CBEB’s

Not that there’s any short supply of Tard at the moment, but I’ve been wanting to expand the focus of this blog a little bit and after writing about Sherry Shriner, Denyse O’Leary and Timothy Birdnow all in the space of less than a week, I could use a healthy diversion.

Here’s some random Top 5 lists for your reading enjoyment…

Top 5 Favorite Movies:

1. The Third Man
2. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Robocop
4. Fritz Lang’s M
5. Goodfellas

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Yesterday over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars Ed Brayton had a huge post of videos from the US Festival. There was a pretty healthy selection, but Ed noted that the US Festival was where Motley Crüe frontman Vince Neil proclaimed the death of New Wave. Maybe Vince was right, but in my opinion, New Wave left a mighty fine looking corpse. Let’s commemorate the death of New Wave with a massive post of clips from Urgh! A Music War. This was a great movie - it sounds like they caught every single band on their best night. It’s a shame that this will probably never get an official DVD release, because according to Wikipedia, the filmmakers filmed three songs by each band, but it looks like we’ll never get to see the other songs.

Kicking things off is Skafish with a great song for church burnin’ and ebola spreadin’, “Sign of the Cross”.
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There’s 9 more videos below the fold.
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This is a recycled feature from my old blog. Since I was planning on adding this clip to the Video page, I figured I’d revive High Points in Lowbrow Cinema over here.

This is the classic “John Wayne” scene from the 1984 Alex Cox film, Repo Man. Dig Robby Müller’s outstanding cinematography.
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