[Sante Sangre 9 1st Impression Part 1]
Step inside our circus tent.
Please ignore the dead elephant
We had to give him up for Lent
Step inside! Step inside!
We've got thrills and shocks
Downs kids snorting Chinese Rock
Leave your right ear in the box
Come inside! Come inside!
Roll up! Roll up! Roll up!
See the show!
Left behind the bars
Orgo samples the tattooed lady's charms
Won't someone please call the gendarmes
Before his wife is totally…
Come on all you plebes
Get up on your pedem
Get with the metrum
There's a brand new dance craze sweeping the Imperium
And it's called the Funky...Fall of...Roman Civilization
Well there's a riot in the Forum
There's a fire in the street
There's poor Livius bein' trampled
By a thousand drunken feet
There's a horde of filthy Germanic tribesmen
Fighting our legions without a chance
Now don't that make you want
To jump right up and start to dance?…
I last watched this hungover, while on a bus coming back from a very disappointing Milwaukee Brewer's baseball game shortly before my life turned into a neverending series of family health crises. I hated it then, but after rewatching it tonight, I've decided that I merely dislike it intensely.
Let's face it, this is just Adam Sandler channeling Forrest Gump and Jerry Lewis in a remake of Any Given Sunday. There are dumb jokes a-plenty here, a few of which…
My review of Earth Girls Are Easy sent me obliquely down a rabbit-hole of Josie Cotton tunage last night, leading me to stumble upon her awesome cover of Get Off the Road, which in turn led me back even further to the Cramps' version of the same tune, then finally, returning to its original appearance as the theme song of the Herschel Gordon Lewis film, She-Devils on Wheels.
I had heard this song years before seeing the film it came…
I get why this film resonates so much with a specific demographic of nostalgic old hippies, and aging baby-boomers who feel creatively stifled by their careers, but its central message of tuning in, turning on, and dropping out was a tad outdated even when it was originally released, and it certainly hasn't aged like a fine wine since.
But what really chaps my ass are the 1-dimensional strawmen authority figures that director Hal Ashby sets up as Harold's obstacles on…
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♪ Girlfriend with no body
I know, I know
It's serious ♪
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