What is wrong with people?

this baby says...
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Wish i had video of this. The latest exercise craze: segway baby-strollering.

Watch out for the scraper bikes

I'll just let this one speak for itself. Found a rather amusing clip posted at Bikecentric. Enjoy.

When Animals Go Bad

If you were there last night, you now feel a bit more prepared for the inevitable zombie attack, you understand why "dirty commies" are to blame for both zombies and pornography, and you may never see a sports mascot the same way.

Oh, and you missed out on some classic cartoons.

Secret Movie Night, now in its ninth week, also enjoyed its best crowd yet. And our pal Rob Rock brought chips and salsa. what a swell guy he is. but not to fear, we still managed our usual amount of technical difficulties and general tomfoolery.

hey, we gotsta keep it real. For more of said realness, join us next Tuesday. you know how we roll.

Wild Animals in SecretMovieLand

Nothing earth-shattering to report in the world of SecretMovieLand this week. but the good news is that someone out there knows about us. submissions continue to arrive and more secret movie fans seem to pop up every day. So i guess it's game on for me. time to plan yet another evening of viewing pleasure.

This week's feature (so to speak)? how about this? "Bad Animals". which could mean quite a few things. and only I know for certain. here's your hint:



It's not this guy.

Russian Sci-Fi invades Secret Movie Night

almost can't wait for Tuesday night. It's finally time to screen what i love the most: space travel, robots, giant monsters, alien worlds. what more could you ask for?

It's time for Pavel Klushantsev's 1962 Russian sci-fi/thriller "Planeta Bur" ("Storm Planet"),featuring a spaceship full of brave cosmonauts, the planet Venus, a robot named John and lots of the aforementioned monsters.

as far as I'm concerned, this film has it all.

so yea, this film has been ripped off countless times, by the likes of Roger Corman and many others. But this is the real deal. A very well written and prescient work, surprisingly so perhaps, although it's not without its communist leanings.
Nevertheless, it set new standards at the time for it's imaginative storytelling and inventive special effects. For me, it's the Communist answer to Fred Wilcox's 1956 "Forbidden Planet". Both way ahead of their time in terms of effects, storytelling and manner of conveying that human element so often lacking in modern sci-fi filmmaking.