I'm watching this tonight because its Halloween!

Yeah , Burton's one of the only Directors that's now in the mainstream , multi - multi million dollar movie ballgame that I've liked consistently. I just got back from a Vincent Price double feature ("The Last Man on Earth" , one of his best , and "The House on Haunted Hill" , not one of the worst , nor one of the best. Price's Daughter , Victoria , was there and gave an informative , heart - touching lecture and slide show.). The movies were preceded by "Vincent", Burton's first (Short) film , about a little boy who wants to be Vincent Price ,with narration by the master , himself....It's a great film. Burton let Price die (On film.) with dignity in "Edward Scissorhands", and he's since gone on to give Christopher Lee's career a major shot in the arm. The Hobbit and Star Wars movies have , too , but , Burton saw his worth , first.

Mina said:

I love Tim Burton!

Mardy Pune said:

Watched this last night:

 

I like this movie , but, I thought even Ed Wood could have been treated a little less silly. Unfortunately , only a handful of people could be called upon to tell Burton what kind of man Ed Wood was  (Yes , I know. A cross dresser who digs women. It happens.)   Dolores Fuller said she was'nt happy with the way Sarah Jessica Parker portrayed her in the movie. Bela G. Lugosi (Bela , Jr.) was incensed by Martin Landau's outstanding , Oscar - winning performance as his Dad. He said Bela was nothing like that. He would know , but , I really think that if anyone in Wood's inner circle , or their families , had come forward and said they wanted to shed some light on the subject , THEY WOULD HAVE GOT AN AUDIENCE WITH TIM BURTON OR HIS WRITERS. I MET PAUL MARCO (KELTON THE COP) , real nice guy , had good stories . I met Dolores Fuller , too , she was nice enough. People that knew Wood have said he was'nt as over the top as Depp portrayed him. I've liked nearly everything Johnny Depp has done , but , sometimes , he'll take it in a direction I don't care for , like the Michael Jackson-ization of Willy Wonka. I worked on the set of one of his films , though , and I've got to say I have nothing but respect for the man.

Watched this last night:

Hah! That lid IS cursed!

Snow Crash is one of, if not THE, best take on current American life. Stephenson nailed so many of our issues and the future. I reread it every year and am amazed by how owell it stands the test of time. 

BoweryDoll said:

It's so hard to pick!  But if I were stranded in a subway or a remote cave I would take Octavia E. Butler's Wildseed, Parable of the Sower, Lilith's Brood, Fledgling and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.  [BTW -- it's so nice to hear someone reading Lester Bangs.  Man, do we seriously need his perspective in these insane times.  I think the spectacle of American Idol, X factor and other shows of that ilk plus the state of music today (the industry as well as itunes' "Apple-opoly") would've made his head explode like the guys in Scanners]

The Drive-in Series is fun as is hte Hap and Leonard stuff. The rest is just a solid but dangerously out of print. I recommend, as does Idon, some of his comic book work from IDW press.

1664kroney said:

Start with Savage Season and work your way through the Hap & Leonard series. Great books. Also The Bottoms is a fantastic read laced with innocence, darkness and guilt. It's got the morality of To Kill a Mockingbird sitting on top of the atmosphere and feeling of The Grapes of Wrath.

Well done for finding a great author. My first Lansdale read was also The Drive-In. Good stuff.

The Masters of Reality one by John Darnielle is great. It reads like Catcher in the Rye

Someone loaned me the one on Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. Despite an assurance that I would enjoy it, I approached it with a fair amount of skepticism and in the end, I really enjoyed it.

Not so much because it's intimate portrait of C.D. & her music but because it managed to make some pithy & insightful statements about what drives personal taste, using her music as a reference/starting point.

It made me very interested in the rest of the series... that being said I haven't had a chance to read any others.

MC5 – Kick Out the Jams

More Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain.

I'm not discounting the time Elvis took out a gas station attendant for slapping him , but , he took a lot of shit , and some ass beatings , in his day , for openly admiring Black culture, and dressing the part.

John Battles said:

.....Some performers could'nt differentiate between stage wear and street attire , because they were so deeply into playing a character....Zolar - X , for example , reportedly wore their Star Trek - inspired alien costumes when they went about their day to day business. Alice Cooper , at the height of his notoriety , would go into bars with the black greasepaint on his eyes , maybe wearing a black leather jacket , which still screamed "Beat My Ass!" in some quarters , and he'd proceed to get real drunk and get the shit beat out of him.....I can only imagine what happened in the "Enlightened " Late 60's , when the entire Alice Cooper Group were wearing modified women's tops and mylar trousers on and off stage , before Glam Rock was even a consideration.

Marc Bolan said he went into an executive's bar , wearing a variation on his gender bending stage attire. The older crowd laughed and made derogatory comments , and Bolan stood up and said , "Did you see that Limousine outside , as you came in ? Well , that's mine , and I will have earned over one million pounds this year. If you'd known that , you would have treated me with respect.".

If I could choose one You Tube clip that does'nt exist , and make it a reality , I'd pick the time David Bowie went to see his new labelmate , Elvis , perform in LA , in 1972 , just before debuting "Ziggy Stardust " in The US. Bowie , against warnings from RCA , went in "Ziggy" attire , with his bright orange hair standing straight up , and was sitting close enough for Elvis to take notice of him , and make several derogatory comments ,the audience having a good laugh.. America , and Presley , had forgotten , pretty much , that less than 20 years earlier , Elvis had been jeered , insulted , even clobbered , for looking like the coolest White boy on the planet.

Lord Sutch was known to wear his stage gear in public all the time , a rampant publicity hound , but a performer who wanted to give his all . An older English guy told me he saw Sutch walk into the crowd , balancing himself on the armrests of the people's seats. He fell on a big bruiser boy , who busted his nose . He just ambled back up to the stage , bleeding profusely , and did the rest of his show.

GRGPNK panties would be VERY hot! But yeah, let's keep brown shades out ot that equation, hahahaha!

Mina said:

And also panties and mini skirts! But no in that brownish color :)

Ha, yes! That could be very sexy!

Mina said:

Hahahaha good one :D They should make GRGPNK high heels for us females!!!

joey fuckup said:

No garage rock costume is complete without the official GRGPNK Pro Keds high-tops! Got mine on right now!

No garage rock costume is complete without the official GRGPNK Pro Keds high-tops! Got mine on right now!

Then there is --> Captured! by Robots.

Mighty Morphin' Red Ranger... oops wrong thread.

.....Some performers could'nt differentiate between stage wear and street attire , because they were so deeply into playing a character....Zolar - X , for example , reportedly wore their Star Trek - inspired alien costumes when they went about their day to day business. Alice Cooper , at the height of his notoriety , would go into bars with the black greasepaint on his eyes , maybe wearing a black leather jacket , which still screamed "Beat My Ass!" in some quarters , and he'd proceed to get real drunk and get the shit beat out of him.....I can only imagine what happened in the "Enlightened " Late 60's , when the entire Alice Cooper Group were wearing modified women's tops and mylar trousers on and off stage , before Glam Rock was even a consideration.

Marc Bolan said he went into an executive's bar , wearing a variation on his gender bending stage attire. The older crowd laughed and made derogatory comments , and Bolan stood up and said , "Did you see that Limousine outside , as you came in ? Well , that's mine , and I will have earned over one million pounds this year. If you'd known that , you would have treated me with respect.".

If I could choose one You Tube clip that does'nt exist , and make it a reality , I'd pick the time David Bowie went to see his new labelmate , Elvis , perform in LA , in 1972 , just before debuting "Ziggy Stardust " in The US. Bowie , against warnings from RCA , went in "Ziggy" attire , with his bright orange hair standing straight up , and was sitting close enough for Elvis to take notice of him , and make several derogatory comments ,the audience having a good laugh.. America , and Presley , had forgotten , pretty much , that less than 20 years earlier , Elvis had been jeered , insulted , even clobbered , for looking like the coolest White boy on the planet.

Lord Sutch was known to wear his stage gear in public all the time , a rampant publicity hound , but a performer who wanted to give his all . An older English guy told me he saw Sutch walk into the crowd , balancing himself on the armrests of the people's seats. He fell on a big bruiser boy , who busted his nose . He just ambled back up to the stage , bleeding profusely , and did the rest of his show.

must score a copy of this...

Film critic Scott Von Doviak of the Star-Telegram out of Fort Worth, TX put together here a comprehensive study of the sub-genre of drive-in movies known as "hixploitation". For the uninitiated, these were those low-budget flicks that dealt with plots involving moonshiners, truckers, stock car racers, honky tonk singers, swamp monsters, anti-establishment folk heroes, etc. The prime era for these cultural celluloid masterpieces were the late '60's through the late '70's, but this tome examines the very origins going back as far as "Thunder Road" in 1957 and the hick flick metamorphosis into its heyday and even beyond to its eventual decline.

The author masterfully breaks down all the types of "redneck cinema" into seperate chapters where he examines and critiques the good, the bad, and the ugly:

(1) "Moonshiners"--Briefly educating the reader on NASCAR's roots, he then digs into such Southern matinee classics as "Thunder Road", "White Lightning" and its sequel "Gator", "Moonrunners" (the inspiration behind "The Dukes Of Hazzard"), and a host of others.

(2) "Smokey the Red Necked Sheriff"--No surprises here, as this chapter analyzes this classic hero/villain mix with characters like Buford T. Justice ("Smokey and the Bandit") and Buford Pusser of "Walking Tall" fame (where they clearly divide truth from redneck filmic fantasy). Also critiqued are "Macon County Line" and "In the Heat Of the Night", and a little history on real life rednecks with badges that were the inspirations to a number of exploitation filmmakers.

(3) "Honky Tonk Heroes"--This chapter deals with "country music" films that were either inspired by songs ("Harper Valley PTA", "Ode To Billy Joe") or were about creating the songs ("Honeysuckle Rose", "Coal Miner's Daughter", "Nashville").

(4) "Crackerjacks"--Basically, films that have really white main characters: "Every Which Way But Loose", "Hooper", "Road House", and "Cockfighter". There's also a brief history on Evel Knievel and the two movies he inspired, "Viva Knievel!" and his biopic starring George Hamilton, "Evel Knievel".

(5) "Hick Chicks"--A short chapter, but a good one; Russ Meyer's "Mudhoney", Harry Novak's hillbilly sexploitation resume, and a look at Claudia Jennings' drive-in film career.

(6) "Dixie DeMilles"--The author gives an insightful look into the film careers of H.G. Lewis (his horror/exploitation flicks set in the South), Ron Ormond (low-budget filmmaker with an odd and obscure resume), and Earl Owensby (another obscure figure in the drive-in moviemaking scene).

(7) "Around the Track"--As you may have guessed it, films set in and around the world of NASCAR ("Red Line 7000", "The Last American Hero", "Greased Lightning", "Six Pack", "Stroker Ace", and "Days Of Thunder"). There's also some background history on former stock car champ (and legendary moonshine runner) Junior Johnson.

(8) "From Sea To Shining Sea"--This deals with the plot(s) of people in cars hitting the open road, usually in a race of some sort...or not. Reviewed here are "Two Lane Blacktop", "Vanishing Point", "Cannonball!", "Death Race 2000", "The Gumball Rally", and the "Cannonball Run" movies.

(9) "Fender Benders"--Another short chapter, this one dealing with the life and films of H.B. "Toby" Halicki (best known for the original "Gone In 60 Seconds"); and Ron Howard's work with Roger Corman ("Eat My Dust" and "Grand Theft Auto").

(10) "Keep On Truckin'"--This is a somewhat extensive study on the trucker culture: the films, the music, and the CB craze of the '70's.

(11) "The Death Of Bigfoot"--Obvious enough, a look at the Bigfoot movie trend of the '70's that was launched after the financial success of "The Legend Of Boggy Creek".

(12) "Creepy Critters"--"Nature gone amok" and/or monster movies set in rural locales: "Attack Of the Giant Leeches", "Frogs", "Grizzly", "Pumpkinhead", and others.

(13) "Hillbilly Horror"--"Deliverance" is naturally discussed as well as a humorous documentation of the author attempting to take on a 24 hour marathon of videos including "Redneck Zombies", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" and other classic (or not so classic) backwoods horror films.

As an afterword, Von Doviak ponders the future of hixploitation and sees it in documentary filmmaking, where he discusses several including "American Movie", "Brother's Keeper", "Paradise Lost', and more. Plus there's an exhaustive A-Z filmography of this genre including many movies that weren't even mentioned in the above chapters.

The only real issue I had with this book was that I think there could have been more written (it's roughly a little over 200 pages) and the price ($35 and yes, at first, I said "Fuck that"). But as a buff for these kinds of films, it's been a great resource for me, and a fun re-read. If this is right up your alley, and you don't want to pay the hefty cover price, you may want to check on Amazon and see if you can nab a used copy.

If you want to order it straight from McFarland Publishing, here's the link:

http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-1997-5

YES !!!!!!!!! I'll go see ANY movie with Dick Miller and The Real Don Steele.

And any movie without 'em , but , WITH Mary Woronov.

sleazy said:

My mistake . I thought this was a recent movie poster. Did'nt know here was a BBC adaptation.

I FORGOT THEY EVEN REMADE IT. The original is great.

Mike Humsgreen said:

I would recommend this 2 part edition, the triffoil is being produced to 'save the world' from global warming and brings it brilliantly into modern Britain.

Mina said:

Ah didn't know there was a serie of Day of the Triffid. Thanx!

Also a great Psych/Garage theme song "Is it something in your head? Will you believe it when you're DEAD ?!!!!   GREEEEEEN SLIIIIIIIIME !!!!!!!! 

sleazy said:

TV - Twilight Zone , Outer Limits , and .... I don't know. I liked X-Files , but not enough to tell my friends to call me when it was over. I even liked Sliders , but , did'nt watch it religiously. The two Invisible Man programs , Lost in Space , for laughs , Thunderbirds.

Movies - Le Voyage De La Lune (A Trip To The Moon , silent , Georges Melies. First acknowledged Science Fiction film.) , Day The Earth Stood Still, Creature With The Atom Brain , Forbidden Planet , X - The Man With X-Ray Eyes , The Colossus of New York , This Island Earth ,  Invasion of The Bodysnatchers , Metropolis , Barbarella , Atragon , The Mysterians , Plan 9 From Outer Space , The Blob , Queen of Blood ,

Assignment : Terror , Aliens Done Took My Cow (In pre - production.).