Episode 503: The Blues Brothers (1980)

Special Guests: John Landis, Steven Williams, Laila Nablusi
Guest Co-Hosts: Brad Jones, Suzen Tekla Kruglnska

Musical month continues with a look at John Landis's The Blues Brothers (1980). It's the story of Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd), two musicians who need to get $5,000 in order to pay the back taxes on the orphanage where they grew up learning to be white blues singers.

Suzen Tekla Kruglnska (Rosemary's Baby 6:66) and Brad Jones (The Cinema Snob) join Mike for a discussion of The Blues Brothers (and Blues Brothers 2000) along with special guests Laila Nablusi (president of The Blues Brothers), Steven Williams (Trooper Mount), and co-writer/director John Landis.

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Bonus Interview: Laila Nabulsi

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Links:
Buy The Blues Brothers on Blu-Ray
Buy Blues Brothers: Private by Judith Jacklin and Tino Insana
Buy the The Blues Brothers soundtrack
Buy Briefcase Full of Blues on CD
Buy Made in America on CD
Buy Blues Brothers 2000 on Blu-Ray
Buy the Blues Brothers 2000 soundtrack

Music:
"Groove Me" - The Blues Brothers
"Soul Man" - The Blues Brothers
"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" - The Blues Brothers
"Quando Quanto" - Murph & the Magic Tones
"Sink the Bismark" - The Blues Brothers
"Rubber Biscuit" - The Blues Brother

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Episode 225: Fear and Loathing in the Projection Booth

Special Guest: Anita Thompson

"When the going gets weird... the weird turn pro."

We were somewhere around Episode 225 when the drugs began to take hold. And suddenly there was a discussion of a trio of films based on the the works and character of the late doctor of Gonzo Journalism, Hunter S. Thompson: Where the Buffalo Roam, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Rum Diary.

So, "buy the ticket, take the ride" and strap yourself in for this adventure into the savage heart of the American Dream!

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Bonus Interview: Laila Nabulsi

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Links:
Visit The Gonzo Foundation
Buy Where the Buffalo Roam on DVD
Buy Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas on DVD
Buy Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy the Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas graphic novel
Buy The Rum Diary on DVD
Buy The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson
Buy Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson on digital streaming
Buy Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride on DVD
Visit the Woody Creek Tavern website
Learn more about the Hunter S. Thompson Museum
Read Spirit of Hunter S. Thompson Lingers at His Favorite Colorado Bar
Read The Lost Legend of the Real Dr. Gonzo (Oscar Zeta Acosta)

Music:
"Combination of the Two" - Big Brother & the Holding Company
"One Toke Over the Line" - Brewer & Shipley
"Mama Told Me Not to Come" - Three Dog Night
"Viva Las Vegas" - Dead Kennedys

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Episode 218: Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)

Special Guests: Tom Schiller, Lauren Tom, Michael Streeter, Laila Nabulsi
Guest Co-Host: Skizz Cyzyk

Maudit May continues with Tom Schiller's Nothing Lasts Forever which tells the story of Adam Beckett (Zach Galligan), a disillusioned young man who wants to be an artist. He gets everything he wants... just not in the way he expects it. The anachronistic film also stars Lauren Tom, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Apollonia van Ravenstein.

Remember: Nothing Lasts Forever plays on TCM on May 30, 2015!

Links:
Buy Nothing Lost Forever by Michael Streeter
Visit the official SchillerVision website
Buy Tom Schiller's Henry Miller: Asleep and Awake
Read A Lost Comedic Masterpiece from 1984 by Richard Brody
Read "Nothing Lasts Forever," yet this Bill Murray movie persists by Stephen Saito
Read Nothing Lasts Forever director Tom Schiller by Erik Adams
Check out Homeboy Industries
Support Lauren Tom's fundraising

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Music:
"Nothing Lasts Forever" - Mara Beckerman
Soundtrack - Howard Shore
"It's Only a Paper Moon" - Count Basie & Zoot Sims

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