Printed on newsprint, including the "Blue Book," which was the vintage porn section, it featured some amazing art from people like Jimmy Zero, guitarist from the Dead Boys, Dave Stevens, and whoever drew the below:
The brainchild of Mike Vraney and partner Lisa Petrucci (whose kitch-inspired art also informed much of the distinctive Something Weird VHS package design), who lovingly found and restored a cache of obscure exploitation films that otherwise would have been bound for the dumpster, Something Weird Video was, and still is, an incredible archive of the cheap, crude, trashy and outrageous. It's as American as apple pie and as pervy as Times Square in its heyday. And it's all been uploaded to the internet for your viewing pleasure.
Well, not all. Recent crackdowns on online smut peddlers have really crippled SWV's online presence in the last couple of years, and they are hurting for sales. So I decided to dust off this old blog and come up with something people have been begging me to do for years now: give them some recommendations from the Something Weird Video catalog. It can be pretty overwhelming to try to browse on your own, so let me direct you to some true gems that you can DOWNLOAD RIGHT NOW and watch tonight. (No, I mean it. Seriously. Download these and watch them tonight. You'll be helping SWV and doing yourself a favor in the process.)
Who am I? Well, uh... I used to sell these headshots at the Something Weird Video Table back in the 90s, for $5 a pop. I'm the Jungle Girl.
I also introduced a few of those Something Weird videos back in the day,with Johnny Legend and the Aztec Mummy, which you might remember:
As I add to these blog entries I'll link them here. Burt for now, enjoy:
Day 1: SHE DEVILS AND TEENAGE HELLCATS!
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