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…

LE MATOS – HOW DO I LET YOU KNOW [VIDEO PREMIERE].

Posted on February 18, 2010     7 Comments

As I was literally just about to post the infamous bareback riding scene from Private School in its entirety, the fine folks from LE MATOS forwarded me the cover they did of Phoebe Cate’s ‘How Do I Let You Know’. Upon first listen, I knew it was meant to be. There was absolutely no stopping a video compilation from being made. If you’re a follower of the book of TNUC, you should already know that the original song is a quintessential TNUC cut and has been featured here before.

This new rendition of the song is 5 minutes and 6 seconds of glistening gold that will bring you back to the days of peeking through window blinds, teenage fantasies and of course…Betsy Russell and Phoebe Cates. 

640 SAN VICENTE BLVD.

Posted on February 9, 2010     6 Comments



640 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048

On the triumphant night of February 22, 1986, Cannon Headquarters grand opening party was held in Los Angeles. If you were an important element of these city streets, you couldn’t afford to miss this night. In attendance that night was everyone from Michael Dudikoff, who could be seen sporting a full denim-on-denim wardrobe and sitting in a luxiourious sofa, emmursed in cigarette smoke, to dame Vanity, who halfway through the night drifted into a corporate office with her date, a bag of narcotics. Outside by the rooftop pool was Sly Stallone, conversing with Brigitte Neilsen about the global franchise that would be the Cobra film series. Too bad for Sly and the rest of us, Cobra only made it to one picture.

Trying to comprehend the amount of power and sheer explosiveness of what else went on behind these doors is something I for one, cannot do. So we’ll let the music do the talking. The following theme has been chosen because it is the only track worthy of contemplating The Cannon Group.

This is the entrance music upon walking into Cannon Headquarters. Each time you set foot on the grounds of this legendary corporate lair, this is the song that plays in the background. While streaming the track, take a long, hard glimpse at the above photo of Cannon’s fortress. You, your hot sister and even I…are just not worthy.


TYPICAL MORNING.

Posted on February 5, 2010     8 Comments


If you’ve ever pondered the notion of what TNUC was doing during the forgotten 1990’s, this exclusive peek inside could be your only chance. This never-before-seen footage of a typical morning surfaced last week from a laboratory archive in the Valley.
MOLTEN HEAT