12 x Andy Sidaris = babes galore

Thanks to a guy called Brian I discovered this 3 disc DVD set last night; It's from Mill Creek and it contains 12 Andy Sidaris films!! The set has just been released (in March) and they're selling them like cupcakes. Well, they ought to anyway, who wouldn't want 12 Andy Sidaris films! If you're in Denmark you might remember I had the image from Sidaris' STACEY on the cover of the last issue of STAY SICK! Unfortunately, STACEY has never been released on DVD altho it's reportedly his best film alongside SEVEN (which to the best of my knowledge has never been released on DVD either, but it's hard to tell as the Sidaris DVD releases is a jungle out there!).



Anyhoo, I ordered the set right away and fortunately I checked with Amazon.com cos it turned out it's heaps cheaper ordering the set from there than from Amazon UK! Including postage to Europe it came to just under 12 bucks US but from the UK branch it would have been around 18 dollars. Of course, now I have to live with the risk of being caught by customs but, pfft, I spit in the face of danger!



The films in the set are:

THE DALLAS CONNECTION
DAY OF THE WARRIOR
DO OR DIE
ENEMY GOLD
FIT TO KILL
GUNS
HARD HUNTED
HARD TICKET TO HAWAII
MALIBU EXPRESS
PICASSO TRIGGER
SAVAGE BEACH
RETURN TO SAVAGE BEACH




There's an official Andy Sidaris webpage where the box is for sale. When I registered (to be able to watch trailers) the registration email was signed by the late director's wife, Arlene Sidaris.

There are covers for each film here and for the front page go here.

"It wasn't a significant bullet"

- and here's the full interview:



- and here's an interview with the BBC interviewer about the incident (for some reason it's non-imbeddable).

Shell Scott shenanigans

"I was looking at the lovely blonde in the one-and-one-half-piece swimsuit, thinking that if she got any curvier she'd be banned, and then, just as if she knew exactly what I was thinking, she got up and started walking towards me. Possibly to slap me."

Ahh, the beginning of another Richard S. Prather novel. :D

Japanese in the mail

In the mail this morning: AKIRA!!! On blu-ray you ask? Nope!!! The double mammoth vhs case from the UK that I couldn't afford in '93. I found a seller with a brand new copy on Amazon UK. "Fuck it", I thought, I wanna finally scratch off that tape from my early 1990s wants-list!!! Muhahahahahaha...

Tape #1 contains the film itself, fully letterboxed, in Japanese w/English subs. Tape #2 is a 50 min production report. I'm not a manga geek so I have no idea if that one has even been released on dvd (but it probably has).

Btw, I've recently discovered that there's no less than three different English dubs! Imagine that. Why bother with any dubs!? Watch the damn film the way it was meant to, in Japanese. :D

Happy Easter!

Samurai Commando Mission 1549 - trailer

My mate Paul directed my attention to this *kind of* Japanese remake of another awesome Japanese film called TIMESLIP (aka G.I. Samurai). This new one is entitled SAMURAI COMMANDO - MISSION 1549 and just like TIMESLIP it's about a modern day platoon of Japanese soldiers that are sent back to the past. The trailer certainly looks cool. I'll finish here so I can head off to the nearest video webstore. No, wait, oh bugger, it's Easter, they're all closed!! Haha.

Elevator muzak?

It's been a while since I last bought some music so this week I scooped up a few titles from the local music pusher. Some of it I knew very well, some of it I already own on LP, and some of it I hated as a kid but thought I should give a chance. xD.

The Smiths: Hatful of Hollow (my first The Smith LP which I bought shortly after it came out. This version contains singles versions and radio recordings from The Peel Show, and it's better than their debut LP).

The Smiths: s/t

Morrissey: Bona Drag (wauw, imagine if some old geezer came up from the cellar at The Smiths' old record label and said "Bloody hell, I just found the mystical last Smiths album that was never released!". Well, that's how this Morrissey record sounds and how good it is. In my view anyway [and that's what counts here, haha]).

Morrissey: You Are the Quarry (fortunately it was very cheap, otherwise it'd be quite annoyed as I forgot I've already got a copy of it!).

Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols (ordinary release without all the extra tracks. Fortunately! I want the original track list, goddammit!).

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced (UK version)

Sonic Youth: Goo (original one cd version)

John Coltrane: Blue Train, Traneing in, Dakar (3 albums on one 2 disc release)

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue, Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud, Somethin' Else (3 albums on one 2 disc release)

P J Harvey: 4-Track Demos

P J Harvey: Rid of Me

Kent: En Plats i Solen

The Ventures: Guitar Freakout, Super Psychedelics (2 albums on one 1 disc release)


- and in addition to all the above Henrik Larsen was so kind as to send me a bucketful of 1980s heavy metal albums (on cd-r) and thanks a lot for those, Henrik!

Review of Norwegian horror movie extraordinaire...

...I keep babbling about the cool Norwegian horror movie DE DØDES TJERN and now kool Todd over at "Die Die Die Fuckers Kill Kill" blog has seen the light too!!! Go here (there's an awesome Aqua Lene video as well!!).

Could it be any more awesome???

...I highly doubt it! xD xD xD

Hardboiled on a Sunday