The protagonists may be sad, but their cool if we laugh at it.
CatBusRuss has been diagnosed with clinical depression and has a nihilistic attitude at times. He has been chasing the dreams of a creator for 25 years, so that does not mean he has seen significant success. That would seem to futher fuel his dire outlook, but what is he going to do? If he cannot laugh at all of the dramas of life, he definitely will not survive. So obviously, if the characters are going through similar situations, if they cannot laugh it off, our podcast host will check out.
If they embrace their personal war, it only inspires the CatBusRuss.
Off the Wall Features
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Assassination of a High School President (2008)
CatBusRuss’s editing project from his Mass Communication time at Illinois Central College was devoted to the hard to distribute comedy about high school violence.
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Better of Dead (1985)
John Cusack cannot manage to take his own life after his girlfriend leaves him for the ski team captain, so hopefully Curtis Armstrong and the mute French foreign exchange student will get his life back on the right path.
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Brigsby Bear (2017)
CatBusRuss thought this was the best sub 100-minute movie that he discovered in 2019. It is the story of a young adult who was kidnapped as a baby and raised on a sci-fi TV show his “father” created to encourage his math skills.
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"Daisies" (1966): Anarchic Czech Lasses & Vern from Cinema Recall
Vern from the “Cinema Recall” comes on the show to offer what he considers to be the most off-the-wall, sub 100-minute movie ever made, “Daisies”. It is a Czechoslovakian, new wave satire about exploiting those in power via feminine wiles.
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Frank (2014)
Jon, an aspiring songwriter/keyboardist finds himself producing an album for The Soronprfbs, a band led by Frank. Frank refuses to remove his paper-mache head, so you know Jon will try to make this genius viral.
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God Bless America (2011)
Frank loses his job on the same day he is informed that he has an inoperable cancer. And all people are talking about is an awful performance on the most popular singing reality show. With the help of disenchanted high schooler Roxy, the two go cross country to give the USA something worth talking about.
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Invitation to a Suicide (2004)
Pablo Schreiber is in debt to the Russian mob. If he does not pay off that debt, his father will be executed. Fortunately, the mob shoots snuff films. He offers to be the star of the next film to settle his account.
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Roadside Prophets with Tim Loss
Tim Loss and CatBusRuss discuss what may be the “Easy Rider” for Generation X. John Doe of X and Adam Horowitz of The Beastie Boys go on a motorcycle journey to spread a friend’s ashes. The challenge may not be the road, but the people they meet on the way.
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Shredder Orpheus (1990)
Orpheus leads the Shredders, a skate punk band in the dystopian Pacific Northwest. The band’s success is not enough after his wife Eurydice is taken by the Euthanasia Broadcast Network. With his Lyre-Axe and board, he will try to bring her back to the Grey Zone, no matter the cost.
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