Erik E Erik
@erikeerik
Silent films, foreign action films, soccer/fútbol and vinyl enthusiast. Public education employee, Minneapolis dad.
Watching Shaw Bros’ Mad Monkey Kung Fu and no one does a training sequence like they do. The only problem is when they hire an olympic gymnast actor for the lead role who will be swinging from ropes, the actor able to do that will already start the movie with tightly defined muscles. 🎥
Yes, I can ruin a lamp plug in the most idiotic way possible, with just sheer stupidity*, but I can at least repair that ruination, so I’m only a half-fool. * moving a piano back to its original spot and watching a slowly rolling piano shear a lamp plug off the wall, irreparably damaging its prongs
I watch 99% of non-English movies with subtitles, but checking in on movies like this (because it is a slog in the middle 70% without Jackie), they apparently just let the dub actors go for it— we have a Bogart *and* a Peter Lorre in this.
Okay, so he is in at least the start, and you know whenever a ladder or climbing apparatus shows up in a Jackie Chan movie, he’s definitely gonna do some climbing
Haven’t opened the Jackie Chan Blu Ray since a previous Criterion sale, since it primarily has his 70s period pieces rather than the 80s modern-day stunt shows. Gonna rewatch My Lucky Stars (where I think he is only at the end? Been a while), but Shout’s Vol 2 is really the apex representation. 📽️
This is only the 2nd 4k Blu Ray in black and white I have seen but, after Casablanca, Captain Blood is the second one directed by Michael Curtiz #nowwatching 📽️
Watching 1922’s Robin Hood on Cohen’s Douglas Fairbanks double feature, and I genuinely love when silent film scores add the instrument to the soundtrack that accompany what is on screen. I can see a trumpet with my eyes and now I can *hear* a trumpet with my *ears*!? Classy. You have won me over.
Kicking off this summer’s B&N Criterion Sale with two films from the 1930s: Trouble in Paradise and Captain Blood.
I know the movie bombed, but there is still time to film a scene of a giant skeleton hand trapping He-Man and the contents of the Reflecting Pond being slowly dribbled onto his head.
Started working on Shawscope Vol 2 (it has been sitting unopened for over two years!) with The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, which was the only Shaw Bros movie I had previously seen before getting these Arrow sets. My memory of it was accurate: the hero’s journey but he starts not knowing *anything*.
Rewatching Simpsons S3, and, wow, the “‘pole-ing’ the electorate” joke along with the punchline of Glasscock’s name in Separate Vocations are two all-time great crass gags in the same episode.
Open-air puppet shows in South Minneapolis (put on by Open Eye Theater)- they’re not just for May Day!
I wish my shooting guard had been born in the 1940s, though. www.82-0.com/share?id=2Zd...
This song is the rare two-fer where I realize both Holy Diver is a metal vocal standard of excellence like Queen of the Night that only the most skilled would try, and also that Puddles Pity Party is absolutely crushing this version and is more than just a clown singing sad covers of pop songs.
A month after I wrote this skeet, Ultimate Classic Rock released a list of All-Time Terrible Lyrics, with this VH couplet identified as the *all-time* worst lyric, and they didn’t even give me a credit in the byline. ultimateclassicrock.com/worst-rock-l...
Spending May Day with giant puppets, fire-spitting machines and about 20,000 other awesome people on an amazing spring day
Like seemingly thousands this evening, went to Art In Bloom at #MIA. Also went to Eat Street Cafe to round out a Minneapolis evening in April.
Successful Record Store Day 2026: 2/2 on my #RSD Release wishlist, with Gotan Project’s Greatest Hits from @electricfetusmpls.bsky.social and Sugar’s FUEL Singles from Cheapo, along with Tomb Mold’s Planetary Clairvoyance.
Me today: shopping for a Bosch electric cooktop to replace my broken old one, after previously replacing another appliance with a Bosch. Me, on Super Bowl Sunday, ragging on Bosch for using Guy Fieri in their Super Bowl ad:
Listening through Mobile Fidelity’s recent SACD of Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 self-titled album. I was bummed at Rhino’s release last fall, but did focus on its stereo mix only.