Garrett Graham

So he passed away on, uh, in July.

And then also, um, Garrett Graham.

So Garrett Graham played, uh, he was task in the season one episode of deep space nine.

Uh, but you probably more recognize him as Q from the star Trek Voyager episode.

I believe it was Q death wish.

Terror Vision being really my first feature, kind of like a total love letter and tribute to the films of my childhood and to the sensation of kind of being a kid late at night and... watching horror films and to the film of invaders from Mars where nobody believes the kid who has seen a flying saucer in his backyard.

So, so for me, terror vision was like this amazing experience, you know, shooting at the Dino De Laurentiis studios outside of Rome, Mary Warnoff and Garrett Graham, John Grise and Diane Franklin and, an incredible cast, an incredible director of photography, Romano Albani, and a movie that was so... whacked out and outside of the realm of anything that anybody had seen before that it kind of like it hit the theaters like a lead balloon you know and was kind of scorned everywhere except by a very small group of kind of hipsters that were sort of the target audience of the film and over the years you know the the because it was so hard to find, it became the kind of thing that people would turn their friends on to.

Maybe you guys turned your friends on to it.

Oh, yeah.

I wanted the audience to be able to go with the comedy, even though people were being slaughtered by the hungry beast.

So it was kind of an intentionally misanthropic cartoonish.

And, you know, once I walked on those sets and saw the erotic art on the wall and the color scheme and the Roman quality of it all, and then once I brought the actors together, once we cast the actors, Garrett Graham and Mary Warnoff, you know, they bring a certain vibe to the thing.

And, you know, the movie, the script was kind of what, pretty much what the movie is, but the additional kind of vibe of, you know, the cast and the production design and the cinematography and the costumes, everything just, pushed it to the stratosphere, you know? So in a way, I don't apologize for that film because I thought it was funny at the time and I watch it with audiences now and I'm pleased that they're still getting the jokes, you know? Well, that's the

Yeah, I think these two meant the most to me.

We recently lost Duncan Sheik, as I was a fan of his music, and we also lost Garrett Graham, an actor who I'm, been very fond of over the years, and does have a musical connection.

But since this is a birthday episode and I don't want to bring the room down, I will table those for our next episode and then I'll go into more detail about those artists and the impact they had on me because I think, um, they- it, it was a tough week for me when both of them passed, so I'll, I'll go into that in our next episode.

Yeah, I feel like I, I had my double header a few weeks ago, and this was your shot on the carousel.

The first one, people may not realize it, but has an effect on this show and all my shows.

Garrett Graham, the actor, passed away this past week.

He's in one of my favorite movies ever, Used Cars.

And in that movie, when they interrupt the football feed to do a commercial for their used car dealership, he utters the words, "Hi, friends.

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And that's what caused me to start using it on 605, and of course, when we started doing it here, it became our friends.

But Garrett Graham, from Used Cars and other things, just passed away.

So I did wanna make mention to that because of, uh, the line that I've used to this day came from him in Used Cars.

And then the next day I do a mail call, I'm going to go live on the movie page and the music page that day and do my mail calls from there.

And we lost Garrett Graham, too.

He was 77.

Yes, that's right.

it.

And I also think, Greg, you're probably planning to do this, but we should also mention Garrett Graham.

I was about to.

Yeah, that was on the