Tales of Extraordinary

So, as many of you may or may not know, we are taking the radio serial, Tales of the Extraordinary on tour up the coast: San Fran, Portland, Seattle, and (if we find a place in time), Vancouver!

To that end, we've set up a Kickstarter Page to raise funds so that we might actually accomplish this:



As it gets down to the wire, we are asking any of the fans of the show to pass around the link and video at the Kickstarter site. There are lots of fun little goodies for those who do donate, of course.

You have our Thanks...of the Extraordinary!

For those who haven't heard the final episode of "The Lost City of Ford," it is up on the site and the podcast...just click this fast link:


The Lost City of Ford

Well, anyway...as you listen, you may notice some of that dialogue sounds awfully familiar. As if perhaps from a song? Well, one of our loverly fans out there did and wrote this in:

"I listened to part 4 of The Lost City of Ford recently and really enjoyed the "Institutionalized" references. When I heard, "I'm not crazy! You're the one that's crazy!" I immediately thought of that song, and when it was followed up by "... when I went to your churches..." etc., I knew it was no coincidence. Thanks!

Getting a Pepsi,
Jason Zippay
Tallahassee, FL"

That and the Pepsi-Cola line, yes. We have no shame.

This reminds me of course that we are working on our Notations booklet to send out in time for X-Mas...we hope...more information as time goes on.

Just finished editing the episode from last week's "Tales of the Extraordinary" show at The Spot. It's quite rough, as their was some problematic technical difficulties, but it is listenable and hopefully enjoyable. People were challenging me to make sense of our improvised commercial...somehow, I think I did.

Take a listen here:


The Lost City of Ford

Care to be a part of Episode Two? We're going for three more weeks at The Spot, using the audience for sound effects, making up commercials, and selling T-shirts. Admission is still free. Really.



Tell yer mates! Find out what happens to Little Dickie and the League of Nations Police Force! Meet the certifiable Henry Ford! This Sunday!!

Another video, testing the effects:

We started preliminary shots on the live-action trailer today, with a test scene: the infamous squid attack from Episode Two of Shadow of the Unknown. Here be some pictures from the shoot...




And a short clip of a very rough shot, just to check placement:



I have another shot, but I can't get it to upload to YouTube correctly...working on it...

It is true. We have joined Twitter: leagueofnations

Somehow that was not taken. Huh.

So, here's the news.

We're putting together a live-action 'trailer'
for Tales. The guys behind Trailer Trash are
working on it with us and are very gung-ho about it. But I just need
to first write a two-minute script for the trailer. It will have
quick flashes of the main characters doing what they do (Dickie
getting snatched by the squid, The Unknown fighting on the blimp), a
couple scenes from their travels (French Mafia attacks, etc.), and then
the inevitable end-montage.

Thus, I wanted to use some of my favorite scenes and others that you
or people you know liked, so they can go, "Hey! They put that in
there!" Please, hit me with what scenes, bits, dialogue, moments,
etc., you'd like to see included.

Hmmm?

Yeah, you heard right, campers:

What are YOU doing this Summer?

Every week of our shows, Windows to Sky would perform a hit song from 1926. In this particular occasion (our one year anniversary), The Unknown made a cameo to remember the good old days with his old archenemy, Mad Myrtle:

Reminiscence (mp3)

Webcam chat at Ustream