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12/1/2006
Since it's been a while, here's a big, fat episode of Electric
Degeneration.
You won't need to come back for seconds with servings like this!
FILM FLAM
Saturday we hit Plaza Theatre for this month’s Silver Scream Spookshow featuring
It Came from Outer Space in 3D. Before the flick started we were treated to a
very funny skit involving aliens, mind control, and astronauts combined with
burlesque. Worth the price of admission almost by itself. Then the screen
flickered to life with a better than average 50’s monster from space movie,
thanks to a screenplay by Ray Bradbury and the often-giggle-inducing 3D effects.
I think the age of the film had caused a bit of a color-shift, making some of
the 3D less three dimensional than strangely multi-dimensional and blurry, but
it brought back memories of seeing this film at Silver Screen on Peachtree for
my birthday every year as a kid, part of a double-feature with Creature from the
Black Lagoon in 3D.
Silver Scream Spookshow happens the last Saturday of every month. The 1PM
matinees are kid-friendly, but we adults have made a night of it by starting off
at Righteous Room next door for pre-9:30-show dinner and drinks (the chili
relleno there is pretty damn tasty!)
In other reviews, we got this from degenerate GG:
Degenerate RVI said: "Let Altman show you who you are and you'll know why we're
poorer for the loss of his eye and sensibility, but richer for the fact he was
at least here for 81 years making movies."
RVI must be blissfully unaware of O.C. and Stiggs, Altman's dismal-beyond-belief
offering from 1987. The film was based on a hilarious series of National Lampoon
articles from the early 1980's. Or at least I thought they were pretty damn
funny when I read them. Somehow, Altman drained every ounce of the characters'
subversive humor from his lifeless film version. Maybe I should ease up on
Altman a bit though because he did hire the great Louis Nye for a role in the
movie. Nye played Sonny Drysdale on the Beverly Hillbillies and did a top-notch
sendup of the beatnik lifestyle with "Teenage Beatnik" a superb 45rpm that came
out in 1959. You can listen to it here, along with a ton of other cool tracks:
www.philxmilstein.com/probe/index.htm
EAR PLUGS
To make up for the lack of plugging lately, here's a hastily assembled manage a
trois:
All The Saints, Deerhunter at The Earl:
www.degeneratepress.com/vault/deerhunter_11_2006/index.html
El Vez at Bottletree in Birmingham and Little Steven's Garage A Go Go at Variety
Playhouse:
www.degeneratepress.com/vault/el_vez_11_2006/index.html
In other reviews:
I made it to degen AG's "We're still screwed" post election party at Lenny's.
Short on funds, I still stayed late. Sonia Tetlow performed a song I have always
hated, not for its message; but for its delivery. Lennon just didn't have the
pipes that Sonia has. Her "Imagine" was nothing less than stunning!
Rock on,
Degenerate SK
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