Check out this video, shot by Chad Martens, of Monica and me dancing to the "Batman" theme as performed by The Deadlies at Thrillville's Halloween Gore 'n' Snorefest, Balboa Theater, San Francisco last month. The "guest dancer" on the screen is from Ed Wood's Orgy of the Dead. As a bonus, below it is the same song by the great band Lemon. Dig. Cheers.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Thrillville returns to Oakland for BLACK DYNAMITE!
UPDATE 11/9: MICHAEL JAI WHITE (aka BLACK DYNAMITE himself) AND DIRECTOR SCOTT SANDERS WILL APPEAR AT BOTH SCREENINGS!My pals Kahlil Karn and Keith Arnold of the Oakland Underground Film Festival have asked Monica Tiki Goddess and myself to host the local premiere of the all new 70s-style blaxploitation instant cult classic BLACK DYNAMITE at the Gr
and Lake Theater in Oakland - just around Lake Merritt from the Parkway, where Thrillville was born over 12 years ago. This will mark Thrillville's first East Bay gig since Speakeasy Theaters folded earlier this year, and this is a perfect comeback - teaming with a true Oaktown grassroots or
ganization to present a highly faithful throwback to the funky, glorious grindhouse era of Dolemite, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Shaft, Super Fly, Slaughter, The Mack, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Truck Turner, most of which I've shown at the Parkway. The trailer for this flick is positively outta sight - hope to see ALL you suckas Saturday, November 21 @ midnite! (NOTE: Black Dynamite also plays the Castro Theater in San Francisco the previous night, Friday, November 20 @ midnite, sans Thrillville.) Cheers.
and Lake Theater in Oakland - just around Lake Merritt from the Parkway, where Thrillville was born over 12 years ago. This will mark Thrillville's first East Bay gig since Speakeasy Theaters folded earlier this year, and this is a perfect comeback - teaming with a true Oaktown grassroots or
ganization to present a highly faithful throwback to the funky, glorious grindhouse era of Dolemite, Coffy, Foxy Brown, Shaft, Super Fly, Slaughter, The Mack, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and Truck Turner, most of which I've shown at the Parkway. The trailer for this flick is positively outta sight - hope to see ALL you suckas Saturday, November 21 @ midnite! (NOTE: Black Dynamite also plays the Castro Theater in San Francisco the previous night, Friday, November 20 @ midnite, sans Thrillville.) Cheers.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Hella Hulaween Trix 'n' Pix
Actual Rafiq at the Camera 3...distracted?
The Deadlies rock out at the Balboa
Lady Monster lights up the Balboa!
Halloween '09 was quite an endurance test. This was the year both Bob Wilkins and Ray Dennis Steckler died on the same day, and the Parkway and Cerrito Theaters both closed. This was also the first year since 2001 we didn't do a Halloween show up at the
now defunct Copia in Napa. Still, the Thrillville road shows rolled on, with Thrillville's Halloween Gore 'n' Snorefest at both the Camera 3 Cinema in San Jose (with special musical guest Actual Rafiq) and at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco (with special musical guests The Deadlies and live fire-tassel tossin' by Lady Monster.) Both shows attracted modest-sized but highly enthusiastic audiences and attracted some good press (San Jose Metro articles here and here, hilarious review in the San Jose campus paper here.) Then on Halloween itself, I MC'd the spectacularly successful Hulaween Party at Forbidden Island in Alameda, packed to the rafters with costumed revelers, with live theremin by frequent Thrillville guest Robert Silverman. My date was my wife Monica Tiki Goddess as "Joan Holloway" from Mad Men - and I was Sonny Miami Vice Crockett for the first time since the show was actually on the air, over twenty years ago! The bar crew dressed up as Charlie's Angels. It was quite a classic TV monster mash-up. All in all, Halloween this year was memorable, despite the many setbacks, including the ill-timed Bay Bridge closure. It was fun, but I'm glad it's over. Here's to 2010. Cheers!
now defunct Copia in Napa. Still, the Thrillville road shows rolled on, with Thrillville's Halloween Gore 'n' Snorefest at both the Camera 3 Cinema in San Jose (with special musical guest Actual Rafiq) and at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco (with special musical guests The Deadlies and live fire-tassel tossin' by Lady Monster.) Both shows attracted modest-sized but highly enthusiastic audiences and attracted some good press (San Jose Metro articles here and here, hilarious review in the San Jose campus paper here.) Then on Halloween itself, I MC'd the spectacularly successful Hulaween Party at Forbidden Island in Alameda, packed to the rafters with costumed revelers, with live theremin by frequent Thrillville guest Robert Silverman. My date was my wife Monica Tiki Goddess as "Joan Holloway" from Mad Men - and I was Sonny Miami Vice Crockett for the first time since the show was actually on the air, over twenty years ago! The bar crew dressed up as Charlie's Angels. It was quite a classic TV monster mash-up. All in all, Halloween this year was memorable, despite the many setbacks, including the ill-timed Bay Bridge closure. It was fun, but I'm glad it's over. Here's to 2010. Cheers!
Monica ("Joan") with Robert and Deb Silverman
It was so busy at Forbidden Island, "Joan" pitched in behind the bar!
Joan Holloway meets Don - Johnson, not Draper
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