THE SOUND OF SEAGULLS.

Posted on March 22, 2010     3 Comments

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OK, we’ll give George Michael a pat on the back for coming up with the initial saxophone riff to this song while he was on a bus ride home from a radio station interview, but full credit must go to saxophonist Steve Gregory who laid down the final product. So George, hang out in your favorite gas station bathroom for a bit.

Today we’re focusing on the instrumental version of ‘Careless Whisper’. Doing this ensures nothing but high-flying saxophone and a sultry beat. Listening to this song brings people many different feelings and images. Weather its the vision of soaring seagulls, or maybe dipping a loved one in a lusty bath of honey, this track should wash some very strong emotions over you. So gentlemen, lock eyes with the nearest woman in the room, throw on your best pair of white slacks and sock-less boat shoes and dance with her to the polished rhythms. Preferably on a yacht.

Wham! featuring George Michael – Careless Whisper (Instrumental)
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WAY SLOWER.

Posted on March 17, 2010     3 Comments

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The powers behind the Brooklyn, NY outfit Games remain mysterious to me. What data I have gathered behind this project is that they like it slow. In fact, they like it so slow that they’ve created a home for their sludgy, slower-than-molasses style disco on a tumblr site called Way Slower. Not only that, but these lovers of leisure have created a mix entitled ‘Heaven Can Wait – Mixtape Vol. 1’, which gradually takes classic italo/euro-disco hits down a long corridor and mutates them into massive, slow epics.

The mix could have been the background music to Buffalo Bill’s transsexual dungeon of paradise BEFORE we got to hear Q Lazzarus’s ‘Goodbye Horses’ in The Silence of the Lambs. But don’t let that creep you away now. This mix is magic…

1. SANDRA – HEAVEN CAN WAIT
2. KATY GRAY – HOLD ME TIGHT
3. VALERIE DORE – THE NIGHT
4. VOYAGERS – DISTANT PLANET
5. SANDRA – MARIA MAGDALENA
6. ANSWERING MACHINE – CALL ME MR. TELEPHONE

BODHISATTVA.

Posted on March 14, 2010     1 Comment

“They only live to get radical. They don’t understand the sea, so they’ll never get the spiritual side of it.”

-Bodhi

SEE YOU IN THE NEXT LIFE.

Posted on March 11, 2010     3 Comments

Join Swayze’s rugged ride through the dusty desert and into the sun’s abyss with this haunting melody from Mark Isham’s score to Point Break.

This theme is a skillfully moving piece that hopefully sends you soaring over sun kissed valley-sides and under the silhouetted palm trees of California. But most of all, guides you through the mourning of heros that have made an imprint on our youth and evoked nostalgic memories that will last lifetimes.

The song is actually titled Love on the Beach on the soundtrack/score, but I couldn’t help naming it for the moment as “See You In The Next Life”, which I feel is way more appropriate. Now that our friend Patrick Swayze has been gone for a few years, the scene when he yells that line to Johnny Utah is such an emotional roller-coaster. 

QUINTESSENTIAL.

Posted on March 4, 2010     8 Comments

I would like to start out by stating that if 1986’s The Wraith isn’t part of your personal VHS or LaserDisc library, you basically have no business being here.

With that said, one’s excuse for not owning this masterpiece could be due to the fact that the film never really had much of a proper DVD release, until now. Just this week, Lionsgate finally grew a set of nads and got with the program, releasing a widescreen special edition of The Wraith. If you haven’t figured it out yet, this movie quite possibly could be THE quintessential TNUC picture of paramount.

The Wraith is a film that centers on the arrival of a new kid in town-Jake (Charlie Sheen) as well as an unforgettable gang of misfit-road-pirates that race local teens to steal their cars. Everything seems to be going swimmingly for the young ruffians until a new mysterious, futuristic car roars into the lives of the gang. What no one knows is that the exotic black car is out to see the demise of the gang. And there is something else…a “Wraith”. A phantom spirit that is somehow connected to the new car and somehow connected to the new kid in town, Jake. While all this is happening, Jake is also taking care of other business with a buxom fox named Keri (Sherilyn Fenn). Jake and Keri spend their days riding on the back of Jake’s dirt bike, snacking on burgers at Big Kay’s and fornicating in Arizona hot-springs.

This movie screens at the TNUC lair literally all weekend long. If you’re in Valley territory on Friday nights and catch a hint of cheese pizza and cold beer, you know you’re in close range.

On top of all of that, the movie features a rip-roaring soundtrack that compliments the film in every epic form. With the over abundance of hot stuff featured on this soundtrack, it would be a shame to post only one track. Here is the soundtrack in its entirety…

      The Wraith Soundtrack (1986) download
01 Tim Feehan – Bad Mistake
02 Honeymoon Suite – Those Were the Days
03 Stan Bush – Hearts VS Heads
04 La Marca – Hold on Blue Eyes
05 Jill Michaels – Young Love, Hot Love
06 Ozzy Osbourne – Secret Loser
07 Lion – Never Surrender
08 James House – Bad Mistake
09 Ian Hunter – Wake Up Call
10 Bonnie Tyler – A Matter of the Heart

TAKEN BY THE NIGHT.

Posted on February 28, 2010     2 Comments

Sometimes at the end of a long night when she’s finished delivering pizzas, the only way home is to ride her motorbike down one of the most notorious back alleys of the city. Her tires roll over the damp and blackened pavement. She tries to block out the filth and slime of the late evening hours with the night rhythms that bellow out of her earphones. Night rhythms such as this one…

MOLTEN HEAT