V01I14 - 11081998
No, you don't have a new place to put your frosty beverages, the critically-acclaimed young trio from South London, FRIDGE are the latest to join our roster. If you want to send a picture of your fridge, we'll be happy to put them up on our fridges.
In US politics, WWF Wrestler Jesse Ventura has won the Governor's race in Minnesota, proving this: a man who wears tights for a living must be used to not hiding anything...
HELL IS FREEZING
In music news, Vanilla Ice has a new album out. How did this clown get a record deal? Well, wonder no more as the title of the new album says it all, "Too Hard to Swallow".
IN BRIEF
Finally out in the USA through The Music Cartel, this collection put together from Signs of Chaos and Scanner culmonates 21 tracks from various friends and musical artists who have had some involvement at Scanner's "Electronic Lounge" installments in London. This CD collection features tracks from Techno Animal, Panasonic, To Rocco Rot, along with Scanner and Signs of Chaos. 21 tracks, mixed up very nicely, and you have yourself a great electronic lounge party with all your friends. - Jon WhitneyAs always, check out the latest update of NEW RELEASES brought to you by Greg and Feedback Monitor.
REVIEWED
Finally, Hong Kong action hits American television. Sammo Hung, best known in Hong Kong for his action-comedies he has starred and directed in, seems an unlikely hero. Even at his slimmest, he seems too fat to move as quick as he does. But he does. And then some. One of the Seven Little Fortunes to come from Hong Kong's Peking opera (other fortunes include Yeun Biao, Corey Yeun and the well-known Jackie Chan), he's been doing it all for a while. The TV show has some sort of premise that was just lost to me, as well as the plot. Basically, Sammo Hung's character, Sammo Law, comes to America (LA specifically), teams up with some other cops and gets into fights. Or something. But who needs plot when you have Sammo Hung jumping, kicking and punching the bad guys into oblivion. They even had outakes from the action scenes ala Jackie Chan, so you could tell it was Sammo doing his own stunts. I don't know about the rest of the series, but the first episode was directed by Hong Kong director Stanley Tong (Rumble in the Bronx, Supercop). Saturday nights at 9 EST on CBS. or ABC, I forget. - Thomas Guttadauro
REVIEWED
Neil LaBute had managed to get a dull movie with one to two dimensional characters being sexual predators past audiences once, and God bless him, he's done it again. Bad acting, weak script, implausible situations. Bad, bad bad Neil LaBute, I'm wishing you to the cornfields. And would someone just find a way to keep Ben Stiller out of my media. I'd rather Gen X get portrayed as a bunch of dumb slackers than smug, self-absorbed artistes and businessmen. Does anyone know someone who acts like a character from this movie or In The Company of Men? Or do we just assume they exist? - Thomas Guttadauro
STAY AWAY FROM GLAM
1/2 Eddie and the Cruisers, 1/2 Ziggy Startust, and all crap, Velvet Goldmine really sucks. It starts off in an odd direction with hints of Oscar Wilde, and a fictitious story based closely on David Bowie and Iggy Pop, this movie falls short of being worth $7.50. Some people shouldn't be allowed to make movies and some actors should not be allowed to play David Bowie. I'm also starting to wonder if Ewan McGregor has to have a penis shot in every movie. How will they write that one into the Star Wars films? Save your time. - Jon Whitney
Subject: Unified Twinklers of America
Please contact Blair from Still. He knows how to twinkle and sparkle.
Read books by Edward Abbey. Visit the "ideal palace" in france. Trace
your ancestry to the most recent savage. Twinkle. Massive sparkling.
Did I miss something?
Subject: MPEG sound stuff
Hiya thanks for the MeatBeat MP3 tracks. I was pissed off by the last release, so a pre-listen was a help.
In case you didn't know you can make the sounds stream, so that people can hear them without downloading them first. All you do is squish them down to 24Kbs and set up a MIME type that equates the extension MP3 with 'audio/mpeg'. That way, a program like WinAmp plays the music direct from your server. The sound isn't too bad quality.
We've done it over at http://anonradio.sevcom.com if you want to check out the results. Thanks again.
Whoa, Severed Heads are watching! Neato...
OF THE
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Who can stop the Lord of the Dance??? NOBODY! www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/5710/LordOfTheDance/Lord.html.
SPACE AND BEYOND
First pitched to Jim Henson back in the 70s, he turned it down for his own "Pigs in Space," now, after over 20 years, Fags in Space has returned at www.fagsinspace.com.
YOUR TOASTER
OVEN?
a cinnamon roll
a two-slice light colored Kraft American Cheese sandwich with Wonder Bread
an English Muffin
a pair of wet sneakers
Spice Girls 'Shrinky-dinks'
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