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DJ Psycho Mike spins Mash ups in Chicago, runs the Psychotronic Film Society at http://www.psychotronic.info
writes and directs film and theatre including the play and movie BETTIE PAGE UNCENSORED.
He also collects wild links on the web!
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Feb 26, 2008
Surf W/Wild Documentarys!
We are still stuck with re-runs for two months- or are we? These fascinating documentaries are a welcome alternative to seeing the same episode of GOSSIP GIRL for the 12th time. No download necessary, these are streaming.
SPECIAL THEME: GREAT DOCUMENTARIES TO WATCH BECAUSE IT'S STILL MOSTLY RE-RUNS ON TV!
"This Film Is Not Yet Rated" is a documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick and producer Eddie Schmidt - a breakthrough investigation into the MPAA film ratings system and its profound effect on American culture
This is astonishing. Shocking and scary. Life in Socialist North Korea.
Some say I could find a way to post hot girls pics even if I was writing about a dictatorship. Where do they get that idea?
Himmler's dream to breed Aryan children for Hitler's Reich
Himmler picking flowers!
The story of how the Russians took Berlin- that was written out of our history books
I have to admit, my understanding and respect of Paris Hilton actually increased after watching PARIS HILTON, INC. Ever wonder how she makes money (and she makes an incredible amount world wide that Americans don't know about), well, you may think differently about Paris after watching this too. By the way, on her own right now, she is worth 250 million dollars. Most of that is from abroad. Damn.
This documentary on Marc Bolan, originally shown on BBC 4, has been timed to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the teen idols tragic death in a car crash. Narrated by fellow glam-rock star Suzi Quatro, it examines Bolans childhood ambitions of fame and where it led him, using previously lost TV and radio interviews, rediscovered Top of the Pops recordings, unseen concert footage and unique home movies.
I am very glad I got to see T.Rex on the U.S. tour
A dramatised documentary following the experiences of Henry Metelmann, a German soldier caught up in the most destructive conflict in history - Hitlers invasion of Russia. The film travels the route that Metelmann and his fellow soldiers took and sees how the choices he made meant he emerged from the war a brutalised man. The film is Metalmanns confession delivered in mostly dramatised scenes from his life at war, intercut with archive clips and contemporary reflections. http://openflv.com/watch?v=NjI2ODY4MQ==&p=0
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
He was both a visionary and a manipulator, a brilliant orator and a pompous autocrat. In just ten years following his emigration to the United States as a laborer in 1917, Marcus Garvey rose to lead the largest black organization in history, was taken to prison in handcuffs. Marcus Garvey is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of an African American leader who influenced politics and culture around the world.
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Feb 25, 2008
SurfW/ NY Times Time Machine!
THE MOLE PEOPLE: COOL MOVIE IN COMICSTRIP FORM!, HOW TO SNEAK INTO AMERICA, CASTRO'S SECRETS, PHOTOS BY RICHARD AVEDON, KOREANS MAKE A KICK ASS MONSTER MOVIE!
When Sarah Silverman did her song about f'ing Matt Damon on Kimmel's show I laughed my butt off. Guess what. Jimmy Kimmel's response blows that out of the water. Absolutely brilliant. Not ok for work. Pure genius. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lcmNaXmjvs
The coolest one shot magazine based on a really good monster movie, THE MOLE PEOPLE!
MojoPojo sends us this pamphlet from the Mexican government on how to sneak into America. No, I'm not kidding.
For lovers of short stories, imaginative radio shows, old time radio with a horror, science fiction slant- this is a great website!
I don't know what's going on in Phillipine prisons, but Hot Rod Truckin' Girl sends us this footage of inmates practicing mass line dancing!
It is one of the best monster movies I have ever seen. Made in Korea, this is a 2 bowls of popcorn experience. THE HOST. Astonishing.
TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
3rd Street Chalk Animation. Stunning, beyond belief, brilliant. NOT PHOTOSHOPPED! Bet you send this around!
Posted at 12:23 pm by Psychomike
Feb 24, 2008
Surf W/Barbie Tarot Cards!
THE INCREDIBLE FUTURE OF TATTOOS!, GUESS WHO IS BANNED FROM OSCAR PARTIES?, MUSLIMS PROTEST DORITO'S?, THE SADDEST SEX OFFENDER STORY YOU WILL EVER READ, LIBERALS OUT TO SHUT DOWN FIREPLACES!
On the day of the 80th annual Academy Awards, the top 10 films which should have won an Oscar but didn't
MojoPojo sends us this link to the group that organized the above amazing event:
The day Ayn Rand appeared before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee
Subgenius Slack now has a key to all the posts! What were the countercultures like from bikers at the end of World War 2 to beats, diggers, hippies, punks and SubGenii? You can pick your post to read!
Comedy guru and my partner for 10 years, Del Close
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, an "enfant terrible" of France's literary establishment who helped found the New Novel school in the 1950s, died on Monday aged 85, his publishers said.
Robbe-Grillet became a cult figure among France's postwar intelligentsia with a genre of novel-writing that rejected conventions such as plot, characterization and emotion.
It effectively launched a type of semi-philosophical fiction in which nothing much happens but a vast amount is noticed, imagined or thought. http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSL184620420080219?sp=true
Boy, 16, has sex with girl, 13, and now is a registered sex offender for life.
Liberals from California to Chicago have declared war on pizza joints, buildings with fireplaces and any place that has a fireplace. In Europe, No Smoking bans are being lifted in nation after nation as silly and intrusive. Here, the war continues. I guess we caught all the terrorists......
Ten cities with strange names, not ok for work. Sent in by Richard Crowe.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
THE FUTURE OF TATTOOS!
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Feb 22, 2008
MUSIC BOX HORROR FEST, FEATHER DEATH CROWNS, AMERICA'S HOTTEST CHEERLEADERS, AMERICAN WOMEN : NO SEX AS THEY AGE, THE SEX PREDATORS ON THE NET HOAX, NADER IS GOING TO RUN!
Ralph Nader has a big announcement for Sunday, and you can guess what it is by his press release.
Here is a shocker the press hasn't caught yet. Legally a woman can not be elected President!
Chicago ghost hunter Richard Crowe sends us this amazing site of Chinese communist statues and what they mean
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Richard Crowe sends us the FBI online history of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre- pointing out that the FBI gets Bugs Moran's name wrong!
Richard Crowe does ghost tours around Chicago (though truth be told it is as much a hidden tour of Chicago's history as it is a supernatural tour) and you will have fun at his events.
Friday, February 22
Friday the 13th
| 10:00pm Sean S. Cunningham, 1980, 95m Introduced by the original cast LIVE!. New 35mm Print!  Inside (A l'Intrieur)
| midnight Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury, 2007, 83m The Chicago Premiere of the new French horror film that Fangoria calls a rollercoaster gone off the gore-drenched rails!  Saturday, February 23
Nightmare on Elm Street
| 10:00pm Wes Craven, 1984, 91m Introduced by Robert Englund In Person!New 35mm Print!  Swamp Thing
This should keep you warm. America's hottest cheerleaders. The Bears haven't won a Superbowl since we got rid of ours. Hmmmmmmmmm
If I have to get old, I want to do it in Paris.
It's not because of the dank weather, the constant personal snubs or a fetish for unpasteurized cheese. It's because, quite frankly, I'd like to keep having sex.
In the United States, my odds would be grim. Through our 40s, we American women manage to arrange romps on a fairly regular basis. But the latest national statistics show that by our 50s, a third of us haven't had sex in the last year. By our 60s, nearly half have gone sexless in the previous year. Once we hit our 70s, most of us might as well hang up an "out of business" sign.
So much for the gym-bodied baby boomers who promised to make 60 the new 40, using Botox as an aphrodisiac. Among today's 50-plus women, the problem of sexlessness is as bad or worse than it was for older women two decades ago.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008020801607.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
It is the favorite scare story of the press today- millions of sex predators roam the internet seeking out children. There is only one problem. It isn't true.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
The Great Louis Armstrong plays RHAPSODY IN BLACK AND BLUE. This one is a must! From 1932!
Posted at 11:59 am by Psychomike
Feb 21, 2008
Surf W/Superdelegate Secrets
HAVE SEX WITH A CARTOON CHARACTER, SPIDERS ON DRUGS, IS CASTRO DEAD?, THE $140,OOO HOT WHEELS CAR, ARE SUPERDELEGATES DEMOCRATIC?, DID OBAMA BORROW HIS SLOGAN?
At 3 am in the morning Cuba announced that Castro had stepped down as leader of Cuba. This seemed like an odd time to announce both this act and a quickly devised election. Could it be that Castro is dead? What is Castro's story anyway? Read this article for facts no Western publications will print when the announcement of his death is finally made. (When was the last time the press mentioned Castro's plot to bomb department stores in NYC - and blame the Russians, thus starting a nuclear war?).
This $140,000 Hot Wheels car is allegedly the most expensive toy car in the world, created to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Mattel's tiny cars and show why Humanity has way too much free time. Why is it so expensive? As you can see in the glittery images, it is all about the 23-carat bling-bling.
The press only just began mentioning the Superdelegate process. Hillary may lose primary after primary, but she still leads in superdelegates. She can still get the nomination even without the primary votes! Is this really democratic? Or backroom shenannigans?
| Candidate |
Delegates
(AP) |
Super
delegates |
Total |
| Obama |
1178 |
167.5 |
1345.5 |
| Clinton |
1025 |
238.0 |
1263.0 |
Ever wanna plug a cartoon character? Well for $7,500 (plus S/H) now you can. Designed by the creator of Realdoll, these sex dolls have little to nothing in common with real life women. http://www.boytoydolls.com/home.html
In a Washington Post column, Darius Rejali, author of Torture and Democracy, explains why five beliefs about torture are wrong. In a Harper's interview, he answers six questions. "Yes, torture does migrate, and there are some good examples of it both in American and French history. The basic idea here is that soldiers who get ahead torturing come back and take jobs as policemen, and private security, and they get ahead doing the same things they did in the army. And so torture comes home. Everyone knows waterboarding, but no one remembers that it was American soldiers coming back from the Philippines that introduced it to police in the early twentieth century."
When the Cherokee Indians issued these words: "the Cherokees, long divided in opinion, became unanimous, and like their brethren, the Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws, and Chickasaws, determined, by the undivided voice of a General Convention of all the people, held at Tahlequah, on the 21st day of August, in the present year, to make common cause with the South and share its fortunes.", they decided to join the South against the North in the War Between The States. What were the reasons they had? Read this, and be surprised..... http://lincolntruth.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-02_cy-2008_m-02_d-20_y-2008_o-0.html
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
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Feb 18, 2008
Surf W/Beijings Billionares
LSD BLOTTER ART, PHOTOS OF LINCOLN'S 2ND INAUGURAL, BEIJING BILLIONAIRES, THE BIBLE MANGA, HOW FAR WILL THE CLINTON'S GO?
One of the best ways to keep up with the Austin and Southern rock scene is this site. The Drive By Truckers shows are musts.
What's it like to be a Buddhist billionaire in Communist China? This is from ghosthunter Richard Crowe in Chicago
Lisa Kezios in Chicago sends us the art world's craze, LSD blotter art!
The following is Nine Websites You Should Know About, But Probably Don't.
Sen. Clinton's new scramble for money -- as well as her campaign's declaration that it is prepared to override the will of the elected Democratic delegates if necessary to secure the nomination -- raise the question of just how far Bill and Hillary Clinton are willing to go to achieve their presidential restoration. Democrats fear that the Clintons are putting their personal ambitions ahead of what's good for the Party and the country, that they are ready to dirty up Sen. Obama with attack ads and dismiss his millions of supporters as -- what one key Clinton backer called -- "a cult of personality."
If the Clintons overturn the majority will, the Democratic convention in Denver could bring to mind the infamous Chicago convention in 1968 when the Democratic establishment imposed its favored candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, on a rebellious rank-and-file, contributing to the election of Republican Richard Nixon. http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/77287
The best sandwiches in America. Chicago got on the list twice! http://www.esquire.com/features/food-drink/sandwiches
Found action figures and sculptures glued together and painted. Really cool. http://ryanmcelhinney.com/ryan2/toy_mirror2.html
http://ryanmcelhinney.com/ryan2/toy_mirror2.html
A drug given to control bleeding in hospitals may have caused thousands of deaths
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/14/60minutes/main3831900.shtml
Libertarians see profit as the basis of stability and opportunity, others see only greed. But a new study shows business creates peace http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/02/17/how_business_can_save_the_world/?page=full
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Jammin' the Blues is a 1944 short film in which several prominent jazz musicians got together for a rare filmed jam session. It features Lester Young, Red Callender, Harry Edison, Marlowe Morris, Sid Catlett, Barney Kessel, Joe Jones, John Simmons, Illinois Jacquet, Marie Bryant, Archie Savage and Garland Finney. For some, this is their only known appearance in a theatrical film. Barney Kessel is the only white performer in the film. He was seated in the shadows to shade his skin, and for closeups, his hands were stained with berry juice. Lindy Hop legends Archie Savage and Marie Bryant do the Lindy Hop (Jitterbug) on this footage. Directed by Gjon Mili and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnqXWCWSLIY Posted at 06:51 pm by Psychomike
Feb 17, 2008
SurfW/China Bans Horror Films!
THE DAY NOTRE DAME FOUGHT THE KKK!, FBI MAY HAVE FRAMED THOUSANDS, THE DEATH OF MASS CULTURE, 5 MOST OVERLOOKED CITIES IN U.S.!
A six-month investigation by 60 Minutes and The Washington Post shows that there are hundreds of defendants imprisoned around the country who were convicted with the help of a now discredited forensic tool, and that the FBI never notified them, their lawyers, or the courts, that the their cases may have been affected by faulty testimony.
The science, called bullet lead analysis, was used by the FBI for 40 years in thousands of cases, and some of the people it helped put in jail may be innocent. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/16/60minutes/main3512453.shtml
Ten really bad car names!
Meet Mazda LaPuta. The car's name actually derivates from the book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, but go explain this to spanish speakers. For them, it means... "the whore"! http://www.oddee.com/item_93544.aspx
A dugout from World War 1 has been discovered. Known as THE VAMPIRE DUGOUT. This BBC footage is truly astonishing.
The death of mass culture.
How to fix a scratched cd with toothpaste!
DuPont today announced a $1 million contingent donation to fund the establishment of a permanent home for the World Food Prize in Des Moines. The donation will support the transformation of the former Des Moines Public Library into the Norman E. Borlaug Hall of Laureates and will be administered through DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred. From the Drewster in Evanston:
Congress is considering a measure that would designate the boyhood home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug as a national historic site. From the Drewster in Evanston.
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
China's film industry has gone into shock. Horror films have been banned!
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Feb 15, 2008
Surf W/How Music Biz Works!
THE HOT DOG SO GOOD- IT'S ILLEGAL!, THE KID WHO INTERVIEWED JOHN LENNON IN BED, 30 STRANGEST DEATHS IN HISTORY,1000'S OF GITMO INTERROGATION VIDEOS EXIST!
Burt Reynolds has a posse! And a museum!
"Burt Reynolds is every man. He is the one the ladies want to dance with and their husbands like to drink with. He is the larger than life actor of our times".
---Frank Sinatra
If you thought race was an uncomfortable issue in the Democratic presidential primary, wait 'til you get a load of what's going on in the Democratic primary in the Memphis area's 9th District of Tennessee, where a shockingly worded flier paints Jewish Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) as a Jesus hater.
MojoPojo send us this website for I MET THE WALRUS, the story of a kid who met and interviewed John Lennon during the bed-in for peace! http://www.imetthewalrus.com/
The Hello Kitty MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) has launched.
In Hitchcock's first suspense film, all of London is in the grip of terror as a ruthless Jack the Ripper-style killer known as the Avenger has committed a series of murders.
The Silent Film Society and Lake Forest College proudly present Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger in a special matinee performance on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 2:30 p.m. at the Portage Theatre, 4050 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. The 40-piece Lake Forest College Orchestra with conductor David Amrein will provide live photoplay accompaniment. This is also the Chicago debut of the new Lodger photoplay score composed by David Amrein, Meg Golembieski and Don Meyer.
How are superdelegates chosen? What has the conspiracy trial on Princess Diana discovered? Could thousands of Gitmo interrogation tapes exist? The 911 Exposed Video Exposed:
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15th
Happy Birthday To Me 8:45pm
My Bloody Valentine 11:00pm
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JOIN HORRORBLES FOR A DUAL CELEBRATION OF OUR SECOND BIRTHDAY AND VALENTINE'S DAY AT THE HISTORIC PORTAGE THEATER WITH SPECIAL GUEST SVENGOOLIE!
$10 FOR TWO BLOODY TITLES ON THE BIG SCREEN!
SVENGOOLIE WILL BE SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS FROM
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*line will be cut off at 8pm to accomodate the film schedule
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BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
The record industry is careering towards meltdown. A good thing too, says Simon Napier-Bell, after 40 years of working with its most notorious moguls.
The lobby of the Sony building in New York is 70-feet high and heavy with music business ambience - gold records, photographs and the 'Sony Shop of New Technology'. Upstairs, the main reception is like the lounge of an exclusive club. For an aspiring artist or manager, just to step into the building is a thrill. The impression is of a corporation dedicated to the success of its artists, almost altruistic in its understanding of their needs. Yet it's nothing but a flytrap.
http://www.bigozine2.com/features08/SNBmusicbiz.html Posted at 10:41 am by Psychomike
Feb 14, 2008
Surf W/ Valentine's Origins!
HILLARY TO STEAL ELECTION!, ORIGINS OF VALENTINE'S DAY, WHAT DO THE SYMBOLS ON MONEY MEAN?, TOP 15 AMAZING COINCIDENCES, ASTONISHING DUBAI, HILLARY'S MUSIC VIDEO!
Lupercalia is a festival that probably pre-dates Rome, and which later became known as St. Valentine's day. It had everything; sacrifice, cake, nudity, spanking and a love lottery. What do we get? A card. http://www.meridiangraphics.net/lupercalia.htm
Clinton will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a greater number of pledged delegates by the end of the primary season, and will count on the 796 elected officials and party bigwigs to put her over the top, if necessary, said Clinton's communications director, Howard Wolfson.
Did you ever have to help a friend or your grandma who lives 100 miles away and wished you could be there? In a way you can. Crossloop is a freeware application which, if installed from both sides, can give you secure access to the other computer's screen, mouse and keyboard and give you the opportunity to take the matter in your own hands.
https://crossloop.com/landing.htm
Lincoln: The Myth Vs The Reality
Find out here:
Hillary's response to the Obama "Yes We Can" music video. You might want to sit down when you watch this
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
In 1972, Chinatown in Amsterdam was photographed by Ab Koers. The IISG received this photo collection in 2006. Ab Koers originally took these photographs in and around the Binnen Bantammerstraat for a reportage, which appeared in the magazine Avenue in 1973. This reportage, made together with journalist Nico Polak, was characterised as 'stunning and outstanding' in the book De rafelrand van Amsterdam (The frayed edges of Amsterdam)
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Feb 10, 2008
SurfW/ Top 10 Stoner Films
SPECIAL DRUGS THEME: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE; DESIGNER DRUGS, WHEN DRUGS WERE LEGAL, HOW THEY BECAME ILLEGAL, BEST STONER FILMS!
Before drugs were made illegal- they were legal. Check this out!
FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.
The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in
Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.
Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not
the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.
http://www.mayanmajix.com/art1699.html
The Lords Of Acid - this would make a great movie - the guys who spread LSD around the nation!
Former Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Dock Ellis says he was under the influence of LSD when he pitched a 1970 no-hitter against the San Diego Padres.
Ellis, now co-coordinator of an anti drug program in Los Angeles, said he didn't know until six hours before his June 12, 1970 no hitter that he was going to pitch.
"I was in Los Angeles, and the team was playing in San Diego , but I didn't know it. I had taken LSD..... I thought it was an off-day, that's how come I had it in me. I took the LSD at noon. At 1pm, his girlfriend and trip partner looked at the paper and said, "Dock, you're pitching today!"
"That's when it was $9.50 to fly to San Diego. She got me to the airport at 3:30. I got there at 4:30, and the game started at 6:05pm. It was a twi-night doubleheader. http://www.sirbacon.org/4membersonly/docellis.htm
This is a small selection of my psychedelic sketches and diary pages from the early seventies, done under the influence of lsd-25. They don't have any artistic value. But at that time of my spiritual development they had a very special meaning for me in clearing and freeing my mind, fighting through my various inner masks and barriers, and opening doors towards magical tantric dimensions of the higher self as best described in Tibetan Buddhism
TOP 10 MOVIES TO TRIP/ GET HIGH TO:
#10- KISMET -
The beats in the 1950's would get together to watch this amazing film which transforms the Middle East into a science fiction landscape with cool music and outrageous costumes, sets, and a really fun script. Throw in a twin Asian contortionist pair and what more could you ask for? RUNNER-UP: PROJECT A with Jackie Chan.
#9: REQUIEM FOR A DREAM-
Jennifer Connelly was 30 when she played an early 20's doper. But my god what a performance. The unusual editing and storyline make this one a must. RUNNER-UP: Any of the Peter Jackson LORD OF THE RINGS movies.
#8: APOCALYPSE NOW -
With scenes like this, how could this NOT be a stoners movie?
When you first read the title your eyes probably raised to your forehead as you said outloud, WHAT? A WAR FILM?
If the movie was just a war film, do you think people who have seen it would go out of the way to see it over and over? The opening scene is the giveaway, as the music of THE DOORS starts the film (which is about as synonymous with tripping or being high as you can get) and helicopters rise up into the screen. BUT WAIT- at one point one of the characters actually holds up a tab of acid and takes it. According to Dennis Hopper, EVERYONE on the set was tripping through most of the film. (Except, oddly, Brando). When Harvey Keitell showed up to star in the movie he found most of the cast tripping and quit the movie. I was once at a trip party for 20 people when the film was about to start. Most of the women said they'd leave to walk around. After the first ten minutes no one moved. Not even to get a beer! RUNNER-UP: GODZILLA AND MOTHRA: THE BATTLE FOR EARTH or GODZILLA FINAL WARS.
#7: STAR WARS -
you probably know this one already. By the way, it may be science fiction, but it too is a war film, isn't it? RUNNER-UP: THE EMERALD JUNGLE.
#6: SATYRICON -
In the 1970's hippies lined up around the block to go to midnight shows of this epic trip/ stoner movie. One reviewer said, A FABULOUS TRIP INTO A TOTALLY DECADENT CIVILIZATION. That tipped hipsters off that it was best seen tripping. Fellini had made many great films, but SATYRICON became a rite of passage for trippers. Once hipsters saw it, the idea that you could get high to a movie seemed natural. You will want to see it straight as well. RUNNER-UP: Jerry Lewis in THE NUTTY PROFESSOR. Watch Jerry turn into his ex-partner, DEAN MARTIN!
#5: WILLY WONKA -
As much as I like Johnny Depp's version, the Gene Wilder version is the most pleasing to the eye. RUNNER-UP: FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS. Critics trashed this film when it came out. Apparently they were straight when they saw it. A couple of drinks actually enhances the film. RUNNER-UP: THE WIZARD OF OZ.
#4: BLADE RUNNER-
Any version. You probably already know this. RUNNER-UP: PULP FICTION, if you can handle the violence, this is really a very religious story about redemption.
#3: TARZAN AND HIS MATE -
The best Tarzan ever made. After a slow first ten minutes to introduce the characters, the film takes off and never stops. There is actually more action, thrills and excitement in this film than RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARC which would have come in at 11 if this list went that far. Jane does a nude swimming scene (full frontal- before the censorship code started in 1934- partly because of this movie). The fact that Jane is the key figure in this film, is sexy and heroic makes it a date favorite. You won't believe what American films could get away with before censorship started. And you will never forget TARZAN AND HIS MATE. Runner-up: any version of KING KONG.
#2 : FORBIDDEN PLANET-
Before there was STAR TREK, which many feel was a rip-off of this film, FORBIDDEN PLANET took us where no man had gone before. The music alone, played on Theremins non-stop, would be more than enough to recommend this movie. But then you have the costumes, the sets, and one of the most imaginative stories American film has ever told. Straight or stoned, this one is a must. RUNNER-UP: THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.
#1: PERFORMANCE -
Critics went into shock when this film came out. They screamed it glorified mushrooms, was nothing more than a re-creation of a trip, was made to pander to hippies. Well, yes it was. It is also one of the greatest "lost" films ever made. It has never been released to TV (not even cable!) and most don't know that Mick Jagger did a performance that should have been nominated for an Oscar. Orgy scenes, decadence, drugs- but beneath it all it is the story of transformation and identity. IF you can find this film, you'll see why in the 1970's audiences lined up week after week at midnight shows tripping their butts off- and each time got something different out of the film. Runner-up- The first MATRIX movie. But only the first. RUNNER-UP: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. Incredible camera work and editing make this western a must. SEE IT IN WIDE SCREEN VERSION ONLY!
BEST SITE OF THE DAY:
The press may not know about it yet, but Designer Drugs are the new rage. But they come with potential major hazards.
Here is more information on designer drugs and your receptors, etc:
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