03.31.10
Groove Tomb Playlist: March 31, 2010
The Chumps- 7-11
The Eddie Current Suppression Ring- I Got a Feeling
Active Dog- Fun While It Lasts Big Star- In the Street
Angry Samoans- Gimmie Sopor
Thee Headcoates- Sticks and Stones The Buzzcocks- Love You More The Duals- Stick Shift
Jim Murphy- Plumb Crazy The Customs- Strychnine
Shirley Ellis- Soul Time The Flowers- After Dark The Nuns- Savage
Hubble Bubble You’ll Be the One
Descendents- Ride the Wild
Jet- Nothing to Do With Us
Roky Erickson- Red Temple Prayer Monster Pussy- My Subaru Joey Warren- Goatee The Shirks- Rat on a Rat The Kids- Baby That’s Alright Defex- Psycho Surfer The Makers- Live or Die The Charts- Ooba Gooba The Murmaids- Popsicles and Icicles The Eddie Current Suppression Ring- Anxiety The Overnight Lows- So Well Read Los Explosivos- Quiza
Naked Raygun- Blight The Plugz- Let Go Phil Gray- Pepper Hot Baby The Quotations- Imagination The Pretty Things- Old Man Going
The Who- I Can’t Reach You Rank and File- I Went Walking The Downliner’s Sect- Glendora The Registrators- I Just Wanna Kille Everything The Peels- Fun The Replacements- Hangin’ Downtown The Plimsouls- Everywhere At Once The Rolling Stones- Shake Your Hips The Symbols- Do the Zombie The Royal Jokers- You Tickle Me Baby Really Red- Crowd Control Sir Douglas Quintet- Quarter to Three
The 1980s was a terrible decade for hair and a great decade for horror. Here are links to a couple of recent writings about movies that will throw some intentional scares and an occasional unintentional laugh your way. The House by the Cemetery (1981)
I break with thee, I break with thee, I break with thee, and then I throw dog poop on your shoes. If anyone is looking in because I closed down my social network pages (myspace, facebook), understand that it’s not you, it’s me. I have been extremely bummed out recently and, while I don’t really have anything against social websites per se, being on social networks makes me feel like a sell out. Besides that, I don’t think I have the capacity for the mental clutter that it brings on. These websites act as a constant reminder of a lifetime of people I have failed to connect with on a meaningful level. Not only that, but I am realizing that I just don’t have anything to say. When I do, it takes more than 400 words and I obsess over it. This may be a bi-product of depression, but I am going to look at the clearing of my mental clutter as a sign of better things to come. Those of you I know, I like, but I’m too neurotic to know what you guys are thinking all the time. If you are looking at this, you are probably not among those who post their breakfast menus on Facebook, and are therefore free to write for ‘updates.’ Groove Tomb Playlist: March 24, 2010 The Replacements- Alex Chilton
The Box Tops- Trains, Boats, and Planes
Shannon and the Clams- Troublemaker The Stranglers- No More Heroes Sir Laurence and the Crescents- Cheatin’ on Me Johnny Kidd and the Pirates- Casting My Spell on You Billy Mack- Son of a Lover MAceo- Future Shock Monster Pussy- Invite Me to Your All Girl Party Vice Squad- Stand Tall, Stand Proud The Registrators- Kids and Executives The Overnight Lows- So Well Read 20/20- Yellow Pills The Runaways- You Drive Me Wild The Weirdos- Destroy All Music The Plimsouls- Zero Hour Al’s Untouchables- Come on Baby The Flies- Talk to Me The Selector- Three Minute Hero Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers- I Wanna Be Loved The Nervous Eaters- Loretta The Bags- We Will Bury You Ty Wagner and the Scotchmen- I’m A No Count The Chiefs- Apache Arch Hall Jr.- Theme from Eegah The Clash- Safe European Home The Flaming Groovies- Shake Some Action The Mekons- Like Spoons No More The Nerves- Hangin’ on the Telephone Hubble Bubble- Freaks…Out! The Motors- Dancing the Night Away The Regular Guys- Person to Avoid The Undertones- Teenage Kicks The Testors- Together The Only Ones- Another Girl, Another Planet Devo- Mechanical Man The Buzzcocks- Ever Fallen in Love? The Sonics- He’s Waiting The Animals-I’m Crying The Groove Tomb- Garage. Punk. Horror. Other. Tuesday Nights 12AM-2AM 91.3FM KXCI Tucson, Arizona. billupsallen.com
For anyone interested parties living in Pima County, the library is now carrying DVDs of my first short film, a documentary I did a couple of years ago called Vinyl Scrapyard. It won’t change your life, but I enjoyed putting it together. Roman Polanski’s latest film The Ghost Writer is a nod to Hitchcock as well as old Polanski. The Ghost Writer (2010)
Here is a link to my review of a remake of Geroge Romero’s 1973 film The Crazies. The Crazies (2010)
Here are some links to recent reviews I put up at Off the Marquee. Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, but my numbers at that site have been up significantly recently, so if you are looking at those reviews, thanks a lot and keep it up. You are making a difference for me there. Neither of those movies were particularly good in my opinion. So far, it has been a slow year for movies. I am looking forward to The White Ribbon this week. My Almodovar article has not been going so well, so I have been feeling a bit discouraged about my effectiveness as a writer. There are just weeks like that, I guess. I have been working on some new fiction recently. Maybe I will put up a new story soon. I had a good double feature at home over the weekend. Big Stan (2007), Rob Schneider’s direct to video directorial debut and the recently released film about a famous man who has lived most of his life in the British prison system named Bronson (2010). Both were better than I thought they would be. It has inspired me to consider doing double feature reviews. I am gonna have to suss that out a little. Hope all is well with you all… Next Page » |
NEWS
SHORT STORIES
POEMS
MONDO ARCHIVES
INTERVIEWS
|
