Sneaky Dragon

With Robin Bougie. This week on Sneaky Dragon Ian and Dave are joined by talented writer/cartoonist Robin Bougie, long-time publisher of Cinema Sewer – a fun magazine covering exploitation films and vintage porn. So this week much is said about prostitutes and balloons; good and/or bad and/or good-bad movies; the fabulous wedge-shaped building that houses Sneaky Dragon; the now defunct Fox Theatre and porn theatre etiquette – with a little more info on the famous Scott Baio mural in the ladies’ washroom; a call-back to a long ago Happy Days discussion; mucho about porn; the banality of stripping; and we end the show with a fun trawl through Robin’s Top Twenty Best Films of 2016 as listed on his LiveJournal page.

It was great having Robin on the show this week. Please check out Cinema Sewer, his two (count ’em) two collections of Seventies porn posters Cheap Thrills, the Cinema Sewer podcast and his new colouring book. Phew! Busy guy!

Here is the a short clip from the Whit Stillman film Metropolitan with the Dave-pleasing Fourier reference:

Some of the films we discussed are a little obscure so here are the trailers for some of them:

TurboKid

A Most Violent Year

What We Do In The Shadows

Okay…be warned: This clip from Robin’s 18th pick of his 20 Best Films of 2015 is VERY graphic – including naked body parts, bodily fluids and body tattoos:

Guten Tag, Sneakers!!! The Sneaky Dragon train keeps a-rollin’! This week Ian and Dave reveal their nicknames; have a cat emergency (but not emergencies); and revel in awkward news anchors and their bitter sprouts. Also, Ian thinks Dave is aging youngly; they talk Holes and Black Holes; Dave meets Zero; RIP David Bowie and that other guy; Ian goes clubbing with gandy dancers; Ash Vs. Evil Dead – a fond look back; why Anchorman isn’t very good; and finally, some taste testing: this week, the Philadelphia favourite Peanut Chews.

Thanks for listening.

Curious about Peanut Chews? Here is a homemade video about their history and how they are made:

We mentioned Tony Zhou’s fantastic series of video essays Every Frame A Painting. Here are the two we mentioned:

How to Do Visual Comedy:

The Art of the Gag

We highly recommend all his videos though.

Cheerio, Sneakers! Welcome to the first show recorded in 2016! This week Ian and Dave take a look back at 2016; have a moment of epiphany; deconstruct the Three Wise Men; enjoy Dave’s struggle to remember the Christmas story; wonder about word words; have an eating show controversy; learn about french fry sandwiches; disapprove of stunt eating; go for a run; remember celebrating New Year and watch Dan Herzfeld’s newest cartoon; bemoan Ian’s over-under-sleeping; play a little game of Beatles Trivial Pursuit; and, finally, have a discourse on cursive writing.

Thanks for listening.

Dave has a question for any computer whizzes out there: We have had the occasional problem for the last while of out website being unavailable due to too many JQueries. Wassup?????

Department of Corections:

Dave misspoke when he said he wasn’t a fan of The Gospel of Mark. He meant Mark, which becomes somewhat clearer as the discussion continues.

It turns out there is a word for words that describe themselves like the wore “noun”. This sort of word is called autological.

We mentioned seeing Dan Herzfeld’s fabulous new cartoon World of Tomorrow during the show. Here is the trailer:

With Lezah Williamson. Happy New Year, Sneakers!  This week we ring in the New Year with Dave’s wife Lezah. That’s right. It’s a little reward for putting up with Dave day in and day out.

Also on the show this week: the annual appearance of Lil’Dave; recovering from Earthquake 2015; being scared by ghosts; waiting for Bigfoot; pussyfooting around Star Wars (NO SPOILERS); reliving St. Elsewhere; Seventies films; what kind of vegetarian was Hitler anyway; an autopsy of the annual Dedrick Boxing Day festivities; wrapping gifts – paper or bags (the answer is obvious); Lezah the teacher; and, finally, our favourite teachers.

Thanks for listening.

Here is Ian’s all-time favourite show after The Simpsons (and a show Dave and Lezah talked about when they first met each other):

Here is the Naoki Urasawa TV program where he interviews other esteemed manga artists in a really interesting format:

Happy New Year! Welcome to Episode 5 of the Sneaky Dragon Listening Party!

This week Dave and Mary start Side One of Nick Pond’s second mixtape. This episode is pretty long as they chatted away on a pleasant Boxing Day morning in the Listening Party lounge.

Please join them there. Bring a blanket and a cup of your favourite beverage, and listen to some wonderful songs with Dave and Mary.

* Daddy Cool – “Eagle Rock” – Daddy Who? Daddy Cool?, 1971

* The Smiths – “Still Ill” – The Smiths, 1983

* The Who – “Greyhound Girl” – Lifehouse Chronicles, 2000

* Wimple Winch – “Save My Soul” – single b/w “Everybody’s Worried ’bout Tomorrow”, 1966

* Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Upon the Tidal Wave of Young Blood” – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, 2005

* Talulah Gosh – “Beatnik Boy” – single b/w “My Best Friend”, 1986

* The Boo Radleys – “Monuments for a Dead Century” – Kingsize, 1998

* Gal Costa – “Taureg” – Gal Costa, 1969

* Sloan – “C’mon, C’mon (We’re Gonna Get It Started)” – Navy Blues, 1998

* Temples – “Sand Dance (Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve Reanimation)” – Sun Restructured, 2014

Thanks for listening.

Dept. of Corections:

Yes, sometimes speaking and thinking are hard to do, and Dave meant the Prince album “Controversy” when he mentioned a non-existent Prince album called “Conspiracy”

The show was really long this week so we opted to link to this video of “Sand Dance’ from Temples 2014 album Sun Structures so listeners can hear the differences between the two versions (Mary prefers the original; Dave the remix; what do you think?):