Mar 11, 2017
Movie Meltdown - Episode 386
This week we hang out with artist
Dirty Donny as we discuss, among other things -
designing the artwork for pinball machines, working
with Metallica and our movie o' the week
Heavy Metal.
And as we assure ourselves that we
aren't just watching the movie to see naked cartoon girls, we also
bring up... laserdiscs, Eddie the Head, Hernandez Brothers, BMX
bikes, skateboarding, Sean Penn, guitars and cars, The
Hellacopters, I can't believe I'm allowed to buy this, Ivan
Reitman, the big kid down the street, Stephen King, Bernie
Wrightson, a '73 Dodge van, Superchannel, Beavis and Butt-head, my
dork hanging out, Conan the Barbarian, one of my hero directors,
Thrasher Magazine, Wizards, springs on the back shocks on the
front, the plastic gas tank, The Cannonball Run, the motor painted
green, Warren Oates, problems with the soundtrack, Clint Eastwood,
coming up with the breadbox, Ralph Bakshi, camping with my parents,
a bootleg VHS, Love and Rockets, robot Brigitte Nielsen, midnight
movies, John Candy, my third grade mind, anything after it didn't
exist yet, the legend that it was done in Ottawa, an animation
cell, music was secondary to the artwork, Stripes, EC Comics, Monte
Hellman and that Smokey and the Bandit model kit.
Spoiler Alert: You really have
to watch Heavy Metal yourself to experience just what was
going on back in the day. So go watch it now.
"It's that weird mixture of
National Lampoon meets SCTV meets Dungeons and Dragons... it's all
of those geeky things of the early 80's."
For more on Donny and his artwork,
go to: http://www.dirtydonny.com/