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Midnacht Movies: Sun City Girls

Sun City Girls- Cloven Theater. Vintage Great Bizzareness. Thanks for reminding me Carl.

Midnite Movies: Brakhage- Comingled Containers

I watched some Brakhage for the first time in a long while earlier tonight. This tiny youtube video is a far cry from how these should be watched, but even so, it remains a beautiful piece of work. You can't watch Brakhage like you would anything else. His films are paths in and around our minds. You have to open yourself up to the "experience." Many many things have been said about his work much more eloquently than the job I am doing right now, but he remains a singular inspiration.

He made over 400 films in his lifetime. The first film I ever saw of his was his last; just weeks before he died. I come back to him every once in a while, and I find that on each return I can see deeper. If this is you first encounter, I hope it finds you well.

Midnite Movies: Arthur Brown- Fire

From Top of the Pops, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

Crispin Glover at Sundance, Everything is Fine!

Crispin Glover in and around Sundance promoting his new movie, "It is Fine, Everything is Fine!" You cna find out even more about Crispin and his new film at {firebreather} because I talked to Crispin Glover about it the other week. It's a singularly arresting and moving film, and he's touring around with it right now, so if he comes to your town, watch out!

Link to Crispin Glover Interview

Midnite Movies: Professor Peabody's Last Lecture

An old Night Gallery episode entitled "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture." Which is straight out of the Lovecraft mythos. More of a fun introduction to all his "Old Ones" than anything, but in the spirit of the coming fall and the month of October, I hope you enjoy.

Also check out my list of some of my favorite short horror stories over at rotovator.

Midnite Movies: Thirteen to Centarus

A JG Ballard story adapted for a British Twilight Zone-esque show calle Out of the Unknown. Great sci-fi from a great mind.

Everything is Permissable...

I don't even know how to react to this ad. Mostly with horror, but it affects me on a number of other levels beyond that.

Lyre Bird of Orpheus

The cold irony of attracting a mate by mimicking the destruction of your world.

Virgins from Hell

The Cramps oughtta be Committed... oh

I know this got BoingBoing'ed and everything already, but goddamn, it's cool! The Cramps live at an institution!

Midnight Movies: Cinema Holocaust!

The first EVER Chicago Cinema Holocaust will be THURSDAY August 2nd at 8:30PM. The location will be 1304 N Western Ave. Apt #3 Chicago, IL 60622. On the East side of Western Ave just one block North from Division on the corner of Western and Potomac above a Puerto Rican restaurant. RSVP by leaving a comment on this post.

The film will be the Herschell Gordon Lewis' classic BLOOD FEAST which will follow about an hour of TERRIBLE, BASE, and PSYCHOTIC trailers, shorts, animations, and otherwise stupid pieces of crap.

Tell everyone to tell everyone. If this goes well, we wil expand and conquer for future showings. Hope to see you all there. Death to decent Cinema!

Video Bizarre

Attention video junkies, psychotic maniacs, gore freaks, exploitation mavens, and cult covetists: come check out and join, and contribute to this great new community over at Video Bizarre. Destined to be a haven for the aforementioned characters. You know, people like me give or take. Regardless, it's an exciting little pocket of the internet I have recently found, and I'm just doing my part to fill it out. See you there.

Midnite Movies: the Huns

Austin's exceptionally volatile the Huns live in 1979.





They couldn't play, they couldn't sing, and they were fucking brilliant. LINK to an excellent article by former Huns drummer Tom Huckabee. Yer welcome!

Gallium

Gallium has a very low melting temperature as demonstrated by the cup of tea.

via periodictableru

Midnite Movies: Wizard of Gore

Inexplicably, the original Wizard of Gore is one of my favorite movies of all time. I have viewed it way more than many "good" movies, and continue to enjoy it more with each viewing. It is a fine wine of a bad movie. There are many subtle tastes and aspects to it that are only revealed to the discerning viewer. To the novice, it is merely an amateurish insufferable hour and a half they will invariably feel was stolen from them. For me it has provided hours and hours of entertainment and more insight into the functions of film making and narrative than any Best Picture Winner I've ever seen.

The Wizard of Gore

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To my joy/ horror (yet to be decided) they recently decided to re-make this gem with none other than Crispin Hellion Glover at the helm. I've no doubt that he will be a more than capable Montag (perhaps too capable), but after finally catching a glimpse of the trailer, I have little hope left for the rest of the film. Although Jeffery Coombs (Herbert West of ReAnimator) has a role, so it's got that going for it, which is nice.



Ultimately it will be up to us to decide what reality really is.

Herschell Gordon Lewis' MySpace page.

Uh-oh!

Some Czech pranksters injected this clip of a nuclear explosion into otherwise peaceful panning shots of daily weather forecasts. The group is called Initiative Ztohoven. They may have a website and some documentation on them, but I sure as hell can't read it. Try and learn English next time guys! Just kidding. Czechoslovakia is a beautiful place. Too bad it got nuked.

The Strange Case of Charlie Ours

For THIS, these kids have been expelled (later reinstated) and now sued by a teacher who they allegedly parody in the film. You can read all about the story here(s):
IndyStar
BoingBoing
Muzzie Award
ABC News
Fox News
MSNBC

This case is of particular interest to me because I grew up with Charlie Ours' brother, Joey Ours. He has sadly passed away, but we were the best of friend and play in the rocking and way ahead of their time punk band the Koaskies when we were about 13. We also made many movies almost EXACTLY this stupid! They never broke the 10 minute mark, whereas this one is supposed to be over an hour, and we never got into any trouble, so good for Charlie. He's already much further along than Joey or I ever made it. Give em hell kids. Now that you've got the Blogosphere at your back, that teacher is probably going to be in a world of trouble he never could have imagined.

Kim Peek: the Real Rainman

Got me through college

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This film actually and truly garnered me a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Animation. The following was my actual proposal.

Film Proposal. At best.


A banana begins to scoot across a kitchen counter, my kitchen counter. At some point it catches on fire. It burns for a while and then begins scooting once again. Then the drawers and cabinets fly open. Knives come out and dangle in the air. Banana stops. Everything returns to normal. Banana moves again. The End.

Most of the film will be rotoscoped. The portions where the least amount of action is happening will be the most labor intensive. Sections with lots of action will be simple or simply source video footage. I want the maximal amount of production for the least amount of product.

It will be one take, one shot. The action will be controlled by strings. It will probably be about a minute in length, but depending on how I’m feeling, it could be anywhere up to 15.


The sound will be that of waves gently rolling in. When the banana catches on fire there will be one sound of a seagull. That is all.


The film will be titled: “A Banana Begins to Scoot Across the Counter. At Some Point It Catches On Fire. Drawers and Cabinets Open Up and Things Come Out of Them. Parts of It are Rotoscoped.” Either that or: “Douglas Kinsey, Resulting in The Great Confusion.” But it wont be called that.

The why is because this is no less pointless than anything else being made. I happen to find it much more hilarious than any scenario I could devise involving any combination of characters involved in humorous menial sturggle. As long as large video game studios are producing games like “Uber Soldier” for thousands of dollars, where you assume the role of a resurrected Nazi super-soldier zombie, fighting with the French Resistance; and movie studios are financing “Jurassic Park 4” in which dinosaurs are crossed with humans, as well as robotic components, which costs millions of dollars. I see no shame in producing the dumbest, least entertaining, least interesting, least funny (except to me) film for absolutely no cost. In that regard I’m clearly the victor. It costs me nothing to not accomplish anything …thereby accomplishing something. Thus we go on and on ad nauseum.

My apologies. I recognize that I am misplaced. It is not my intent to be any more of a pain in the ass than necessary. I merely wish to be left to my own devices, and make these stupid, esoteric films. Oh yes, and graduate college will a BFA in Animation.