They’re reissuing the first two ALAN VEGA solo records (1980/81) and somehow there’s a new video for Ice Drummer! youtu.be/2nxCodtSows

Any day an oral history of Dark Star appears on the timeline is a good one.

1. Phantom Menace Teaser Trailer 2. Empire Strikes Back prevue in Time Magazine 3.Secrets of the Empire VR experience with my 8 yr old, his friend, and his friend’s dad 4. Hardware Wars on 16mm at the Omnicon 5. Rise of the Resistance Star Destroyer reveal 6. Star Wars Hotel doc by Jenny Nicholson

Shame about Udo Kier, one of the coolest to ever do it. Somehow he once materialized at a 237 party while we were in full swing and pitched me on the idea of rebooting ‘The Hands of Orlock’ which I sure would have loved to do.

Thread

Finally saw Weapons - and liked it a lot! Barely worth a post, I suppose, admittedly late to the game and co-signing the consensus opinion but I've already sunk well over 160 characters into this post - 200 now, may as well see it though to the bitter end.

Somehow I still don’t know what these hamburger helper jokes are talking about, seeing if I can keep it going until they fade away.

THE VANITY PROJECT PODCAST: TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THE STORY BEHIND STUDENT CONFIDENTIAL!

Love those classic Looney Tunes? Thrill and delight as Porky Pig is flattened between two sheets of glass!

I don’t think Cavett or Carson ever ended a show with a game of Russian Roulette (in this case Angie Dickinson firing a gun with 5 blanks and one live round at him while blindfolded and tied to a chair)

He really directs the heck out of them Muppets www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_U...

Happy 89th Birthday Dick Cavett, thank you for making television that would absolutely never be made by a major broadcast network any more, like letting Orson Welles perform a 9 minute monologue on ABC

In 1979 Orson reinvented the talk show in ways they still haven’t caught up to. Imagine if there were a few seasons of this and not just this never-aired pilot? youtu.be/i-gR0_pcFJE

Thought-provoking piece on Gilbert Hernandez, exploring both the more outrageous aspects of his work (stuff that is often left out of the discussion) and the idea of 'Late Period Work' in a way that applies to most any artist who is lucky enough to have one. www.tcj.com/latesploitat...

After his rude, lecherous, and unfunny treatment of Debbie Reynolds on last night’s Cavett, Groucho is banned on our tv for 6 months.

The 1st episode of my friend Nick McCarthy's 'THE VANITY PROJECT' just dropped. Now you can hear in one beautifully presented (by @grahamreznick.bsky.social + others) package a story I've been following in jaw-dropping bits & pieces for years... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTtM...

Mandatory listening

Some double feature ideas:

Dick Cavett Hollywood Greats Disc 4, Orson Welles then Disc 3, Mel Brooks/Frank Capra/Robert Altman/Peter Bogdanovich, paused midway to watch the avalanche scene from Buster Keaton’s Seven Veils on YouTube, then resumed, followed by The Other Side of the Wind, and now what? youtu.be/H_kOsnGzfYY

Rainy Saturday morning let’s go

Finally—back to my drawing board. It's been a long, long time I couldn't even set foot into my studio (our late son Mike did the electrical wiring & work; the hole in my soul the size of Mike was just... to... raw). Relieved I still have some drawing chops left.

This is wrong. We should not trap the souls of dead people in computers. Souls should be trapped in amulets

Thx @cinemaeyehonors.bsky.social so glad to see Syd, Chris, and David (among other folks) work called out!

“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s making of “Breathless,” “both shows the fashioning of the New Wave as a modern myth and confirms the enduring power of that myth,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/BdzrsR

NOUVELLE VAGUE (projected on film at the Vista) was a complete delight on a night when I needed one. Now making plans to movie to 1959 Paris.

Late to the party but William Castle’s MACABRE has some great BW photography, doesn’t it?

An excellent piece of the 90s SHADE THE CHANGING reboot and its continuing relevance. @jamesgunn.bsky.social , is this one a candidate for an adaption? Maybe with Yorgos Lanthimos or Coralie Fargeat?

Feels like a night to spin this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1We...

Playing the boy’s favorite airport game ‘rate the plane liveries’ and he shocked me with the very best one, an airline I’d never heard of. TBF, CARGOLUX has the cargo plane advantage of no windows to fudge design elements around.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

At the airport now for a return to ATA/Other Cinema with a one-time-only selection of shorts (some going back to the 20th century)

This episode of Night Gallery did a number on me tonight

🟠1977 produced this AMAZING quadrilogy of films that are about how America is a place where you go to worship death.

In the wild

If you've never listened to them take a listen to "Nothing Is Safe" from the album. And if that's your jam, throw the album on. youtu.be/fIrpLBShe1A?...

The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats DVD box set, disc 4 (rented from Videotheque (at Ave 41 and Fig) is the platonic ideal of Dick Cavett that my wife and I have been jonesing for. Mitchum, Welles, and Hitchcock. Haven't clicked on the Alfred yet but the Orson's appearance here is just sublime.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Caught the end of the Series game last night and watched (the excellent, one of a kind) EEPHUS on Sunday. Am I turning into a guy who watches Baseball?

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I hear this one’s pretty good

Not all heroes wear capes

Tonite I learned about live-streaming /fan-created / real-time game simulations

This version of Total Recall sucks.

Very looking forward to revisiting my SF days with a screening of shorts at the legendary Craig Baldwin's OTHER CINEMA in the heart of the Mission District. Hope to see you there! For more info, check their insanely inspirational and adventurous calendar at: www.othercinema.com/calendar/ind...

So how about we do Robert Downey Jr as circa-1971 Robert Mitchum in something? www.tiktok.com/@hollywoodno...

Reading this essay by Mary Gaitskill about the nature of violence made me very curious about a Rob Zombie’s Halloween tribute video that haunted her thepointmag.com/examined-lif...