Scary Times & Funny Stories
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This should scare everyone. It doesn’t take AI to put words into your mouth, just a cleverly edited phone video…
Tells the story of visiting an escape room. His wife & daughters tell their version of the story…
His raffle ticket story…
The classic “The Machine” story…
A trailer for the movie…
An episode of his “Something’s Burning” cooking show with some of the actors from his new movie…
Sunday Cinema – “Alien Autopsy”
Since this month contains “Star Wars Day” (May the 4th), we thought that all month we would share some movies & television shows having to do with space & aliens!
Back in 1995, the FOX Network unleashed a television special revolving around film footage from 1947 allegedly showing an actual alien autopsy. Hosted by Jonathan Frakes (ST:TNG), it included interviews with Roswell eyewitnesses as well as experts to verify whether or not the footage was real (it wasn’t).
Someone apparently posted the unedited footage from the special online…
The End of an Era
MTV News is shutting down as Paramount slashes its workforce by 25%. MTV News was a HUGE deal for us Gen-Xers to get not only our music news but also our political and world news as well. We at Junkiosity remember first learning about the death of Kurt Cobain on MTV News…
The recent coronation of King Charles III reminded us Gen-Xers of the end of a formal/regal royal era that died with Queen Elizabeth II last fall. She was a dignified lady who was well-respected around the world for many, many years.
Media types come and go and come back again, Vinyl has once again eclipsed CD sales for the first time since 1990, and now it seems as though cassette tapes are making a comeback as well…
Ever since the pandemic of 2020, our consumption of movies & television shows has changed. Movie studios had gone to streaming services to present their content as movie theater chains were shuttered or struggled to attract movie-goers to come back. 3 years later, studios are moving back to the “only in theaters” model with streaming of the content pushed back to 3-6 months after theater debuts. Theaters are still struggling but beginning to find footing with recent blockbuster movies that have been released.
Many know who Nigel Ng is on YouTube (“Uncle Roger”), a comedic caricature of an Asian. He has been banned from China’s social media networks due to his jokes about its culture & politics in his new special.
This could be a good thing, Ford is focusing on what it does best & lowering the number of parts required to build its vehicles in a way to cut costs and potentially eliminate recalls due to part failures. Not trying to be everything to everyone may be the way forward…
This is going backward, reminds me of the “green book” days of our country…
Sunday Cinema – “Invasion UFO”
Since this month contains “Star Wars Day” (May the 4th), we thought that all month we would share some movies & television shows having to do with space & aliens!
In the year 1980, the “Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization” is set up to defend Earth from aliens who have been kidnapping both humans & animals for their body parts. The movie is apparently edited together episodes of the television series, “UFO”, that aired one season in 1970.
A typical British sci-fi movie/television series of the era, filled with a lot of shiny space suits & the like.
Someone posted a copy of this cobbled-together masterpiece online…
Sunday Cinema – “UFO Kidnapped!”
Since this month contains “Star Wars Day” (May the 4th), we thought that all month we would share some movies & television shows having to do with space & aliens!
By 1984, “You Can’t Do That On Television” had become a juggernaut of a show on the fledgling youth network Nickelodeon. What started out in Canada as a music/sketch comedy/call-in giveaway show grew into an American pre-teen/teen gross-out sketch show filled with green slime, boogers, & puke jokes as well as some “risque” sketches involving firing squads & a teacher named “Mr. Shitler” (not kidding).
At the height of its popularity with its current cast begging to age out of the show’s main demographic, the writers/producers of the show tried their hand at capturing the older teen/young adult demographic with a show about aliens. Filled with current/former cast members of YCDTOTV, the pilot “UFO Kidnapped” was born. The basic premise of the show was a group of humans (2 boys, an intellectual girl, & an old cat burglar) we kidnapped by aliens and are transported across galaxies into the unknown. The show didn’t garner the audience so Nickelodeon nixed its continued development.
Someone saved the pilot from obscurity on their VCR and posted the copy online…
What I Like
(Sketch found on the back of the 45rpm sleeve of Frank & Moon Zappa’s song “Valley Girl”)
You’re dancing on the line when you decide to blindly read rap lyrics on the air…
There probably will never be an event like “Hands Across America” again unfortunately…
Nor a song like “We Are the World“…
MattyV likes to collect vinyl that you can’t hear on a streaming service or reminds him of his earlier days. Collect what you like, that’s what matters most.
Rod Stewart’s “Love Touch” is a bit more memorable than the movie it was the theme song for…
Much like Dan Hartman’s “I Can Dream About You”…
This song was one in a line of “shuffle” songs that became popular, even the 1985 Chicago Bears had one…
Debbie Gibson was MattyV’s first “secret” teen crush, one of his first cassingle purchases was one of hers…
Not sure why there would have been a 45rpm single for the instrumental theme song for this television show, but MattyV has it…
This was a big hit when the show first aired, and of course there was a 45rpm single for the full-length song…
Sunday Cinema – “Project U.F.O.”
Since this month contains “Star Wars Day” (May the 4th), we thought that all month we would share some movies & television shows having to do with space & aliens!
Kind of an early version of “The X-Files”, this series from the late 1970’s follows 2 agents of the government’s “Project Blue Book” as they investigate UFO and extraterrestrial sightings. This particular episode looks into a case at Virginia farm involving a robot-like alien and an Air Force pilot who chased a UFO and died.
The series lasted 2 seasons, someone posted the first episode online to check out…
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