Meet The Fellowship of the Lens'd Palm
A list of the members of our Conclave.
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
It's autumn, which means rainy weather. That, and long hours on the road have resulted in a tragedy which has left the cultists of The Cinemania Society in desperate need of a (temporary) rebrand and relocation to someplace dry to hold a conclave based on *shudder* books. Naturally, Auntie Hope has assigned the group to read the most dangerous book in existence, that dread tome NECRONOMICON.
Listen in terror to this, the first (and possibly only) episode of the LIBROMANIA LEGION.
This episode was written and performed by:
Hope Bravo
Ethan Ireland
Andy Slack
Daniel Scribner
Andrea Palladino
Alessa Luz Martinez
and Zacharia Berks
Featuring special guest star Christine Murray as The Frustrated Barista
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio [whitebataudio.com]
Sound effects and incidental music courtesy of Epidemic Sound [epidemicsound.com]
Recording and engineering by Alessa Luz Martinez
Editing, Mixing, and Sound Design by Ethan Ireland
Caricatures & graphic art by Andy Slack [andyslackcomics.com]
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
The Society awakens to find themselves in a mysterious place of darkest evil on the spookiest of all nights...
Written by Daniel Scribner
Performed by Daniel Scribner, Ethan Ireland, Alessa Luz Martinez, Zacharia Berks, Hope Bravo, Andrea Palladino, and Andy Slack
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Here's one guaranteed to blow your minds: the latest cassette unearthed is a profile on career heavy / henchman character actor Michael Ironside.
Written and performed by Andy Slack
Music by Meteor at metormusic.bandcamp.com
Track: "Blue Thunder"
Caricature art by Andy Slack at andyslackcomics.com
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
The latest VHS Brother Methuselah has dredged up is one where Auntie Hope presents a Profile in Cinemania on Robert Picardo, ultimate "that guy" actor and everyone's favorite television doctor.
Written and performed by Hope Bravo
Music by Meteor at http://meteormusic.bandcamp.com/
Tracks: "Distant Worlds" and "Phantom Zone."
Legal notice: this is a work of parody.
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Brother Methuselah has dug a VHS cassette from within the sweat-stained burlap sack he's been carrying on his back which contains a profile on Hollywood's Queen of Femmes Fatales, Sharon Stone.
Written and performed by Andrea Palladino
Music by Meteor at meteormusic.bandcamp.com
Tracks: "Slow Burn," "Silent Streets," and "Amethyst."
Legal notice: this is a work of parody.
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
The Writer's Guild strike is over, but the SAG-AFTRA strike continues. Listen for an update about the show and what's happening on the show...
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
We present another videocassette containing a profile by Verifier Andy on acclaimed Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, who is notable for being a major cause of CINEMANIA, not only in his home country of the Netherlands, but also the United States if not the entire world.
Music by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio
Tracks: "The Alchemist" and "Atlas."
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Legal notice: this is a work of parody.
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Cinquisitor Ethan presents a Profile on Hollywood's most-adapted author, paranoid prophet and accidental purveyor of CINEMANIA, Philip K. Dick.
Written and performed by Ethan Ireland
Music by Meteor at meteormusic.bandcamp.com
Tracks: "City Lights" and "Escape the Fate."
Legal notice: this is a work of parody.
A list of the members of our Conclave.
Brother Ethan is an award-winning filmmaker who has more than 20 years professional work in film & television production. He has worked on more than a dozen feature films, and has directed & produced several of his own projects: documentary features and short films. He is best recognized for the work he did on four seasons on the hit YouTube comedy series Smosh.
A self-styled intellectual, Cinquisitor Ethan has put many thousands of hours studying cinema apocrypha for interesting tidbits, and combing through the history for cinema for sources of CINEMANIA in order to study the devastating effects of this condition.
CINEMANIA Manifestations: The disorder in Cinquisitor Ethan can be fairly easy to observe. Although he is purportedly a native of California, when CINEMANIA begins to take hold in Cinquisitor Ethan, his accent becomes increasingly elaborate. He will shift into a Midatlantic accent, and even into an RP accent depending on the severity of the episode he is suffering. This can happen multiple times in a given conclave.
Perhaps our most mysterious member, Brother Andy lurks somewhere in darkest Albion, magically honing his skills in comedy and illustration to a razor's edge.
Brother Andy's internet comics, including The Wisdom of Leto II and its sequel, FremCops, have achieved notoriety from their appearances in various Facebook shitposting groups such as Dune Sietchposting, Star Trek Shitposting, and others. He has these and numerous other self-published sci-fi & fantasy comics available on at andyslackcomics.com, and for sale on Ko-Fi.
In case you're wondering, no, he is not really Jack Black, so don't ask.
A veteran of theater production, Brother Zacharia graduated from film school at California State University, Monterey Bay along with Brother Ethan, who has been his decades-long accomplice in the commission of cinematic crimes.
Brother Zacharia is a third-generation artist, descended from a line of visual artists, and has put much study into the causes and effects of CINEMANIA.
Hailing from New Jersey, Brother Daniel writes for theater, literature, and cinema esoterica. He is somewhat of an expert on Troma Films, and was trained in writing short fiction by Harlon Ellison.
Profligator Daniel is the primary caregiver of Brother Clark-Nova, who is an unholy amalgamation of equal parts cockroach, manual typewriter, and portions of human anatomy best left unseen.
Our youngest member, Arbiter Alessa attended film school in Los Angeles after producing a feature film of her own while still in high school. She has experience working professionally on features and shorts, and is a working voice actor for several notable anime series including Genshin Impact and Onyx Equinox.
Arbiter Alessa recently went on an extended vacation to Altair IV, where she encountered an atomic super-robot similar to (and more importantly, legally distinct from) Robby the Robot. After taking her new plastic pal on an interstellar pub-crawl, she returned to the Strip Mall of the Damned with the machine in tow, where she has since conducted several experiments on it (including the downloading of the entire internet into the robot's databanks).
Professor Andrea holds multiple degrees in film, Spanish, and music; and has taught all three. She has a deep knowledge of film history, and a history of work in film production, including on films with Cinquisitor Ethan.
Hope is a relative newcomer to the Society, and to the field of CINEMANIA as a whole. She granted herself membership status and a title after the Society were responsible for unleashing a horde of cannibalistic humanoid underground mutant people (C.H.U.M.P.s) that destroyed her family-friendly occult bookstore, The Laughing Tome. She intends to be as underfoot as possible until her store is repaired.