PARENTS DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR CHILDREN ARE LISTENING TO?

Music Is Not Always About Looks

That is a REALLY dumb sounding statement, isn't it? But hear me out and I promise this will be relatively short. Do you know what your kids are listening to? I mean REALLY listening to? Now before I get on the hate list of every person under the age of 18 I am NOT picking on young people and the types of music or lifestyles they choose. 

Okay, your parents probably weren't giants
dancing in slow motion with Beau Bridges...

Because, and let's be perfectly honest here, every generation almost automatically hate what the generation following them likes. It just seems to be the way of things. Think back parents - did your parents like your music/grooming/lifestyle? Pffft, they most certainly did NOT, don't prevaricate.

I'm guilty of the same thing and I don't even HAVE kids. There are certain styles, music, piercings, etc. that I just shake my head at wondering what the hell... but then I think I'm just getting old. Yes parents, you were just as picked on for what you liked whether you want to admit to it or not. And no, it was NOT less shocking than what your progeny considers to be popular.

You guys are pretty aware of MST3K aren't you? If not, it is Mystery Science Theater 3000. They take old (and crummy) movies and make fun of 'em. And I learned something. Our parents (to a lot of you it's probably your grandparents) looked just as ridiculous doing their 'thing' as they think their children do. I laughed myself sick when they showed one of those 60's beach party movies, where everybody shimmies wearing almost nothing? They showed a scene like this:

And one of 'em said, "That's your mom's butt you know."

Okay enough with this little generation gap message. I just have one more thing: Here are two groups that are currently being listened to by the younger generation. This is a group (sorry, bad picture) called Bedroom Walls:

This group is called Black Veil Brides:

Here are the words to a song each one performs - not necessarily in this movie - and I'm not telling you which band does what song:

In Anticipation Of Your Suicide

Your heart is always almost beating
along with windy frozen tunes.

But you say you've laughed enough,
your closet's stuffed with last year's blues.
But you know by summertime your suicide's just last year's news.

What will we find inside of your room?
Notes in the margins, 
records always spinning.
Clues you know you want all to know
your little soul grew old too soon
and surprises lost their thrill.
Vodka, pills and the marquee moon.



Rebel Love Song (partial)

I cannot hide what's on my mind
I feel it burning deep inside
A passion crime to take what's mine
Let us start living for today

Never gonna' change my mind
We can leave it all behind
Nothin's gonna' stop us
No not this time

So take your hand in mine
It's ours tonight
This is a rebel love song

Hearts will sacrifice
It's do or die
This is a rebel love song

My outlaw eyes have seen their lies
I choke on all they had to say
When worlds collide what's left inside
I hold on tight and hear you pray

Wild and running for one reason
They can't stop us from our freedom

This won't make anybody change their minds about what kind of music, clothes, piercings or tattoos kids should or should not have, but it's something to think about.

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THE BEST FILMS OF 2013... WILL NOT BE PRESENTED RIGHT NOW SO THAT WE MAY BRING YOU THE FOLLOWING CLASSICS...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (also known as MST3K)

I've mentioned these guys before and reviewed the MST3K: The Movie (September 18, 2012) and even had a MST3K weekend at the end of November on my Facebook page (see November 30, 2013's entry for info and link). Since we're rounding out yet another year of tired remakes (and the new word they're trying to sneak in on us - reboot which means, in a word, remake) and looking forward to a new year of... pretty much the same crap with not a whole lot of new creative activity, I've been kind of slacking off (I know, I know, when did I ever NOT). 

Joel's on the left...

I have been running through the 10 seasons of MST3K in order as much as possible (some episodes are no longer available on media but most of them are there) and even enjoyed part of the Pilot episode which I didn't even know existed as introduced by the great Joel Hodgson himself: The Green Slime.


The Green Slime (1968): A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!

Ick. Sounds horrible but right up the MST3K alley. I've talked about how funny these guys are and how quick (even if the quips are scripted they STILL had to think of them and insert them at just the right moments) but I've neglected to mention just how knowledgeable both Joel Hodgson and Mike Nelson are. If you pay attention to the guys more than the movie (which you really can't help - a lot of the movies, especially in the early seasons are so garbled even the 'guys' can't make out the dialogue) they bring a lot of knowledge to the table.

The Green Slime (Released the same

year as 2001: A Space Odyssey)

They know their directors, their actors and the sets themselves. Watch one at random sometime - if it's a certain actor they'll tell you which movies (just as bad) he's been in, if a set has been used and re-used they'll tell you for which movies (that sometimes includes Star Trek) and some if not all of the continuity errors (of which I've seen more than they've mentioned but that's just me).

If you'd like to visit the MST3K world and you want to do it in order of season and episode (you get the complete story of the robots, Joel and the evil scientists that way) and you live in the US (since these are pretty much all on YouTube) then you need this link for the Club MST3K: http://www.club-mst3k.com

If you don't live in the US, you can still use the list on their page to find the movies on the web in your Country. Another good place to go to is their official website:
http://www.mst3k.com/

And if you're absolutely dying for more MST3K you can find some at the new forum (I REFUSE to say remake) called RiffTrax: http://www.rifftrax.com/

Bill Corbett, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy

One of the advantages of the new RiffTrax is that they are able to riff on movies that are not public domain so some of the movies are much more modern (but just as funny) thanks to the trio of Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo) and Bill Corbett (Crow T. Robot).

I highly recommend checking out the pilot since Joel explains what kind of show he was going for in 1988 (and had that longer hairstyle too) as a kind of Omega Man-like format and the movie itself is... horrible (and blissfully short since he doesn't show the whole thing) but then again weren't all of 'em in the 50's and 60's? No, not really - but there were plenty for Joel to choose from and riff on and that's what made them fun (and watchable). In the pilot the format was that HE had built the Satellite of Love and was the last human alive desperately looking for someone to talk to.

Huh. Sounds like me...

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