In Switchblade Comb’s neverending quest to bring you the best in Abraham Lincoln entertainment news, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter sees release this week, from the author of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.
Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies.
Look for it in bookstores and in libraries and in the internet on Tuesday.
Apparently, May 25 is Geek Pride Day. It is, as Wikipedia says, “an initiative which claims the right of every person to be a nerd or a geek. It has been celebrated on May 25 since 2006, celebrating the premiere of the first Star Wars movie in 1977, and even has rights & responsibilities. Essentially, it’s the nerd equivalent of drinking on New Years.
Anyway, the Mounds Theatre is participating by having a night of fan films, surprise screenings, and a costume contest. And it’s free!
Tuesday, May 25
6:00 PM l FREE
That English Girl Tells You About Geek/Nerd Pride Day
Drunken Post is a feature on Switchblade Comb wherein Rich or The Joe gets wasted and posts nonsensical / non topical videos or musings at very early hours of the morning.
I ended up witnessing a karaoke jamboree tonight, and got pretty depressed when I discovered that Meredith Brooks had more than one song in the playbook and Coal Chamber had none. Nevermind how the evening ended up that way.
The only band I was ever in was of the high school variety, which was predictably called Syberwhore. I was brought in on drums to keep rhythm, despite having no background on them. The band lasted about four months and our only show was an open mic night at a Christian coffeehouse in Wisconsin. “Loco” was our cover song. They turned the mic off on our vocalist.
Interesting Coal Chamber trivia! Fear Factory was the band that originally championed their demo tape, and the “Loco” video (which I can’t find) was put at the end of Dee Snider’sStrangeland, one of those legendary 90s films that tried to explain the internet. They made a whole three albums, which was news to me. And there’s actually a Best of Coal Chamber album. Amazing.
Wait, you boys and girls do remember Coal Chamber, right?
This infamous collaboration between Herzog and David Lynch is a bit reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh’s Full Frontal and Lynch’s own INLAND EMPIRE. Both involve masters of their craft running wild with video technology, seemingly shooting whatever comes to mind in locations they just happened to have access to. It makes for a rather tangential experience in this case, but nonetheless highly surreal and entertaining.
My Son, My Son plays around with Greek tragedy and cop procedural, kind of, and Herzog has everyone acting in a theatrical style not far off from the hypnosis acting from Heart of Glass. But despite merely an executive producer credit, Lynch’s handiwork can be felt almost as much as Herzog’s. Their styles blend together, the film keeps getting stranger, and Brad Dourif eventually shows up to be awesome.
This is an easy film to dismiss as a nonsensical experiment, and it’s certainly not one of Herzog’s grandest achievements, but sequences in the mountains of Peru, a time tunnel in Montreal, and a park in San Diego where time almost stops make this far more intriguing than most traditional films of any given year.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is currently playing this week in Minneapolis at St. Anthony Main.
While I was attending the spectacular documentaries Which Way Home and Burma VJ at Woodbury 10 last night, it was announced that they’ll be playing three of the five Best Documentary Short Oscar nominees. The included films:
Frederick Wiseman documentary La Danse was so popular during its original Twin Cities run at St. Anthony Main that they’re bringing it back for a second run.
Documentary master director Frederick Wiseman’s latest film eloquently follows the rehearsals and performances of seven ballets including Genus by Wayne McGregor and Romeo and Juliette by Sasha Waltz. In addition to these breathtaking performanc…es, the film artfully captures the collaborative effort of choreographers, ballet masters, dancers, musicians, and costume, set, and lighting designers.
Friday, March 5 (week-long run)
$5.50/8.50 La Danse – Trailer
Here are the updated set time for tonight’s Electric Fetus benefit at First Avenue and 7th St. Entry.
7:00 – (DJ) Jake Rudh
7:30 – Peter Wolf Crier
8:00 – Cloud Cult
8:45 – (DJ) Jake Rudh
9:00 – Roma Di Luna
9:30 – Total Babe
9:30 – (DJ) Chris Riemenschneider from the Star Trib
10:00 – Jeremy Messersmith
10:30 – Caroline Smith & the Goodnight Sleeps
10:30 – (DJ) Ross Raihala from the Pioneer Press
11:00 – Trailer Trash
11:30 – Ruby Isle
11:30 – (DJ) Andrea from City Pages & Solid Gold
12:00 – Unknown Prophets
12:30 – Mike Michel & Carnage
12:30 – (DJ) Roy Freedom
Well, here’s a nice throwback to the indie films of old, when they weren’t so much telling new stories but re-telling old, worn stories in interesting, quiet ways that didn’t rely solely on quirky comedy.
From the moment he appeared in Torque wearing a Sam & Twitch t-shirt, Adam Scott has been one of my favorite actors. Still, outside of the hilarious Party Down series (and I guess maybe The Killer Next Door?), he’s never been a frontrunner until now. And holy hell, what a revelation.
The character of Caleb Sinclaire is fascinating, starting off as a wisecracking neurotic (which Scott does best) until in one surprisingly brutal sequence, he transforms into a very deep emotional wreck. As stated before, the story is nothing new: daddy issues, brothers kind of fighting over the same girl, relationships, family, blah blah blah. But Scott’s performance and some beautiful cinematography reminiscent of early David Gordon Green help elevate the material to one of the better small American films in recent memory.
