DRUNKEN TELEPHONE HANDSET!!
EVERYTHING THEY SAID WAS COOL!
Hot Tears of Shame Episode Four:
Gods of Japanese Rock and Roll - THE COOLS
(w/ special guest star, Urian Brown)
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(Running Time - 24:32)
Opening Crawl (excerpt)
The dome may be sinister, but it is not dark or dim. A dull kind of half light does away with most shadows and mysteries inside but one; where is the source of such energy and could it be related somehow to super-powerful radio wave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas? But such larger questions are not worth asking just now.
Patrick has been inside the Mysterian dome for days. His jeans are black and tight and he is wearing a heavy gray cape given to him by sympathetic factions of mysterian freedom fighters. His mind is fractuing from over exposure to the not quite light and an over reliance on his tarot deck for basic decision making. The neoplatonic images form a kind of mental map to the inner self, but will they lead to the discovery of the missing frequency 109?
Relevant links
Cools Fan site (Japanese)
Cools Story (Japanese)
Hiroshi Tachi mini-bio
"Goddamn Claymated slut, it's pretty obvious."
The Sha-Na-Na guys were in Yoyogi as late as 1987. I wonder when they got the high-buttoned boot of the loli-Goths?
In VOYEURS, INC., the heroes evoke the name of "Yusaku Matsuda" the way BLAZING SADDLES used "Randolph Scott."
"The Cools, huh? That fuckin' band? In that case, you ain't goin' nowhere but to hell!" Beats the fuck out of "Alice's Resturant!"
Posted by: Carl Horn | March 06, 2006 at 08:57 AM
Holy Crap, that was awesome.
Howly-Daveeson!
Oh Cools...So Nice!
Suprising to me that they drop the F-bomb a coupla times during the spoken-word intros...not really something I'd expect from a 50s nostaglia act from the 70s. A Cools Variety Show would have been, well, cool.
Posted by: Matt Gray | March 06, 2006 at 11:28 AM
The Violent Classroom movie kinda IS the Cools Variety Show. Hopefully, someone will pick the flick up and sub it soon.
Didn't realize it until after I'd put up the podcast, but the Cools actually *did* lay down some tracks once with Sha Na Na. Wonder why they weren't invited on the Sha's show. Now furiously searching YouTube for proof that maybe they did...
Posted by: Patrick3 | March 06, 2006 at 11:38 AM