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The theme song for
Sailor Martin, my pierced and tattooed ventriloquist dummy, a melancholy Hawaiian number about a hut on the beach occupied by a certain drunken sailor with a large number of naughty tales to tell.
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at 9:45 PM on May 7, 2008
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About how much can a writer expect to make for an adult screenplay? $400? Less? More? Anyone?
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at 10:43 PM on May 5, 2008
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Sailor Martin, a tattooed and pierced ventriloquist dummy, produces what sounds like his version of the scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy meets the Munchkins, except, in this instance, he has been shipwrecked, eaten some potentially poisonous bark, and may be hallucinating.
posted to MeFi Music by Astro Zombie
at 9:28 PM on April 30, 2008
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I had a dream last night that I was at the base of a pyramid, and there was something earth-destroying in the pyramid, like an ancient God-like evil. I had to work my way through the booby trapped maze of the pyramid to reach the evil before it awoke, and so I popped open my trusty laptop and went to AskMeFi and typed my first question:
How do I get to the center of a booby trapped pyramid maze. The answers started pouring in, and I began my mission, dodging ancient mummies and flying spikes.
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at 9:05 AM on March 31, 2008
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Weirdest and wildest films in the public domain.
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at 8:26 AM on March 10, 2008
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Yiddish curse words.
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at 10:57 AM on February 28, 2008
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Traditional Yiddish song from Poland or Russian, performed by voice and ukulele.
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at 11:36 PM on February 18, 2008
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Vegetarian substitutions four soul food dishes.
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at 8:57 AM on February 17, 2008
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If I was a teenager in the 70s, what style of martial art would have seemed the most badass to me? And why?
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at 4:31 PM on February 9, 2008
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Yiddish standard, performed for voice and ukulele.
posted to MeFi Music by Astro Zombie
at 11:30 AM on February 1, 2008
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50,000,000 Sparber Fans Can't Be Wrong
A blog detailing the many obsessions of Max Sparber, aka Astro Zombie, including
Galliano Cocktails,
fad dances from the Sixties, and, of course, many, many
Shatner films.
posted to Projects by Astro Zombie
at 6:12 PM on January 28, 2008
Hollywood Midget Movie Stars.
They started as
popular vaudevillians. (From a
review: "The chief feature, however, was the ten scenes in which the Singer Midgets appeared. The Midget strong man, the Midget conjurer, the Midget "Cleopatra" with the winning ways--these and many more were there.") They stormed the
New York stage. They were members of
The Lollipop Guild (YouTube link), as well as playing other
Munchkins. They were suspected of being
German sympathizers. But they may be best remembered for starring in the world's first
all-midget musical western. Now available for your viewing pleasure from YouTube: Part
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie
at 7:27 PM on January 21, 2008
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Help me find pen pals in each of my city's sister cities!
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at 11:57 AM on January 10, 2008
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Baba Yaga: The Making of an Independent, Low-Budget Horror Film
Having recently returned to screenwriting, an activity I did with tantalizing, if ultimately disappointing, hints of success as a young man, I have rediscovered the disappointment of sending scripts out and getting no responses whatsoever. Never one to take defeat gracefully, I have decided to just go ahead and make my own damn film, and to do it as an experiment in radical transparency. To this end, I have been blogging every step of the screenwriting process, as well as making the screenplay available as an online document as I wrote it, with all revisions available for the especially obsessed. Now the first draft is complete, and it is on the the process of preproduction and revision.
posted to Projects by Astro Zombie
at 7:16 AM on December 27, 2007
Changing my wardrobe.
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at 11:48 PM on December 26, 2007
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Virtual Tour of Steve's Weird House.
"Stephen resides in a Victorian home that is a cluttered combination of museum, library and art gallery, decorated with that old-world Addam's Family charm. Not only is every inch of every wall covered with art, but all the ceilings are also decorated." (
Via.)
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at 3:14 PM on December 23, 2007
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H.P. Lovecraft-themed foods?
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at 2:44 PM on December 19, 2007
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Sailor Martin, a pierced and tattooed Sailor Puppet, finds himself in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Christmas eve, and heads out to the bars.
posted to MeFi Music by Astro Zombie
at 12:26 PM on December 14, 2007
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Help me find blogs about Hollywood -- BUT (and this is important) about the place, not the industry. I am looking for blogs by and for residents of downtown Hollywood, East Hollywood, Griffith Park, the Melrose district, etc.
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at 5:06 PM on November 22, 2007
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All hail 70s-era Shatner! He began his career with some rather prestigious projects, appearing in
The Brothers Karamazov and
Judgment at Nuremberg, as well as some rather high profile appearance in
Twilight Zone and
Alfred Hitchcock Presents. But even then, there were hints of exploitation, such as 1961's
The Explosive Generation, in which Shatner played a teacher whose job is endangered when she speaks
candidly to kids about sex. And there was 1962's
The Intruder, a Roger Corman film from 1963 in which Shatner
played a carpetbagging racist inciting violence in a southern town. (
Clip.) And, of course, there was
Incubus from 1965,
a horror film in Esperanto. (
Clip.) But, after
Star Trek, at the start of the 70s, something went haywire.
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at 1:09 PM on November 16, 2007
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What do you call someone who hails from Hollywood.
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at 7:23 PM on November 14, 2007
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I Only Sleep With Celebrities
Join me as I attempt to make the transition from Omaha's most successful playwright to being yet another out-of-work screenwriter in the only way I know how: By writing a screenplay about my own experiences among Hollywood's homeless teenagers during the time of the LA Riots.
posted to Projects by Astro Zombie
at 7:17 AM on November 13, 2007
Once again, a song by my pierced and tattooed puppet
Sailor Martin , detailing a burlesque dancer in Cairo.
posted to MeFi Music by Astro Zombie
at 3:08 PM on October 11, 2007
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Set list for performing in an Irish bar.
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at 10:02 PM on October 6, 2007
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Darling it's better down where it's wetter.
For $2.5 million, this beautiful home can be yours:
Jelly-fish 45, designed by Giancarlo Zema is a floating dwelling unit for up to six persons. It's spacious dimensions are 10 metres high with a diameter of over 15 metres. The Jelly-fish 45 would be ideally situated in sea parks, atolls, bays and seas rich in flora and fauna. The Jelly-fish 45 allows the sea dwelling owners to live either above or below sea level in perfect harmony with the ocean environment.
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at 12:11 PM on October 3, 2007
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What are the worst covers of Bob Dylan's songs of all time?
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at 5:30 PM on September 10, 2007
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