Smut Peddler

A Great Curio From A Long And Curious Career

Orson Welles' Voodoo Macbeth

Is it hot in here, or is it just MUMMY?

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The Most Dangerous Game

Thanks to a fine, and fine smelling, friend at Horseshoes and Handgrenades, there's finally some documentation of the bar stool sensation that's sweeping the nation: Yetsko Photohunt Challenge. The premise is quite easy, find a bar with a photohunt terminal, saddle up to that lonely corner and begin to play, drink, play, drink, play, drink, drink, play through your day. At some point you should reach the high score (it's pretty simple to lay waste to the mediocre tallies of drunks that aren't you), and when you do, enter Y-E-T-S-K-O in the champeen's place. Like the mighty Zoro's brand, Yetsko's name is symbolic of a player's peak physical skill, quick wit, devilish good looks and devastating charm. It also means you can give over countless hours to sitting, drinking and staring at a box. Best of luck.

Passing Attractions #2

Film: Mystery Train (Jim Jarmusch, 1989) Poster Art: Andrezj Klimowski

Favorite Literary Characters #2

Cthulhu

Irony Like a Fatted Calf

2Clever by half.

Amazin' Logos #2

The Denver Bears (1955-62, 1969-82)

Morricone's Heart of Darkness

Here's the theme to Brian DePalma's Casualties of War (1989). This is the second time Morricone and DePalma had worked together, their first being on The Untouchables a couple of years earlier. This composition definitely falls into later period Morricone; a cleaner, more traditional approach to film scoring. Thankfully, there's nothing so treacly or bombastic as the work being done by his contemporaries (and those favored byDePalma's cohort): James Horner and John Williams. Here, the music is lean, yet atmospheric, moving away from his earlier expressionistic style and toward impressionism. The mood is regretful, hesitant, and I'd even say a little pious--reflecting the themes and tone of the film and its very Lutheran protagonist.

More-icone

'The Ecstasy of Gold" from Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo (Leone, 1966)

Favorite Literary Characters #1

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster

Carshow Gunfight Celebrates Ennio Morricone

For the next week I'm going to post trailers and clips featuring favorite selections from Ennio Morricone's film work. (Well, what I can find. I have yet to come across any decent, stand alone sequences from Exorcist II or John Carpenter's The Thing). I hope to do a little writing on the subject, as well... time allowing. I'm gonna do myself a disservice and post what might be my second favorite piece, from the opening credit sequence from La Resa dei conti* (Sollima, 1966), Run, Man Run. Music by the Maestro and lyrics by Audrey Nohra.


*That's The Big Gundown to you and me, pardner.

Bile* Them Cabbage Down

*pronounced "boil"


Went up on the mountain
Just to give my horn a blow
Thought I heard my true love say
Yonder comes my beau

Bile them cabbage down
Turn them hoecakes brown
The only song that I can sing
Is bile them cabbage down

Possum in a simmon tree
Raccoon on the ground
Raccoon says you son-of-a-gun
Shake some Simmons down

CHORUS

Someone stole my old 'coon dog
Wish they'd bring him back
He chase the big hogs through the fence
And the little ones through the crack

CHORUS