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<title><![CDATA[Kittie &amp; Charlie’s Kinky Advent Calender: Day 14]]></title>
<link>http://kittieandcharlie.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/kittie-charlie%e2%80%99s-kinky-advent-calender-day-14/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>kittieandcharlie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Behind door 14 &#8211; Things that make you go mmm &amp; mmm &amp; mmm Todays treat is my favourite,]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Behind door 14 &#8211; Things that make you go mmm &#38; mmm &#38; mmm</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.sextoys.co.uk/Rabbit-Vibrators/Eclipse-Ultra-7-Rabbitronic-Vibe.asp?dealer=2881"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.vibebunny.com/images/products/n2396-eclipse_rabbitronic_vibrator.jpg" alt="" width="249" height="249" /></a>Todays treat is my favourite, and personally recommended, vibrator. Once the much sort after item in the sex toys has now become the industry standard with anybody whose anybody making vibrators bringing out their own versions!</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">The problem is its hard to know which are the best they all do different things they all are different build quality&#8230;and most importantly all are different vibration power.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Its true to say I have hummed and arrghed over many a vibrator in the past, and not in a good way. Never really finding one that fits the bill, so to speak, so it was with great pleasure I came across this the <a href="http://www.sextoys.co.uk/Rabbit-Vibrators/Eclipse-Ultra-7-Rabbitronic-Vibe.asp?dealer=2881" target="_blank">Eclipse Ultra 7 Rabbitronic Vibe</a>. OK so it sounds like something out of a Russ Meyer movie However, it is the best vibrator I have ever used size, shape, positioning is all fantastic and you can read all about it <a href="http://www.paidonresults.net/c/19950/1/433/mmmm/sex_toy_reviews/Things-that-make-you-go-mmm-and-mmm-and-mmm.../pr34.asp" target="_blank">here </a>in the review we wrote about it.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Sextoys is currently the best place to purchase this so click on the picture above to take you through to the offer. Furthermore, if you add the voucher code &#8216;launch&#8217; during the checkout you will get a further 10% off you whole order. For further offers available at Sextoys visit our<a href="http://kittieandcharlie.wordpress.com/adult-stores-voucher-codes-and-offers/" target="_blank"> &#8216;Sexy Moneysaving&#8217; </a>page.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Kittie &#38; Charlie</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cochese Reviews Old Ass Movies: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!]]></title>
<link>http://ichbenign.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/croa-faster-pussycat-kill-kill/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Cochese</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Finally I know exactly why I watched a particular old ass movie. Today I review the 1965 Russ Meyer ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Finally I know <em>exactly</em> why I watched a particular old ass movie. Today I review the 1965 Russ Meyer exploitation classic, <em>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</em> starring Tura Satana, and the reason is in the line, &#8220;I never try anything, I just do it. Wanna try me?&#8221; I first heard that line in the White Zombie song Thunder Kiss &#8216;65 and it&#8217;s only now that I&#8217;ve gotten around to watching this movie. Maybe I should start reviewing other things referenced in White Zombie songs, like <em>Urotsukidouji: Legend of the Overfiend</em>.</p>
<p>You know pretty much exactly what you&#8217;re getting into within the first five minutes of this movie. Fast cars, wet t-shirts, and chicks rolling around in the dirt fighting. It doesn&#8217;t really let up from there. Three adrenaline junky go-go dancers meet a couple of squares in the middle of the desert. The three go-go dancers end up kidnapping the girl after the leader, Varla, kills the guy in a fight. After gassing up, they hear about a old man who is apparently loaded, so it&#8217;s decided that they&#8217;re going to find out where he&#8217;s stowed his cash and rob him blind. Unfortunately for them, the man&#8217;s a mean old S.O.B. and a lecher to boot. The rest of the movie involves Varla and the old man trying to get the upper hand in their power struggle. Things become more complicated when loyalties aren&#8217;t as strong as assumed, neither Varla&#8217;s gang nor the old man&#8217;s sons.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s really not a lot of bad things to say about this movie, I&#8217;m sad to report. It&#8217;s classic sleaze and it delivers in pretty much everything. Interestingly enough, it&#8217;s one of the few Russ Meyer movies that <em>doesn&#8217;t</em> feature frontal nudity. It&#8217;s merely implied or shown from the back. I&#8217;m kind of curious as to why Meyer held back on this particular movie. The nudity wouldn&#8217;t really have distracted from the plot of the movie and even by the time this movie came out, he was well known for lots of nudity in his movie. Oh well. The amount of violence in the movie makes up for it.</p>
<p>You can tell this movie was made in the post war period. Out of the female characters in the movie, the wholesome one is wearing a bikini throughout the movie, and the societal rejects are *gasp* wearing <em>pants</em>. Mind you, they were skin tight leather pants and the tops revealed an impressive amount of cleavage without anything popping loose, but I noticed the pants. Note: I saw what the movie was trying to do <em>before</em> the old man came up with the classy line, &#8220;Women! They let &#8216;em vote, smoke and drive &#8211; even put &#8216;em in pants! And what happens? A Democrat for president!&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s lines like that in Meyer&#8217;s script that make me love this movie. However, it&#8217;s nothing compared to the double entendres. There&#8217;s so much innuendo in this movie that it would impress Mae West. Lines like, &#8220;Would you like to look under my hood?&#8221; and &#8220;We know how fast we can go&#8221; are all throughout the movie.</p>
<p>Tura Satana was flat out amazingly badass in this movie. Tura did all of her own stunts and just oozed sex and predator and awesome all in one. She even had a couple of Shatnerian judo chops in her fight scenes! Sultry, confident, dangerous, and alluring, Satana&#8217;s Varla is pretty much a picture perfect example of a succubus.</p>
<p>Go find someone who has this movie and watch it. It&#8217;s not available on Netflix. Russ Meyer&#8217;s estate actually has the rights to it, though, but I&#8217;m pretty dead set against paying $40 for a DVD. You can, however, get the movie from sellers on the Amazon Marketplace for around $30.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (Russ Meyer, 1966)]]></title>
<link>http://nating51.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/faster-pussycat-kill-kill/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nating51</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nating51.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/faster-pussycat-kill-kill/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lo zoccolo duro dei tarantiniani là fuori avranno sicuramente sentito parlare del film di Russ Meyer]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignleft" style="border:5px solid white;" src="http://www.mymovies.it/filmclub/2001/12/052/locandina.jpg" alt="" width="329" height="444" />Lo zoccolo duro dei tarantiniani là fuori avranno sicuramente sentito parlare del film di Russ Meyer; altri magari lo avranno visto nei cataloghi di cinema B e altri ancora ne avranno ignorato l&#8217;esistenza per lungo tempo. Ai tempi di &#8216;Jackie Brown&#8217; e, più ancora, con &#8216;Grind House: A Prova Di Morte&#8217;, lungo i corridoi riecheggiavano titoli altisonanti per inspessire ed avvalorare l&#8217;opera del caro Quentin &#8211; che di cinema B ne sa, eccome &#8211; e di giustificarne i pastiche per cui passerà alla storia; tra i tanti ne spiccava uno, più sboccato del solito: &#8216;Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!&#8217;, Russ Meyer, 1965. Tre bellocce formose e danzerine &#8211; una sorta di nemesi negativizzante e dannata delle Charlie&#8217;s Angels &#8211; mettono a ferro e fuoco il deserto americano; manco a dirlo, giocano molto sporco: le auto truccate sfrecciano e muovono nuvole di polvere, maschietti scemotti e muscolosi si prestano al raggiro più blando, la progettualità si limita al borseggiare, sequestrare, ritorcere, mentire, sculettare. Il situazionismo esalta la chiacchiera fine a se stessa di macchiette splendidamente congegnate &#8211; una forma rappresentativa di cui Tarantino avrebbe intuito le enormi possibilità quindici anni dopo &#8211; e l&#8217;attività della camera da presa si limita all&#8217;ingurgitare seccamente quanto accade in quello che sostanzialmente è contenitore di gag assolate ed esilaranti. Nel tempo, molti hanno forzato la mano cercando di scovare chissà quale significato in un film che, invece, rimane sintonizzato sull&#8217;exploitation più becera: dovendo scovarne lo slogan, diremmo che si tratta di una pesante sberla verso la morale dell&#8217;epoca, anche se altri titoli avevano fatto meglio e con più stile, senza contare che di lì a qualche anno il pubblico sarebbe stato assuefatto a quel genere di cose; come se non bastasse, si è voluto prezzemolare le doti filmiche di Meyer, regista irriverente, estroso e cartoonesco, questo si, ma che raramente ha superato la soglia del discreto quando si parla di abilità cinematografica (&#8216;Lungo La Valle Delle Bambole&#8217;, &#8216;Motorpsycho!&#8217;, &#8216;Mudhoney&#8217;). Non si venga a sottolineare che stiamo parlando *solo* di cinema B, perchè se la mettiamo su questo piano e volendo svuotare il cilindro di scomodi paragoni, anche Roger Corman produceva lo stesso tipo di cinema &#8211; quand&#8217;anche in ambiti completamente differenti &#8211; e non per questo va trovato meno geniale di quello che è. Resta un grande film di culto, casualmente sdoganato e capito vent&#8217;anni dopo la sua uscita, più che altro sull&#8217;onda dei giudizi sopra le righe di alcuni illustri sostenitori, anche se ancora non mi capacito di come un film di bambolone dalle caricaturizzate pose maschili possa essere assurto a manifesto per alcune congreghe femministe dell&#8217;epoca. Ovviamente, se uscisse in questi tempi sbancherebbe: al tempo, quasi nessuno se lo deve essere filato di striscio.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ann Magnuson: Diva?]]></title>
<link>http://feministmusicgeek.com/2009/11/06/ann-magnuson-diva/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alyx Vesey</dc:creator>
<guid>http://feministmusicgeek.com/2009/11/06/ann-magnuson-diva/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ann Magnuson; image courtesy of papermag.com When I originally started thinking about artists who mi]]></description>
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<p>When I originally started thinking about artists who might expand the definition of what a diva is, the first person who came to mind was the subject of this post. Who else but a diva could be seen in concert halls and magazines as well as <a href="http://www.amoa.org/site/DocServer/Teacher_Packet.pdf?docID=3441" target="_blank">museum exhibits</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_but_Love" target="_blank">obscure sitcoms</a>, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109361/" target="_blank">cultish b-movies</a>? Campy, profane, versed in popular culture, obsessed with the fragmented nature of female personae, and tailed by a devoted audience, Magnuson definitely seems to meet the requirements of being diva.</p>
<p>Like Wynne Greenwood (aka <a href="http://feministmusicgeek.com/2009/10/22/tracy-the-plastics-diva/" target="_blank">Tracy + the Plastics</a>), Magnuson made a name for herself through the available <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_6_93/ai_n13822295/" target="_blank">art scene</a>, specifically by managing <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_2_38/ai_57475770/" target="_blank">Club 57</a> in the East Village during the early 1980s. At the time, Club 57 &#8212; which originally claimed its residence in a church basement &#8212; was a burgeoning scene comprised of folks like Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, the B-52s, Klaus Nomi, and Fab Five Freddy. Magnuson and her patrons were obsessed with the radioactive kitsch of their Cold War-era adolescence and she would often arrange theme nights like day-glo erotic art show and Elvis Presley hootenannies or turn the venue into a putt-putt golf or a tiki lounge. During this time, she also became a part of Pulsallama, a percussion-based girl group that Magnuson thought of as an anti-band rebelling against the &#8220;fashionable primitivism&#8221; Malcolm McLaren was espousing with Bow Wow Wow, who he was managing (re: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAmz4tP0tT8" target="_blank">manipulating</a>) at the time. Magnuson had left the group by the time they made &#8220;The Devil Lives in My Husband&#8217;s Body,&#8221; but you can get a good sense of what they were about in the music video below.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/5gcRwy4dc0E&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/5gcRwy4dc0E&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>A key trait for any diva to me seems to be the ability to inhabit various roles, sometimes in opposition to one another, through performance. Folks might be quick to offer up a better-known pop icons like Madonna, Christina Aguilera, and Beyoncé, but let&#8217;s not forget Magnuson who often differed from these women by using her <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/03/theater/the-stage-ann-magnuson.html" target="_blank">chameleon-like ability</a> to create characters that poked fun at female stereotypes, materialism, confessionalism, and the hollowness of fame. Pairing up with Tom Rubnitz, she put together &#8220;Made for Television&#8221; in 1981 for PBS&#8217;s <em>Alive From Off Center</em>. The 15-minute piece, which simulates late-night channel surfing, features believeable send-ups of televangelism, soap operas, and game shows with Magnuson playing all the parts. Particularly with regard to how hollow and alienating our collective fixation of fame can be, it reminds me of Eileen Maxson&#8217;s &#8220;Lost Broadcasts,&#8221; which depicts the artist as a reality show hopeful whose staggeringly candid audition tape is being fast-forwarded and talked over by a disinterested casting agent fielding a phone call.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/N3XrzGKB2P0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/N3XrzGKB2P0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>I cannot locate &#8221;Made For Television&#8221; online, but I have seen it in exhibition. If you hear about it coming to your town, I suggest you see it. If you find it on the Interwebz, share with the group.</p>
<p>In the mid-1980s, Magnuson got together with Mark Kramer to form Bongwater, a band where this kind of performance was all too common.   </p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/wbw7NJLWPw4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/wbw7NJLWPw4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Ever the actress, she would off-set duties with Bongwater with turns in the ABC Jamie Lee Curtis/Richard Lewis sitcom <em>Anything But Love</em>, <em>The Adventures of Pete and Pete</em>, and <em>The Hunger </em>as well as<em> </em>Susan Seidelman&#8217;s beloved <em>Desperately Seeking Susan </em>and <em>Making Mr. Right </em>(which totally looks like a movie I should see).</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/wCfI3zgG0Jc&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/wCfI3zgG0Jc&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>In 1995, Magnuson released her first solo album, <em>The Luv Show</em>, which was apparently inspired by the mad-cap narratives, sex-crazed vixens, and pop-art shine of <a href="http://feministmusicgeek.com/2009/09/13/direct-reference-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls-with-the-pipettes/" target="_blank">Russ Meyer movies</a>. It certainly explains <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Luv_Show" target="_blank">the cover</a>, though no explanation needs to be given for songs like &#8220;Miss Pussy Pants.&#8221;</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 194px"><img src="http://www.salon.com/music/live/1997/11/src/17ann.gif" alt="" width="184" height="360" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ann Magnuson, ever the saucy minx; image courtesy of salon.com</p></div>
<p>While Magnuson was never going to be a mainstream talent, it&#8217;s heartening to know that our media culture had room for a smart, cheeky lady all too willing to represent in the margins. Actually, they still seem to have the room for her, as Magnuson released her second solo album <em>Pretty Songs &#38; Ugly Stories</em> in 2006, embarks on cabaret tours, and does occasional film work. More importantly, Magnuson seems all too willing to deconstruct the very idea of the diva, who she is, who she pretends to be, who she represents, and where her markers of identity blur and splinter. She might be <a href="http://www.cindysherman.com/" target="_blank">Cindy Sherman</a>&#8217;s kind of diva. She&#8217;s definitely <a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,299358,00.html" target="_blank">my kind of diva</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Up!]]></title>
<link>http://incomunicavel.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/up/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>igorfrederico</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Up!1976 &#8211; Diretor:Russ Meyer &#8211; Elenco:Robert McLane,Raven De La Croix, Janet Wood Filme ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Up!1976 &#8211; Diretor:Russ Meyer &#8211; Elenco:Robert McLane,Raven De La Croix, Janet Wood</strong></p>
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<p>Filme mais maluco que vi na vida. O que só faz ser um dos meus preferidos de todo o sempre. O cinema de Rss Meyer é tão foda, que só posso chama-lo de macho supremo! Aqui, nesse <strong>Up!</strong> o cara mostra o tanto que o sexo está ligado ao ser humano e o tanto que os er humano é fraco diante dele, podento até mudar de idéias quando confrontado por ele.</p>
<p>Russ Meyer é tão macho que aqui traz todos os elementos de sua carreira e os expande como o cara que mais sabe do assunto. Peitos enormes, isso já era normal ems seus filmes, narrativa exitante, também normal em seus filmes, personagens fantásticos e carismáticos, também normal. Só que o detalhe aqui, é que Meyer multiplica tudo isso vezes cem e obtém talvez o filme mais corajoso e subversivo já feito.</p>
<p>Primeira cena: Um ditador idêntico a Hitler mas que se chama Adolf Shwartz na verdade, está sendo sexualmente dominado por uma mulher negra, um oriental e um homem com o pênis enorme! Sim um ditador idêntico a Hitler, em meio a negros,orientais e homosexuais. Meyer é louco, mesmo sacaneando todos os nazistas do planeta ainda existentes nessa cena mostrando aos racistas o tanto que essa merda não existe, que se colocar um cara que tem nojo de negros diante de uma negra peituda e sensual só serivirá pra mostrar que seu racismo nunca existiu, mas sim uma idéia de unanimidade pra fortificar seu ego.</p>
<p>Daí pra frente você só verá mais coisas loucas e subversivas. Pra começar, acada cinco ou dez minutos(ainda acho que é cinco) ocorre uma cena de sexo em um parque nacional e tal. Quase todo mundo no filme se &#8220;come&#8221;, e temos até um monstro! Tudo começa com uma narradora nua e que narra a história incrivelmente sempre em poses sensuais e delirantes e que só nos atiça à querer descobrir um assassino que aparecerá na trama. Esse tal assassino, assassinou Shwartz jogando uma piranha em sua banheira, e sim ela o devorou inteiro.</p>
<p>Depois descobrimos que a introdução e o assassinato só servem de uma abertura surrreal para o resto de acontecimentos do mesmo naipe que virão ao decorrer da trama. Mais um monete de personagens são apresentados e a coisa fica mais e mais exitante com o passar do tempo. O legal de Meyer é que ele é tão sacana, que sacaneia seus personagens e principalemnte quem está assistindo. Ele sempre discute o poder da atração que a smulheres impôem aos homens e que por isso, sempre acabam os fazendo de bestas. E o mais sacana é que além das mulheres term sempre domínio dos homens da tela, também tem domínio sobre os homens fora dela. As vezes nos filmes de Meyer nem percebemos ceros acontecimentos porque nos perdemos em meio a tantos peitões e cenas sensuais que ele mostra. Tudo proposital e autoral, tanto que essa é a honestidade do cara.</p>
<p>Outra das coisas a se observar, principalmente nesse filme é que ele quer mostrar que o sexo não é uma coisa de outro mundo, não é uma coisa cheia de regras, e sim uma coisa onde, a cada instante novo tem que ser experimentadas mais coisas, posições, e até pessoas, sim, homens, mulheres e tudo o mais. Ele mostra que não há precisão de racismo e que um homem pode fazer sexo com outro homem sem por isso deixar de ser hetero. Também demostra isso com as mulheres. E durante quase todas as cenas do filme vemos homens juntos, mulheres, homens e mulheres, mulheres de um homem com outro, o homem de uma mulher com outra e por ai vai.</p>
<p>Temos uma personagem que traduz tudo que Meyer adora fazer com, nós homens: Nos sacanear. Desde a primeira cena que ela aparece, o primeiro homem que passa a seu lado(o xerife) se endoidece por ela mas acaba levando um fora e vai embora, mas logo depois aparece outro homem que dessa vez não aceita um não e a leva pra o nosso parque querido e a estupra enquanto ela está desacordada. Em uma luta infernal eles se atracam até ela conseguir matá-lo. Observação, a cena é muito engraçada e nonsense.</p>
<p>Falando nisso, ja é um dos filmes mais divertidos e ebgraçados que já vi, perdendo talvez, apenas para <strong>Os aventureiros do bairro proibido</strong>. Cada quadro aqui se torna divertido e muito bem humorado pelo simples fato de Meyer ser gênio e conduzir atores que nem sabem atuar direito de forma tão tranquila e confiante que acerta em tudo que faz no filme. Desde a narradora, passando pelas cenas de sexo que acabam sendo cômicas pelas posições e gestos que os personagens fazem quandoe stão no ato, e fechando com epílogos sensacionalmente originais e divertidos.</p>
<p>Originalidade é outro ponto a ser discutido. Tudo aqui, repito, tudo aqui é fodasticamente original. Da abertura aos personagens e situações e etc. O mais legal é que o filme além de ser um dos mais sexploitation do diretor é também um dos mais trashes. Sim amigo, aqui temos uma trashera do nível(ou melhor) de <strong>Evil Dead</strong>. Pois como já disse, Meyer sabe fazer de tudo e sempre com confiança e qualidade. E quando ele nos leva da comêdia sexploitation ao trash, só posso dizer que é delirante.</p>
<p>Um personagem Acaba se tornando o &#8220;mosntro&#8221; da trama e também estupra a mulher que seduz todos os homens (os que assistem também, volto a dizer), o cara é um toglodita que mal sabe falar e sempre anda com um machado e caracterizado esteriotipamente de forma proposital como um lenhador, que beira os desenhos animados. Daí o xerife e namorado da moça chega e de certa forma confronta o mostro que acaba pegando outra moça, a dona do estabelecimento onde estão e também a estupra, não dá pra não rir, é sério. O pior de tudo é que o auge Trash da cena realmente ocorre quando o xerife crava um machado nas costas do lenhador e ele arranca o machado e sequestras as duas moças as levando pro meio do parque como se fosse o King Kong. Mas antes crava o machado no peito do Xerife que também o arranca e sai atrás dele numa perseguição animal que termina de uma forma mais assustadora possível.</p>
<p>Depois de tudo isso ainda temos uma das melhores montagens que o cinema já viu. Sim, nessa maluqice ai toda. Meyer sempre foi mestre na narrativa visual e sempre proporcionou quadros espetaculares, mas aqui ele supera tudo narrando cada cena de uma maneira própria e fantástica! Impossível não se animar ao ver cada quadro metivulosamente sendo mostrado em uma cena inteira.</p>
<p>E no fim de tudo temos uma reviravolta em meio a investigação de quem matou o ditador, mais divertida ainda, pois quem descobre quem realmente matou o homem tem um confrotno com o tal assassino, todos os dois pelados(ou peladas) e só pra não deixar de citar, é porque o(a) assassino era filho(a) de outro ditador famozo, Hitler.( Oo )</p>
<p>Enfim, os dos melhores de todos os tempos no termo diversão e humor, com o timing certo pra tudo que mostra, aqui temos um dos mais subversivos, divertidos e cinematográfico dos filmes. E como citei umas quinhentas vezesvezes o nome do cara ai, volto a enfatizar com um acréscimo: Russ Meyer é o cara!(ou Deus se preferir)</p>
<p><strong>5/5</strong></p>
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<link>http://simonhickson.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/up/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simon Hickson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://simonhickson.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/up/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve neglected this blog a little. But not much is happening. Flu jabs. MOT&#8217;s. Watching ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>I&#8217;ve neglected this blog a little. But not much is happening. Flu jabs. MOT&#8217;s. Watching Coronation Street. That&#8217;s pretty much life at the moment.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;ve been doing a bit of film stuff over on my other blog,<a href="http://20thcenturymummifiedfox.wordpress.com/"> 20th Century Mummified Fox</a>. You can find my thoughts on <em>Up</em> over there. But which <em>Up</em>?</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1819" title="Up-Russ-Meyer" src="http://simonhickson.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/up-russ-meyer.jpg" alt="Up-Russ-Meyer" width="180" height="268" /><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1820" title="Up-Disney" src="http://simonhickson.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/up-disney.jpg" alt="Up-Disney" width="180" height="263" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Boring Stuff]]></title>
<link>http://20thcenturymummifiedfox.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-boring-stuff/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Simon Hickson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://20thcenturymummifiedfox.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-boring-stuff/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s the boring stuff I remember most. So says Russell, a Wilderness Explorer (heck,]]></description>
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<p><em>Sometimes it&#8217;s the boring stuff I remember most.</em></p>
<p>So says Russell, a Wilderness Explorer (heck, I don&#8217;t know; think of him as a boy scout) as he talks to the other main character of <em>Up</em>, the recently widowed pensioner Carl Fredrickson.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d be warned about <em>Up</em>. I&#8217;d been told the first 15 minutes or so might make me cry. And so I should have been prepared.</p>
<p>The young Carl Fredrickson meets the young Ellie. They&#8217;re kids; full of adventure. One quiet and shy, the other daring and brazen. Put things like this together and you may get a  couple. Sure enough they stick.</p>
<p>Years later, married, setting up home, they paint their names on the mail box. Ellie, the confident, daring, adventurous, brave one watches as shy Carl messes up. He puts his paint-covered hand on the mail box and accidentally leaves his print. Some people might not tolerate this kind of clumsiness. Ellie; she adds her print to his.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m crying and we may be all of four minutes in.</p>
<p>15 minutes later and I&#8217;m in pieces.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like <em>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life</em> condensed. We expect, demand, hope, that life is going to be one long adventure. And then it&#8217;s not. Except maybe it is and it&#8217;s being hiding. Maybe it&#8217;s in the boring stuff.</p>
<p><em>Up</em> is full of the boring stuff and the adventure stuff. I don&#8217;t want to spoil any of it for you. The film&#8217;s first twenty minutes are delightful and moving. There&#8217;s enough jokes for the kids but, just as I was warned I&#8217;ll warn you, the grown ups might find themselves hiding their tears behind their 3-D glasses (though as <a href="http://myurlisname.blogspot.com/">The Beacon</a> pointed out recently on Twitter <em>all glasses are 3-D glasses</em>).</p>
<p>Then the adventure starts, as 78 year old Carl and the young Wilderness Explorer Russell head off in search of Paradise Falls; the place Ellie and Carl dreamt of moving to all those decades ago. Carl&#8217;s house, held up by thousands of balloons, floats away and the two meet a rare flightless bird, &#8220;talking&#8221; dogs and a bad man who looks like a cross between <a href="http://www.disneyvillains.net/images/Charles_Muntz_in_the_movie_UP.jpg">Kirk Douglas and Bruce Forsyth</a>. He&#8217;s a villain alright, but one it&#8217;s possible to partly sympathise with. He has his own story, and if people had had faith in him they way in which Ellie had faith in Carl, maybe he would have turned out differently.</p>
<p>Oddly, this film reminded me of<em> Bad Santa</em>. Now<em> Bad Santa</em> isn&#8217;t something you&#8217;d want to take the kids to. Indeed, it would be downright illegal. <em>Bad Santa</em> is one of the rudest films you&#8217;ll ever see. But, like <em>Up</em>, it shows an hilarious and moving relationship between a (seemingly) grumpy adult and a loner of a fat lad.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the bit from Bad Santa where the kid quizzes Bad Santa about his reindeers:</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/YKNrYb0s3xc&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/YKNrYb0s3xc&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><strong><em>How can they drop me onto my own head?</em></strong></p>
<p>Ok, I seem to have moved away from the Disney feel this post started off with. But do see <em>Up</em>. And <em>Bad Santa</em>. Me and the family watch <em>Bad Santa</em> every Christmas. Even my mum, who will often offer to make us all sandwiches.</p>
<p>And don&#8217;t get your <em>Up</em>&#8217;s confused. It&#8217;s the Disney/Pixar one you want to take the kids to.</p>
<div id="attachment_112" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 190px"><img class="size-full wp-image-112" title="Up-Russ-Meyer" src="http://20thcenturymummifiedfox.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/up-russ-meyer.jpg" alt="Up-Russ-Meyer" width="180" height="268" /><p class="wp-caption-text">suitable for kids</p></div>
<div id="attachment_113" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 190px"><img class="size-full wp-image-113" title="Up-Disney" src="http://20thcenturymummifiedfox.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/up-disney.jpg" alt="Up-Disney" width="180" height="263" /><p class="wp-caption-text">not suitable for kids</p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965)]]></title>
<link>http://cinecafe.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/faster-pussycat-kill-kill-russ-meyer-1965/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Bernardo Brum</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cinecafe.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/faster-pussycat-kill-kill-russ-meyer-1965/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[- por Bernardo Brum Digressão. Anacronismo. Deliquência. Peitos, decotes e bundas. Pancadaria. ]]></description>
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<p><em>- por Bernardo Brum</em></p>
<p>Digressão. Anacronismo. Deliquência. Peitos, decotes e bundas. Pancadaria. &#8220;O melhor filme já feito&#8221;, na opinião do iconoclasta malucão John Waters. Mais de 40 anos depois, o fato do filme gênese de toda a sexploitation, <em>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</em> continuar com tanto frescor em matéria de violência e erotismo, mesmo tendo tanto a ver com o contexto de subversão rock and roll dos anos sessenta, só nos mostra algo constrangedor: a ousadia de Russ Meyer faz uma bruta falta.</p>
<p>Pois quando, após de dar boas-vindas ao espectador à violência, coloca-se três gostosonas, alguns carros e um deserto, definitivamente abre-se um novo paradigma. Não há explicações maiores sobre a história, suas motivações, suas conseqüências, não se constrói ou desconstrói nada e não são feitas maiores elocubrações. No universo do diretor, qualquer coisa dessas acima é pura gordura. Pior: é frescura. Pode parecer mesmo estranho e desconfortável ele pegar todos os elementos tradicionais (um assassinato, um sequestro, vilões pervertidos, uma família exótica) e virar tudo de pernas para o ar com (muito) sexo implícito, cenas caprichadas de violência, diálogos estilosos e um mau mocismo reinante a cada fotograma da película &#8211; mas oras não espere normalidade de um filme de Russ Meyer.</p>
<p>O que tanto fascinou Tarantino, a ponto de fazer que praticamente todos os seus personagens de todos seus filmes falem de maneira semelhante (você sabe, arrogante, displicente, boca-suja), provavelmente é que em 1965, o filme surtiu no cinema americano um efeito semelhante ao do primeiro disco do Velvet Underground na música do mesmo país: numa época em que, no topo das paradas, <em>A Primeira Noite de um Homem</em> e os ingleses do Rolling Stones eram considerados ousados e eram perseguidos por retraraem/cantarem que queriam dar umazinha com a mina, a situação tanto com Lou Reed quanto Russ Meyer no underground de suas especialidades: a estética do choque, da apelação, e sim, da exploração por puro prazer estétco, quanta projeção de força uma mesma imagem pode ter etc. O que tantos chamam de mau gosto &#8211; e que talvez hoje em dia chamem de cafonice ou breguice, também &#8211; inevitavelmente &#8211; é a pura honestidade de Russ consigo mesmo: um velho tarado por histórias baratas e fanático por mulheres gostosas, sem vergonha alguma de assumir &#8211; e, melhor ainda, <em>filmar</em> isso.</p>
<p>E claro, posso começar com aquele papo clichê que foi essa honestidade toda que o fez ser tão contracultural, cuspir na cara dos cabelinhos cortados curtos, das mulheres donas de casa, do sexo só depois do casamento, da falta de substâncias ilegais do organismo, de vícios diferentes dos cotidianos, da falta de autoconsciência e, claro, da falta de senso de humor, mas não é necessário. O que é necessário, pois sim, é você também tirar uma casquinha de <em>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</em></p>
<p>4/5</p>
<p><em>Ficha técnica: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! &#8211; EUA, 1965. Dir. Russ Meyer. Elenco: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Susan Bernard</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Josie e as Gatinhas - Versão Russ Meyer]]></title>
<link>http://buchinsky.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/josie-e-as-gatinhas-versao-russ-meyer/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>buchinsky</dc:creator>
<guid>http://buchinsky.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/josie-e-as-gatinhas-versao-russ-meyer/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[hell has no fury like a (Calabrese) scorned woman]]></title>
<link>http://lafilledepoche.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/hell-has-no-fury-like-a-scorned-woma/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lafilledepoche</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lafilledepoche.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/hell-has-no-fury-like-a-scorned-woma/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ah, come hanno ragione gli inglesi&#8230; Loro dall&#8217;altro del loro aplomb sanno che se una don]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Ah, come hanno ragione gli inglesi&#8230; Loro dall&#8217;altro del loro aplomb sanno che se una donna si incacchia lo fa per davvero. Già perché chi la conosce la evita l&#8217;ira funesta di certe donne, quella <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliade_(Monti)" target="_blank">decantata</a> per intenderci il caro buon vecchio Omero. Quella stessa ira delle tre protagoniste del <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster,_Pussycat!_Kill!_Kill!" target="_blank">capolavoro</a> di Russ Meyer, la stessa che spingeva la cara buon vecchia <strong>Kelis</strong> a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnukuTwynwY" target="_blank">cantare</a> frasi come &#8220;<em><strong><span style="color:#008000;">I hate you soo much right now, I haaate</span></strong></em>&#8221; o tutte le <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WxDrVUrSvI" target="_blank">nefandezze</a> che faceva <strong>Lily Allen</strong> al suo ex in <em>Smile</em>. Lo stesso stato d&#8217;animo che dà il titolo parafrasato del post: &#8220;L&#8217;inferno non ha mai conosciuto una furia paragonabile a quella di una donna disprezzata&#8221;. E visto che la causa del mal è stata proprio un cittadino (controvoglia) di sua maestà eccomi costretta a ripiegare sulle parole di <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Congreve" target="_blank">William Congreve</a>, che poi perché dannarsi l&#8217;anima per un uomo che copre le sue pudenze con un <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilt" target="_blank">gonnellino</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;<em>As you&#8217;ll answer it, take heed<br />
This Slave commit no Violence upon<br />
Himself. I&#8217;ve been deceiv&#8217;d. The Publick Safety<br />
Requires he should be more confin&#8217;d; and none,<br />
No not the Princes self, permitted to<br />
Confer with him. I&#8217;ll quit you to the King.<br />
Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repent<br />
The base Injustice thou hast done my Love:<br />
Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress,<br />
And all those Ills which thou so long hast mourn&#8217;d;<br />
Heav&#8217;n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn&#8217;d,<br />
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn&#8217;d&#8221;.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>William Congreve -<em> The Mourning Bride</em></p>
<p>Per essere solo il 1697 il buon Will ci aveva visto lungo</p>
<p>Ah, l&#8217;amour&#8230; l&#8217;amour</p>
<p>La revanche à l&#8217;américaine</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/T86YAN2T-hs&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/T86YAN2T-hs&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>La revanche à la française</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Un jour c&#8217;est toi qu&#8217;on laissera<br />
Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Un jour c&#8217;est toi qui pleureras<br />
Oui j&#8217;ai pleuré mais ce jour-là<br />
Non je ne pleurerai pas<br />
Non je ne pleurerai pas<br />
Je dirai c&#8217;est bien fait pour toi<br />
Je dirai ça t&#8217;apprendra<br />
Je dirai ça t&#8217;apprendra<br />
Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Ça te jouera un mauvais tour<br />
Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Tu le paieras un de ces jours<br />
On ne joue pas impunément<br />
Avec un coeur innocent<br />
Avec un coeur innocent<br />
Tu verras ce que je ressens<br />
Avant qu&#8217;il ne soit longtemps<br />
Avant qu&#8217;il ne soit longtemps</em></p>
<p><em>La chance abandonne<br />
Celui qui ne sait<br />
Que laisser les coeurs blessés<br />
Tu n&#8217;auras personne<br />
Pour te consoler<br />
Tu ne l&#8217;auras pas volé</em></p>
<p><em> </em><em>Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Un jour c&#8217;est toi qu&#8217;on laissera<br />
Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Laisse tomber les filles<br />
Un jour c&#8217;est toi qui pleureras<br />
Non pour te plaindre il n&#8217;y aura<br />
Personne d&#8217;autre que toi<br />
Personne d&#8217;autre que toi<br />
Alors tu te rappelleras<br />
Tout ce que je te dis là<br />
Tout ce que je te dis là&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>France Gall &#8211; Laisse tomber les filles</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/KjtLQwk1Y88&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/KjtLQwk1Y88&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span><br />
Bisoux,</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Welcome to Violence]]></title>
<link>http://buchinsky.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/ladies-and-gentlemen-welcome-to-violence/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<link>http://laughingblogger.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/299/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Boobs &#8211; Pandora, Russ &amp; Ruth! Sorry! youtube removed it&#8230;&#8221;This video has been r]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><b>Boobs &#8211; Pandora, Russ &#38; Ruth!</b><br />
<span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/AHfvDssOqfI&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/AHfvDssOqfI&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span><br /><strong>Sorry! youtube removed it&#8230;&#8221;This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.&#8221; I&#8217;m always breaking some stupid rule!</p>
<p>Pandora Peaks dances in the movie by Russ Meyer while Ruth Wallis sings ‘Boobs’ as a Soundtrack.</p>
<p>I have been getting pretty burnt on Politics and if there wasn’t a Silly Season in Politics, I’ll make one up. It just so happen, that this is the week before Halloween and it’s also the week before Elections.</p>
<p>Boobs-vs-Boob&#8217;s</p>
<p>I hereby proclaim the week before Halloween and Election Day as ‘Boob Week’! A full week of “Political Rest” since the ‘Boob’s’ have the remaining 51 weeks for ‘Political Unrest’. </p>
<p>Any and all persons discussing Politics without the slightest interjection of lighthearted banter will be given the Official Boob Salutation which is a combination of the backward LOSER Sign on Nose, Nose Thumbing and a Raspberry!</p>
<p>Next we will need a Congressperson with a ‘Set’, to draft and introduce an emergency Bill in the House of Representatives and get that Halloween Boobs Full Frontal Passage! Do I hear an Amen? Amen!</p>
<p>http://www.archive.org/details/ruth_wallis-boobs</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfvDssOqfI</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Russ Meyer em ação]]></title>
<link>http://buchinsky.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/russ-meyer-em-acao/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["She's a knockout": Vixen, Russ Meyer es un universo paralelo]]></title>
<link>http://esbilla.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/shes-a-knockout-vixen-russ-meyer-es-un-universo-paralelo/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>esbilla</dc:creator>
<guid>http://esbilla.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/shes-a-knockout-vixen-russ-meyer-es-un-universo-paralelo/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Descomunal éxito taquillero en su momento, rayando el fenómeno socio-cultural, que no solo sacó al s]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/vixen1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1007" title="vixen" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/vixen1.jpg" alt="vixen" width="300" height="460" /></a>Descomunal éxito taquillero en su momento, rayando el fenómeno socio-cultural, que no solo sacó al simpar Russ Meyer del subsuelo “underground” sino que significó el advenimiento de un arquetipo femenino (ensayado ya en pequeñas perlas como “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fsfCoDo_V0" target="_self">Lorna</a>” o “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8C4WHHj1tw" target="_self">Mudhoney</a>”) que presidiría la mayor parte de su filmografía a través de variaciones sobre este original: la “vixen”, una real hembra sin desbravar, de sexualidad arrolladora y personalidad sin tapujos, especie de diosa primitiva y adalid de la libertad de elección, a la vez fantasía y terror masculino. Una Erica Gavin que deja sin palabras y crea un personaje para la historia, un icono ante el que arrodillarse al entrar en <a href="http://jesusangelortega.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/russ-meyer-erotomano-honorifico/" target="_self">Mundo Meyer</a>, un universo paralelo de <a href="http://absencito.blogspot.com/2004/10/zorras-superzorras-y-megazorras.html" target="_self">diversión a gogó</a> y distorsión “cartoonesca” entre la “biblia de Tijuana” y la versión femenina y calentorra de Bugs Bunny.<span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/vc3QoOK-bgI&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/vc3QoOK-bgI&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdv-GWB_4Yk">The Russ Meyer Story 1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-NXF7V904">The Russ Meyer Story 2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZEJv2sL5E">The Russ Meyer Story 3</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln3OMuSz1Pc">The Russ Meyer Story 5</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoubIRDQrVo">The Russ Meyer Story 6</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W19B-vBhySE">The Russ Meyer Story 7</a></p>
<p>La historia (o así) se reduce a las peripecias de la aburrida y perpetuamente salida Vixen dando suelta a su furor uterino y a su mal leche con todo el que se le cruza por delante. Un pareja con problemas se alojará en el coqueto hotelito que regentan en medio del bosque, Vixen aprovechará la coyuntura para ayudarlos a su manera, esto es, seduciendo a ambos y enseñándoles unas cuantas técnicas (y algo de libertad) que devolverán la aguas amorosas<a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/imagen_erica_gavin_0102_0.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1009" title="imagen_erica_gavin_0102_0" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/imagen_erica_gavin_0102_0.jpg?w=237" alt="imagen_erica_gavin_0102_0" width="237" height="300" /></a> a su cauce con la promesa de volver de visita, por supuesto). Además escarceos con un guardia de la Policía Montada de Canadá que le sirve de refrigerio, peleas de alto voltaje y cuestionamientos de virilidad con su hermano y el amigo negro de este, mucha ropa insinuante, bailes sicalípticos, cuidad fotografía, imaginativos encuadres (legendaria la toma desde debajo del somier) y un extraordinario sentido del montaje sin duda uno de los puntos fuertes del director, que podía ser grosero en muchas cosas pero era como un metrónomo en esto. Para rematar  una descolocante coda final con los protagonistas rumbo a Cuba con avioneta secuestrada y todo merced a un irlandés comunista (con la involuntaria colaboración del joven negro al postre el único personaje normal del “show”) que introduce un componente de muy “meyeriana” sátira política inversa, tan gruesa y obvia que evidencia su carácter de latigazo anti-contracultural.</p>
<p><a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/vixen-jpeg.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1011" title="vixen.jpeg" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/vixen-jpeg.gif?w=300" alt="vixen.jpeg" width="300" height="201" /></a>Pero en cualquier caso la narración o lo que se cuenta no es más que la excusa lo interesante es la manera tan decidida en la que establece toda una serie de claves estético-conceptuales (de hecho el único motivo que falta, y que será llevado al paroxismo en &#8220;<a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-u/up_poster_01.jpg&#38;imgrefurl=http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/tag/raven-de-la-croix/&#38;usg=__KWolPTaI1ByWV9Qa68OYNlAekuY=&#38;h=2673&#38;w=1795&#38;sz=540&#38;hl=es&#38;start=18&#38;um=1&#38;tbnid=D5IvY9HTcKeAhM:&#38;tbnh=150&#38;tbnw=101&#38;prev=/images%3Fq%3Draven%2Bde%2Blacroix%26hl%3Des%26safe%3Doff%26rlz%3D1B2DVFA_enES243ES347%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1" target="_self">Megavixens Up</a>&#8220;, es la parafernalia nazi y las canciones militares ridiculizadas a conciencia ¿un reminiscencia de sus años como documentalista en la 2ªGM?) que conformarán este universo “vixen”, diferente pero reconocible, un lugar con regla propias, inimitable, articulado y asombrosamente coherente. De tal manera se establece la metafórica y hermosa convivencia entre sexo desenfrenado, rotundidad <a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/vix1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1012" title="vix" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/vix1.jpg?w=300" alt="vix" width="300" height="254" /></a>física y exuberancia paisajística (superiores los numeritos espasmódicos de <a href="http://www.bustycasey.com/thumbs/kit04.jpg" target="_self">Kitten Natividad</a> como unipersonal coro griego en “Megavixens Up”, la más floja por burda y fofa aunque con hallazgos  notables), ese gusto del director por las teatrales “performance” lúbricas y los despampanantes desnudos en un entorno natural salvaje y puro, además también de otros detalle visuales que será explotados con singular gracejo, como los contrapicados, tanto para subrayar el carácter dominante de las odaliscas “meyerianas” como para resaltar sus ya de por si exuberantes encantos naturales o la “falificación” de los objetos, duchas, pomos, mangueras de gasolina o hasta peces, siempre agarrados por manos femeninas o en audaces paralelismos/insertos casi subliminales.<span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/II7OXKC-3uY&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/II7OXKC-3uY&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/18886380_w434_h_q80.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1013" title="18886380_w434_h_q80" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/18886380_w434_h_q80.jpg?w=300" alt="18886380_w434_h_q80" width="300" height="193" /></a>Aparece la doble tipología masculina: el héroe buenazo que acepta a Vixen como es y el frustrado que quiere domeñarla al sentirse superado y amenazado (sexualmente, claro) por ella. Mientras la primera ya está dibujada al completo en este original la segunda, la del cabestro forzador, no será perfeccionada hasta la entrada apoteósica del impagable Charles Napier en la siguiente y mejor entrega de la saga la apoteósica “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfECPAhWDQ" target="_self">Supervixens</a>” un film indescriptible, por desbarrante, de una hieperkinesia digna de un Chuck <a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/6951405_gal.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1015" title="6951405_gal" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/6951405_gal.jpg" alt="6951405_gal" width="302" height="382" /></a>Jones “on acid”, una sanguinolencia hiperbólica (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqXmjub7JU" target="_self">la celebérrima escena de la duch</a>a que se chotea a lo burro de “Psicosis” sin ningún miramiento adem´s de ofrecer una metáfora rotunda de la impotencia) y espíritu libérrimo admirable.</p>
<p>Se redondea con el habitual melodramatismo folletinesco-rural, un “american gothic” pasado de rosca, llevado al punto de la parodia bruta en el que la violencia será la espita de los incapaces (ejem:  la mítica secuencia de &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYqeGn6rO2Y" target="_self">Up!</a>&#8221; con una desafiante Raven LaCroix provocando estrágos y peleas a hachazos con su imposible vestido negro) La “vixen” primigenia no es un personaje beatífico ni agradable (para esto habrá que esperar a la esdrújula Kitten Natividad de la festivalera y autoconsciente “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5yAQv2hEo" target="_self">Beneath teh valley of the Ultravixens</a>” especie de recopilatorio de los motivos de la saga pero vistos desde una óptica tierna y cariñosa que no descarta ni la autoironía ni el guiño cómplice con la aparición del propio Meyer despidiendo la función) sino un bicha maliciosa que disfruta de su poder y en este caso además una racista de cuidado que insulta/desea fervientemente al amigo de su hermano (al que también tienta, el incesto no será más que otra barrera que reducir a fosfatina) un joven de color que terminará por forzarla (con consentimiento implícito) <a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/2dac37p3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1018" title="2dac37p" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/2dac37p3.jpg?w=300" alt="2dac37p" width="300" height="228" /></a>convirtiendo así en exactamente lo que Vixen desea: un depredador de blancas, un peligro público (de tal manera Meyer le lanza al a cara a América sus conflictos raciales convertidos en sátira hiperbólica y libidinosa) todo ello dentro de ese juego deformante que recorre toda la serie.</p>
<p><a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/6118_1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1019" title="6118_1" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/6118_1.jpg" alt="6118_1" width="280" height="376" /></a>Vixen</p>
<p>Director: Russ Meyer</p>
<p>Año: 1968</p>
<p>País: Estados Unidos</p>
<p>70 min.</p>
<p>Fotografía: Russ Meyer</p>
<p>Música: Igo Kantor</p>
<p>Guión: Robert Rudelson, Russ Meyer y Anthony-James Ryan</p>
<p>Reparto: Erica Gavin, Garth Pillsbury, Harrison Page, John Evans, Vincene Wallace</p>
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<link>http://elspoiler.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/faster-pussycat-kill-kill/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Henry Shima</dc:creator>
<guid>http://elspoiler.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/faster-pussycat-kill-kill/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ficha técnica: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, EUA, 83 min. P&amp;B. Direção: Russ Meyer Produção: Ge]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-weight:bold;">Ficha técnica:</span><br />
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, EUA, 83 min. P&#38;B.<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Direção: </span>Russ Meyer<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Produção:</span> George Costello, Eve Meyer, Russ Meyer, Fred Owens<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Roteiro:</span> Russ Meyer, Jack Moran<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Fotografia:</span> Walter Schenk<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Música:</span> Paul Sawtell, Bert Sherfter<br />
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Elenco:</span> Tura Satana, Haji Rosie, Lorie Willians, Sue Bernard, Stuart Lancaster, Paul Trinka, Dennis Busch, Ray Barlow, Michael Finn</p>
<p>Intenso e sexy, <span style="font-style:italic;">Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill!</span> (Rápido, Gatinha! Mata! Mata!) já tem como mérito ser um dos filmes de maior influência do mais doente diretor de cinema: Quentin Tarantino. Se tiver dúvidas, repare na cena de <span style="font-style:italic;">Pulp Fiction</span> em que Vicent Vega guia seu carro após consumir heroina ou então assista o tributo que Tarantino faz as mulheres e aos carros envenenados em <span style="font-style:italic;">Death Proof</span>. Mulheres voluptuosas, violência e carros, tudo começou com Russ Meyer.</p>
<p><span style="font-style:italic;">Faster</span>&#8230; apresenta como protagonista uma provocante Varla (Tura Satana), com seu decote e olhar capaz de petrificar qualquer alma cristã. Suas companheiras, Billie (Lori Willians) e Rosie (Haji) não ficam pra trás. E esse foi o grande lance de Russ Meyer nesse filme: centrar-se em personagens femininos. Mas antes de ser considerado machista, deve-se considerar que Meyer vai muito mais além de esteriotipar as garotas e proporciona personalidades destintas a cada uma delas, assim temos a domin<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-8" title="tura satana" src="http://elspoiler.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/tura-satana-in-faster-pussycat-kill-kill.jpg?w=300" alt="tura satana" width="289" height="217" />adora, a pragmática e a hedonista, e sem falar que Meyer é um expert quando o assunto é mulher: o cara foi fotográfo da <span style="font-style:italic;">Playboy </span>por muito tempo.</p>
<p>As aventuras dessas três antiheroinas começam quando Varla assassina um corredor e sequestra sua namorada. Assim que elas descobrem que um velho aleijado mantem uma fortura em sua fazenda, o filme atinge seu climax, com traições entre as meninas e mais e mais assassinatos.</p>
<p>A trilha sonora recheada de solos de sax dá o clima perfeito entre as curvas das estradas e das garotas. Enfim, é um filme obrigatório para aqueles que procuram algo diferente do cineminha tradicional.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Covered: The Long Blondes' "Someone To Drive You Home"]]></title>
<link>http://feministmusicgeek.com/2009/09/15/covered-the-long-blondes-someone-to-drive-you-home/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alyx Vesey</dc:creator>
<guid>http://feministmusicgeek.com/2009/09/15/covered-the-long-blondes-someone-to-drive-you-home/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Someone To Drive You Home cover, Rough Trade 2006/2007; image courtesy of pitchfork.com Two areas I ]]></description>
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<p>Two areas I don&#8217;t recall covering in the blog so far are 1) bands whose songs focus on cinephilia and 2) female musicians who use their visual arts training in the service of their bands. Today, we can focus on both by considering The Long Blondes&#8217; debut full-length <em>Someone To Drive You Home</em> and lead singer Kate Jackson&#8217;s artwork for said album.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m new to this band, who I guess are no longer a band. That&#8217;s a bummer, but at least I&#8217;ve had fun pumping this album at full volume in my car this past week as the skies became increasingly overcast. And singing at full volume. As my friend Brea mentioned in <a href="http://feministmusicgeek.com/2009/05/01/records-that-made-me-a-feminist-by-brea/" target="_blank">her entry</a> about records that made her a feminist, it&#8217;s important for women and girls to find singers whose vocal ranges match their own. It&#8217;s really true. Perhaps we could think of it as double-identification &#8212; being able to relate to a female singer&#8217;s persona as conveyed through her lyrics, performance style, fashion sense or whatever on one level and being able to replicate, mirror, or blend her tone, pitch, and timbre with your own. However we want to theorize it, I&#8217;m glad that my notes can work with Jackson&#8217;s strong, supple alto. </p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/ekYhrca0M8o&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/ekYhrca0M8o&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Matching a singer&#8217;s range also makes shouting easier. I love Animal Collective, but screaming along to Avey Tare doesn&#8217;t make any sense for me. We can try and make it queer or whatever, but it really just feels silly and strained to my throat and ears. Screaming &#8220;Edie Sedgwick! Anna Karina! Arlene Dahl!&#8221; along with Jackson, on the other hand, makes perfect sense. </p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><img title="Edie Sedgwick; image courtesy of fashionista.com" src="http://fashionista.com/images/edie_sedgwick.jpg" alt="Edie Sedgwick; image courtesy of fashionista.com" width="400" height="267" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Edie Sedgwick; image courtesy of fashionista.com</p></div>
<p>The opening track, appropriately titled &#8220;Lust In the Movies,&#8221; is a good transition into the defunct band&#8217;s cinephilic leanings. Indeed, the movies are everywhere. Specifically movies from the post-war era, a considerable amount of them of the <em>film noir</em> tradition or have some kind of sinister edge, while others are campy b-movies that have since cashed in on retro chic. </p>
<p>Imagined film snob boys corrupt willing schoolgirls with Russ Meyer films in &#8220;Fulwood Babylon.&#8221; Girls want to be cool enough for the movies that play in film snob boys&#8217; heads in &#8220;Lust in the Movies.&#8221; A boy and a girl compare themselves to C.C. Baxter, <em>The Apartment</em>&#8217;s love-lorn protagonist in &#8220;You Could Have Both.&#8221; Obscure references to British celebrities of the 1940s and 1950s like Hattie Jacques and Peter Rogers thread through break-up narratives like &#8220;Five Ways to End It.&#8221; Greta Garbo is looked upon with envy (and irony?) as the woman who snagged all the handsome men in &#8220;Never to Be Repeated.&#8221; &#8220;Only Lovers Left Alive&#8221; is inspired by Fred Zinnemann&#8217;s <em>From Here to Eternity</em>, a romantic sentiment perhaps echoed in Jackson&#8217;s sleeve art, which references Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern&#8217;s frenzied lovers in David Lynch&#8217;s <em>Wild at Heart</em>.</p>
<p>As many of these movies are classic Hollywood, iconographic art house, and/or have the Criterion stamp of approval, we might call them <em>films</em> instead of movies, if the writer of this blog held fast to making such a distinction.</p>
<p>Now, we could get into a discussion of what this means in terms of prefence and why more clearly feminist classics don&#8217;t get shout-outs like, say, Douglas Sirk&#8217;s <em>All That Heaven Allows</em>, Agnès Varda&#8217;s <em>Cléo de 5 à 7</em>, or Chantal Akerman&#8217;s <em>Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles</em>. Maybe they haven&#8217;t seen these movies. Maybe they thought the last movie I mentioned was boring (with a 200-minute running time, that has kept me from seeing it, though it is in my Netflix queue). However, I&#8217;d hazard to guess that the Russ Meyer reference in &#8220;Fulwood Babylon&#8221; might be done with a bit of feminist cheek, and while I <a href="http://feministmusicgeek.com/2009/09/13/direct-reference-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls-with-the-pipettes/" target="_blank">have trouble</a> reading the nuances of intentional camp in <em>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls</em>, I&#8217;m sure my friend Curran would smile and nod in recognition of the reference.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/0Lds0MgnKGc&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/0Lds0MgnKGc&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>And yet. I find how film references are used in these songs to be particularly interesting. For one, I think especially in &#8220;Lust in the Movies&#8221; and &#8220;Fulwood Babylon,&#8221; a critique is being made by Kate (and her chorus of singing fans) against the sorts of boys who live in movies (perhaps including Dorian Cox, a former Long Blonde who co-wrote the majority of the album with Jackson). These boys are too busy looking for Edie Sedgwick, Anna Karina, and Arlene Dahl to notice the real woman in front of them. Fools. </p>
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<p>For another, I find the blurring between fantasy and reality, the projected and the lived, the fantastical and the mundane heartening and relateable. Many of these songs are not actually about being in the movies, but wishing you could be or pretending you are to get over a failed relationship, get through your boring day job, get ready for a night out, get in the car to leave town, or simply get through your 20s.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a lot of humanity in these songs, particularly between women and girls. Two lonely girls flee their humdrum lives together in &#8220;Separated By Motorways.&#8221; A spurned lover empathizes hopes her ex&#8217;s new love fares better than she did after the break-up in &#8220;Heaven Help the New Girl.&#8221; A twentysomething tells a 19-year-old girl that she&#8217;s going to get through that stupid, cursed age in &#8220;Once and Never Again,&#8221; a solidarity anthem so catchy and sweet that I just requested it be added to the <a href="http://www.karaokeunderground.com/" target="_blank">Karaoke Underground</a> song list. Won&#8217;t that one feel great singing with a gaggle of drunk girls? I think so. </p>
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<p>And while the movies being referenced aren&#8217;t explicitly feminist (or argued and/or championed as such by theoretically florid film scholars), I&#8217;d argue that there&#8217;s much going on with the female movie icons that Jackson&#8217;s and her songs&#8217; protagonists (which may be iterations of herself) identify. Having brought up Sedgwick, Karina, Dahl, Garbo, this is where I&#8217;ll fold in Jackson&#8217;s spare, mysterious cover. The woman in the cover is recognizable to many as Bonnie Parker, as played by Faye Dunaway in Arthur Penn&#8217;s <em>Bonnie and Clyde</em>, a divisive and galvanizing picture that marked a sea change in American cinema, upped the ante for screen violence, reflected the shift in generational values, presupposed the turbulent year that would be 1968, and made thousands of women cut and straighten their hair into sleek bobs by Dunaway&#8217;s influence. It might have made them want to tote guns, fire bullets, and rob banks too. In short, this was seen as a dangerous film that still holds some cache as a countercultural, generational text that appeals to men and women.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/BizxiDtFdrI&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/BizxiDtFdrI&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Some of those women may still be shuffling through their 20s, figuring it out. They might not be compelled to rob a bank, but they might be tempted to quit their job, or at least bitch about work at the local bar. And there&#8217;s something nice about being reassured that someone, whether a movie character or a friend, will be there to drive you home. Even if your car is riddled with bullet holes.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Direct Reference: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with The Pipettes]]></title>
<link>http://feministmusicgeek.com/2009/09/13/direct-reference-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls-with-the-pipettes/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alyx Vesey</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Beyond the Valley of the Dolls poster; image courtesy of wikipedia.org So, I saw Russ Meyer&#8217;s ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 433px"><img title="Beyond the Valley of the Dolls poster; image courtesy of wikipedia.org" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Poster3_beyond_the_valley_of_the_dolls.jpg" alt="Beyond the Valley of the Dolls poster; image courtesy of wikipedia.org" width="423" height="325" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Beyond the Valley of the Dolls poster; image courtesy of wikipedia.org</p></div>
<p>So, I saw Russ Meyer&#8217;s <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Valley_of_the_Dolls" target="_blank">Beyond the Valley of the Dolls</a></em> last summer (thanks again to my friend Curran). I meant to write about it, but kinda didn&#8217;t know what to say. I&#8217;m still not entirely sure how I feel about the sordid tale of mixed-race girl band The Kelly Affair making it big by changing their name to The Carrie Nations and losing their minds in the big city. I do know that I liked it more than Mark Robson&#8217;s <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Dolls_(film)" target="_blank">Valley of the Dolls</a></em>, adapted from Jacqueline Susann&#8217;s wildly successful pulp novel about a group of girls who seek fame and instead wrestle with debilitating addictions, which just left me numb and bummed.</p>
<p>The unrelated sequel&#8217;s campiness, stodgy dialogue, illogical plot development, crazed characterization of Los Angeles, and parade of late 60s tacky couture made it an ideal movie to watch while drinking and cackling with friends. And I was pleasantly surprised by Roger Ebert purple, at times oddly perceptive, dialogue and how it synced up with Meyer&#8217;s arresting imagery. And having read a <a href="http://bitchmagazine.org/browse/results/taxonomy:4160" target="_blank">write-up</a> about Meyer muse Tura Satana from <em>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</em>, I know that some Meyer icons have a feminist following.</p>
<p>And yet. I think seeing this movie with friends and laughing at it from an ironically detached position was key to my enjoyment. Without them, I think I might have been saddened by the movie&#8217;s clearly regressive gender and sexual politics. The director was in love with big, bare breasts? Duh. Lead singer/grifter Kelly MacNamara uses her wiles to get ahead in show business? Shocking. Bassist Pet Danforth is coerced into lesbianism by predatory, be-taloned fashion designer Roxanne, only to be killed in a mansion orgy that apparently was based on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate-LaBianca_murders#The_murders" target="_blank">Manson Family murders</a>? Yeesh. The fact that the orgy is orchestrated and the murders executed by The Carrie Nations&#8217; Phil Spector-like producer Z-Man, who reveals himself to be transgendered? Double yeesh. The fact that surviving members McNamara and drummer Casey Anderson distance themselves from their hedonistic past through marriage? Fail.</p>
<p>One thing I will give the movie full credit for is awesome music. If The Kelly Affair were a band (I prefer this name over The Carrie Nations), I&#8217;d totally listen to them. I love Lynn Carey&#8217;s voice, who fills in for &#8220;actress&#8221; Dolly Read. And others seem to agree. The Pipettes re-created the scene where the girls get discovered at an industry party in their video for &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy7SvZQfeBM" target="_blank">Pull Shapes</a>.&#8221; Feel free to watch it alongside the original scene.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Checking out Russ Meyer's "The people's republic of branding"]]></title>
<link>http://fredzimny.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/6973/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>fredzimny</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fredzimny.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/6973/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The People&#8217;s Republic of Branding View more documents from Landor Associates. Related articles]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[El tercer Alberto/ Cuento surrealista]]></title>
<link>http://elduendedelaradio.com/2009/09/07/el-tercer-alberto-cuento-surrealista/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>El Duende de la Radio</dc:creator>
<guid>http://elduendedelaradio.com/2009/09/07/el-tercer-alberto-cuento-surrealista/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[La gran noticia de aquel verano en Puerto Pollensa es que los dos Albertos habían ocultado que tenía]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2464" title="Inesperadamente, España se enteró de que tampoco cuando se trata de Albertos hay dos sin tres... sin tres..." src="http://elduendedelaradio.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/albertos.jpg?w=185" alt="Inesperadamente, España se enteró de que tampoco cuando se trata de Albertos hay dos sin tres... sin tres..." width="185" height="300" />La gran noticia de aquel verano en<a href="http://puerto-pollenca.costasur.com/" target="_blank"> <strong>Puerto Pollensa</strong></a> es que los dos Albertos habían ocultado que tenían un tercer primo con el mismo nombre. Y que el tercer Alberto había aparecido reclamando su sitio en la historia.</p>
<p>La primicia se la disputaron entre <a href="http://www.elconfidencial.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Jesús Cacho</strong></a>, en representación del periodismo económico,  y <strong>Jorge Javier Vázquez,  <a href="http://www.frikipedia.es/friki/Jes%C3%BAs_Mari%C3%B1as" target="_blank">Jesús Mariñas</a> y Karmele Merchante</strong> por el llamado periodismo del corazón. Se trataba de un hombre de unos sesenta y cuatro años de edad, uno ochenta de altura, buena planta, gran surtido de trajes y un fondo de armario inagotable de gabardinas blancas. Tenía los mofletes de Alberto I y las crenchas del cabello como Alberto II, y podía pasar por ser el eslabón perdido entre uno y otro, con los que guardaba un inconfundible parecido familiar.</p>
<p>Lógicamente, también era multimillonario. Y, como es normal en esos casos, había  estado casado varias veces con otras tantas beldades que pertenecían sucesivamente a la familia de los descendientes  del sommelier del rey <strong><a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopoldo_II_de_B%C3%A9lgica" target="_blank">Leopoldo II de Bélgica</a>,</strong> con inmensas propiedades en <strong>Sudáfrica</strong>,  a otra familia no menos multimillonaria del <strong>Paraguay</strong> y a una familia de clase media-baja de <strong>Quintanar de la Orden. </strong>Esta tercera familia, sin embargo, fabricaba el famoso aguardiente marca<strong> <em>El furriel, </em></strong>del que el Alberto desconocido era un notable consumidor. La tercera esposa, que se llamaba <strong>Toñi</strong>, se la pegó con futbolista del <strong>Getafe</strong> mientras él cazaba el oso en <strong>Alaska</strong>. Con la mala suerte  de que el oso contratado cayó antes de la cuenta, el marido adelantó el regreso y, para darle una sorpresa a su esposa, se presentó en casa con un sortijón de esmeraldas de regalo y vestido de esquimal. Toñi casi muere del sobresalto, y el futbolista del Getafe, del tajo que le largó el engañado con su cuchillo de caza poco antes de que  aquel, un hombre punta de gran velocidad, huyera despavorido por el jardín sin más protección que un <strong>MARCA</strong> para ocultar malamente el cuerpo del delito, a la sazón un tanto disminuido por el susto.</p>
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<p>A partir de ahí el tercer Alberto se divorció de Toñi. Y mientras su inmensa fortuna prosperaba al mismo ritmo que la de sus primos, se casó varias veces más. En alguna ocasión incluso con alguna secretaria que no era ni rica, ni guapa, ni famosa. Esta circunstancia, unida a la imperdonable vulgaridad de no haber sido condenado jamás por un delito de estafa millonaria y de falsedad en documento público, con la prescripción de rigor que suele asistir a los granujas de postín, había merecido el desprecio de sus famosos primos. Así que entre unas cosas y otras, el tercer Alberto, que tenía exactamente la misma participación que sus primos en los sustanciosos negocios familiares, decidió abandonar España  e instalarse en Francia, donde vivía en un molino lujosamente arreglado a orillas de un afluente de <a href="http://www.dordogne-perigord-tourisme.fr/" target="_blank"><strong>la  Dordogne</strong></a>. Desde ahí, y acompañado por Ivette, una tragasables escapada de un circo ruso con la que había encontrado la felicidad, siguió incrementando su fortuna y disfrutando de la vida. Ivette reunía la triple habilidad de resolver los sudoku, dominar todas las posturas del <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra" target="_blank"><strong>Kamasutra</strong></a> y cocinar la <strong><em>ratatouille</em> </strong>como nadie, y junto a ella el tercer Alberto controlaba sus inversiones, navegaba a vela,  pescaba barbos y carpas y era feliz sin echar de menos a sus homónimos</p>
<p>-¿Ya tienes más que ellos?- le preguntaba de vez en cuando  la tragasables mientras le besaba el cuello con pasión moscovita.</p>
<p>-Lo voy a tener- respondió un día apretando las mandíbulas para subrayar con el gesto su firmeza.</p>
<p>La cosa es que al tercer Alberto, harto de todo lo que se puede tener cuando se es inmensamente rico y es difícil destacar sobre sus iguales, no se le ocurrió más que hacerse la cirugía estética más audaz y escandalosa.</p>
<p>-Arréglemelo. Quiero algo especial- dijo abriéndose la camisa y mostrando el pecho al especialista que estiraba a todos los galanes de <strong>Hollywood</strong> .</p>
<p>-¿Quiere que le reafirmemos los pectorales? –preguntó el cirujano.</p>
<p>-No. Quiero que me ponga tetas.</p>
<p>-¿Cómo? –titubeaba el galeno- ¿Quiere que aumentemos el volumen  de sus pectorales?&#8230;¿Lo que llamamos un <em>pecholobo </em>Schwarzeneger?&#8230;</p>
<p>-No-cortó con malos modos el tercer Alberto mientras ponía ante los ojos del cirujano un cheque en blanco con su  firma- No quiero fortalecer mi pecho: quiero tetas.</p>
<p>El cirujano cogió el cheque con su mano temblorosa y se sentó visiblemente confundido.</p>
<p>-Toda  mi vida he estado aguantando esta palabra  porque en mi familia no era correcto decirla-le explicaba el tercer Alberto mientras gesticulaba ostentosamente- Pero ahora que las tetas nos invaden y hasta las ministras hablan de ellas, deseo tener más que mis primos los Albertos. Ellos sólo tienen tetillas. Pues bien, yo quiero tener tetas, sí. Tetas grandes, turgentes, zeppelines exuberantes, como los de las películas de <strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUx0bFprWjY" target="_blank">Russ Meyer</a>&#8230;</strong></p>
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<p>Dicen que, pagando, san Pedro canta. El cirujano se esmeró y logró que el tercer Alberto exhibiéndose top-less dejara en nada la ya gastada  imagen de sus primos.</p>
<p>También dicen que en el <a href="http://www.realclubnauticopalma.com/basic/basic/intro/index.php" target="_blank"><strong>Club Náutico de Palma</strong></a>, y una vez que las barbas reales no daban más de sí, no  se escuchó otro comentario que la aparición de este insólito personaje del que no se sabía nada hasta entonces.</p>
<p>El caso es que el tercer Alberto no sólo tenía ya más que sus primos. Sino que aún acumularía muchísimo más cuando los programas de televisión y las grandes estrellas del periodismo nacional –incluída <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Mil%C3%A1" target="_blank"><strong>Mercedes Milá</strong></a>- se disputaran su presencia. Y sería esta una presencia notable y singularísima, algo asombroso que en verdad enorgullecería a un país culto y refinado como España, y que vendría a engrandecer  aún más a una saga de por sí tan digna de admiración  como la de los famosísimos Albertos.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[Pühendatud Russ Meyerile (1922-2004). Stilistiliselt oli filmil Russ Meyeri maik man kindlasti. Aga ]]></description>
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<p>Pühendatud Russ Meyerile (1922-2004). Stilistiliselt oli filmil <a title="Russ Meyer" href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000540/" target="_blank">Russ Meyeri</a> maik man kindlasti. Aga et aeg on edasi läinud, siis leidis lavastaja <span>Jonathan Yudis aega ka ühtteist hullumeelset lisada ning ka ise filmis näitlejana kaasa lüüa (jah, tema ongi see automehaanik, kelle &#8221; kuri killer cock&#8221; ära kägistab. Filmi katkestavate vahepalade kõrval oli üks iseäranis lõbus koht viitega India filmidele, kui peaosatäitja James (oh, James) järjekordse &#8220;büstiga&#8221; käsikäes mööda kõrbe ringi tatsas. Kui kõik näidatav on kergelt jabur, lõbus ja vabameelne, võib ju vabalt lisada romantilise laulu otse suvalisest India filmist. Et teatav annus õudust pidi filmis ikka ka sees olema, siis verd oli ekraanil aegajalt kõik kohad täis, aga otseloomulikult miski siin hirmu ei tekitanud ja kui pisike pervert killer cock, peale ebaõnnestunud rünnakut naisele vannis, põrandal naela otsa astus, venis nägu täiega muigele. </span></p>
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<p><span>On siin ka elu jooksul igatsugu filme nähtud, aga see oli üks korralik B-film, kus väheste rahadega tehti ajalugu. Ausalt öeldes, võrreldes Dust Deviliga, millest eile kirjutasin, jätsid näitlejad mulje, et nad teavad mida teevad, dialoog oli elus ning veenev. Ja mis peamine, inimestel paistis filmi tehes lõbu laialt olema. Kui muusikas on mõiste &#8220;easy listening&#8221;, siis filmikunstis on antud teos kindlasti &#8220;easy watching&#8221;.<br />
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<p><a title="Pervert" href="http://www.pervertthemovie.com/" target="_blank">Koduleht ja trailerid</a></p>
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