Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Off-Site: BIG BROWN HOUSE in The Antioch Adventure, Part 2 (video clip)


Mite posted this over at his YouTube site. It's a clip from the 1988 Antioch film The Antioch Adventure, Part 2, filmed on location in Yellow Springs, home of BIG BROWN HOUSE and THE GITS at the time. The music of BIG BROWN HOUSE is featured in this clip (and maybe some of the band members too, but I don't know what they look like, so I can't be sure -- Gail?).

When I posted BIG BROWN HOUSE's Scrappy James a couple of days ago, I wrongly reported that the Antioch Adventure movies were documentaries. But as I said in the comments, I looked into it a little further, and it appears that these are actually scripted stories with plot and characters and such.

If you go to Mite's YouTube site, you will also find the clip from Antioch Adventure, Part 2 that features THE GITS. Although that clip features less music than the BIG BROWN HOUSE clip, you will get to see Mia Zapata in what I assume is her first (perhaps only?) film acting gig (CORRECTION: after contacting the director of this film, Mite has determined that the girl in the clip is NOT Mia Zapata as he, I, and several other viewers first thought). A couple things about that clip:
  • The woman in the glasses on the left side of the third newspaper shown in the newspaper montage appears to be Daytonian academy award nominee Julia Reichert, who has taught in the film school at Wright State University since 1986. In 2003 she and Steve Bognar were nominated for an emmy for their documentary A Lion in the House. Her many film credits include, among others, Emma & Elvis (1992) (in which Scott Childress apparently had a brief speaking part) and the highly regarded documentary Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1983).
  • This doesn't have anything to do with the clip, but I thought I'd point out that although fucking Wikipedia contains entries under "Seeing Red" as the title of the debut album by a generic girlie pop-punk band and another as the title of an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there's no mention at all on Wikipedia of Julia Reichert's documentary -- which received a fucking academy award nomination for Christ's sake. And my students wonder why I tell them NOT to cite Wikipedia in a research paper. Fuck... Anyway, back to the clip...
  • On the very last shot of the newspaper montage (right before the clip ends), you might notice the name
    "Derwood Raintree." If you read the clipping (which isn't easy -- you have to pause it at just the right place to get a clear enough image), the article says Derwood Raintree was an actor in the first Antioch Adventure (1967), but IMDB lists Derwood Raintree as a character in that film played by actor John Draper.
  • People might disagree with me, but in my opinion, the Antioch campus hasn't changed one damn bit since 1988.
By the way, who's with me in pestering The Neon until they get The Gits Movie?

take care

---Jones()

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pat,

I watched this video and I didn't see any members of Big Brown House. "Menudo On the Edge of Town" by Big Brown House played during the video (Bruce Springsteen use to hang with Menudo). I attended a show at Canal Street which BBH premiered a video.

The Gits video from the previous day features Steve Moriaty who previously banged on the drums and sawblades for BBH.

Take care Pat,

Gail

Anonymous said...

[url=http://tonoviergates.net/][img]http://sopriventontes.net/img-add/euro2.jpg[/img][/url]
[b]student discounts on adobe software, [url=http://tonoviergates.net/]discount business software[/url]
[url=http://sopriventontes.net/]free oem software[/url] ms office 2007 enterprise edition repair order software
adobe photoshop for mac [url=http://tonoviergates.net/]www macromedia com software flash[/url] for software purchases
[url=http://tonoviergates.net/]city software store[/url] online order form software
[url=http://sopriventontes.net/]software for medical shop[/url] buy windows xp
buy operating system software [url=http://tonoviergates.net/]photoshop software for sale[/url][/b]