Monday, September 24, 2018

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #201 - Willie Dynamite (1974, dir. Gilbert Moses)

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You’ve seen films in the “Blaxploitation” genre before undoubtedly, and while Willie Dynamite has all the trappings of one - the story c...
Monday, September 17, 2018

I'd Love to Turn You On #214 - The Residents – Fingerprince

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When I was in junior high school MTV made its debut, but we didn’t have cable so it was just something I heard about or occasionally got...
Monday, September 10, 2018

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #200 - Novocaine (2001, dir. David Atkins)

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            All through the 1980s and part of the ‘90s, Steve Martin was one of the biggest comedy stars in the world. If there was on...
Monday, September 3, 2018

I'd Love to Turn You On #213 - Wolfmoon – Wolfmoon

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           I discovered the Wolfmoon record years ago while working in a small record shop in Iowa. As a vinyl-obsessed collector, I was...
Monday, August 27, 2018

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #199 - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991, dir. Nicholas Meyer)

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The summer of 1991 was a wonderful time to be a Star Trek fan. The franchise was celebrating its 25th anniversary, Star Trek: The Next Gen...
Monday, August 20, 2018

I'd Love to Turn You On #212 - TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain

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           L ast Wednesday I witnessed one of those magical moments that can only happen at Red Rocks. TV on the Radio opened for Father J...
Monday, August 13, 2018

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #198 - Body Heat (1981, dir. Lawrence Kasdan)

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In one of my favorite scenes from The Simpsons, Nelson Muntz is seen coming out of a movie theatre showing Naked Lunch. He angrily looks u...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Twist & Shout at UMS!: Part Two

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    John P: After catching the second half of Red Baraat’s energetic, propulsive (non-UMS) free show at the Clyfford Still museum and...

I'd Love to Turn You On #211 - Ron Miles – Witness

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Most Denver jazz fans have heard of Ron Miles, and if you haven’t you're in for a treat. Witness is his second record and it was rele...
Monday, July 30, 2018

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #197 - The Milky Way (1969, dir. Luis Buñuel)

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    In searching for a way to talk about an “in” to this very odd film, I was struck by a passage in a book I was reading at lunch on the ...