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We’re told that girls are sugar and spice and every thing nice – but do they feel it’s really wonderful to be a girl? Sure, they get to have babies and (doh!) multiple orgasms, but they also have to stoop to pee and – the big showstopper – they BLEED every month. Is the trade-off worth going with the flow? Our look at Adam’s Spare Rib lets it bleed, featuring excepts from late-bloomer Carrie (killer PMS!), The He-Man Human Woman Haters Club, those menstruation training films you gals saw in elementary school, an up close and (very) personal remembrance of cycles past by a bevy of blood-bloated Baltimore beauties who chat about having “The Talk” with Mom, the Jewish tradition of The Menstrual Slap, enjoying menstrual sex (blood-spitting KISS bassist Gene Simmons was repulsed by it, that pussy!),…plus, see a menstruating Mongoloid miss learn all about the curse from her tell-all Sis…

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Yes, we’re Turning Japanese yet again. Join Atomic TV’s Tom Warner and special guest Sheila B. of New York’s CHA-CHA-CHARMING magazine, as they present the “Ultimate J-Pop” music guide, featuring Sheila’s fave Japanese girl-singer pop bands: Bonnie Pink, Judy & Mary, My Little Lover, Every Little Thing, Puffy, Lindberg. See rare live and canned videos from Japanese TV and concerts. Plus, see Emmanuel Lewis sing in Japanese!

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If you have a heart condition or are easily offended, don’t watch this episode that’s hosted by Todd Stachowski, Rock Star and his lovely lady Gina and broadcast live from the Men’s Room at a Heavy metal bar in East Baltimore… Enjoy our best (and longest) film short “Making Art with Tape” by local filmmaker Lee Boot… See highlights from the blaxploitation film career of The Man Called Dolemite, Rudy Ray Moore… Musical appearances by the thought-provoking (well… at least provoking) Rock Stars, Baltimore’s lamented late-great purveyors of punk-pop, Berserk, and reigning bargain-bin masters of melodious musical moxie, Garage Sale.

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You asked for it, low-fi low-brow TV fans, and Atomic TV really gave it to you this time! The first half of this episode features a mish-mash of cult film shorts, music videos and oddball visuals, while the second half pays homage to John Waters and his then-new film Cecil B. Demented (a personal favorite of ATV’s Tom Warner!).

• • See music videos by Talking Heads (“Once in a Lifetime”) and Buzzcocks (“What Do I Get”)
  • See TV commercials for milk and potato chips by Dusty Springfield and The Carpenters
  • See Henninger’s Tavern impressario Kenny Vieth (aka “Lance Charming”) request the banana-eating scene from Hope & Crosby’s final film THE ROAD TO HONG KONG
  • See stomach-wrenching videos of placenta-gushing childbirth, ocular trauma and dirty diapers
  • See “God’s Angry Man” televangelist Dr. Gene Scott and his Toy FCC Monkey Band
  • See Skizz Cyzyk’s short film “Star Spangled Babydoll” (1999)
  • See Firesign Theatre’s serial parody “Sperm Bank Holdup”
  • See Davey & Goliath spoof “Davey & Son of Goliath”
  • See Atomic TV’s exclusive coverage of the 2000 premiere of John Waters’s Cecil B. Demented at “The Historic Senator Theater” plus trailers, clips and interviews with the director, Jackie Nickel (VIP mother of Atomic TV’s Scott “Unpainted” Huffines) and stars Stephen Dorf, Alicia Witt, Patty Hearst and Ricki Lake
  • See tributes to Dreamlanders Bob Adams (who intro a classic “Mr. Ray” hair-weave commercial) and Susan Lowe (star of John Waters’s Desperate Living)
  • See Meatjack enjoy their 4 seconds of Cecil B. Demented soundtrack fame (Brian Danolowski: “I figure we’re due another 14 minutes and 56 seconds of our 15 minutes of fame!”) during a record-signing appearance with John Waters and hip-hop star Karen McMillan (“Demented Forever”) at Sound Garden in Fells Point.

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