The Mal Thursday Show #47: Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 13

The Mal Thursday Show #47 - Texas Tyme Machine Vol. 13: The Greatest Trips

 Mal sets the controls for the heart of the Lone Star State, in an episode chock full of Texan rock n' roll genius from beyond the walls of Tyme: The Greatest Trips. Included in this episode are excerpts from our interviews with Roy Head, Ezra Charles, George Kinney, Jesse Sublett, and Joe 'King' Carrasco, as well as a mess o' fine 45s from yesterday and today. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.


Playlist:
THE TWILIGHTERS: Nothing Can Bring Me Down
THE NERVEBREAKERS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (bed)
KENNY AND THE KASUALS: Journey to Tyme
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS: You Don't Know How Young You Are
THE RIPE: Dr. Strange
THE UGLY BEATS: Throw Me a Line
SONS OF HERCULES: Grow Up?
THE NERVEBREAKERS: My Girlfriend is a Rock
BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS: Sway
THE UGLY BEATS: Maximum Bumble (bed)
ROY HEAD: She's About a Mover/One More Time
THURSDAY'S CHILDREN: You'll Never Be My Girl/You Can Forget About That
THE GOLDEN DAWN: I'll Be Around/Tell Me Why
THE SKUNKS: Earthquake Shake/Gimme Some
JOE 'KING' CARRASCO & THE CROWNS: Let's Get Pretty/Caca de Vaca
KENNY AND THE KASUALS: Floating (bed)
ENDLE ST. CLOUD:  Tell Me One More Time (What's Happening to Our World)

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'Texas Chainsaw' Man: My Interview with Tobe Hooper

'Texas Chainsaw' man: Director Tobe Hooper on Leatherface, 'Lifeforce,' and more

Austin native Tobe Hooper is best known for writing and directing one of the most influential horror movies ever made, 1974's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre." In conjunction with the release of "Texas Chainsaw 3D," the latest entry in the controversial franchise, Hooper sat down with the Austin Classic Movies Examiner to discuss the new film, his career, and his beginnings as a filmmaker in the late '60s.

"I was in Austin, making a lot of TV commercials, PSAs, documentaries. We had a little company called Film House, about five of us. We could even do post-production, although we had to get the 16-millimeter film developed in Dallas or over at channel seven. We did Farrah Fawcett's first professional work...We made a film called 'Eggshells' [a restored version screened at the 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival], a true hippie film, from the sandals up! It was about the beginning and end of a subculture."

"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" was banned in several countries upon its release. England banned the film for 23 years. The visceral terror evoked by the movie comes not from explicit gore and violence, but from Hooper's use of POV, the power of suggestion, and his creation of an all-encompassing atmosphere of dread. In the wake of the Newtown school massacre, film violence has once again become a hot-button issue. Hooper is not sold on the connection between screen violence and the violence endemic in American society: "I don't know how to respond. It's all a part of the same thing. The dark side of human nature...I don't think a horror movie is going to inspire a copycat, certainly not one running around with a chainsaw..."

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