WHISKEY FLICKS LIVE!

On Friday, June 18, WFL! dove deep into the sequels, prequels, reboots and franchises that make summer so big, loud and fun. Then we pulled it in, and looked at the moments when summertime cinema wears its heart on its sleeve.

Join us Friday, July 23rd when WFL! returns to The City Reliquary for an encore in-person performance. Then enjoy your August! Tune back in Friday, September 10 as we celebrate 1 year of online performances, and our 25th online show, as Whiskey Flicks Live Jumps the Shark!, wherein Dan doesn’t know what Mike’s going to show him, Mike doesn’t know what Dan’s going to say, and the audience, as always, is along for the ride!

Tickets will be on sale soon for both these shows. In the meantime, here’s the complete playlist from Big Dumb Summer 2. Happy viewing and don’t forget the sunscreen!

1. Guns n’ Roses – You Could Be Mine (from T2) – music video
2. Back to the Future Part II
3. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
4. Jurassic World
5. Batman & Robin
6. Furious 7
7. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
8. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
9. Toy Story 2
10. Bumblebee
11. Avengers: Endgame
12. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
13. Lil Nas X (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus) – Old Town Road (music video)
14. Do the Right Thing
15. I Know What You Did Last Summer
16. Midsommar
17. (500) Days of Summer
18. Speed 2: Cruise Control (audience pick)
19. Booksmart
20. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (audience pick)
21. The Karate Kid
22. Seinfeld – The Summer of George! (Niederman pick)
23. The Goonies
24. Woodstock – Jimi Hendrix – The Star Spangled Banner

For the first performance of our two-show series on all things summer in cinema, we explored summer as a time of transformation and explosions!

Join us next Friday for The Whiskey Flicks Live Big Dumb Summer Show Part 2, The Sequel: The Adventure Continues! CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS

Here’s the complete playlist from the show on June 11, 2021:

1. Grease
2. Jaws
3. Top Gun
4. Wet Hot American Summer
5. Independence Day
6. Mamma Mia!
7. Dazed and Confused
8. How Stella Got Her Groove Back
9. Point Break
10. Dirty Dancing
11. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – Summertime (music video)
12. Star Wars
13. The Brady Bunch
14. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
15. The Sandlot
16. The Blue Lagoon
17. Back to the Beach
18. Raiders of the Lost Ark
19. Stand By Me (Niederman pick!)
20. Call Me By Your Name
21. One Crazy Summer (audience pick!)
22. Little Miss Sunshine
23. The Empire Strikes Back

created and performed by
Michael Niederman and Daniel McCoy

photos, technical direction, and equipment loan by
Jody Christopherson

Here’s the complete playlist from Whiskey Flicks Live…and In Person!
LCD Soundsystem – New York, I Love You (music video)
Taxi Driver
The Hudsucker Proxy
Desperately Seeking Susan
Being John Malkovich
Big
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Mo’ Better Blues
The Age of Innocence
WHISKEY BREAK! Dinosaur Jr. – Feel the Pain (music video)
Downtown ’81
The Apartment
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Smoke
Paris Is Burning (Niederman pick!)
King Kong
World of Tomorrow (audience pick!)
The Warriors
The Wiz

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special thanks to Jacob Ford and The City Reliquary, Rob Neill, yoshi kuroi

developed at so-fi Festival 2019

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THE WHISKEY FLICKS LIVE BIG DUMB SUMMER SHOW!
June 11 and 18, Fridays 8pm EST

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all photos by Jody Christopherson

For our third performance of Whiskey Flicks Live! MIDNIGHT MADNESS!!!, we were joined by special guest Cecil Baldwin for a romp through the camp, gore and rock n’ roll attitude of our favorite cult films.

For more Cecil, check out:
Welcome to Night Vale
Random Number Generator Horror Podcast No. 9
The Program with the San Francisco Neo-Futurists

Next up, the first in-person Whiskey Flicks Live! since 2019 at the City Reliquary, Friday 5/28 @8pm. Tickets are limited so get them here:
Whiskey Flicks Live! & In Person

Then we’re back online for The Whiskey Flicks Live Big Dumb Summer Show!, Fridays 6/11 and 6/18 @ 8pm. Bigger, louder, dumber. Just the way we like our movies…and our summers. Pay-what-you-wish and BYOB!
The Whiskey Flicks Live Big Dumb Summer Show!

And here’s the complete playlist from Whiskey Flicks Live! MIDNIGHT MADNESS!!! Vol. 3. Happy discovering and re-discovering!

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. The Toxic Avenger
3. Showgirls
4. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
5. Donnie Darko
6. Lady Snowblood
7. Female Trouble
8. The Doom Generation
9. The Wizard of Gore
10. Barbarella
11. The Big Lebowski
12. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (trailer)
13. Fritz the Cat
14. Repo! The Genetic Opera
15. Un Chien Andalou
16. Eraserhead
17. Mommie Dearest
18. Streets of Fire (Niederman pick!)
19. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Cecil pick!)
20. The Wicker Man
21. Xanadu
22. Evil Dead 2 (audience pick!)
23. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (reprise!)

Please enjoy some images from the show!

How trashy can we get in our unscripted, boozed-infused deep dive into film? We explored this notion in the April 23rd performance of Whiskey Flicks Live! MIDNIGHT MADNESS!!! with guest co-curator and co-reactor Kyra Sims. Did we find any answers? Mmmm… If you want to see more of Kyra’s work, we urge you to investigate the following:

Kyra’s walking tour NYC history essay series
New York Neo-Futurists

Join us again on Friday 4/30 for Vol. 3 of MIDNIGHT MADNESS!!! with our next guest, actor, Neo-Futurist, and the voice of “Welcome to Night Vale” Cecil Baldwin.

And here’s your “omg my head was spinning from all the awesome clips and I couldn’t keep track” playlist from the show. Happy watching!

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. But I’m a Cheerleader
3. Pink Flamingos
4. Glen or Glenda
5. Party Monster
6. The Room
7. The Who’s Tommy
8. The Cremaster Cycle
9. The Harder They Come
10. Sleepaway Camp
11. Harold and Maude
12. Pink Flamingos (redux)
13. Cats
14. Nosferatu (1922)
15. The Arena
16. Troll 2
17. Jennifer’s Body
18. The Warriors
19. Bebe’s Kids
20. Plan 9 From Outer Space
21. Hercules in New York (Kyra pick!)
22. Repo Man (Niederman pick!)
23. Catwomen of the Moon (audience pick!)
24. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
25. Pink Flamingos (finale)

Photos from the 4/23 performance of Midnight Madness!!!

On Friday, April 16 we kicked off Whiskey Flicks Live! MIDNIGHT MADNESS!!!, our three-part deep dive into midnight, cult, experimental, grindhouse and just plain weird-ass flicks, with special guest Yeauxlanda Kay. If you want to see more of Yeauxlanda’s work, check out the following:

This Could Be Us But You Keep Voting Republican on Spotify
This podcast discusses how to live your best life in the best surroundings with everyone encouraged to live up to their highest human potential and how a certain American political party has consistently been an enemy to all of that for over a century. 

Self-Care for Creatives at Sacred Art Society on Clubhouse
Helpful self-care tips for folks living on the edge of possibility. Advice and support from artists, actors, playwrights, poets & healthcare pros. Laugh together and share your own self-care tips.

Join on Friday 4/23 for Vol. 2 of MIDNIGHT MADNESS!!! with our next guest, musician, writer, actor and Neo-Futurist Kyra Sims.

And for your midnight movie must-watch list-making pleasure, here’s the playlist from last night’s show. See you next time!

1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
2. Heavy Metal
3. Time Bandits
4. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
5. El Topo
6. The Phantom of the Paradise
7. Rock & Rule
8. Big Trouble in Little China
9. Freaks
10. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
11. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
12. Labyrinth
13. Five Deadly Venoms
14. The Kentucky Fried Movie
15. Re-Animator
16. Night of the Living Dead
17. The Lost Boys
18. Waking Life
19. This is Spinal Tap
20. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (reprise) – Niederman pick!
21. Clue
22. Siesta – Yeauxlanda pick!
23. The Cook the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover – audience pick!
24. Mazes and Monsters
    
    Photos from the 4/16 performance of MIDNIGHT MADNESS!!! by Jody Christopherson:

This week Mike and Dan docked the Whiskey Flicks Live! One Year at a Time… machine at its final port (for now) in 1997. We felt all the feels as we celebrated the exuberance of the year’s biggest blockbusters, but also took a detour into how queerness was being represented and explored in peak 90s cinema. See below for the complete playlist.

Up next in April: Whiskey Flicks Live! MIDNIGHT MADNESS!!!, a three part, unscripted, booze-infused deep dive into midnight movies, cult classics, and underground fan favorites with special guests Yeauxlanda Kay, Kyra Sims, and Cecil Baldwin.

Here’s the complete playlist from WFL! 1997:

1. Blur – Song 2 (music video)
2. Titanic
3. The Fifth Element
4. Men in Black
5. Princess Mononoke
6. Star Wars – Special Edition
7. The Game
8. Jackie Brown
9. Selena
10. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
11. Good Will Hunting
12. Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
13. The Ice Storm
14. Eve’s Bayou
15. Titanic (reprise)
16. Daft Punk – Around the World (music video)
17. Lost Highway
18. 4 Little Girls
19. Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
20. In & Out
21. As Good As it Gets
22. Chasing Amy
23. Waiting for Guffman
24. Boogie Nights
25. Spice Girls – Wannabe (music video)
26. Love and Death on Long Island
27. Love! Valor! Compassion!
28. Copland (audience pick)
29. Titanic (finale)
30. Contact
31. Starship Troopers
32. Anaconda

This week the Whiskey Flicks Live! One Year at a Time…EXTENDED EDITION time machine hurled right to the heart of 1989, a crucial year for Mike and Dan as they watched the Berlin Wall crumble, entered high school, and leveled up on their film nerdery. Blockbusters, indie films, music vids…suddenly everything felt much more important. See below for the complete playlist.

Next week, we whisk away to 1997 (peak ’90s imho) and the last performance of our decade-hopping Extended Edition of One Year at a Time…

The official WFL! 1989 playlist:

1. Do the Right Thing – opening credits
2. Seinfeld
3. Lean On Me
4. Dead Poets Society
5. The Little Mermaid
6. All Dogs Go to Heaven
7. Heathers
8. Steel Magnolias
9. When Harry Met Sally
10. Glory
11. The Fabulous Baker Boys
12. Drugstore Cowboy
13. Sex, Lies and Videotape
14. Prince – Batdance (music video)
15. The Simpsons
16. Batman
17. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
18. The Abyss
19. Earth Girls Are Easy
20. Driving Miss Daisy
21. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
22. Do the Right Thing
23. The War of the Roses (audience choice)
24. Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation
25. Say Anything…
26. Vampire’s Kiss

This week we hopped back into the Whiskey Flicks Live! One Year at a Time…EXTENDED EDITION time machine and bleep blop blooped back to 1976, where we explored a post-Vietnam, post-Watergate, pre-80s-and-all-that-came-with-it cinematic landscape. It was a year of movies haunted by the past but also looking tentative optimism toward the future. See below for a complete playlist of our Feb. 19 show.

Next, we Zoom forward (literally) to 1989. Join us Friday 2/26 at 8pm EST (which happens to be Dan’s birthday!) for some late 80s realness.

The official WFL! 1976 playlist:

1. The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop (live)
2. Taxi Driver
3. All the President’s Men
4. Freaky Friday
5. The Bad News Bears
6. The Man Who Fell to Earth
7. Silver Streak
8. Sybil
9. A Star is Born
10. King Kong
11. Laverne & Shirley – intro
12. Rocky
13. Vicki Sue Robinson – Turn the Beat Around (live)
14. Master of the Flying Guillotine
15. The Monkey Hustle
16. The Missouri Breaks
17. The Ritz
18. Logan’s Run
19. The Bionic Woman (intro)
20. Marathon Man
21. Carrie
22. Car Wash (Niederman pick!)
23. Network
24. Stevie Wonder – As (live)

Thank you to everyone who made Whiskey Flicks Live! their Valentine on Friday, Feb. 12. Up next, Whiskey Flicks Live! One Year at a Time…EXTENDED EDITION, kicking off with 1976!

Here’s the complete playlist for Whiskey Flicks Live! I❤️ NY

1. Manhattan (1978)
2. On the Town (1949)
3. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
5. 30 Rock S1E20 “Cleveland” (2007)
6. Annie Hall (1977)
7. Carol (2015)
8. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
9. You’ve Got Mail (1998)
10. An Affair to Remember (1957)
11. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
12. Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind – music video (2009)
13. City Lights (1931)
14. Sex and the City S6E17 “The Cold War” (2004)
15. Moonstruck (1987)
16. Do the Right Thing (1989)
17. New York, I Love You (2008)
18. St. Vincent – New York – music video (2017)
19. Paris is Burning (1990)
20. The Get Down S1E6 “Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice” (2016)
21. The Muppets Take Manhattan – audience pick! (1984)
22. Longtime Companion (1989)
23. Shortbus (2006)
24. The Fisher King – Niederman pick! (1991)
25. Ghostbusters (1984)

photos by Jody Christopherson