Disregard the resubmit, turns out it was recut to get rid of all the stuff that made the other one get deleted, and completely fucks up the scene.

d'oh just read this after I upvoted it.

love censored versions of great movies

for a while Netflix had a PG-rated version of Andy Warhols's Flesh for Frankenstein

Awesome, I'd like to see that.

I've said it plenty of times before, but my current holy grail movie (for the last 5 years at least) is the marijuana-free TV edit of Cheech and Chong's Next Movie that was in heavy rotation on Comedy Central in the early and mid 90s and has since completely disappeared from the face of the earth. I've talked to tons of people who remember it but I've never had even the vaguest lead on actually getting a copy. They added a whle subplot about aliens with extra scenes made from footage that was cut out of the theatrical release (mainly a part near the end where Cheech goes on the alien spaceship, which had full sets and everything that were scrapped in the theatrical and home video cut) and they added half-assed pickup shots and ADR that replaced all marijuana references with diamonds (although they missed Chong rolling a joint in a couple of shots near the beginning).


That and Crock! The Motion Picture, which is a weird, probably shitty, shot on video hipster movie that was made in Portland in 1996 and has only been screened twice as far as I can tell. By pure random luck I was at the premiere, and there's a review of a second screening from the late 90s that you can find on line but that's all.

IZ, if you or any other Portland PoeTVers want to track down Luke Cage or Prescott Sheng and scure a copy I'd be eternally grateful.

Also, 4 years ago a friend of mine bumped into Peter Palpin of the Barbarian Brothers outside Whole Foods and learned that he had just finished a feature length, shot on video art film. He said he'd send us a DVD-R of it and took my friend's contact info but never followed through and seems to have really gone downhill psychologically since he moved to Vermont so I wouldn't want to bother him about it now. But man do I wish I had gotten a copy.


While I'm throwing out personal holy grails, around 2005 a bandmate's roommate saw David Cross and Bob Odenkirk do a live show, and one of the pieces of merch they had for sale was DVD-Rs of really early (like '89 or '90 probably, well before Mr. Show) sketches they had done with a few friends, all shot on a camcorder. Apparently they will never officially be released because they made heavy use of big name classic rock artists in the soundtracks and the licensing issues are insurmountable, but my friend's roommate bought a copy and my friend watched it with him a couple times and swore it was some of the best stuff they'd done, but the roommate moved to California before I could get a copy and I haven't been able to track down any evidence that it ever existed, I don't even have a title.

Agreed on Zoe, fuck the coke that finally done for her. Far too young, far too brilliant :(