Bee Movie Finale (podcast 40)

Most recent podcast here. I'm guessing that if I just upload all the images I found here, you'll be able to figure it out. Especially as I am tired.

Both songs by Nutria, the first being "Under the Clay," off Cheef, and the second "Anita," off Metronome.

Listen and Bid Now! (podcast 39)

Music this time, appropriately enough, came from the Drive-By Truckers, from a live performance last year at the 40 Watt, found, as usual, at Southern Shelter, where you can find the rest of it. The first song was "Lookout Mountain" and the last "Let There Be Rock."

So, before we get into any of the rest of it, here's the link to the ebay auction mentioned, where the hippie bus from Convoy is up for sale. So that's out of the way.

The first movie we talked about is Vanishing Point (1971).


It stars Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, and this car.


Also, the bikini bottom on this girl on the poster? She doesn't wear it in the movie.


It was directed by Richard Sarafian. In the movie's spirit, let's not say much else.

Here's the trailer:

And here's a clip from the movie:

The other movie we watched was Convoy (1978).

It was directed by Sam Peckinpah (no, really) and stars Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine (shown below), Burt Young, and Seymour Cassel.

It also has a site devoted solely to it, which is something, but it's not exactly well-designed or anything. Here are the lyrics to the song and a page where people are trying to come up with other movies based on songs. Also on that first page, evidence that there already is a novelization. Too bad for Jared.

Here's a music video for the song:

And, since I can't find the trailer, here's the opening to the movie:

Evil Twins (podcast 38)

This time, music was provided once again by Je Suis France, off their newly released full-length Afrikan Majik, which you can buy here. The first song was "The Love of the France" and the last was "That Don't Work That Well for Us." Good stuff, dudes, and they have a brief upcoming tour, too, so go check 'em out if you like 20-minute bongo jams.

We revisited our old buddy Dr. Phibes in Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), a sequel that is inferior, as many sequels are, but is still probably worth your time, especially if you like that ancient Egyptian stuff. It stars mostly the same crop of people, most notably Vincent Price, but adds Robert Quarry. Also, I'm going to point out Terry-Thomas, as he's a favorite of Jared's. Valli Kemp, who plays Vulnavia this time around, has some strange IMDB photos. It was directed, as was the previous one, by Robert Fuest. You can read about a lot of what was supposed to happen but was cut for budget reasons on the IMDB trivia page.

There are several pretty great posters for this movie, but these two are my favorites:



Of course, neither of these things appears in the movie at all.

Also, here's a screencap of the guy whose flesh is eaten off by a sandstorm in his own car.


Finally, here's the trailer:

The other film we talk about is Eat My Dust (1976), which would be followed by Grand Theft Auto (1977). The earlier film merely stars Ron Howard and his entire family, but the later one would be directed by him (and star his entire family). Eat My Dust also features a gal named Christopher Norris, a cameo by Paul Bartel, and a very young Corbin Bernsen. It was directed by Charles Griffith, who worked for Roger Corman in a lot of different capacities.

Here's the poster, in which you can see Howard's rebel cap quite clearly.



And here he is displaying his awesome windbreaker.


Finally, here's the trailer. It makes about as much sense as the movie does.

Dern Hippies (podcast 37)

The second recorded on that same day is up.

This time, we cover two dirty crazy hippie movies, Psych-Out and The Trip, which meant that Circulatory System provided great bumper music, with their psychedelic, swirly, pretty sounds. The song at the intro is "Lovely Universe" (a live version from Southern Shelter) and the one at the end is "Yesterday's World," both off of their self-titled album available from Cloud Recordings. Here's their official record-label page and here's their myspace page.

So, Psych-Out (1968) stars Susan Strasberg as the deaf gal, Jack Nicholson (with ponytail) as Stoney, Bruce Dern as a wacko, Dean Stockwell as a different kind of wacko, Garry Marshall (very briefly), and a couple of bands, one of whom is The Strawberry Alarm Clock. It was directed by Richard Rush.

I'm pretty sure Susan Strasberg never wears a bikini in the movie. Nor does she strip to her underthings. But it's kind of a great poster anyway.

You can see a little of Nicholson's ponytail in this still/promo shot:


And here's a zombie hand:

Yeah. It really is in the movie. Pretty gross, too.

And, finally, here's the trailer, which is online. Yay!

The Trip (1967) doesn't have any fun zombie hands in it, sadly, and Bruce Dern is pretty sedate in his role in this movie, but it does have a lot of Peter Fonda ass in it.

Nicholson wrote this one, and Strasberg's also in it, but less. Dennis Hopper shows up for a good bit, though, as you can tell from this still:

Yes, it's a dream/trip sequence. How on earth did you know that? Here's Dern, bearded out:

And here's the other poster, which I like slightly less, despite its existentialist acronym:


And here's the trailer for it. Thank you, webbernets.

Oh, and there's a book here with a very long and complicated title that seems to discuss the connection between psychedelic drugs and psychoanalysis, taking it much more seriously than I did.

Anything I forgot to link?

Southern Discomfort (podcast 36)

One of two recorded in the same day, but you'll have to wait a few days for the next one, so as not to overwhelm your poor, overworked ears.

This time, music was by Kimberly Morgan and the Everlovin' Band, who are currently working on an album that isn't out yet. Nor do they have a more official website than a myspace page. The songs that were used were from a live performance available in full (although brief) at Southern Shelter. The first one is "Falling" and the second one is "Don't Cry to Me." At any rate, she seemed like a good choice because of the Southern theme of these two films, which really were a bit classy for this program.

The first one was Walter Hill's Southern Comfort (1981), which stars a lot of sort of famous people, from Keith Carradine to Powers Boothe to Peter Coyote to Fred Ward to Brion James, mostly wandering around in the Louisiana swamps, being uncomfortable. Yes, they did have to license the title from the whiskey. I can't find the trailer online, but here's the original poster at least, which explicitly references Deliverance.

Also, Ry Cooder did the music.

The second film was Roger Corman's The Intruder (1962 or possibly 1961, depending on who you ask), also known as I Hate Your Guts! The main (only?) star in this fairly serious look at school integration is William Shatner, back in his young and handsome days.

I don't have a picture of Shat in it, but here's a pretty great poster.


And here's a still that sort of captures the feel.


Luckily, there is a trailer for it, although it's preceded by a McGruff the Crime Dog ad about identity theft, which you can watch here. Be patient.

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Boobs of the Future (podcast 35)

Rolling along and up to 35 episodes.

This time, music was by Madeline. She's pretty great. The first song is "I Do What I'm Told" (off her split EP with Dead Bird) and the last one is "I Left the Light On" (off Kissing and Dancing), both available from Plan-It-X Records for very little amounts of money.

Here is she is in a YouTube video.

The movies this time were, first, Night Call Nurses (1972), directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring mostly a bunch of nobodies, like Patty Byrne, pictured below, but also Alana Stewart, Dennis Dugan, and Dick Miller (in a cameo).

Here is the poster. I am confused as to who the fourth chick is, considering there are really only three.

Googling "mirror hands" does not result in anything cool. Nor can I locate the trailer, which is sad, because I bet it's great.

The second movie discussed was Hollywood Boulevard (1976), for which the poster appears below, complete with what looks like a somewhat misplaced titty.


It also has Dick Miller, in a much larger and particularly great role, and here's a still from the movie that features him, inexplicably in black and white, as well as Robbie, whom he's trying to sign as a client.

It's directed by Joe Dante (his first movie) and Allan Arkush and stars Candace Rialson, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, and a zillion Corman folks in cameos. Here's a list of all the movies they use footage from, except it may not be all of them. It's a lot, at any rate. We also referred to Terror Firmer (1999) a bunch of times. Seeing as we promised trailers embedded on here for all movies from this point out, it's also clear that this one is either nonexistent or very difficult to find online. Sigh. Until next time, kittens.

Urg

Because I keep forgetting. Here is the link to the "Grindhouse Gang" article that we keep referencing.

Race with the Warriors (episode 34)

Racin' along. Next podcast is up.

Music this time was by Cars Can Be Blue, located here more officially (where you can also buy their record, All the Stuff We Do) and here on myspace. Tunes were "The Cat Is Out" at the beginning and "Do You Remember?" at the end. They get considerably more offensive than both of these songs, but not any catchier because that would be impossible. They might be coming to your town, as they're putting together a small tour on their way to NYC Popfest.

This episode covers Race with the Devil (1975), a fun little movie about car chases and Satanists and drinking and driving. It stars, as you can tell from the poster below, Peter Fonda and Warren Oates, but only one gun, not two. They take turns.



It also stars Loretta Swit ("Hot Lips") and Lara Parker. And a bunch of Satanists. It was directed by Jack Starrett and written by Wes Bishop and Lee Frost, none of whom are Satanists, as far as I know...

For your further enjoyment, here's a picture of Peter Fonda about to blow your damn head off, you stinkin' Satanist.


And here's the trailer. I think it's a good idea to start putting these up here, when I can find them, as it's only going to make you want to see the movies more.

The other movie we watched and talked about is The Warriors (1979), which you've probably seen, but we hadn't.


I dig this Italian poster for it, with future font, more than the one everyone knows, with graffiti font. There's at least one entire website devoted to this movie, so, clearly, it's kind of a big deal, cult-wise. Also, one of my favorite details about the movie that I didn't get a chance to bring up is how much Shaq loves it, a nugget I learned from its Wikipedia page:

Shaquille O'Neal has named The Warriors as his favorite movie and frequently references it during interviews, particularly Cyrus's line, "Can you dig it?"

Anyway, how much else is there to say about this movie, really. You can just go poke around on that really thorough fan site.

So here's David Patrick Kelly being scary.


And some baseball furies.


And the trailer.