The Mal Thursday Show #48: Naming Names

Django, Floyd, Dr. Stone, and Humphrey Plugg join Mal as he presents a series of songs with people's names in the title. This episode is dedicated to the memory of the Troggs' Reg Presley and film director Michael Winner. With Rocky Roberts, The Breakup Society, The Ripe, The Shambles, The A-Bones, and many more. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.


Playlist:
ROCKY ROBERTS: Django
THE BREAKUP SOCIETY: Here Comes Floyd
THE RIPE: Dr. Strange (Live)
THE LEAVES: Dr. Stone
THE KINGZ ENGLISH: Dr. Hunger
A3: Amos Moses
THE SLICKERS: Johnny Too Bad
THE SHADOWS: The Rise and Fall of Flingel Blunt (bed)
THE A-BONES: Geraldine
BOBBY FULLER FOUR: Annie Lou
THE REAL KIDS: Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie
ADRIAN LLOYD: Lorna
THE FABS: Dinah Wants Religion
THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE: Mary Please
THE SHAMBLES: Does Stephanie Know
MUCK & THE MIRES: Doreen
TEDDY & HIS PATCHES: Suzy Creamcheese
THE KINKS: Spotty Grotty Anna (bed)
THE BERKELEY KITES: Alice In Wonderland
THE ATTACK: Lady Orange Peel/Neville Thumbcatch
THE RATS: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Gripplestone
LEN PRICE 3: Mr. Grey
THEM: Richard Cory
SCOTT WALKER: The Amorous Humphrey Plugg
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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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The Mal Thursday Show #46: The Ballad of Mal Thursday Pt. 8

The Mal Thursday Show #46: The Ballad of Mal Thursday Pt. 8

Another trip through the past and into an uncertain future with Mal. Presented in Living Monophonic Sound.



Playlist:
PLAN 9: Flashback
SUZI CHUNK: Look Back and Laugh
THE BLACK LIPS: New Direction
RANDY & THE RADIANTS: My Way of Thinking
JIM JONES REVUE: It's Gotta Be About Me
NICK CURRAN: The Low Life
THE MIGHTY LANDSHARK!: Covert Twist
JENNY ROCK: Mal
THE MALARIANS: Once Upon a Time (In Your Mind)
THE MOVE: The Disturbance
THE KINKS: I'm in Disgrace
PLASTICLAND: Sipping the Bitterness
THE SAINTS: (I'm) Stranded
NIGHT BEATS: Ain't Dumbo
NEW YORK DOLLS: Human Being
SPIRIT: Girl in Your Eye
JORDAN CHRISTOPHER: Angel, Angel, Down We Go
THE OHM: She's Turned Out
BOBBY BRELYN: Hannah
THE EMBROOKS: Nothing's Going to Work
THE ATTACK: Go Your Way
RAY COLLINS: Any Way the Wind Blows
THE GREENHORNES: Saying Goodbye
THE TURTLES: We'll Meet Again

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Stripper in love: 'A Cold Wind in August' (1961)

Teenage rebellion: 'Riot on Sunset Strip' (1967)

Bury my heart in Scottsdale: 'The Ransom' (1977)

 

Bad trip: 'Angel, Angel, Down We Go' a/k/a 'Cult of the Damned' (1969)

Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' at Violet Crown

Hit man Pitt: 'Killing Them Softly' (2012)

'Try and Get Me!' a/k/a 'The Sound of Fury' (1950)

Swampsquatch: 'The Legend of Boggy Creek' (1972)

In Sickness or in Hell: 'The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave' (1971)

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Music Monday at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz: Ken Russell's 'Lisztomania' (1975)

'The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live in Texas 1978' tonight at Alamo Lake Creek

A twit's progress: 'Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush' (1968)

 Rock star Nazi hunter: 'This Must Be the Place'

'The Triple Echo' a/k/a 'Soldier in Skirts' (1972)

For the birds: 'The Girl' (2012)

  The greatest zombie movies ever made

Robert Aldrich's 'The Legend of Lylah Clare' (1968)

Herbert Lom's greatest hits

Masterpiece: 'The Master' (2012) 

Of drapery and dementia: 'The Cobweb' (1955)

Phyllis Diller's greatest hits

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Mistake by the Lake: Last call at Uncle Billy's

Uncle Billy's Lake Travis, the barbecue restaurant/microbrewery/live music venue at Oasis, Texas, has closed its doors as of today, Monday November 12th. It will re-open for the remaining dates on its music calendar, and for any private parties already booked. Ownership of the space, which includes two floors, a state-of-the-art brewing system, a professional stage, and a capacity of 1100+, reverts to Oasis main man Bo Theriot.

The original Uncle Billy's Brew & Que was opened in 2007 on Barton Springs Road in South Austin, combining Texas barbecue with the brewing wizardry of Brian "Swifty" Peters (who left the company earlier this year to co-found his own brewpub/pizzeria, the Austin Beer Garden Brewing Company). A second, much larger location, Uncle Billy's Lake Travis, opened its doors in November of 2010...

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