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Atomic TV 2007 Airdates
Community Media of Baltimore City
Comcast Channel 75
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
11:00 - 12:00am "Underdog Battles Satan Claus"
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
11:00 - 12:00am "Underdog Battles Satan Claus"
Friday, March 9th, 2007
8:00 - 9:00pm "Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 1"
11:00 - 12:00am "Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 2"
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
8:00 - 9:00pm "Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 1"
11:00 - 12:00am "Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 2"
Friday, March 16, 2007
8:00-9:00 pm "Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 1"
11:00-12:00 am "Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 2"
Saturday, March 17, 2007
8:00-9:00 pm "Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 1"
11:00-12:00 am "Atomic TV-Cocktail Hour, Pt. 2"
Monday, March 19, 2007
12:00-1:00 am "Turning Japanese Part 1"
Friday, March 23, 2007
1:00-2:00 am "Turning Japanese Part 1"
Saturday, March 24, 2007
1:00-2:00 am "Turning Japanese Part 1"
Monday, March 26, 2007
1:00-2:00 am "Turning Japanese Part 1"
Friday, March 30, 2007
8:00-9:00 pm "Turning Japanese Part 2"
Saturday, March 31, 2007
8:00-9:00 pm "Turning Japanese Part 2"
Friday, April 6, 2007
8:00-8:30 pm "You Asked for It, Part 1" (edit)
Saturday, April 7, 2007
8:00-8:30 pm "You Asked for It, Part 1" (edit)
Monday, April 9, 2007
1:30-2:00 am "You Asked for It, Part 1" (edit)
Friday, April 13, 2007
8:00-9:00 pm "You Asked for It, Part 1"
Saturday, April 14, 2007
8:00-9:00 pm "You Asked for It, Part 1"
Monday, April 16, 2007
1:00-2:00 am (no idea which episode aired)
Thursday, April 19, 2007
3:00-4:00 am (no idea which episode aired)
Friday, April 20, 2007
8:00-9:00 pm "Black History Month" (edit? only ran 1 hour)
Saturday, April 21, 2007
8:00-9:00 pm "Black History Month" (edit? only ran 1 hour)
Monday, April 23, 2007
4:00-5:00 am (no idea which episode aired)
11:00 pm - 12:00 am "You Asked for It, Part 1"
Saturday, April 28, 2007
2:00-4:00 am "Black History Month"
Sunday, April 29, 2007
2:00-4:00 am "Black History Month"
Monday, April 30, 2007
1:00-2:00 am (no idea which episode aired)
11:00 pm - 12:00 am "You Asked for It, Part 1"
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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Atomic TV DVD: "Tribute to Natty Boh" plus "The Atomic Cocktail Hours"
Community Media of Baltimore City
Comcast Channel 75
Friday, March 9th
8:00 - 9:00pm Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 1
11:00 - 12:00am Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 2
Saturday, March 10th
8:00 - 9:00pm Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 1
11:00 - 12:00am Atomic TV Cocktail Hour, Pt. 2
Resistance is futile, so Atomic TV has decided to jump on the Lounge-a-palooza bandwagon, pledge allegiance to the Cocktail Nation and embrace Swankness in all its fez-hatted, zoot-suited, retro swing silliness... First up is a vintage commercial break paying homage to our legendary local blue-collar brew, Natty Boh. Then we drop by our fave watering hole, Henninger's Tavern, where owner Kenny Vieth spoils us with food and drink while we we enjoy “incredibly strange space-age bachelor pad exotica” music videos by Combustible Edison, Korla Pandit, Martin Denny, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, a rare Raymond Scott Quintette film appearance, 1940’s “Soundies” music shorts, the hepcat hokum of Baltimore’s own Swingin’ Swamis, Don Knotts as "The Love God," tributes to patron Saints of Swing Dean Martin and Buddy Love and assorted clips from drinkin’ flicks! Time flies when you're having rum, so “drink up and be somebody!”
(DVD-R, 2 hours, 30 minutes)
SNEAK PREVIEWS
Don Knotts is "The Love God?"
"The Love God?" movie trailer
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Atomic TV's Tribute to Natty Boh
Gluttons for punishment can put on their beer goggles and view the blurry-ass video encodes posted over on YouTube:
Atomic TV's Tribute to Natty Boh Part 1 (YouTube)
Atomic TV's Tribute to Natty Boh Part 2 (YouTube)
Related Links:
National Bohemian Blog
Natty Boh Gear
Beer Collections: National Bohemian
Tom Warner's Accelerated Decrepitude: You Gotta BOH-lieve
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Friday, March 09, 2007
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Underdog Battles Satan Claus Redux
Saturday, February 24th at 11:00PM
Community Media of Baltimore City Ch. 75
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Friday, February 23, 2007
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Tom Warner: Man About Town
"Warner, a trim blond with a well-groomed mien more befitting a GQ editor than a librarian cineaste, organizes several film programs a year..."
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Thursday, January 04, 2007
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Happy Holidays from Atomic TV
Suzanne Muldowney, better known as "Underdog Lady," sings "Silent Night" accompanied by "The Awkard Sounds of Scott & Skizz" at the 2006 Mayor's Christmas Parade in Hampden, Maryland.
Meanwhile, over at Accelerated Decrepitude, Atomic TV's Tom Warner files his first-hand report along with photos of the much heftier Underdog portraying the "Fairy of the Golden Snow."
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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Managers Corner by Skizz Cyzyk
Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver colorfully answers questions from baseball fans.
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Monday, December 04, 2006
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Michael Nesmith - Cruisin'
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Another classic music video from the pre-MTV era, I guess I first saw this video on Don Kirschner or some other late-night music show. I love how in the olden days the plot of a music video actually followed the song's lyrics. Plus how can you beat a line like "Trying to make connections with their blemish-free complexions"?
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Sunday, March 12, 2006
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Butterfly Ball (sung by Ronnie James Dio)
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When we first saw this bizarre cartoon in the mid-80's during Night Flight's "Cult Classics" we swore it was Sabbath's Ronnie James Dio singing... and it took us over 20 years to confirm the fact. A very trippy cartoon that was very fitting for USA Network's late-night stoner programming... back in those days we would finish our night shifts at Friendly's and then rush to the liquor store to buy cheap cases of RWB -- "Red, White and Blue" beer. We would then ingest all sorts of goodies, legal and illegal and topped off with 6-foot Wawa subs affectionately known as "babies," hunkering down in a hazy bliss for another weekend Night Flight all-nighter. --Scott Huffines
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Tuesday, March 07, 2006
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Natty Boh "Draw Me A Beer" Commercial
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Another classic National Bohemian ad from the Atomic TV archives. Question: Who voices the characters and what other cartoon characters did he voice?
Related Links:
National Bohemian Blog
Natty Boh Gear
Beer Collections: National Bohemian
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Saturday, February 18, 2006
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National Bohemian "Lord Baltimore" Commercial
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What's Happening magazine has been nice enough to mention Atomic TV and our Natty Boh commercials so we bumped this video back to the top. -- Scott
"National Beer, National Beer, you'll like the taste of National beer." Sing along to the jingles associated with old Natty Boh, now brewed by the folks at Pabst. Most people associate it with the one-eyed Mr. Boh, but there was a whole cast of characters in the Land of Pleasant Living. Don't forget: "There's Chincoteague oysters and crabs and clams, and fried chicken and Virginia hams, and while we're singing, we're proud to say, it's brewed on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay."
--Tom Warner
Atomic TV presents the first of a series of National Bohemian ads you can look forward to viewing over the next few months. This clip features "Lord Baltimore" extolling the virtues of National Beer.
Related Links:
National Bohemian Blog
Natty Boh Gear
Beer Collections: National Bohemian
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Corn Mo is the new Tyler Durden
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Thursday, February 16, 2006
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DeansPlanet.Com "Have no Fear... Underdog is Here!"
Doc: I understand that you have a movie coming out. Tell us about the movie, how did it come about, and did you enjoy making it?
Suzanne : The movie is called “My Life as an Underdog. ” It's about my life, and about my career as an improvisational dancer. It shows some of my performances, topics I was the first to use for dance, and flashbacks to significant life experiences. Sometime in the late eighties I met a still photographer, Christine Back, in Cape May, NJ. She photographed me for several years, but eventually felt that still photos did not convey my message adequately. Around 1996 she introduced me to Yugoslavian-born filmmaker Boris Gavrilovic, who felt that a moving picture worked better than still shots in telling my story. For the most part, I enjoyed making it since the characters/topics I used, and my original dances, would be preserved on film as proof positive. Unfortunately, we also caught some bad moments because of discourteous audiences.
Read more...
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Monday, January 30, 2006
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Crispin Glover: "Clowny Clown Clown"
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From Atomic TV Volume 6: "Scott's Obsessions": I've had a quite unhealthy obsession with Crispin Hellion Glover ever since his appearance as knit-cap-wearing Layne in "River's Edge." Rumor has it that in post-production they had to go back and film additonal scenes with Glover popping pills and falling asleep at traffic lights in order for movie-goers to make sense of his quirky character. The Glover-obsession clincher was when I saw the "I'm strong... I can kick..." David Letterman appearance and from that point on I was a fan for life. When I opened my store, Atomic Books, I contacted Volcanic Eruptions (his mom) so that Crispin's book "Rat Catching" would be one of the first books I could proudly display on my counter. Counter. Prominently displayed. Not hidden spine-in on a bookshelf. A few years later I went to Washington D.C. to see a workprint of his retard-and-naked-palsy-man film "What Is It?" along with his "Big Slide Show" presentation. Utterly amazing. And as the years have passed Glover has continued to take on quirky roles without ever cheezing out, even in "Charlie's Angels" he played a weirdo. Perhaps his most mainstream role was in "Where the Heart Is?" but Uma Thurman was in that movie, and she was nekkid, so I gotta still cut him some slack. Crispin Glover has remained my hero for almost 20 years, and when I met him he wasn't a dick, which gives him even more bonus points. A true gentleman.
Related Links:
- Volcanic Eruptions
- What Is It?
- "The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution. The Solution = Let It Be."
- Album Review of "The Big Problem"
- Reverse Online review of "Willard"
- "Ben" video from "Willard"
- The Crispin Corner
- Intoxicated with the Madness
- Transcript of Glover's David Letterman appearance
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Saturday, January 07, 2006
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"This is the shit! This is the Killer Buzz! It's Grape Ape's words so you know it's true!"
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From Atomic TV Volume One: Meet Grape Ape, a hippie burnout who survived an atomic blast to become the Magilla Gorilla of rock and roll and Spokesperson for a Lost Generation, as he expounds on Led Zeppelin and proves that rust never sleeps, it creeps...
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Thursday, January 05, 2006
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Devo's "Gut Feeling" by Blister Freak Circus
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"Gut Feeling" by Blister Freak Circus
from Atomic Books' "Q: Are We Not Kiss? A: We Are Devo!"
Memory Lane, early 1990's
Peruse the City Paper nightclub listings and you are likely to find a plethora of hipster-ironic musical mash-ups with clever names like "Johnny Clash's Planet of the Apes 80's Flashback" or "The White Strokes versus Wu Tang & Wang Chung."
But in the early days of Baltimore hipsterdom this was not the case.
That is until the tax man came knocking at Atomic Books' door.
A $5,000 tax bill loomed large. How was Huffines to pay? A book sale? Although during the 90's Baltimore was referred to as "The City That Reads," the fact was, no one read. Of course they occasionally bought books -- but only to decorate their living spaces with. What was he to do?
Suddenly a light bulb appeared above Huffines' head, a 150-watt illuminated marquee scrolling a message: "Put on a show, Little Rascals style!"
And since Kiss and Devo were his favorite bands he decided: What better way to beg for money than to force feed the grunge-loving public the music of his youth? And thus was born:
"Q: Are We Not Kiss? A: We Are Devo!"
The show was a rollicking success, even garnering a coveted City Paper "Best Of" award. Huffines and Warner videotaped the event, utilizing antique VHS cameras the size and weight of cinderblocks. They stored the tapes away never knowing that they were Atomic TV's legacy, their Dead Sea Scrolls, their Book of Genesis.
Many years passed.
And so these tapes sat, deep in the Atomic TV archives until one day the spectre of unemployment revisited Scott Huffines and gave him time. Time to panic and time to worry about his future. But eventually he grew bored and nostalgic, as men in their 40's often do, and he used this time to review hundreds of unlabeled videos, trying to make sense of his past.
He is still confused.
Sit back and enjoy one of Atomic TV's earliest clips, our own "Cavern Club" footage.
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Wednesday, January 04, 2006
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We're Number 1!
And if you don't think so, then Louis Fowler (left) thinks you're full of number 2. In his review of holiday TV fare for the ROCKY MOUNTAIN BULLHORN, media maven Louis Fowler named Atomic TV's "Underdog Battles Satan Claus" the best Christmas special ever! We've been Fowler fans since the days when Atomic Books carried his zine DAMAGED and he was recently named Best Local Radio Personality for his latest venture, the radio program DAMAGED HEARING. That he named our humble holiday hodge-podge ahead of Pee-Wee Herman's Christmas Special (an all-time fave) and the legendary "Star Wars Holiday Special" was an additional honor, for this is rare company indeed. See Louis' full review here: Santa Claus Conquers the Airwaves.Check out these Louis Fowler Links:
- Louis' Film Reviews
- Louis' Blog
- Louis' Cinema Eye Reviews
- Louis' Bookgasm Reviews
- Louis' Hitch Magazine Reviews
- Louis' DAMAGED Hearing Radio Show
posted by Tom Warner, Almost Hip Guy on Saturday, December 31, 2005
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Jack La Lanne's Twist-a-Way Twister Solves the World's Problems
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Jack La Lanne's message for world peace:
"How would you like to give ONE present that will satisfy everyone... and make them terrifically happy? Well I have just the thing for you... just the present... The new-and-improved Twist-a-Way Twister that will help every man, woman and child and give them so much pleasure and fun and get them in condition at the same time."
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Wednesday, December 21, 2005
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Underdog Lady in "The Tootsie Roll Incident"
Underdog Lady takes a brief respite from her battle with Satan Claus so that she can stock up the secret compartment in her cape with treats tossed to the ground by the Tootsie Roll Trolley.
Yes, the first Atomic TV DVD is now complete and available from Atomic Books:
The Atomic TV Holiday Special: Underdog Battles Satan Claus!
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Tuesday, December 13, 2005
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"Underdog Battles Satan Claus!"
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Making it to the parade in the nick of time, Underdog shines in her 11th consecutive holiday march, only to confront her greatest challenge yet... SATAN CLAUS, a Y2K-obssessed messenger of doom who taunts Underdog and terrifies parade goers with his prediction that the world will end New Year's Eve when Dick Clark drops the ball in Times Square. Will this be the last Hampden Parade for Underdog? Or will she defeat the powers of darkness in time to enjoy a tasty roast beef sandwich? Watch and find out in our wildest Christmas Special ever!
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Friday, December 09, 2005
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Atomic TV Fans Are The Greatest
Eebmore: "All your claims will blow up in your face. Begone!""Finally. Sheesh. I’ve been waiting literally years for Tom Warner and/or Scott Huffines to get around to digitizing and uploading clips from Atomic TV. Apparently, the original tapes are being digitized and converted to DVD, with a Christmas
special to be released on December 9th. I’m assuming the DVD will be sold at Atomic Books (in store and online order?), although I really don’t know."
"Unpainted Huffines" weighs in: "Oh Lord, does it hurt! We are S-L-O-W-L-Y struggling to get a dvd together for the holiday season... we're stuck on a few things but we are trying to get this freakin' dvd together for the few fans that we do have. Actually we have more fans than we realized. Last weekend I made a rare venture downtown and was queried by fans at Holy Frijoles, Club Charles, the Ottobar and the Rendezvous. "Are you still on public access?" (That should be our new slogan.) Fans do seem to be watching -- as of today we have over 100 subscribers to our vodcast, and there'sbeen over 1000 downloads. Not bad!"
posted by Scott "Unpainted" Huffines on Tuesday, December 06, 2005
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ATOMIC TV ARCHIVES
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