quote:robpop wrote:
Marshall Tucker Band and 38 Special together. This kicks ass. Two of the biggest cracker bands on the planet doin' it for the negros.
Ooh yeah, now that's taking it to the people right there
22nd August 2007 07:46 PM
Bloozehound
Brownsville Station ~ Smokin in the Boys Room
22nd August 2007 08:11 PM
Bloozehound
The Reverend Horton Heat
23rd August 2007 08:10 AM
Nellcote
24th August 2007 04:04 PM
Nellcote
New Boss
24th August 2007 04:09 PM
Nellcote
Now, listen to Tommy Tutone
24th August 2007 10:55 PM
Bloozehound
Gimme Fuel Gimme Fire...
Metallica ~ Fuel
24th August 2007 11:05 PM
Bloozehound
Stones ~ Stray Cat Blues
~~Play Xtra Loud~~
25th August 2007 12:53 AM
MrPleasant
Will be released soon. But you have to finger Gus Van Sant in order to like it.
MALA NOCHE : [8/10] : full title Mala Noche - "Bad Night" : US 1985 : Gus Van Sant : 78m : seen CW 22.8 (public - paid £5.20)
Twenty-and-a-bit years after Mala Noche's virtually non-existent "release", we all know what's become of its feature-debutant director Gus Van Sant. But what on earth can have happened to its star, Tim Streeter, whose wonderfully laid-back, charismatic, scruffily genial charm is as least as impressive and promising as anything Van Sant - or his excellent cinematographer John J Campbell - contributes to the enterprise?
According to the IMDb, the only other screen appearance for Streeter (who looks-wise is a sort of cross between Andrew McCarthy and Kevin Corrigan) is a 1990 episode of 21 Jump Street - and his character's name isn't even listed. It's a cinema-history mystery to rank alongside the disappearance from view of Michael Sacks after 1984 - and hopefully one which may be resolved by the attention surrounding Mala Noche's recent, belated reappearance on the film-festival circuit.
Streeter is the twentyish protagonist/narrator Walt - the script is based on an autobiographical book* by Walt Curtis - who inhabits an area of Portland, Oregon that's either Skid Row or the next best/worst thing. A slacker avant la lettre, Walt by day he works in a neighbourhood liquor-store-cum-general-dealer's, and by night he haunts the kind of bars where the patrons are referred to as "denizens" rather than customers.
All the while he lusts after Mexican teenager Johnny Alonzo, an amour fou which is greeted with bemused tolerance by Johnny and his muchachos. Plot is minimal - Johnny goes to visit relatives in Idaho, and later returns; Walt deals with Johnny's absence and presence. Instead, Mala Noche is all about moods, locations and characters, Campbell's 16mm cinematography capturing the smudgy interface of idealistic desire and grimy reality. Portland is a palpable presence here, the lived-in faces of the denizens/residents in contrast to the coltish energy of Johnny and Walt's freewheelingly lyrical view of life.
The seeds of Van Sant's later work - especially Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, but also Good Will Hunting and perhaps even Elephant - are all discernible here, but Mala Noche is more than just a promising sketchbook of images and ideas. The rough-edged aesthetic on display (including the eclectic, punk-to-mariachi soundtrack) is entirely of a piece with the characters and their environment. Indeed, this is exactly the kind of movie Walt himself - a post-Kerouackish, self-romanticising sort who nevertheless manages to keep both feet on the ground - would have made.
And it's perhaps easy, in 2007, to overlook just how radical a protagonist Walt - completely "straight-acting" but unashamedly and unmistakeably gay - must have seemed back in 1985/6. If, that is, audiences had been given much of a chance to see the movie at all, back in the day.
[Edited by MrPleasant]
25th August 2007 12:56 AM
MrPleasant
25th August 2007 12:59 AM
MrPleasant
Scenes From An Idiot's Marriage!
But watch the original, from Ingmar Bergman. It's not that funny but it's better than Beer Fest.
Ok, that was a low one. Nothing is better than a beer festival. Actually, I'm gonna do one in México City. I'm gonna get drunk and play with the mariachis and kiss some really slutty women.
25th August 2007 01:02 AM
MrPleasant
Nomeansno
25th August 2007 01:04 AM
MrPleasant
Weld - Neil Young & Crazy Horse Part 1
Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LT88kZdgLeU
25th August 2007 01:07 AM
MrPleasant
Bob Dylan's "Sign Language" - recorded originally by Eric Clapton.
25th August 2007 01:10 AM
MrPleasant
"Ow"!
25th August 2007 01:14 AM
MrPleasant
The Wolfman.
Is it just me or do I need acid?
25th August 2007 01:15 AM
MrPleasant
Spoilers. For those who've watched already American Graffiti. A crappy movie with no special FX. (P.S.: I'm just kidding!)
25th August 2007 01:16 AM
MrPleasant
Directed by Robert Altman. (Not the photographer.)
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