“High-speed, amphibious motors will whisk along the highways or skim across the waterways with equal ease. Your own car will do a smooth, safe 100 miles per hour on land - and fifty on the water. Sky-scrapers will rise from spacious lawns … when Health Authorities abolish over-crowding of buildings … Fantastic? Not at all! These things are being developed today by Men Who Plan Beyond Tomorrow.”
Seagram’s V.O. Canadian, 1943
Marty di Bergi: “If you could not play rock and roll, what would you do?”
David St. Hubbins: “I’d be a full-time dreamer.”
My dad loves this song.“Gimme Some Money” by Spinal Tap from the Songs We Taught The Gories compilation.
And guess what’s on TV right now!
It was really one of those things. You know, the authorities said,”Best leave it unsolved.”
Happy Birthday Michael McKean!
CO-SIGN!
Kevin Pollak interviews cast members from the improvised films, Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration.
You’ll need to set aside 12 hours if you plan to watch them all.
Great films, I hope to dig into these interviews over a string of rainy fall days to come.
Thanks to the fact that I’m currently sitting bench waiting for my ankle to heal so I can become a productive…well more like active member of society again, I can do this…totes.
I just rewatched A Mighty Wind again last week. It’s my favorite of these four films. The laughs and the heart are perfectly balanced. And wonderful music. I got to see all of the bands perform live at Town Hall, so I feel particularly connected to it.
Which film is your favorite?
Autofuckingreblog to 11.
Lego Spinal Tap - Nigel’s Guitar Room
I grew up watching Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley and I bought my DVD copy of Spinal Tap before I owned a DVD player. I have laughed so hard for so many years at this man’s contributions to our culture, and as gaylordish as it sounds, today I was actually able to give something back to him. It was a tiny moment, but this here series of intertubes suddenly became a direct conduit to a lifelong idol in the most important of ways. My mind is blown all over again.
Never forget how much a one word response on something as oft-maligned as Twitter can power-up someone’s shit and have them smiling the rest of the day (week? month?).
OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS! DAVID ST. HUBBINS FOUND SOMETHING I SAID FUNNY!
GREATEST DAY OF MAH LIFE!!!!
baravettski:(via suicidewatch)
Bobbi Flekman: You put a greased naked woman on all fours with a dog collar around her neck, and a leash, and a man’s arm extended out up to here, holding onto the leash, and pushing a black glove in her face to sniff it. You don’t find that offensive? You don’t find that sexist?
Ian Faith: Well, you should have seen the cover they wanted to do! It wasn’t a glove, believe me.
I must beg to differ! The above conversation (which continues with Nigel Tufnel saying: “What’s wrong with being sexy?”) is in reference to the album “Smell The Glove,” not the album pictured here, which is clearly a copy of “Bitch School” (and features what one assumes is a female dog leading a reluctant young scholar to some kind of canine-centric studies).