June 25, 2011

After yesterday’s Beatle post, I realized I haven’t seen the movie, “A Hard Day’s Night” in quite a while. I went to Netflix and it’s one of their movies that you can stream instantly. I’m pretty sure everybody’s seen the movie, so I’m just going to post the trailer and then pick ten iconic shots from the movie for tonight’s midnight movie. Okay, lights...camera...Ringo!

Further reading: IMDb, Movie Locations, NY Times and HDN Trivia (I only missed two. Ha!)

You also might like: Iron Lungs, Brass Balls and Buns of Steel.

Four Movies That Ringo Has Starred In.
Candy
The Magic Christian
200 Motels
Caveman

So play the game existence to the end,
Of the beginning, of the beginning.

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(UPDATE) Bonus Photo From Gene Rubbico

Gene and Smoopy are back in town and so far since last night they've hit 2745 bars and have had a combined total of 978 drinks between the two of them. They'll be joining me for Cheeseburger Saturday Night tonight, but in the meantime, here's a photo Gene took of a scary encounter the two of them had last night. Aaaaahhhh!

April 16, 2011

One of my favorite blogs is the EV Grieve blog. It’s a lively and often humorous mix of news and photos from the East Village of New York and beyond. And in addition to the blog itself, there’s a lively group of commenters there and I’m happy to be part of that crowd. And yesterday EV Grieve revealed that he had received his 25,000th comment at his fine blog. And the commenter was none other than me! It was truly an honor and luckily I included the word “penis” within my comment. Check it out here: No. 25,000.

What can I say about tonight’s movie, This Is Spinal Tap? It goes to 11! Hello Cleveland! Lights, camera...Spinal Tap!

¡La mierda, los subtítulos está solamente en español otra vez! ¡Favor de Por!

Further reading: Spinal Tap Fan, IMDb, All Movie and Spinal Tap.

You might also like: Chocolate Babies, The V847 Wah-Wah Pedal and Warren “Potsie” Weber.

Four Spinal Tap Drummers
(Special Thanks to the Spinal Tap Fan site for the information and links.)
Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs (1945-1974)
Peter "James" Bond (1949-1977)
Mick Shrimpton (1948-1982)
Joe "Mama" Besser—David: "We assume he either returned to the world of jazz or he died."

How could I leave this behind?

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P.S.
Don’t forget to tune into the "Secret Weapon" Saturday Matinee, on now till 5 PM EST. “Boris” picks the tunes and DJ Gidget spins them and interweaves memorable lines from films in between. Maybe a Spinal Tap tune or line will show up today! Tune in to Woody Radio and check it out!

March 19, 2011

Midnight Movie @12:01 am
Chelsea
Okay, it’s Friday and that means it’s time for the Midnight Movie here at MAD. Tonight’s movie is one of my all-time favorites, “Fear Strikes Out.” It stars Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden and both of them are great in it. It’s the true story of Jimmy Piersall, a Boston Red Sox player (hello csp!), who, for a while, was a couple bases shy of a baseball diamond. This movie chronicles those kooky years of Piersall and his bitter and over-bearing father. Okay, let’s go to my apartment and watch it.

Every year there's a night when you walk out and realize that winter is finally over. Tonight's that night and it feels great! Of course, now that I've said that it'll probably snow six feet tomorrow.

Nice, you just tack a sign to the door and tell the store to move itself! Let's try that here: Movie, start now.

You can't read this in the picture, but it's an error box saying that a critical error has happened and the disc cannot recover. I tried cleaning it but got the same error in the same place. Looks like in addition to fear, this movie has also struck out. Anthony Perkins went "Psycho" three years later and Karl Malden used an American Express Card to get to San Francisco. The End. Goodnight everybody and see you tomorrow after dark.

Further reading and watching: IMDb, TCM, Fandango and American Express.

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The Papaya Dialogues
An on-going Twitter conversation between the King and I.

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Nightcap

Neat neat neat, she can't afford a cannon,
Neat neat neat, she can't afford a gun at all.

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You should do yourself a favor and tune into "The Secret Weapon" show on Woody Radio. "Boris" supplys the tunes and DJ Gidget adds movie lines in between! Check it out here: "The Secret Weapon At Woody Radio!"

"Secret Weapon" banner art by "Boris."

Saturday, February 19, 2011

My Apartment @12:39 am
Friday Night Midnight Movie—Glengarry Glen Ross
One of the things with this new blog that will be nice for me is I don’t have to go out if I don’t want to. I didn’t make any self-imposed rules like I did with the 365 blog, so it could be looser and a little more relaxed, because last year just about killed me. I am going to update it every day though and most nights I will go out and do something, even if it’s just some random photos in a section of town. But the one night I’m not going out is going to be the night I dreaded every week while doing the 365 blog. Those of you who followed it (and that’s pretty much everybody who’s following this one, and I thank all of you for being loyal and continuing to read MAD) know which night I’m talking about because every week I would go on a whining spree that would make Doug and Wendy Whiner blush. That’s right, tonight, Friday night.

I hate going out on Friday and Saturday nights. They’re the amateur nights of the week and everything is crowded, especially here in New York and every other person is blotto on booze or one thing or another. And on Fridays I don’t get out of work till around 11pm at the earliest, so it was a real nightmare going to bars last year and dealing with babbling idiots schlocked out of their gourds and trying to get them to pose for a photo. So what I’m going to do on Friday’s instead is watch a movie and take photos of key scenes and then put together a mini-still movie of the original complete with dialogue. Oh and if the movie is in color, I’m going to pull the opposite of what they did to “It’s A Wonderful Life” and take the color out of it to keep it true to the MAD black and white color scheme.

Tonight’s movie is one of my all time favorite films—Glengarry Glen Ross. The film itself reminds me somewhat of the movie, “Reservoir Dogs.” Both are dialogue-driven films and both of them have an almost exclusive male-only cast. The only female in Glengarry Glen Ross is the coat check woman at the Chinese restaurant. Plus both have a surprise twist involving a key character towards the end. So without any further whoop-dee-do, for tonight’s Friday Night Midnight Movie, I present: Glengarry Glen Ross.

Glengarry Glen Ross
Click here to read the NY Times review of Glengarry Glen Ross: NYT Glengarry Glen Ross review.

Further reading: Spark Notes, enotes, Culture Vulture.

Nightcap

The beat don't stop until the break of dawn.

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