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Over one hour of Mike Patton’s finest moments taken from his plethora of magnificent bands.

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Tracklisting is as follows: (Song/Artist/ Album)

1: ‘Kickin” : Mike Patton (Crank 2 Soundtrack)
2: ‘Anger Management‘ : Lovage (Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By)
3: ‘Mojo feat Rahzel and Dan The Automator‘ : Peeping Tom (Peeping Tom)
4: ‘L.O.L. (Loser On Line)‘ : X-Ecutioners (General Patton Vs The X-Ecutioners)
5: ‘God Hates A Coward‘ : Tomahawak (Tomahawk)
6: ‘Spider Baby‘ : Fantomas (The Director’s Cut)
7: ‘Midlife Crisis‘ : Faith No More (Angel Dust)
8: ‘Pig Latin‘ : The Dillinger Escape Plan (Irony Is A Dead Scene)
9: ‘Labsent‘ : Kaada (Romances)
10: ‘Carousel‘ : Mr Bungle (Mr Bungle)
11: ‘G.I. Joe‘ : The Melvins (The Crybaby)
12: ‘Porno Holocaust‘ : Mike Patton (Adult Themes For Voice)
13: ‘Desert Search For Techno Allah‘ Mr Bungle : (Disco Violante)
14: ‘Chariot Choogle‘ : Mike Patton (Collected Psyche)
15: ‘The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies‘ : Faith No More (Live at Download 2009)
16: ‘4/10/05‘ : Fantomas (Suspended Animation)
17: ‘The Omen (Ave Satani)‘ : Fantomas (The Director’s Cut)
18: ‘Surprise! You’re Dead‘ : Faith No More (The Real Thing)
19: ‘This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us‘ Mike Patton (Collected Psyche)
20: ‘Ashes To Ashes‘ : Faith No More (Album Of The Year)
21: ‘Come To Daddy‘ The Dillinger Escape Plan (Irony Is A Dead Scene)
22: ‘I Started A Joke‘ : Faith No More (Is This It? – Their Greatest Hits)

All the talk of nostaligia this morning got me to thinking, what was the most significant Saturday morning kids show for me? Remember when all cartoons were linked by a show that would go on from approximately 9.25am until well after noon? I was looking for this to add to the collection earlier, but with no success. Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you ‘Round The Bend‘

Ok, so this is the cover of the ZX Spectrum video cassette, but have you any idea how difficult it is to find anything to do with Round The Bend? I can’t express just how much of an influence this show was on me during my formative years, with its toilet based shennanigans leaving me doubled up in knots every saturday morning as a carefree 8 year old.

In what was essentially Spitting Image for kids, this was a peurile, disgusting, foul show, which I couldn’t have loved more. Very few people in my class watched it, but I remember how excited I would be when it was on. The parodies of popular cartoons such as ‘Wee Man & The Masters of the Loo-niverse’ were not too far removed from Viz material.

With pretty much everything that was ever filmed in the world ever now available on the internet, I have never been able to find more than a few minor clips of this. If ANYONE has video recordings of this, please get in contact with me! I’m sure that we can sort something out.

Round the Bend was a real one off, it never underestimated kids and hit our screens just before all kids TV became banal, ‘extreme’ shite with lots of squealing and shiny paedophiles. It was filthy, rotten and a terrible influence, which was exactly what kids want.

It was replaced in 1989 by the hugely inferior Ghost Train, which whilst trying pretty hard (and we liked Nobby The Sheep), could never live up to the legacy that Doc Croc and companions left behind.

I’m up earlier than anyone else in the house. I have several kinds of cereal. I’m working on a new comic this morning. What better way to accompany all of this and regress to a state of childlike glee and sugar induced hyperactivity than a plethora of awesome cartoons? No better way baby, and you better belive it!

How about we start with an episode of ‘The Real Ghostbusters‘ as opposed to the other ‘Ghostbusters‘, which had a monkey in it.

Follow that up nicely with the pilot episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (or ‘Hero’ Turtles, if you lived in Ireland or the UK, we caouldn’t handle ninjas in the nineties, that may have implied that they were foreign).

And becasue we all love the soothing vocal talents of Lorenzo Music so much, here’s an old episode of Garfield & Friends.

Happy Saturday Peoples!

It’s Friday, which means that it’s time for the weekly installment of the zombiehamster.com mixtapes. The previous ones have been great fun and thanks to everyone who downloaded them. This week sees a change in direction as I had initially promised. I’ll be keeping you on your toes with these.

Mixtape #3 contains some of my favourite Rockabilly, Surf and Soul tracks from the 50’s and 60’s. There’s some oddities, some rarities and some classics to ensure that no matter how familiar you are with this, you’ll certainly get a kick out of it and hopefully discover a few new favourites for yourself.

There is something amazing and fantastical about this era of music. It sounds fresher and more impassioned to me than 90% of the contemporary records that I hear. May it bring you similar joy.

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Tracklisting is as follows. As some of these songs are 45′ vinyl rips, I will not include the album title for each one.

1: ‘Rumble‘ – Jack Nitzsche

2: ‘Jack The Ripper‘ - Link Wray

3: ‘Red Hot‘ – Billy Lee Riley

4: ‘Crazy Beat‘ - Gene Vincent

5: ‘Run, Chicken, Run‘ – The Memphis Rockabilly Band

6: ‘The Lonely Dragster‘ – The Bobby Fuller Four

7: ‘Underwater‘ – The Frogmen

8: ‘Mr Moto‘ - The Belairs

9: ‘Sophisticated Sissy’ – The Meters

10: ‘Rock N’ Roll Radio‘ – Joe Boot & The Fabulous Winds

11: ‘Teenbeat‘ – Sandy Nelson

12: ‘Bengazi‘ – Insect Surfers

13: ‘Ah, Poor Little Baby‘ – Billy ‘Crash’ Craddock

14: ‘Penetration‘ – Blue Hawaiians

15: ‘A Shot In The Dark’ – Boardwalkers

16: ‘ Letter From Jeepers‘ – Mr. Guy (Frank Zappa)

17: ‘Whistle Bait‘ - Larry Collins

18: ‘Why Do Fools Fall In Love?‘ – Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

19:  ‘Ain’t Got No Home‘ – Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry

20: ‘In My Moondreams‘ - Brian Wilson & Andy Paley

21: ‘Let’s go Sexin” – James Intveld

22: ‘Hold On To What You Got‘ – Joe Tex

‘I’m such a negative person, and always have been. Was I born that way? I don’t know. I am constantly disgusted by reality, horrified and afraid. I cling desperately to the few things that give me some solace, that make me feel good.

I hate most of humanity. Though I might be very fond of particular individuals, humanity in general fills me with contempt and despair. I hate most of what passes for civilization. I hate the modern world. For one thing there are just too Goddamn many people. I hate the hordes, the crowds in their vast cities, with all their hateful vehicles, their noise and their constant meaningless comings and goings. I hate cars. I hate modern architecture. Every building built after 1955 should be torn down!

I despise modern music. Words cannot express how much it gets on my nerves – the false, pretentious, smug assertiveness of it. I hate business, having to deal with money. Money is one of the most hateful inventions of the human race. I hate the commodity culture, in which everything is bought and sold. No stone is left unturned. I hate the mass media, and how passively people suck up to it.

I hate having to get up in the morning and face another day of this insanity. I hate having to eat, shit, maintain the body – I hate my body. The thought of my internal functions, the organs, digestion, the brain, the nervous system, horrify me.

Nature is horrible. It’s not cute and loveable. It’s kill or be killed. It’s very dangerous out there. The natural world is filled with scary, murderous creatures and forces. I hate the whole way that nature functions. Sex is especially hateful and horrifying, the male penetrating the female, his dick goes into her hole, she’s impregnated, another being grows inside her, and then she must go through a painful ordeal as the new being pushes out of her, only to repeat the whole process in time.

Reproduction – what could be more existentially repulsive?

How I hate the courting ritual. I was always repelled by my own sex drive, which in my youth never left me alone. I was constantly driven by frustrated desires to do bizarre and unacceptable things with and to women. My soul was in constant conflict about it. I never was able to resolve it.

Old age is the only relief.

I hate the way the human psyche works, the way we are traumatized and stupidly imprinted in early childhood and have to spend the rest of our lives trying to overcome these infantile mental fixations. And we never ever fully succeed in this endeavor.

I hate organized religions. I hate governments. It’s all a lot of power games played out by ambition-driven people, and foisted on the weak, the poor, and on children. Most humans are bullies. Adults pick on children. Older children pick on younger children. Men bully women. The rich bully the poor. People love to dominate.

I hate the way humans worship power – one of the most disgusting of all human traits. I hate the human tendency towards revenge and vindictiveness. I hate the way humans are constantly trying to trick and deceive one another, to swindle, to cheat, and take unfair advantage of the innocent, the naïve and the ignorant.

I hate the vacuous, false, banal conversation that goes on among people.
Sometimes I feel suffocated; I want to flee from it.

For me, to be human is, for the most part, to hate what I am. When I suddenly realize that I am one of them, I want to scream in horror.’

“Hell is other people” – Jean Paul Sartre
“Hell is also yourself” – R Crumb

Extract from ‘The Robert Crumb Handbook’ By R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski.

To watch ‘The Confessions Of Robert Crumb‘ Click HERE

I always prefer documentaries that are made while the subjects are still alive (when at all possible to attain). The feigned reverence and rose tinted view that posthumous offerings tend to display often leave a sour taste in my mouth (Such as ‘Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride‘ a hastily put together film, featuring some truly embarrassing moments, notably from Gary Busey). It is for this reason that, despite being a great admirer of Dr Thompson’s works, I have still not yet watched ‘Gonzo‘.

‘Fear And Loathing In Gonzovision‘ is an hour long BBC documentary from 1978 which follows not only Thompson, but allows equal screentime to English Illustrator Ralph Steadman (a compelling and enticing individual with magnetism that is on par with the Doctor himself). This is a rare glimpse into the chemistry that allowed their professional relationship to span several decades.Emphasising what a collaborative effort their endeavors often where.

Covering the period before Hunter’s escapades made it onscreen in ‘Where the Buffalo Roam‘, a watchable but far from classic interpretation starring Bill Murray, this is a superb little piece that offers some unique and insightful material.

‘October 19th, 1975: The most powerful influence on the arts in the West is – the cinema. Novels, plays and films are filled with references to, quotations from, parodies of – old movies. They dominate the cultural subconcious becasue we absorb them in our formative years (as we don’t absorb books for instance); and we see them again on TV when we grow up.

The first two generations predominantly nourished on movies are now of an age where they rule the media; and it’s already frightening to see how deeply – in their behaviour as well as their work – the cinema has imprinted itself on them. Nobody took into account the tremendous impact that would be made by the fact that films are permanent and easily accessible from childhood onward.

As the sheer number of films piles up, their influence will increase, until we have a civilization entirely molded by cinematic values and behaviour patterns.’

Kenneth Tynan, Writer / Drama Critic.

Taken from ‘The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan‘ (2001)

Tintin was always a more ’serious’ read, however, the satire and social commentary which the books contained was no less hilarious than what was on offer in that little Gaulish village. There is no real point in comparing the two, as it would be like trying to chose a favourite grandparent.

I am as of yet unconvinced that Peter Jackson’s imminent Tintin movie will capture the true essence of the stories, because as this documentary shows, they were very much a work of their time. Hollywood already owes a lot to Tintin, with many adventure films, in particular the Indiana Jones series, borrowing heavily from the plot points and structures used in several of the books.

This is an extremely moving and informative documentary and will benefit and delight anyone with even passing familiarity to Hergè and that inquisitive reporter that he devoted his life to telling the stories of. Backgrounds of characters and situations are explained, and the origins of Hergè’s desires and influences are detailed like never before, including a very emotional reunion with his old mentor. A rather heartbreaking experience to witness.

So, for any kid who ever spent a day off school, with a hot chocolate and a stack of Tintin books beside his bed, take an hour and let yourself revel in the delights once more.

Apologies for the brief absense of posts. Illness and obligations took over as they sometimes do. Still, back to normal we are and in celebration of this fact, we will be having a busy week.

Let’s start with some comics and bizzare sexual practices.

The first treat that I have in store for you all is The Confessions Of Robert Crumb. This is a fantastic programme that was originally aired as part of BBC’s sublime ‘Arena‘ series. It makes a great companion piece to Terry Zwigoff‘s ‘Crumb‘ documentary.

Crumb is exceptionally reclusive, now spending his days idly sketching away in the south of France. This and ‘Crumb‘ are the only two times which he has contributed anything more than a short interview to camera.

Investigating and self analysing his own sexual obsessions, alongside what drives him to create as an artist. This is a worthy and fascinating film for fans, and a great introduction for those who may only associate Crumb with his better known imagery such as ‘Fritz The Cat‘ or ‘Mr Natural‘.

It is with great delight that I wish Donald Sutherland a very happy 74th Birthday today. In celebration of the great man and the marvelous additions which he has made to cinema, I include a selection of my favourites from Mr. Sutherland’s many movies.

Don’t Look Now is nothing short of a gothic masterpiece. Following the accidental death of his daughter, Sutherland and wife Julie Christie travel to Venice, where they soon find that their nightmare is only beginning. This is still as chilling as it was upon its first release and the terror is matched only by its aesthetic beauty. If you were to start with one film in Donald Sutherland’s back catalogue, this would be it. Don’t ask anyone about it, because people love spoiling the ending. The biggest culprits of this being Channel 4 who showed it in one of their asinine ‘Best Of Horror‘ roundups. The idiots. It was also subject to a bit of were they? / weren’t they? controversy surrounding a very realistic looking sex scene between the two leads, something Donald (gentleman that he is) has never commented on any further.

Coming a close second in my all time favourite Donald Sutherland movies is Day Of The Locust. Set in 1930’s Hollywood, simply put, this is my Great Gatsby. Also featuring a sensational performance from Karen Black (House of 1000 Corpses, Easy Rider), and Burgess Meredith (Rocky) this is a tale of the underbelly of Hollywood that lingers with a resonance rarely seen in todays cinema. A climax that actually left me breathless (proving that the cliche can be true) and Sutherland eminating sympathy and pathos like never before. Like a lost scarecrow trapped in the body of a lovesick clumsy waiter, he stumbles through this movie with inimitable grace and skill.

Forget the TV show with Alan Alda that lasted three hundred seventy eight seasons, this is all you need to see. Sutherland is the ultimate Hawkeye Pierce. Elliott Gould is his ultimate wingman, the two making one of cinema’s finest comedy pairings. The best War comedy ever made, period. Sutherland’s lines are delivered with such precise humour and natural wit that they make this movie truly irresistable.

Amongst this plethora of megastars, it is Sutherland’s performance in Kelly’s Hero’s that sticks in the mind long afterwards. His hippie chic is wonderfully woven into the WW2 plot and his crazed tank riding shenanigans provide some real laugh out loud moments. Strangely enough, Sutherland was taken critically ill during the making of this movie and technically died. See him give a brief interview on the subject here.

Another one that you really should check out is Alex In Wonderland, which is one of my favourite movies in general. Also starring the likes of Fellini, this is a magnificent surrealist fantasy which was made in the late 1960’s. Sutherland stars as a tortured hippie filmmaker in a role which, whilst not one of his best known, is definitely one of his finest.

And so, in the realisation that I could actually sit and write about Donald Sutherland all night, I will leave you with a list of other noteable performances for you to seek out. That and the best wishes to Mr Sutherland on his birthday and may he have many more to come. ^_^

For You Consideration: Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Die Die My Darling (1966), Klute (1971), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), Animal House (1978), Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978), Eye Of The Needle (1981), JFK (1991) and The Puppet Masters (1994). This is by no means a complete filmography, mereely a further listing of my own preferred Sutherland roles. The final word goes to the man himself.