It’s A Terrible Movie, Tonight!
Ugh! This opening at the theatre came up on short notice, so I’ve had barely a week to promote it, but, just in case you missed my earlier talk about it, in the roundup, I’ll be hosting It’s a Terrible Movie tonight at CoHo, with Kiala Kazabee and Scott McCarty helping me to provide MST3k style commentary on the film.
We’re going to watch, and make fun of, the ol’ Gremlin’s knock-off Critters. Which actually has a lot of really great moments. Interstellar bounty hunters disguised as rock stars, people! Bring some beer and yell at the movie yourself!
Plus. Neelix from Star Trek Voyager as a cop, if you’re into that sort of thing. He dies. Oh sorry. SPOILER ALERT!
Wed, Aug 26th 7:30 PM
CoHo Productions, 2257 NW Raleigh
$5-10 sliding scale
Portland Media Roundup: Hard Ticket to Jury Duty
Go Do Something Anatomically Impossible To Yourself – According to a report in the Oregonian, by Mark Larabee, which I found on Randy Leonard’s blog, (Okay. Maybe I’ll stop calling it boring for a second again.) Randy Leonard got into it with a driver on the set of Leverage, as he was going to City Hall. The driver yelled something derogatory about Leonard impeding the recall campaign and Leonard isn’t one to back down from a fight. He later said of his altercation with the guy, “I told him that he could do to himself something that is anatomically impossible,”. So he basically told the trucker to turn his body inside out and play his kidneys like castanets? Points for Randy Leonard!
You’ve Got Jury Duty in Seattle! PWNT! – Portland Sucks podcaster Robert Wagner has been shanghaied!
Well, sorta. Apparently Wagner has maintained ownership of a property in Seattle during the four years he’s been here. He received a summons for a case that was eventually dismissed, followed by another one for a new case. Despite repeated attempts and people telling him they’d get him off the list, his requests to be removed due to non-residence in King County, WA have been DENIED. If he doesn’t go he gets a warrant issued for his arrest. So, Robert. I guess that trip we planned to the new Church’s chicken in Vancouver is off?*
It’s a Nice Place to Visit, but You Wouldn’t Want to Die There – The Mercury is having a little shindig in the parking lot on Thursday for readers and staff. We’re going to watch Hard Ticket to Hawaii at dusk. Sarah Mirk is in charge of running the event and I just happen to have the DVD in my computer right now. She forgot it when we were testing the projector! Muahah! Anyway. It’s one of the most hilarious bad movies ever. You don’t want to miss it.
*This is a lie. Robert Wagner and I have never made any plans to hang out anywhere, at all. But it would probably be pretty fun if we did, as long as we stayed away from Taco Bell.
Portland Media Roundup! Furbles! Surgery Money!
it’s been a little while, my cupcakes, but now we’re off (er, on) again!
Maybe, Just One More Post – The Portland Mercury Arts Editor, Alison Hallett seems to be developing an unhealthy fascination with local KJ and vocalist Brian Perez. After her second post in two weeks about him, Brian contacted her on Facebook to ask for money. He needs 2k by tomorrow to pay back his dealer fix a torn ACL that he damaged during patriotic July 4th stage antics. (Way to go, Steven Tyler.)
I’ve talked to Brian a few times (he likes hanging out at Chopsticks), and he seems like a pretty good guy, even though he’s a competitor for karaoke regulars on my Tuesday and he eats babies.
Brian Perez. No, wait. Sorry. That's a critter.
Critters! Furbles! – This Wednesday at CoHo Productions’ theatre, in NW Portland. Freelance writer Kiala Kazabee, jewelry artist Scott McCarty and I will watch Critters for It’s a Terrible Movie. And we’ll make fun of flying furballs eating dumb yokels and it’ll be cool and you can yell too and bring beer. This is gonna be a fun one.
Screen shot from the recall site.Gwildor Loves You
What do you do when you’ve been commissioned to make a fantasy cartoon based on toys into a live-action feature film? Keep in mind that it’s the 80’s, and you’ve been given $17 million or so. Hiring Henson’s people is out. Besides, they’re working on A Muppet Family Christmas. The cartoon has, among other whimsical and fantastic characters, a giant, green, talking cat, and a floating wizard with no face. How do you afford to depict such supernatural characters?
Well. If you’re working for Golan Globus, you axe the cat altogether. Then, you take Orco, the floating wizard out, and give him a goofy character analogue comprised of Billy Barty with stretched out ballsac prosthesis on his face and have him run around making stupid grins, talking to cows, and being generally loveable. (Please kill it.)
Gwildor is only one thing that makes Masters of the Universe a hilarious crapfest of a film. For example, they also give Dolph Lundgren a speaking part. (Even though they don’t let him talk, too much.)
If you want to subject yourself to this movie, (you know you do, masochist) while I make fun of it with Fatboy Roberts and Erik Henriksen, come see it on Sunday at 10pm at Coho Productions! You can yell at it, too. This movie deserves it. It’s a terrible movie!
OH NO!
TWITTER IS DOWN, I THINK, GUYS! AHHHHHHH!!!!
courtesy rickscully
OMGOMGOMGOMG. Never mind. It’s back up now.
UPDATE: OMG It’s down again! WHYYYYYYYY!?!
UPDATE 2: Okay. It’s up again. Whew!
UPDATE 3: OMG OMG. WTF IS HAPPENING!
Amy Troy Whut?
Congratulations to KGW’s Amy Troy who won an eating contest today to benefit the arts and athletic education. [ Oregon Media Central ]
I clicked on Amy’s bio link to learn more about her. Due to some kind of formatting mistake, I was greeted by something similar to the phrase Vonnegut uses to describe the American National Anthem, “gibberish sprinkled with question marks.” Anyone else get that?
(Breakfast of Champions. Multnomah Co. Library offers a downloadable audio version you can “check out”.)
Congratulations, Amy!
Mojitos?
Here’s a photo from Sam Adams’ website. He’s with the new City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade (what a name!) The willingness to put a photo like this on his own website? Just another reason why Sam is an awesome mayor.
MOJITOS!!!
Captions? Mine is MOJITOS!!!
Tara Dublin and the Future of Local Radio
Today is a beautiful day for a walk. I just went down to the local currency exchange, up in Hollywood, to cash some checks. While soaking up the sun and shade, I listened to the PDXSucks podcast episode from this morning, featuring guest Tara Dublin.
I never listened to Tara when she was a host on KNRK 94/7, and I scarcely knew who she was until a few weeks ago. After reading some of her writing, and hearing her talk on Wagner’s morning show, it’s quite clear that whoever is behind KNRK is indeed clueless and he should be kicking himself in the head right about now. Tara is talented, magnetic, and smart, and a local radio station replaced her with automated music. (Something we all have in our pockets already, right?)
Tara contends, and I agree, that best thing local radio has to offer these days is local personality. Why would I want to listen to an iPod with no labels, interspersed with commercials, when I have thousands of commercial-free, streaming stations at my disposal? Why would I want to listen to any syndicated personality who lives thousands of miles away when I can pick and choose from any number of thousands of independently produced podcasts, (free to acquire, and commercial free) made by people who are unfettered from conservative, tight-lipped corporate control?
The only local radio station I listen to is KUFO, sometimes, (I’ll usually just check out the podcast.) because of local radio personalities Cort and Fatboy. Seems like Tara really hit the nail on the head here. If I’d fired her, I would be calling her up right about now, begging to have her back on the air. I’d be grovelling on my clueless, old, white guy knees.
It’s a Terrible Movie!
Get your calendars up and get ready to wipe off whatever you have scheduled for Sunday the 16th of August, at 10pm. Sleeping for work the next day? Cancel work! Screw it!
