KC and The Sunshine Band | Through the Shattered Lens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m47EQtAMzI

I’m sure you’ll remember this song from the soundtrack of any film that’s set during the 70s. I’ll always associate with John C. Reilly showing Don Cheadle a card trick in Boogie Nights. I guess that’s appropriate since it’s Boogie Shoes and Boogie Nights. “Don’t you worry about the evil spirits?” Cheadle asks Reilly shortly before Reilly runs off to help Dirk Diggler launch his musical career.

Apparently, this band was started in a record store. The man who would eventually be known as KC worked at the store and I guess the band was made up with either his customers or his co-workers. Either way, they came together to form The Sunshine Band and they spread happiness and cheer all throughout the cocaine-heavy 70s. They’re still doing it, playing the nostalgia circuit. Good for them. Disco is forever.

(That said, the best band to form in a record store remains the Empire Records band. SUGAR HIGH!)

This is another one of those videos that was originally a performance for a television show. In this case, the show was American Bandstand.

Dance and enjoy!

“Gentlemen, aim for their tires.”

Drive Angry came out in early 2011 and it was one of those films which everyone thought was going to flop and flop hard. It did flop like a dying carp on a desert dune, but it was also one of the most fun flicks of the year. People just didn’t get what the film was about and trying to do. I, for one, was of the minority that got “it”.

This film starring Nicolas Cage going the subdued crazy route had so many funny and WTF sequences that it was difficult just to pick one, but pick one I shall.

I think the sequence where William Fichtner’s supernatural bounty hunter, The Accountant, chasing and assisting the undead John Milton on his vengeance ride against a Satanic cult leader, and to the tune of the KC and The Sunshine Band’s “That The Way (I Like It)” classic song was a major favorite. It emphasized just how over-the-top Drive Angry turned out to be, but in a fun and hilarious way. William Fichtner just chews the scenery in this scene. I also like how Tom Atkins, himself a veteran of grindhouse flicks, matches Fichtner chew for chew.