Rudy Panucci On Pop Culture

Month: April 2011 (Page 2 of 2)

Zombie Babies Final Cut Premiere Tonight

Cool Comics is taking a week off, but don’t forget that tonight, at The Empty Glass, it’s the premiere of the Final Cut of Eamon Hardiman’s “Zombie Babies.”

In addition to the movie, there will be Movies, Bands, Drink Specials, FREE FOOD, DRINKING GAMES, CHARITY RAFFLE AND MORE all for a low Price of $5.
You Couldnt abort that with a Coat hanger! FEATURING MUSIC FROM DINOSAUR BURPS AND THE HARD C’S!

Everything kicks off at 10 PM. Five dollars gets you in the door. You can see a censored version of the trailer in this week’s RFC.  Cool Comics will return next week with a look at Captain America.

WhiteChapel District, Chad & Sean and Zombie Babies Shine On RFC 126

Up above you see Radio Free Charleston 126, “Purple Batman shirt.” This episode features music from WhiteChapel District, the duo of Chad Foss and Sean Sydnor, and a trailer for “Zombie Babies,” Eamon Hardiman’s latest motion picture. This is our first show uploaded in Hi-Def, so you can sit real close to your computer monitor and pretend that you’re watching it on the big screen. Continue reading

Monday Morning Art: Dr. Sketchy Fallout

This week we are bringing you a piece of art I created from last month’s Dr. Sketchy Show at The Empty Glass.  Dr. Sketchy’s is an alternative take on life-drawing.  This is my Pop-Art take on Molly Tilly, one of last month’s models. This month the Dr. Sketchy event has been moved to Kanawha Players Theater, 309 Beauregard Street in Charleston. admission is eight bucks, you provide your own art supplies and libation. Dr. Sketchy takes place Sunday, April 17. That’s this coming weekend.  It’s an 18 and up affair. Check out the poster below, and click the image above to see it larger.

Sunday Evening Videos: RIP Sidney Lumet

Yesterday the film world lost one of it’s greatest directors, Sidney Lumet.  Patrick Felton, the director of The West Viginia Filmmakers Festival, provides us with a detailed rememberance below, and we’ve sprinkled clips of some of Lumet’s amazing body of work throughout, kicking off with a scene from a movie that was a great influence on me, “Network.”

Sydney Lumet (1924-2011)
by Patrick Felton, for PopCult

One of cinema’s greatest technically proficient and ambitious filmmakers died yesterday at age 86 from lymphoma. Philadelphia native Sydney Lumet is rarely considered in discussions of the greatest directors of all time, but he should be. Perhaps this was because it was so hard to pin down “Un Film De Sydney Lumet.” His often New York-based films had none of the artistic panache of Martin Scorsese, none of the textual eccentricities of Woody Allen, and none of the political authority of Oliver Stone. Still to his credit and perhaps their discredit, this freed him from the shackles of trying to make a film in the style of Sidney Lumet and instead let him let the story of each film realize itself. Continue reading

Toy Porn, Live Music and A Closed Portal

The PopCulteer
April 8, 2011

Where The Toys Still Are

Way back in January 2007 I brought you guys a photo essay of my visit to Canonsburg Pennsylvania’s world-famous specialized antique shop, Where The Toys Are. Last week I got to go back for the first time since that visit, and was delighted to find that the store’s stock had almost completely turned over since last time.

Melanie and I stumbled into a shop filled with brand-new old toys. Even though I was only armed with my crappy cell phone camera, I managed to snag quite a few images. We’re kicking off this week’s PopCulteer with part one of a NEW photo essay devoted to PURE UNADULTERATED TOY LUST!

Sometime in the next week, we’ll bring you part two. Be patient.

Before we start, here's a cool shot from our early-2007 photo essay. I didn't get a decent shot of the whole store this time.

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Cool Comics: Movie Stars!

There are three big summer blockbusters coming out this year featuring mainstream superheroes, THOR, coming May 6, GREEN LANTERN, coming June 17 and THE FIRST AVENGER: CAPTAIN AMERICA, coming on July 7.  With these three super dudes heading to the silver screen, you might want to take a crash course on their backgrounds.  That way you can pretend to be hip and cool and in the know, like one of those studly comic-book-geeks.

Here’s a guide to some graphic novel collections that will get you up to speed on the first two of these mystery men. Next week we’ll dovote the whole column to Captain America.

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Monday Morning Art: Grille Of My Dreams

This week’s art is a digitally-assaulted photograph of the ceiling of a Metro station from Washington DC.  I messed around with it so much that it looks sort of like the grille from a classic car.  Turned on its side, some people think it looks positively waginal.  Which is why it isn’t.

Click to see a bigger version.

Sunday Evening Video: April Fool’s

Okay, Friday I dropped our annual April Fool’s episode of Radio Free Charleston here in PopCult. I decided my best course of action after delivering my annual mind-prank would be to head out of town and away from the internet for a few days.  So I didn’t really have time to pick a cool video for tonight.

Because of that, here’s this year’s April Fool’s joke again, this time in HIGHER QUALITY™!

Radio Free Charleston Hits 125!

The PopCulteer
April 1, 2011

Production Notes For RFC 125

At the head of this post, you see the most expensive episode of Radio Free Charleston ever produced. Hosted from a very special place on the West Side, our 125th installment, “Robot Bhudda Shirt”, features a very special motion capture video for Mother Nang, with a seven figure budget, directed by a big name Hollywood talent whom we cannot name (but it rhymes with Smemeckis). We also have a very provocative video starring Pepper Fandango and a pricey Trans-Atlantic location shoot with Adrian DeQuiros. Also in this episode, Kitty Killton returns and our animation is the most family friendly we’ve ever featured on the show.

Rudy standing in Roger Bartfast’s “World Of Washington” on Charleston’s West Side

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