Saturday, December 24, 2011

A Christmas with Garrett Scone

 
What's all this Christmas joy I keep hearing about? A last ditch effort to give you and myself some happiness this Holiday season, without resorting to the proverbial "bottle" as a default. Also: Garret Scone, once again, sings "Silver Bells" -- a tradition of sorts on the show -- and why I will forever be traumatized by "Christmas Light Looking".


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Friday, December 23, 2011

SPECIAL -- Jean Shepherd Christmas Foibles

A December 24, 1974 recording of Jean Shepherd reading from his story “Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid” — which inspired the film “A Christmas Story” — on his WOR New York radio show. Plus some extra Shep goodies to keep you company this holiday season.

Special thanks to Humanist.org for providing this audio, by the way.

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Coffee Talkin'!

This episode devoted to catching up with an old friend, Alex Justinger, who lives in LA now and cuts trailers for the movies.



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Monday, December 19, 2011

The Exploding Whale

How highway engineers had a “whale of a good time” in the 1970s. Also: rude Xmas letters from Preachers, Iconoclast Tony Danza, and a surprise call from my new manager, Mr. Cressell.


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Sunday, December 11, 2011

My Regular Saturday Night Thing

It’s been a tough couple of weeks, as you’ll hear me recount. However, I manage to stay upbeat through the crystal pure spirit of night radio, and large quantities of caffeine. Also: a new segment, “Stellar Jokes from My Failed Stand-up Comedy Career”, the deception of December, and Christmas Coke can recall.


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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Spiked Apple Cider, 2 Bloody Mary's, and 2 coffees spruced with whiskey

A more relaxed recording, where I sit out on the front steps of my apartment building and recount the Thanksgiving weekend -- a little drunk. Also: Iron bowl weekend, a review of "The Muppets".

Special album photo: Jonathan Sweatt

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SPECIAL -- "I am the Galleria"

Nothing “special”, really; just some recordings of me and Jessica walking around the Galleria mall on Black Friday. WITNESS the chaos, without worrying about being trampled upon by avaricious Americans, and FEEL the intensity of the third degree by a righteous security guard we run briefly afoul of.  Other topics and random ambiance ensue.


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Saturday, November 19, 2011

HB 56

This week saw one of the first arrests under Alabama's controversial new illegal immigration law. On this episode, I try to explain the law -- best as I can understand it -- and why it's being used as a prop for my home state to go to war with the Obama administration. Also: the movie "Cape Fear" (original and remake), the Natalie Wood drowning case being reopened after 30 years, and why Blues musicians can't get respect.

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Praxis Crash

Exhausted after taking the grueling Praxis test, I nevertheless sit down to do a show, fraught with weird ideas and suggestions, such as what to do with my body after I die, and quitting teaching altogether to open a video store. There's a drinking game for this episode: take a shot of Ancient Age every time I say "You Know". 

Music for this episode performed entirely by Persson, off their wonderful Creative Commons album, "Outside the Walls"

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Friday, November 11, 2011

The Halloween TV Special


This is a TV episode of THE MIDNIGHT CITIZEN I did with some friends last Halloween.  It's a horror hosting-style show, where I sit on a set we made, drink soda and beer, and show a movie, coming in at random intervals with the occasional sketch or fun fact about the flick. 

We wanted to go for a cable access feel, one of those local mainstays that you might come across as you flip through the channels late on some Friday or Saturday night in America.

Special thanks to everyone who helped make this happen: Dave Smith (director/lighting/camera), Jonathan Sweatt (props/sidekick extraordinaire), Jessica Clark (writing, mail, make-up and costumes, moral support), John Morse (props, PA, audience), and Tim Rocks (props, PA, audience). Extra special thanks to PAUL SMITH, United States Armed Forces Veteran and owner of the basement we shot this in.

Enjoy! And comment -- based on your feedback, we might do another one!


Monday, November 7, 2011

"Friday the 13th" Press Kit


I start out with a review of the flick “Money Ball”, then go on to a few more rants, interspersed with the ritualistic smacking of Quaker Oat Meal Squares cereal, chased with a PBR. Fun stuff.

Check out my friend Hunter’s online comic Vexxarr here, as well as his Apple “Think Different” parody from (circa?) 2004.

Friday, October 28, 2011

The Halloween Show

On location from the Alabama wilderness at Noccalula Falls campground.  Hang out at the campfire and listen closely for Indian spirits, while enjoying some spooky stories and fun tips to get the most out of Halloween 2011.  Also, come with me on location, first to the Terrortorium Dark Ride in Oxford, AL, and then to one of those controversial Judgement Houses at Farmstead Baptist Church in Jasper.  Grab a beer and warm up in the late October night!

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Let's Go Camping!

Here’s a bunch of audio I got on my camping trip to Noccalula Falls, AL to do my Halloween show, which will be posted this weekend. Very raw and unpolished, recorded with an indescreet Zoom, which draws some very curious stares from random passersby, mainly in Wal-Mart when I’m buying food and beer for the campsite. Topics include equipment check, ”Henry Winkler and Fonzie”, jackhammer outside my bedroom window, the cat’s meow, flat tires, a trip to the Briary to pick up some cigars, road work that leads to about a one hour detour, Super Listening, Chadcast, “I just put the ketchup on the last burrito!”, Frank Nora and the Overnightscape, Occupy Wall Street, vacation follies, Wal-Mart shopping, beer buying, hobo chicken, Evil Dead, a nice morning stroll around the camp ground, a final cigar, a return to civilization and responsibility, and being solicited crack at the country filling station.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Fast

A high-octane, teeth-on-the-floor, kick-in-the-groin show, with a look at this Fall's high speed road-sploitation adventure, FAST. Also, a sneak preview of THE MIDNIGHT CITIZEN HALLOWEEN SPECIAL (check your local listings), and the first installment of the new show segment, "Henry Winkler and Fonzie". This show sponsored unknowingly by "Holy Smoke", the Alabama-based company that takes your beloved relative's cremated remains and turns em' into shotgun shells.   

Be sure to send your SPOOKY STORY in for the Halloween show at midnightcitizen@yahoo.com!

"FAST" Cast

Jessica Clark..........."Girl"
Kevin Van Hyning........"Mr. Farm"
Dave Smith.............."Mechanic"
Josh Davenport.........."Herman Bull"

Friday, September 23, 2011

The Final Girl Theory


After a month's absence, I get on back to the microphone for another landmark episode.  Actually, this is a show that was supposed to be posted weeks ago, just after Birmingham's Sidewalk Film Festival in late August, but due to a slew of technical problems (no procrastination for once, I promise), it's just going up now.  It's still cool and relevant, though, I swear!

On this episode: 

An interview with Mark Trammell, former pop culture and entertainment editor for UAB's Kaleidoscope newspaper, who gives the most extensive review you'll hear of the grassroots Sidewalk Film Festival.  I talk with Mark about why Sidewalk matters in the film festival scene, and get a breakdown of all the independent flicks that played at this year's event that you need to see.  Tell your girlfriend, tell your parents -- truly something for everybody!

Friday, August 19, 2011

Accidental Curmudgeon

How do people get old?  Outside the usual ways, I think it's a lot easier now for folks to get older, faster, what with all the Internet web sites and airplanes and telephones.  Also: a look at Bham's Ruffner Mountain, America's largest urban park and a monument to the city's lush industrial history. 

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Did "Space Camp" ruin NASA?

It's no question "Space Camp" (1986) was part of a propoganda quest by NASA to renew the imaginitive interest in other-world exploration that had all-but-evaporated in American culture in the Reagan years, much due to the fact that the Space Shuttle program was done in the name of science and less in the interest of inspiring sound bites that permeated the Apollo endeavor. But thanks to the fact that everyone who works for NASA in "Space Camp" are Darwinist failures, plus the ingenious PR notion of selling the flick to audiences just five months after the tragic Challenger disaster, it's no question why this operation was dead-in-orbit. Read More...

Friday, August 12, 2011

The Church

Here in the South, religion, politics and sports are rolled up into one great big Venn Diagram of social mores, where everyone wants to be at the intersection, and anyone in the satellite ether is left to fend for themselves.  On this episode, I recount what it's like to unknowingly be under constant scrutiny from the church congregation when I was younger.  Also: the REALLY real ''Amityville Horror''.   

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Too Much Tobacco




After a month of all work and no play, I settle down for another show in the studio. 

Topics include changing a tire in early morning rush hour, Joe Bob Invades Birmingham, last month's journal of podcast procrastination, early 90s Nickelodeon nostalgia, and MTV turns 30 (aka why are we celebrating this bullstuff?).  Also, my review of the Maculey Culkin psych drama "The Good Son" will have you throwin' Mama from the cliff!  


 

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

They Shoot Pink Elephants, Don't They?

Keep your eyes open with an all new episode and an anything goes buffet of topics, including Dunkin' Donuts, Clarence Clemons, Bill and Ted, and Attack of the 50 Foot Eye Soars.  Also: I reluctantly play for you my brief, slightly cringe-inducing conversation with my idol, Joe Bob Briggs, from Straight Talk with Tonja Walker this past weekend on News Talk 1400 WSTC!


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Friday, June 17, 2011

Kathryn Tucker Windham (and Jeffrey!)


A look back at the life of Kathryn Tucker Windham -- photographer, journalist, collector of southern ghost stories and raconteur extraordinaire -- who died this week at 93.  Also: sit down Indian-style on the rug as Ms. Windham tells ya the story of the University of North Alabama in Florence, and the ghost of Molly's dog who haunts a fraternity house there.  

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Super 8 Day



After months of stayin' away from the pictures, I go back in full force with "Super 8".  Folks are describing this one as the perfect valentine to early Spielberg, a bunch of kids in late 70s suburbia making movies and dealing with aliens.  Why does that make me hesitant?  Listen as I talk about my reservations before leaving for the theater, and find out if I was right after I get home and give ya my full review.        

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Miracle Strip

Cigars on the porch with Dave -- photographer, world traveler, curator of amusement park antiquities.  We talk about his summers spent at the Miracle Strip amusement park in early 1980s Panama City, and how he eventually came to buy its Haunted Castle dark ride.  Also: Larry and the Loafers' ''Let's Go to the Beach'' kicks off the Midnight Citizen summer session!



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Saturday, June 4, 2011

So Bad it's...Wood!

If there's anything the past few years have shown us, it's that we really love a bad movie. Well, you know what I mean by that: a bad movie we can laugh at -- one we can show our friends with the parting words: "It's so bad it's good!" And of course they'll know what me mean. How could they not? If there's anything Internet memes have proven, it's that we love to share awesomely bad crap with each other! One week it's some poor kid in Montgomery, Alabama issuing a warning to all would-be rapists on the evening news ("Hide yo husband cause they rapin' everybody out here!"), the next week it's a promo performance of a community musical theatre show about the Rhode Island mafia. Read More...


Saturday, May 28, 2011

No one CARES where you went Pop Culture Antiquing today!

In case you haven't been around lately, I've recently discovered the beautiful tool LIVESTREAM, and for the last couple of days have been workin' hard in front of the ole Dell, searching for cool media to populate a channel with to compliment everything else you've already got here at THE MIDNIGHT CITIZEN. Hopefully, Midnight Citizen TV will help round out the field in defining what I'm trying to do with this web site, which is to create that indescribable feeling of being up late at night; your body may have no where to go, but your mind is open to whatever. Read More...