Patriotic Funkadelic music is the rage in the US today, when we commemorate our independence from the folks overseas.
Ramblings while on a slow suburban death.
Category: Entertainment
Christopher Lee will always be my favorite Dracula. I have watched the entire Hammer Film library of Dracula movies, including the ones without Lee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVADAFmZXXQ
John Frankenheimer’s “Prophecy” was that environmental message film of the 70s where gigantic animal mutations roamed the peaceful American woods terrorizing loggers, locals and Talia Shire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NVVe1DkVsQ
All you had to do was turn on KDIA-AM to hear Sly and the Family Stone’s “Hot Fun In The Summertime” flying across the airwaves.
Marlon Brando is an icon, one of the greatest American actors on film. I fell in love with Brando one lonely Saturday afternoon while watching “On the Waterfront”.
I have always been an animation fan, having grown up on “Speed Racer”, “Kimba” and “Minashigo Hatchi”. While I find the current popular run of Hollywood animated film to be a bit tiring, the large international selection of short films are delightful.
“The Day of the Triffids” is a classic 1960s era sci/fi horror film. The movie begins with a bang, followed by mass blindness and a invasion of the mighty, vegetable-like Triffids. In between, there are a variety of characters that exemplify different degrees of the human condition, some worth dying or saving.
Cameroon’s Manu Dibango’s “Soul Makossa” has plenty of rhythm, vibrating sound and lyrics that no one seems to understand. I was once told that the lyrics were filthy, which might this song even cooler.
A quirky 7-11 worker that demands uniformity, but not conformity, finds his place under the sun in “Right Place,” a delightful very short 5+ minute film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J74HRwl0b0
Hell hath no fury like a monster who is in search of its Gorgo, a tiny tot monster who has been removed from its home in the Irish waters to become a Battersea Park sightseeing attraction.