Whatever Happened to Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens?

berdvosky.JPGWe recently received e-mails proudly announcing the impending arrival of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters on April 13. Even if you didn't notice the - ahem - little problem promotions for the ATHF movie caused in Boston, and even if you've never heard of ATHF, the movie sounds like fun, and the full-length cartoon features the voices of Bruce Campbell and Neil Peart of Rush.

But, in our rush to learn more about the movie whose lite-brite publicity campaign brought Boston to a halt such a short time ago and to see if the movie was any good, we wondered what happened to the guys who got caught hanging the lite brites.

Unfortunately, the court case of Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens hasn't been resolved. While they were just hired to carry out the orders of marketing company Interference Inc., they might still face time for hanging the signs. Attorney General Martha Coakley is after them, and they'll be back in court May 11. We don't know what point she's trying to make. Cartoon Network and Interference Inc. already paid up.

Berdovsky and Stevens appear to be truckin' on like nothing happened. Both have abundant samples of their artwork on their websites, zebbler.com and seanstevens.com. They also had a gig at the Linwood on Friday night in which they provided the visual accompaniment to electronic music. They're self-described "VJs" - not in the early MTV sense, but in the sense that they add to the musical experience with their visuals.

Here's how the Herald described it: "Their plan: make psychedelic sights to match the big-beat sound, by capturing crowd reaction on video, feeding it through a video mixer and projecting it onto three large screens."

Sounds like trippy, but harmless, club stuff to us. Now maybe Martha Coakley can lay off them so all of us can go about our business and forget the whole thing happened. Or, we'll forget the whole thing happened once the movie's been out for a while.

Images of Peter Berdovsky looking happy, sad, or thoughtful are everywhere, but we're still attached to the image of the Happy Peter as he was leaving the courthouse right after the ATHF fiasco.

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