Dan Eastman

I want more messy movies. Messy movies are why the 70s were the best film decade. I feel like generations of screenplay gurus have cooked people’s brains into thinking there’s a “correct” screenplay. I’d rather have messy!

Dracula Sucks Notes on the 1978 adult adaptation of the Count

Watched the 1978 film Dracula Sucks this weekend and wrote about it on the Substack.

Thank you again for the interview. It was a fun chat.

Oh boy. I feel like I’m a different person since we recorded this just a few months ago.

I live 2 hours away but I am going to try getting to this.

POLYESTER Exploring the concept of family in John Waters 1981 film.

Wrote about John Waters and the family unit in Polyester on my Substack.

I had a professor tell me the em dash looks a lot cleaner than parentheses so I started using them. She was right.

Neon Nights Immediate thoughts on Cecil Howard’s 1981 adult film.

Some thoughts I had immediately after watching Neon Nights (1981).

The thing I’ve noticed about the left is that they have the ability to criticize their leadership rather than commit to sycophancy.

The Image A brief reflection of Radley Metzger’s 1975 film.

I watched Radley Metzger’s 1975 film The Image. This is my initial reaction:

If you outlaw porn, only outlaws will have porn.

As strange as this sounds, I am only just discovering the Golden Age of adult film. I grew up on tube sites. Porn as art is uncharted territory for me.

Love that Japanese poster.

I’m pretty far from current. It was the Greg Dark episode.

I was listening to @therialtoreport.bsky.social in my hotel room and accidentally connected to speakers in someone else’s room. Hope they enjoyed the brief moment of porno history.

This is who I am.

I listened to quite a bit of that when it first launched. It’s a fun podcast.

Very strange to watch sex movies performed by a cast and crew that is mostly not alive anymore. It’s like any older film but arousal seems like such a personal, human thing that at least a part of what we see is not a character but a piece of a real person. And the person no longer exists.

Roommates My Year of Trash Week 12

As part of my ongoing personal project to explore exploitation cinema: Roommates (1981)

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My schedule is 8-5 with an hour lunch. To keep up with the work, I start at 7 and work through half my lunch.

I’ve been looking for a book like this. Sad way to find it though.

Gord Downie.

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls My Year of Trash Week Eleven

Nothing but respect for a movie with the courage to be so unabashedly stupid.

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I watched Beyond the Valley of the Dolls for the first time. I feel like this movie could solve so many of the world’s problems.

NPC? Damn right I’m not playable.

So you’re saying you’re in the market for a new podcast?

In a country run like a business you don’t have to worry about being a person. You’re an asset of the state. That’s freedom you can’t buy!

Let’s apply some reason and logic here. It doesn’t matter if people die if there’s enough money to be made.

Have you seen these literacy rates?