Collide-O-Scope co-curator Shane Wahlund giving away prizes last night.
Collide-O-Scope co-curator Shane Wahlund onstage at the Egyptian, kicking off their Best of the Worst tour.

The main floor of the Egyptian was packed last night for a spectacle usually associated with the confines of Re-bar, where Collide-O-Scope presents mashups of weird and beautiful and hilarious found footage twice a month. Last night, for the third time in its existence, Collide-O-Scope got to be at the Egyptian, an actual movie theater, for the premiere of their Best of the Worst collection, which is soon going to hit the road for a "Pacific Northwest 'world' tour."

I have never seen so many people smoking weed outside the Egyptian, and frankly a lot of what I saw on screen is lost in the haze or defies description, but I can't stop thinking about:

• Shirley MacClaine looking absolutely stunning in What a Way to Go, from 1964.

• KOMO 4 News's Connie Thompson not being able to speak right—a whole cavalcade of bloopers, including "self-defecating" instead of "self-deprecating," and reporting on studies being done on the hearts of hot dogs.

• Strange close-ups of biological organisms.

• Very early informational guides about home computers that eerily predicted the internet but also got it wildly wrong.

• A brutally chopped up and rearranged interview with Nancy Reagan that was also entirely on point.

• A crowd of elegantly dressed people dancing on a gigantic turning vinyl record.

• Scott Shoemaker ending the show by singing the names of all of Collide-O-Scope's Best of the Worst supporters.

When I asked Wahlund what his favorite video piece was last night, he said, "I think the thing that makes me laugh the most is a piece that [co-curator] Michael [Anderson] did with this psychic-power lady named Litany Burns—a piece he made from an instructional vide of her instructing you on your psychic powers. A lot of the things she says we make her say, because it’s digital fuckery." His favorite manipulated line: “Use your psychic powers to win at trivia against people who’ve had strokes or are in comas.”

Asked about the night itself, Wahlund said, "My favorite thing is standing back in the dark looking at people’s faces. I like standing in the dark watching people watching people laugh."

Best of the Worst his the road next month for San Francisco, Portland, Olympia, Bellingham, and Vancouver. Meanwhile, there's another Collide-O-Scope on Monday, June 26 in the usual location. But you're supposed to call this one Pride-O-Scope.