April 23, 2011
A few posts ago the Mad list was comprised of legendary filmmaker Ed Wood films. While Googling around I found one I had never heard of called, “Fugitive Girls” (he wrote it and had two brief parts in it, as Pops and a Sheriff.) It looked great! And Jaws commented that he had a copy. So I went to Amazon (yeah, I know, I should’ve tried to buy it locally after all my preaching, but I was in a hurry) and found it on DVD. As I was leaving for work, the package was on the landing in my apartment building, just in the nick of time. It was a real Bonnie Raitt moment. I really felt like dying my hair red and then marrying and divorcing Michael O'Keefe (who's birthday is coming up and flea markets in NYC are closing in honor of it.) But I had to get to work, so I left the package on the landing. Let’s go get it and then it’s: Lights, Camera...Wood!
Okay, this is my block, almost home.
And here's the box on the landing, almost movie time! Let's take it upstairs and open it up.
Wow, this thing is really packed solid!
This doesn't look like a DVD, what is this?
It's the glass swizzle sticks that Jaws sent me! Thank you so much, Jaws! They are really cool and boy do I feel guilty as I haven't sent him the John Lennon drawing he won here the other week. I'll put it in the mail today Jaws, and thanks again!
The least I could do is to put up a link for Jaws' fine book, "Two Fisted Cab Driving Tales." It's a great read and I have a copy and so should you. You can order it here: Two Fisted Cab Driving Tales.
And check out Jaws' online store right here: Jaws the Cabbie Store.
I'm going to start collecting swizzle sticks. Here's the collection so far: The glass ones on the left are from MAD commenter Jason Hwang (I traded a skull shotglass for them), the the Jaws set and last and least the shitty one from Sir Harry's. I should've saved the Blarney Cove straw, but I wasn't thinking. And now, since I thought Fugitive Girls was waiting for us, I don't have a movie for tonight. Well, let's just watch some trailers from YouTube and call it a night.
Here's the trailer for Fugitive Girls, which I'm sure we'll watch next week. “Betrayed by her lover; Pimpkiller; Dope Smuggler; Bank Embezzler; Lesbian—Leader of the pack!”
I love the smell of napalm in the morning...
Do you know what it takes to sell real estate?
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
Mommy...
It just doesn't matter!
He's very clean.
Further reading: Killed by Dreck, amc film critic, Avax and The Deuce.
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The next set of swizzle sticks for yr. collection will be available shortly. I think you'll appreciate the design!
http://bit.ly/fPvbHr
I need to find these somewhere .....
Those swizzle sticks are a work of art, really beautiful things when you get them in glass. Good clips of movies, started thinking about the one's that are dead,,Lemmon, Brando, Cash, Lennon, Belushi, and Hopper. Hey Marty any chance you going to see Neil Young tomorrow at Avery Fisher Hall?
Couldn't Passover this opportunity to wish you all a happy holiday.
Thanks for the plugola Marty! You ought to put one of those swizzle sticks in a genuine tiki bar style drink and post a photo of it just before you toss it down!
The trailer for Fugitive Girls is awesome! Of course they would have a lesbian leader of the pack. And that is quite the beating they gave those poor guys. I've never seen girls so lustful and violent. Ahh the 70's.
Cock soup and now lollipop tits, some of us don't need the daily reminder we aren't getting any!
@Gene, I think you did find some. On that link.
what was that girl gang move i loved in the seventies.. hummm.."Switchblade Sisters" oh that was hot...
did Kari get a hard on when she saw the word "Wood"
I need to get Jaw's book.. i suck i dont have it...
I fucking love "meatballs" you have no idea how much i fucking love that movie.. i sing that stupid theme song all the time..
was even singing it in the last week...
there is a reason i dont send my kids to camp..
then again camp might send them back home right as i start to have fun...
oh and i fucking love movie trailers.
its one of my fave things to do on youtube and post on FB..
good post marty..
Great Trailer Picks !!
@Kari ... I meant to say ... I need to find some of those I can buy .......... that Ebay auction is over -- and I couldn't find the same thing elsewhere :(
Fufitie Girls looks fun. Oh & while I remember, Prisoner Cell Block H, an Australian womens' prison drama, is kind of fun. Not Ed Woods, but pretty good!! There seem to be a zillion episodes on youtube. Here's the first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0CERdbw21U&playnext=1&list=PLE26C204E3ECD24B6
@onemorefoldedsunset: Thank you so much! I can't wait to see them!
@GENE: What a cool swizzle stick! It's almost a Michael Nesmith one!
@Jaws: Thank YOU! I'll be taking them in my travels when I go out hunting for more of them!
@kari: I can't wait to get the movie. I'll have a screening here next Friday.
@Gidgie: I'm going to go look for "Switchblade Sisters," it sounds like a winner! And yes, buy Jaws' book!
@JHwng: Thanks, glad you liked them!
@onemorefoldedsunset: Thanks for the link, I'm going to go watch it now. I wonder if Clacky or Brooksy has seen this in the land down under. Are you out there guys?
all these "swizzles" are "far out, man" hoisting a couple to jason and jaws...
all those "trailers" conjure up all the some great and not so great flicks out there and some lost...
for my $0.02 YMMV
"one of the most notorious cult films ever made" deserves to be screened one friday night after dark...
You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
-Nile Rodgers
rr
p. s. MAD tomorrow is 50/50....(to fuckin' lazy to email)
@Gidgie wood gets me wet not hard ;) tmi?
@rr: I will screen that film in two weeks! I think I know which one you're talking about! I'll be there from around 4pm on, if you don't make it tomorrow, somewhere down the road. Is that quote from Nile Rodgers from Chic? Nice find!
I just watched a women's prison show on TLC, but it was truly boring. Fugitive Girls looks MUCH better. I especially like their vests! Just goes to show - it's a much wiser fashion choice to run from the law than spend 3-5 in prison.
@Biff: All too true!