I remember this record back when I was a kid. They had a pretty extensive marketing campaign for it with lots of commercials on TV. “Chipmunk Punk,” for those punters out there who had a hankering to hear some late ’70s-early ’80s Top 40 tunes recorded with annoying, speeded-up vocals. I guess that’s what a…
Sweet!
Zero Hour!, the inspiration for the Zucker Brothers’ Airplane!, is coming out for the first time on home video in June. Now it looks like two, hard-to-find classics from the twisted mind of Serbian director DuĊĦan Makavejev are coming out on DVD the same month. 1971’s “WR: Mysteries of the Organism” — an international film…
Zero Hour!
Finally, fans of the film Airplane! will be able to see the true origins of the ’80s comedy classic when Zero Hour hits stores this June. The 1957 film, starring Dana Andrews as “Ted Stryker” has never been released on home video so this DVD, part of Warner Brother’s “Camp Classics” collection, will be a…
Scuba Doo
Greetings, Earthlings. I’ve been pretty busy the past month. I’ve spent the past three weekends scuba diving…actually, I just got certified last weekend in San Marcos at the former Aquarena Springs. I know, it’s weird…scuba diving in the winter. I thought I’d get a jump on the summer mayhem but a bunch of other people…
FBI Informant Behind FLA Neo-Nazi Rally
Here’s a story from a couple of weeks back but I think it needs to be highlighted since the mainstream media is avoiding it…For those of you out there who think that the government is your big daddy, who think that the government only has your best interests at heart…who would never believe that the…
The Future of the Press
Interesting doc over on PBS’ FRONTLINE last night, Newswar, about the future of the press in America. What was interesting to me, is that here we have the same journalists, like the odious Judy Miller, who helped the Bush/Cheney regime beat the drum for war in Iraq, saying that what they reported back in 2003…
Brutal, Juice
File this under things you’d never thought you’d see again. Here’s a video from the late-lamented Denton rock group Brutal Juice. This was filmed circa 1995 in Dallas over by what is now the South Side lofts. The opening scene was actually shot on a street in Lower Greenville. How do I know so much?…
God Bless Ameica
There are a bunch of kiosks around downtown Dallas that hold advertisements for various products/events. Some right wing group put up several Pro-War banners in the kiosks that feature shots of freshly scrubbed troops, emblazzoned with the headline, “Our Hero.” Unfortunately on EVERY SINGLE ONE of the posters, they SOMEHOW misspelled “America.” I took a…
The Great Silence
Italian composer Ennio Morricone and spaghetti westerns go together like…er, hold on, let me think of a good analogy here — how about, bacon and lettuce…and tomato? No…how about peanut butter and jelly? What’s up with the food references? Forget about it. Sergio Corbucci‘s “The Great Silence” is considered one of the very best spaghettis…
House
I don’t know why I’ve never posted these before, but here are some pictures of our house down in Oak Cliff. Actually, here’s one picture, I’m putting the rest over in my Flickr account, which you can access by scrolling down and clicking on the right column. These were taken about a month and a…