Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Ten Minutes of People Predicting a Romney Victory
Starring Dick Morris, who Jon Stewart calls The King of Wrong Mountain
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Friday, November 30, 2012
SLY and the FAMILY STONE: Greatest Hits!
Sitting here at McDonalds, listening to headphones. People probably wonder why I'm acting so crazy, bopping and weaving in my booth . Here is why.
Monday, August 6, 2012
It Came From Hollywood (1982)
A comedy documentary? It's pretty shlocky, but before video stores, the internet, and Mystery Science Theater 3000, this was where I got my first look at the films of Ed Wood, and a ton of the classic bad movies that would become hipster touchstones in the nineties and beyond.
Directed by Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt. Written by Dana Olsen
Starring John Candy, Dan Ackroyd, Gilda Radner, Cheech and Chong.
With scenes from Plan Nine from Outer Space, Glen or Glenda, Blackbelt Jones, Maniac Reefer Madness, The Hideous Sun Demon, The Violent Years, some unbelievably racist piece of shit with Al Jolson, and so much more! See the wikipedia article linked below for the complete list of films.
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Directed by Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt. Written by Dana Olsen
Starring John Candy, Dan Ackroyd, Gilda Radner, Cheech and Chong.
With scenes from Plan Nine from Outer Space, Glen or Glenda, Blackbelt Jones, Maniac Reefer Madness, The Hideous Sun Demon, The Violent Years, some unbelievably racist piece of shit with Al Jolson, and so much more! See the wikipedia article linked below for the complete list of films.
IMBD WIKIPEDIA TRAILER
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Homicide: Life On the Street S1 E2 Ghost of a Chance
Directed by Martin Campbell
Written by Paul Attanasio, Story by Tom Fontana.
Starring Kyle Secor, Yaphet Koto, Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, and Richard Belzer
Originally broadcast Feb 3, 1993
Rookie Homicide Detective Tim Bayliss feels the awesome responsibility of solving his first real case as primary detective: the brutal murder of 14 year old Adina Watson.
Starring Kyle Secor, Yaphet Koto, Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, and Richard Belzer
Originally broadcast Feb 3, 1993
Rookie Homicide Detective Tim Bayliss feels the awesome responsibility of solving his first real case as primary detective: the brutal murder of 14 year old Adina Watson.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
MST3K: The Sinister Urge (1960)
From now on, Saturday is Mystery Science Theater 3000 day, and I'm starting with an Ed Wood masterfece.
Written and Directed by Ed Wood
with a short, Keeping Clean and Neat (1956)
Originally broadcast on Comedy Central November 5, 1994
IMDB WIKIPEDIA TRAILER ORIGINAL VERSION MST3K WIKI
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Written and Directed by Ed Wood
with a short, Keeping Clean and Neat (1956)
Originally broadcast on Comedy Central November 5, 1994
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1971)
A series of surreal vignettes about how "Touring can make you crazy".
Written and directed by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer. Starring The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel, and Ringo Starr.
A generous sampling:
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Dick Cheney: An Unauthorized Biography
Aired by the Canadian News program "Fifth Estate", October 2004
As an added bonus, a couple of clips from my favorite story of the Cheney vice presidency.
As an added bonus, a couple of clips from my favorite story of the Cheney vice presidency.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Charles Chaplin in MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947)
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Homicide: Life on the Street, Season 1, Episode 1: "Gone For Goode"
The first episode of a classic cop show. Originally broadcast after the Superbowl, January 31, 1993
Directed by Barry Levinson. Written by Paul Attanasio
Starring Richard Belzer, Clark Johnson, Ned Beatty, Kyle Secor, Yaphet Kotto, Melissa Leo, Andre Braugher, Jon Polito, Daniel Baldwin.
LINKS:
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Batman: The Movie (1966)
Adapted from the TV show, and completely entertaining.
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson, Written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. from characters created by Bob Kane
Starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Cesar Romero, Lee Meriwether, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin
Main Links:
IMDB WIKIPEDIA TRAILER
More Links
BEHIND THE SCENES CAST INTERVIEWS
(video) at TexasArchives.org
Check this out! Who knows what's "rare" in the age of the internet, but this is sure interesting! See Cesar Romero in full Joker makeup, smoke a cigarette in his undershirt!
VIDEO: THE BATMOBILE REVEALED!
George Barris, the designer of the original car, tells some stories
VIDEO REVIEW
by annoying English kid in a blazer. Correction: EXTREMELY annoying Australian kid in a blazer. You know the type: he makes fun of the jokes as if they were supposed to be serious, and seems to be continually mocking Batman: The Movie for its lack of realism.
THE BATMAN: THE MOVIE DRINKING GAME
at hoosierinanity.blogspot.com. WARNING: DON'T ACTUALLY DO THIS!
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson, Written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. from characters created by Bob Kane
Starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Cesar Romero, Lee Meriwether, Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin
Main Links:
IMDB WIKIPEDIA TRAILER
More Links
BEHIND THE SCENES CAST INTERVIEWS
(video) at TexasArchives.org
Check this out! Who knows what's "rare" in the age of the internet, but this is sure interesting! See Cesar Romero in full Joker makeup, smoke a cigarette in his undershirt!
VIDEO: THE BATMOBILE REVEALED!
George Barris, the designer of the original car, tells some stories
VIDEO REVIEW
by annoying English kid in a blazer. Correction: EXTREMELY annoying Australian kid in a blazer. You know the type: he makes fun of the jokes as if they were supposed to be serious, and seems to be continually mocking Batman: The Movie for its lack of realism.
THE BATMAN: THE MOVIE DRINKING GAME
at hoosierinanity.blogspot.com. WARNING: DON'T ACTUALLY DO THIS!
Friday, July 27, 2012
Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster (1965)
Mary Shelly had nothing to do with it. Aliens come to earth to snatch women in bikinis for breeding stock.
Directed by Robert Gaffney. Starring James Karen and Marilyn Hanold
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(I couldn"t manage to create an embed for this page. This is actually a link to another site.)
Marilyn Hanold (Princess Marcuzan) as an earthling. Playboy, June 1959
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Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! (1965)
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Chatterboxxy!
Boxxy!
All six Boxxy videos to date compressed into two and a minutes, with music from the New York Dolls. Made with KDENLive on Kanotix Linux. Music by the New York Dolls
All six Boxxy videos to date compressed into two and a minutes, with music from the New York Dolls. Made with KDENLive on Kanotix Linux. Music by the New York Dolls
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Magnus Pyke: All about the old guy from "She Blinded Me with Science"
Well, he wasn't an actor. Dr Magnus Pyke was a real scientist who
happened to be great on TV, and that made him a familiar face on British information programs. Americans probably know him (and
probably not by name) only because of Thomas Dolby, but he was easily better
known to Brits than Dolby at the time, and his lengthy 1992 obituary
in the British Newspaper, the Independent, doesn't mention Thomas Dolby
or his song at all, not that surprising, because the song was not a hit
in Britain.
Magnus Alfred Pyke, food scientist and
broadcaster, born London 29 December 1908, OBE 1978, Principal
Scientific Officer (Nutrition) Ministry of Food 1946-48, Deputy Manager
Distillers Co Yeast Research Outstation 1949-55, Manager Glenochil
Research Station 1955-73, Secretary and Chairman of Council British
Association for the Advancement of Science 1973- 77, books include
Manual of Nutrition 1945, Six Lives of Pyke 1981, married 1937 Dorothea
Vaughan (died 1986; one son, one daughter), died London 19 October 1992.
On a British game show in the seventies.
"Good Heavens, Miss Akimoto... You're beautiful!"
On a British game show in the seventies.
Here's Thomas Dolby telling funny stories about Dr. Pike at a 2011 concert
Monday, February 20, 2012
John Gielgud as Tieresias in "Oedipus the King"
Time for a link of quality: one of the really, really great scenes of Western Literature. King Oedipus confronts the terrible truth about who he is, embodied in the person of the blind prophet Tieresias, played beautifully here by an 81 year old John Gielgud.
From a 1985 BBC production of Sophocles with Michael Pennington in the title role. You can watch the whole play in 12 parts here:
part 1. http://youtu.be/WS9KJ_bAJLE
part 2. http://youtu.be/rWK663cfyR8
part 3. http://youtu.be/_ynLrKcqKzI
part 4. http://youtu.be/S5laTMLhsZI
part 5. http://youtu.be/N7mNo_uNzDU
part 6. http://youtu.be/GkVV8j4-xOs
part 7. http://youtu.be/R7caIrzZuMw
part 8. http://youtu.be/OaGRj9mUEOc
part 9. http://youtu.be/vB9ELMzskPA
part 10. http://youtu.be/1oBS5g-rohc
part 11. http://youtu.be/JRcQrWfBi7g
part 12. http://youtu.be/k0A5PRWtnJ8
This post isn't quite finished. I'll be back to fill in some information, fix the hiccup in the playback, and make the links more linky.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Hogan's Heroes orgy fantasy from "Autofocus"
Valentines Day is over!
"Autofocus" is the 2002 movie about the murder of 1960s Sitcom Star and and sex addict Bob Crane. Ebert and Roeper liked it, but I always think about the great documentary they could have made for a tenth of the money, and it irks me. This silly (but awesomely silly) fantasy scene, right out of an old episode of thirtysomething, is a great example of why docudramas are generally a pile of shit.
The ending is lame, by the way. John Carpenter (played by Willem Dafoe) was acquitted of Crane's murder, so the film can't really finger him, but it does anyway, in a candyass way, since if Carpenter isn't the perp, the last two hours have been completely irrelevant. Plus Crane sort of suggests that Carpenter was the guy in one of those beyond-the-grave voiceovers that seemed pretty edgy when William Holden did it sixty years ago in Sunset Boulevard.
"Autofocus" is the 2002 movie about the murder of 1960s Sitcom Star and and sex addict Bob Crane. Ebert and Roeper liked it, but I always think about the great documentary they could have made for a tenth of the money, and it irks me. This silly (but awesomely silly) fantasy scene, right out of an old episode of thirtysomething, is a great example of why docudramas are generally a pile of shit.
The ending is lame, by the way. John Carpenter (played by Willem Dafoe) was acquitted of Crane's murder, so the film can't really finger him, but it does anyway, in a candyass way, since if Carpenter isn't the perp, the last two hours have been completely irrelevant. Plus Crane sort of suggests that Carpenter was the guy in one of those beyond-the-grave voiceovers that seemed pretty edgy when William Holden did it sixty years ago in Sunset Boulevard.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Charlie Chaplin in "City Lights" (1931)
Since I don't have a date for Valentine's Day, I was going to post something stupid and cynical like "Psychos in Love" or The J. Geil's Band's "Love Stinks", but instead I relented and posted the most romantic movie I could think of.
Chaplin actually shot this movie as a silent film during the sound era, and released it with music he wrote hmself. A tramp falls in love with a blind girl and sacrifices everything to bring her... vision! You have to watch it to the end. It's considered one of the best endings in movie history.
A great restored version. With Russian subtitles, so you can watch it with your mail-order bride.
Chaplin actually shot this movie as a silent film during the sound era, and released it with music he wrote hmself. A tramp falls in love with a blind girl and sacrifices everything to bring her... vision! You have to watch it to the end. It's considered one of the best endings in movie history.
A great restored version. With Russian subtitles, so you can watch it with your mail-order bride.
The Black Belles "What Can I Do?"
I love these ladies so much, it makes me want to cry 96 tears.
Elvira, mistress of the night, had the good taste to make this her theme music.
Finally, the time has come for the Daily Embed to be daily for real. More or less.
Elvira, mistress of the night, had the good taste to make this her theme music.
Finally, the time has come for the Daily Embed to be daily for real. More or less.
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