When I lived in the Bay Area back in the late '80s, I used to listen to The Norman Bates Memorial Soundtrack Show religiously. During the course of the program, host Robert Emmett would play a promo that included a snippet of the theme song from Herschell Gordon Lewis' classic female biker exploitation flick, She Devils on Wheels. It was a sleazy little garage-rock number sung slightly off-key by a chorus of bored-sounding chicks, and it had great lyrics like:

We are the hellcats nobody likes
Man-eaters on motorbikes
We own this road, so you better get lost
When you hear the roar of our cut-out exhaust
Bug off or you'll find that you have blown your mind
Get off the road

Kind of a precursor to Dykes-on-Bikes, doncha think?

Anyway, I've looked high and low for this song and finally found it at happypalace.

Download now, before it's gone!

Posted by MrBaliHai at 9:50 AM | Permalink

I was listening to Fresh Air with Terry Gross on the ride home from work tonight and happened to catch her fascinating interview with Christopher Frayling, author of a new book about spaghetti westerns entitled, Once Upon A Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone. He was an engaging speaker, and had quite a few interesting stories to share with Terry regarding Leone's film oeuvre.

During the course of the interview, Frayling mentioned that one of Leone's sets, the town of El Paso from For A Few Dollars More, had been turned into a tourist attraction in southern Spain called Mini Hollywood. Funny thing is, I knew that already because we'd stopped there back in 1991 while we were vacationing in Almeria. I loved those movies, so it was pretty cool seeing the actual sets that Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef had worked on back in the day.

And, in a bit of oddly serendipitious timing, when I got home and took a gander at fwak!, I saw that they'd posted this cool site for a Leone exhibit at the Autry Center. Click on the search links to view a small sampling of the posters and lobby cards currently on display.

You can read a lot more about Leone's westerns at A Fistful-of-Leone.

Posted by MrBaliHai at 8:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)