Episode #77: A Kind of Farewell

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Episode #77 explores the cyberpunk classic Hackers. Excuse me, cyberpunk "classic." Excuse me, "cyberpunk" "classic."

I had a lot of fun watching it again. I would assume that most people would, as well. It's a big, silly movie that hasn't aged all that well and creates a kind of befuddlement that I find chamring.

Cruz didn't agree. But what are you going to do? You can't bring a horse to water. But you can shoot that horse and use it to make cat food. Think about that, Cruz, the next time you want to shit on one of my favorite cult movies.

Cruz is not only an enemy of fun, but he is now a de facto enemy of the AV Club. Does his debauchery know no bounds? How does himself in the mirror?

Of course the podcast isn't actually ending, it's becoming A Quality Interruption. And even if you did deeply care for the manic nonsense that was the WGSG show, I have my suspicions that it isn't going to go away entirely.

Episode #76

Episode #76 is live and waiting for you to listen to it!

Cruz and I watched The Serpent in the Rainbow. This episode forced us to take a good long look at the racial dynamics of an old white dude making a movie about a foreign syncretic religion and how exactly Nazi wizards fit into all of this. Despite out best efforts, I think we come up short. Listen, won't you?

One last reminder: We're changing our name to A Quality Interruption. We will be doing so on the 7th of April. Go ahead and follow the Facebook page now and save yourself some heartbreak later.

If you are desperate for more James and Cruz, you can follow James here and Cruz here on the twitter.

HERE'S A PREVIEW OF OUR NEXT EPISODE!

Near Dark Arriveth!

Sorry for being so late on the blog front. I'm still not used to updating this thing.

Episode #75 is out! It's on the excellent, underground vampire flick Near Dark. Even if you hate our asses, do yourself a favor and check this movie out!

Do it!

There's another important fact that I'd like to mention: We are changing the name of the podcast. Which is to say, we are starting a new podcast. It is going to be called A Quality Interruption.

A Quality Interruption will follow the same basic format of one movie to one episode, with maybe a few new ideas thrown in. So, if you like White Guys, Square Glasses, please make sure to make the switch over to A Quality Interruption. We already have a blank Facebook page . Go ahead and follow that so you won't miss any more news on that front.

Other than that please enjoy this awesome vampire movie!

(Poster stolen from here.)

Late to the Party

We've run into a bit of a snag with the editing of our latest episode. My appologies. We should have it out tomorrow. In the mean time, maybe give something else a chance? Something great like The Memory Palace.

It's brilliant podcast that tells a story about some random, profound thing in the world in the span of about ten minutes. You should give it a shot. You won't be sorry for long.

The Battle Royale Podcast

Cruz and I put our heads together and the best thing we could come up with to review was Battle Royale.

Listen to it here. Subscribe to our RSS feed here. Or just subscribe to it on iTunes like a normal person.

You might know the name "Battle Royale" for one of two reasons: 1) You've read an Entertainment Weekly article about The Hunger Games sometime within the past five years or, 2) You were a high schooler who was really into anime and movies where guys do fifty foot long lines of coke and/or cut their own tongue off.

There are no wrong answers here.

In this episode we talk about why this movie works and why other ridiculous gore fests don't. We also probably go off the rails almost immediately.

Also, y'all ever see Gozu? Man. I don't know why, but I love me some Gozu.

About Goddamn Time

Phew. That was a good break.

Here's a preview of the next movie we'll be discussing--

It's called Near Dark and it's fucking awesome. Despite the fact that the Blu-Ray cover is aping Twilight for some reason, you should go and see it. ASAP. It's on Amazon Prime, iTunes,and you can even watch it on You Tube in fourteen parts for some reason. But don't do that. That's what stupid dirtbags do and you're not a stupid dirtbag, are you?

Are you?

You're welcome. It's a heck of a movie.

Wired is One Rad Magazine

And Joachin Kohn is one rad dude.

Kohn himself pioneered a new class of degradable compounds that are now used inside the body to provide controlled drug delivery, as well as for tissue engineering and regenerative processes like bone and nerve repair. And during his leadership of the AFIRM program, scientists under Kohn’s guidance have already completed an array of futuristic therapies to heal wounded soldiers: Among them are the country’s first-ever face transplant; lab-grown ears nearly ready for human transplantation; and an engineered skin substitute that will soon be tested on soldiers with extensive burns.

 Read more about AFIRM and the radical edge of medical science here at Wired.

Because holy crap face transplants.

Our Personal Podcasting Rig in Action

(via If Charlie Parker. . . )

Primo J/O Material

Mother of fuck, I want an Eames chair. Like, you don't even know, guys.

(via here.)

FALLOUT 4 TEASER

But not really. The 80's were just batshit crazy.

Merry Christmas!

I love T2

And I love this drawing.

(PS: New and incredibly outdated episode coming this Monday!)

LET'S DRINK BEER FOREVER

HEY LISTEN

For the Children

The top minor Simpsons characters according the staff writers of the Simpsons.

That shit is tight, guys.

What is wrong with you people?

11 year old retarded girls are not the problem with your country, Pakistan!

I would argue that accusing little disabled girls of blasphemy might be of a greater concern! Just saying!

I really want to hate this--

But I'm kind of a sucker for good design.

Now if only the Eames had been involved with video games. . .

It's a Rolling Stones Reference, You See

Episode number 44 is out, which means that we're only six episodes and five years away from our 50th! Don't get excited, get angry!

As a reward for your loyalty, here is a description on the crazed and insane origins of ventriloquism!

Professionally Begging for you Loose Change

Joe and James (and a few other folks who we need not mention) are making a comic and they need your help to get it going!

So, give us money!

As of writing this, we're already a third there and this thing opened up last night. Don't let us down, folks, we need your help! We need your money!

RIP Ernie

I hope he died the way he lived.

We Also Went and Did an Episode

That's right! Episode #42! And we didn't even make a Douglas Adams reference or nothing!

Like I said Joe is involved with some kind of a baby-type situation for the time being, which means that he is going to be indisposed while people like me and my co-host Cruz Flore, gather our strength by sucking the energy out of Joe's ear through a sugar reed while he sleeps a frightful sleep.

It's fun is what it is!

(This is a movie we talk about. For some reason Manhunter has been coming up a lot recently.)

And, in case anyone wants to accuse me of being some how high-hatidly racist, the episode title is a Philip K. Dick reference and not a reference to me and my father's belief that Hispanics are agents of a crypto-Pope dead-set on creating a new Papal States in Southern California.

If I ever seem racist it is more than likely just a Philip K. Dick reference. On that I give you my scout's honor. . . My voortrekker's honor, but still, it's better than the word of a racist!

Here's the trailer for one of the other movies we talk about-- Yeah. You be the judge on that one.

One quick thought about this trailer (because I haven't read the books nor do I plan to), which is. . . Isn't the idea of a special forces killer on the run a real effed out idea? I mean, that was the entire premise of Lethal Weapon, which is a violent crime movie that is hemmed into a location. At this point I suppose that is a stock character or a well-worn idea of the genre, but how is that your selling point? The special forces just dropped Osama Bin Laden and you're making movies about how one of their number is a loose cannon. It's not disrespectful or hackney or anything, it's just odd. I guess movies about women torturers being hunted down by Madeas have to be, though.

Anyways, we cut out a bunch of junk from the last time we recorded-- Or, really, it just got lost because motherfuck the iPhone edition of Garageband-- Including our extended rapportage on Huell Howser. And all of that reminded me of the podcast Uhh Yeah Dude, which is basically the good version of our own podcast. Specifically I would like to recommend this episode, which drops some bombs about who and what Huell Howser is for those who are both initiated into the mystery of Huell and those who do not live in California or watch too much public broadcasting.

Alright-- One last aside-- PASADENA HAS A BUNNY MUSEUM. AND OF COURSE HUELL HOWSER WENT THERE.

I LOVE THIS COUNTRY. I LOVE THIS TOWN.

And I bid you farewell.

(Ugh. Technical error. Blogspot isn't accepting YouTube embeds for some reason. Or vice versa. Or whatever. Hold that thought. . . ) 

(Nope, shit's fucked for some damn reason. Stupid.)