It’s still Thursday but it’s Friday in London, Sydney and Tokyo to name a few shitholes I have been in. Not Tokyo obviously. It’s homogenic and civilized. I have a lot do tomorrow, so I’m getting a head start. Band practice got cancelled today because Rick had an eye doctor’s appointment. “I’ll be there”, he said, but I knew he wouldn’t. Eye doctors like to render you sightless, at least temporarily so of course he couldn’t see a thing and couldn’t drive here. Ricky doesn’t need to see to play the drums, now does he? It was fine by me. I wanted to tweak some of the microphones in the band room anyway. I found a tom mic laying on the floor, which I hadn’t noticed for weeks. Rock and Roll man, it’s all I know. I’m unfit for employment otherwise.
The news tonight is all boring. Tomorrow will be the same. The only thing of note happening now is that a severe geomagnetic storm will arrive on Earth imminently, between now and midday Eastern Time, which could make some electronics go haywire and generate beautiful auroras later today and tomorrow. I don’t feel anything at the moment. Obviously my computer is still functioning. Nothing ever happens.
The biggest and best news for years, in my opinion is that somebody is going to remaster three of Russ Meyer’s greatest films. The so-called Vixen trilogy. Severin films, an independent studio dedicated to rescuing, restoring, and releasing the works of Oscar nominees and cult icons alike, plans to release brand new 4K restorations of three of Meyer’s seminal films, 1968’s Vixen!, 1975’s Supervixens, and the filmmaker’s theatrical swan song, 1978’s Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens.
If you’ve seen it, you’ll know what this is.
At last, one of the greatest cinematic works of all time, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, if not the all time best, will finally be restored to pristine 4K magnificence. The opening scene of this masterpiece, in my opinion is the greatest opening scene ever filmed in the history of motion pictures. You just have to see it, it’s impossible to explain in words.
Forget Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg etc, Russ is the real the genius
The movie Vixen! is also a work of genius. Roger Ebert who co wrote “Beneath the Valley” under the pseudonym of R Hyde, has a review of it, part of which says, “It is done with such droll dialog and high humor that even the most torrid scenes somehow manage to get outside themselves; instead of placing his hero and heroine in the shower and grinding away in the panting style of his imitators, Meyer takes the basic shower scene, writes it with hilariously malaprop dialog (“We decided to stop doing this when we were 12,” Vixen’s brother protests), and intercuts it with a scene outside in which a red-bearded Irish Communist makes a speech to a black draft dodger.” Only a genius could come up with something like that.
Russ’ girlfriend and star of Beneath the Valley, Kitten Natividad, hotter than a Mexican’s lunch
Supervixens is also a fabulous movie. Here’s a beginning description of the plot as found in Wikipedia, “Gas station attendant Clint Ramsey, who works at Martin Bormann’s Super Service in the desert, finds himself too irresistible to a series of girls, all of whom have the word “Super” in their given names. How can this not be something you’d want to watch? Shari Eubank, who plays Clint’s sex crazed girlfriend, has a body that would stop a locomotive. The plot is ridiculous of course, but who cares? Personally, I could turn the sound off and just watch a naked Shari for two hours, but then I’m a little strange that way. Shari retired from acting quite a while ago. She’s 77 now. I’m sure she’s still hot. This remastered 4k trilogy is gonna be awesome, in the words of JD Sumner, “I can’t wait.”
Happy Friday
Shari – can you guess where I’m calling from?
“Small Town USA, we’re the folks next door, walk down any street, knock on any door.” You will see me standing in front of Russ Meyer’s house near the end of this video.