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Post by Billy A. Anderson on May 17, 2019 0:12:45 GMT -5
I'm going to begin this thread with one of my favorite music videos, which I hope others here will also like, then I'll get down to the nitty-gritty of a true Billy A Anderson Project, which all of you can know what to expect. I'm going to give you the works!
But, first enjoyi the video.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 13, 2019 4:02:00 GMT -5
Great old song. Does it somehow relate to the fabulous new secret Billy project somehow? Or cable TV?
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Post by Deeky on Jun 13, 2019 11:16:19 GMT -5
Oh lord.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 13, 2019 11:35:00 GMT -5
Great old song. Does it somehow relate to the fabulous new secret Billy project somehow? Or cable TV? Dr. Kobb, it just relates to my starting all over again with Cable TV, which is a very slow learning curve to used a tired cliche term. When two people know something it is not a secret, and right now, I can't remember the fabulous new secret Billy project, since there are so many of these, that never get carried out, or do get started but never are completed. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 13, 2019 11:42:32 GMT -5
I have had to go thru hundreds of channel numbers, and write them all down in a spiral bound notebook, of which I have so many, I often can't even find the notebook that I need.
I finally found out that I have to type in the number of a channel I want (often 4 digits) as fast as I can or the numbers don't stick, and hit enter very quickly or I can't get to the channel I want.
It is of course, easier when there are two channels but even then pushing the channel number buttons, and hitting enter as soon as possible, must be done very quickly also.
My main viewing channel is now 3, on the regular TV set tuner, although if I am making a recording as I did with The Beast With A Million Eyes, which was onn Comet TV, which Dave Szurek has told me a lot about, I have to tune the VHS recorder to receive channell 3 from the input from the digital TV cable converter to record the film, and then tune the tuner to a non numbered special channel of VHS output.
It's all very complicated.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 13, 2019 18:46:18 GMT -5
Well, I didn't press the record button hard enough on my worn out remote control so the film did not record, although it ran thru the vcr and onto the TV set, the same as if it has been recording.''
I'll have to be very careful the nextime the film is run, but it's not scheduled any time soon.
Do any of you who are familiar with the Comet nework know if the frequently rerun films?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 13, 2019 23:00:55 GMT -5
Have you found any bawdy channels, yet? I think they will send you a printed guide to the channels available if you ask them. Hey, you're doing better than my cheap, no-cable-havin' ass. I just sat around checking my phone for the past fifteen minutes to see who was winning game six of the NBA Finals. And it sucked. Although I'm happy for the Toronto Raptors.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 17, 2019 15:08:32 GMT -5
Well, I didn't press the record button hard enough on my worn out remote control so the film did not record, although it ran thru the VCR and onto the TV set, the same as if it had been recording.'' I'll have to be very careful the nextime the film is run, but it's not scheduled any time soon. Do any of you who are familiar with the Comet nework know if the frequently rerun films? Yeea for the Raptors! I'm sure that made it worth the phone calls. So far, have not checked any bawdy channels. I'm hoping I can get an original, uncut print of Summer Heat, because I know almost for sure the final scene, the best one in the film, was cut, and, anyone who has seen the film, probably would agree with me. Anyway, back to Cable TV. The fiasco I mentioned in the quote above, was my attempt at recording The Beast With A Million Eyes. Well, last night, I had forgotten that Tell It To the Marines, with Lon Chaney, considered one of his best, had a midnight scheduled showing. I remembered at 12:15 AM, and this time, I pressed the red record button, and checked the counter and the tape was moving and recording . . . NOTHING!!! Although the picture was coming thru on the TV screen, I had not set it to record from channel 3, the cable out put channel, so I got nothing but static. Well, the Next time will be on the re-run of CULT OF THE DAMNED, listed in the TCM schedule under its original title, ANGEL, ANGEL DOWN WE GO. I don't expect the title to be much different but being such a purist, I need to check it just out of curiosity. In the film, Tara the heavy set daughter of the super wealthy Astrid & Willy, thinks she didn't loose her cherry until she met Bogie, the Jim Morrison-Charles Manson type singer, but then some memories of her staying overnight with the maitre d' of the restaurant her parents left them with, when she was much younger, makes her think that a young boy, seen nude from the back, while he pees into a commode, might have actually been her first, when she was also about the same age, so no statuary rape, but I'm wondering if the boy's butt might be pixel censored in this showing. The odd thing is that back in the old days, seeing the bare butts of young boys was considered a cute thing to movie audiences (Geisha Boy, with Jerry Lewis, Lord of the Flies(not really cute in that one since it was a horror film), Jethro's Friend episode of Beverly Hillbillies, Edward Albert in the Fool Killer, a 15 year old post Dennis the Menace in Maya, considered a nice, wholesome family film in 1966, and, I'm sure many more that I have never seen). Yet I don't think you would see that kind of thing in films today, because it would be considered chicken hawk fodder. I have not seen the remake of Lord of the Flies, but reading the IMDB "parents guide" the boys in that film did wear their skivvies, instead of going nude as in the first version. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 17, 2019 15:15:39 GMT -5
Great old song. Does it somehow relate to the fabulous new secret Billy project somehow? Or cable TV? Dr. Kobb, I can't remember if I've got a "secret" project going now, or not. Maybe I'll remember it, if I do have one such project in progrress. 90% of my projects are so boring, that they wouldn't be in the lest bit of interest to anyone here on ZAQB. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 18, 2019 0:41:07 GMT -5
Well, I think I missed Angel, Angel, Down We Go on TCM. Went to the schedule and couldn't find it listed. Must have been shown sooner than I was expecting it to be shown.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 18, 2019 0:51:46 GMT -5
One of Billy's Fabulous, but not secret projects, is saving more of the posts from the old ZAQB.
I'm now using high capacity USBs, and putting as many files as I can save into text files, if the visual content is not significant.
I have really freed up a lot of space on some USBs, but of course, once I add more files with photo content, as will be the case with the old ZAQB files, which I have notes on what I want to save, but going thru those notes and actually saving the files (which I have made a good start on) will be time consuming.
I think I have been juggling my projects fairly well, taking care of as many as I can time permitting.
One project I've had on the back burner for a LOOONNNGG time is Tyler In the Shower.
I saved every one of the closed caption images, and I can say and have said before that they don't make any sense, and I don't think were what Tyler and the filmaker were actually saying to each other.
I know there are robots? androids? artificial intellegence machines? which listen to the dialog in films and transcribe them, and often the transcriptions are not accurate, as I feel is the case with Tyler In The Shower.
There is a very fascinating thread on CHFB on how innacurate these caption producing can be, and I hope to post a link to it here, and encourage you other ZAQBers to check it out, and be amused and amazed at how inaccurate the transcriptions can be.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 18, 2019 5:13:00 GMT -5
Well, I think I missed Angel, Angel, Down We Go on TCM. Went to the schedule and couldn't find it listed. Must have been shown sooner than I was expecting it to be shown. Looking at my DVR, I see I recorded it on the 12th. That's the kind of thing you'd normally expect to see late Friday nights on TCM. I wish I could help you out, Billy, but my DVR won't let me put stuff off of TCM onto disk any more. But they'll probably rerun it a couple of months down the line, so we can all keep our eyes open for you. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 18, 2019 10:22:54 GMT -5
That is OK, Marxo. Since I do have a DVD of the film and have watched it a lot, I really don't need to watch it again, except for the title, which I wondered what it looked like in the original first run.
I think it was fairly mild for an R-Rated film of its day, and none of the TV prints I have seen, even the one on USA TV in 1986 have seemed to have any cuts. Wish I had recorded and saved the 1986 USA TV showing.
Do you have any particular opinions on the film?
One reviewer called it a "Dress Rehearsal" for the career of John Waters.
It was a very strange and bizarre film, but really didn't succeed as the horror film the ad campaign promised.
The cute, catchy sounding songs almost made it into a musical film.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 22, 2019 16:15:56 GMT -5
Carrie was shown on Comet fairly recently, and has had a rerun or will have a rerun in the last few days or the next few days.
That his make my hopes go up with Beast With A Million Eyes, so I can see the whole thing beginning to endm and make sure it is recorded to VHS.
I signed up to get on the Comet emailing list and hopefully find out ahead of time when Beast will be re-run. So far, no email from Comet.
I will keep watcching their scheule, tho.
TCM, has a feature where you can name films you are interested in and be alertedd when they will be shown, but I have not checcked to see if thawt is free, or has a charge for it.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 22, 2019 16:24:28 GMT -5
Got the Hypno Video 70s Abduction Cinema issue in the mail today. Most of the films covered in it I have heard of, and I have seen two of them: The Sinful Dwarf, and Barn of the Naked Dead, both of which I rented, watched and made VHS copies of for Dave Szurek, who is on the list of people who wrote post office letters to Dr. Kobb.
Also, a DVD of Adultery for Fun and Profit, and, ironnically, in the intro to the Hypno zine, Dr. Kobb uses those 3 words, "fun and proit to describe the terrible villians in theses films.
Hope some more of you out there have seen more of the films, and can fill me in , and other ZAQBers who have not seen those 2 films. I suppose it's posible I"ve seen more than just the two I've mentiond, and/or possibly seen the trailers for some of the others.
I picked up a free copy of a VHS of Charade, with Carey Grand and Audrey Hepburn, and I'll put it in the VHS which the DVD output is fed thru, and start watching Adultery for Fun and Profit and Charade, said to be an Alfred Hitchcock film that Hitchcock Never made.
Many thanks to Dr. Bill for the package that arrived in the mailbox today.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 23, 2019 4:55:10 GMT -5
I haven't used the TCM alert thing in a while, because I pretty much check their schedule every day, but it used to be free.
Also, I'm almost certain I've seen The Sinful Dwarf, but I don't remember anything beyond the very vague about it. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 23, 2019 5:05:35 GMT -5
Sounds like you're having a veritable smorgasbord of movie viewing going on there at Casa del Anderson. Good luck figuring how to record from the cable. I am horrible at that sort of stuff. Yeah, the main mission was getting you that movie that you'd asked about eons ago. The zine just served as padding. I'd hoped to wrap up those Truman discs to go out in the mail next Thursday or Friday for you, but was in too much shock that my days off were already over, and just sat here staring into the abyss of a new work week. Maybe when I wake up later today.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 23, 2019 5:14:36 GMT -5
I haven't used the TCM alert thing in a while, because I pretty much check their schedule every day, but it used to be free.
Also, I'm almost certain I've seen The Sinful Dwarf, but I don't remember anything beyond the very vague about it.
Here's what I wrote about The Sinful Dwarf. El Santo's got a much more in-depth review on his website.
The Sinful Dwarf (1973)
And the award goes to Denmark for arguably the sickest flick of this installment of Hypno Video. Generally, I try to avoid movies I’ve already seen for this project, but a slot opened up after I discovered my print of “Savage Abduction” was shit. Enter Torben Bille as Olaf. Torben owns it as the twisted, despicable creature of the title. He and his equally depraved, alcoholic mother run a boarding house. To help with costs, they are perfectly keen with kidnapping young girls which they keep in a secret attic room above those of their renters. Clients arrive at all hours for time with the girls, who Mum keeps strung out on heroin so they’ll remain compliant. The problem is, the girls eventually require more doses, which cuts into their profits. Then Mum and Olaf need to find new girls to replace them.
Meanwhile, a young couple rent a room while the husband goes for interviews. The pretty blonde wife attracts the attention of both mother and dwarf, and they concoct a plan to make the woman the newest of their stable of attic sex slaves. That’s the gist of things, but it’s all the little touches that make this one of the most inspired sickies you’re ever likely to see. The mom and an old friend spend drunken afternoons reliving her glory days as “Lila Lash”, dressing up in her old cabaret outfits and singing badly. Olaf plays with wind-up toys and dolls when he’s not terrorizing the captive girls. The music (by Ole Orstead) is perfectly suited to the bizarro atmosphere. There’s a fat toy store owner named Santa who provides the drugs to keep the girls in line. In the end though, the chief credit goes to Torben for crafting one of the most frightening characters in horror history. His leering, perverted Olaf is the stuff of nightmares.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 23, 2019 12:56:41 GMT -5
Dr. Kobb, I'm sure you'll send the load of Truman DVDs at the right time. All Good Things Come to those who wait (or is that really true?), but I am willing to wait till the right time for you to send me the Truman DVDs.
Adultery for Fun and Profit got good reviews on IMDB but you have to use a certain path that I couldn't figure out last night to re-check the DVDs.
The "stud" who had sex with all those ladies for the divorce lawyer, with a photographer taking photos after the couples had intercourse, serviced five women, and in one case the Ole Bobby Goldsboro Lookin George Peters also had intercourse with a second lady for a foursome, the only sex scene George Peters had. The rest of the cast, ladies and gentlemen, were all faces and bodies I had never heard or seen before.
SPOILER ALERT!!!
At the end of the film, the 6 ladies the Stud had serviced, all demanded that he continue his servicing of them six days a week, with the seventh day, sunday, reserved for the divorce lawyer, and the Stud rather reluctantly consents to an out of frame, left to the imagination blow job from the divorce lawyer, ending the film a tad on the bi side.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Jun 23, 2019 13:00:28 GMT -5
I am now planning to watch Charade with Carey Grand and Audrey Hepburn, said to be the best Alfred Hitchcock film that Alfred Hitchcock never directed.
I've seen it before but don't remember much about it. Did watch the trailer, and it jogged my memory some that it had an early appearance of George Kennedy who I first took note of in the boxing match in Cool Hand Luke.
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