A day of mutation, mudoids and metal. Though not much heavy metal, mostly rusty metal, so YMMMV, as it were.
4.04pm
Space Ghost Ep 2
More Spacey Ghostey action.
4.25pm
Pee-wee’s Playhouse – Season 1 Episode 3 – Rainy Day
More chaos and discordant discombobulation with Pee-wee and the gang
4.49pm
Nero Wolfe – Season 1 Episode 1 – The Doorbell Rang
The orchid obsessed gourmand gumshoe returns from the pilot with another episode soiled with sticky mystery.
6.23pm
Cry Wolfe – Season 1 Episode 4 – The Other Woman
Brian tosses the pigskin again. This week there’s (gasp) another woman. Can you believe it? You’ll wish you couldn’t.
6.44pm
Mutoid Waste Company documentary
A documentary on the metal-beast-wrangling performance group from 1996 by Marcus Kanter following some of their activities on the continent – there also is an older, yet incomplete, feature on them from the 1986 series South of Watford on Youtube for the curious. (Taken from here (pt 1) and here (pt 2).
7.14pm
Duel (1971)
Dennis Weaver gets chased about by a big truck in this classic 1971 Spielberg film.
Produced by Universal Television, Duel originally aired as a part of the ABC Movie of the Week series on November 13, 1971. It later received an international theatrical release in an extended version featuring scenes shot after the film’s original TV broadcast. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with Spielberg’s direction being singled out for praise. It has since been recognized as an influential cult classic and one of the greatest films ever made for television.
8.43pm
Jon Benjamin Has a Van – Season 1 Episode 1
Today, Jon and the crew learn some hard lessons about borders and passport-control.
9.05pm
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Two-Lane Blacktop is an American road movie directed by Monte Hellman, written by Rudy Wurlitzer and starring songwriter James Taylor, the Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, and Laurie Bird.
Two street racers, the Driver and the Mechanic, live on the road in their highly modified, primer-gray 1955 Chevrolet 150 two-door sedan drag car, and drift from town to town making their income by challenging local residents to impromptu drag races. Racing ensues.
10.47pm
I Am a Mutoid: A Glastonbury Hero
A BBC4 documentary on the group from 2021 – from Joe Mutoid’s own website:
“I Am A Mutoid” traces the extraordinary artistic journey of Joe Rush, Glastonbury Festival’s master builder of rock n’ roll environments and dreamer of mutant worlds.
In 1984, Joe Rush founded the Mutoid Waste Company, a punk travelling collective of wild and subversive performers whose credo is the art made of waste, the free parties and the road.
Both a counterculture and a movement of resistance defending an underground ideal, they defied the Thatcher’s regime repression by staging spectacular illegal raves in derelict urban environments they occupied and mutated. From Glastonbury Festival to Berlin, Milan or Barcelona, their mechanical world of mutant installations and machines built on the military and industrial waste of our consumer society is legendary.
The wealth of rare and unseen archives filmed by the Mutoids themselves ( London warehouse party scene in 85, Glastonbury Festival in 87, Berlin in 89 and 92 …) bears witness to the creativity, the freedom, the anarchy, the fight and the repression, the subversion and the rallying power of a travelling art movement that shook up the alternative cultural history of Europe and deeply influenced the festival culture.
11.51pm
The Drinky Crow Show – Season 1 Episode 5
More drunken adventures with Drinky and Uncle Gabby.
12.02am
The Venture Bros. 106 Tag-Sale — You’re it!
The family have a super-science garage sale which, of course, is a fantastic idea, what with shink-rays and super-villains and what-have-you.
12.27am
The Venture Bros. 107 Home Insecurity
Doc (he doesn’t as it turns out, misremembered somewhat) leaves the boys on their own for the night, Brock goes camping, while Baron Underbite and The Monarch sharpen their claws…
00.56am
Space Ghost Coast to Coast – Episode 2 – Gilligan
Special guest Gilligan from Gilligan’s Island. Gilligasmic.
01.11am
He And She, Episode 1 – The Old Man And The She
Starring Paula Prentiss (The Stepford Wives, The Parallax View) and Richard Benjamin (Westworld) in this 1967-vintage sitcom (also featuring Jack Cassidy and Kenneth Mars).
(from Wikipedia) He & She is widely considered by broadcast historians to have been ahead of its time. Its sophisticated approach to comedy was viewed as opening doors to the groundbreaking MTM family of sitcoms of the 1970s, beginning with The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. The character of Oscar was openly the pattern for the Ted Baxter character, for which creator Leonard Stern granted permission.
01.42am
The Norm Show – Season 1 Episode 7, Denby’s Kid
Mr. Denby’s son Jason doesn’t want to go to military school, but culinary school. Norm backs him, opposing his dad, until he discovers Jason likes to cook with marijuana. Norm’s probation officer Ed investigates. Laurie and Molly deal with a cat lady.
02.04am
Getting On with James Urbaniak – Ep. 2 “A Public Apology” by Brie Williams
James apologizes for an insensitive remark and waxes poetical about pie a la mode.
02.16am A cabride + mix from Ill Chemist and Al Dente
Playlist unavailable, alas, but hosted here
