Monday, August 9, 2021

Return Of The Son Of Bride Of The Curse Of The Kaftan Dept. - The Unspoken Word

Older readers - that's you, boomerface - may remember the award-winning and influential FoamFeature© The Curse Of The Kaftan, which chronicled the late 'sixties transition many groups made from day-glo paisley to sepia workshirts. I was getting my fingernails dirty down in the crawlspace today - the vast sump of downloaded but unpacked albums - and I dug up a perfect example hithertofore unbeknownst to me. The Unspoken Word were from Long Island, which is in Central Park ?research pse. [eat penis paste - Ed.]. Their first album from '68 is about three vagillion times better than the totally unrepresentative cover. It's beautiful, melodic, haunting baroque folk rock with frayed psych edges. If you like Chrysalis, Michaelangelo, that-type music, you'll do a double back flip for this. Plus also, trout stream clear production (man)!

Anyway, they got tired of being taunted and lampooned by the Long Island roughnecks for playing this bookish, drawingroom stuff and re-invented themselves in 1970 as a hard-rockin' combo. The surprise is that they do it so well. There's a couple tracks I never want to hear again (overwrought vox, the bane of the genre) but it's a swell listen. Like, digsville!

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35 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 9, 2021 at 5:09 PM

    Let's have a mass debate about movies you watch again and again. And again. It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World is mine. It gets better the more you appreciate how great the performances are. The script isn't exactly full of gags or wit, it's the actors getting totally immersed into the stupid stuff that happens. Sid Caesar is a man possessed. Also too, technically the movie's jawdropping. Gorgeous color, hallucinogenic sound work. I'll stop here.

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    1. FiveGunsWestAugust 9, 2021 at 5:17 PM

      pmac does houston....."not a dry seat in the house" - JKC You have to see this film in tiny theaters. Only one seat and keep pumping in tokens....but the dialogue, the sumptuous lack of costumes. The primitive wailing atavistic resurgence. Pink dirigibles chasing everyone. It's an allegory for life.

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    2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 9, 2021 at 5:45 PM

      Fans of FGW will be delighted to learn that his cherry-popping piece for th' IoF© will be up in a day or two.

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    3. SteveSharkAugust 9, 2021 at 5:52 PM

      Similar zany and madcap stuff - "The Great Race" with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and the beautiful Natalie Wood.

      Close runner up - Spielberg's unduly maligned "1941".

      Honorable third place - "Freddy Got Fingered".




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    4. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 9, 2021 at 7:06 PM

      Hmm. I wondered if I'd unfairly maligned 1941, so I'm downloading it to reassess. Will report back.

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    5. BabsAugust 9, 2021 at 7:09 PM

      "Broadway Danny Rose", "Being There" and "The Horse's Mouth" which is my favorite Alec Guinness film, and inexplicably not well known

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    6. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 10, 2021 at 8:26 AM

      The US remake of that Guinness movie was renamed "The Horse's Ass" and starred Carrot Top.

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    7. BabsAugust 10, 2021 at 6:57 PM

      You're funny.

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    8. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 10, 2021 at 7:31 PM

      Which is more than can be said of 1941. Having just fidgeted through the first twenty minutes (again), I remember why I fairly maligned it on release - there is no plot. Compare and contrast the first twenty minutes of Mad Mad Mad Mad World, which is the perfect first act for the story that follows - we get why the characters have been drawn together, and what they have to do. What I'm getting from the first act of 1941 is some guy wants to go to a dance contest.

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    9. SteveSharkAugust 10, 2021 at 11:21 PM

      It does improve...honest!

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    10. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 11, 2021 at 4:45 AM

      It may improve over the years - like wine - but it doesn't improve during the run-time of the movie. The writers admit to thinking of a bunch of scenes without worrying about their place in a story, and ignoring character development. This is obvious, unfortunately. It's gained an appreciative audience who enjoy it for what it is, but after watching the extended edition last night, I'm still not among them! (Freddy Got Fingered up next!)

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  2. rickAugust 9, 2021 at 6:26 PM

    I go back often to '' A lone star state of mind''with DJ Quall https://www.imdb.com/video/vi732627225?playlistId=tt0269483&ref_=vp_rv_0

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  3. Bell-eyeAugust 9, 2021 at 10:05 PM

    Any movie with Slim Pickens in the cast rates 2 thumbs up on the Bell-eye scale, 1941 included.

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  4. MrDaveAugust 10, 2021 at 12:49 AM

    So much decent music ruined by overwrought male vocalists! I'm not one for re-watching things for whatever reason. I mean there's a few movies I've seen more than once but usually less frequently than every 10 years or so :/

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 10, 2021 at 7:23 AM

      I didn't specify male - there are many, many examples of females overwroughting their vocals - some on the second of today's albums.

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  5. One Buck GuyAugust 10, 2021 at 4:10 AM

    Almost Famous

    But only the 'Untitled' (director's) cut which is the only way to correctly watch that movie.

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  6. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 10, 2021 at 4:36 AM

    Here's th' tunes, should any of youse bums be musically inclined: unbespoke





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  7. HDAugust 10, 2021 at 6:47 AM

    For me, "Truly Madly Deeply" is a mix of romance, comedy, death, and music that I return to often. I still like "Harold and Maude", the music having much to do with that, of course. I'm about due to locate "McCabe and Mrs. Miller" again, too.

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    1. Hazy DaveAugust 11, 2021 at 5:48 AM

      This is me, BTW. I don't know why that other computer does that. Well, I have an idea. Anyhoo, I think "Truly Madly Deeply" was called "Cello" in the UK cuz Alan Rickman plays one innit.

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    2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 11, 2021 at 6:25 AM

      Sayy ... lemme get this straight ... HD is Hazy Dave, But Hazy Dave is BTW? I is gettin' confusedipated! [*wheezy old-timer chuckle*]

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  8. FiveGunsWestAugust 10, 2021 at 8:15 AM

    I, along with everyone else on this film were being sued by Disney for filming most of the flick inside Disneyworld illegally. (Escape From Tomorrow) My share of the work....building a 36 foot tall Epcot center and then blowing it up took place in downtown LA. Mo and I created the black and white poster of the women who flies around on the set. You have to dig pretty deep to see my credit...scroll down to art department and you'll see me, mr. set painter. We swept Sundance, made the NYT and many other papers. At the debut I, and the art department folks were interviewed by the audience. When asked what was the best part I responded with NOT BEING SUED> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2187884/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm This was my living for a long time.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 10, 2021 at 9:11 AM

      Be sure to pick up a signed FiveGunsWest poster from the FoamStore© on your way out!

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    2. MrDaveAugust 10, 2021 at 8:09 PM

      Nice try, "mr. set painter"! I looked and there ain't none such guy listed. Probably best to stay semi-anonymous anyway. But that looks f'n rad dude! Can't believe you guys got away with filming that in the park. Anyway, nice work mr. set painter! (phfft).

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    3. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 11, 2021 at 6:27 AM

      I just checked - FGW speaks the truth - he's listed in the credits, so credit where credit is due, MrDave!

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    4. MrDaveAugust 11, 2021 at 6:43 AM

      "painter" maybe but he's certainly no "Mr"! I worked hard to earn that coveted honorific

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    5. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 11, 2021 at 7:32 AM

      I'm sure FGW accepts your gracious apology, "Mr"Dave!

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  9. iamjethroAugust 10, 2021 at 9:09 AM

    Unwritten rule says any time I pass a channel showing "Support Your Local Sheriff" I have to stop anything I am doing and watch until the end. My wife has threatened divorce and death (which would negate the need for a divorce, I suppose) several times due to my compulsion.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 10, 2021 at 9:30 AM

      Even if I was married to Carly Simon at the top of her game and she gave me a choice between hittin' th' hay with her again for the fifth goddamn time that afternoon OR settlin' back in my La-Z-Boy© with a tub of slaw an' some Root Beer to watch Support Your Local Sherriff for the vagillionth time I'd ... I'd ... waittaminute ...

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  10. BambiAugust 10, 2021 at 8:12 PM

    Movies I watch again and again, only really Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now!
    However as a white British male, I can highly recommend Lovers Rock, a British film made only a few years ago about a house party in 1980's London. It gives the viewer an insight into what it might have been like to be at a 'blues' party in a black part of London, from the preparation of the party to the dancing, violence and fun - the music is great if you like reggae. It's just over an hour long, and if you have a VPN can be found on the BBC i-player - no need for the VPN in UK.

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  11. BambiAugust 10, 2021 at 8:15 PM

    Re: Lovers' Rock above, see if you can get your nephew or carer to score you some 'weed' for when you watch it.

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  12. Eric S.August 10, 2021 at 11:02 PM

    switching gears and genres and overwhelmed with the arrival of the first grandkid, howzabout "Stalag 17." Fucks me up every time I watch it.

    OTOH, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum..." slayed me at 14.

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  13. geAugust 11, 2021 at 11:40 AM

    Performance
    Gunga Din
    Kenneth Anger LUCIFER RISING, INAUGURATION OF THE PLEASURE DOME
    The Reivers
    Ciao Manhattan
    The Wild Bunch
    Altman LONG GOODBYE, MCCABE etc
    [last 2 directors born a day apart, me in the middle]

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  14. Farquhar Throckmorton IIIAugust 11, 2021 at 7:15 PM

    Before these comments is consigned to th' anals of history, I have to yak about The Blues Brothers, which I've seen a vagillion times and which never gets old, unlike me. In addition to having a real story and real characters (and using real musicians to play themselves was a stroke of genius) it has the best soundtrack music, the best action sequences, and a few of the funniest gags. I always lol out loud at Jake and Elwood getting whipped by the nun and/for shouting "Jesus Christ!" Great location filming, great everything, plus the majestically cool Steve Cropper having a fine time. Cue it up one more time!

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  15. PsychfanAugust 12, 2021 at 9:54 AM

    The Road Warrior: Low budget, but fantastic stunt work, great (if simple) visual design and the best film editing known to Man. One of the best action movies ever.

    King Kong: From 1933 and the most artistically successful CGI movie ever (and made before the existence of CGI!).

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