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Loose Leaf: Weed Reviews By Zirp. This Week: "Larry Burns"

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"I'm like a rug on Valium. I'm talking lazy!" - Larry Burns I'm currently smoking on Larry Burnz from Good Chemistry. While it's an indica-leaning hybrid, it doesn't have me feeling quite as lazy as its namesake, but it is nice and relaxing. A nice little something for a chill evening. I recommend it, but if this strain is too nice for you, I've got some crap. Nah, just fuckin' with ya. "Crap." What is this, 2003?! 

Tune In Tuesday "The House Where Death Lives"

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Meredith Stone, a home care nurse, has been assigned the duty of looking after a wealthy invalid named Ivar Langrock. Cooped up in Langrock's stately country mansion, Meredith quickly suspects that someone sinister is lurking in the manor's dark halls only to discover that Ivar's demented and violent son has been locked away in a hidden room. Shortly thereafter, Ivar's grandson Gabriel also moves into the house and with his arrival a mysterious killer soon begins murdering members of the Langrock family along with their live-in staff. Bizzare early slasher that despite its 1980s production date, owes more to 70s slow burn murder mysteries and the juxtaposition between the working class and the artisotcractic. A film that deals in the oppression of isolation, Forbidden and twisted love, and the secrets lurking just beneath the surface of normality.  Vinegar syndrome has yet again provided cinephiles with an education. The Fellas from the Hysteria Continues po...

Weirdo Westerns 002: Barquero

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A total dad movie. Lee Van Cleef Vs Warren Oates? Watch this already. The greatest spaghetti Western ever made in America by non-italians.

Weirdo Westerns 001: Johnny Guitar

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This has to be the most avant garde western of the 1950s. The "Trucolor" photography still stuns in its vivid glory . Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden (the Johnny Guitar of The title) own every scene they are in. Mercedes Mccambridge plays the kind of alarmist villian that is all to real in our history. Nicholas Ray made a Western like no other, A true Weirdo movie.

Outer Order Movie Club #1

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A Movie Review Podcast coming soon..

The Choir A Poem By Ray Zag

The Choir sang off key… Hold a vigil for my memories, Candles flicker off the wall  Hold a vigil for our reveries, I just hope you had a ball I remember moonlit nights, Blue-line T stations; triple decker backdrops  I remember sun drenched days, Eyeballs in skulls, wrapped in skin looking for roses, finding dead grass The unbearable heft of depression, As the bass from the bar below reverberation caught in the  black eyes of a mouse Fidelity flawed, intuition cut in thirds And the choir sang off key And the choir sang off key Years divided by months, Months divided by days Corpses at the alter,  Bloated, blackened, scythed Ghosts of urbanization, caught in limbo Set ablaze by condominiums  Where their buildings stood erect  People haunted by realities, of dreams they never met The only difference between me, and Francis Scott Key is when they light my fucking vigil,  may the choir sing off key  

Tune In Tuesday: Trans Europ Express (Kino Lorber Blu Ray)

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A "parody of the old New Wave crime eroticism movies" (The New York Times), TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS is a self- referential, neo-noir thriller, with heavy doses of sado-masochism, from the mind of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Last Year at Marienbad). On the train from Paris to Antwerp, a director (Robbe-Grillet) and his production team hash out the plot of a crime movie. Their story is enacted by Jean Louis- Trintignant (Amour), who plays Elias, a cocaine smuggler seduced by Eva (Marie- France Pisier, Celine and Julie Go Boating), who may be working for a rival gang. But as the director keeps changing the story, Elias becomes lost in a labyrinth of false leads and shifting allegiances. Grillet creates hypnotic, Ritual Art with repeating patterns and the introduction, slowly, of variations on a theme. A chess game in a cracked mirror.

Zags Netflix Top Ten:

1.All Quiet on the Western Front (Grammy Award winner) 2.Ballad of Buster Scruggs 3.Uncut Gems 4.The Irishman  5.Silver Linings Playbook  6.Everything Everywhere All At Once  7.Oldboy 8.BEEF (A24 Series) 9.The Florida Project  10.Don't Look Up

Negative in flowers A Poem By Ray Zag

Negative in flowers  I’m negative in flowers,  While skylines scream in pain I’m negative in flowers, Where concrete meets the rain  The impact of loneliness in small rooms  Impersonal reveries in city mazes where death stalks love to the soundtrack of  sirens and bus brakes  Beautiful California women, the only means  to my end My father dead at 27, my mother a drunk But they meant well; arrested development  on the east side of Boston  Monsters and lovers, hot city nights leaving  my soul on rigid sidewalks  My sins spread thin, storefront windows reflect  my pain as I pass by, embarrassed  Car horn backdrop, urban anonymity  Silver linings with bad intentions, as I hold you tight, 10 minutes before  the alarm goes off, transcendental pain  as the sun rises over our lives, as the sun rises over our lives I’m negative in flowers, A bouquet for the dead I’m negative in flowers, A bouquet for the dead

Tune In Tuesday: Brainscan (1994)

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Lonely teenager Michael (Edward Furlong) is thrown into a world of horror when he plays an interactive video game called Brainscan in which he commits all sorts of murderous deeds at the behest of the computer-generated Trickster (T. Ryder Smith). When it appears as though Michael's in-game exploits may have real world consequences, can he escape the Trickster's influence before it's too late? Frank Langella, Amy Hargreaves, Jamie Marsh co-star in this sci-fi shocker.  NEW Audio Commentary With Assistant To The Director Tara Georges Flynn NEW A Virtual Debut – An Interview With Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker NEW Talking With Trickster – An Interview With Actor T. Ryder Smith NEW Merging Realities Featuring Interviews With Special Make-up Effects Supervisor Steve Johnson And Special Make-up Effects Artists Andy Schoneberg And Mike Smithson NEW Musical Virtuosity – An Interview With Composer George S. Clinton Trickin’ With Trickster: Vintage Behind-The-Scenes Fu...

10 Things on Netflix Actually Worth Watching

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1.The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2.Midnight Gospel 3.Monty Pythons Flying Circus 4.Ripley 5.Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2 6.Leave The World Behind 7.I Am Not Okay With This 8.I’m Thinking of Ending Things 9.Inside Job 10.The Otherside Of The Wind

Tune In Tuesday:Triple Feature Birthday Special: The Dark/The Being/Creature From The Abyss

This is the Kind Of DVD I would cherish as a teen. Not sure if Media Blasters Intended this, but they picked an interesting, semi-obscure monster movie from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Good stuff.  The Dark (1979): All your Dads Favorite actors in a muddled story but heavily atmospheric horror flick from 79, lots of whispers of "the dark" on the soundtrack. Supposedly the story is "A writer (William Devane) and a TV newswoman (Cathy Lee Crosby) link a California killing spree to an alien werewolf in blue jeans" in execution its sort of like David Lynch directed an Episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker.  So obviously I love it. The Being (1983): Jackie Kongs first movie, who would go on to make Blood Diner. One of the best examples of an 80s Monster Movie.  In It, A sewagestein mutant terrorizes a Idaho town.  What makes it work if the movie takes its ridiculous premise seriously, the monster is ridiculous in an awesome way, but the movie never smirks at the audience, now...