Stardate 11072003
I’m no longer in Los Angeles. I’m trying to figure out how to be “one of those people who just pretends to live in Los Angeles,” as my friend Francesca says. I think I might be in San Francisco until February, curing my soul. Through the magic of the internet, I will just create the illusion that I’m going to all these places, when actually I’m just sitting around in a house in the San Francisco Bay Area watching the news and putting together a book proposal and curing outbreaks of “defense of marriage act” wherever it pops up.
So rather than write about a lot of irrelevant things, I’ll give you the latest San Francisco scoop.
The Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema wrapped last weekend with a screening of DOUBLE DARE, a film by Amanda Micheli. The Film Arts Foundation provides a wide range of support services, classes, equipment rental and finishing funds for San Francisco Bay Area film and video artists. DOUBLE DARE is a documentary about Jeannie Epper, the stunt double for Lynda Carter in the WONDER WOMAN television series. The film also follows Zoë Bell, the stunt double for Lucy Lawless on XENA from her final shoot on the show to arriving in Los Angeles and meeting Epper and her subsequent casting as Uma Thurman’s stunt double in Quentin Tarantino’s KILL BILL.
The movie features behind-the-scenes footage of the shooting of JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKES BACK and KILL BILL.
DOUBLE DARE has it’s official premiere at the AFI International Film Festival on November 14th at 10pm at the Arclight Cinema.
The film’s soundtrack featured music from one of my favorite bands, straight outta Humboldt, THE CUTTERS.
In other news, Tony Goldmark has hit the Demento charts again with “Teeth Clenched” for seven weeks he was in the #1 or #2 spot on the Funny Five. You can listen to Dr. Demento online through the WLUP Chicago website. And if they don’t play the song you can request it at Dr.Demento.com.
And LEGAL ACTION COMICS VOLUME 2 is now available through LAST GASP. The Legal Action series started out as a legal fund raiser for Danny Hellman but turned into a trade paperback showcase.
Save your milk money and corrupt your mind.
Like most of you, I watched the coverage of the fires in Southern California. THE CUTTERS newest album, IN THE VALLEY OF ENCHANTMENT, is named after one of the small mountain towns that were threatened in the fires. The lead singer, Angela Brown (aka Harp) and I went through puberty together in that town. In the 8th grade talent show, we lip-synced ROCK LOBSTER by the B-52’s. Another group of kids were lip-syncing a DEVO song and in true 8th grade fashion, we had an instant rivalry – DEVO versus The B-52’s.
I haven’t lived there for 20 years but I had a great time growing up in the woods, raised by wild animals, subjected to Angela and posing as the B-52’s. Her parents were evacuated like everyone else on the mountain.
That’s it. All the news that’s shit to print. Lots coming up though. HBO’s ANGELS IN AMERICA premiere, the San Francisco GREEN FESTIVAL and bizarre underground movies on the festival circuit that you simply HAVE to see.
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