By Mark | October 24, 2017
This weekend, my friend Forest Juziuk is going to be hosting a festival called Morbid Reflection: Michigan Horror Films 1976-2014 at Planet Ant’s new Ant Hall in Hamtramck. You can find ticket information at the end of this post, but, first, here’s a short conversation between Forest and myself about how the festival came together, […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Michigan | Also tagged Aaron Dilloway, America’s Funniest Videos, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Atman, Back From Hell, beds, beds that eat buckets of chicken, beds that eat hands, Border Angels, Brian Hunter, cats, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, Demon Lover, Demons, Devil Master, domestic violence, Donald Trump, Everything Is Terrible!, Evil Dead, Film, film festivals, film trailer, Forest Juziuk, Ghost Light, Halloween On Christmas, Harmony Korine, HAVEN, horror, horror movies, It Follows, Jeremy Wheeler, Kye Potter, Matt Jaissle, Memory Hole, Morbid Reflection, murder, Planet Ant, Planned Parenthood, psychedelic, Purple Rain, Purple Rain: Terror Beyond Belief, Ruth Ellis Center, Sean Curtis Patrick, sexual assault, The Carrier, Toshio Matsumoto, Trash Humpers, University of Michgan, VHS, Wolf Eyes, zines |
I don’t generally share reviews of my one-day-a-year band, the Monkey Power Trio, on this site. I’d like to say that its because I’m modest. It has more to do, however, with the fact that the reviews are, almost without exception, embarrassingly negative. But, every so often, for reasons that I can’t quite understand, someone, […]
I don’t have as much time tonight to comment on the death of Davy Jones as I would like, but I did want to pass along this statement, which was issued today by his former Monkees bandmate Michael Nesmith. Here’s what “the quiet Monkee” had to say. All the lovely people. Where do they all […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Observations, Uncategorized | Also tagged Air Supply, another famous person has died, Beatlemania, Brady Bunch, Christian Nesmith, David Bowie, Davy Jones, Death, Eleanor Rigby, Head, Jerry Mathers, Leave It to Beaver, meditations on death, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, Repo Man, The Beatles |
By Mark | February 5, 2012
The other day, I heard someone mention that David Letterman was celebrating his 30th anniversary on television, and I made a note to myself to see if I could find the first episode of Late Night online. Well, I just did, and wanted to pass along a few clips. While Letterman was certainly good, if […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Media, Pop Culture | Also tagged 1982, Andy Kaufman, Andy Warhol, Bill Murray, Brother Theodore, commedy, David Letterman, Dick Cavett, Gore Vidal, great interviews, Kurt Vonnegut, Late Night with David Letterman, talk shows, television |
