Pop Culture from an Alternate Dimension

      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

       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.

       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

       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