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Don’t miss this event! Get tix here! I’m so excited about this show I am taking deep breaths to The Porpoise Song in order to calm down!  Join us for a salute to “Head,” the trippiest psychedelic cult film of all-time. Written by Jack Nicholson and starring the Monkees, with guest appearances by everyone from Frank Zappa to Annette Funicello, this brazen and bizarre 1960s musical comedy must be seen to be believed. The evening will feature a screening of the 86-minute film in high-definition sound and picture, followed by a panel moderated by Kurt Loder (“The Good, the Bad and the Godawful”) and featuring Monkees historian Eric Lefcowitz (author of “Monkee Business: The Revolutionary Made-For-TV Band”), author and podcast host Julie Klausner (“I Don’t Care About Your Band”, “How Was Your Week”), author and music journalist Rob Sheffield (Rolling Stone), and other special guests. The ultimate tribute to a cinematic milestone, “Night of the Living Head” is the acid flashback you’ve been waiting for.

Don’t miss this event! Get tix here! I’m so excited about this show I am taking deep breaths to The Porpoise Song in order to calm down! 

Join us for a salute to “Head,” the trippiest psychedelic cult film of all-time. Written by Jack Nicholson and starring the Monkees, with guest appearances by everyone from Frank Zappa to Annette Funicello, this brazen and bizarre 1960s musical comedy must be seen to be believed. The evening will feature a screening of the 86-minute film in high-definition sound and picture, followed by a panel moderated by Kurt Loder (“The Good, the Bad and the Godawful”) and featuring Monkees historian Eric Lefcowitz (author of “Monkee Business: The Revolutionary Made-For-TV Band”), author and podcast host Julie Klausner (“I Don’t Care About Your Band”, “How Was Your Week”), author and music journalist Rob Sheffield (Rolling Stone), and other special guests. The ultimate tribute to a cinematic milestone, “Night of the Living Head” is the acid flashback you’ve been waiting for.

Jul 12, 12

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Get the new episode of my podcast from iTunes or download/stream it directly here! How Was Your Week: Episode 66“The Mingus Method: Kurt Loder, Nathan Rabin” Lights, Camera, Podcast!This episode of How Was Your Week is mostly about movies. Take your seats and pop your corn! First up, KURT LODER (MTV, Reason.com) is here to share a list of his favorite films that nobody else has really seen, including The Saddest Music in the World, The Midnight Meat Train, and The Fountain. You may know Kurt from MTV, but his film criticism is top-notch. Buy his book, The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st Century Movie Reviews, here! Then, NATHAN RABIN (My Year of Flops, The AV Club) joins Julie to talk in depth about two terrible Beatles movies: Paul McCartney’s Give My Regards to Broad Street and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, starring The Bee Gees. An important conversation about how great the Beatles are and how insane these movies turned out to be, mostly for reasons having to do with folly, hubris, and Tracy Ullman.Also: A treatise on Crispin Glover and fresh-pressed vegetable juice! A jazz musician’s cat-related toilet project! Fiona Apple’s long sweater and Francis Ford Coppola’s nipples! Fancy chickens and why you shouldn’t fight with theater ushers! And a hunch that Soon-Yi Previn watched the last season of Entourage.Plus: A call for redheaded ladies coming to the June 27th How Was Your Week Live who want makeovers, Colin Firth naked, what Paul McCartney’s movie self dreams about, what Kurt Loder does and doesn’t like about Quentin Tarantino, and when to listen to the White Album. Enjoy this!

Get the new episode of my podcast from iTunes or download/stream it directly here!

How Was Your Week: Episode 66
“The Mingus Method: Kurt Loder, Nathan Rabin”

Lights, Camera, Podcast!

This episode of How Was Your Week is mostly about movies. Take your seats and pop your corn! First up, KURT LODER (MTV, Reason.com) is here to share a list of his favorite films that nobody else has really seen, including The Saddest Music in the World, The Midnight Meat Train, and The Fountain. You may know Kurt from MTV, but his film criticism is top-notch. Buy his book, The Good, the Bad and the Godawful: 21st Century Movie Reviews, here!

Then, NATHAN RABIN (My Year of Flops, The AV Club) joins Julie to talk in depth about two terrible Beatles movies: Paul McCartney’s Give My Regards to Broad Street and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, starring The Bee Gees. An important conversation about how great the Beatles are and how insane these movies turned out to be, mostly for reasons having to do with folly, hubris, and Tracy Ullman.

Also: A treatise on Crispin Glover and fresh-pressed vegetable juice! A jazz musician’s cat-related toilet project! Fiona Apple’s long sweater and Francis Ford Coppola’s nipples! Fancy chickens and why you shouldn’t fight with theater ushers! And a hunch that Soon-Yi Previn watched the last season of Entourage.

Plus: A call for redheaded ladies coming to the June 27th How Was Your Week Live who want makeovers, Colin Firth naked, what Paul McCartney’s movie self dreams about, what Kurt Loder does and doesn’t like about Quentin Tarantino, and when to listen to the White Album.

Enjoy this!

Jun 8, 12