#dan lippert

Rotating Heroes alignment chart in honour of the pod coming back!

- Lawful Good: Fraeya Black

- Neutral Good: Grib “The Rock” Johnson

- Chaotic Good: Brenda Elizabeth

- Lawful Neutral: Turbine Spizzlesink

- True Neutral: Sago Glegg

- Chaotic Neutral: Nancy-Rae Gan

- Lawful Evil: Rufus Cutler

- Neutral Evil: Astrid Starborn

One unedited photo from the Big Grande show this past Monday (11/7/22) during the NYC Comedy Festival

Day 29

Reflections on: Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)

Full disclosure: this review is totally biased because I am a fan of one of the actors, Dan Lippert. He’s a talented improv comedian and is one quarter of the hilarious group Big Grande. I’m also a fan of his excellent podcasts The Teacher’s Lounge and Man Dog Pod. I’m not sure I would have liked the movie as much as I did without consuming all of that previous content.

It feels like Dan Lippert improvised most of his lines. There are familiar themes from his comedy such as: bad MJ impressions and cannibalism. 

This is the 7th film in the Paranormal Activity franchise. I haven’t seen any of the previous instalments. This is technically a “found footage” movie like the others, yet instead of using security cameras footage, this looks professional due to the fact that the main character has hired a crew to help her make a documentary. 

It was strange to watch a movie that took place in a COVID-19 world. It’s only briefly addressed in the beginning when Dan Lippert’s character awkwardly forgets to put on his mask at an airport and then offhandedly remarks, “I got COVID like 5 times.”

Dan Lippert steals every scene he’s in - which is most of them. He casually does yoga in the background, refers to his camouflage pyjamas as his “cammies”, offers a translation of “so weit nicht weiter” as “Sweet, nice wiener”, and gets an Amish makeover complete with a bob and bangs. A 6′7″ man with a cute bob is a sight to behold! 

Despite being the main source of comedy in the story he’s also the most sensible character who figures out what’s going on before the compulsively confident and pathologically nosy protagonist. 

The story has a lot of parallels with Midsommar (2019), but also has some similarities to Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and Children of the Corn (1984). 

I won’t spoil the ridiculous ending but it does finish with a beautiful symphony of harmonious moos. 

To be thought of in relation to Dave Grohl is an honor I simply cannot seem to fathom. Thank you, dearest.

When I received this, I had really just been thinking about Dave Grohl because I was in some situation where someone I was around reminded me of him and now I SIMPLY cannot --

I remembered mid-typing. Pardon me while I digress.

My best friend, @voted-with-darren, and I have a sort of hobby of keeping up with the Paranormal Activity franchise and we recently watched the new one Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin. IN THE MOVIE, there is a character that is so Dave Grohl adjacent it just made me laugh the whole time.

not to mention the character, Dale (played by Dan Lippert), is the comedic relief the entire movie and just serves a very general Dave Grohl energy. I was rooting for him.

So anyway, that was my digression. Dave Grohl is everywhere, potentially even more so than Jesus.