While it has been favorably reevaluated by critics long after its original release, the album was a commercial failure, producing no charting singles, and reaching only. Fantastic voyage the threepart anthology cosmic slop combines fantasy and contemporary social issues when it debuts tuesday, november 8 10. Sex urban dictionary and our advertising partners set cookies on your computer to improve our site and the advertisements you see. The first thing that came up was cosmic slop, the hudlin. I did a pilot for fox that was a single camera dreamed too ahead of its time. A black rightwing politician tries to convince his white colleagues not to take the deal. The rights latest bogeyman, derrick bell, once pondered what would happen if aliens offered gold in exchange for americas black people americans decided in. Hosted by george clinton, the trilogy borrows its title from the 1973 funkadelic album and song.
In the tradition of the twilight zone, this bizarre, thoughtprovoking trilogy addresses the destiny of the worlds minorities. Space traders cosmic slop movie george clinton youtube. Would white folks vote yes to deport black americans. Cosmic slop, bells space traders story posits that a huge fleet of alien space ships lands on the eastern seaboard and its passengers offer an irresistible deal to the people and government of the united states trade us all of your african american residents, with their fate undisclosed, in exchange for enough gold to solve your. Directed by reginald hudlin, warrington hudlin, kevin rodney sullivan. And in the year of our lord 1973, the people did reject the funk. Cosmic slop hbos bizarre, thoughtprovoking film that. And now, as i write this, the conclusion of space traders seems all too likely. Cosmic slop the melanin traders from space keyamsha. Strangers from outer space have arrived in order to save a financially and resourcebankrupt america. I also did a special that was a back door pilot for hbo called cosmic slop. Cosmic slop space traders brought to the small screen by the filmmakers who unleashed the house party film series, cosmic slop is a threepart anthology series that attempts to tackle serious. Until we retired at the end of 2004, cosmic slop was a weekly radio feature dedicated to resurrecting the best and the worst pop music of the 1970s, along with occasional gems from the 60s and 80s.
Cosmic slop is a thoughtprovoking trilogy created by reginald hudlin, executive produced by reginald and his brother warrington hudlin, which aired on hbo in 1994. The aliens have come for our black people slate magazine. Space traders iz of the movie trilogy, cosmic slop by george clinton, parliament funkadelic. I have also seen the broadcast date listed as 1995. A science fiction anthology series that aired on hbo. It was hosted by parliament lead singer george clinton. An attempt at creating a sort of africanamerican version of the twilight zone, cosmic slop hbo, nov. Conservatives deeply outraged by science fiction story. Cosmic slop is a party held at hope house gallery in leeds and all the proceeds from the event are donated to the map charity. Hosts joel stitzel and chuck tomlinson played tons of vintage popular music from outside the mainstream of what might be considered an oldies program. Despite a strong start to their career on the charts, funkadelic fell into a slump with cosmic slop, a commercial flop.
The result was cosmic slop the title is based on the funkadelic record featuring the mastermind of the group, george clinton, serving as the onscreen narrator between three separate stories, while wearing prosthetic makeup that gives him an alien vibe with a third eye on his forehead. Share the space traders is a science fiction short story by derrick bell. Cosmic slop is the fifth studio album by funkadelic, released in july 1973 on westbound records. Progression three the space traders and black america. A slightly more scattershot album than the groups other early efforts, with generally short tracks only two break the fiveminute barrier and some gonowhere ballads, cosmic slop still has. The first commandment features a catholic priest in a latino parish who comes up against his.
The chapter, space traders from the book entitled faces at the bottom of the well. The storys next appearance was as a segment of the 1994 tv anthology cosmic slop. With the political landscape looking increasingly nixonian, vietnam still raging and the most space aged album of the year, dark side of the moon, exploring the surreal. Funkadelic cosmic slop 1973, pitman pressing, vinyl. Space traders directed by reginald hudlin and written by trey. How get out inspired a new college course on racism.
It also starred casey kasem, robert guillaume, and anthony anderson. In fact, in 2012 cosmic slop s adaptation of space traders was criticized on because they found out obama had once hugged bell after introducing him at harvard. A real pleasure to be involved in this new festival we cant wait. But two of my favorite tales that are on this film is space traders the one with late actor robert guillaume. After making house party, boomerang and bebes kids i started developing content for tv. They were looking for something about george clinton on melanin. The story was adapted for television in 1994 by director reginald hudlin and writer trey ellis as part of the hbo anthology tv movie cosmic slop, which presented three twilight zone style stories from a black perspective.
Scruff, mafalda and sno at the love dancin tent on friday with a 5hr slot 125pm. It came to mind because a seeker found our post george clinton tells us what is power. Cosmic slop 1994 three short tales space traders, the first commandment and tang examine contemporary social issues. What space traders can teach us about the rise of donald trump.
In exactly 1 weeks time well be taking we out here festival 2019 on a cosmic slop journey. Derrick bells story the space traders is one of science fictions scariest thought experiments because of what it reveals about human nature. Its kind of a twilight zone vibe with george clinton. Technically, thats one that veers into science fiction but the story is. On one hand its kinda hilarious for anybody to get up in arms about an obscure 20 year. It features three short space traders based on the derrick bell short story.
The short story, the space traders was written by professor derrick bell. The space traders tells the story of an alien race offering the united states miracle technology in exchange for every black citizen. With jorge ameer, larry anderson, noelle balfour, jason bernard. Cosmic slop was a 1994 tv anthology series on hbo featuring three short black science fiction movies. With a much more strippeddown version of the band, if the credits are to be believed five regular members total, not counting any vocalists, funkadelic continued its way through life with cosmic slop. Space traders was actually turned into a short film, as part of the 1994 black scifi anthology cosmic slop. Scene from cosmic slop space traders, written by reginald hudlin, adapted from the short story by derrick bell growing up during the 60s and 70s, i was an avid fan of speculative science. In 2000, the space traders first volume of the science fiction anthology dark matter. A conservative african american politician must choose between. I am going to show the space traders from the old cosmic slop hbo scifi anthology, directed by reggie hudlin.
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