial viewers I should explain that local access television was how crazy people distributed videos before YouTube, except that it could only be seen by insomniacs and chemically impaired people tuned to a specific unpopular TV channel late at night.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Posing as a male stripper was about as funny a thing as we could think of to make our friend Scott do<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

FSP Presents ended up as a grab bag of topical comedy sketches, TV parodies and three musical numbers thrown in for good measure. Oh, and we even ripped off the David Letterman “Top 10 list” format, too. The quality of content was not measurably improved from The Man In the Long Black Coat<\/em>, but at least it was all the hell over the place. Yay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke Irwin had moved mostly behind the camera, and Brian Kehs and Doug Klumpp stepped in. Neil Binkley and I carried the bulk of the on-camera embarrassment, although this time around we reached further afield for cast members and included actual grown-ups. We expanded our locations from half a dozen to “wherever in the Doylestown PA area there was not someone in the background messing up the shot,” including an actual Chinese restaurant and a comic book store. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band “Chromatic Aberration and the Hippies” was a group of friends who were willing to record in front of Neil’s barn in exchange for, I believe, snacks. And yes, the version of “Proud Mary” that runs over the end credits does in fact hold the record out of the more than 1,500 recorded versions of that song as “pitchiest.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doug Klumpp and Neil Binkley editing at the Suburban studios<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Having Suburban Cable’s 3\/4″ video cameras to shoot with and their community access studio for editing meant that the technical quality of the product at least was significantly improved over Long Black Coat<\/em>. We had to stretch out our ending credits to cover the aforementioned “Proud Mary” rendition so we availed ourselves of the text editor to keep churning out credits to fill up the time. That, for example, is why you find a food & beverage credit for Sung Ik Song, a kindly old Korean grocer in Germantown who only sold malt liquor and thought we were Temple students so he never checked our IDs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be fair to ourselves, at the time<\/em> it was still funny to be suburban white kids obsessed with Public Enemy and wanting to co-opt rap culture and have a whole segment pay off with a joke about an angry Chinese director named Spike Li. I swear that back then it really was actually mostly kind of okay! Or at least it seemed like a good idea at the time. And I got to strap fireworks to the back of a cardboard cutout cat and set it off, which is sort of a life highlight, so there’s that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the image or link below to watch:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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http:\/\/www.fearsomesymbolism.com\/media\/FSPpresents.m4v<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cast<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Neil Aldridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rob Berthold<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Binkley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil Binkley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrea Bulera<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffrey Carl<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Chong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lauren Crouthamel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yvonne Evans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wayne Fry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sue Fabry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke Irwin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denise Kapeczynski<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Kehs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug Klumpp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jill Miernicki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stan Ruddick<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott Schneider<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dickie Sidon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chandra Theesfeld<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crystal Theesfeld<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maggie Wallace-Cullen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tammy West<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lee Woulfe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chromatic Aberration members<\/strong>: Sairam Menon, Keith Atkins, Tim Eggleston, Brian Miller, Brian Russell and Brian Denner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crew<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Jeffrey Carl and Neil Binkley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Produced by FSP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Jeffrey Carl, Neil Binkley, Brian Kehs and Luke Irwin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Neil Binkley and Luke Irwin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cinematographer: Neil Binkley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First cameraman: Luke Irwin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peon cameramen: Brian Kehs and Jeffrey Carl<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Script editor: Bob Binkley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special effects by Industrial Exploding Cats & Magic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Art direction by Jeffrey Carl & Brian Kehs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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