The above flier represents yet another beautiful day (back in the day) at the BAMCinématek. Tell me you don’t have the utmost respect for this outfit now that you know that The Toxic Avenger series got their well-deserved due. But more importantly, it looks like there’s a wikipedia article stub I can nurture to its full potential: The Toxic Avenger Part II.
And, as always, YouTube has the trailer to further convince you to add this masterpiece to your Netflix queue.
Oh, wait. you said “good”. Right. agreed…
I think you mean John Bon Jovi.
It’s bad enough as it is. I beg you, please be considerate. These people think a Sloppy Joe sandwich involves coleslaw and Russian dressing.
Jon Bon Jovi Vs John Mellencamp: that sounds like a Celebrity Death Match I would watch with glee, of course hoping they both lost.
Viva New Jersey.
@Terry A new low? Come on, you know this is just the tip of the iceberg.
At this point, I am very surprised that the true working class hero from New Jersey has not been mentioned: The Boss. I mean this is the card any Jersey fan will pull out right about now to garner a little credibility. So I guess I will trump them: Bruce is overrated…there, I said it.
This could easily explode into a family feud, for Antonella was part of the Bruce Springsteen fan club in Italy, and had traveled Europe widely to attend Springsteen concerts. There is even a funny story about her accosting the bass player that she may even tell you at some point. Personally, Bruce has never really been of much interest to me, though his appeal on Long Island was everywhere felt, but when put up gainst the bubblegum pop of the Ramones, I’ll go with the kids from Queens anyday of the week. Jersey be damned!
Gotta give it up for the Jersey shore, I do love it so. And just because the parts closest to NYC are kind of gross doesn’t mean the rest of the state is, its actually quite beautiful in some parts. We ain’t called the Garden state for nothing.
As much as I am fan of The Boss I’m still more of a Billy Joel fan. I guess that makes me a sell-out to the Long Island, oh well!
Just remember Jim everyone loves a Jersey Girl. I believe Tom Waits dedicated a whole song to being in love with a Jersey Girl and you cannot deny Tom Waits haha.
We loved them — and I’m still sentimental — there was a raw geeky ingenuity to the gore, but more importantly there was just that joy of everything that is good and bad about being a high school male wrapped up into those things. All the being way too cocky and impressed with yourself, all the catalog of fetish hung onto by the high school male (all the fear of women as well), but all raw energy and unhoned brilliance too.
In 1991 when I formed a rock band with friends, we called it The Smurf Nazis, partially in homage to Surf Nazis Must Die. No one except us got the pun. People kept asking us if we were really Nazis.
I kept saying, yeah, and we’re Smurfs too.
The most striking Troma vid I think is Tromeo and Juliet, which I only saw once — I was visiting my old high school friends for a mini-reunion and we decided to rent it… Maybe it was the beer and the 10 cups of coffee, but it struck me as kind of an oddly intriguing film… I mean — in certain ways, it could be read as an extremely avante garde take on Shakespeare — IF you took them as knowing they were satirizing themselves… but so long ago I’m not really sure. And many pots of coffee…