Anyone in the Chicago area that is a fellow fan of the great Joe Bob Briggs (drive in loving alter ego of Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist John Bloom), he's going to be at the Music Box on June 18th. I've already got my tickets.
How Rednecks Saved Hollywood is a 90 minute one man show from the great one himself.
Spend a fast-and-furious two hours with America's drive-in movie critic as he uses over 200 clips and stills to review the history of rednecks in America as told through the classics of both grindhouse and mainstream movies. You will learn:
-The identity of the first redneck in history.
-The precise date the first redneck arrived in America.
-The most sacred redneck cinematic moments.
-How Thunder Road, the Whiskey Rebellion, the tight cutoffs worn by Claudia Jennings in Gator Bait, illegal Coors beer, and the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash combined to inspire the greatest movie in the history of the world.
-Why the redneck is the scariest monster in all of film history, with visual evidence.
-The existential difference between Forrest Gump and Sling Blade.
-The reason God loves rednecks.
. . . and dozens of other historical facts that you didn't realize you needed until Joe Bob deposited them in the rear lobe of your brain.
I will have to let you know. It's not unpossible - wife is off she'll need to find a sitter and getting there from here will be it's own nightmare, but we'll see.
Tuesdays are not great but maybe. Helps that it is close
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton MYT
I'll probably just hang out long enough to get another autograph, so it shouldn't be a late night.
Looks like this is all part of some film festival like the Fantastic Fest at the Alamo Draft House in Texas. There's a huge slate of films and presentations besides Joe Bob. Although to be honest, only about 3 of the films look even remotely interesting to me.
p.s. There's a whole bunch of his more recent essays here.
hepcat wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:02 am
I'll probably just hang out long enough to get another autograph, so it shouldn't be a late night.
It's more getting there by 7 than staying late.
It's on the calendar now so we'll see.
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton MYT
Excellent show last night. If you get a chance to see it in your area, I highly recommend it. I don't think I've ever heard someone link the Evangelical revivals of 18th century England, the migration of Cumberland Presbyterians to the Appalachian regions of the United States in the 1800s, the Whisky Rebellion of 1791 and Burt Reynolds in Gator so succinctly before.
Glad it was good! I tried to make it out but I was mediating a death bout between a 8-year-old and the 3-year-old who broke her headphones. Probably right about the time you were sitting down to your first drink.
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton MYT
One of the guys from the gaming group met up with me at around 6, so we had a few overpriced beers and watched Joe Bob sign autographs while Darcy the Mail Girl helped him out at the table. I would have gotten in line myself, but it was out the door and down the sidewalk already by the time I got there.
This is the best picture I could get before the .9 percent Three Floyds Porter started to kick in...