The Zombie Popcorn crew had a road trip yesterday.  Our orginial plans of being zombies in a zombie western movie were canceled due to the weather.  So we did what any normal person would do – We went to a muesum. A muesum of collections,  collections of one eyed pigs, two-headed pigs, a tumor that fills a 10-gallon aquarium, a dresses worn by a 700 pound woman and fleas that are dressed up.

This was not your ordinary road trip because we hit a detour on the way.  In short, the story involves inteviews with possible serial killers, old men,  along with stories of history, the civil war and two dudes riding around with the windows down listening to Enigma.

For the full story, tune into Zombie Popcorn Radio to hear the interviews and more about the trip.  In the meantime, check out the photos.

A tumor that fills a 10 gallon aquarium

Human Skeleton

One eyed pig

Two headed pig

Paul with the Ironclad

Harry the man who told us many stories – listen to Zombie Popcorn Radio to hear these stories.

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I thought it was going to be a lonely Saturday night on Zombie Popcorn Radio, due to the snow but we had a very active night with all the phone calls and topics.  If you missed the show don’t worry because here is the re-broadcast and the topics.

• Michael Jackson in 3D
• House of the Devil
• Dune 3D
• Gremlins 3D
• TerrorDrome
• Snow in VA
• Dark Ambient
• and so much more

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Hear the horror like you never heard it before!   Hear rare and unreleased tracks from Hammer Films, Frankenstein, Dracula, the Phantasm series and so much more!

Take a trip back in time to hear over 50 years of rare  horror  themes from around the world!

That is right you heard it here first !

Zombie Popcorn Radio will pay tribute to horror movie soundtracks all day today (Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010).

So tune in at work, at home, at your child’s daycare center  and hear things  that have never been heard by human beings!

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I want to take you on a trip. A trip back in history to a simple time and (re) introduce you to a film that holds the title as the second horror movie ever made, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) directed by Robert Wiene.  To learn more about this film we need to take a trip to Germany when German Expressionist films were reaching their peak in Berlin in the 1920s.

It is often believed that The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was the first ever horror film, but the first horror film goes to a French horror film called The Devil’s Castle (Le Manoir Du Diable) made in 1896.  No matter what you believe to be the first horror film there is no doubt that The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a film that everyone should see and learn about its history.

The history of German Expressionist films is very fascinating about what directors did to produce such films on little to no budget by using set designs with wildly non-realistic, geometrically absurd sets, along with designs painted on walls and floors to represent lights, shadows, and objects.   When you watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari pay attention to the lighting and you will notice that most of the effects you see are not lights at all but just painted floors.  This type of artistic creation later went on to inspire the style and mood of the Universal monster movies of the 1930s.

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Ever wanted to win a date with a serial killer? No, most people wouldn’t but that is what happen to Cheryl Bradshaw when she went on the popular 1970’s television game show, ‘The Dating Game’.

According to news reports,

L.A. Weekly has obtained footage of alleged serial killer Rodney Alcala as creepy Bachelor Number One on an episode of NBC’s The Dating Game in 1978 where, yes, he actually won. Authorities believe Alcala murdered seven women and girls, raped several others, and kept their earrings as trophies in a secret locker

Here is that footage.

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Sometimes when you have good friends and a radio show you just have to talk about music.   So join us in this weeks re-broadcast while we interview Matthew from The Matthew Show.

Matthew plays live music for us and we learn more about his history in music.

Born and raised in rural Texas, matthew spent 10 years navigating the murky waters of the North Texas music scene in a variety of rock bands. He moved to New York in 2002 to begin a solo career as the matthew show, eventually moving operations back to the Dallas/Fort Worth area in 2006 due to hipster fatigue.

In 2003 his debut solo album, texas, was released to wide critical acclaim. His songs have been featured on two seasons of the PBS series Roadtrip Nation, and on National Public Radio’s All Songs Considered.

In 2005, his cover of Warren Zevon’s Mohammed’s Radio was included on the bestselling tribute album Hurry Home Early, and his song Bring Me Safely Down won second place in American Songwriter magazine’s Lyric Competition.

In 2006, his song Office Suite, Part I was used as the soundtrack to lonelygirl15’s YouTube video The Tolstoy Principle, which has since gained nearly half a million views due to coverage in Wired and the New York Times.

He has performed live with acts as diverse as Hamell On Trial and Goodwin, and headlined 2004’s JournalCon in Washington DC. He has worked with artists such as Cubano-classical favorites Las Rubias del Norte, NYC celebrity street musician Dorian Spencer, renowned violinist Reggie Rueffer, and avant-garde composer Little Jack Melody.

matthew performs regularly as Matthew Perreault in the virtual world Second Life, where his live concerts draw fans from around the real world and throughout the metaverse.

matthew’s non-musical activities have included writing and editing children’s nonfiction books, being one of Fandango.com’s first movie reviewers, providing commentaries on Dallas’ KERA FM, and performing as an extra on the late, lamented Walker, Texas Ranger.

matthew’s second album, february, was released in October 2008 by Wampus Multimedia:

februarythealbum.com

So grab some tea, put your feet up and lets have a listen…

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I am finding myself more and more fasinated with Russian culture as I have been reading about the Russian Civil War (1917 – 1923).  I have been reading about The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine also called Makhnovchina or the Black Army.  Makhnovchina was an anarchist army formed largely of Ukrainian and Crimean peasants and workers under the command of the famous anarchist Nestor Makhno during the Russian Civil War.

I have always been fascinated with stories of the songs of  revolution, no I am not talking about songs by the Beatles or some other 1969 band.  I am speaking of songs the people of groups of common people who take on great odds because they see an injustice. Songs like the Black Army sang to build morale or to send a message to thier oppressors.

Songs like this one;

La Makhnovtchina

Your flags are black in the wind
They are black with our pain
They are red with our blood
By the mountains and plains
in the snow and in the wind
across the whole Ukraine
our partisans arise

In the Spring Lenin’s treaties
delivered the Ukraine to the Germans
In the Fall the Makhnovshchina
threw them into the wind.

Denikin’s White army
entered the Ukraine singing
but soon the Makhnovshchina
scattered them in the wind.

Makhnovshchina, Makhnovshchina
black army of our partisans
Who battled in the Ukraine
against the Reds and the Whites
Makhnovshchina, Makhnovshchina
black army of our partisans
who wanted to drive away all tyrants
forever from the Ukraine.
Makhnovshchina….

It makes me sad that these songs are lost in our current society -lost in meaning and in history.  I should create my own a box set collection of ‘revolution songs’ to help keep this part of history alive.  (More after the Break)

When I was looking for songs of the Makhnovchina, I came across several bands that perform modernized versions of the old anarchis civil war songs.

Among them was a band that formed in the late Soviet Union in 1988 called, Mongol Shuudan.  Mongol Shuudan indentifies themselves with ideologies of the Black Army and Nestor Makhno.

side note: If you know of a good source of songs from The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukrain please send me the links.

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I want to share with you a piece of history not very many people here in the U.S. know about – Jiri Barta. 

Jiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animation director and is revered as one of the world’s most significant figures in animation.

Jiri Barta has made a career fashioning stunningly gothic worlds of horror and fantasy that are infused with sublime humor and intense moral examinations. Mixing the aesthetic traditions of such artists as Gaudi, Kafka, Poe, Fritz Lang, The Brothers Quay and Jan Svankmajer, Barta’s films are wondrous creations that go far beyond mere children’s tales.

His early paper cut-out extravaganzas-Disc Jockey (1980) and The Design (1981)-give way to the object ballet of A Ballad about Green Wood (1983), in which logs celebrate the eternal renaissance of spring. Old mannequins spend their cracked and broken lives In the Club of the Laid Off (1989), and myriad styles of handwear spring to life as a brief history of international cinema in the award-winning The Vanished World of Gloves (1982). Barta’s international reputation was cemented with The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1985), a very un-Disney adaptation of the classic German fairytale in which carved wooden puppets in a gothic cubist town are plagued by live rats. Considered one of the greatest works of puppet animation, it recalls the dark medieval epics of Ingmar Bergman. His only live action film, The Last Theft (1987), is a jewel thief/vampire flick shot in the style of 1970s European exploitation cinema.

So for those of you who are a fan or just finding out about Jiri Barta – I have uploaded a collection of his works in the video below.  If you would like to own his works you can buy a dvd on Amazon.

I hope you enjoy the films and look deeper into Jiri Barta’s work.

The list of works in the video below are;

• A Ballad About Green Wood, 1983
• The Club of the Laid Off, 1989
• The Design , 1981
• Disc Jockey, 1980
• The Last Theft, 1987
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1985
• Riddles For a Candy, 1978
• The Vanished World of Gloves, 1982

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