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.

Mason's Green Peaness (episode 33)

Delay in posting but not in casting. Here it is.

Music this time was by Allison Weiss, off her album An Eight-Song Tribute to Feeling Bad and Feeling Better, which you can buy here. She's got tons of crap on her site and is a member of every social networking site ever. The first song was "Perfectly Alright" and the second "I'm Ready."

Here's the best poster I could find for I Bury the Living (1958). I didn't mention that its tagline was " THE MOST SPINE-CHILLING CRY THAT EVER FROZE THE BLOOD!" because I didn't know, but now I'm sorry I didn't. Directed by Albert Band. Also featured on a cheapo monster show, on which dudes who seem a little Man Show-ish dress up like the characters.



What else do we have to say about that? I guess you need to listen to the podcast again.

Here's the poster for Murder by Decree (1979).

The German poster, that is, which is my favorite that I found. I like little character box posters.

It was directed by the late Bob Clark and features a ton of good acting/-ors, like Donald Sutherland:

Jared also mentioned this movie, which looks great:

I'm sure there are more links I should be posting, but I also want to get this up. Oh, also, this is not the website Jared mentioned, but it is called Canuxploitation and devoted to such. Oh what a joy when our podcasting interests overlap.