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Hopeless Visions With Rob #1 (Movie Review)

Hopeless Visions with Rob (Movie Review) #1: INVINCIBLE SHAOLIN (SHAW BROTHERS) [Funimation Entertainment]

This is the first time this Shaw Brothers movie has been released uncut in the U.S.  It also got a remastering treatment.

In the film it is a warlord’s plan to pit two Shaolin schools against each other and wipe them out. The warlord goes on to frame the northerners for murders he commits.  A somewhat complicated story unfolds – a story of betrayal and revenge.

This was directed by one of my favorite directors of Asian Cinema, Chang Cheh. INVINCIBLE SHAOLIN features really aggressive acrobatic kung-fu skills and awesome training sequences.  It’s got the best chest-rip-opening scene ever!  It was one of my favorites to watch on Kung-Fu Theatre when I was about 10.  It’s also one of the rare times that Lu Feng (who usually plays a bad guy/antagonist) plays a good guy/protagonist.  Lu Feng also served as one of the fight choreographers.  The story line with the girls is a little weak.  It’s not as epically violent as Masked Avengers or Daredevils.  Still great.  (3/4 Throwing Stars)

If you like this, check out the Five Deadly Venoms – also directed by Chang Cheh who discovered the Five Venoms (Lu Feng, Sun Chien/Phillip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, Wei Pai, and Lo Mang).  Three of them were from a famous Taiwanese opera troupe.

And, of course, this is available for purchase at Redscroll.  Check out all of my (Rob’s) picks on the top shelf of the DVDs.

18th of June 2010 Update

18th of June 2010 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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Abandon    “Death Of Urgency”
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti    “Before Today (+ D/L)”
Bastard Noise    “A Culture Of Monsters”
Bear In Heaven    “Wholehearted Mess (+ D/L)”
Black Moth Super Rainbow    “Eating Us (180 Gram 1LP Version – Not The RSD 2xLP)”
Cardboard Village    “Sea Change”
Ceremony    “Rohnert Park “
Cold Cave    “Life Magazine Remixes EP (+ D/L)”
Coliseum    “House With A Curse (Deluxe Limited Vinyl Edition /2000)”
Cure, The    “Disintegration (2LP Gatefold)”
Cyrus    “Beatwise / Scanner”
Dangers    “Anger”
Distance    “No Warning”
Dntel    “Early Works, Later Versions”
Foals    “Total Life Forever (+ D/L)”
Gaslight Anthem, The    “American Slang (+ D/L)”
Gayngs    “Relayted (+ D/L)”
Goatsnake    “1 + Dog Days (180 Gram; + 2 Unreleased Songs)”
Gun Outfit    “Possession Sound “
Harmer, Sarah    “Oh Little Fire (+ D/L)”
Health    “Disco2 (Get Color::Remixed; + D/L Including 12 Additional Remixes)”
Here We Go Magic    “Pigeons (+ D/L)”
Integrity    “Blackest Curse”
Ital Tek    “Spectrum Falls”
Jurado, Damien    “Saint Bartlett (+ D/L)”
Krallice    “Dimensional Bleedthrough”
Magic Bullets    “Magic Bullets”
Mangum, Jeff    “Live At Jittery Joe’s”
Maniac    “Thug / Wreckage”
Martyn / Roman Lindau    “Berghain 04 / Part 1”
Masakari    “The Profit Feeds”
Master Musicians Of Bukkake    “Totem Two”
Minus 5, The    “Sad Hasselhoff (180 Gram)”
Mount Kimbie    “Remixes Part 2”
Nation Of Ulysses    “13-Point Program To Destroy America (+ D/L)”
North Sea, The    “Bloodlines”
Pollard, Robert    “Moses On A Snail”
Psychic Ills    “Catoptric”
Ratatat    “LP4 (+ D/L)”
Rayon Beach    “Memory Teeth EP”
Segall, Ty    “Melted (+ D/L)”
Sigha    “Shake”
Soundtrack    “180 Degrees South: Conquerors Of The Useless (Ugly Casanova And James Mercer, Mason Jennings, Jack Johnson, And Love As Laughter)”
Starkweather    “This Shelter”
Titles    “Dirt Bell (Limited Edition /100; + CD)”
Tobacco    “Maniac Meat (+ D/L)”
Tokyo Police Club    “Champ “
Various Artists    “The Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. II: Ethnic Music Classics 1925-48”
Various Artists    “Palenque Palenque: Champeta, Criolla & Afro Roots In Colombia 1975-91”
Various Artists    “Thai Beat A Go-Go Volume 3: Groovy Sounds From The Land Of Smile!”
Various Artists    “Blow Up Presents: Exclusive Blend Volume 1”
Wax Fang    “La La Land (+ D/L)”
Woven Bones    “In And Out And Back Again”
Yo La Tengo    “Here To Fall Remixes (RJD2, De La Soul, Pete Rock; + D/L)”
Zs    “New Slaves (140 Gram; + D/L)”

7″s
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Best Coast “She Was High (So Was I)”
Chain & The Gang “(I’ve Got) Privilege”
Gigi “The Hundredth Time”
King Lee & Quintron “Tire Shop”
LeBlanc, Dylan “If Time Was For Wasting”
Lower Dens “I Get Nervous”
Off With Their Heads “Trying…”
Oh Sees / Paul Cary
Reignition “Epitome Of…”
Sloppy Seconds “You Can’t…”
Tender Trap “Do You Want A Boyfriend”
Trees “Freed Of This Flesh”
Various Artists “Let’s A Go-Go! Singapore”

CDs
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BLK JKS “ZOL! (EP)”
Brooks, Roy “Ethnic Expressions”
Castevet “Mounds Of Ash”
Coliseum    “House With A Curse”
Danzig “Deth Red Sabaoth”
Devo “Something For Everybody”
Dir En Grey “Uroboros: With The Proof (+DVD)”
Enemy Of The Sun “Caedium”
Fistula “Goat”
Foals “Total Life Forever”
Frog Eyes “Paul’s Tomb: A Triumph”
Front Line Assembly “Improvised. Electronic. Device”
Gaslight Anthem “American Slang”
Hate Your Guts “Bastard’s Disease”
Health    “Disco2 (Get Color::Remixed)”
Here We Go Magic    “Pigeons”
Indian Jewlery “Totaled”
Jonsi “Go”
Koes Plus “Dheg Dheg V.2”
Maclise, Angus “Cloud”
Mad EP “Basshed”
Masakari “Prophet Feeds”
Master Musicians Of Bukkake “Totem Two”
News “Hot Off The Press”
Nightbringer “Apocalypse Sun”
Nina Nastasia “Outlaster”
Oneohtrix Point Never “Returnal”
People Like Us & Wobbly “Music For The Fire”
Procedure Club “Doomed Forever”
Ratatat “LP4”
Reactionaries “1979”
Robyn “Body Talk Pt. 1”
Roots “How I Got Over”
Rosetta “A Determinism Of Morality”
Sabbath Assembly “Restored To One”
Scorn “Refuse: Start Fires”
Slowdive “Shining Breeze – The Slowdive Anthology”
Stars “Five Ghosts”
Tallest Man On Earth, The “Wild Hunt, The”
Various Artists “Horse Meet Disco II”
Wilhelm Scream “A Wilhelm Sccream”
Wovenhand “The Threshingfloor”
Yakuza “Of Seismic Consequence”
Yo La Tengo “Here To Fall Remixes”
Zs    “New Slaves”

DVDs
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Galaxie 500: Don’t Let Our Youth Go…
Rolling Stones: Stones In Exile

Book & Magazine
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Underdog: Matchless Out
Wire #317 July 2010

11th of June 2010 Update

11th of June 2010 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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Africa HiTech “Hitecherous (+ D/L)”
Against Me! “White Crosses (+ D/L)”
Astatke, Mulatu And His Ethiopian Quintet “Afro-Latin Soul (Ltd. Ed. 180 Gram)”
Astatke, Mulatu And His Orchestra “Mulatu Of Ethiopia (Ltd. Ed. 180 Gram)”
Axelrod, David “Earth Rot (Re-Issue)”
Black Lodge “Black Lodge (Hand Painted Art; Hand Numbered /500)”
Born Ruffians “Say It (+ D/L)”
Bouncing Souls, The “Ghosts On The Boardwalk”
Circle Of Dead Children “Psalm Of The Grand Destroyer (Ltd. Ed. Color)”
Cult Of Luna “Somewhere Along The Highway”
Cute Lepers “Can’t Stand Modern Music”
D.R.I. “Crossover (Milennium Edition)”
Fox, Robin “A Handful Of Automation”
Frost, Ben “By The Throat”
Future Now “Hazy Orange Sunday”
Gatorface “Wasted Monuments”
Heaven Shall Burn “Invictus”
Heavy Winged ‘Fields Within Fields”
Koner, Thomas “Teimo”
Kristofferson, Kris “Please Don’t Tell Me How The Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 (180 Gram; Hand-Numbered/2000)”
MacLean, Juan “DJ-Kicks”
Madlib “Shades Of Blue (Madlib Invades Blue Note)”
Masshysteri “Masshysteri”
Monk, Thelonious “It’s Monk’s Time (180 Gram)”
Outlaw Order “Dragging Down The Enforcer”
Oval “Oh”
Pink Noise, The “Birdland”
Rose, Jack With D. Charles Speer & The Helix “Ragged And Right”
Sick Tired “Highlife”
Underdog “Matchless”
Wipers “Out Takes (Ltd. Ed. 13 Rare And Unreleased Cuts From 1979-1983)”

10″s
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Make Do And Mend “We’re All Just Living”

7″s
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Brutal Truth / Spazz
Burning Love “Don’t Ever…”
Diet Cokes “Nasal”
Diet Cokes “Oral”
Fake Problems / N. Gun
F. Day “Christian”
English, L. “Incongruous”
Jeck/Davidson “Spliced”
Late Night Wars “It’s Okay…”
Leather / Ninja
Marv. Darlings “I Don’t”
Narrows / Heiress
Poison Planet “Oblivious”
Pot Johns
Reignition “Epitome Of Free”
Rvivr “Derailer”
Senders / Wavelets

CDs
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Fall, The “Your Future, Our Clutter”
Rose, Jack With D. Charles Speer & The Helix “Ragged And Right”
Various Artists “To Scratch Your Heart”
Watain “Lawless Darkness (DLX)”

Cassette Tape
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Menche, Daniel “Raw Fall”

Book
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Joseph, John “Meat Is For Pussies”

DVD
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Cross, David “Bigger And Blackerer”

Beatles "Paperback Writer / Rain" 7" Vinyl Single

Tomorrow, June 8th, is the U.S. release date for The Beatles “Paperback Writer / Rain” 7″ Vinyl Single.

It was originally a UK Record Store Day item. There are a very limited number of these (1000, I believe). At best, any store that wanted these got only 2. We got 2! The least amount of fun this could lead to is that whomever could make it here first could buy them. That doesn’t sound all that fun at all. It would be fun for those 2 people, sure, but less fun for so many more people. More fun? What could we do to make that happen? A raffle? Yes!

A raffle for these is going to take place! That way we can charge you and make a mint off these little round things, right? NO WAY, DUDE! This raffle is going to be FREE! No catch. You don’t have to purchase anything at all. You don’t have to buy a raffle ticket. You just have to enter and cross your fingers. (Actually, the one catch is that you actually do have to come into the store to fill out the form. I almost forgot to mention that – no online entries, sorry)

The raffle entry will go on for 2 weeks. At 7PM on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010, we will pick a winner at random. You don’t have to be present for the picking – entries will have contact information on them so we can reach you. However, coming in at that time might make it more exciting for all.