C/D: "Space is the Place" The Movie

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I'm watching it as we speak.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

As a film it's not very good, but the music in it is great.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Absolute classic! Have you got to the bit where he preaches to the youth yet?

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

NONSTOP CLASSIC - no other film like it exists

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

The music is great, and I'm kind of enjoying the movie the same way I enjoyed "Humanoids from the Deep" in a WTF THIS IS SO WEIRD ITS INCREDIBLE style

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

wtf stargate costume designers totally stole sun ra's flowing cape

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

he drives around downtown Oakland with two dudes dressed as Ra and Thoth = teh awesome

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

A cinematic blend of sci-fi, free jazz, blaxploitation, and ghetto sociology? Classic, and highly funky. Tune-in to Sun Ra's rap, because there really is a method to the madness.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

the youth are so fascinated by his shoes

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

lol drunk trying to walk up the hill

"fuck that..."

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

omg "put a coon on the moon by june"

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

classic status is assured for the opening scene alone, in which ra detroys a jazz club with the freeform power of his enlightened piano skills.

― m the g (mister the guanoman), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

outer space employment agency

― Fjord Spellman (fjord), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Trivia? At the invitation of Bobby Seale Sun Ra and his Arkestra moved to Oakland, California, in 1971 and lived in a house owned by the Black Panther Party. Sun Ra was appointed a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley through the Regents' programme and the Department of Afro-American Studies. His spiritual teachings, however, soon clashed with the social and revolutionary practice of the Black Panther Party, and Sun Ra and the Arkestra had to leave Oakland in 1972. This conflict between Sun Ra's religious message of salvation and the Black Panthers' revolutionary programme is one of the central themes of the film Space Is The Place.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

^^ so that's why you moved there?

recently bought this. love the shit out of it.

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

I did pick up on that, what with the BPP posters in the background and the pseudo-Huey Newton nonsense that one kid was spouting (xpost).

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Director's Cut DVD is not the version Ra approved for theatrical release. It has the whole Pimp & Ho storyline which is pretty ugly, and extraneous.

Also recommended: A Joyful Noise - documentary, 1981

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

Joyful Noise is teh awesome - great ramblin Ra in the museum

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Plus John Gilmore explaining the origin of the Ancient Egyptian Infinity Lightning and Thunder Drum! And Ra at the White House - "I'm looking across the road and I don't see no Black House".

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

both are insanely classic.

I read John Szwed's book a month or so ago. It was good, definitely a different perspective on Sonny Ray.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Thursday, 8 February 2007 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

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