Off the Radar & Lipstick Mafia Present a Screening of Cult Movie 'The Room' Wed 2/4 @ The Standard

This Wednesday Off the Radar & Lipstick Mafia Present a Screening of Cult Movie "The Room" by Tommy Wiseau!

"The Room" (www.theroommovie.com) is being touted as The Modern Rocky Horror Picture Show and has been called by NPR "A Cult Hit So Bad, It's Good"

It might be the most unintentionally hilarious film of all time and the LM is bringing this Los Angeles cult phenomenon to MIA.


"The Room has even infiltrated the halls of cinematic academia. ''It is one of the most important films of the past decade,'' says Ross Morin" -Ent. Weekly

The film has a HUGE celebrity following, and stars are even doing screenings at their homes: "Role Models star Paul Rudd and Arrested Development's David Cross are both fans, as is Jonah Hill, who uses a still from the movie as his MySpace photograph. Heroes star Kristen Bell hosts Room-viewing parties at her house and last year attended the film's monthly Laemmle screening with Rudd, Hill, and Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright.


''There is a magic about that film that is indescribable,'' she says." -Ent.
Weekly

Doors at 8pm. Early arrival is encouraged for best seating.


Screening starts at 9pm sharp in the Standard lobby.


Off the Radar music from 8-12 in the Lido Bar by Ray Milian, Danny Ashe & Tom Wareham.


$5 beer, $6 wine, $8 cocktail specials all night.


Valet for $7 with bar validation. Carpooling, bike or taxi is encouraged.

Extra parking available at Purdy lounge (a short walk to the Standard)

Off the Radar
'Live Sessions'
Wednesdays
@ The Standard Hotel
8PM till Midnight-ish...
No Cover
40 Island Ave,
Miami Beach

*** After Party @ Purdy Lounge w/Joshy Josh & Off the Radar DJ's!!

Here's the Trailer for 'The Room'::

Sail Away....

MORE YACHT ROCK!!!!

In keeping with Chris' Yacht Rock theme, here are a couple tracks I heard this week-end that I thought would totally match that genre.

The first track I heard while watching one of those I Love the 70's VH-1 shows. They played a 5 second snippet of this song called 'Kiss You All Over' by Exile. I recognized the track right away from somewhere in my collective unconscious. At some point in my life I had heard this song played on the radio. Right away it reminded me of Yacht Rock. This track seems tailor made for that genre. The chorus is one of the smoothest things ever... That deep voice singing 'I wanna kiss you all over, till the night closes in...' It's Yacht Rock Gold!

MP3: Kiss You All Over - Exile (YSI)

The other track is from one of my favorite movies 'Running with Scissors'. If you've never seen this movie before I highly recommend you check it out! Based on a true story, it's amazing! With a great soundtrack and one of the best casts.

There's a scene in there towards the end when Annette Bening completely loses her mind and she starts spinning around and snow seems to be falling from indoors when this song by Manfred Mann 'Blinded by the Light' kicks in. Sheer brilliance! One of my favorite scenes in the movie. Perfect song for that scene and it totally reminds me of the Yacht Rock theme, although maybe a little rockier than most of the smoother Yacht Rock tracks, it's still excellent.

P.S. As I was researching Blinded by the Light I found it was originally a Bruce Springsteen song. It never did that well, until Manfred Mann covered it and it went on to reach #1 on the charts. Seems the mangled Deuce lyric which Manfred Mann appears to be saying Douche is one of the reasons Bruce attributes to the cover's greater success.  

MP3: Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann (YSI)

Here's the trailer for Running with Scissors...

Goodbye Horses...

I guess since it's been Halloween season they've been playing Silence of the Lambs on cable like crazy. One of my favorite/creepiest parts in that movie is at the end for the Buffallo Bill scene when he's dancing in drag in front of the camera to that amazing Q Lazzarus track Goodbye Horses. (Which was also spoofed to great effect on Clerks 2)

I don't know much about Q Lazzarus or what else he's done, but this track in particular is a classic! Everytime I play it out someone either (a) comes up to me to ask who is that? Or (b) comes up to me to tell me how much they love that song. I love it too! Been playing out every chance I get. So to that end I thought I'd post it here so you could have it for your own collection, that is if you didn't already have it, you enlightened Off the Radar reader you...

MP3: Goodbye Horses (Extended Version) - Q Lazzarus (YSI)

To refresh your memory here is the you tube clip of that Buffalo Bill scene from Silence of the Lambs...

Hotel Chevalier

I am anxiously waiting for the release of Wes Anderson's next flick The Darjeeling Limited. To wet our appetites, Anderson has released a short that acts as a prequel to the movie.

Hotel Chevalier is a 12-minute “prequel” to The Darjeeling Limited, starring Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman. It takes place in Paris two-weeks before The Darjeeling Limited. I believe it was originally part of the movie but trimmed out in the editing room to keep the movie an average length.

The film is available for free download from iTunes. You’ll have to have iTunes installed and a registered iTunes account in order to get the free download.

Click here to go automatically to the Hotel Chevalier download page. It should launch iTunes if you have it installed. Or you can just search for it in the iTunes store.

The Housing Market Bubble

Pop!

Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

Everybody knows the show. Everybody knows the song. It is interesting to see so many varied artists tackle the song since season 2 when contemporary artists replaced Malvina Reynold's original version from season 1.

It was a protest song from the 60's against the urban move out to a conformist suburbia. It is thought to be inspired visually by the houses of Daly City, California, as Reynolds lived in nearby Berkeley. (Many of the houses in Daly City were designed by Henry Doelger after World War II, resulting in the similar architecture of many houses there and in the surrounding areas. They feature flat roofs and predominantly right angles, giving them their famed box-like shape. -courtesty of good ol' Wikipedia)

The song fits perfectly with the show's plot.

MP3: Malvina Reynolds (YSI)
MP3: Regina Spektor (Season 2) (YSI)
MP3: The Shins (YSI)
MP3: The Decemberists (YSI)

Best That You Can Do...

Me and my girlfriend are out renting movies the other night and she had never seen the Dudley Moore 80's movie Arthur and wanted to see it. I love that movie so we rent it and check it out. As the movie is winding down, it ends with the Arthur Theme song called 'Best That You Can Do' by Christopher Cross. Such a great song! Makes you feel like your on an island vacation somewhere on the white sand beaches of the Bahamas. Away from your problems and just relaxing away with an ice cold Bahama Mama or Corona.

Anyways that song inspired me to do a post on movie theme songs written specifically for movies that I dig. It's funny how some of the real good ones get intrinsically tied with the movie in your head. You hear the song and bang you think of the movie.

Anyways as I'm looking for other tracks to put for the post one of the finalists is 'Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head' which originally was written for the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It's a song by Burt Bacharach and was his biggest world wide hit and even won the Oscar that year! You've probably also heard it recently in movies like Spider-Man in that scene were Peter Parker is all happy walking down the street.

Anyways as I go to Wikipedia to read up on Burt I see that he also wrote the music for the Arthur Theme song! What a coincidence.... So instead of putting up cheesy movie tracks that I like I decided to make this a Burt Bacharach post instead and pay tribute to some of his great songs.

Another track of Burts that helped him reach a newer/younger audience was his song 'What the World Needs Now is Love' off of the Austin Powers movie were he's playing the piano on the bus with Austin Powers introducing him while he's on his date. Love that! I hear he uses that Austin Powers intro to start off his shows.

Anyways check out these 3 great tracks by this talented fellow...

MP3: Arthur Theme (Best That You Can Do) - Christopher Cross/Burt Bacharach

MP3: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head - B.J Thomas/Burt Bacharach

MP3: What the World Needs Now is Love - Burt Bacharach w/Elvis Costello

Ha just for fun here was one of the cheesy movie songs I was gonna put up! It's the Bee Gee's Grease Theme song that starts off and ends the movie Grease. Love this track and the movie! It takes me back to when I was a kid. They keep playing it on TV lately. Love the cartoon drawings that go along with the song intro too!

MP3: Grease Theme - Bee Gee's