The Freak Accident Summer Reading List!

It's official. The Freak Accident Podcast has moved from the PC to the Mac, and Jeremy is glad to welcome you with an all new intro. In this episode, Jeremy discusses the books he's read this summer, including the novels I Love You Beth Cooper, Soon I Will Be Invincible and The Stand. Not only that, he gives his quick and dirty review of DC's Countdown, Stephen Kings Gunslinger Born series for Marvel, and a more in depth review of one of the fine graphic novel offerings from Zondervan - The Hand of the Morningstar. And since no episode of the Freak Accident is complete without movie talk, Jeremy gives a run down of the movies he's seen this summer, and which one (so far) walks away with most satisfying movie experience of the Summer 2007.

All this and more, leading up to the Fall Revival of the Freak Accident - send all feedback to freakax@gmail.com.

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Freak Bite #4 - Meet the Robinsons and Meet My Son...

The Freak Accident is proud to offer our fourth Freak Bite (a bite size mini episode during the college semester), a review of Disney's latest film, Meet the Robinsons.

Join our host Jeremy and his son Josiah as they discuss their favorite parts and the effects of candy on children.



A Podcast For the Fanboy in All of Us

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And don't forget to send all questions and feedback to freakax@gmail.com!

Songs used in this Podcast Episode:

Little Flowers by Denison Witmer
Underneath by Starflyer 59

Freak Bite #3: Grindhouse

(The posters for the two features in Grindhouse)

Special thanks to: Empire Comics for the ticket, and for years of comic buying satisfaction in Rochester NY.

I've been posting bite size episodes while in college, and this is my third one (I neglected to post the first two here, but I assure you, they are still available.)

Anyway, I was given the opportunity to see an advance screening of the new Tarantino/Rodriguez collaboration, Grindhouse, and I did a review. The text is below, feel free to follow along once you download here.

It's a rare achievement to be successful in Hollywood without getting tainted by it's stench, but somehow both Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have managed it, which in an odd sort of way gives hope to those who someday dream to make movies and not have The Man come in and screw them over. Sure, most of Tarantino's movies are within the same genre, but he seems to have the respect and love of the Hollywood crowd, and Rodriguez? Well, he's got such a range of titles, from childhood fare like Spy Kids to more adult fare like Sin City, but he's been able to make them his own, and if you ever see a Rodriguez movie, you know that it's a Rodriguez movie; He's got a signature style that nobody has been able to duplicate.

However, where these two meet in the middle, is their love of cinema, particularly bad cinema. And by bad, I don't mean awful bad, but good bad. The bad that you don't feel horrible about enjoying, Like Mystery Science Theater 3000. Of course, Tarantino has a much deeper love of bad cinema, but there's no question that both creators have a depth to their knowledge of movies, and I doubt there are any successful creators in Hollywood that can match them.

The duo have paired up before, in From Dusk Till Dawn, and Four Rooms – I think Tarantino even directed a portion of Sin City as well. They make quite the team, so when they announced that together they would bring the concept of the double feature back to cinemas, I wasn't completely surprised.

From that shared love came the birth of Grindhouse, an old school double feature complete with seventies era transition titles and several exploitation style trailers. So, unlike most films that cost eight bucks to see, you get two films for the price of one, and about 3 and a half hours of entertainment.

Of course, these movies aren't even close to family friendly, but they're perfect for the frat boy in all (or some of us), Grindhouse is good, dumb fun. The two features, Rodriguez' pseudo-zombie flick Planet Terror (Featuring Bruce Willis, among others), and Tarantino's muscle car action flick Death Proof (starring Kurt Russell), are definitely not high art, but they are art – homages to the movies that plagued theaters in the seventies, complete with “missing reels”, extra grain, pops and hiss.

Planet Terror is the epitome of dumb fun. Lots of gratuitous gore, throwaway one liners, and cheesy performances. Any other movie like this would get played late at night on the local UHF station, but that's what makes this movie great. And did I mention there was a chick who, after losing a leg to zombies, replaces it with a Machine Gun? Any movie with a chick with a machine gun leg as the star is okay in my book.

I wasn't as impressed with Death Proof. I guess since Planet Terror moved at a breakneck speed, Death Proof plodded along, with a lot of classic Tarantino dialogue, and a sparse series of action sequences. Granted, this was probably all done on purpose, but it didn't make the movie any better. For all of its plodding along though, the final sequence involving some Texas backroads and two classic muscle cars was well worth it.

The bad stuff in this movie is expected. There are expletives constantly throughout the dialogue. There's a lot of blood and gore, and a few sparse moments of nudity. But like I said, these things are expected. Nobody going into these films should be surprised. But, these are seriously dumb fun movies, they provide escape from the real world for a while, but they're the equivalent to soda pop, just empty calories.

But, just like Soda Pop, these movies taste pretty good going down.

**** (out of 5)

Music Featured in Podcast:

It's Love by Kings X - From The Best of Kings X

Underneath by Starflyer 59 - From Old

Episode 10 - October 8, 2006

In Studio Picture of the Week,
With Diet Coke w/Lime that Tasted Like Seltzer Water
(Thanks autumn head cold!!)

It took three whole days to produce our tenth episode extravaganza, but you wouldn't be able to tell. Our host, Jeremy, needed a reminder from producer Joey Diamonds to even get started with the episode in the midst of being sick. Fighting off a cold, Jeremy plugged away through an extended movie segment, a Turkey of the Week (warning – there's one MAJOR expletive that couldn't be bleeped out), some Listener Line calls and a Freak Five.

Download Episode 10 Here.

Show Notes

Interview with Fox Chairman Tom Rothman
Joss Whedon on Serenity Sequel
Kirsten Dunst on Gwen Stacy
X-3 Selling Well
No Indy 4?
Disney on Downloading
Rift in the Potter Camp?
Does it Take one to Play one?
Neeeeeeerrrrrrrrrdss!!!


Our Turkey of the week Gets Defensive

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Episode 9 - September 29, 2006

In Studio Picture of the Week

Nine is a wonderful number. It's awesome that we've reached Nine Episodes and haven't lost any steam. It's amazing that we've hit the number 9 and Jeremy hasn't gotten distracted by something else. It's only a matter of time, you know that, right?

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Show Notes

Question Entertainment Weekly's “review” of Open Season
Another movie based on a theme park ride?
Rumors about The Hoff
Fantastic Four 2 Gets a Boost in the Effects Department
The Eragon Trailer – better than the entire book!
Michael Caine Talks Dark Knight
First Poster For Shrek 3
Michelle Dessler from 24 Takes on Terrorists from Another Planet!!

Freak Five Question: What book would you love to see adapted as a comic book someday?

Send all feedback and responses to the Freak Five to freakax@gmail.com, or call the Freak Accident Listener Line at 206-203-2938

Keep it Clear, Keep it Clean, but Keep it Freaky!

Episode 8 - September 22, 2006

The Freak Accident welcomes you to it's eighth episode, and it's more subdued than ever! Join our host, Jeremy, as he fends off the beginnings of a cold while recovering from a sprained ankle, by discussing:

Show Notes:

Movies:
The Future of Pirates
Jon Favreu's Rejected Iron Men
Memento Star as Harvey Dent?
Spielberg Makes a Choice he Should Have Made When Offered A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Fox Finds Money in Faith?
300 Trailer
iTunes Continues Plan for World (Entertainment) Domination

Turkey of the Week:
Lion-NOOOOOOOOOOO!!

DVD's
Superman Sets A Date

Remember, send all feedback to: freakax@gmail.com or call our Listener Line at 206-203-2938.

Keep it Clean, Keep it Clear, but Keep it Freaky!

The closing song was “Girl” by Map

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Special Thanks to Freak Producer Extraodainnaire - Joey Diamonds.

Episode 7 - September 15 2006

Yes, I know I didn't post last weeks episode here, but it is available...

It's been a long week here at Freak Accident Headquarters, with job layoffs, job hunting and college searches, but nothing stopped our fearless host from giving you thirty minutes of so of face melting comic rock.

Download the Episode Here

Show Notes

No new movies interest me, but there's some good movie news that's come out as of late...

Namor The Sub-Mariner To Film

Avengers Movie in the Works?

Turkey Links:

First Five Pages of the Script
Plot Summary of a Similar Turkey
One take of many on the blogosphere

More Links to come when I get them!

Stay tuned for more news regarding the Freak Accident VidCast.

This week's Freak Five is: What New Television show are you looking forward to the most this season?

For feedback and Freak Five Responses, send me an e-mail at freakax@gmail.com or give me a call at the Freak Accident Listener Line: 206-203-2938

Keep it Clean, Keep it Clear, Keep It Freaky!

Music Featured in the Closing Segment - “Don't Download This Song” by Weird Al Yankovic