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The coolest Scientologist ever! The man made some very memorable music in the 70s, winning an Oscar for his theme to the movie Shaft and went on to act in his own awesome blaxploitation movie, Truck Turner! His first two albums, Hot Buttered Soul and Black Moses are both excellent records that anyone who has more than a passing interest in 70s soul and funk should own. He was awesome as the Duke of New York in John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. His version of “Walk on By” is one of the funkiest songs ever. The man accomplished a lot in his life.
Oh and he was on some poorly animated cartoon for a while. I think he played a chef.
Freak out to the trailer for Truck Turner:
And treat your ears to “Walk on By”:
I caught Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson at the Esquire Theatre this weekend and it was one of the most excellent biographies of the man that I’ve seen. The film boastes a bevy of impressive interviews with people who you’d expect: Ralph Steadman, Thompson’s Ex-Wife Sandi, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, Hells Angels honcho Sonny Barger, etc; but it also features a number of surprising interviewees: Jimmy Carter, George McGovern and Patrick Buchanan (!).
The movie is full of excellent archival footage of Dr. Thompson combined with dramatic reenactments of his writing, narrated by longtime friend Johnny Depp, in addition to a great deal of Ralph Steadman’s atwork and clips from the two movie adaptions of Thompson’s work, Where the Buffalo Roam and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
The story is a straight forward narrative Thompson’s life from his early days of writing about the Hells Angels and the birth of “gonzo” to the Aspen Sheriff’s campaign and up through his mainstream breakthrough covering the 1972 McGovern campaign and his winning endorsement of Jimmy Carter’s canidacy.
It ends on a somber note, reflecting on the inevitable violent end of his own life that he’d predicted for years, culminating in him taking his own life.
Thompson himself wrote his own eulogy better than anyone could have years ago in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
5 out of 5 stars, Two Thumbs Up, whatever movie reviewers are supposed to say. Go see it now.
Every year a bunch of tards vote for the wrong movies/people at the Oscars. This list is who we think should win, not who is actually gonna win:
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
Best Director: No Country for Old Men
Best Original Screenplay: Lars and the Real Girl
Best Adapted Screenplay: No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: Daniel Day Louis (There Will Be Blood)
Best Actress: Laura Linney (The Savages)
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Best Supporting Actress: Ruby Dee (American Gangster)
HAHAHA. Jesus Christ, these workplace safety videos were fucking ricockulous. I’ve seen a lot of gory shit and some of these still made me wince. I’ve also worked a lot of menial jobs in my life (grocery stores, food service, construction, etc) and if they’d shown me videos like this, I’d definitely have paid more attention.
Continue reading ‘Work Place Safety Videos… IF THEY WERE DIRECTED BY LUCIO FULCI OR TAKESHI MIKE’
Movies I liked:
- The Children of Men
- The Good Shepherd
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Borat
- Jackass 2
- A Scanner Darkly
- Casino Royale
- Art School Confidential
- A Prairie Home Companion
- Miami Vice
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Pan’s Labyrinth
- Jesus Camp
- Idiocracy
I wish I hadn’t seen these:
- V for Vendetta
- Superman Returns
- X-Men 3
- Nacho Libre
- Slither
- My Super-Ex Girlfriend
- The Benchwarmers
- The Fountain
- The Black Dahlia
Movies I’m glad I didn’t fucking see:
- Eragon
- Lady in the Water
- Basic Instict 2
- Big Momma’s House 2
- The Santa Clause 3
- Little Man
- Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
- Bloodrayne
- The Da Vinci Code
- Marie Antoinette
- Apocalypto
- Tristan & Isolde
- Snakes on a Plane
Shittiest Pointless Remakes:
- The Poseidon Adventure
- The Wicker Man
- The Hills Have Eyes
Movies I wish I could have seen:
- Inland Empire
Normally I loath fan films, with the exception of that rare .01% that are actually good, e.g. Troops. This adaption of Dan Clowes’ “I Hate You Deeply” strip from Eightball isn’t quite that good, but it’s still head and shoulders above Batman: Dead End.
I wonder how much crack this guy smoked.
Seriously.
Although, I support fools destroying PT Cruisers 100%.
I wish more people would do that
Peep these ill rowtow videos, fool:
The first Rowtow trailer:
The second one, starring Mr. Peenut! Watch him seek it way weirdly:
Deluded Insane Hippie. We didn’t make this, but it’s fucking hilarious:
More Rowtow videos to come.
Don Knots, The man who brought us the unforgetable characters of The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Deputy Barney Fife and our personal favorite, Three’s Company’s Mr. Furley, shuffled off this mortal coil. He was 81.
So long Barn, you were always our favorite sheriff’s deputy, landlord and man who could transform into a fish.
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