Yep, I thought I was done with quests, but I stumbled into one that I didn't know was a quest.
Circle Of Iron (1978)
So, in 1985, my friend Steve spent the night, and then once we were sure my folks were asleep, we snuck out to steal snacks, and peek at R rated movies on HBO.
What we saw was this weird fucked up scene of a guy cooking himself in a barrel of oil, and the hero, a Conan/Beastmaster looking guy, walks by, and has a whole Python-esque conversation with him.
Turns out oil-dude couldn't fully mentally suppress his sexual urges to achieve ultimate enlightenment like he wanted, so he's dissolving his whole lower half.
He asks Cord (barbarian-guy) how he's coming along. Cord looks, and says his legs look like seaweed, and his junk is a pimple.
Oil-guy sighs with relief.
Steve wanted to bail after that, and we snuck back to our sleeping bags.
Now!! I always remembered that, but I could have SWORN that happened in one of the Ator movies!!
I thought I had that covered reviewing "Ator: The Fighting Eagle" and "Iron Warrior".
I went down a rabbit hole looking for exactly WHICH Ator it was in, and it wasn't in "Ator". It was in "Circle of Iron".
So, that gets a "whoops my bad" and this counts as "Ator revisited" too.
Anyway!! Turns out, Bruce Lee wrote this before he died, and I safely assume he was supposed to be Cord.
Bruce Lee having comedy dialog with oil-guy. Can you imagine? That would have gone down in cinema history.
Alas.
Hmm, I guess this triples as "Bruce Lee revisited" too.
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I wanted to draw a parallel between a guy dissolving his lower half and David Carradine's method of death, but never mind.
Okay! Back! I was reading my mother's diaries. One of the memories in there sparked that memory, and led to that rabbit hole. Dunno if I'm gonna book-blog those. Some of it, like 80's HBO, is sharable, a lot isn't. We'll see. I gotta think it over.
Well, you know we're in rough times when the news get a Bruce Springsteen song. https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w
Well, that new movie about him (which wasn't a full biopic, just about that time he made the "Nebraska" album in 1982--the one that contains "State Trooper," his creepy homage to "Frankie Teardrop") disappeared pretty damn quickly didn't it? "A Complete Unknown" it wasn't, I guess.
If up there in ol' rainy Mainey you encounter any rednecks defending this ICE bullshit, ask them what they thought 33 years ago when the government killed Vicki Weaver (one of their own) at Ruby Ridge and made similar excuses. Watch their face turn paler than it already is.
This is, of course, assuming they even know what Ruby Ridge is; I've met kids from Oklahoma today that don't know who Timothy McVeigh is, or even what he did, so it's entirely possible, y'know?
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