There is so much fun punk or garbage pop punk that is designed to make people dance or be happy fuck that shit I want junk rock like Indianapolis' Sloppy Seconds, their singer is a total homo for Mr. T (he even tries to dress like him) and has yellow playdo lookin hair. Check out their guitar player Danny "Roadkill" Thompson he's a million pounds! And the rest.. these guys do it for the kids( their oldest fan is maybe 14!) Half of their catalog is crappy so I picked all the best tracks! Mighty Heroes name checks Dr. Phibes, Jonathan E. from Rollerball, Bufford Pusser and Evel Knievel all in one sausage and pepperoni stuffed calzone. Manja! Manja! P.S. I think their singer B.A might have eaten the old guitar player he looks fatter.
These are my favorites so if yours isn't on here better luck next time. D
(check out the rad "don't go in the house" cover art)
The one man wrecking machine behind this band is some awesome dude named Ron Graham and considering a good pal of mine bought it offa Amazon and sent it to me I figured it wouldn't hurt to post it. Everyone should support this guy, because we all know how no one can make a living off the internet nowadays especially musicians.(i'm in the same boat like everyone else). This sounds like John Carpenter/ Goblin/ Fabio Frizzi hybrid with a little italian police crime jazz splattered around for good measure. So far no covers but all of these originals are top notch tributes! Buy his other records and check out the flames myspace. here's a cool interview
1. House on the edge of the dark 2.1979 Bronx warriors 3.overdrive 4. analog screams 5.alphataurus 6.the inceptors 7.jazz killer 8.night train murders 9.color climax 10.tenebre viventi 11.requiem for a vampire
Him:Robot are a new sci-fi indie rock band that deserves the public’s attention because they are pretty good. There are no vocals, but they use sound samples and loops that remind me of late night news broadcasts when you are half in a dream state with the TV on in the background. There is a computerized keyboard sound through out each song, very reminiscent of classic nintendo music. A lot of the samples are hard to place, but a couple of them will be familiar to fans of Russ Meyer and old horror film fans. There are no drums and no vocals and as far as I can tell it is all one person responsible for the music. Some of it reminds me of the Howard Shore music in “Videodrome” and it has a classic indie rock feel. They cover one song by The Germs, which has vocals but it is more of a reinterpretation then a straight up cover, which is done well. After awhile it gives you a sticky sweet Nintendo headache like you are trying to pass a massive amount of game levels and are trapped, so I recommend it in small doses. Him:Robot are very original for Oakland which should make them stand out more among all the garage,metal and indie rock bands currently clogging up the club scene, a nice change of pace for what’s musically in the area. http://www.myspace.com/himrobot Also if you’d like to download their music : http://himrobot.yolasite.com/music-robots-make.php
I have no idea who the Hudson Brothers are and don't really care, but they obviously are from a vaudeville time in comedy when wackiness and bad puns were high comedy. Well actually doing a little more research then I wanted to, it looks like they were a teeny bopper outfit (the kind of band that gives those power pop losers a boner). Rod Serling needed the paycheck so I don't fault him but this looks hilariously terrible. The throwing in pop culture references at a mile a minute makes it instantly dated just like those stupid morons Jason friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (HONK HONK get it Seltzer SSSPPRRRRAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY) The idiotic team behind Date Movie/Disaster movie/Epic Movie blah blah you get the idea. Check out the unfunny parody moments in the trailer of shit like The Exorcist/ Friday the 13TH(You're all doomed!) it looks like they got some cool monsters and that freaky dude from Mork and Mindy(Exidor). They even regurgitated that Exorcist joke for Scary Movie, but thats the Wayans Brothers and thats a whole nother ball of wax. (Robert Donner or Exidor)
(the geniuses behind Meet the Spartans)
It's just too annoying to go into detail about The Date movie guys but I 'm always confused by how they think violence and minorities is always hilarious and an impromptu rap song is a sure fire laugh like a rubber chicken or a joy buzzer! You could blow out your brain circuits thinking how these actually made truck loads of money and these Hudson Brother dudes get no credit for inventing this style of horrid comedy, I mean at least with a little credit this guy in the middle could by more manic panic for his faggy beard Jeez Louiez!
The Hudsons now a days (that beard just says it all about wackiness)
If you grew up in the 80's and miss walking around aisles of videos with hideous covers and just get a kick out of the glue and cardboard smell of videos then this is a nice site to check out. Almost every video store in Florida has folded up and left town but here in California there are a few faithful supporters of VHS left. It's amazing that any of them are still open! When I was in Austin a few years ago there is a cool rare video store on every corner (and among criterion shit they rent porn, which obviously pays the bills). Looking at faded video boxes just makes me happier for some odd reason. This dude at cover browser has at least a thousand of them so you can get all your fun happy times there. My friend skunkape used to collect huge video boxes (he had Caligula the untold story) and when I met H.G. Lewis at Amoeba records I told him about how I loved seeing those huge video boxes at different places in Florida(where we are both from) he's such an awesome guy! I actually heard that his favorite fried chicken place in Miami was Bojangles and stalked the place to see if he might stroll in for a bucket, but no such luck. The chicken was kinda oily and the skin was fatty Oh well, it was worth the trip to possibly run into the Godfather of Gore. video store link
(mmm delicious oily chicken!)
more big box fetish people can check out the cinema snob's big box reviews(this guy is a genius in his own right too)
I'm on vacation from this blog because of school and any creativity I can muster will be over at my hangout spot Illogical contraption one of the greatest blogs on the planet Check it out
Out of pure curiosity I bought the bootleg of "Last House on Dead End street" from Chas Balun way back when but now that the magic of youtube continuously slaps us all in the face(by shutting down channels) and gives us awesome gifts like this interview at Cinema Wasteland in 2002. Watch how chipper and high brow Roger Watkins(AKA Terry Hawkins) is and Bill the Quasimodo looking drooling goon with the camera(who wears a Hawaiian Beach Boys type shirt) behave. Don't forget these dudes were slugging it out in slaughter houses and pretending to kill innocent people. I used to think this director was a complete drugout freak scumbag but now I get that it was all a zero budget arthouse film truncated and left to stumble into creepy grindhouses were it found it's faithful audiences. First part of the 6
warning fast foward through the cheesy begining to get to the interview