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?