Musically Inclined

      This week we close out April with a mixtape of jams just for you.

"It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"- Hustle & Flow, DJay

"Love Will Tear Us Apart"- Control, Joy Division

"Too High to Cry Too Rare to Care"- Uncle Peckerhead, Duh

"That Thing You Do!"- That Thing You Do, The O'Needers
"Padme Cometh"- Tyler and the Padwans
"Seven Hour Art Picture Show"- The Tartan Experience
"Crying in the Arcade Neon"- Bearded Tragedy

     We hope you like it. Timing out the ads was freaking hard.

Episode 255- Musically Inclined

The Chilean Epistle

     This week- two films about reaching out to the wide world through the written word.
     It is the last issue of the Eunni-sur-Blazé bureau of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Star. Take a look at the final articles to ever roll off those presses and the lovingly crowd sourced obituary of its managing editor and co-founder. A parody tribute to the gone 1950s glory days of The New Yorker. A film that takes many of that publications best contributors and twees them to maddening levels. A film so Wes Anderson that if it's ever screened with any of this other films it may rip apart our reality... The French Dispatch.
     Daniela is eager to explore her sexuality despite the oppression of her heavily Protestant family. She starts a blog to share her exploration with others in similar circumstances. Before long she finds herself in a precarious position at home and questioning everything she was raised to believe while also perusing relationships with two coworkers at her religious television internship. Will she return to her faith? Will she pick the religious boyfriend or the secular girlfriend? How many different lives can she juggle before they all collapse upon her? How long until her mother discovers her blog? Will Daniela settle or remain Young & Wild (Joven y alocada)?
     All that and Dave becomes the night, Tyler forgets something, and Kevin makes peace with visitors from beyond the sky. Join us, won't you?

 
Episode 254- The Chilean Epistle

Let Sleeping Pods Lie

    This week two films about the loss of one's soul in the quest to conform with one's social peers.

     The small town of Santa Mira is having a transient Capgras delusion epidemic. Town physician, Dr. Miles Bennell, is urgently called back from his vacation to try and deal with it. Before long, the good doctor and his suddenly divorced former girlfriend are caught up in a plot of intergalactic origin and just one short catnap away from being consumed by the first film version of modern fiction's most versatile metaphor- Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
     John LeTour, a delivery boy for a high class dealer, is having a midlife crisis. Consumed with feelings directionless with increasing loss of perspective as his boss contemplates moving from pharmaceuticals into cosmetics, he suffers from insomnia and uses his nights filling up composition notebooks journaling his adrift memories. One night, when dropping off a little something for a connection, he runs into his former lover as she maintains vigil over her dying mother. Soon John will be caught up in a murder investigation, a reignited obsession, and the ever piling garbage. Light Sleeper.
     All that and Dave's gotta go fast, Tyler gets an upgrade, and Kevin surprises everyone. Join us, won't you?

Episode 253- Let Sleeping Pods Lie

Fishin' for Rays

    This week a pair of deranged killers with low body counts.

     When Julie and the gang accidentally run over a pedestrian. They all, nearly instantly, agree the best course of action is to stuff the body in the trunk, drive a couple miles to a dock, and dump the body into the Atlantic. It's a terrible plan that is made worse when they realize their victim isn't quite dead yet. A year later and the posse of 1st degree murderers begin to get strange threatening letters. Who is the fisherman? Does anyone really care if any of these people live or die? So trauma just means you stop washing you hair? Will they ever find out what they are waiting for? Inspired by the classic YA suspense novel by Lois Duncan- I Know What You Did Last Summer.
     The Sun is dying. Earth is freezing. The final hope of the species rests on the seven person crew, all of whom have very specific jobs and absolutely no cross specialty training, of the Icarus II carrying a special bomb intended to give a micro Big Bang and rebirth the dying star. Toward the end of their momentum building slingshot around Mercury, the discover the beacon of the lost Icarus I. Deciding to stop and gawk at their lost sister ship, turns their urgent and critically important mission into a nightmare. Will they deliver their payload? Could anything survive seven years marooned in space? How did most of these people get through the psych evaluation process of crew selection? If the succeed will the ensuing flood drown all life? Does solar radiation actually give super slasher powers? Did no one bother to read what happened to Icarus before naming multiple ships after him? Maybe there are answers if you join Danny Boyle and gaze directly at Sunshine.
     All that and Dave becomes aware of his multiverse selves, Craig continues working on his fur suit, Kevin makes a stand, and Tyler fells the love tonight. Join us, won't you?
Episode 252: Fishin' for Rays-

Feline Acid Jazz

    This week a pair of DIY auteurs.  

     A creepy, terminally stupid, hypocrite cat doles out the worst possible advice on bullying, crashes a parade, and then somehow gets worse discussing gun safety. Dispensing advice that will worsen almost any similar situation in an insufferable manner made this one of the internet's favorite ironically loved bad movies. It was just a matter of time before we endured... Cool Cat Saves the Kids.
     The fourth and final film in Rudy Ray Moore's late-70s run of amazing blaxploitation films. A former cop turned disco showman extraordinaire wages a private war against angel dust (PCP for those under 40). When his nephew does too much and is lost in a nightmare, Disco Godfather will stop at nothing to clean up his streets and bring an end to the city's dealers by putting his weight on it. A mash up of horror, comedy, and Moore's own personal style of kung fu... Disco Godfather.
     All that and Tyler loses all hope of ever feeling joy again, Dave may have broken child endangerment laws, Kevin suffers impairment from experimental memory wipe treatments, and Craig laughs. Join us, won't you?

Episode 251- Feline Acid Jazz