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06.17.09 by Bob the Zombie @ 4:42 am  1982 was apparently a great year for crappy movies to find their way over to American soil. To truly understand the meaning behind the rating of this film just remember "The One's" most important line from Warriors of the Wasteland: "It's against the rules to interrupt me!…Now Go! Hate and Exterminate!" This film pits a death-squad called "The Templars" against "The Scorpion," a former Templar who wishes to live in peace...in a desert nuclear-post-apocalyptic future in the year 2019 A.D just after 1970s synthesized music made its way out of mainstream movies and into porn. While the potshots at handle-mustache-wearing-renegade-soldiers-from-Spaceballs makes the first few minutes and the first of NINE (count 'em) dune buggy/golf cart/mustang-with-a-dome (why does it have a dome again?) car chase scenes remotely bearable. The other EIGHT dune buggy/golf cart/mustang-with-a-dome car--oh and metal skull as a dashboard ornament (can't forget that)--chase scenes and lack of plot, aren't all that bearable. Seriously, how many bad car chase scenes without explosions does a movie really need, if it isn't Dukes of Hazzard? Really, are you serious? You really want me to like ALL NINE of the NINE dune buggy/golf cart/mustang-with-a-dome car chase scenes and not fast-forward through them? Categorized as: Stimuli
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06.16.09 by Widge @ 7:10 pm So Cirque du Soleil turns 25 today. And if you haven't seen Cirque live, then you're missing a trick. And you probably should fix that. Because...well, let me just show you this. This is from Quidam. And when I saw this live in Atlanta, at about 3:13 into this video is when I became a fan of Cirque for life. Just watch. Direct link for the feedreaders. That might not work for you. But it still works for me. And I think it's moments like that which made Quidam my favorite...where it's remained, though I've seen every touring show since. And I should probably get my arse to Vegas quickly, before they open more shows there than I could possibly afford to see. After the break is probably one of my two favorite acts in all of Cirque-dom, the other being the trampoline madness known as the "power track," (which I first saw in Orlando at La Nouba) although I couldn't find a good enough vid to post here. But this--the Wheel of Death--was one of the really impressive bits from Kooza. You can find our other Cirque-related stuff here, BTW. Categorized as: Stimuli
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06.15.09 by Widge @ 11:05 am An absolutely brilliant interview of Cookie Monster at NPR. You've come a long way from your humble beginnings, Cookie. Direct link for the feedreaders. I'm assuming that is indeed David Rudman, current Cookie Monster, under the fur. And how much of his performance is improv I cannot say, but it's brilliant nonetheless. Not unlike his Colbert appearance. And since Inside the Actor's Studio was brought up in the vid, wouldn't it be nice to see Muppet performers on there the same way they did the voices of The Simpsons? Categorized as: Stimuli
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06.14.09 by Widge @ 5:48 pm  Remember how I postulated about Night of the Living Dead: The Opera? I had this idea about the living singing in Italian, the dead in German (with lots of basso profundo) and so forth. Well, turns out some version of it has already been done. Damn! Squonk Opera did it for City Theatre in Pittsburgh back in 1995...so we were told by one of Squonk's head burritos, Steve O'Hearn. You can go check out their site here with the info on the Dead Opera here (along with a few shots of the stage in action) here. And Papa Romero and the stars of the film came out to see it. Sadly, though, there's no video of the performance. Double damn! Somebody really needs to do a revival. I'm just saying. Categorized as: Stimuli
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06.07.09 by Bob the Zombie @ 1:47 am  Jimmy Durante by far is one of the best musicians to come out of America. In fact, every single time I hear him sing, it makes me think of at least one movie in particular: My Stepmother is an Alien. Now, I know you are probably wondering "Why this connection?" Have you ever had the feeling that you had some sort of connection to a film from your childhood that you just can't seem to get away from? That one film that makes you think about your childhood and go "Yeah, that was a great moment." As silly as this may be, for me that film was My Stepmother is an Alien. The story goes like this: the first film that I ever saw by myself in the theaters just after sneaking out of school (sorry Mom) was this film. Granted the movie did come out in 1988, and I was still but a wee lass, the film was always being re-shown at the local dollar theater a few blocks away from where I went to summer school. (On a sidebar: Take you hats off to the Dollar Movie Theaters around the U.S.A. they work their butts off to give us cheap entertainment…pause for a moment of silence and a sip of whatever you may be drinking.) Categorized as: Stimuli
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