{"id":2868,"date":"2012-09-17T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2012-09-17T13:31:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T20:31:07","slug":"wrath-side-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/wrath-side-story\/","title":{"rendered":"wrath side story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m crazy with paperwork and <em>stuff<\/em> today, so I don&#8217;t have time for the last Newfoundland post. It&#8217;ll be up tomorrow morning, promise.<\/p>\n<p>But! I did upload something over the weekend to my non-band YouTube channel. Back in Ye Daye, there was a fan stage musical parody of <i>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/i> mashed up with <i>West Side Story<\/i>. Turns out this wasn\u2019t on the internet, so I\u2019ve taken my dying Nth-generation VHS copy, massaged the living hell out of it (and its sadly degraded soundtrack) and thus\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Improvisational Insanity Theatre Corps, the Fish and Ships Players, and Clam TV, in extra-cooperation with CRIME and the Forces of Evil, proudly? present a battle for galactic turf: <i>Wrath Side Story<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1xEZTLuZ77A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was a stage musical, done with no budget at all, performed apparently at a few conventions. The video here doesn\u2019t look great, but the sight gags are broad enough to come across anyway, and I think I\u2019ve done some real good on pulling the audio soundtrack back in. Since I&#8217;m treating this as a restoration project, I&#8217;ve left in <em>every frame I could<\/em>, which includes some momentary audio drops on the original.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also managed to hide a lot of decay damage off the tape, partly through extending sections of good footage over bad, and partly through creative use of transitions. (A hint: the more complex the transition, the worse the damage I\u2019m hiding.) There\u2019s still one scene at the beginning where you lose picture, but it\u2019s brief. There were&#8230; several. There are also some strange moments of sound sync I couldn&#8217;t fix without doing work which went beyond restoration.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone with better equipment and more time wants to give it a go, I will happily lend you my VHS tape. But only if you&#8217;re serious about it. If you just want the raw rips, no problem; let me know.<\/p>\n<p>One cultural note: the part of Dr. David Marcus in <i>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/i> was played by an actor who had previously played a character in the sitcom <i>Square Pegs<\/i>. The troupe decided it would be funny to play David Marcus <em>as that character<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This goes entirely over my head, but it was apparently very funny at the time. So, it\u2019s a little dated here and there &#8211; in particular, in that one decision &#8211; but I still think it\u2019s pretty hilarious. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m crazy with paperwork and stuff today, so I don&#8217;t have time for the last Newfoundland post. It&#8217;ll be up tomorrow morning, promise. But! I did upload something over the weekend to my non-band YouTube channel. Back in Ye Daye, there was a fan stage musical parody of Star Trek II: The Wrath of [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-peoples-art","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}