Well, here we are. Another birthday for me, another anniversary for GlibFlicks. Seems like only yesterday I sat down with long lost commenter Bethannica (see picture, right) and we hacked together the first episode of GlibFlick. The first post failed spectacularly and led to depressed drinking. Then, with advice from Tonio, the second post worked and set a pace for what has now kept going for over 200 posts now. What I thought would be a short-term need for content developed into a marathon. And here we are. So why did I decide on this film for the 4th anniversary? I suppose it was better than Return to Bloodfart Lake, or some of the other things in my queue. Did you expect some earth shattering cosmic coincidence of a film for the anniversary? No. Nothing like that.
One flippant reason I chose this film is because it has Pia Zadora in it. Pia Zadora should need no introductions, she is a 1980’s B movie queen! Also in this film is Jermaine Jackson! How rare is it to see him in a film? The is the only movie he has starred in. His other acting jobs were music videos, Jackson family biographies and one-off sitcom appearances.
What is this star-studded spectacle about? Aliens seeking the source of Rock and Roll arrive on earth, spot Pia Zadora and wholesome horny hilarity ensues! It’s a little mindless fun. Some quick trivia, the guys playing the aliens were a real band, named RHEMA. This was pretty much their one shot at fame.
Enough of my babbling! I am expected to attend my own birthday party. And I may be late to the post. So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! This marathon will continue as long as my brain can support it. Somewhere, in a bar with her harem of men, Bethannica is watching this with us. She just doesn’t comment anymore. Heck, I can’t be mad. I did say everything is voluntary… Next week, I shall post something new. Just not sure what. Let’s see where the next 12 months take us! Let the festivities commence!
Now that’s an executive order!
HBD 🙂
Behold, my appetizer:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_2326-scaled.jpeg
Fancy. You even have utensils!
It’s glorious.
That butter plate is a mess. The butter is supposed to be shaped like a flower, not a blob.
Better yet, ask for a bowl of butter with flowers traced on the surface. After all, it’s your birfday.
Pate’/terrine and a glass of red to start ain’t shabby.
Hark! It is I- BethAnnica! I have stepped away from my harem to join the birthday festivities!
I want a slide in my spaceship…
Woo hoo!
Evening, darlin’! Great to see you ’round!
Always glad to see a lost lamb return to the fold.
Whoa! Welcome back.
I’m still at work.
And likely for another 3 hours…
Who did you piss off?
Congrats on 200+ posts. Entertaining and well-done. Always a pleasure.
Pia Zadora is also in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
I’d never thought I’d say this, but this movie might be worse.
Might be.
That guy looks like Adam Ant.
The aliens are a conglomeration of New Wave styles without the substance to back it up.
Happy birthday and 4 year anniversary
+1
+2
Kool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F4qczPKUGg
Why is there so much singing? It’s like a low budget Disney movie on acid.
This is why you need to be around more often. That is an excellent line to describe this film.
I’m only a few minutes in but it feels like a music video. I think those were pretty hot around this time.
omg It’s on the 3rd music video now. Sheesh.
Ditto
I will endeavor to leave my harem more often. They just can’t be trusted when left alone. Last time a couple escaped, err, went for a walk I mean.
Is this what it’s like in your harem?
She collects them like Glibertarians collect orphans.
@Beth: I’d like to know about your harem.
(Are they accepting applications? Research. Much.)
Hardware itself or the British Navy. I vote both!
UK F-35B Still Stranded In Japan Is Awaiting Spare Parts
Actually, members of my harem find me.
Pretty much the Boston guitar spaceship. Feels like I should be hearing 70s classic rock instead of new wave.
Ah yes, the good all days when escaped mental patients could buy a cart full of weapons, no questions asked.
Why do they keep chopping off the tops of people’s heads?
The producers needed equity between Pia Zadora and the other actors.
I know I’m repeating myself, but thanks for all you do. You are very much appreciated.
Happy birthday even though you have a big green head and are a Tupla.
The gifs are cute and funny.
Which immediately made me think of Real Life. Then I clicked “Play” only to be greeted by a track from… Real Life. 😮
I wasn’t expecting a gay gang bang.
Yeah, this is gay AF. I’m torn between finding something less awful to watch and wondering what’s coming next.
Glibflicks in a nutshell?
This was it. Bottom of the 500+ film queue. It starts over now.
lol It really is bottom of the barrel. But I’d hit some of the “actors” and shit, even some of the tracks are catchy.
I wish your brain would support you joining Zoom sometime…you no longer have the excuse of moving house!
I know! I need to be more available. I am sorry for hiding so much.
I’m trying to think of the worst film I’ve ever seen. Tough, cuz if it’s so bad.. it adds its own special flavor to the entertainment.
“Signs,” the ~2002 M Night Shymalan flick, is a good example. I think it’s a well-acted, well-written and delivered work. With a glaring exemption. That ‘water’ is the deus ex machina, and how the aliens never realized that (on the surface,) Earth is fucking *made of it,* is poorly written convenience.
Just fucking sloppy, never thought-out story writing.
It’s been a long time, but I remember Gibson and Pheonix giving good performances. The former is a tremendously interesting man, and the latter is remarkably good at his job.
If you want really bad films…
I can help you with that.
Time Chasers is my favorite MST3k, with a few other top contenders, but as for legit favorite bad movie, fucking give me Bloodsport.
(Kickboxer has a better final fight, cuz who the fuck doesn’t love dipping their cloth-wrapped hands in glue before chomping ’em into broken glass before a fight? I know I fuckin’ do. Me thinky Firsty does, as well. He’s thrilled to do it First to show the world how badly he coagulates. Tong Po > Bro.)
I do love how Bloodsport was filmed in the Kowloon Walled City ‘in’ Hong Kong. Everything about that place is messed. Me love. Around 2011, I was in Hong Kong and talked up some random Germans. They gave me a ticket and we went to the Rugby 7s International. Cool Germans and a fantastic time.
*Bloodsport isn’t a ‘bad’ movie. It knows what it is and it delivers it well. It does a great job of showing different fighting styles against each other. A sumo paralyzes a tiny, African monkey fighter. (As in, fights like a monkey. It’s grand.)
It’s a well-done B-Grade fighting movie. Just stupid fun. Sign me up.
In Kickboxer, Jean-Claude Van Damm’s Hong Kong minder is fucking hilarious. So well done. “Who cares if Bruce Spingstien’s his shidoshi?!”
Just don’t hurt our eyes with a Steven Seagal movie. It might just slay us all.
You just don’t want to see Gary Busey in a dress.
One more bad word about Bloodsport, Evan, and it’s time for kumate.
*Gibson is also remarkably good at his job. Silly example, but Lethal Weapon is a great example of a buddy-cop flick fucking nailing it. Great popcorn fare, and well-delivered, on all parts. Legit, good movie. It knows what it’s up to.
Lethal Weapon 2. Lemme tell ya. In ~5 years, Joe Pesci fucking nails Goodfellas and selling a terrifying character, is a friendlied-up villain in Home Alone, and is a comedic, out-of -his-realm up-and-comer lawyer in My Cousin Vinny. That man, right there. Damn.
Leo Getz is fucking hysterical. “But… but… but… you’re black!”
Gibson makes a great badguy. See ‘Get the Gringo’ or ‘Payback’.
He’s a talented director, too. Focused.
Passion of The Christ, being in all in Aramaic (sp?) was inspired. Sequel’s coming up. That’ll be interesting. Damn.
Dondi.
Catnado.
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/catnado
Howard the Duck. Saw it in the theater, and even as a junior high kid, I knew it was bad.
Also, ET. Fuck that shit.
My parents took us to Howard the Duck.
It was awful.
Fun fact. An ex was an on set nurse for that movie. Landscaped a back yard with the proceeds.
The local drive in has a double feature this weekend of ET and MIB
Did you benefit from that “back yard landscaping?”
Agreed on all counts about “Signs”. Slick but shallow seems to be that guy’s shtick.
Ruth Gordon?! Holy random, Batman!
I just looked it up, her first film was in 1915.
So this movie took place in the 50’s, 80’s, and 70’s? I like Streets of Fire as much as the next person, but this shit is ridiculous.
Yes. Yes it is. I have a light headache from it.
It feels like a battle royale between the Greasers and the New Wave kids.
You got served!
And for some reason the musician who I think is supposed to be Sheffer in the greaser band doesn’t look like him and isn’t even wearing the same clothes.
Streets of Fire is pure awesome! Fights, with sledge hammers! The Blasters as the bar band, Diane Lane in her prime.
Lee fuckin’ Ving!
And Michael Pare was an early lil Rhywun fave. zOMG yeah.
Here. An amusing commercial with Steve Buscemi.
https://vimeo.com/1108766355?fl=pl&fe=sh
Congratulations on four years.
I tried to watch this one, but I kept hearing this:
GAY!!!
Seriously though, I have watched and enjoyed many bad movies from Glibflicks.
I made it through the whole movie without using drugs.
That is an achievement.
I’m like the Buddha, Rasputin, and G. Gordon Liddy rolled into one.
GGL in that trio really pulls it together.
I can’t tear my eyes away even though I really want to.
Thanks RJ, things can only get better from here 🙂
My thought exactly.
“Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora Before vs After – “When The Rain Begins To Fall””
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSsozzh4pyw
This video has one view.
I love how the movie had Sheffer “singing” Jermaine’s part at the end.
It’s not like there was any rhyme or reason to who was singing what, where, or when. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Andy Warhol and Pia Zadora’s Iconic 1983 Photoshoot at The Factory”
https://www.bygonely.com/andy-warhole-pia-zadora-photoshoot-1983/
I’d heard her name before but had no idea who she is.
Cute as a button & I love how her hair is bigger than her head in this movie. What a time & place.
I bet Bob Guccione tapped that.
(“Warhole”? Leopold?)
@rhywun: She had a cameo as a beatnik in Hairspray, though Ric Ocasek steals the scene.
I saw her in a bookstore in the late ’90s, no special occasion. Her then-toddler son plucked Fermat’s Enigma from the shelf. The observers (not many) chuckled while pretending not to recognize her.
The other thing about Pia Zadora that I’ve mentioned in the past is her fabulous video for The Clapping Song.
The “AI” aka LLM talk on the dedthred.
This is what I got picked up on a detail to do. Except I am there to show it isnt what they think it is.
Help analyze and find information buried in data? Sure. Make genral assumptions on predective failtires? I can see that…with human knowledge as the gating mechanism.
Goodnight, glibs.
I know Cutie Colleague isn’t a real opportunity, for several reasons, but it’s fun to get into practice. She’s enthusiastic with her non-verbal, expressive responses. Just a fun girl. ‘Twould be a pity to ignore, and I shan’t.
I told a truthful hypothesis about why we were designated to different duties, so we don’t work alongside like we did for a day or two.
We were spot-chastised by Boss for being a bit too slow cuz we were chatting too much.
“I’d hate to break this up, but we need to move alone, here.” He was genial about it all and it wasn’t a worry, just a push. I’m feeling Romanian about her neck. Alabaster.
I must admit. The world is so damn *fun.* Just looking at it, even. There’s more to it, yes.
Oh! So my two-exes ago was named Prianka. Canadian-Indian, first gen in Ontario. Last name I’ll omit, but kinda rhymes with Ghost. She called it the Jane Smith of Canadian Indians. I found I know work with a Pryanka, whom I’ve never met.
Cutie Colleague is Kyliee, the spelling of which I lament, but Kylie is the ex that was with me in Thailand.
Just a fun coincidence. I like being surrounded by them. (Ya always find more of what ya look for, yeah?)
“her non-verbal, expressive responses”
The head bobble?
lol I’ve seen that in action.
No! Facial expression responses and jokes. Very expressive.
But not the bobble-wobble.
If you aren’t fucking Kylie or whatever the fuck her name is I don’t want to hear about it.
Go out their and First or get out of the pot.
🎈 🪡
Your boss is taking note, especially now that you’ve been late twice. (Yeah, yeah: “I don’t FEEL tardy.”)
I realize this is like telling yourself not to think about pink elephants, but: you can’t suppress all your impulses, but could you hide them better?
Happy Birthday and anniversary you magnificent bastard!
I fell asleep and missed a chance at a critical First that would have helped shape the First-Time-Continuum into a better tomorrow.
It’s a rare miss from your First Of All Firsters. But we can still get this to a legit 100 tonight.
schtick
Jejune.
Puerile.
¡Cumpleaños feliz, RJ! 🥂
Your dinner looks yummy.
Linnea Quigly, Pia Zadora,, or Elvira.
Too bad all three didn’t star in a horror movie. It would have been epic.
Your heart’s on fire for all of them?
Ok, legs kick ass, kids. Cutie Colleague and Cell Phone Gal should both be in shop.
Onward, we shuffle.
Threesome!
Добро утро, Глибс!
🥸🍜🌅
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty9Pcg3qrmU
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean (if you really ARE Sean! 🤨), EfE, Ted’S., and 4(20)!
Narrator: he’s really Shaun.
If a Shawn yawns does a Sean yean ?
↑ Putin puppet
https://www.wboc.com/news/delaware-toll-hikes-set-to-start-august-15/article_13c136c7-5a04-438f-a24d-0ee49d7769a5.html
Delaware seems pointless as a state.
Let’s ban it.
What a way to soak people passing through the state.
Tolls and tariffs are good ways to drive business down.
It’s whole point of value was being a friendly jurisdiction for corporate officers, but it threw that away to posture about Elon. Maybe the First State should be the First State expelled for uselessness?
Ha! I meant to say “Let’s kick ass,” but legs kick ass as well. I am absolutely a Legend Man. (Reveal most re fitness.)
I want *their* legs to kick my ass. Consensually.
Well, ass certainly can’t kick ass.
Why am I picturing a strung out Jennifer Connolly?
Chuck Tingle might disagree.
*Dammit.
Leg man. But all. Phone Gal is *poured* into her slacks
And you should be talking about this while working….
Talk? No. Think? Fuck, yes.
Hey. I’m human. Brain’s gonna do its thing.
My work account has expired *again*.
Last night the CEO sent out a puff email about all the industry-disrupting innovations they’re introducing. Yeah, our work is certainly being disrupted.
Good morning to all y’all.
Couldn’t sleep so may as well join the rowdy crowd.
“Class of ’55” meet up today. We will meet up at the assisted living apt. where one of our friends lives. He’s not quite so mobile. Should be about 5-6 of us today. Coffee and BS, I’ll bring some excess stuff from the garden to share. If no old people want it an employee will end up with it.
Class of ’55. Good to be reminded. Dad was *born* in ’49. Barely barely missed the draft, but did have to go through Basic in Ft. Leonardwood.
We drove thru when I was a kid. He hates hated all of it, but *loved* the guy-ness of it all. We stole a human-shaped target for target practice. Put him in the passenger seat and Dad laughed his ass off at his little revenge as we drove off.
You’re quite an inspiration. Always humbled, am I. Rock on, today and always.
/4hours of sleep later….
suh fam
yo whats goody
At least it’s Friday.
Friday the 15th. !
The days are getting noticeably shorter. The shadows start getting longer earlier and it begins to cool off. It really is a nice time of the year but then thoughts turn to what follows.
Remind self to start thinking about a new snow blower. My old one lasted until the last snow of the spring but by then I was able to drive through it. Old one worked for 20 years or more with little trouble. Electric start is a good idea for the more mature person.
I was driving though one of those municipalities that is really just a way to name a stroad going through a pretty stretch of woods, when I think I discovered a Glib residence.
It had both a Gadsen flag and a Turtle Xing sign.
Of course I deleted all records of that trip so as not to compromise anyone’s security.
Kentucky?
Formal invitation to OMWC.