Gotta love Jeff, our resident stoner… Bud looks none too with it either… and the band’s name is simply “Plan 9” and this is thanks to a special friend of mine from Australia! Oh, and the movie… worst movie EVER. So bad, it’s great. Ed Wood was notorious for making films CHEAPLY plus showed no concern for continuity, story, characters… he thumbed his nose at the film industry and is an icon of crap film making. Johnny Depp played Wood in Tim Burton’s semi-biographical film he did in 1994 called simply “Ed Wood.” Original.
1973’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” from Elton John was a monster of an album. It had several big Top 40 hits which most folks remember “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fightin'” and the album title itself. This album marked the end of the rockin’ Elton. More and more his music mellowed after this. Which for Elton, was fine, but for a rocker like me, not so much.
But, it was a quiet little tune called “I’ve Seen That Movie Too” that sticks out for me. Not only does it fit today’s comic, but it has a great guitar solo from Davey Johnstone; the guy with the flowing long blonde hair in Elton’s band.
Yes, the comic is late this morning. Two reasons: One, I was up at 5:30AM on a SUNDAY to go take photographs for a client. He’s a great guy and one of a few I’d do that for… besides, he now owes me a ton of money for that weekend work. Two: I was on TGT Webcomics last night and you should go check out the archive at this link right here… click it! CLICK IT!!
So, I’m really tired and got up early to finish this up. What a trooper… yeah, right… Later, man.
*laughs* Plan 9 Music is the name of a great music store in Richmond, VA (http://www.plan9music.com/Home). I spent lots of time and money there during and after college, between 1983-93. The guys could do a lot worse for a name than that (I mean, they might have chosen “Shoooting Star” or something lame like that*). Hell, it marks the band as being way ahead of the pop-culture curve – that name would be extremely cool a few years later. (Admittedly, Punk had not yet taken hold in the US by 1977, and New Wave didn’t even exist…)
“Worst movie ever”? Nah – Plan 9 is at least entertaining! My vote for that dis-stink-tion goes to Batman and Robin, which cost a mint to make, involved A-List talent, and yet was brutally awful, stupid AND boring! Plan 9 is really no worse than many others of its kind – like, say, Manos: The Hands of Fate, Rat-Fink-a-Boo-Boo, the Giant Claw or Santa Claus Conquers the Martans. (Okay, that last one’s petty entertaining, too!) Sure, Ed Wood’s flicks are terrible by normal standards; as affectionate laugh-fests, however, they rawk!
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* – Yes, I know it’s a real band name. I actually really liked those guys, but I swear that name killed their career.
RE: satyrblade – Yes, Ed Wood made the folks at MST3000 very happy as it gave them so much material. But even by B-movie standards, Ed Wood’s movies were bad. The “spaceships” in Plan 9 were plastic toys an/or hubcaps from a car. Yes, I love to watch them (they’re especially funny when you’ve had a few hits) but they are bad. Okay, I’ll grant you maybe not the worst.
Those other films you named are not so great either; it seemed to be a competition in the 50s to see who could create the worst crap.
There are a TON of current films that are total crap. Beverly Hills Chihuahua being just one of many from last year. Yes, Batman and Robin stank, totally. So I’m glad they rebooted that series as it was terrible to leave it with that as the last Batman film.
awesome byron, AWESOME!
I had some buddies in college who named their band Plan 9. Now I have a sound in my head to go along with the visuals!
Wood’s films are featured in “It Came from Hollywood”, along with a bunch of other stinkers, show casing just how bad “B movies” can be. And since it is all snippets with narration etc. by Dan Akroyd, John Candy, Gilda Radner, and Cheech & Chong you don’t actually have to watch all of the ninety four (YES 94!) films fims featured.
Plan 9. I haven’t seen that in… too long!
It is almost like my story Susan Sorority sister turned Frat Mom. Susan and West Harris go to see Destination moon and fight to mars in techocolor. The pink ladies are with the sailors from the USS Canonaide a light bob tailed cruiser named after Union gun boats during the American civil war. It is diesel punk 1950 Thomas Deway wins the 1948 election so their is no Mc carthyism nor Korean war because the Chinese civil war has not ended. Susan is a major in astronomy and differential calculus among other subjects and being a flat chested cheerleader who dresses like a pin up according to the pink ladies who at first think she is a transvestie. Drives a Curtiss motorbike surfs and is kind to little creatures like spiders and toads gross out the pink ladies after she tricked them into eatting spinch. The pink ladies like to tease Wonda a track and field lesbian threaten to report her though the joke is on them the dean wants track and field he’ll do anything to get them so though luck. Her big sister hand Susan the job of being a frat mom but she now faces mean southern redneck women who are pissed that they have forced intergration in real Thomas Deway did have that policy in 1940 when he was governor of that state. Anyway the sailors don’t think the cattyness is funny and prefer Susan for the next time they tour the great lakes.