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!

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. 

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''.   

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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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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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.        

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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