{"id":7218,"date":"2014-03-21T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:47:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:47:19","slug":"iow-groove-to-a-1970s-bot-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7218","title":{"rendered":"IOW: Groove to a 1970s \u2018bot beat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pimpbots breaking in their boogie shoes, because Friday! You\u2019re welcome:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><object width=\"450\" height=\"253\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Rh2QtcRbhlA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"450\" height=\"253\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Rh2QtcRbhlA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since that pretty much spoke for itself, we probably should deliver a witticism or two to justify the inclusion of <strong>Bruce<\/strong> and <strong>Stumpy<\/strong> in today\u2019s \u201c<strong>Images of the Week<\/strong>\u201d entry besides their sheer lo-fi awesomeness\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As of yesterday, <strong>Thursday, March 20<\/strong>, the kooky creatives behind <strong>Kill Vampire Lincoln Productions<\/strong> of <strong>Champaign<\/strong> have finally completed the on-line release of their \u201ctransistorpunk\u201d opus, <strong>ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 1970s<\/strong>, as a seven-part Web series plus bonus larks such as the above. <strong>Anne<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Lukeman<\/strong> of Kill Vampire Lincoln have expressed interest in continuing the adventures of Spring Heeled Jack (<strong>Jonathan Harden<\/strong>), Susan (<strong>Maggie Gottlieb<\/strong>), Sam (<strong>Thomas Nicol<\/strong>), and Janet (<strong>Stephanie Swearingen<\/strong>) but no word yet on who else would return, including the Man on Roof (<strong>Peter Davis<\/strong>) hiding atop The Disco Pit or ill-fated Bud (<strong>Matt Fear<\/strong>) who transformed from restaurant manager to robo-lobotomized henchman. We\u2019d gather <em>anything<\/em> cybernetic and Seventies-appropriate would be fair game to reemerge and pester our heroes unless the next timeline traverses the Eighties and <em>all<\/em> that concept implies. Be sure to <a title=\"ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 1970s channel @ YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/transistorpunk\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">visit their <strong>YouTube<\/strong> channel<\/span><\/a> to watch the full episodes or <a title=\"ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 1970s :: Official Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transistorpunk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">this Web site<\/span><\/a> for further details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><object width=\"450\" height=\"253\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kGnLzDQXd4c?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"450\" height=\"253\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kGnLzDQXd4c?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We\u2019d like to point out the major music cuts featured in <strong>ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 1970s<\/strong> are original pieces composed by local musicians. Those of you who&#8217;ve already played the robot video probably realized after about the first two seconds their \u201c<strong>King Kong<\/strong>\u201d song is <em>not<\/em> your parents\u2019 \u201c<strong>King Kong Song<\/strong>\u201d as performed by <strong>ABBA<\/strong> in the real-life Seventies. <a title=\"90's Daughter :: Home Page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.90sdaughter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Michael \u201cGuido\u201d Esteves<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <strong>Andy Moreillon<\/strong> wrote the tune, with the latter providing vocals and backed by Estevez, <strong>James Jones, Joe Funderburk<\/strong>, and <strong>Rory Grennan<\/strong>. On the other hand, we also share the series trailer featuring an exciting instrumental theme by <a title=\"Studio E @ Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Studio-E\/457275655382\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">composer <strong>Eric Watkins<\/strong> of <strong>Decatur<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>p.s.<\/em> Don\u2019t let the early IOW fool you. We have two more stories regarding Saturday film culture in <strong>Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> before we\u2019re wrapped for the week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: It&#8217;s a double dose of disco lights, platform heels, and analog mayhem as we harken back to ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE 1970s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29,20],"tags":[252,115,747,764,470,1122,1221,1222,362],"class_list":["post-7218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-music-video","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-anne-lukeman","tag-chris-lukeman","tag-jonathan-harden","tag-kill-vampire-lincoln-productions","tag-maggie-gottlieb","tag-once-upon-a-time-in-the-1970s","tag-pimpbots","tag-stephanie-swearingen","tag-thomas-nicol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}