tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:42:25 +0000i used to sing "streetcleaner" to the streetcleaner machine. well, as best as possible and in new jersey. when it was there. it only cleaned one side of the street at a time and we had to move our cars.http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (nathan)Blogger353125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-1409966073374233625Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:58:00 +00002008-06-25T00:03:43.060-04:00Dusty I THINK FOSTER'S RIGHT, WE'RE LOSING IT... Fran YEAH, BUT NOT TO THE ENEMY, WE'RE BLOWING IT OURSELVES...-z:do(t)d(thanks john's night of the living dead page!)lovehttp://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/06/dusty-i-think-fosters-right-were-losing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-1013585129167289259Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:17:00 +00002008-06-05T23:58:46.107-04:00further thoughts on eaten alive.i can watch tobe hooper's eaten alive any number of times. texas chainsaw is diurnal, stark raving adrenalized panic. eaten alive is its lunar shadow::voracious and reptilian! it is slithery and interior and lush and technicolor and shadowy. murmury and frequently unaudible; sideways motion. even though the plot is all like hey people get slaughtered and eaten by ahttp://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/06/further-thoughts-on-eaten-alive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-4396482407443879106Thu, 22 May 2008 17:25:00 +00002008-05-22T13:46:34.207-04:00[[[PS: investigation tells me that somebody else had nearly the exact same blog post back in nov. 2007. i checked because i found it unlikely that no one would have made this connection other than me. i defer to jellyjules.comhere is my original unoriginal post:unsuprisingly for dear readers of my increasingly atavistic blog, i am not voting for barack obama. if why is an important question to http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/05/unsuprisingly-for-dear-readers-of-my.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-9141575773106898973Thu, 15 May 2008 21:29:00 +00002008-05-15T17:34:20.934-04:00the difference between the tobe hooper's texas chainsaw massacre (1974) and his very next film, eaten alive (1977) , is not only three years but also that of waking up on the hottest day of the year plus eating a kilogram of mescaline whilst venturing out of doors in a borrowed gremlin with no brakes or air conditioner and that of languorously and recreationally falling down some nontreacherous http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/05/difference-between-tobe-hoopers-texas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-7758773044931278627Wed, 14 May 2008 04:38:00 +00002008-05-14T00:57:42.097-04:00the cheapest, safest and best synthetic hallucinogen available right now!!! = speed racer!!!!!! see this movie in theatres whilst you can as i don't think even if kenneth anger put something in italian futurisms drink to facilitate a three-way with tron would it be fit to wipe the mud off the non-yosemite mudflaps of speed racer. a nearly unparallelled work of information-dense cinematic vision::http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/05/cheapest-safest-and-best-synthetic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-9038197653893214478Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:07:00 +00002008-04-25T20:01:25.940-04:00the following is what is now an i guess open letter to eli roth. i think hostel pts. 1 and 2 together may be very well be the greatest american film of the past decade. i feel they are deeply important, deeply moral films about the distinction between person-and-object-hood or being and being-for and the corrosive slippage of exchage/use-value. moreover, they are warm and inviting movies; http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/04/following-is-what-is-now-i-guess-open.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-2661928349118067352Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:59:00 +00002008-04-24T09:12:19.082-04:00this has been quite a week for the forces of light and goodness in the florida house of representatives! first, they banned saliva. now, rep. ed bullard of miami would like our fair state to offer a xtian license plate with a giant raised honking cross to the left side and the words "i believe" under it. the argument for went something like "if people can belive in their local football http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/04/this-has-been-quite-week-for-forces-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-5984352727243652829Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:58:00 +00002008-04-24T08:59:00.354-04:00dancing to meshuggah is like mechanical bulls for caterpillars.http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/04/dancing-to-meshuggah-is-like-mechanical.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-577388671414456272Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:27:00 +00002008-04-23T01:30:03.112-04:00i love sick nurses. sick nurses is a candy-collated giallo-and-kruegerrand-and-just-plain -regular-crazed (i.e. nightmare on argento street word!) STP slick of a horror movie. straight turpitude on a greased slide to infini-heck. a cheerful avalanche of psychedelic misanthropy. not one person, well kinda one person, makes a moral decision in this film. i want the above poster for my house. it http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-love-sick-nurses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-3764066248137715238Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:40:00 +00002008-04-16T19:29:32.763-04:00greetings. i would like to call your attention to the florida legislature's attempt to criminalize salvia divinorum. the florida house has voted to ban and is now going to the senate floor. i am upset that this bill was co-sponsored by local person Rep. Mary Brandenburg, D-West Palm Beach. why anyone reflexively votes for democrats is completely beyond me. the salvia menace is surely one of thehttp://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/04/greetings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-6000941691142010533Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:12:00 +00002008-03-24T14:29:15.474-04:00one of the most singularly crazed racial fantasias in historical recall, 10,000 b.c. is like i don't know, if dw griffith, the glue addict, never fled the fatherland but stayed behind to direct birth of a tolerance, in which a lone white arctickly neolithic honky dude gets his blue-eyed even whiter cave bitch (yo cube!) jacked by some awfully horny semetic horse-driven slaver-types now pursuing http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/03/one-of-most-singularly-crazed-racial.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-431358853547475589Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:50:00 +00002008-03-05T21:59:38.158-05:00you have probably heard this elsewhere but sharp teeth by toby barlow is the best free-verse epic poem concerning rival l.a.-area weredog gangs written by an ad executive ever. this reminds you why like the iliad are so good at capturing people fighting, the immediately necessary coiling and extending at moment's notice, opening up into spaces, collapsing for velocity, hiding in the corner and http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/03/you-have-probably-heard-this-elsewhere.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-6813168582948053018Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:17:00 +00002008-03-05T22:03:40.221-05:00tetsuya watari is the most hardboiled actor-dude in the entire world ever. sure, he was like in tokyo drifter and stuff and sure, rocked, but dude was the lightning-rod atop the double-negative left-hand pinnacle of kinji fukasaku's yakuza film career: graveyard of honor (1975) and yakuza graveyard (1976). he looks the same in both movies: the hair-length with the least maintenance, the http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/03/tetsuya-watari-is-most-hardboiled-actor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-6228569849451695840Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:14:00 +00002008-02-26T08:23:48.114-05:00kei fujiwara's movies are like watching interzone cable access. her last movie, organ, was like dr. benway's freaking videodrome instructional how-to and her new movie, id, is like a herschel gordon lewis production given amyl nitrate and the first two swans albums pretending to be a dysfunctional family sitcom set on a swine hole and made to rotate until all parts flew off or collapsed inward. http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/02/kei-fujiwaras-movies-are-like-watching.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-5058221896653111437Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:01:00 +00002008-02-05T11:22:24.804-05:00it would be super easy to disregard the new fox terminator show as little more than a run-up to the cinematic relaunch of t4 whenever but really it deserves quite more better than that, even if just for taking t3 out of continuity. producing persons seem to be actual fans of the series and committed to making a good sequel to t2 in television program format. while i would have preferred that http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/02/it-would-be-super-easy-to-disregard-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-1266283041075036421Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:51:00 +00002008-01-16T18:08:54.583-05:00this year some of the most exciting movies i have been most excited about watching have been because benoit debie has shot them. not such a long time ago, directors were not auteurs but hired guns paid to do a job and the producer was seen as the creative force behind the project. cinematographers or directors of photography i think are beginning to have their days in the sun. christopher doyle http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-year-some-of-most-exciting-movies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-4281704401993329853Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:10:00 +00002008-01-14T19:29:06.545-05:00my favorite horror movie director of all time might! might! be david cronenberg who sadly doesn't exactly make horror movies anymore too much exactly. note to david and viggo mortensen: totally great! keep up the partnership! yay! so the people who are able to take cronen-horror into the new century are totally here and they totally rock. billy o'brien's film isolation and carter smith's short http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-favorite-horror-movie-director-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-6154692676534284028Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +00002008-01-14T19:04:00.030-05:00yeah so i am totally going to blog about getting a sinead-stylee full profile tattoo of the re4 red-robed goat-skull-headed dude with his up in my sniper sights and then not actually do that because it would really hurt and eventually fall apart although years of satisfaction would follow me around for years.http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2008/01/yeah-so-i-am-totally-going-to-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-7224523851568063385Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:13:00 +00002007-12-08T14:00:09.383-05:00immediately pick up and read the shock doctrine by naomi klein. this is the single most important book published this year, if not this decade. against obscurantism, against conspiracy theory, against the misuse of language and media, against apocalypticism. this is one thousand plateaus through the looking glass and out the other side: finally, the secret, actual history of late capitalism. http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2007/12/anyone-reading-this-should-stop-reading.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-5447639919352211332Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:09:00 +00002007-11-16T18:43:32.541-05:00throw everything on the floor and go watch wrong turn 2: dead end! yes! ripsnorting entertainment straight out the box and direct to video! this is movie delights the whole way through! bratty, irresponsible, apathetic to decorum, endlessly satisfying. made for hardly no monies, there is not a stretch of lazy filmmaking here; consistently giving you exactly what you want while avoiding immediatehttp://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2007/11/throw-everything-on-floor-and-go-watch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-2596060883447353226Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:13:00 +00002007-11-10T12:46:16.980-05:00britney's blackout is a straight-up drug-and-tinsel-and-goddess-knows-what-else soaked middle finger to pretty much everyone not on the britney party-train. this makes it a sure-fire contender for album of the year. nothing but one hot disco track after another. this is the sound of ravenous, all-consuming want and the more-than-sufficient lack of concern to wield it. britney is finally unleashedhttp://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2007/11/britneys-blackout-is-straight-up-drug.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-2210107524249328718Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:42:00 +00002007-11-09T18:04:06.515-05:00the durability of aesop rock's none shall pass stands up over repeatedly listening as def jux's dare iz a darkside which in 1994 clocked as more retro-psych-functional than the flaming lips and even after seeing them on 90210 on antipsychotics with that ronald guy on guitar both of which were totally obliterated-thru zoviet france's digilogue-era contribution to isolationism. heck! that sufi http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-like-durability-of-aesop-rocks-none.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-221014367969811612Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:17:00 +00002007-10-31T08:19:26.507-04:00Q: KITTY CAT SAYS WHY LOBOTOMIZE PUMPKINS?http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2007/10/kitty-cat-says-why-lobotomize-pumpkins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-5968137377926567356Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:13:00 +00002007-10-31T08:19:57.247-04:00A: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! BEARS WANT SNACKS! http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2007/10/happy-halloween-bears-want-snacks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612860.post-8312736511409548523Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:39:00 +00002007-10-26T11:53:57.851-04:00roky erickson really would have been the only logical successor to gene siskel but i understand that he was more than likely preoccupied. in recent years, films that roky recommended to me when i was in high school have finally come out on dvd and they are pretty excellent movies. i walked with a zombie i watched last year or the year before that i think when i was falling asleep to the val http://streetcleaner.blogspot.com/2007/10/roky-erickson-really-would-have-been.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (nathan)0