Plug, Plug, Plug – Stuff You Should Want!
Wow – it was a busy week of release-related news of titles we’ve shown in the past!
First up! The release of Stingray Sam AND the re-release of The American Astronaut on DVD!
You can also purchase digital downloads of the movies, too! But that’s not all that Cory McAbee has done. Oh no… The soundtrack to The American Astronaut has been re-released, and the soundtrack to Stingray Sam is also available, and there’s premium packs for both movies, too! Plus T-shirts, posters, stickers and more! Get over and check out all the glorious scifi musical western goodness at http://corymcabee.com/store/store.php
Next up! Craig Baldwin has just released Mock Up on Mu on Other Cinema DVD (OCD)!
We showed this one a little over a year ago, and it’s another one definitely worth owning as it demands repeat viewing! The more you watch it, the more you get from it!! That’s at OCD – http://www.othercinemadvd.com/mu.html and is only $24.99! It includes a commentary by director Craig Baldwin and other cool stuff!
And I’m still not done… Jenny Abel, who made Abel Raises Cain (the documentary we’ve shown a couple of times on legendary media hoaxster Alan Abel) just announced the release of the soundtrack to the film.
(from the Abel Raises Cain website):
The soundtrack from Abel Raises Cain features all original music by Alan Abel and spans five decades. Included in this unprecedented collection are rare audio tracks, novelty songs and previously unheard of gems that were all composed, arranged and/or performed by Alan Abel himself. Several tracks also feature Jeanne Abel as Yetta Bronstein. Rest assured that the music by Alan is as quirky, unpredictable and interesting as Abel himself.
Of course, the doc itself is also for sale on DVD and it’s packed with extra features! Get it all here: http://abelraisescain.com/buy_dvd.htm
About Stingray Sam:
A dangerous mission reuinites Stingray Sam with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for the rescue of a young girl who is being held captive by the genetically designed figurehead of a very wealthy planet. Narrated by David Hyde Pierce.
About The American Astronaut:
Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis. Written, directed, and starring Cory McAbee of the legendary cult band The Billy Nayer Show, this sci-fi, musical-western uses flinty black and white photography, rugged Lo-Fi sets and the spirit of the final frontier. We follow Curtis on his Homeric journey to provide the all-female planet of Venus with a suitable male, while pursued by an enigmatic killer, Professor Hess. The film features music by The Billy Nayer Show and some of the most original rock n’ roll scenes ever committed to film.
About Mock Up on Mu:
A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin’s Mock Up On Mu cobbles together a feature-length “collage-narrative” based on (mostly) true stories of California’s post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (Crowleyite founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab), L.Ron Hubbard (sci-fi author turned cult-leader), and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and “mother of the New Age movement”). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space, and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time.
About Abel Raises Cain:
Abel Raises Cain is an unprecedented glimpse into the life and bizarre career of infamous underground media prankster, Alan Abel. Over the past half-century, Abel has made a name for himself several times over with stunts that are just ridiculous enough to be believable, especially to a media that feeds on salacious, far-fetched stories. Alan’s daughter, Jenny, tells her firsthand account of what it was like growing up with this lovable but slightly demented prankster for a father. Abel Raises Cain takes the audience on a roller coaster ride through the myriad of elaborate hoaxes and schemes that Abel pulled off over the years, all of which were designed to provoke and amuse…while at the same time, make people question everything that they see, hear and read.