Don’t.
That’s the lesson from “Sullivan’s Travels.”
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When my mother died suddenly (I was 24) watching a lot of silly television helped me get through.
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One of the actors (Josh Malina) on The WW had a podcast with a super fan Hrishi Hirway. They had a pretty interesting mix of interviews with the actors on the show, along with the shows creator and people working behind the scenes. One of the better episodes was with the creators of Parks & Rec. They also interviewed pundits, law profs, WH employees, and politicians.
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One of the producers was Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC. I think he also played President Bartlett’s father in a flashback to his youth.
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Returns on February 13th.
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When you’re gonna rock the rock, you gotta, uh, talk too…
Hiya, kiddos. In these stressful times, why not relax with some music, videos and documentaries.
The Archies play the Pistols.
Made by the creator of Apocalypse Pooh, Todd Graham.
The Rolling Stones: Miss You (Michael Lindsay-Hogg 1978)
An early music video. (Well, pre-MTV. The genre basically goes back to 1929.) The band is miming to playback, guest harmonica player Sugar Blue is not to be seen, but Mick is singing live. Primitive but cool.
And now a brief tribute, the next three videos were directed by David Lynch.
David Lynch: Crazy Clown Time (2012)
Disturbing and goofy, aurally and visually. Skirting self parody. Avoids being nipply due to some little black censor bars, but still probably NSFW.
Nine Inch Nails: Came Back Haunted (2013)
A more conventional work, but probably the most catchy. Definitely not for the seizure prone.
Chrystabell and David Lynch: Sublime Eternal Love (2024)
One of his last works. A nice mellow comedown after the last two.
Celebration! (Karen Kramer 1988)
A documentary about Carnival in New York’s Caribbean community. I’m cheating with this one, as the focus is much more on costumes and visual splendor than the music, but it’s got a great, near constant soundtrack, mostly from The Mighty Sparrow. Perhaps a bit overly heteronormative though.
Crossfire Hurricane (Brett Morgen 2012)
Rolling Stones doc. Morgen has taken Stones archive footage from numerous sources, including the once hard to find Cocksucker Blues, and fashioned it into a roughly chronological collage. Outstandingly great job on this. I know some of the sources, Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil, Gimme Shelter, Rock and Roll Circus, reasonably well and was really impressed by the way Morgen’s reconfigurations provide new vibes and meanings. Even the fact that we almost never get to hear a song completely through without someone talking over it, an all too common music documentary sin, didn’t bother me, as this is really a documentary about the Stones’ lives, with their music as soundtrack.
Unfortunately, all of the extant Stones were co-producers of the film, and apparently nixxed any uncomfortable questions, so their story comes out awfully generic. Jagger and Richards’ mutual hostility isn’t even broached. So, a mixed success.
D.O.A. (Lech Kowalski 1980)
One of the early punk rock documentaries and a great one. It’s arguably got some flaws. It seems that Kowalski didn’t get enough worthwhile Pistols concert footage for a feature film, so he had to fill out the rest of the running time with other stuff. It feels weirdly unbalanced to have it be about 60% Sex Pistols and the rest various other acts. X-Ray Spex definitely feel cheated. But all of it is great, with the exception of the Sid and Nancy interview which seems rather ghoulish to include. Also includes the Dead Boys, Generation X, the Rich Kids, Sham 69, and Terry and the Idiots.
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A movie I found on Night Flight:
Which is summed up by Wikipedia’s List of films considered the worst as:
Hobgoblins, by Rick Sloane, is widely considered a low-budget knock-off that capitalizes on the popularity of the 1984 film Gremlins. It gained popularity in 1998 after being featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. MST3K writer Paul Chaplin later commented on Hobgoblins, saying, “Oh, man. You have no idea the torture it was to watch this movie several times in the space of a week. It shoots right to the top of the list of the worst movies we’ve ever done.”
Specific points of the film that were lampooned were the extreme misogyny and atrocious treatment of women; the film’s technical incompetence and repetitive scenes; its asinine, poorly conceived plot; its dreadful acting; and its ugly look and gratuitous vulgarity, particularly in regards to its characters and subject matter.
David Cornelius of DVD Talk stated, “There’s not one aspect of this movie that isn’t the Worst Thing Ever.”
The Standard 's Bad Horror Club noted its status as one of the worst films of all time, commenting: “it’s so preposterously badly made, terribly acted and ineptly constructed that it makes for some of the most fun you can ever have watching a movie.”
Sloane has embraced Hobgoblins ’ status as one of the worst films of all time, stating that he fears that it will be forgotten if it is removed from IMDb’s user-generated bottom 100 list.
It also managed an 11% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I concur with the critics on this one. A definite must-see if you like that kind of thing. It’s absolutely terrible.
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That one’s got a cult following (I think largely due to that MST3K episode giving it exposure), and even got a sequel in 2009. I should really watch both of them at some point, I’ve only seen the MST version. I vaguely recall Trick or Treat (1986) having a similar vibe, though maybe with a higher budget, but it’s been a long time and that’s another one I need to rewatch. But man, this takes me back to Friday nights in college, renting bad movies at the local video store and enjoying them with my best friends. We discovered so many forgotten gems (if, as you say, you like that kind of thing).
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Saw some repeats last night
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No thanks. There’s enough misogyny in my life already.
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If you like enjoyable bad movies i would recommend Tiki. A friend on my college days bought the DVD as a gag gift for someone in our group, we watched it and as a group movie watching experience it was fun.
About the movie itself, it’s bad. The villain is a tiny tiki puppet/figure, the characters are pretty dumb, and the deaths are outrageous (and dumb), i haven’t seen it in over 10 years but have fond memories of it. I hope it holds up.
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Be warned.
“Hobgoblins” is bad in a fun kind of way.
“Hobgoblins 2” is a painful cry for help.
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I like the tippy tappy of the doll’s running footsteps.
It looks like a high school production.
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It’s definitely at the HS production level 
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Interesting. There must be a catch somewhere.
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Hey, The Wind and the Lion!
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