Tag Archives: Christopher Guest

WCBN goes and One Louder with Skink

By Mark | January 14, 2014

Greg Pratt, who I interviewed a week or so ago about his work with local homeless folks, is also a DJ on WCBN, and it was in that capacity that he sent me the following video a few days ago. That’s my old band, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, from back around 1991, when Ann Arbor still […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 25 Suaves, Blue Snaggletooth, college radio, Greg Pratt, homelessness, loud music, Nigel Tufnel, One Louder, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Rainbow Vomit Family Band, Skink, Spinal Tap, Teenage Love and Murder, The Armed, The Avatars, WCBN | 8 Comments

Christopher Guest’s Death Wish

By Mark | January 14, 2014

This evening, while researching something completely unrelated, I discovered an interesting little fact about filmmaker Christopher Guest that I wanted to share. A decade before starring in This Is Spinal Tap, and setting in motion a chain of events that would make him the mockumentary auteur he is today, he starred opposite Charles Bronson in […]

Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged 1974, acting, actors playing cops, Baron Haden-Guest, barons, Bill Murray, casting, CBS, Charles Bronson, Columbo, Death Wish, England, House of Lords, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jean Pauline Hindes, mockumentary, National Lampoon, National Lampoon Radio Hour, peerage, police, revenge porn, Spinal Tap, The Hot Rock, United Nations | 8 Comments

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