Monthly Archives: August 2013

It’s getting better all the time.

Posted on August 29, 2013 by phb256

Jim and I were talking about how we were going to divide up our parts of leading the class. One of the ideas we came up with was a collaborative Google Doc where we could both write down our thoughts … Continue reading →

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“Let’s go do some crimes.” *

Posted on August 27, 2013 by phb256

The True Crime class Jim Groom and I have been working on starts tomorrow, and I’m pretty excited about it. The topic is so compelling – who doesn’t love a good story of violence and corruption and crime and justice? But it … Continue reading →

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Icecast

Posted on August 26, 2013 by phb256

Ice T has had quite the career trajectory – from rapping about LA gang life to playing a gang leader in films to singing about killing police to playing a cop on TV. There’s a crime aspect at every stage. … Continue reading →

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All’s well that ends well

Posted on August 22, 2013 by phb256

I had never seen Twitch of the Death Nerve before. I guess I just figured I had outgrown Friday the 13th type movies, so I never put it in my Netflix queue. After the opening credits, we hear a fly … Continue reading →

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TV on the radio on the web

Posted on August 18, 2013 by phb256

This week’s Crime Time started out, as always, with our Gila Copter theme from the Revolting Cocks. Alert listener @onepercentyello pointed out that the main voice on the track belongs to Timothy Leary. I should have known that, but I … Continue reading →

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Fumetti and mirrors

Posted on August 15, 2013 by phb256

Danger: Diabolik was Bava’s first and only big budget film. He had been used to making $50,000 films. Here, Dino De Laurentiis gave him $3 million to work with. Bava left $2.6 million on the table. Since his forte had long been … Continue reading →

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Art Imitating Art

Posted on August 15, 2013 by phb256

As I watched Danger: Diabolik, I thought that hitchhiking scene looked very similar to something from a Heavy Metal comic strip from my degenerate youth. Not a direct copy, but a similar idea. Today I was fortunate to get a … Continue reading →

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Dangle

Posted on August 13, 2013 by phb256

For this week’s Crime Time Radio, I was going to go with a crime and punishment theme, but I ended up taking a song of hanging, Led Zeppelin’s Gallows Pole, and looking at its ancestry and variants. It’s commonly traced … Continue reading →

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Friday Morning Bava Breakfast

Posted on August 9, 2013 by phb256

We had a morning edition of the BavaFilmFest today, discussing Kill, Baby… Kill!. I said a little about the Hitchcock connection before, but today Jim brought up similarities to The Shining which hadn’t even occurred to me, being as dense as … Continue reading →

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Push the little daisies and make them come up

Posted on August 9, 2013 by phb256

Our friend Talky Tina challenged us to make something nicer with flowers. I thought this lonely garbage can could use some brightening up. A few flower decals should help. Now it looks much happier, don’t you think?

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