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Wednesday
Mar142012

Addendums | Eps 1-15

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We dive back into the Hourchive this week with a pile of stickey notes and a bottle of White-Out and make a few additions, corrections, and clarifications to our first batch of topics. It's a celebration of minutiae, administrative details, and Eddie Vedder impressions we call Addendums. 

Show Notes: 
02:38 Arcades -- Planet SoCal / boardwalks / home arcades / crazy Japanese arcade games 
09:05
 Interlude: Luna City (RIP)
12:55 Pizza -- Bagel Bites / California-style
16:35 Interlude: Bagel Bites commercial (1997)
19:06 Toy Stores -- Drew's Children Palace jingle
21:25 Polymaths -- Crichton correction / Darwin's disappointed chimpanzee / Maya Angelou 
26:20 Interlude: Third Eye Blind: "Semi-charmed Life"
27:30 90s Music -- Third Eye Blind / Everclear / Weezer / Blind Melon (the bee girl) / grunge fallout 
39:02 Movie Monsters (1 / 2) -- Zombies / the Gizmo Song
44:22 The Mall -- Avoiding/chasing chicks / our stage / Mall Madness / the Mall of America
52:35 Interlude: Mall Madness commercial
59:58 Doomsday -- Fallout shelfters / Blast From the Past / Gleaming the Cube

Addendums #01 | Eps 1-15

Wednesday
Jan112012

Modern Movie Monsters | Ep #07

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After being locked in the Hourchive during a nuclear explosion, we emerge with hideously profuse knowledge of Godzilla, cryptozoologic creatures, and the trick to getting around that "no eating after midnight" rule (hint: just don't wear a watch!). 

Show Notes:  
02:18 Modern monsters (when gluing fur on your face just doesn't cut it)
04:30
 Children of the bomb: Japan's atomic monsters
13:05 Misties
18:33 "Gonna need a weapon" (Attack the Block)
19:01 The Attack the Block creatures
21:30 It's a movie with a monster, not a monster movie (The Host | Cloverfield
27:09 Cryptozoology primer 
33:50 Interlude: Tenacious D: "Sasquatch"
34:42 Slashers
37:54 "Glove Guy" Special feature standbys
45:16 Interlude: Dokken: "Dream Warriors" 
46:36 Gremlins and the PG-13 rating
53:49 Gremlins Go to the Movies: Snow White | Hulk Hogan

57:55 Tremors 
1:02:02 Xenowhats?

Related:
Classic Movie Monsters 

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Modern Movie Monsters | Episode #07

Wednesday
Dec282011

Classic Movie Monsters | Ep #05

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From our laboratory in the castle east -- which has some pretty lousy acoustics -- we bring you the first half of a two-part creature feature on movie monsters. In this installment we stitch together some background on the classic Universal Studios monsters, consult Consumer Reports on the best ways to become a werewolf, and discover that the secret to a good story is a dude who eats flies. 

Show Notes:
01:03 Pogs
02:30
 The A-listers
06:00 Nosferatu
07:35 Expressionist horror
09:30 The Lugosi Dracula
12:35 Abbot and Costello legimize everything
13:20 Second-stringers and one-night stands
15:45 Nuc-u-lar mu-tants and mid-century monsters
16:40 Interlude: Puttin' on the Ritz (Young Frankenstein)
18:10 The logistics of monster-making
25:05 Bram Stoker's Dracula ("Are you sure there wasn't a cowboy?")
33:22 Werewolves ("Bust some science on me.")
41:16 Interlude: The Monster Squad
41:43 The mummy -- it sounds good on paper
42:20 The vampire slump

Classic Movie Monsters | Ep #05