It's a typical early Spring day in Northwestern Montana -- not too warm, but sunny and beautiful, with a classic "Big Sky" above us. The Swallows have migrated back to their fence-top houses in our neighborhood, but I've given up on seeing Bluebirds there this year.

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Welcome to the Blog: A surfer rode in from Addison, Texas on April 22, looking for Ming Foy -- Damn if I know what THAT means, but they stuck around for six minutes, reading about the Spitfires, I guess, and left via Michael's Montana Archives.

Media Watch: GAWD! I never thought I'd ever see THIS on television, or anywhere else for that matter! The Forbidden Zone (1980), a film by The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. They were a great bunch of guys who I met in Los Angeles when my dance company was playing at the Santa Monica Playhouse on West Pico Boulevard in 1975. The only 'Boingo' I met more than once became very famous during the 80's -- his name was Danny Elfman, and his brother Richard was co-leader of the group.
It makes me sad to say it, but Forbidden Zone has too many images of cruelty, violence, obsession, and rape to be funny. There's a lot of talent in the cast, but I wouldn't recommend this flick to anyone. Their stage shows were GREAT, and they made their mark later in the decade as Oingo Boingo the rock group. This derivative effort neither reveals the quality of their actual body of work, nor the good spirits they raised in their audiences.


Hooded Oingo Boingo musicians schlep along behind Danny Elfman playing Satan in his 'Cab Calloway' costume. Gisele Lindley plays her daring, but ultimately thankless, role of Princess in the lame-assed cult film Forbidden Zone. Theater master Jacques LeCoq's famous graduates Brian Routh and Martin von Haselberg appeared as The Kipper Kids.