Bud Fox bagged an elephant.

"Just kicking ass and taking names!"

Anthrax on Married with Children

Good Lord, I’m even starting to bore myself by continuously harking back to the halcyon days of movies and TV in the 80’s/90’s, bemoaning the murder of prosthetic make up and special FX by the evil CGI companies, and the lack of great comic character based sit-coms like Sledgehammer and Married With Children.

It was when I was taking the load off my mind by browsing through the hundreds of classic Al Bundy clips on youtube this week that I happened upon a classic episode of Married With Children that had completely escaped my memory. The episode ‘My Dinner with Anthrax’ saw stunted loser kid Bud Bundy win a radio competition to have classic thrash band Anthrax come over to his house to play at a party he’s organised during Al and Peggy’s anniversary vacation to Florida. A massive snow storm ensures that the only people who make it to the throwdown are Bud, Kelly and weirdly hot next door neighbour Marcy, who the guys from Anthrax think is a dude. Anthrax try to skip the date, but Bud holds them to the contract, so after getting high consuming some of Peggy’s “food” from the fridge, the band play ‘In My World’ and trash the house. We’re talking bottles over heads, guitars through drywall and Al’s beloved Highschool Football Trophies getting annihilated.

“You kids should be ashamed of yourselves, throwing a party while I was stuck down in a swamp having sex with your mother!” Al Bundy.

The Most Violent Horror Movie Poster Ever?

Bloodrage aka Never Pick Up A Stranger

Nina Simone Biopic on the Way

Nina Simone is to be the latest music legend to get the Hollywood treatment, with filming due to start on ‘Nina’ this autumn. Simone, for those unfamiliar with the details, was a multi talented singer and musician, who skipped through and conquered varied genres like a kid playing hopscotch. Most associated with Jazz, Simone was dabbled in soul, R&B, classical, folk, gospel and op with effortless class and grace. She was also a vociferous Civil Rights activist, supporting violent action more in line with the Panthers and the Nation of Islam, that with peaceful integration approach of Martin Luther King Jr. In fact, she openly discussed her wish that her people arm themselves and form their own state!

Following a divorce from her husband/manager, Simone returned from a stint in Barbados to find herself with a huge US tax bill in the 70’s. Skipping town to avoid paying the bill, she fled back to Barbados (where she had an affair with the Prime Minister), before moving on to Europe, seeing out her final days in France. Diagnosed with breast cancer, Nina Simone passed in her sleep on the 21^st of April 2003.

A pretty worthy story to tell, especially considering that Nina was diagnosed as being schizophrenic, then bi polar, in the 60’s. A look back over ‘The High Priestess of Soul’s’ career, many wonder whether living through these conditions may have steered her remarkable life down the route that zigzagged from genre to genre and country to country, through extreme and public views on race and integration, to a final lap in exile.

Oh yeah, they’ve booked Mary J Blige in to play her. They’ll make her “ugly”, she’ll win an Oscar.

New Jimmy Page Book from Genesis

Led Zep guitarist and actual Rock God Jimmy Page is the latest in a selected line of celebrated talents to get the Limited Edition treatment from Genesis Publishing. Genesis, if you don’t know, creates exquisite limited edition, lovingly made and depressingly priced, signed autobiographical photo books. Jimmy joins the publishers list that includes Clapton, Bowie, Spielberg, Richards and Shankar, who have all featured in the celebrated series. For Jimmy’s part, his handcrafted tome features 650 unseen pictures from his personal archive, bound lovingly in leather and Perspex, with a silk and leather slipcase to keep it in the condition that a £395.00 book should remain in.

Got the Bones to spare? Go buy it HERE and then come around to mine so I can shed a tear over its beauty.

'Hey Jude' Flowchart

by Sarah Goldblatt

Download: Underworld ‘Scribble’

Essex boys Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, aka Brit dance legends Underworld are back in business with their first work in 3 years. ‘Scribble’, from their 6^th studio album out this summer, is a free offering from the boys and co-producer High Contrast, and it’s waiting for you now over at www.underworldlive.com .