Self analysis: William S. Burroughs

William Burrough's work has proven to be an exerting influence over the contemporary writings of British novelist and critic Will Self.  Where the former once attempted to 'destroy' language, the latter has in many ways adopted the memes and lexical trickery of his (de)mentor.

A shared history of drug use, cynicism and mastery of the English language unites these authors.  Below is a link to Will Self's preface of the Penguin 2002 edition of Burroughs' Junky.  

Will does William

Bakshi Blueprint

Here's an early short that Ralph Bakshi did for paramount called Marvin Digs.  The satirical seeds have obviously been sown.

Art from the films of Midnight Video 7

Bucket and net in hand, trousers rolled up and hankies on our heads we managed to uncover these pictorial prizes from the glistening rock pools of the interverse.

Midnight Video 7

Well folks, it's that time of the week again when you can inundate your ears and grey matter with our floundering filmic shenanigans.


A lesson in the black arts from The Priest as we polish our pentacles for Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1968 version), then we're left on a gurney to be satirically probed in Britannia Hospital before we round off with a trip to 70s Harlem where Uncle Remus meets Mario Puzo in Coonskin.


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Broderick's War Games meets Maximillian Largo's Domination (for real though)

This fascinating and frightening video by Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto succinctly captures the horrendous arrogance with which the world 'super powers' exercised their nuclear paranoia.  

A fitting short companion piece to The Atomic Cafe.

The outer limits of language

A brief, baffling and amusing article that compares the language of Leslie Steven's Incubus with that of Shatner's later stellar endeavours in Star Trek and that most ridiculed of languages; Klingon.


Klingon and Esperanto: The Odd Couple

Sneak previews of forthcoming shows

A number of people have recently expressed an interest in knowing which films we're going to be covering in future editions.
Now personally, we are of the 'surprise' persuasion, but at the same time we can fully appreciate that some folks like to have watched the films before we dissect them for the podcast.
To please both parties (and ourselves) we thought we'd set up a mailing list of sorts and then each week we'd email those who want to watch the films that we'll be covering in the upcoming podcast.
So if you'd like to be in 'the know' about the next show(s) simply email us at midnightvideo@hotmail.co.uk and write 'future films forecast' in the title.