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The 50 Ft. Woman Meets the Colossal Man

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       In 1957 The Amazing Colossal Man  was released to the theaters. It was the story of military man Glenn Manning caught in a nuclear explosion at a Nevada test site. This, obviously, makes him grow to extraordinary size and he goes on a rampage. At the end of the movie, he falls off a dam apparently to his death, but a sequel came out a year later where he was disfigured and continues his rampage. What if he got a happier sequel?      In 1958 Allison Hayes played Nancy Archer, a woman who grows to incredible height after investigating an extraterrestrial craft that landed in the Southern California desert. Imagine if Nancy and Glenn met and realized they finally found someone who could understand them and stopped their destructive ways. Maybe they could get married at the Little Chapel in Las Vegas.
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Spinal Tap - Shark Sandwich 1980

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       I've used Spinal Tap before on this blog (Loving Large, The Fantastic 80s, The Singing Sixties and The Namesake Series of audiobooks) and to honour their new movie, I present SHARK SANDWICH, the album with the two word review. The front cover is the from the movie, the band photo was taken by Bob Gruen at CBGB's and the back illustration and design is by me.      To make a playlist I used "Sex Farm" from the This is Spinal Tap soundtrack and "Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare" which can be found on their Back From the Dead album. I also used two songs from other heavy metal parodies: "Drink Till I Die" by Bad News from the series The Comic Strip Presents and "Black Moon" by Strange Fruit as seen in the movie Still Crazy. Two more songs from actual 1980 albums: "Close Encounters" by Hilly Michaels and "Ear in the Snow" from Atomic Rooster (which once had Ric Parnell, of Spinal Tap, as a member. Two more songs sup...
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High Risk 1976 ABC tv series

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       I originally saw this pilot movie years ago and it stuck with me. Years later I tried to find the name of it using the actors names I remembered. With the help of the imdb I found the name was High Risk. I tried to find it on DVD but the search kept bringing up the 1981 movie with Lindsay Wagner and the Jameses, Brolin and Coburn. After many more years of searching I found on Amazon a DVD of High Risk starring Buono and Cameron, ordered it immediately and when it arrived it was the 1981 movie. Then a few months ago I checked YouTube yet again and found ffernan312 had recently uploaded it.      I figure if it had been turned into a series it would have storylines like a wife trying to help her wrongfully convicted husband, someone from Walker-T's past calls him about a problem and the group finding out their boss has been kidnaped. For anyone who has read this far, I have an offer: if enough people are interested, I will write one of those storie...
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Gimmicky Bands of the '70s (Saturday morning kid's show bands)

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      In the 1970s bands needed to have a "hook". They couldn't just be musicians, no, they had to be musicians who solved crimes, or had animal members, monsters, fairies, etc. Since I did fictional bands of the '60s and '80s, I decided to do something different with the '70s. The amount of pop music written for American kid's shows in the late sixties and seventies is staggering. Most of the "bands" I included had an album put out by labels like Decca and Capitol. The Josie and the Pussycats here is different from the one I had on this blog before. The cartoon was popular enough to release a record announcing, "now a real live group!". Cheryl Ladd was one of the members, then going by Cherie Moor. Gimmicky Bands of the 70s - YouTube
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Kickpuncher movies from the Community television series

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       Since the last fake movie I did was Cock Puncher it made sense to me that this one should Kick Puncher . It was a running joke on the NBC sitcom Community . It first showed up in season one's "Romantic Expressionism" as a bad movie that Abed and Troy like to watch and mock in a MST3K way. After that, further "sequels" were mentioned in later seasons.
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Rockpile - Twangin... 1981

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       I was away from the drawing board (and electricity) for a while, but I am back with another Rockpile album. This was patched together from Dave Edmunds' album Twangin...  and Nick Lowe's Nick the Knife . Twangin... was the last time he recorded with the other members of Rockpile: Billy Bremner and Terry Williams, plus Nick plays bass on most of the songs on Dave's record. From Twangin...  I used "(I'm Gonna Start) Living Again If It Kills Me", which Edmunds wrote with Lowe and Carlene Carter, "Three Time Loser", which Rockpile used to perform on stage, "It's Been So Long", "Almost Saturday Night" and "I'm Only Human" credited to Lowe and Rockpile as writers. Nick the Knife  provided "My Heart Hurts", "Raining Raining", "Ba Doom", "Stick It Where the Sun Don't Shine", "Let Me Kiss You" and "Burning". Rockpile - Twangin... - YouTube
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Cockpuncher starring Steven Seagal

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       I never thought of Steven Seagal as being someone with a sense of humor. Those of you who have seen the Saturday Night Live he hosted probably agree. That's why I was surprised while watching The Onion Movie  when a fake action trailer started and Seagal showed up wonderfully spoofing himself. I felt this should be a movie from an alternate reality. "Cockpuncher" (2008) Trailer - Steven Seagal
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