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Episode 188: J. J. Anselmi!

16 Saturday Jan 2016

Posted by thedrunkenodyssey in Episode, Memoir, Music

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Episode 188 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I interview memoir writer J.J. Anselmi,

JJ Anselmi

Plus Patty Hawkins eulogizes David Bowie.

Patty HawkinsTEXTS DISCUSSED

Heavy A MemoirLowNOTES

20914481839_d2db57ea30_oCheck out Drew Perlmutter’s kickstarter campaign for his upcoming documentary, US Highway 98: The Florida I Never Knew. He was my cinematographer for The Drunken Odyssey’s first documentary, The Weeki Wachee Spectacular.

Check out Patty Hawkins at Come Get ∑, or as part of The Geeks Of Comedy. He is also Patrick The Uneducated Critic and a contributing panelist on the MarkWho42WHOniverse.

Patty Hawkin’s recommends Bowie’s Jazzin for Blue Jean.


Episode 188 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

The Curator of Schlock #14: Heavy Metal

08 Friday Nov 2013

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The Curator of Schlock #14 by Jeffrey Shuster

Heavy Metal

Heavy Metal

I don’t know what I can say about the 1981 animated anthology movie Heavy Metal that hasn’t been said by countless other fans of the film on countless other blogs. For that matter, I don’t know how I’m even supposed review an anthology movie so I’m going to break this up into two lists.

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Ah, plutonium nyborg!

Ten Things That Come to Mind When I Think of Heavy Metal

  1. The most awesome soundtrack ever assembled featuring Devo, Journey, Blue Oyster Cult,  Sammy Hagar, Grand Funk Railroad, Stevie Nicks, and Black Sabbath.
  2. The most awesome score ever created by Elmer Bernstein. It was the first time he used the ondes martenot!
  3. A space shuttle opens to reveal a 1958 corvette and I can’t help but wonder why all astronauts don’t descend back to Earth in style.
  4. A glowing green ball that is the sum of all evils from all planets, galaxies, and dimensions. And it’s voiced by the king of all voice over artists, Percy Rodriguez. That’s pretty darn evil!
  5. A cabby that keeps a disintegration ray in his back seat for anyone who points a gun at his head. How cool is that?
  6. A nerdy boy who get transported to an alien planet where he transform into a bald superman who he gets the women and kills the bad guys.
  7. A larcenous, perverted worm of a starship captain who should be torn into little bitty pieces and eaten alive.
  8. A B-17 pilot who has to contend with the reanimated corpses of his fellow airmen.
  9. Alien robots that seduce Earth women and promise Jewish weddings.
  10. Devo playing  “Through Being Cool” right before a leather clad warrior maiden chops the heads of three barbarians off.

Taara

Ten Questions I’ve often pondered about Heavy Metal

  1. Why doesn’t a 1958 corvette burn up upon re-entry?
  2. Why is a glowing, green ball of evil wasting its time telling stories to a little girl?
  3. Why do people keep touching the Loc-Nar? It dissolves their flesh and causes them to suffer an excruciating death.
  4. Why don’t modern cabs have disintegration rays installed in the back? Seriously, it’s 2013!
  5. Why is Captain Lincoln F. Sternn such a larcenous, perverted worm and why do we love him despite of this?
  6. Why is the segment with the cocaine-snorting aliens even in this movie? It has nothing to do with anything.
  7. Why is John Candy’s voice used so much in this film? Do we care? No.
  8. Why does that one barbarian guy just stand there after his two buddies get their heads chopped off? Fight or flight!
  9. Why doesn’t Taarna ever speak? I bet she’d have lots of interesting things to say.
  10. Why do so few movies have one-tenth the imagination that Heavy Metal does?

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Jeffrey Shuster

Jeffrey Shuster (episode 47) is an MFA candidate and instructor at the University of Central Florida.

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