60's and 70's Exploitation movie radio spots in mp3

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Found Via SexBlo.gs

Internet Archive: M

Fritz Lang's M is now available for download off archive.org
Found Via We Make Money Not Art

IndieInterviews.com - Octopus Project

Garrison Reid at IndieInterviews.com podcasts did a nice interview with The Octopus Project that's up now.

Polish Circus posters

Pat writes:

Found these the other day and thought you might be interested in them. They're really surreal circus posters from Poland. I think most of them are from the 70s and 80s. They're all indexed by artist. There's a lot, but my personal favorites are Jerzy Czerniawski, Rafal Olbinski, Hubert Hilscher, and Waldemar Swierzy, who has a really frightening nude bearded woman.

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MBV Videos encoded for the iPod

I encoded a couple of My Bloody Valentine videos off The Sory of Creation video sampler to play on the new generation iPods. Enjoy.

• Soon


• To Here Knows When


• Only Shallow

Chewy Chewy

My robitussen-ed out cover of the song Chewy Chewy by the Ohio Express.

Slow Wave

Jesse Reklaw of Slow Wave illustrated one of my performance anxiety dreams this week!

LA Weekly: Features: Tony Millionaire

I/V with Tony Millionaire, of Maakies fame.
Found Via GreenCine Daily (which is all about comics today.. huh?)

Walter Murch articles and interviews

At Broadcast

DSC_0550 2, originally uploaded by weevil.

With Kier-La and Chris Laurel at the awesome Broadcast show last night.

Slomo video tour begins!

From Ryan Junell:

THE SLOW MOTION VIDEO FESTIVAL
120 One Minute Slow Motion Videos
Pass the Robitussin! The Slow Motion Video Festival will be dragging its tortoise-like feet across the east coast for three spellbinding dates November 30th, December 3rd, and December 4th. The two hour program includes a ten minute intermission. [...]
East Coast Mini-Tour Winter 2005 (Brooklyn, Providence, Cambridge)
Participating Filmmakers
The program includes many pieces by East Coast-based filmmakers: Lew Baldwin, Bec Stupak, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Sam Zimmerman, Yoshi Sedeoka, Joshua Dickens, Ed Purver, Randy Walters, Sean Effel, Meredith Benton, Ayala Abramovici, Richard Sherman, Max Nova, radar[theory], Corey Smith, Robert Koier, Nick Regalbuto, Melissa Cooperman, Chris Deaner, Raphael "Mudboy" Lyon, Andreas Ingoglia, Sam Cullman, Raafi Rivero, Bryan Christian, Polina Maliken, Zachary Robbins, Tyler Moore, C-trl Labs, David Last, John Goras, Lovid, Brian Perkins, David Redmon, Ashley Sabin, and Bart Leus. The program also includes notable entries from Matmos, H. H. Nobuku, Scott Arford, Jem Finer, A. Mark Liiv, James Matlosz, Virgil Porter, Bruce Bortin, Molli Amara Simon, Parke Gregg, Jules Beesley, Michael Nine, Michelle & Laura Dean, Pea Hicks, and Wiley Wiggins. These are just a few, the full list of participating filmmakers will be online soon. [...]
Help Us Book the Festival for 2006
This mini-tour of the SLOMO VIDEO festival is a quiet sludgey little winter kick off. The festival fully intends to tour slowly throughout 2006. We could use your suggestions on venues and contacts in new towns. Please contact Ryan Junell if you've got the perfect place in mind.

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deadwaiter show, ballet austin

DSC_0371, originally uploaded by weevil.

I shot some stills for a band last night at Ballet Austin.

'Metropolis' film poster sells for record $690,000 - Yahoo! News

LONDON (Reuters) - A poster for the classic German 1920s film "Metropolis" has been sold for a world record $690,000 to a private collector from the United States, the London gallery
which arranged the sale said on Tuesday.
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Thanks Steve!

Vancouver's Fire

Eugenio Mira just sent me the first part of his Cinemuerte video diary, including Kier-La giving a lifetime achievement award to Jack Taylor. Eugenio says he's preparing more diary entries for the personal website he's getting ready to put up, so I told him I'd host his journal here in the meantime. I can't wait for the next one, which will probably include our trip to the karaoke bar...
Quicktime 7 Required tags: podcast, cinemuerte

Kick Ass!

DSCN2885, originally uploaded by weevil.

I wasn't sure he was for real when he said he was going to get it, but Paul from Dfenestrator actually got me the ginormous original fantastic planet poster! It's a freaking 47x63 inch subway poster!!!! Great condition too. I think this is the best birthday present anybody has ever gotten me. I'm going to get it linen-backed and hopefully I'll get the condo I want (it's got a cathedral ceiling in the living room and a great big wall that is BEGGING to have this on it!)

Bedazzled - Practice makes Perfect

Cool video of Wire performing practice makes perfect, Via Spike Priggen's Bedazzled.

filmgurlland: Two of the Best Weeks of My Life: Part 2

Mariko Summers posts about CineMuerte 2005 (her and her husband let me stay at their place for part of my trip.)

Salon.com Books | Sex freaks

Salon has a nice piece about the new graphic novel version of Charles Burns' comic Black Hole. Black Hole is by far my favorite piece of comics art. It's haunting and meaningful in ways that few films or novels are able to pull off. Black Hole cuts effortlessly to the core of sex, identity, and the general horror of being alive and being a teenager.

"Black Hole" is set in the suburbs around Seattle, circa 1974. Its characters are all high school students: they hang out with their cliques, they're cruel or kind to each other in a high school way, they get high on whatever's available, they're dragged along by sexual urges they barely understand. And there's a disease going around, "the bug." Once you get it, your body changes, and everyone notices. You might just get little tadpole-shaped growths on your chest, or bulbous things on your face, or your hair might all fall out, or you might grow a tail, or worse. You are never the same again, and you don't belong at home anymore. "The bug" is, of course, sexually transmitted.

It's not a metaphor for AIDS -- too early -- or for herpes, or even pregnancy (although a sobbing girl tells her philandering boyfriend that "maybe now that I'm starting to SHOW you're getting grossed out and want to move on"; what she's showing is webbing between her fingers). The disease that these scared, horny teenagers are passing on to each other is, basically, sex itself.

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Mister Lonely

Harmony Korine is directing a new film, and my favorite talent crush Samantha Morton is going to be in it. From Cinematical:

Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, and a Michael Jackson impersonator all walk into the Brazillian rain forrest...That's basically the foundation joke on which Harmony korine's new project, is based. According to a report in Screen International, the long-dormant enfant terrible of the 90s indie scene is not only back - he's somehow convinced Anita Pallenberg, Diego Luna, Samantha Morton and Denis Lavant to tag along. Mister Lonely, as we told you last week, is based on a script that Korine wrote with his brother Avi.

Flash!

11062005(025), originally uploaded by weevil.

Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday last night!

Tomorrow's my birthday.

Somebody please buy me this, or this.

Paul Slocum: m y _ h o m e p a g e

Paul Slocum of Tree Wave has made a transcendent 1 minute short out of html and midi files. It's like a living organism constructed out of amateur websites from the early 90's. The audio sounds a little like Brian Whitman and the webpage inspired video is a little like Cory Arcangel's past animated-gif freakouts, but together it's classic Slocum.
Takes a little while to download, be patient.

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | The A.V. Club

The onion AV club reviews Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

News of the Dead audio post, 11/04/05

An experiment. I'll try sticking stuff together once a week or so. I'm going to try to post more video too.

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tags: podcast

Back

Well, I'm back home now. Thanks to Kier-La, Mariko & BJ, Sharon, James, Robin, Danielle, Eugenio, Graham, Taylor, Calem and everyone else who put me up, gave me stuff, or helped make my trip so pleasant.

Check out the awesome laser etched bean sprout in a can that Sharon got me!

Sexploitation Lobby Cards

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Found Via Sexblo.gs

Notes before bedtime.

I should be asleep right now, but I thought I would jot down a note or two about the night before I pass out. The closing film of the festival was Trouble (AKA Duplicity), a French thriller that on a surface level kind of reminded me of Two Sisters Story, but much more solid, and with a plot that, while convoluted, can be resolved with a little attention from the audience. Excellent special effects and good cinematography. Afterwards we went to a Vietnamese Karaoke bar (on the ground floor of a particularly sleazy strip club) and sang and drank overpriced cocktails. (Kier-La surprised me with a completely immaculate rendition of 'Superstar' by the Carpenters).

Ok... Sleep now and plane tomorrow. It's been an excellent vacation for me. When I get back to Austin I'll be getting ready to move into a new place.

Thanks for reading. I'll post some trip pictures when I get back home.