When William Shatner's career was on the skids.
By now everyone's heard about William Shatner's The Transformed Man -- that infamous 60's recording where he sings Mr. Tambourine Man and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds -- but check out this other Shatner LP, an ultra-rare two-record set recorded live in 1978. It's a recording of an appearance at some kind of a Star Trek convention just before the first Star Trek movie came out (probably the lowest point in Shatner's career). Half of it consists of Shatner answering questions from the audience (where was the bathroom on the Enterprise?) and recalling inane stories from his career. On the other half, he performs dramatic poetry interpretations, including "Earthbound", "The Flight of Man" and a reading from H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds".
On the artwork for Transformed Man, Shatner appeared as Captain Kirk, in his full starfleet uniform. Here, however, licensing restrictions prevented Imperial House records from using any actual Trek material. Notice how Shatner is the captain of the "Starship", not the "Enterprise", and how his shirt, while similar to the one he wore on TV, lacks the official Star Trek insignia. If you look closely you might also notice that the space rifle he's wielding is actually an upside-down camera tripod -- talk about your low-budget photo shoots!
Do any of you know What was the name of Willam Shatner's LP and what songs were on it?
Hey .. is that a cashmere sweater? Shat (as in past-tense of Defecate) and Larry David deserve side-by-side burial plots, along the Central Park promenade where the peroxided prats stroll their obese co-neurotic chihuahuas; thus will they regularly be presented with fresh passing commentary from equal intellects, and be showered with solidarity for all their impish rebellious poser antics against twats seen to be up-leash.
Bill, such a potz; and Larry, a bigger yotz I have never seen.
Both these sphincter-boys should die, to sooner make room for the new legion of no-talents to fester our sclerae with newer versions of boils like what "Bill's stall" has done for oratory, and Larry's Lie-schtick has done for the public's perception of the people who people our Cathode Ray Tubes.
If that is not a tripod, it does look like all of that 'bris'tling triplet of barrels have had their respective prepuce stolen, and likely before any were allowed to mature enough to recognise such theft as brutal, crude tribal disfigurement; an irreversible felony assault, and unilateral interdiction against my -er- one's God-given right to produce the not-so-rare, but indelible sebaceous cheese product, smegma.
Nimoy: My part for this episode made sense, and showed promise as engaging character development, possibly sufficient to overcome our accursed 1st season jinx .. when I first read it. But it has again been Scissored by forces unknown, down to a tattered shadow, and Bill seems to be mad at me. I feel like something has been taken from me, which was designed, ordained, intended .. indeed, Written By Those Who Art Uneven .. and I feel like it was taken from me before I had any choice in the matter.
Willie is not really from Canada. All of us Canadians know Him up here as an Alien, eh.
Failing all else, Beelee, get thee back to La Brea and rejoin the ooze, lest we spill the (censored) about the (censored) wifey's wee (censored) mishap with the (censored) .. okay? Old buddy .. Old pal ..
Were you more "ex...ple...tive", Shat-boy, you'd be as easily deleted.
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