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Devendra Banhart Update

October 29th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 21 Comments

Say, it’s been a while, whaddya say we check in with our old pal, freak-folk icon Devendra Banhart?  I say let’s do it!

…Okay. Well, that pretty much wraps up our visit with Devendra.  We’ll check in again in a year or so.

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Bowing Deeply, Thanking the Audience.

August 25th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 57 Comments

Damn, was that fun.  Rifftrax Live was beamed nationwide Thursday night with only a few satellite glitches along the way. The show rocketed by for those of us onstage, and the live theater audience in Nashville was the kind you want to take home with you.  And as reports around the country have come in, […]

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Tags: Events · RiffTrax · RiffTrax Live! · music

What To Do When Twitter Tanks

August 6th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 44 Comments

So Twitter is down, big time.  Last word is that they’re defending themselves against a “denial-of-service attack”  Not sure what that is, or if it involves orcs, but it sounds bad. And now Facebook is groaning under the strain of people needing to send each other brief messages and read those of others.
It’s mercurial, this […]

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Tags: Events · In the Media · Memes · RiffTrax · RiffTrax Live! · food

Rifftrax August Appetizer: Diesel Fumes

August 5th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 11 Comments

Can’t wait for our nationwide RIFFTRAX LIVE show on August 20th?  Whet your appetite with this fresh summer riff:  Fast & Furious!  It’s just like The Fast and the Furious but without all those annoying articles in the title.  You can think of Vin Diesel as a leaner, slightly less successful version of Plan 9’s […]

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Tags: Events · Monsters · RiffTrax · RiffTrax Live! · movies

Kevin’s New Look

July 22nd, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 30 Comments

As Comic-Con looms, we’re packing our bags and heading out to San Diego with ENTIRELY NEW LOOKS!*  We’ve already made Bill and Mike over, now to the real trouble spot- Mr. K.W. Murphy.  Kevin’s owned a single pair of jeans for eleven years, and has watched his yellowing Munsingwear golf shirt go in and out […]

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Tags: Comic Con · Events · Fashion · In the Media · Joey Pants · RiffTrax · RiffTrax Live!

Bill Corbett’s New Look

July 13th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 43 Comments

It’s not easy being a Bill Corbett - riffer, writer, actor, father, amateur soft drink developer. Mixing a career and family can be tough, even confusing, evidence when Bill sent his young daughter to close a contract in Hollywood. (She was a pit bull at the negotiating table, by the way).  This leaves Bill the […]

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Mike Nelson’s New Look

June 30th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 50 Comments

Here we are, smack in the middle of summer, getting ready to be out in the public eye starting with Comic-Con, and we Riffers look like a pack of middle-aged shlubs dressed to watch bowling on TV.  The noted exception is young writing wiz Conor, who wears even a Woot Shirt with a sense of […]

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What’s so Damn Funny?!

May 26th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 26 Comments

Jonathan Coulton is what’s so damn funny.  Paul and Storm are what’s so damn funny.  Put them together, on a Rifftrax Presents Super-Cool Special Riff of the iconic geekwork TRON, and the funny risks breaching its containment field and releasing a wave of hyperfunny that could threaten countless galaxies… with laughter.
Here’s a sample of what […]

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Tags: Events · Great Music · In the Media · Memes · RiffTrax · music

Getting Back Down to Business

May 19th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 57 Comments

Sure we had a tough weekend, but that’s not gonna slow us down.  We have lots of fun stuff in the hopper - some great Guest Riffers, including Jonathan Coulton and Paul & Storm.  We have some titles that are guaranteed to surprise you.  More shorts, more old moldy movies, more bleeding edge new movies, […]

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Well, Hell…

May 15th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 68 Comments

…Well the Rifftrax Live Online event met with a steamroller of trouble, and we had to pull the plug on our first live feature film riff.  We apologize to all of you who share our disappointment, we’ll make it right by you.  In the meantime we’ll do our best to get it right before we […]

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Alive and Kicking (and Possibly Screaming).

May 15th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 20 Comments

We’re in the final stages of prep work for our live online show, and a new first - an entire feature film, lovingly riffed for your enjoyment.
We’ll start the evening at 6pm Pacific Time with a short film, one of our absolute favorites, Shake Hands With Danger, which you can watch for free. It’s a […]

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Tags: Events · RiffTrax · RiffTrax Live!

Sport Balls, Anyone? How About Pocari Sweat?

May 11th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 50 Comments

I love going to our local pan-Asian supermarket, United Noodles, in Minneapolis.  Besides having great sushi supplies, wonderful roast duck, fresh burdock root, lotus chips, quail eggs, duck eggs and tofu about a hundred ways, I always find something I’ve never seen nor heard of before.  To wit:

They actually had a table set up for […]

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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rifftones

May 7th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 55 Comments

 
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Sparkly vampires!  Sexy Stooges! Mambo-ing zombies!  Bowie-ing Nelson!  They’re all here, and more!
Ever since Rifftrax started, people have asked, “When are you guys going to do more music? What’s the matter with you?  Why are Kevin’s pants so femmy?”    Well in answer to the first question, we’re officially tickled to introduce our first collection, […]

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Tags: Events · In the Media · RiffTrax · Riffer Blogs · Rifftones · Shane McGowan-Related Items · music

Good Morning…

April 15th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 18 Comments

…From Bad Wax Adam Ant.  He wants to you to “Stand and Deliver” a great, great day. So get up, be like Adam Ant, put on pink war paint and a Midshipman’s’ uniform, and dance like a teenage girl.

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Our Interim Obsession.

April 8th, 2009 by Kevin Murphy · 53 Comments

While Bill Corbett combs through the hundreds of entries in the  Help Me Find a New Rifftrax Obsession contest, we’ve simply gone off the rails here.  Bill, please hurry and announce the winner, or we’ll be seeing more of these.  A LOT more.

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