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eerietomThe Killer Shrews (MST3K version), dir. Ray Kellogg, 1959
Jade Dagger Ninja, dir. Roc Tien, 1982
Having seen dozens of kung fu films, I don’t understand why the directors listed in the credits often don’t match the directors listed at imdb.com. This is another example, but in these little reviews I write, I usually favor what’s listed in the film. Jade was a lot of fun. The version I saw had hyper-saturated colors and high black point/low white point levels, giving the film an almost cartoon-like appearance. Night scenes were purely abstract: brightly colored highlights floating on a black background. At the beginning of Jade, a character appears wearing some kind of woven hat, but depending on the angle, it looked like a cheese pizza, a piece of flatbread, a cheese wheel, or a tiny flying saucer (with the alien pilot’s head and shoulders sticking out of the top). It was impossible anyone seriously when he’s wearing a pizza on his head, and I think I broke my brain laughing. It was the best laughing fit I’ve had since I listened to a musical version of The Blob by Dynamicaracket a few months ago, when I imagined Patti Lupone singing a song about taking a dump.
Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, 1969
Finally, I got around to listening to the last of the five albums described by dangerousminds.net as "the most ground-breaking and far-out things ever recorded", which includes The Dreaming (1982) by Kate Bush (my favorite album of all time), Nunsexmonkrock (1982) by Nina Hagen (another major favorite), My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) by Brian Eno and David Byrne, and Metal Box (1979) by Public Image Ltd. I’d actually heard Trout once many years ago, and while I didn’t dislike it, it didn’t make much impression on me, either. Well, talk about a 180! Rather than describe it in superlatives, I’ll just say that it sounds like something my brother and I would’ve recorded (as The Weird Brothers) if we had been more influenced by jazz than rock or punk.
You’ll Find Out, dir. David Butler, 1940
Jade Dagger Ninja, dir. Roc Tien, 1982
Having seen dozens of kung fu films, I don’t understand why the directors listed in the credits often don’t match the directors listed at imdb.com. This is another example, but in these little reviews I write, I usually favor what’s listed in the film. Jade was a lot of fun. The version I saw had hyper-saturated colors and high black point/low white point levels, giving the film an almost cartoon-like appearance. Night scenes were purely abstract: brightly colored highlights floating on a black background. At the beginning of Jade, a character appears wearing some kind of woven hat, but depending on the angle, it looked like a cheese pizza, a piece of flatbread, a cheese wheel, or a tiny flying saucer (with the alien pilot’s head and shoulders sticking out of the top). It was impossible anyone seriously when he’s wearing a pizza on his head, and I think I broke my brain laughing. It was the best laughing fit I’ve had since I listened to a musical version of The Blob by Dynamicaracket a few months ago, when I imagined Patti Lupone singing a song about taking a dump.
Trout Mask Replica, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, 1969
Finally, I got around to listening to the last of the five albums described by dangerousminds.net as "the most ground-breaking and far-out things ever recorded", which includes The Dreaming (1982) by Kate Bush (my favorite album of all time), Nunsexmonkrock (1982) by Nina Hagen (another major favorite), My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) by Brian Eno and David Byrne, and Metal Box (1979) by Public Image Ltd. I’d actually heard Trout once many years ago, and while I didn’t dislike it, it didn’t make much impression on me, either. Well, talk about a 180! Rather than describe it in superlatives, I’ll just say that it sounds like something my brother and I would’ve recorded (as The Weird Brothers) if we had been more influenced by jazz than rock or punk.
You’ll Find Out, dir. David Butler, 1940
