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If you want to see a good movie this weekend, you might wanna watch Russ Meyer’s 1979 epic, Beneath the Valley of the UltraVixens. Not only is it one of the best movies ever made. It has the best opening sequence of any movie ever made. If you’re a cheapskate like me you can even watch it for free at the Internet Archive website here’s the link Recently the movie and some others have been restored by Severin Films. If you can find a 4K version I highly recommend it.
Other than that, I don’t have any other activities that I would suggest. The news is shit. The NYPost has some story on the front page about DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and the cartoon show South Park making fun of her. I have no idea why people watch South Park in the first place. I don’t find it funny, amusing, entertaining, or relevant. It’s seems turbo gay to me. I simply don’t get it.
As of 10.30 this morning almost 50 thousand people had read the story. I wasn’t one of them. Similarly I don’t get the obsession over Sydney Sweeny. I don’t know who this girl is other than she sells jeans and people are calling her a Nazi for some reason. I don’t get a lot of things. I don’t get these fakakta podcasters that everyone is obsessed with. Alex Jones, Charlie whatsisname, Tim Poole, Nick Fuentes, whoever. There’s a million of ’em. Influencers are they? They don’t influence me at all, other than to avoid them.
Next weekend the Far Out alumni are getting together for a musical afternoon. My long time friend Randy Bulpin is coming in from Vermont, Gary Ferraro on bass and Patrick Kelly on drums. The other drummer flaked out on us. What’s with drummers? It’s a sickness.
Lola Langusta – Hotter than a Mexican’s lunch
Anyway, I’m gonna keep this short. If you can watch Beneath the Valley, you can thank me later. Roger Ebert co wrote the script with Russ. They are credited as R Hyde and B Callum. Russ Meyer made the film for $300,000. He said he kept the cost down by doing “everything to scale. “You edit it yourself, you co-write it, you co-score it, you’re your own cameraman, producer, director, and you cast the picture. You shoot it in the front room of your house. I bought a house that had a 28-foot ceiling, and we built the sets in the house, because it was scaled in such a way. I wanted to photograph it myself, because it was a kind of umbilical cord, to see what was happening before you said, “Print it”.”
100,000 watts of faith healing power
It’s fairly certain if you added a zero to the production costs you’d come up with a box office receipts number. Russ’ films made him a lot of money.
So today’s lesson is do it yourself my friends, and profit.
Happy Friday