It's been a long time. The old inbox is bursting at the seams.
Best homoerotic fight scene ever: [download video, 24 megs, mpeg format] via Fulminatia, RIP
A few people pointed out that the dancing fedora man in this Howlin Wolf video was Son House. Here's Son House playing, not dancing: [download video, 38 megs, mpeg format] via dailymotion
When it wasn't trying to overthrow Central American countries, The United Fruit Company (Chiquita Banana) was rewriting its jingles to combat world hunger, by urging people to eat more Chiquita Bananas! [download MP3] thanks, Stark Effect!
The artwork on this page is by Boris Artzybasheff, an incredible Russian illustrator whose work has just been collected posthumously into a new volume called As I See. via Irwin.
Anime-based annoyance that never ends (shockwave page), via Listener John in Oslo.
Being Helpful as an act of subversion. Thanks Kenzo!
Various rapper-based chip products, via Listener Nell.
The complete Internal Revenue Code Podcast Project, via listener Tom. (Nobody tell Kenny G!)
How to turn your telephone into a transmitter.
Stanley Kubrick's pre-film work as a photographer.
Virtual Miss Germany, Ich Liebe Dich.
Early Wright Brothers photographs, via tollfreedom
This qualifies as cheesy euro-disco, I guess. It's got a mirrored ball, after all: Petey and Jaydee's Na Na Na: streaming video link, shades of the hamsterdance.
In case you missed it, we're up to 64 Stairways to Heaven, roughly twice as many as we started with. And don't miss the incredible backwards Stairway video, from Listener Neil's blog.
The homoerotic fight scene is the funniest thing I've seen in years. The tears are streaming down my face and choking and gasping for air. Any idea what film it's from?
Posted by: Fatherflot | May 08, 2006 at 01:50 PM
My own brother answered my question. Within 2 minutes of my emailing him the link, he shot this back:
It's called "Undefeatable" and it stars Cynthia Rothrock
It was made in hong kong http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111552/
Get your very own copy here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/DVD-UNDEFEATABLE-NEW-SEALED_W0QQitemZ9109385012QQcategoryZ2305QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Posted by: Fatherflot | May 08, 2006 at 01:56 PM
From the IMDB comments:
This movie is in a class all its own and it finished dead last in its class. What can I say besides this movie is so bad it rocks harder than twenty exploding suns!! Don Niam's (stingray) glorious frizzy mullet, horridly hilarious lines, and chiseled shiny pecs make this movie a hit. The Martal Arts is slow and retarded, EVERY character is so stupid it transcends anything known to movie history. The plot line is so ridiculous you might think that this is a porno script BUT ITS NOT! these people are serious and that is what makes it so wonderfully bad that it's great!If you're looking for a serious martial arts movie don't get this, you have to understand that this movie is like plan 9 from outer space. A movie so bad that it has gone down into movie history. THIS IS THE PLAN 9 OF MARTIAL ARTS MOVIES!! Seriously you will laugh so hard you'll vomit!
Posted by: Fatherflot | May 08, 2006 at 01:58 PM
United Fruit Company's got its place in radio history too: RCA was founded in 1919 as a collection of patents, those owned by GE, Westinghouse, AT&T and United Fruit.
Posted by: Scott | May 08, 2006 at 02:17 PM
The laserdisc distributor I worked for in the 90's sold that Cynthia Rothrock film. She's a HUGE star of chopsocky films.
Posted by: Krys O. | May 08, 2006 at 03:36 PM
So Stanley Kubrick made even worse photographs than he did movies.
Posted by: Sensei Rebel | May 09, 2006 at 03:45 AM
Hey Ken - do you have an mp3 of "Neil Young - Have You Forgotten?" yet? It seems like the type of tune that's up yr alley. I got mine on Stereogum today.
Posted by: David | May 09, 2006 at 01:08 PM
Ken, if you're looking for a shockwave-based musical annoyance, one must seriously consider badgers.
Posted by: The Contrarian | May 09, 2006 at 01:12 PM