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…the Dogwalker. It was lowbudget indy fun. Not great but a fun story. Like letting things happen but it’s so hard in the real world.
MC5 A True Testimony…
Tons of great footage of early shows thru this documentary, amazed at the documentatin that was able to be recovered
Very cool story about the signing to Elektra, Kramer told the rep if he liked them he would definitely love their baby band…The Stooges, MC5 signed for 20,000, Stooges got 5,000
The FBI had some great surveillence film on the 5, Chicago was very unkind to them, riots in the street, tear gas…
Fred Sonic Smiths superhero silver lame suit with cape & flash gordon type of headgear…
Lots of footage from their Euro/Scandinavian tours.
Lots of interviews with all involved, John Sinclair, friends and family, cool german & french interviews. Lot of backlash in the american press, danny fields suggested they call their last album ‘tumor’-> that did not go over well.
Really cool to see all the shows, Sonic Smith with his mosrite…
Funniest part was Anne Murray warning up for the 5 on a local windsor ontario morning show…wonder if she did snow bird
Hellacopters were part of the testimonials, yelling out ‘ kick out the jams motherfuckers’ in Swedish repeatedly…:aliensmile:
Also watched a dvd with a performance by The Sonic Rendezvous Band playing City Slang. Not sure what it was shot on, grainy at times but for the most part pretty damn pleasing, Sonic on guitar, Scott Morgon on guitar…
Also on that DVD, Patti Smith show from 91, think Sonic Smith played with her at that poing. also what looks like local cable access show in detroit interviewing Scott Morgan, he does a couple acoustic songs from waaayyy back in time.
"Coma Girl" wrote:Funniest part was Anne Murray warning up for the 5 on a local windsor ontario morning show…wonder if she did snow bird
As long as she did`nt attempt Kick Out The Jams
Did you ever see the Snowbird album cover?psychedelic lettering? 
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Thats a very scary cover
~4am in a frozen inebriated state, flipping the channels, I came across The Flaming Lips on Austin City Limits. Shocked & unbelievably pleased, they were very entertaining as usual. I only caught 3 songs, War Pigs with Cat Power on guitar & vocals
Somewhere Over The Rainbow with Steven Drozds father on sax, Wayne Coyne playing a Theramin 
They finished with She Don’t Use Jelly… I set the timer to record a later showing, seems I set it for monday instead of sunday…
The Life Aquatic…
Wickedly fun movie, tons of great characters, soundtrack thats hard to beat. I don’t get people panning this film, I had fun from start to finish, Fat Albert movie received a better review here
Mark Mothersbaugh put the soundtrack together, tons of Bowie, Zombies & the best use of The Stooges Search & Destroy…Bill Murray in a blue speedo saves the day to Search & Destroy
Definitely recommend seeing the film, I may go again
Also saw the film Mayor of The Sunset Strip, show about Rodney Bingenheimer & fame. Interesting enough, some brief but pleasing cameos by Joey Ramone, David Bowie, cool shots of Iggy…
caught a Canadian Documentary on Table Hockey recently, it was hilarious!!! These guys definitely have a passion for the game, leagues all over the country. The Swedish world champ & his team were mocking Canadian TH skills, incensed some Canadians to the max with their Canada sucks sucks sucks sucks bit after they won the championship…
This is a description of the show from the maker, Triad Films
Bordshockey, Tisch Eis-Hockey, Stolnî Hokej, Table Hockey. No matter where you are or what you call it the reaction is almost always the same, “Hey, I had one of those!â€
…When the party’s over. I think that was what it was called. It was horrible. Can’t believe i watched it the whole way through. Starred a young Sandra Bullock. One of my old roommates was a big fan of hers and oddly i hadn’t scene it as he owned most of her films. It was about a bunch of 20 somthings coming to grips with being adults in L.A. I watched it beacuse i hadn’t watched any movies in a while and it was on and i was bored, plus i’d have an excuse to post here which i did and now am done…
…Lost and Delirious. A fine film from our good friends in Canada. It stars a young Mischa Barton of tv’s number one teen drama, the O.C.. The movie takes place at an all girls boarding school, which seems like a nice place to be. Caught it on the Indepent Film channel which is fun because it plays alot of letterboxed films, which is the best kind…
2046 by Wong Kar Wai.
the movie plays in Hongkong in the 1960’s in a seedy hotel, it’s about chinese people celebrating christmas in the rooms # 2046 and 2047 …the plot is rather minor (but not unimportant) to what threw me completely over: the drama! the beauty! the colours!
devastatingly beautiful movie!
"Coma Girl" wrote:The Table Hockey MovieThis is a movie I need to see. Films that document sort of marginal communities and interests are fun&interesting.
No wonder the swedes rule, they have Stiga for f***s sake.Christmas eve ’84, santa is late. Way late. The natives are growing restless. My dad decides that santa can be santa all he wants, but he’s not going to let what started as a nice and friendly family evening turn into total pandemonium, so he declares that he’s got a special gift.
-exit right.
-enters five minutes later with the biggest gift I’d seen to date. A sparkling Stiga tablehockey game. With the two teams being the yello&blue swedes & the white,blue&red norwegians. Big cheers.
My granddad, dad, two uncles, 3 cousins and I let the normal christmas eve formalities slide and played from about 21.00 until early next morning. After a while we were kicked out of the livingroom upstairs and had to retreat to the downstairs livingroom. We didn’t mind. The ladies could have their cake & whatnots. We had sports. Competition. Brotherhood.
At about 4 in the morning my dad carried me into my bedroom.That is the best christmas ever. And one of the best nights of my life.
Probably the best.Movies about geeks are always cool, of course I’m using the term geek in a positive way
Couple other documentarys worth checking out are Word Wars & I Curmudgeon…more stories about geeks
Word Wars is about Scrabble players, how they study & train for scrabble tournaments thru the year, follows several players thru couple tournaments, exhibitions etc. Very cool the way their brains have adapted to the game, different training techniques, lots of the top players adapt their life to fit around the game, working sporadically so they can devote most of their time to their passion of playing the game. I Curmudgeon is a documentary about Curmudgeons, more than a few wickedly funny guests, although some people in this film seem neurotically driven to express their negativity at any chance they can get, but hey
Cool story about the Stiga game at Christmas, sounds like a great time, and very pleasing memory
curmudgeon is a cranky, opionionated negative type of geek
Mystery Train by Jim Jarmusch, saw it years ago but think I appreciated the coolness of it all more this time. Steve Buscemi as Charlie The Barber, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins as the nite desk clerk at a very seedy hotel in Memphis, Joe Strummer as Johnny aka Elvis
Gotta love the Lost In Space chapters, my fav of the three stories, although Far From Yokohama is a close 2nd.Definitely recommend this film, very pleasing soundtrack as well
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Plot Summary for
Mystery Train (1989)
A Japanese couple obsessed with 1950s America goes to Memphis because the male half of the couple emulates Carl Perkins. Chance encounters link three different stories in the city, with the common thread being the seedy hotel where they are all staying.Summary written by Ed Sutton {esutton@mindspring.com}
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