Midnite Movies- Sigh

Sigh- Midnight Sun. Started out as straight Black Metal in the early nineties. First non- Norwegian band signed to Euronymous' Deatlike Silence label. Great great band. Wacky as black as metal ever got.

Midnite Movies: Radiopuhelimet

It would seem this is all I am doing for this blog these days. It's just degenerated into cool and weird music videos, but so be it. This one is by a great Finnish band I was recently introduced to, Radiopuhelimet. Bite it off. I forget what being electric is like.

Midnite Movies- the Slits (Jubilee)

All Hail Discordia. Midnite Movies- KLF

"the KLF have now left the Music Business." With a hail of blank bullets and Extreme Noise Terror, the millionaires in the dance powerhouse duo KLF left the music biz until "peace is declared all over the world," deleting their entire back catalog so as not to be mistaken for a marketing gimmick, and entered into the art world where they began to burn (literally) a lot of the money that had accumulated. All Hail Discordia!

Midnacht Movies: Sun City Girls

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

Midnite Movies: Mysterious Stranger

A Segment from the 1985 Will Vinton "children's" film, "The Adventures of Mark Twain." This scene is taken from a story Twain never completed called, "The Mysterious Stranger." Fun for the whole family!

Midnite Movies: Part of Videodrome

Ala David Cronenberg. Via Alogos. Good Night Kiddiwinks!

Shox Lumania

Band from the 80's my friend James just turned me onto. Their attributes appear to be: being amazing, and impossible to track down. Have the fun suckers.

Midnite Movies: Howls for Sade

Just before this was to begin, Guy Ernest Debord was supposed to step onto the stage and make a few introductory remarks. Had he done so, he would simply have said: "There is no film. Cinema is dead. No more films are possible. If you wish, we can move on to a discussion."

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: Pere Ubu- Birdies

In honor of having just seen them live (they were great by the way). Here's an old clip of Pere Ubu playing "Birdies" from the film Ugh! A Music War. See as many of the old guard as you can. I can't believe I can still see a band like that.

John Cage- Water Walk

Fantastic 1960 Appearance by John Cage on a TV Game Show call "I've Got a Secret." The performance is entitled Water walk.

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.

Virgins from Hell

Midnite Movies: Claude Shannon Juggline Machine

Claude Shannon, the father of Information Theory, unicycling and juggling enthusiast, demonstrating his juggling automaton.

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!