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Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine 11/12/15 - Classic Anime and Hentai

Birthing in the early 1960s with such works as Astro Boy and Gigantor, the art of Japanese animation arrived on domestic shores not long after. Things would change radically as we moved into the 1970s and such widely beloved cult series as Yamato (Star Blazers), Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets) and Macross (Robotech), even in their somewhat bowlderized and sanitized variants aired Stateside, blew the minds of kids accustomed to Hanna Barbera/Filmation/Warner Brothers style fluff with their comparative realism and mature themes (inclusive of such heady matters as interracial relationships, real-world style romances, character deaths and more)! Becoming a genuine underground cult craze among the youth of the 1990's, such late 70's/80's era space operas as Mospeada, Megazone 23, Dirty Pair and Bubblegum Crisis were joined by the syndicated television likes of Rumiko Takahashi (Urusei Yatsura, Ranma 1/2), Akira Toriyama (Dragonball), Voltron and Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon), opening the floodgates for a proliferation of anime magazines, late night/Saturday AM blocks on networks like TBS, TNT and Sci-Fi Channel, and entire stores dedicated to the sale of anime and related materials.   With the dawn of "meta" series such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, the "harem anime" (starting with Tenchi Muyo) and crossovers to the tabletop and videogame RPG (Slayers, Dragon Half, etc.), anime went from comparative obscurity and often isolated, small-scale fanbases to a global phenomenon overnight.   Join us as we talk the days of actual hand drawn, boundary-pushing animation, with nigh-adversarial relations between original language subtitle fans and the dubbing-only crowd, where fans would gather together based on a dawning appreciation of what remains many steps above the standard domestic, toddler oriented cartoon.  www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1

Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine 11/5/15 - Italian Sleaze

This week, we're digging down for a new low!   In Season 1, we'd addressed some of the leading lights of Italian cult cinema (Argento, Fulci), with the great Mario Bava and the men behind the poliziotteschi on tap for this season.  But there are many directors who "fall between the cracks", as it were: auteurs known best for their lack of inhibitions and willingness to jump on a popular trend and drag it down to new lows of seediness, bizarreness, even arguable haphazardness.   We've already attempted to rehabilitate the reputation of Aristide "Joe D'Amato" Massacessi...can we possibly salvage the likes of Umberto Lenzi, Rino Di Silvestro, Bruno Mattei, Andrea and Mario Bianchi, Renato Polselli, Luigi Baztella, Sergio Garrone, ALberto Di Martino and Sergio Martino? Join us as we dig even deeper than usual, when we tackle some of the seediest directors in Italian cult cinema!   Week 14  Italian Sleaze www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1

Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine 10/29/15 - Shaken...not stirred

This week, we'll be talking Bond and other spies! In the earliest days of the Cold War, unlikely monikered producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and his partner Harry Saltzman tapped into some very variant elements of the late 50's/early 60's zeitgeist and created the defining example of a martini-sipping, jet setting lounge lizard fantasy of an international spy.  Simultaneously able to work contemporary political tropes of anti-Communism and the hip, swinging macho dream of every potbellied suburban overlord, their version of Ian Fleming's 007 overtook the original and spawned a literal army of filmic and televised knockoffs, from the successful (Jerry Cotton and the Eurospy craze, John Steed, Jason King, Adam Adamant, Alexander Mundy, Simon Templar, James West and Artemus Gordon, the I.M.F.) to the strangely popular and comic oriented but failed (Man From Uncle, Get Smart, I Spy).   Join us as we separate the wheat from the chaff, only here on Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine! Week 13 Shaken...not stirred   Your hosts "Doc" Savage and Louis Paul www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1

Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine 10/15/15 - Who's Next

Welcome to Season 2 of Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine - your essential guide to all things wild and wonderful in the world of cult entertainment! Drop in for a spell, and join hosts "Doc" Savage and Louis Paul as we discuss the beloved, the hated, the weird and the wonderful world of cult film, music, television and more. As ever, we'll be covering classic films, shows, musicians and literature of the past, with an eye towards what new visions may still arise from the soullessly derivative mire of our modern age. Tune in, turn on and take a step outside the mainstream as we dig deep into the rich vein of cult cinema, music and television, right here on Weird Scenes inside the Goldmine!   https://www.facebook.com/Weird-Scenes-Inside-the-Goldmine-458358154345561/ First up, we're talking Who! With one of us quite well versed in and oriented towards the Classic 1963-1989 Seven/Eight Doctor run  and the other more of a Newvian (i.e. a died in the wool Nine-Twelver), sparks are sure to fly, and opinions will certainly beg to differ!  And then there's the whole Bill Baggs and Big Finish audio sidelines to consider... Hop in the Tardis and join the two Timelords as we sit in judgment and praise of one of the longest running and most beloved of science fiction (and pseudo-historical!) series ever aired.  We promise, it won't be in Old High Gallifreyan... Week 12 Who's Next Your hosts "Doc" Savage and Louis Paul www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1

Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine 10/1/15 - At last, Lucio

Welcome to Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine - your essential guide to all things wild and wonderful in the world of cult entertainment! This week, we're finally going for the throat! After kicking things off back in June with fellow Italian grindhouse legend Dario Argento and wending our way through such cult luminaries as Jess Franco, Paul Naschy and Joe D'Amato, we're finally bringing you the show you've all been waiting for: this is where we take on the infamous Lucio Fulci. The undisputed king of 80's zombie films and co-leader of the Italian extreme cinema movement, Fulci was actually quite a complex character, with roots in the industry dating back to the 1950s! Moving on from Franco & Ciccio comedies, Jack London knockoffs, early giallos and particularly angry, bloodthirsty takes on the western, Fulci at last came into his own with a series of controversially extreme, logic-defying metaphysical meditations on death and the unfairness of existence...buried beneath wild setpieces of undead mayhem and a level of blood spattering grue seldom if ever seen to that time.   Beloved by death metal bands, grindhouse patrons and video hounds alike, Fulci came into his own with the dawn of the DVD revolution, where his efforts were shown in their proper aspect ratio, uncut and restored to their original cinematic intent at last.   Is he the hack some still claim?  Or is there something more enduring than a mere tip of the hat to Lovecraftian ethos and the films of George Romero to be found in his work? Join us as we delve deep into the mysteries of cult film history, only here on Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine! Your hosts "Doc" Savage and Louis Paul https://www.facebook.com/Weird-Scenes-Inside-the-Goldmine-458358154345561/