Yes, I know, it's been ages since I posted anything.

I've been busy! Here, here's a list of 80s-90s sci-fi movies that actually SHOULD be remade. Discuss and debate. I'll be back soon with more actual, you know, writing and stuff.

Next Up at Joe's Pub: the burlesque tribute to Van Halen

Snake Plissken's Day Off was a sold-out crowd triumph. I love my crazy, talented friends and all of our fans.

Snake Plissken's Day Off

I don't think it's possible for me to be more excited about our next show at Joe's Pub this Saturday, the most amazing striptease, variety and comedy tribute ever to two guys named John.

Frankly, between the two of them they've got more than enough career to warrant their own individual shows (Halloween, Sixteen Candles, Escape from New York, The Breakfast Club, The Thing, Pretty in Pink, Assault on Precinct 13, Vacation, They Live, Home Alone, Big Trouble in Little China, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Fog...I mean, what?!) And THAT'S why I love that we're combining these two tributes, to two filmmakers that defined cult fandom for an entire generation of American moviegoers: the man who truly taught us to scream at the movies, and the man who defined what we all thought it meant to be a teenager.

It's gonna be good. Get your tickets now.

Finally, Michael Myers meets the Breakfast Club

Yeah, remember this?

Well, check it:

Yeah. John Hughes vs. John Carpenter Burlesque. At Joe's Pub on the 26th. Holy shit. I mean, yes, I know, it's my show. And I love all of our shows. But this one...yeah. Just get your tickets now, ok?

Sometimes you just gotta ask

(It's good, right? I think I should make a t-shirt out of it.)

I have come to chew bubblegum, and kick ass

I love this: starting on Labor Day Monday, BAM is screening four cult classics by the director John Carpenter. He's probably still best known for the original Halloween, but the four films at BAM are from the 80s, and for Carpenter buffs and lovers of old school bad-ass-motherfucker movies, the kind that aren't made nowadays without a heavy dose of irony mixed in, these are beloved modern classics. Carpenter is from the last age of independent filmmakers who made true b-movies: this set of sci-fi action flicks, "gotcha!" monster movies and westerns remade in modern times all have a genuine social message hidden behind the bloody fist fights and sneering catch phrases--well, all of them except Big Trouble in Little China, that's just trashy good fun. Please, go see at least one of these: three of them starring Kurt Russell, the DeNiro to Carpenter's Scorsese (or, if you're really pretentious, the Mifune to his Kurosawa): Escape From New York (absolutely, my favorite New York movie that, as far as I know, has no actual footage shot in the city), The Thing (still fucking scary) and the aforementioned Big Trouble. The fourth, They Live, stars Rowdy Roddy Piper, (and he's great) and if you don't know the rest of his classic line in the title of this post, I don't want to ruin it for you.