{"id":25180,"date":"2011-01-22T23:13:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T07:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=25180"},"modified":"2011-01-23T01:59:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T09:59:38","slug":"j-men-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25180","title":{"rendered":"J-Men Forever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/gojiraeight#p\/u\/0\/KPR3KrZV3Tk\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/JMEN_01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Tells a tale of world conquest by sex, drugs and rock and roll&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cult classic <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J-Men_Forever\"target=\"_blank\">J-Men Forever!<\/a><\/em> (1979) was a mainstay on the USA network&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Night_Flight_%28TV_series%29\"target=\"_blank\">Night Flight<\/a><\/em> (titles below).<\/p>\n<p>And after <em>Night Flight<\/em> went away, <em>J-Men<\/em> vanished &#8211; only quietly showing up many years later <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/hSgRu6\"target=\"_blank\">on DVD.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>J-Men Forever!<\/em> was the brainchild of Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firesigntheatre.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Firesign Theatre<\/a> &#8211; using cobbled together footage from old serials to create a silly (actually, <em>immature<\/em> is the right word) new movie; similar to Woody Allen&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/fBtrfk\"target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s Up Tiger Lily<\/a><\/em> (1966).<\/p>\n<p>The Caped Madman (above) and The evil Lightening Bug steal the show. The film&#8217;s score features music from The Tubes, Head East, Budgie and Billy Preston.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it in its entirety\/in sections on YouTube. Click above to jump\/watch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"330\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9RXt7vKgim0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"J-Men Forever!\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25180\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tells a tale of world conquest by sex, drugs and rock and roll&#8217; Cult classic J-Men Forever! (1979) was a mainstay on the USA network&#8217;s Night Flight (titles below). And after Night Flight went away, J-Men vanished &#8211; only quietly showing up many years later on DVD. J-Men Forever! was the brainchild of Philip Proctor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,125],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-25180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-music","tag-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25180"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25245,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25180\/revisions\/25245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}