Star Pilot

Another one of my recent favorites is a mid-sixties goof fest called Starpilot. It was originally shot and produced in 1965, then eventually dubbed in English and released in the U.S. in 1977, to hopefully catch on that whole "Star Wars" thing the kids were getting into dontcha know.

Anyway it's a story about, uh, wait a minute, I had it a minute ago, hang on.... Aww hell, I cant remember, there's a spaceship and a scientist and his team, and some Chinese spies and Alien travelers, and a crap load of footage that doesn't make any sense.


It really doesn't matter, the only images that really stick into my subconscious are Leontine May and Leonora Ruffo wearing little outfits, running about and doing science fictioney things. And there's a scene where everybody's watching each other eat for some reason.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this film might have some sexual undertones, heck it may even be considered sexist.(from an Italian film? Nah.) as Leontine's little fun with gravity may suggest.
Woof. I'm a lonely, lonely man.

Battle Beyond the Sun

I just have to pay homage to one of my favorite movies: Battle Beyond the Sun basically blew my mind the first time I saw it. It's actually a re-cycle of a couple of Russian Sci-Fi films(Niebo Zowiet (1959) and Planeta Burg (1962) picked up by Roger Corman and then passed off to Francis Ford Coppola (under the alias "Thomas Colchart" ) His father, Carmen Coppola, composed the sound track. Actually, the special effects, for it's time, is not that bad. Plus seeing part of the "space Race" from the soviet point of view is just different. (they tried patched over the U.S.S.R. on the spaceships, but a few red stars remain here and there.
Anyway, after giving this film a distinctive "American" touch, Corman wanted some monsters in this thing, and turned this duty over to Coppola, and this is what he came up with:

Wow, I would have loved to have been at that meeting, must have been interesting. I think these guys might have had some issues with women.
You know, it not just the fact that this thing is a giant vagina, it's the teeth that's really the nightmare fuel.......

Well, it's that kind of morning, my brain is scattered to the wind, all over the map.

Probably not a good idea to write a post at this moment, but aww, what the hell.
Honestly, I want to write some movie reviews, but I'm currently training myself so figure out all these file formats, still captures, html embedding, and so forth...... I just cant sleep unless I can complicate the hell out of anything.

Good News............ Right?

Hey! I got a job today..... sort of.
A friend is an engineer at a local company, and they recently let go their facility guy to save money.
Well, after couple weeks, the place started falling apart. (big surprise). So anyhoo, this friend calls me, I call them, and it looks like I'll be going in for a couple of days at the end of the month to basically make sure the lights come on, the toilets flush, and maybe slap a new coat of paint in a few areas. Groovy!
This is where my brain goes into vapor-lock.... since I don't have my own insurance, I'll do this job through a local temp agency, and that's fine, it makes sense. But of course I'll be "in the system" so my unemployment will take a hit for a couple of days work.
Maby this whole economic "thing" this year has made me extremely paranoid, but I'm always freaked out that I'll lose my unemployment. Sounds lame, but I guess I have a kind of love-hate relationship with the whole thing. On one hand, I hate the fact that I have to collect it, on the other, I'm grateful to have it.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who had the floor drop out from under them this year, but it tends to leave me a little "twitchy" to say the least. Jesus, no wonder I'm so neurotic.

But of course I wont get very far ahead sitting in the apartment. This is definetly good news.

whasssapenning..........

O.K., so I've been a little lax in updating this thing, honestly I had a hard time getting my unemployed butt off the couch. Ugh. It's scary out there.

Anyway, enough of that, lets talk T.V.! You know, whenever I can squeeze it into my intensely busy schedule, I do enjoy to observe the large variety of moving images known to exist within the handy household device known as a "Television".
One of my recent little compulsions is the early 70's masterpiece known as "the Streets of San Francisco" ( A Quinn-Martin Production.)
Whoah, this show is bad. Painfully bad. I cant watch more than 1 episode per 24 hour period, otherwise my whole apartment becomes filled with an acrid stench, and an oily film covers everything in the room.
Aside from that, it is fun to observe a pretty varied supporting cast, lots of "oh, that's the GUY from." and "wow, it's HER when she was younger(and better looking)" hey, and that's "WHOOZIT" and "WHATS HIS NAME". The list is endless.

I did happen upon an episode featuring our distinguished Governor of this Great State of California. Arnold plays Josef Schmidt, a bodybuilder with anger issues, who is quite sensitive about his body(really?) and inadvertently kills a woman during one of his shit-fits. (maybe pronounced "shitzen-fitzen" in German, I dunno.)
Wow. Incredible. Brings the art of Acting to a whole new level........................... of crap.
But don't just take my word for it, see for yourself. And remember, we elected him.
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/angry-arnie-p1.php