THE 2nd URANIUM CAFE POLL: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF HERE AT THE CAFE?

The results of the second Uranium Cafe poll are finally in. I waited so long as a couple choices had been tied for almost two weeks and I was just waiting to see which one was going to pull ahead. Lets take a look at the results with the category receiving the least votes first:

6) Music Posts: I know one of the people who voted to see more music posts was Kimberly over at one of the best movie culture blogs around, Cine Beats. So her vote matters to me. And I have struggled so hard with trying to get some downloadable audio and have a huge task ahead of me here soon to redo all my music posts one at a time that even if this category came in last I am still going to continue it and soon you can expect at least one music post per page (eight posts). do we listen to he readers here at the cafe? yes. Do we do what they want us to do all the time? no. I know my music posts get lots of hits and support, so they are going to continue and grow rather than diminish.

5) Classic European Horror: While never my preferred cup of tea I am watching more and more Eurosleaze and general horror/sci-fi and developing a taste for it. Just got in Lucio Fulci’s Perversion Story and it looks wonderful. Learning more and more about the main directors (Jess Franco, Jean Rollins, Mario Bava, Antonio Margheriti etc. ) and finding that while not all of their work is worth the effort a lot of it is visually stunning and loaded with plot quirks and twists you would not see in most American films. A little more will be on the way but the site will not go bonkers over too many of those films simply because I still find the stories incomprehensible at times.

4) Comic Books and Art: expect this category to stay at about where it is, with a post or two per page dedicated to comic book and movie poster art yesterday and sometimes today. I once wanted to draw comic books and love the period when Marvel ruled the world back in the 70′s. I have a huge collection of material on my hard drive, ranging from the precode period to late 70′s. Some great stuff there. I also have thousands of movie poster, pulp paperback cover and  miscellaneous art samples. Since I a graphics oriented person they will continue but will not dominate the site.

3) Asian Cinema: You can still expect a post of two per page from Japan and Hong Kong. As far as mainland China, South Korea and Thailand go there will not be too much. Mainly becasue I can’t stand any of it.  As far as India and the Philippines go I consider that fodder for panning only. Sorry Bollywood fans. But what has come out of Japan and Hong Kong since the late 50′s is some of the best cinema made on the planet and my Japan movie folder on my hard drive has more films than any other and grows all the time.

2) Girls with Big Hooters in Wet Swimsuits: This was actually just a joke category but it almost won! And I will not ignore you flesh lovers out there. Expect more pin up girls, especially from Japan. The post on Machine Girl featuring  a provocative Minase Yashiro photo tribute was only the beginning. Sometimes we listen and obey both here at the Cafe.

1) Classic American Horror and Sci-Fi: Maybe the label “Made in America” does not mean what it once did and there are plenty of folks in the world and in Seattle WA in particular who love nothing more than to gloat when America stumbles or gets a black eye. Well, at the Cafe we remember a time when the three letters U.S.A. set standards the rest of the world could only dream of matching. And especially when it came to cinema. I have seen all that arty stuff from France and Italy from the 50′s and 60′s (I find British films a high level exception to the Eurocinemavertigo syndrome and have never considered the island European) and I have not clue what any of it is about. I watched La Dolce Vita a while back. While visually perfect can someone tell me what the hell the story was about! Well, when you see true gems like King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula, Satan’s Sadists, Faster Pussycat, Kill! KIll! and on and on until the cows come home you can see why those movies have lasted and endured and will still be discussed fifty years from now. Will Fellini’s Satyricon still be discussed? Sure. By flipped out culture elitists who snub anything of true artistic merit, like Ted V. Mikel’s Astro Zombies. I could understand that too if I took ten hits if LSD. Expect more and more of classic Yankee made celluloid here at the Cafe where even a bad movie can be enjoyed without being schizophrenic.

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