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Pop Offensive returns!
Once again, my dear friend Jeff Heyman and I will be taking over the studios of Peralta College's 9th Floor Radio to flood the internet with a wide assortment of foot stomping tunes from the 60s, 70s,...
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The offense lingers on
The PussycatsWednesday's Pop Offensive was another rousing success. For two glorious hours, the digital air rang with jaunty J-Pop, garrulous girl groups, percolating power poppers, yodeling ye ye...
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Bringing the funk in '014
Hey, do you remember books? They're those things you read that you have to pay for and which take up physical space in your domicile that could otherwise be used to display your Danzig nodder doll or...
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Next Tuesday: The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down returns with THE STABILIZER!
I may be on the cusp of becoming a published author, but that doesn't mean I've gotten too big for the Monthly Movie Shout Down -- especially when the fate of the free world is at stake! Because when...
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Tonight! The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down levels THE STABILIZER!
Shout Downers, has there ever been a greater night than tonight? It is the night that will see an end to our days of longing. A night when we will see a man who looks like a more muscled version of...
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"Oh, the stability!"
It's safe to say that last night's 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down of The Stabilizer was a barrel of fun. A big industrial barrel of fun filled with toxic chemicals and usually on fire. A big, mulleted...
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Podcast on Fire's Taiwan Noir Episode 13: The Devil Returns and Kill for Love
Let's be honest: The Devil Returns and Kill for Love are shitty movies. Nonetheless, Kenny B. and myself had a lot of fun talking about them. So much fun, in fact, that I think you will actually enjoy...
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The Ghost Hill (Taiwan, 1971)
If I made a Wuxia film, this would be the plot: A much coveted weapon of great supernatural power -- a magic sword, let’s say -- is stolen from a righteous sifu by an evil king and his grotesque...
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Pop Offensive returns this Wednesday!
This Wednesday, July 2nd, at 7 pm PT, Jeff Heyman and I will be returning to the studios of Oakland's 9th Floor Radio to flood the netwaves with retro pop, dance and movie music from around the world....
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Ago Go 67 (Singapore, 1967)
Produced by Shaw Brothers’ Malay language division under the direction of Nordin Arshad, Ago Go 67 hews very closely to the template set by the “pop review” type of films -- think Pop Gear, or Live It...
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Repeat offenders
Why "Pop Offensive", you ask? Simply put, the experience of listening to Pop Offensive reaches such extremes of sublimity that it can only be expressed in the language of warfare and violence. To wit:...
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This Tuesday: The 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down returns with ZODIAC FIGHTERS!
That's right, comrades. Once again comes the time for us to assemble and press ourselves to the hard work of nattering along to silly movies on the internet. The night is Tuesday, July 8th, at 6pm PDT...
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The debut of distinguished fightress Polly Shang Kwan as a subject of the 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down is as auspicious as Santo's was back in May. And tonight is the night! The stars are favorable,...
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Hot Plate Girl in the Land of Simper Fist
Last night's tweet-along by the 4DK Monthly Movie Shout Down crew to Zodiac Fighters was a concatenation of sharp wit and dull-eyed confusion. We could see what was happening, but we weren't always...
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