From the Blacklist to the A-List
- Episode aired Dec 27, 2018
Kevin talks about how he was drafted to edit a Pittsburgh Penguins Ice Hockey mixtape only to discover that the directors worked with Stephen Geoffreys. Kevin thinks it's a sign from god.Kevin talks about how he was drafted to edit a Pittsburgh Penguins Ice Hockey mixtape only to discover that the directors worked with Stephen Geoffreys. Kevin thinks it's a sign from god.Kevin talks about how he was drafted to edit a Pittsburgh Penguins Ice Hockey mixtape only to discover that the directors worked with Stephen Geoffreys. Kevin thinks it's a sign from god.
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Kevin from the Other Dimension: One day, halfway through Season Two, I get a call from Michael Ludlow asking me to edit a Pittsburgh Penguin mixtape for a commercial background or jumbotron board as a favor. I do the work, and just as I'm finished, I receive a dvd I ordered in the mail called New Terminal Hotel/Do Not Disturb. In the Bad Goddess fan fiction series, I had just regenerated Charlie Day's Doctor What as Fright Night actor Stephen Geoffreys to drive home a point about second chances and forgiveness. Stephen famously disappeared from film scene in the 1990s to do live theater, and by coincidence, a look alike named Sam Ritter appeared on the Gay Porn scene that everyone mistook for Stephen, to such an extent, that all of his films are credited to Stephen Geoffrey's IMDb account. Adding to the confusion, Stephen Geoffreys DID participate in a gay sex comedy called Hunk Hotel almost confirming to everyone that they were the same person. Stephen insists that Sam Ritter was his "twin brother", except that he doesn't have a twin brother. I recall hearing the legend as a teen, and looked up some of, ahem, Sam Ritters' "work". The one thing I remember is Sam Ritter had a thin face like a drug addict, and Stephen has a sort of round cherubic face, with a big nose, like he's been punched in the face harder than Artie Lang. Nonetheless, his film career was destroyed and he never fully recovered. He eventually got married and went to work for a law firm, occasionally doing small roles in no budget horror films. To me, it seemed like making this guy the Second Doctor What was a stroke of genius because the goddess Belldandy can see the good and humanity in anyone. Charlie Day was the A-List depiction of what Doctor What is. Stephen Geoffreys is the B-List side of the coin. His later film resume deceptively suggests that he would be desperately clinging to a job on Public Television playing a Doctor Who impersonator in real life. I'd have given him that role even if he had made those Sam Ritter films. Any actor that can take it up the ass with a dildo hydraulics pump and walk away with a smile on his face has got to be tough enough to take on the Daleks.
Kevin from the Other Dimension: When the DVD came in the mail, I read the credits on the box, and was shocked to realize that BC Furtney and JB Destiny were the producers of the commercial I had just worked on via email. It was more than a coincidence, it was an act of Fate. A Good Omen Sign from the Goddesses. Michael Ludlow stated that I had just gone from the Blacklist to the A-list. Things were going well, but then I actually, you know, sat down and watched New Terminal Hotel and I could not pretend to like it. I mean, Stephen Geoffreys was clearly giving a good performance, but the film was too volatile, dark, and dreary even for a horror film. And then I just couldn't keep my real opinion to myself. BC Furtney sounded somewhat annoyed and his cryptic response was, "So you want to be a director, let me know when you release your first movie." Except that I didn't have a story for a movie planned. And it sounded like I had just burned my bridges.
Kevin from the Other Dimension: Pocky D wasn't so hot about my work on Anime Mashup 2000 or Bad Goddess as well. His response was "Who gives a s**t. Ah My Goddess fan fiction has been around since the 1990s. There's a million stories just like that." I decided the only way to differentiate myself was to take the risk and go out and make it using stock animation screen captured off the DVDs. I made the first two seasons during my stint on Public Access, and Eddie Rotten loved the cartoons, as he felt my live action/animation photoshop style was something that just wasn't being done nowadays. At one point, he requested a cameo, so I photoshopped him into the Bad Goddess Who Fell to Earth next to Japanese voice actress Kikuko Inoue, which was the best dialogue I could give him.
Kevin from the Other Dimension: While I was working on the Bad Goddess Video Comics, I gave Michael Ludlow a set so he could check up on my progress. As it just so happened, Michael's truck got stolen and stripped before he could watch it. When the police found his truck in Lago Vista, the only reason they were able to identify the vehicle was because the thieves left the Bad Goddess Fan Club envelope in-between the seats. The police returned the envelope to Michael Ludlow, and didn't even open it to see what it was. The title I put on the envelope tricked them into believing it might be pornography and they were afraid to look at it. When Michael told me the story one night, we both broke down laughing. Bad Goddess had such terrible luck finding an audience, that even the thieves and the cops didn't want it.
Kevin from the Other Dimension: I actually sent the pilot movie to the Lorelyne photographer who shot the Three Norns models used in Misrepresentation of Our Gods through the Media. I thought she would get a laugh out of it. I was wrong. She called me a thief and said that she could not allow it, because I used the photos without asking first. It didn't matter that the cartoon was funny or not. She didn't care. It put the spook in me, because that photo was available for free on yahoo images, and I imagine it's been downloaded a few hundred times as a desktop background. I don't think she realized this was a fan project. She had no context. Her anger made me realize, however, that every photo background I used on Bad Goddess could get me in legal trouble.
Kevin from the Other Dimension: I tried my best to avoid drama, but drama came looking for me anyways. We had a female guest on set disguised in a cosplay mask, and whenever I jokingly asked who it was, everyone in the room lashed out at me. At first I thought they were joking and it was funny. Then it turned malicious. Instead of just telling me who was under the mask and ending the affair, which apparently was common knowledge to everyone at the studio except myself, Courtney Manor, from Ladies of Fandom, threatened to have me forcibly removed from the studio, which she did not have the authority to do. As I was giving free volunteer work without pay, after being blacklisted for years, I took personal offense to this and walked out immediately. My producer Rebekah Brown followed me out into the parking lot and desperately tried to talk some sense into me, telling me not to let the bullies win. But Rebekah didn't understand, I have severe bipolar disorder, my emotions are not a switch that I can turn on and off. If you mess with me like that, it can screw me up for the entire day. Rebekah Brown and Jessie Huff are the two Fanboy TV crew who stood by me throughout the entire run, even after my unfortunate end. Gavin Stone tried to go the distance too, but Rebekah and Jessie took it to the very end when Gavin Stone couldn't because he was afraid of the consequences of turning against his own friends.