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Movies About Girls Podcast Episode 135

Another nitrous oxide-inhaling episode of the internet's wildest party awaits you!

Tonight, the gang takes on 1986's surreal small-town mayhem masterpiece, Blue Velvet!  

Plus: Hits from Hell, the top 5 bottom 5 DVDs of the week, weird news, Songs about Girls, and lots more!

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PS: Songs on tonight's show performed by:
Russ Kennedy and the Little Wheels
Cher
The Banshees
Larry Hall
Frank Alamo
Roy Orbison 
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Top 13 (of the Week)

Sure, you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology comes in. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the results of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.


13. Christina Sinatra's icy gaze. You don't get a stare like this without being privy to some heavy shit, man. Holy smokes. What a bad-ass! (K)

12. Camel "self titled 1973" - Prog rock borders on and often crosses over to annoying and senseless. Camel daringly walks that line with trapeze like grace. With no song over seven minutes, a feat by any prog standards, these guys keep ya focused on the song. Cool organ and mellow vocals. I'm into mellow vocals this week. (S)

11. Rumer - Seasons of My Soul 
So this record has been out in the UK and in Europe since 2010, where it sold bucketloads and is therefore old news to most of the world. However, it was only released in the US a few weeks ago. Are we third-world already? Anyway, fantastic soft-pop record, Burt Bacharach-ish tunes with Rumer's Claudine Longet/Marilyn McCoo-ish warble drifting lazily on top. Supersoft! (K)

10. Ghost "Opus Eponymous" - Basically Mercyful Fate meets Blue Oyster Cult. Every catchy song about Satan! Heavy guitars with Mellow vocals (really hip this week). The lead singer dresses like the pope in corpse paint and the band is in Tombs Of The Blind Dead monk robes. A bunch of old tricks organized in a cool way. (S)

9. Holmes - Wolves 

Great album from '08 full of warm, woodsy Americana/freak-folk. The twist? They're Swedish. But, you know, they know about America. They've watched TV. Bonus: It's pay-what-you-want. You're paying in Euros, though. Keep that in mind. The American dollar ain't what it used to be. (K)





8. Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery - One of the best places to see dead celebrities. It's a very small cemetery and the list of stars is really long. Marilyn Monroe, Eddie Albert, James Coburn, Billy Wilder, Bob Crane, Bettie Page, Rodney Dangerfield, Frank Zappa, the list goes on and on. Spent two hours there and couldn't see 'am all. Dorothy Stratten (Star '80) is there and it was her birthday day I was there. (S)

7. Sweet Prudence & The Erotic Adventure of Bigfoot
This film addresses my biggest problem with bigfoot movies: most of 'em don't have enough boobs. This one does. It's got so many boobs you forget that Bigfoot's even in it. And then he shows up, and the party gets even crazier. (K)

6. The Virgin Spring - A great place to start with Bergman. Last House On the Left is a faithful remake of this movie. This is really heavy creepy stuff for 1960 and Max Von Sydow is incredible when he finally goes on his viking flashback revenge killing. (S)

5. Midday Veil - Subterranean Ritual 

Gauzy Seattle space-rock, half breezy cosmic-ambience, have Giallo-flick murder-groove. Ritual is a two-song cassette release, each track taking it's syrupy sweet time to hypnotize you into a druggy trance for jabbing you with some outta-nowhere spookhouse sounds every so often. This is my new elevator muzak. Now all I need is an elevator. (K)

4. A House On Fire: the Rise and Fall Of Philadelphia Soul by John A Jackson - Philly's greatest contribution to american culture is not the cheese steak. It's 70's soul. It's a distinctly smooth and danceable groove that paved the way clear for disco.  Here's the story of Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell who headed Philadelphia International Records. It's a wild ride from rags to riches and than rags again. It will compel you to keep the soul hits spinning while you going through this book and your house will be just a little bit groovier for it. (S)

3. The Only Ghost in Town - the Stars Are for You EP 
Pretty awesome space-streaking shoegaze jams. Great for couch-bound astronauts. (K)




2. Dorothy Stratten - I saw her grave the other day and she's really too young to be a Hippie Death Goddess, So I'm including her here. Re-Watched Star '80 (Eric Roberts is a tour de force) and drove around to try to find the house where she was murdered (That's the kind of thing Lady Swilson and I do on a Sunday). What a bummer. R.I.P Dorothy. (S)

1. Fatma Girik  
Turkish belly dancer turned actress turned mayor! That biographical arc should happen more often. Anyway,I like everything about her. I have no idea what's going on in any of her movies, but, you know, I dig the cut of her jib nonetheless. (K)

Hippie Death Goddess ( of the Day)

Angela Dorian was born Victoria Vetri on September 26, 1944 in San Francisco. She moved down to L.A. and went to Hollywood High School and auditioned for the role of Lolita but lost to Sue Lyon.

She Wrote poetry and Played guitar.

In September 1967 she became the Playmate of the month. In 1968 the Playmate of the year. She had a bit part in Rosemary's Baby and starred in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and Invasion Of the bee Girls.

She had a ton of TV appearances, Batman, Bonanza, Perry Mason…..

In 1984 She appeared in playboy again.

In October of 2010 after a long weekend of Speed and Booze she tried to kill her husband. She's now serving nine years in the state pen for attempted voluntary manslaughter.

yikes!

Rocket from the Tombs

Rocket Redux
Smog Veil 

Rocket from the Tombs was a backwards-supergroup from Cleveland, who were really only around for half a summer or so in the mid-70’s, but they eventually spawned both the Dead Boys (Cheetah Chrome was their guitar player) and Pere Ubu (David Thomas sang), so it is suddenly and stunningly obvious that Rocket were probably one o’ the most seminal proto-punk bands ever.  Rocket never got around to hitting the studio - too busy smashing local dives to bits - so “Rocket Redux” finds the boys-who-are-now-middle-aged-men getting back together in 2004 and giving the world what we deserved in '75.   The original songs, the original line-up, played with all the authenticity they can muster. Thomas originally formed Rocket as a 'joke' band, a cock-rock parody-of-sorts, and you can hear the snark in his vox. On the other hand, Cheetah was out to slay with his gutterglam razor riot guitar, so the joke is mostly lost in a blur of Detroit-inspired riff rawk, served up ridiculously raw and plenty nasty. It is quite a kick to hear future Dead Boys classics like “What Love Is”, “Sonic Reducer”, “Down in Flames”, and “Ain’t It Fun” before there even was a Dead Boys- and sung by a curmudgeon art-rocker, no less. The dive-bombing death rattle of the Stiv-era DB’s had yet to touch flame however, so these versions are more psychedelic, almost, uh…jammy, ya know? And Christ, were these cats ever influenced by the Alice Cooper band- the 5:33 teenfreaker “So Cold” is “Eighteen”, just longer and creepier, and “Muckraker” borrows liberally from the entire b-side of “Easy Action”. But, ya know, they coulda been influenced by ELP or something, so no complaints here. Oh yeah, and as closing track “Life Stinks” so ably proves, Rocket from the Tombs invented '77 style punk rock. You gotta admit, that ain’t bad for a band that was around for less than a year. At any rate, aside from some truly glunky sounding drums, “Rocket Redux” is a rather impressive display of bad-ass-before-there-was-bad-ass, and if you’ve got any interest at all in rock n’ roll pre-history, then you really gotta give this resurrected corpse a sniff.

- Ken 

Advanced Demonology Podcast Lesson 4: Lonely

This month on Advanced Demonology, Ken and Swilson turn down some very dark corners and present you with four (and a half) hours of misery, jealousy, unrequited love, violent lovers and sad dreamers. It's our anti-Valentines day ode to the unlucky and overlooked. Bonus: at least four artists on tonight's show died in their 50's. Dig it!

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Top 13 (of the Week)

Sure, you know what's cool. But do you know what's really fuckin' FAR OUT? That's where Advanced Demonology comes in. Every week, (K)en and (S)wilson trudge through the murky waters of the pop culture hellscape, dredging up sparkly morsels of wonder. These are the results of our latest foray into the world of the weird, our wildest, wiggest-out picks of the week. Call it our 13 Point Program.

13. Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid Psych and Experimental Folk By Jeanette Leech

I thought I was reading the same acid-folk book Swilson was. I wasn't. I was reading this one. And it's awesome. Stretching back to the 50's and ending squarely in the freak-folk forest of today, J Leech tells the whole twisty tale with flair and economy. Great stuff. (K)


12. Cactus "One Way….or Another" - Yeah I think they invented boogie rock ( not a good thing), yeah there's a bunch parchment farm covers, but it's easy to forget about all that once Jim McCarty steps on his ampeg scrambler and blind sides you with a heavy dose of bonged out  fuzz. Plus, how many bands can claim that their lead singer was….. machine gunned to death!!! (S)

11. Explorers Club – Grand Hotel 
70's style soft rock returns with a groovy collection of tunes by a new band from South Carolina that sounds like the Beach Boys rifling through the Burt Bacharach songbook on a sunny afternoon. (K)

10. Kenneth Gangemi "The Volcanoes From Puebla" - It's an A to Z travel guide to Mexico published in 1979 from the hilariously unique author of OLT.  The entries start out very objective and then get..well..subjective.  It's a fast read like all of Gangemi's books and all of his books are highly recommended. (S)

9. Last Days Here: The Pentagram Documentary

I remember hearing DC proto-doomsters Pentagram's first (sorta) album, Relentless, in 1985. At the time, it was the heaviest thing I'd ever heard. Basically I decided right then and there that I didn't need to hear anything heavier, and I still stand by it. That shit was pure, tree-trunk thick DOOM. At the time, Pentagram main-man Bobby Liebling was on the comeback trail; Pentagram (and his even earlier band, Stone Bunny) had been bringing the heavy since the very early 70's. Bobby's been a (very) underground cult hero ever since, which of course does nothing for his wallet or his sense of well-being. Turns out he's been teetering on the edge of oblivion for decades – doom, indeed. Last Days Here is the Anvil-esque documentary that will either make or break Bobby Liebling. Either way, it's gonna be a heavy ride. (K)

8. "Hippies, Hasch und Flower power" - A collection of 60's German pop reactions to the hippie movement. Some great tracks on here to cherry pick, but If you can listen to this collection all the way through with out going "verruckt", than mister your a better man than I. (S)

7. PP Arnold was/is an American singer who made her bones in Britain in the mid 60's, providing UK audiences with authentic American soul. She had great tunes and she also happened to be drop dead gorgeous. 

And she still is. Dig it. (K)

6. Square Grouper - An extremely entertaining, very sincere  and unusually sympathetic look at three separate stories of weed dealing in southern Florida during the 70's and 80's.  (S)

7. The Band in Heaven: An obnoxious, ungainly mess of fuzzy shoegaze, dreampop, and  psychedelic blow-out rock. The perfect teenage soundtrack for guzzling a box of wine and falling down the cellar stairs. I don't even know if they have a record. They don't even need a record. They can get by on pills and Youtube, I'm sure of it. (K)

6. Mellowtone Wolf Computer - Who doesn't want a Wolf Computer in the band?!?! I just got this stomp box and it's out of control. I can't seem to wrangle it. (S)

5. Jezebel (1938) I haven't been this conflicted about a movie in a long time. Bette Davis plays a southern belle/hellraiser who shows up at a debutante ball in 1852 in a racy red dress – I imagine the 80's equivalent would be showing up to the prom in a mohawk – and her brazen behavior ruins her life. 

Her boyfriend (Henry Fonda) leaves her and she loses her standing in the community. And then she spends the rest of the movie whimpering and begging for forgiveness. But then again, she was pro-slavery, so maybe she got what she deserved? Dunno. Also, is Bette hot or sorta homely? Also don't know. But it's all fun to think about. Cool flick!(K)

4. Chromium Dioxide Magazine – I should mention that I've yet to actually read this magazine; I just became aware of it a couple days ago. But here's the set-up: a print mag dedicated to half-naked chicks, beer-swilling, denim-vest heavy metal and obscure splatter flicks on VHS tapes. That's like me, at age 14, in a magazine. I WANT IN. (K)

3. Laya Raki. German exotic dancer/actress/singer  from the 40's/50's. 

She could apparently hypnotize men and cause them to walk into traffic. I believe it. (K)

2. Agwa:  Bolivian Cocoa Leaf Liqueur - This stuff is pretty good. You get a weird buzz from it when drank by itself, but it makes a nice mixer. It's good for a party. Get's the girls all giddy. (S)


1. Magpedia. The Movies About Girls show finally gets its own Wiki! Advanced Demonology included. If you want to find about about the roots of Advanced Demonology – as well as four-plus years of podcast craziness – check it out. (K)

PS Drop by this weekend for a brand new episode of the Advanced Demonology Podcast!