Rowsdowr

See more at BuzzFeed

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v71Dtj2W7pw

From the early ’70s well into the ’90s the Philippines was a back-lot for a bevy of B-movie mavericks and cinema visionaries alike. The country was utilized for its inexpensive labour, exotic locations and distinct lack of rules. A large body of genre work emerged that somehow managed to capture the raw, chaotic energy of contemporary Filipino culture. These productions (a cavalcade of monster movies, jungle prison movies, blaxploitation and kung fu hybrids) were miraculously made at a time when the country’s political situation was repressive at best.

MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED! is the ultimate insiders’ account of genre filmmaking in the Philippines. A role call of local and international survivors from this period have been interviewed, all adding their distinct and honest account of this Devil-may-care school of filmmaking. Sitting alongside the talking heads are a dazzling array of outrageous film clips from key Filipino titles.

via Twitch

You can download the free mp3 of Brave Man’s Death from thetripwire.com

The kind folks at Tripwire.com have posted an ultra-exclusive, extra-free download of “Brave Man’s Death,” from our upcoming album. This is the first (legal) download of anything from the album, so put it on your Summer mix and strut that one around. It’s Great for the dog park.

The artwork shown on the Tripwire site is from our forthcoming “Don’t Break the Needle b/w Brave Man’s Death” 7? that will roll off the presses in early-June. There’ll also be an accompanying iTunes release that will include a demo of “Don’t Get Old” from our practice space, done in a strummier, janglier version than the “Don’t Get Old – LA Looks Edition” that made it on the actual album. There are only 500 copies being pressed, with 100 of them featuring one-of-a-kind handmade artwork from Mr. J Roddy Walston himself. (The rest will feature the image on the site.) They will only be available at shows……..and there should be a Big update about that any minute now. Keep your eyes peeled.

Read the rest at Charm City Current.

Great article comparing Lost to comic books. Read the whole thing here.

I always thought Lost was like a comic book perfectly realized in moving form. From the beginning, I wanted to fold every episode in half, stick it in my back pocket and take it up in my treehouse. It reminded me of those old DC comics when the editor would hand the writer the already-drawn cover of the book and say, “Write a story around that.”

“…and there’s a word balloon, and Kate is saying, ‘Look out, Sawyer! It’s… a polar bear?!’ Go. Have it on my desk by the end of the day.”

The twists and turns also smacked of a serial story that could never end. If there were a comic about survivors on a mysterious island, there would come a day when the whole “castaways” thing would be played out. I can absolutely see Mark Waid pitching his run on the book: “What if we take them off the island? No no! Hear me out! What if we start doing flash forwards, and some of them get away, but then they have to come back again, so they can leave again? Also, there is time travel. Needless to say.”

The whole “we have to get off this island; we have to go back to the island; we have to get back off this island” dynamic seems pretty familiar as a comics reader, doesn’t it? How about those characters you saw five times more of after they “died”?

Of course, that is the one advantage Lost had over most comics. It got to end. Sad as I am to see the sun set on Claremont Dangler Island, in the end it wasn’t about the mysteries; it was about the characters. The crazy crap that was happening mattered, but only because it mattered how it affected those people we’d come to know, how they felt and what they did in the face of ever crazier crap. It’s Wolverine that endures, not the Siege Perilous, and isn’t that the way it should be in the end?

via ifanboy

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69OXRew7v0I

This video shows almost every death from the tv show Lost. It’s only missing the last couple episodes. If someone does a more complete version I’ll replace it.

Music: The Jim Carroll Band