Podcast appearances and mentions of rex weiner

In this episode we're going back in time to talk about Ford Fairlane, a character created by Rex Weiner for a series of stories published in the late ‘70s in the now-defunct ‘New York Rocker' and a second series published in the early ‘80s in the ‘LA Weekly'. The 1990 movie ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' starring Andrew Dice Clay is loosely based on the character Rex created. It wasn't until 2018 that the New York and LA stories were finally published in their entirety in book form, entitled ‘The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane', and I'm jazzed that I get to chat with Rex about his book.   MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: From ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' movie trailer Royalty-free 1970s instrumental rock music “Angel of the Morning” by Merrilee Rush “Mighty Six Ninety” by Tex Mex Rex (aka Rex Weiner) “I Wanna Be Sedated” by the Ramones “Magneto and Titanium Man” by Paul McCartney & Wings “In My Life” by The Beatles “That's Why God Made the Movies” by Paul Simon From ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' movie trailer “Rock ‘N' Roll Junkie” by Motley Crue From ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' movie trailer “Summertime Blues” by Eddie Cochran “Don't You Fade Away” by Screaming Sirens “Rumble” by Link Ray “What We Do is Secret” by The Germs   LINKS: Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451 Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350 Rex Weiner's website: https://rexweiner.com/ Rex Weiner on Twitter: @RexWeiner and @FordFairlanePI Rex Weiner on Instagram: @RexWeiner Rex Weiner on Facebook: @TheOriginalAdventuresofFordFairlane Tex Mex Rex Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2xNSCzJJAdsGLr1v58B2h5 Christy Alexander Hallberg's website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ Christy Alexander Hallberg on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube: @ChristyHallberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we're going back in time to talk about Ford Fairlane, a character created by Rex Weiner for a series of stories published in the late ‘70s in the now-defunct ‘New York Rocker' and a second series published in the early ‘80s in the ‘LA Weekly'. The 1990 movie ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' starring Andrew Dice Clay is loosely based on the character Rex created. It wasn't until 2018 that the New York and LA stories were finally published in their entirety in book form, entitled ‘The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane', and I'm jazzed that I get to chat with Rex about his book.   MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: From ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' movie trailer Royalty-free 1970s instrumental rock music “Angel of the Morning” by Merrilee Rush “Mighty Six Ninety” by Tex Mex Rex (aka Rex Weiner) “I Wanna Be Sedated” by the Ramones “Magneto and Titanium Man” by Paul McCartney & Wings “In My Life” by The Beatles “That's Why God Made the Movies” by Paul Simon From ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' movie trailer “Rock ‘N' Roll Junkie” by Motley Crue From ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' movie trailer “Summertime Blues” by Eddie Cochran “Don't You Fade Away” by Screaming Sirens “Rumble” by Link Ray “What We Do is Secret” by The Germs   LINKS: Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451 Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350 Rex Weiner's website: https://rexweiner.com/ Rex Weiner on Twitter: @RexWeiner and @FordFairlanePI Rex Weiner on Instagram: @RexWeiner Rex Weiner on Facebook: @TheOriginalAdventuresofFordFairlane Tex Mex Rex Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2xNSCzJJAdsGLr1v58B2h5 Christy Alexander Hallberg's website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ Christy Alexander Hallberg on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube: @ChristyHallberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In lieu of a regular episode this week, I'm coming at you from the Rock is Lit Vault. I'm excited about interviewing Rex Weiner, author of ‘The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane', tomorrow night (3/24/2023) for an upcoming episode of Rock is Lit. Since half of Rex's Ford Fairlane stories take place during the early ‘80s punk rock scene in LA, I thought it would be fun to revisit my chat with Pleasant Gehman about that period. This outtake from my interview with Pleasant is from Episode 4 of Rock is Lit, which features Janet Fitch's novel ‘Paint It Black', set during that time and place. Listen to EP4 of Rock is Lit here. Pleasant Gehman is a writer, musician, and host of The Devil's Music podcast, also on the Pantheon Podcast Network. Stay tuned for the next full episode of Rock is Lit, which will drop next week.   MUSIC AND MEDIA IN THIS VAULT EP: Copyright-free punk instrumental music Excerpt from the movie ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' “Los Angeles” by X   LINKS Info about Jessamyn Violet's Reading Rocking Rainbow Tour: https://jessamynviolet.com/events-wav Christy Alexander Hallberg's website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ Christy Alexander Hallberg on Instagram and Twitter: @ChristyHallberg Christy Alexander Hallberg on YouTube: @ChristyAlexanderHallberg Pleasant Gehman's website: https://pleasantgehman.com/tarotreadings/ Pleasant Gehman Twitter, @PleasantGehman1 Pleasant Gehman Instagram, @princessofhollywood The Devil's Music with Pleasant Gehman podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-devils-music-with-pleasant-gehman/id1513014547 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In lieu of a regular episode this week, I'm coming at you from the Rock is Lit Vault. I'm excited about interviewing Rex Weiner, author of ‘The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane', tomorrow night (3/24/2023) for an upcoming episode of Rock is Lit. Make sure you subscribe to Rock is Lit so you won't miss that episode. Since half of Rex's Ford Fairlane stories take place during the early ‘80s punk rock scene in LA, I thought it would be fun to revisit my chat with Pleasant Gehman about that period. This outtake from my interview with Pleasant is from Episode 4 of Rock is Lit, which features Janet Fitch's novel ‘Paint It Black', set during that time and place. Listen to EP4 of Rock is Lit here. Pleasant Gehman is a writer, musician, and host of The Devil's Music podcast, also on the Pantheon Podcast Network. Stay tuned for the next full episode of Rock is Lit, which will drop next week.   MUSIC AND MEDIA IN THIS VAULT EP: Copyright-free punk instrumental music Excerpt from the movie ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane' “Los Angeles” by X   LINKS Info about Jessamyn Violet's Reading Rocking Rainbow Tour: https://jessamynviolet.com/events-wav Christy Alexander Hallberg's website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ Christy Alexander Hallberg on Instagram and Twitter: @ChristyHallberg Christy Alexander Hallberg on YouTube: @ChristyAlexanderHallberg Pleasant Gehman's website: https://pleasantgehman.com/tarotreadings/ Pleasant Gehman Twitter, @PleasantGehman1 Pleasant Gehman Instagram, @princessofhollywood The Devil's Music with Pleasant Gehman podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-devils-music-with-pleasant-gehman/id1513014547 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, Legs McNeil, Nick Tosches, Rex Weiner, and because I'm feeling sassy as hell, Michael O'Donoghue. Yep, this is a purely selfish and HUGELY self-indulgent episode where I read you things that recently made my heart swoon. Things I love for the pure energy of the language used, but that I can't graft onto any one band or film episode. Much brutality and obnoxiousness and vulgarity in this episode. But it's endearing and inspiring because it's delivered to us by a reckless and desperate generation with heart and intellect and guts, god damn it. Not for the easily offended, especially those who refuse to believe that historical/cultural context should affect how we process language that we personally wouldn't use today, even around our friends.  Not asking anyone to love it or sign off on it, but I will not pretend I have the authority or responsibility to make the nasty words palatable for people who will be offended by them regardless. If you are explaining, you are losing, as someone much smarter than myself on NPR said today about political debate tactics.   Choose your preferred method of supporting the show for no money or maybe some money PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/whatsamatta Shirts: https://www.bonfire.com/store/justtheworstshirtsever/ Subscribe to me on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV4Up7xGgjioEC07bjwu4mQ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RockFilmRock Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justtheworstever/ Suicide Prevention, Text/Call: 988 https://afsp.org/ National Sexual Assault Hotline 1-800-656-4673 https://www.rainn.org/resources   My version of "Scarecrow" featured at the end of the episode. (click "more" button to download free) https://soundcloud.com/xagentxsmithx/scarecrow-siouxsie-and-the-banshees References:  https://archive.org/details/woodstockcensusn0000wein/page/134/mode/2up http://bigscreenbookclub.blogspot.com/2018/08/interview-original-adventures-of-ford.html https://crimespreemag.com/interview-with-rex-weiner/ https://books.google.com/books?id=8uYCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57&dq=rex+weiner&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpmfrbs-v8AhWxJn0KHRgkDvMQ6AF6BAgCEAI#v=onepage&q=rex%20weiner&f=false https://pleasekillme.com/remembering-punk-magazine/ http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_579_-_nick_tosches https://archive.creem.com/authors/nick-tosches and a free archive of Tosches books: https://archive.org/search?query=nick+tosches&page=2 https://archive.org/details/woodstockcensusn0000wein/page/134/mode/2up https://www.connectsavannah.com/savannah/live-through-this-a-conversation-with-legs-mcneil/Content?oid=2175661

“I really tried to create a band that I would love, if they were real”— Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of Daisy Jones & The Six Fiction writers have long been seduced by the anarchy, defiance, and raw power of rock ‘n roll, creating stories about music, the people who make it, and the characters who love it with the same intensity as the most ambitious concept albums. But until Rock is Lit first aired in September 2022, there had never been a podcast devoted to this art form—the rock novel—and the show remains a singularity. In each episode, host Christy Alexander Hallberg, author of the award-winning rock novel Searching for Jimmy Page (Livingston Press, 2021), interviews authors about craft and the musical inspiration behind their work, then brings in music experts, like legendary groupie Pamela Des Barres, to add real-world context to the bands or musical periods featured in the novels. Hallberg has quickly earned a reputation as a meticulous researcher and creative producer, frequently garnering compliments from guests such as Rex Weiner, author of The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane: “You're so well versed in what I wrote and, of course, your own rock ‘n roll history is pretty terrific.” The podcast's growing roster of rock novels includes: Dana Spiotta's National Book Award-nominated Eat the Document, works by BIPOC authors like Chris L. Terry's Black Card, metal-centric novels like John Wray's Gone to the Wolves, YA LGBTQ debuts like Jessamyn Violet's Secret Rules to Being a Rockstar, Scifi rock novels like Sarah Pinsker's Nebula Award-winning A Song For A New Day, rock novels adapted to film like Garth Risk Hallberg's City on Fire, and celebrity rock novels like the legendary Suzi Quatro's The Hurricane. Tune in to Rock is Lit and join the mounting number of Lit Listeners on their quest to find the very best rock novels. Watch the trailer on YouTube. Find Christy Alexander Hallberg and Rock is Lit on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube: @ChristyHallberg   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane is the pick of Patreon Timothy this week! It's a movie Tim used to watch with his best mate Paul, and argue the toss over whether it was a hidden gem or turd. Directed by Renny Harlin, screenplay by David Arnott, James Cappe, and Daniel Waters and based on characters created by Rex Weiner. Neither Chris and Dave have seen this 1990 bomb, and you'll have to listen to see how it got on........ but there will be a no-prize awarded for guessing the outcome. If you enjoy the show we have a Patreon, become a supporter. www.patreon.com/thevhsstrikesback Plot Summary: Ford "Mr. Rock n' Roll Detective" Fairlane is experiencing problems, and it's not with the opposite sex. One of them is that all the rock stars pay him with drumsticks, koala bears, food processors, and bicycle shorts. Another one of them is that all his employers that want him to find a missing girl named Zuzu Petals. Why didn't he become a fisherman's detective instead? A must-see for Andrew Dice Clay fans. thevhsstrikesback@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/vhsstrikesback --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thevhsstrikesback/support

After spending the 1990s as a homeless heroin addict in San Francisco, Joe Clifford got off the streets and turned his life around. He earned his MFA from Florida International University in 2008, before returning to the Bay Area, where he currently lives with his wife and two sons. His autobiographical novel, Junkie Love, chronicles his battle with drugs and was published by Battered Suitcase (2010). Rex Weiner is a journalist and author whose stories about a detective working in the music industry, serialized in the New York Rocker and LA Weekly in 1979–80, became the controversial Andrew Dice Clay movie, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, directed by Renny Harlin for 20th Century Fox, released in 1990. Those original stories have been published by Rare Bird Books. Joe Clifford is acquisitions editor for Gutter Books and producer of Lip Service West, a "gritty, real, raw" reading series in Oakland, CA. His bestselling Jay Porter Thriller Series (Oceanview Publishing) has received rave reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among many others. Joe is also editor of Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Stories Based on the Songs of Bruce Springsteen and the forthcoming Just to Watch Him Die: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash. Currently Joe teaches online writing courses for LitReactor and around the country at various conferences and retreats. Both have contributed an essay to the recently released collection GO ALL THE WAY: A LITERARY APPRECIATION OF POWER POP, edited but Paul Myers and S.W. Lauden.

High Times founder Tom Forcade's story concludes in part 2, which features a special guest — Rex Weiner — who was there for the magazine's wild early days, and shared many illicit adventures with the weed smuggler/political activist behind it all.  We discuss how the book Agents of Chaos by Norman Spinrad influenced Tom Forcade towards an embrace of chaos as the true third rail in American politics. Rex recalls High Times' glory years including cover stories on Bob Marley, Hunter Thompson, Debby Harry, The Sex Pistols, Cheech and Chong, and other cannabis celebrities. And we hear about the time Tom and Rex stowed away on a luxury cruise to watch a rocket launch! High Times magazine changed the world, and if you love weed, you should know this incredible unsung story. Support us by supporting our sponsors! Use promo code WEEDHISTORY at Grav.com and check out Camino Gummies by Kiva Confections. Great Moments in Weed History is a Spoke Media Original.

Rex Weiner – modern day storytelling: rexweiner.com . Conversation about how writing and storytelling has changed in the modern day, with digital technology and writers workshops teaching people how to write. Moms Demand Action – Mia Porter (fox40.com/2019/03/17/activists-to-rally-behind-gun-violence-prevention-legislation-at-capitol ) from Moms Demand Action comes to talk to us about why America can’t move on common sense gun control and why we’ve become desensitized to gun violence, not just mass shootings but domestic violence, suicide, singular homicides. Mass shootings make up 20% of people who dies by gun violence per year. 80% of the 100 + people who die by gun violence in the States are not felled by mass shootings, but daily gun violence. Why can’t we legislate? Aura Vasquez – LADWP Commissioner to talk about the Green New Deal. We need to rethink the way we live as Angelenos if we are ever going to get to 100% renewable energy, and this Mayor is going to be talking about a host of clean energy options – from wind to solar to renewable storage devices – to get us there.

Los Angeles Times Bestselling Author Stephen Jay Schwartz spent a number of years as the Director of Development for film director Wolfgang Petersen (whose credits include Das Boot, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy) where he worked with writers, producers and studio executives to develop screenplays for production. Among the film projects he helped developed are Air Force One, Outbreak, Red Corner, Bicentennial Man and Mighty Joe Young. Stephen's own film work has exhibited at the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival, the Directors Guild of America, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. He also worked as a screenwriter and freelance "script doctor," developing concepts, treatments and feature films for independent film producers. His writing credits include Inside the Space Station, narrated by Liam Neeson and produced as a "Watch with the World" special for The Discovery Channel. Rex Weiner’s screenwriting credits include The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, based on his original stories, directed by Renny Harlin and starring Andrew Dice Clay for 20th Century Fox. As one of the first writers brought on board to launch the TV series Miami Vice, Weiner wrote the now classic 9th episode, “Glades.” As a journalist, Weiner’s articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, LA Weekly, L’Officiel Hommes, and Rolling Stone Italia. “Lost & Found,” his column about Hollywood entertainment history, appeared weekly in Variety where was a staff reporter. He is one of the founding editors of High Times Magazine and former editor of Swank (“The Magazine For Men”). He is also the co-author of The Woodstock Census (Viking), one of the key texts analyzing the impact of the Sixties Generation on American society. A native New Yorker, Mr. Weiner lives in Los Angeles and in Baja California Sur, Mexico, where he is co-owner of Casa Dracula, a 160-year old hacienda in the historic pueblo magico of Todos Santos.

Rex Weiner discusses his newly reissued collection of stories, The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane, with L.A. Man author Joe Donnelly. Rex Weiner’s screenwriting credits include The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, based on his original stories, directed by Renny Harlin and starring Andrew Dice Clay for 20th Century Fox. As one of the first writers brought on board to launch the TV series Miami Vice, Weiner wrote the now classic 9th episode, “Glades.” As a journalist, Weiner’s articles have appeared in Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, LA Weekly, L’Officiel Hommes, and Rolling Stone Italia. “Lost & Found,” his column about Hollywood entertainment history, appeared weekly in Variety where was a staff reporter. He is one of the founding editors of High Times Magazine and former editor of Swank (“The Magazine For Men”). He is also the co-author of The Woodstock Census (Viking), one of the key texts analyzing the impact of the Sixties Generation on American society. A native New Yorker, Mr. Weiner lives in Los Angeles and in Baja California Sur, Mexico, where he is co-owner of Casa Dracula, a 160-year old hacienda in the historic pueblo magico of Todos Santos. Joe Donnelly is an award-winning journalist, writer and editor who lives in Los Angeles His short story “Bonus Baby”, published in the spring/summer 2015 issue of Zyzzyva, is featured in the 2016 O. Henry Prize Stories Collection as one of the 20 best short stories of the year. His short story “50 Minutes“, co-authored with Harry Shannon, was selected for The Best American Mystery Stories, 2012 and was recently made into a short film starring Stephen Tobolowsky and DJ Qualls. “The Lone Wolf", written for Orion, was a 2013 longreads.com editor’s pick and a 2014 Pen Center USA Literary Awards Finalist for Journalism. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, LA Weekly, Mother Jones, Huck, Orion, The Surfer’s Journal, Washington Post, and other publications. Donnelly co-founded and co-edited Slake: Los Angeles, the acclaimed journal of long-form journalism, fiction, essay, poetry, photography and art. Slake made a dozen appearances on the Los Angeles Times‘ bestsellers list and work appearing in Slake earned numerous awards and recognitions, including multiple Best American series selections, Livingston Award finalists, PEN USA finalists, LA Press Club awards, Franco-American Foundation’s Excellence in Immigration Reporting First Prize, and more. In 2014, Rare Bird Books published We Dropped A Bomb On You: The Best of Slake, I-IV. From 2002-2008, Donnelly was the deputy editor of LA Weekly. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Journalism at Whittier College.

On this special installment of Big Screen Book Club Craig sits down with author, screenwriter and journalist Rex Weiner to discuss The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane: The Long Lost Rock and Roll Detective Stories. They discuss how the stories came to be collected in this new edition and Rex's journey to Hollywood where he would see them adapted for the big screen. Big thanks to Rex for taking the time. Enjoy!Download (right click, save as) The (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane on AmazonThe (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane at Barnes & NobleThe (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane on FacebookThe (Original) Adventures of Ford Fairlane on TwitterRex Weiner on TwitterBouchercon 2018

Here it is, our review of an unexpected, but wholly welcome book, the stories in which inspired what MUST be Andrew Dice Clay's peak acting performance. We may also talk about porn magazines and Leonardo DiCaprio's "Pussy Posse". It's pretty great.

Here it is, our review of an unexpected, but wholly welcome book, the stories in which inspired what MUST be Andrew Dice Clay's peak acting performance. We may also talk about porn magazines and Leonardo DiCaprio's "Pussy Posse". It's pretty great.

More of the interview with writer Rex Weiner from the Adventures of Ford Fairlane episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More of the interview with writer Rex Weiner from the Adventures of Ford Fairlane episode.