new podcast tomorrow

I think I'll call it "Kiss Me Deadly".

sports | roller derby report

Next Monday, the Rat City Rollergirls start selling tickets for their 2010 season, starting on January 31st. If you're in the Seattle area and you like to drink and yell, think about putting that on your calendar.

Furthermore: the latest scores from Derby News Network. That's right--I said "Derby News Network"...what're ya, slow?

a man and his mad, mad book

Understand, before you even read this: This is the Book. It has no rivals.

A few months back, the mailperson dropped this huge box from Amazon on my doorstep (as if I needed MORE physical weight to contend with--the book inside really IS as heavy as advertised). Thanked the mailperson from across the street, because I KNEW what was inside that box--my copy of Stephen Thrower's Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents.

Opened it up and just could NOT understand how one man could construct and compile a volume of reviews, essays and interviews so probing, so thorough, so down-to-the-last-microfiber that any other attempt before it (save, perhaps, old educational favorites like Sleazoid Express) just blows away in the wind. Thrower keeps it real in his commentaries on each film--if something's a piece of garbage, he'll tell you, flat-out. He doesn't mind cracking a joke, but he also works hard to insure that you're thoroughly educated.

If glowing accolades from "Bizarre" magazine, reviewers and critics everywhere and even the late Lux Interior himself don't sell you on this, then I don't know what to say to you. I really don't.

You will FALL INTO THIS BOOK...you'll try to spend Thanksgiving in it. Your friends/family/lovers may have to occasionally pull you OUT of it. It's just that good, just that complete. Don't leave it just lying around in public areas--SERIOUSLY. It will vanish.

And with a second volume on deck for next year, I mean...how can you lose?

You'll find part one of a recent interview with the author, Stephen Thrower, here.

pieter van hees' "black xxx-mas"

For old times' sake, and in the spirit of the holiday season, here it is...the second-ever video uploaded to AtomFilms (back in early 2000), and still one of my personal favorites.

M2OH: "something i dreamed last night"

For the information of the uninitiated:

"M2OH" is the occasional moniker of the incomparable Mary Margaret O'Hara.

But we'll wax poetic about her some other time.

the shanghai pearl requests ur presence

Wherever she might turn up in the city of Seattle, make it your life's purpose to see this woman on stage. But, please...don't tell her I sent you. That would be just weird.

podcast | episode one: "but who was dr. satan?"

REJOICE, SINNERS!...the first official episode of the Saturday Night Movie podcast has arrived. The previous "tester" episode went over well enough to encourage me to continue this little charade, so here it is...in all its soulgothjazzbluessexyspooky glory.

A change of note, for the audiophiles: I'm mixing down to 128k, which provides a somewhat-smaller file size but no loss in sound quality.

Another change of note: I'm posting full playlists for each episode, starting here. Henceforth:

"Nurse Sherry" radio spot > Gene Pitney - "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday"
Iggy Pop - "The Passenger"
Johnny "Guitar" Watson - "Three Hours Past Midnight"
O.V. Wright - "Nickel and a Nail"
Eddie Floyd - "Good Love, Bad Love"
Miles Davis - "Moon Dreams"
Lily Chou-Chou - "Wound That Heals"
Herbert - "Eden"
"Naughty Cheerleader" radio spot > DJ Mitsu the Beats - "My Lament"
Gert Wilden & Orchestra - "Dirty Beat"
Martina Topley-Bird - "Carnies"
Tom Waits - "Circus"
The Ventures - "Night Drive"
Andy Votel - "The Witch (Italy)"
Alison's Halo - "Slowbleed"

Enjoy, leave comments and such.

DOWNLOAD DIRECT or listen in our media player (to your left).

burlesque in color

Don't know how old this is, but here's a surprisingly-useful story from the New York Post on the Brown Girls Burlesque organization. If you'll take a look to your right, I've added a couple of extra resources for you to explore along those same lines...

mashed in plastic: the david lynch mashup album

This project is probably one of the best investments that a Lynch fan can make. Hurry to the website and download the free album/DVD while there's still time...

relaunch

Well, this would be version 2.0 of a blog I used to handle called "Saturday Night Dynamite". Not much difference between the name of this new blog and the old one, but those who remember the old blog will find that a few changes and improvements are in place now.

Among those changes: I officially launched my first podcast. You can listen to it (click the box on your left), or download it from Podomatic. The podcast is the big reason for my overhauling the old site--since it's not available on iTunes (yet), I wanted a better "front-end" for it. A page through which I could present the podcasts to you with a bit more...control?

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new page, the new podcast, and any other new things I come up with.