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• Nearly every mainstream family movie has at least one scene or moment that skews wildly inappropriate, and adds no narrative value. Why? #
• @culturepulp Rolling Thunder has 1 of most incongruous opening songs of any hard boiled exploitation thriller: "San Antone" by Denny Brooks. in reply to culturepulp #
• @culturepulp I have dream playlist of 70s exploitation soundtrack ballads that are impossible to find. "San Antone" leads the list. #
• Also on #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads: "Mama's Little Girl No More" by Linda George from Felicity (1979) #
• @culturepulp #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads: "The Teacher" by Jackie Ward from The Teacher (1974) #
• @culturepulp #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads: "Cross roads" from Massacre at Central High (1976) #
• @culturepulp #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads:"Money Is the Root of All Happiness" from The Candy Snatchers (1973) #
• @culturepulp #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads "The Warm Side of the Door" from Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) #
• @culturepulp #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads "Pretty Things" from truly awful Slashed Dreams (1975) #
• @culturepulp #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads + haunting improbably beautiful title theme from Cannibal Holocaust (1980) by Ritz Ortolani #
• @culturepulp #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads possibly include some of the oddball hippie ragtime from original Last House on the Left. #
• @culturepulp #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads Because nothing prepares you for rape, murder and mayhem like a syrupy AM radio pop ballad #
• @culturepulp #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads Bit disturbed that I had this list so conveniently prepared. #
• @culturepulp #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads "Slashed Dreams" (aka "Sunburst") is vile w/classically wrong sndtrck by Roberta Van Dere #
• Just caught up w/ #breakingbad s2 finale. Disappointed in contrivances. 2 much chaos theory. Smwhere Ashton Kutcher is kiling self in utero. #
• Am I only one who found Terminator: Salvation 5X more satisfying & 10X less cheesy than T2? #
• @andrewbreitbart Daniel Stern and John Heard? A powerful political reunion for the stars of C.H.U.D.! http://bit.ly/uWK7 in reply to andrewbreitbart #
• @culturepulp I believe this is companion piece to your "Woman w TIE Fighter as Head" which I think you drew in margins of screenplay draft. in reply to culturepulp #
• @culturepulp @kevinwmoore It gets better: cropped out is the shadow of the encroaching Dark Troll. I have the full pic around somewhere… in reply to culturepulp #
• @culturepulp @blorvak Memorable feedback from that event: Disdainful European Girl: "American humor is not funny." in reply to culturepulp #
• @culturepulp @blorvak And, from trembling, ashen female browser: "I don't think I like your book very much…" Good times! #
• Inspired by @culturepulp #santaslilgimp is now back online, hopefully for good, here: http://www.santaslilgimp.com #
• Bugging me abt #breakingbad: Journeyman public high school teacher needs to sell meth because his gov't health ins. won't cover chemo? Rly? #
• Sitting down to watch The House of the Devil http://bit.ly/ct5I6e expecting low grade schlock, but it had intruiging cast. #
• Tom Noonan Dee Wallace Mary Woronov – them's some psychotronic hall of famers. #
• Ugh. Movie starts with a wildly bogus (and awkwardly written) "statistic" about Satanic Cults. Hopefully it's trying be funny. #
• Liking the style so far: casually retro. Seems to have a confident sense of it's atmosphere, and not anxiously over doing it. #
• #thehouseofthedevil Tom Noonan oozes creepiness, even just as a disembodied voice on the phone. #
• #thehouseofthedevil Thing I hate most about contemp horror is overagressive style. This mimics the plain aesthetic of 70s/early 80s. Fresh. #
• #thehouseofthedevil Greg Kihn band on the soundtrack. Loving this. Uh uh uh – uh uh – uh uh uh. #
• #thehouseofthedevil So far has great acting for horror movie, on par w/ Orphan http://bit.ly/ab6CwY w/Vera Farminga & Peter Sarsgaard. #
• #thehouseofthedevil Ha ha dig the photo on writer/director Ti West's IMDB profile http://bit.ly/cyNX1k #
• #thehouseofthedevil 2/3 in & this movie is nailing the details. Still scratching head over illiterate opening title, though. #
• #thehouseofthedevil Last 20 mins were messy, but OK. The art of The Ending has been mostly lost, esp in genre movies. Potential was there. #
• #thehouseofthedevil Will def seek out more Ti West flicks, start w/ Cabin Fever 2. 1st Cabin Fever was fun w a crazy streak. Ideal 4 West. #
• A brief history of the Stimulus (which now appears to mean "An Enormous Boner"): http://bit.ly/amy8kS #
• $250+Billion stimulus spent so far to "create" less than <2million "jobs?" That's >$125k spent per "job." Wonder what avg wage per "job" is? #
• Assuming these aren't largely high wage jobs, generously assume $50k per job. Each "created job" has therefore wasted $75k? #
• What% of these 2 million jobs created are private sector, and what% is bloat added to federal workforce? Amity Shlaes: http://bit.ly/axXVk7 #
• Some context on the Stimulus jobs #s: Not only failed to meet promised job growth, but # not real jobs, based on model: http://bit.ly/boJMHM #
• White house used model to predict job growth, and then used same model to claim job growth – but missed own target by 1+million. Success! #
• Reading watered down "Dracula" to the kids. To amuse myself, I perform all of Jonathan Harker's dialog like Keanu Reeves in the 1992 movie. #
• Reading a kid's book in the voice and inflection of Keanu Reeves is unsettlingly natural. #
• Watching "Public Enemies" http://bit.ly/c4ZMEb Billy Crudup's accent sounds like 1 of Trey Parker's South Park voices. #
• #publicenemies Godawfully dull w over 1hr left. Good moments here and there; no anchor. I like Johnny Depp but his starpower is overrated. #
• Wow, scene in #publicenemies where Dillinger casually strolls through the office investigating him deserves to be in a much better movie. #
• @culturepulp Agree. Cotillard & Lang had no business making that scene so good w undeveloped characters. in reply to culturepulp #
• Mann has made classics: Manhunter, Insider, Heat. But when he misfires, like Ali & #publicenemies, it's a whole lotta empty nothing. #
• On to Cabin Fever 2, another Ti West project. It's a bit funny so far, but not tight like #thehouseofthedevil Poor Superbad cloning early on #
• #cabinfever2 The sooner the fat kid dies the better for everyone. Some of the acting is too broad, and not in a good way. #
• #cabinfever2 Yes. I demand subtle acting in a movie about a high school prom hit with an outbreak of hemorragic fever. I'm just that way. #
• Ti West's direction of #cabinfever2 is nowhere near as assured as it was in #thehouseofthedevil despite both being released in 2009. #
• Anyone hoping to be grossed out in myriad ways #cabinfever2 is definitely one to look out for. It carries a +5 Bag O' Many Ewwws. #
• Judah Friedlander should've given some tips in low-key comedic acting to the rest of the #cabinfever2 cast. #
• I can see so much of #cabinfever2 working with better delivery and direction. To compensate, a giant rabbit is about to start puking blood. #
• I advise anyone with a puking blood phobia to stay away from #cabinfever2. Those not so afflicted, prepare for juicy fun. #
• #cabinfever2 Nice use of The Ramones' "Somebody Put Something in My Drink." Flaws of this movie aside, it's got creative energy of a kind. #
• Hey, it's the dude from American Movie! Mark, the director of Coven. However, #cabinfever2 missed a big opportunity with the giant rabbit. #
• #cabinfever2 Well. This is not the kind of hand job most guys hope to get from their prom dates. #
• #cabinfever2 is 2nd Ti West Bmovie I've seen in as many nights that devolves into incoherence as plot escalates. Otherwise promising talent. #
• Ti West has apparently disowned #cabinfever2 claiming studio recut movie & massacred ending, so all chaos+flaws I rued may not be his fault. #
• My last #cabinfever2 post, promise. Brief bit about about editing and reshots out of West's hands in Day 5 recap here: http://bit.ly/GQPj9 #
• Stimulus: Texas homes being weatherized at cost of $78k PER HOME. http://bit.ly/aB6qRD Job growth in admin. dealing w/ stimulus paperwork! #
• Mel Gibson speaking truth to Reporter:http://gawker.com/5462862/ #charmoffensive #melgisbon #
• if there's anyone who's not sick of my b-movie ramblings, I hope to watch "The Final Destination" tonight, around 11pm PST. Thx Netflix! #
• Rare Netflix coup today scoring 3 movies that have been mired in the 30+ "Very Long Wait" clog at the top o my queue. Dreary service lately. #
• @mattmlpdx When I 1st switched over from blockbusteronline I used to get new movies within a week of release. Now lucky to get within 3 mos. #
• I have never heard my 6-year-old laugh as hard as she is right now during Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. #
• Does MS purposely make networking Windows 7 with XP a bloody nightmare so we will upgrade all our computers more quickly? Full of hate now. #
• The Final Destination is pt4 in the series of movies in which the inanity of the plot is exceeded only by the convoluted carnage. Great fun. #
• Plot: group of young people barely escape gruesome convoluted death only for death to hunt them down in more convoluted and gruesome fashion #
• #finaldestination4 begins with racetrack disaster; not as inspired as previous airplane, freeway and roller coaster set pieces & faker gore #
• #finaldestination4 Still expecting a gallery of ingeniously ridiculous disembowellings and decapitations. Like the flaming head right there. #
• #finaldestination4 1 great thing about series is how easily kids figure out Death is stalking them, as if they just saw FD 1-3 on Discovery. #
• In #finaldestination4 kids Googled plots of earlier movies – all carefully blogged of course despite everyone involved being dismembered. #
• #finaldestination4 Ohh, 1st really creative demise, guy gets diced by impact against chain link fence. Makes up for lackluster energy so far #
• #finaldestination4 Favorite FD series death was guy in 2 (or 3?) who was liquified by falling pane of sheet glass. #
• #finaldestination4 Note to self: avoid swimming pools. That looked uncomfortable. But I heard a rumor that Richard Gere once did it for fun. #
• The chicks in #finaldestination4 just don't have the charisma of Ali Larter, AJ Cook or Mary Elizabeth Winstead. OK but no star power. #
• #finaldestination4 The victims are always so precious, like sheer sausage skins stuffed with blood pudding, ready to splatter on demand. #
• #finaldestination4 My daughter's fear of escalators has just been confirmed in graphic detail. #
• #finaldestination4 Wait, was that just a premonition of disaster inside a premonition of disaster? Death is going to be majorly pissed! #
• #finaldestination4 wasn't quite as insane as the others but delivered some creative carnage & gets points for nice style in final scene. #
• @culturepulp Been enjoying these podcasts + the ham-fisted appearance. A "20-something failure" but a 40-something success! in reply to culturepulp #
• Watching This is England http://bit.ly/9aXVAi WTF w/Euro movies abt pre-pube kids getting sexy w/older girls. Do Euro women really do it? #
• Also wrt http://bit.ly/9aXVAi Rich movie history of skinheads: Ed Norton, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, now Stephen Graham, all brilliant. #
• Which 1990s movie is the exception to quality skinhead performances? This one: http://bit.ly/LMfXg Celebrate diversity: it's all ludicrous. #
• Loving John Stossel's move to FBN. Instead of 4hrs/YR on ABC, he gets 1hr/WK. So far: Schools, Food, Rand, Debt, Cronyism, Hayek, Energy… #
• @culturepulp @lendogPDX Characters inspired by real govtcamp people: Edna, Vi, Dub, Barb; rest fictional. Skeeter was local who helped out. in reply to culturepulp #
• @culturepulp @lendogpdx Actor Paul played Castroite Huck Inn chef, no basis in reality. Paul freq complained his roommate did nude yoga. in reply to culturepulp #
• Many old G-rated movies surprisingly racy. 1958 musical Gigi about affairs of Paris socialites w/young girl in queue. http://bit.ly/9×3Tej #
• G-rated Gone With the Wind: woman trades sex for opportunity + scene in whorehouse; movie addresses prostitution, shouldn't be PG, at least? #
• Louis Jordan's big song in Gigi is only slightly less creepy version of shocking child bride anthem in South Pacific. #
• Theory: sexualization of girls is not new phenom; we are just more self-conscious about perversions we used to indulge without comment. #
• Go ahead and hate your neighbor! Revisiting American classic 2night: Tom Laughlin's hippy vengeance flick Billy Jack http://bit.ly/bbi63f #
• "One Tin Soldier" is of course king of cheesy 70s exploitation songs. Not on my recent #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads Not obscure enuf. #
• #billyjack A Green Beret half-breed recluse philosopher kicking redneck ass in the name of social justice! #
• #billyjack He's an anti-war killing machine teaching love & tolerance with the bloodstained heel of his boot! #
• #billyjack Oddly there appear to be more hippy castaway children in the local commune school than there are people in town. #
• #billyjack Writer/director/star Tom Laughlin was the Kevin Costner of his day. His movies are mythologized love letters to himself. #
• #billyjack He fights barefoot. Is that also how he ran around the jungles of Viet Nam? #
• #billyjack Once the town thugs realized they don't need to stand still and let Billy Jack hit them, he doesn't look so tough. #
• #billyjack The leader of "Freedom School" is such a hippy she has sideburns. The students fight the man with insipid folk songs. Deadly! #
• #billyjack "When we want Billy we contact him Indian Style." Does that mean they roll out a case of cheap beer and wait five minutes? #
• #billyjack I kid, I kid. I kid because I love! #
• #billyjack Hey that's Howard Hessman as the hippie drama teacher. Didnt know Dr. Johnny Fever was an Oregon native! http://bit.ly/9OWeAZ #
• #billyjack Did you know the rifts in society can be healed through improvisational theater? Truth! #
• #billyjack Fun fact: if you hold the Eagle Feather, getting multiple rattlesnake bites turns you into a more efficient beatific ass-kicker. #
• #billyjack High Concept pitch: Easy Rider meets Rambo. #
• #billyjack Movie is damning indictment of pacifism. Kids getting beat up by rednecks try 2 fight back with "street theater?" Force needed. #
• #billyjack Maybe they shouldn't be using the Sheriff's real pistol as a prop. Damn hippies got no safety regulations. #
• #billyjack teaches us there are bad people in world and dippy peace talk means nothing w/o real threat of violence to defend & enable it. #
• I'd like to see #billyjack square off against Sheriff Buford T. Pusser from "Smokey and the Bandit." It would be one-sided, but funny. #
• #billyjack "Damn your pacifism!" cries hippie girl, but rape victim insists her philosophy of non-violence makes it endurable. Pathology. #
• #billyjack Why is it wrong for US/Europe to invade and supplant primitive cultures but OK for hippies to invade and transform redneck towns? #
• #billyjack Maybe The Band of the Hand can enroll in Freedom School and add a paramilitary wing to the drama club. http://bit.ly/9iK7c2 #
• After #billyjack takes out thug with 1 karate chop to throat, my wife: "You don't mess with a guy who's blood brother to a rattle snake." #
• #billyjack Youth of America: "From the day I was born to this moment, and every second in between, life has been just one big shitbrick." #
• #billyjack "An Indian is never afraid to die." Also never afraid to leave broken down car & random other junk in front yard on reservation. #
• The friendly sheriff in #billyjack looks unsettingly like Pat Buchanan. Should have presciently made him a bad guy. #
• #billyjack Also, is it a problem that part-Cherokee Tom Laughlin looks more like Troy Donahue than Jay Silverheels? #
• Coven rocks final scene, "On the bloody morning after / One Tin Soldier rides away…." Soon: The Trial of #billyjack http://bit.ly/bbi63f #
• BTW, this wreaks a mighty toll on my old 2nd Gen iPhone battery. #

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