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Vice Squad. Last night Vice Squad (1982) played the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. VS is an exploitation film that Hunter turned me onto when I lived in LA; he swears James Cameron ripped it off for Terminator 2. With a crazy (crazy GOOD) performance from Wings Hauser as Ramrod, a psychotic pimp, I think he might be right. Hauser, a multifaceted artist/performer, wrote and performed the VS theme “Neon Slime.” Hunter attended the screening, a double bill with Angel, and asked Wings (Mr. Hauser if you’re nasty*), who made a special guest appearance at the screening, a great question about the film. Wish I was there.
*Really? A Janet Jackson ref? Slow joke day…
“Bang, bang, shoot ‘em up, feelin’ just fine… Been baptized in the river of the neon slime.”
Movie trailer for the fictitious adult film “Barn Swallow”* that Dave and I made a few years ago in Hollywood. It was eventually featured in the Channel 101 show “Burnt Rubber,” which unfortunately never made it to Prime Time. We shot it using Hunter’s old VHS camera that he purchased for $100 on ebay. I think it “enhanced” the production value tenfold.
*I was frequenting Quentin Tarantino’s “Grindhouse Festival” at the New Beverly Cinema at the time of this production. My newfound love of Don Edmonds’ “Bare Knuckles” heavily influenced the creation of “Burnt Rubber.”
