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MM42 - Hippie Satire ‘68

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Max Fennig

STP is super acid used during MKULTRA. it’s like LSD but with the upper effects of meth. Bad trips are extremely common & can last up to 24 hours. It’s usually referred to as DOM, but STP is the street name. It stands for Serenity, Tranquility, Peace. (A cruel joke because its trip is usually the exact opposite of that.)

Lincoln por Supuesto

Did a cover of Porpoise Song a few years ago https://youtu.be/Ls0CfuTmElY?si=0MSVyoypKk0LtcvF

Alex

Victor Mature is dressed as a director ala "Duffy duck in Hollywood"

Ryan Gullage

Those are two of the worst movies.

Jacob Harris

Maybe a silly question, but are they doing Ghoulvie Screamset again this year? They didn't mention it here!

Ryan Gullage

Novel mindset.

Ryan Gullage

THE TENANT

Ryan Gullage

Hesse walks the halls in the Shining.

Ryan Gullage

Feels like bias.

Locomdenom

Had never heard the phrase 'fagged out' either, but was just reading Tom Sawyer and it showed up there too! Apparently it just means tired, exhausted, haggard etc.

Drew

Hesse's Nicholson impression had me rolling, incredible. And Season 4 suggestions were 🔥🔥🔥

Mary Mallone

Every time a movie mindset season ends I am left with a sad feeling. "Damn, I wish they just did this forever" my hoggish self says as I beg for more podcasts. Also if you can't do Decline of Western Civilization as a Movie Mindset episode, they I beg that Chris at least covers it on And Introducing

Jeremy Lawson

Oo go off n Ok mm😄 C C

Yarblockos

The groovy handjob cinematic universe.

Hellohellohellllo

Hessa’s impersonation of Christian Slater in Heathers is dead on 🎯

Adam

do Conan

William C Ham

Supplemental viewing, if you dare: THE PHYNX (1970), about a Monkees-like prefab band formed by the government in order to get involved in foreign intrigue, with an utterly INSANE series of cameos (including a far-worse squandering of Richard Pryor than WILD IN THE STREETS) and a wildly convoluted unto nonsensical plot that just keeps burrowing farther up its own ass as it goes along, and ANGEL, ANGEL, DOWN WE GO (1969), retitled CULT OF THE DAMNED the following year to exploit the Manson resonances that it inadvertently presaged, written and directed by WILD's screenwriter and featuring an even more psychotic rock star as he insinuates himself into the life of a rich family and methodically destroys them via drugs, sex and - uh - skydiving. Imagine TEOREMA crossed with SALTBURN with their combined IQs halved and the lead role given to the fifth-place winner of the 1968 Jim Morrison Lookalike Contest. Truly crazed turn-of-the-sixties cinema, both featuring songs that'll make you long for the artistic heights of "Free Lovin'" and "Fifty Two Percent." Both can be found with a minimum of effort online; God speed/help you all if you dare to dare them.

Smooth Shrek

I’m glad next season you’re going to do more movies working people care about, but you simply must add Shrek and Shrek 2 to the list!!! That’s the movie of the proletariat of the people! Give us SHREK

Hot Rod

IDK if anyone cares, but… The reason why that “14 or Fight” tune is so singable is…that melody is taken from the guitar riff to “A little bit O’Soul” by The Music Explosion.

Kamran Husain

give me barry lyndon or give me death

Tim O'

Paths of Glory rules! Kubrick in black and white 🤌

Zach G

An insane week - I hadn't seen nor heard of either of these movies and I love that. I don't know how to explain it but Wild in the Streets feels like a movie from a parallel dimension - The poster, the actors, the music.... it all feels like something you know and recognize but tilted slightly on an angle. I will now never be able to separate this movie from Southland Tales in terms of it's anticipation of cultural transformation.

Evan Tiesman

Another fantastic season. Movie Mindset 1000 years. If you guys are considering a bonus episode this season, considering the news lately it would be really cool to highlight Iranian filmmakers. I think you could program a pretty dope double feature with a couple Kiarostami movies.

Gus

STP is DOM, a mescaline derivative and the acronym for “serenity, tranquility, and peace.” Shulgin made it and later found it in circulation in the black market from someone cribbing his formula

etienne

is Human Traffic still worth watching even if I saw all the clips on youtube dozens of times?

David Johnson

Fun fact about Timothy Carey: he was disruptive and annoying during the Paths of Glory shoot, and Kubrick eventually fired him after he faked his own kidnapping for publicity!

Matthew Golden

The Monkees commentary track on the Criterion version of Head is pretty great. Mike mainly sticks to technical behind the scenes stuff, but gets insanely jealous when the Davy song and dance number pops up. Mickey name checks his celeb pals constantly. Peter is completely bitter about everything having to do the movie and the Monkees in general. And Davy pops in every ten minutes or so to say "This is stupid. Why did we do this?"

MCL

Gibney’s book “A Generation of Sociopaths” explains the boomer mindset to a T. They suck, they deserve to be dumped, the best thing you could do is knock out power in Florida and kill as many boomers as you could and become a hero

nick

Please do a John Milius ep

Tim U.

24 Hour Party People x True Stories

Kyle Doeden

Head is on yt for free BTW everyone

etienne

was reading the R.E.M. biography and they would do covers of the Monkees theme song while doing videos for accepting awards if they couldn't show up. Real recognize real

Dec

24 Hour Party People x Human Traffic 👀

Ryan Herrmann

in the pocket!

Ryan Herrmann

Hire Hesse

Ryan Herrmann

Hesse’s bit as Jack at the beginning of this episode is so, so fucking good that it moved me to make this reply. Please someone let Hesse write comedy like that. They’re incredible at it.

PAC

"Thatta boy Mike!"

Aaron Lee

Thank you, my head is exploding over this seemingly obvious Mickey connection (which I had never considered)!

jay k.

Phenomenal ep here gang

Rae Castello

I need the ep where Hesse can finally program The Skin (1981)

fasd asdfa

Hesse is a national treasure

Eamon Short

Fuck me, Hesse! You killed that pitch bit holy shit, that was up there with Virgil's recap in tabletop game theory in 1920-30's slang. EDIT: Great call back to Chapo Mk I hot house guy theory, a GOAT episode

Eamon Short

MM was always great, but just home runner after home run this season. You guys are batting 1000

Connor Schoen

You forgot to mention that Toni Basil was also in the Daddy's Song scene. Her song Mickey may be about Mickey Dolenz.

Sneakin Sally

Saw Head as a hot couch movie as well I was in Portland and it was on the cable “on demand” under Free Movies. No network. And have had it rattling around my head for like 18 years.

Christopher Small

If we can throw out ideas for double features for the next season, how about Le Samurai, sort of a codifier of the meticulous, stoic assassin, and then Man Bites Dog, which is the complete antithesis in every way. Maybe add in a bit of The Killer as a recent comparison, where Michael Fassbender thinks he's Delon but deep down is actually Ben

Gordon Schmidt

Another fun entry in this genre is Roger Corman's The Trip, also written by Jack Nicholson and starring Peter Fonda. It's just about a guy who does acid for the first time. Got the chance to see it in the theater after Corman died last year. It wasn't mind-blowing, but it was a surprisingly true-to-life depiction of an acid trip. Peter Fonda's character really did act like he was on acid for the first time. The highlight was when he entered a stranger's house, accidentally woke up their 6 year old daughter, and started watching TV with her

josh heffernan

“Charlie” is the film adaptation of Flowers for Algernon

Nimbly Bimbly As FUCK

Three 6 Mafia mentioned. RIP Gangsta Boo!!!

Louis Ludwig

A humble suggestion for pairing with 24 Hour Party People is Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine.

Ahstin (she/her)

Paul is GOAT, got your back Hesse

Quinten Monson

STP is ether

Jason Chapa

They are GREAT at impressions.

Horseloverfat

*started in the 60s actually.

Horseloverfat

STP is DOM, one of the many experimental psychedelics synthesized by Alexander Shulgin in the 70s in his home lab. If you don’t know anything about him, his life is wild — he’s responsible for (as far as I know) most of the research chemicals posing as LSD these days, and he tested hundreds of previously unsynthesized chemicals on himself.

bruce

“they’re all pirates out there man”

Peter Pearson

The last Monkees TV episode The Frodis Caper is also great

Peter Pearson

If you like Head, I would recommend checking Mike Nesmith's Elephant Parts. It basically inspired the creation of MTV

manbob

David Lynch episode when???

Folks,,

Hesse’s Jack Nicholson is one of the funniest things I’ve heard in years. I listened to it 3 times in a row

FA

The Jack Nicholson pitch sounds like something Hunter Gathers from Venture Bros would say lmfao

Marc Silverstein

1488 or Fight

wailing ken jennings

wild in the streets was a grating movie and only when i saw richard pryor and was really curious if it hindered his mainstream success. the entourage and mansion is like how i imagine sam bankmam fried honestly.

atatrs251

Mickey Dolenz kinda looks like a monkey even

Anomalie

I'm almost 35, let me retire to the LSD camp

Huge Logo

The best part of “Wild in the streets” is the awesome counter culture pony tails they all have. Hilarious movie.

Robert Granniss

This season went from fascist easy rider to the movie that paid for easy rider. Good stuff.

Stealtreasure

Hesse has the craziest repertoire of impressions and the longer they go the funnier they get.

Blank

Hesse Nicholson pitch deserves an Oscar for screenwriting and acting

danny

I watched Wild in the Streets along with John Wayne’s Green Berets because of their mentioning together in Nixonland.

Philip Malcolm

The Jack Nicholson intro is the high water mark of Movie Mindset.

Michael S. Judge

There's a new sun Rising up angry in the sky There's a new sound Saying "We're not afraid to die" And nothing can change the shape of things to cooooooome

Matthew

"Fraulein Ravenwood, let me show you what *I* am used to" was the wildest shit I'd ever seen at age 7, you're doing God's work

THEKILLERWHALE

I have finally partaken in the proud tradition of Dad's blowing their kids minds with badass films while mom is out of town, and watched Raiders of the Lost Ark with my 4 and 7 year old. The boys loved it. Fully engaged from the beginning, freaking out when shit got scary and edge of their seats during the action scenes. It looped back to Hesse's point a few episodes ago of action scenes communicating geometric information and the positions of the belligerents relative to one another. The physical logic of the action used to make sense. The boys immediately started playing Indiana Jones with their toy cars and they were fighting over whether the car was first or the truck and then they realized that there were two cars with one in front, one in back and the one in back drove off the cliff (which they loved btw). Down to that level of detail, they understood the logistics of the action scene. And they recreated the whole thing and eventually incorporated the motorcycle. They do not make them like that anymore!

Connor Schoen

You don’t have to do these, but here are five ideas for next year’s Movie Mindset. Cinema of Brazil – At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964), A Dog’s Will (2000) I was gonna say how you guys haven’t watched any films from the Third World, but I guess Hong Kong kinda counts. As the title says, these films are from Brazil. At Midnight is a lot more bloody and violent than you’d expect a 60’s horror to be. A Dog’s Will is a super-fast paced comedy that people either love or hate. Elmore Leonard – The Tall T (1957), Jackie Brown (1997) Connected not by actor nor director, but by author. Elmore Leonard was a pulp novelist whose work ranged from Westerns to crime, and Hollywood has adapted a couple of his stories. You got Budd Boetticher’s most known film and Quentin Tarantino’s most underrated work. Films Referenced by the Smiths – A Taste of Honey (1961), Sleuth (1972) Morrissey sings about "A Taste of Honey” in "This Night has Opened My Eyes", while the Sleuth line “a jumped up pantry who doesn’t know his place” is used in "This Charming Man.” The first film is a kitchen sink drama that touched upon interracial affairs and homosexuality, subjects that were taboo at the time (fun fact: Shelagh Delaney, the playwright/screenwriter of the film, appears on the cover of Louder Than Bombs). Sleuth is a thrilling two-hander starring two generations of British acting: Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. Short Film Festival – La Jetee (1962), Scorpio Rising (1963), The Grandmother (1969), La Cabina (1972), Elephant (1989), Food (1992) Six short films to discuss. In La Jetee, still images tell a story of time travel and nuclear war. In Scorpio Rising, Kenneth Anger invents the music video with gay Nazis. With The Grandmother, David Lynch displays surreal horror and is very much a precursor to Eraserhead. La Cabina is a surreal horror that many people find to be scary, but I think is a bit silly. With Elephant, Alan Clarke depicts eighteen murders related to the Troubles. With Food, stop-motion maestro Jan Svankmajer becomes politically charged. German Expressionism – Faust (1926), Spies (1928) You two haven’t done silent films yet. German Expressionism is one of my favorite film movements and it sadly ended with the rise of Hitler. The first film sees FW Munrau do his take on the Faustian myth. Fritz Lang's Spies is technically the first Eurospy film ever made, and it is better than M or Metropolis. As the guy who recommended Head last year, I’d like to shill this low budget horror movie script I wrote. It’s called Delaney, and it’s about a suicidal woman who becomes an assistant caregiver to Delaney, a former psychic with a severe chronic illness. The link is here: https://www.deviantart.com/spademckenna/art/Delaney-Full-Horror-Movie-Script-1176619473 And if that link doesn't work, I can send it to you through G-mail. For the DeviantArt link, don’t read the comments because they will spoil the story for you.

Matthew

Lobbying Chris for another episode like this that covers Gas-s-s-s (1970) 🙏

Zach H.

C’mon. Y’all have mentioned the best 60’s satire “The President’s Analyst” independently at least twice on other eps but don’t include it here? It should be in an ep about James Coburn in the future.