This Guy! Dave Castaneda of The Sines. Vocals/ Guitar/ Skater/ Surfer/ Lover/ Fighter/ Lurker/ Ne’er Do Well/ Total Jerk/ Nice Guy. The most unforgettable nobody you’ve probably seen around but can’t quite recall.

"Fight Club" (1999) - An insomniac office worker attends multiple self help groups to find the answers to his restless state of mind. When he's forced to look elsewhere, he meets up with an enigmatic soap maker and together they form a bare knuckle underground fight club that evolves into so much more. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, and Helena Bonham Carter.

Jon Kanis is an award-winning, Grammy'-nominated artist, producer and musicologist whose adventures have taken him to the farthest reaches of the globe. As a radio host and DJ he produced hundreds of weekly radio programs between 2006 and 2011 titled State Controlled Radio. Between 1999 and 2005 he co-created the world's largest music film archive with Reelin' in the Years Productions. As a musician and composer his projects include the double LP Cabalistic Dispatch with Mike Keneally (Zappa, Vai, Satriani), the Fundamentalism Is the Only Way LP with Christopher Hoffee (Truckee Brothers, The White Buffalo), and the Wall Without Me EP with Wondermints (Beach Boys, Brian Wilson). In 2014 the San Diego Book Awards honored his anthology ENCYCLOPEDIA WALKING Pop Culture & the Alchemy of Rock 'n' Roll in the category of Best Nonfiction History & Biography. After 40+ years, he adores calling San Diego home. And yet, he relishes the opportunity to cross any borderline geographic, psychological or spiritual— in order to rock your world!

"All That Jazz" (1979): Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his life story thru the eyes of Joe Gideon, a talented, womanizing director with substance abuse issues and a bad heart.

Directed by Bob Fosse. Starring Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Anne Reinking, and Leland Palmer.

Bart Mendoza is a music journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications, from the San Diego Union Tribune to Britain's Shindig Magazine. As a musician he toured the world in the 1980's with Manual Scan, in the 90's with The Shambles, and currently performs with True Stories. Meanwhile, for over a dozen years, he worked for Capitol Records, as well as Motown, Angel, Chrysalis and others. He currently runs Blindspot Records and promotes San Diego music any way he can.

"A Hard Day's Night" (1964): Beatlemania is in FULL EFFECT as the Fab 4 prepare for a live tv appearance. Classic Beatles track highlight a pioneering Rock n' Roll masterpiece. Directed by Richard Lester. Starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

This week the SCF squad celebrates Samhain by hitting up the Casbah movie vault for our favorite horror films from the shelves. No Freddie, Jason, Micheal Myers, Jigsaw or Conjuring picks here. We're celebrating low budget greatness and cult classics!|

This week the Casbah San Diego film club discusses our love for "Weapons", "F1" & "The Toxic Avenger" and our shared need to never see Dakota Johnson or Pete Davidson onscreen ever again. Join us as we look back and discuss our reactions to over three dozen films from the Summer of 2025.

Parker Edison is best known as project manager for Meridien Arts, a micro-label created to produce art driven events in the city. Its newest endeavor is Rap Diego. A KPBS podcast documenting the history and evolution of San Diego's rap scene.

"Hollywood Shuffle" (1987): A hilarious look at 80's Hollywood thru the eyes of a young African American actor, Bobby Taylor, who yearns to play leading roles while only being offered the same old stereotypical garbage. Directed by Robert Townsend. Starring Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Helen Martin, and John Witherspoon.

ABOUT MORRICONE YOUTH:

Morricone Youth is a collective of New York City musicians founded in 1999 reinterpreting 100+ film and television works all over the world, from CBGB's and the top of the World Trade Center to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, MassMoCA, Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Sydney Festival, as well as supporting Italian prog soundtrack legends Goblin on their 2017 North American tour. The band has composed and performed 15 silent film and midnight movie live scores, including F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), Robert Clouse's Enter The Dragon (1973), Jack Hill's Foxy Brown (1974), David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) and Rene Laloux's La Planete Savauge (1973), and embarked on a 15-vinyl series for each film in 2016, the first 7 of which have been released for George Miller's Mad Max (1979), George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), Mario Bava's Danger: Diabolik (1968), Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1928) and Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1926).

"Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968): A mysterious, harmonica-playing gunslinger teams up with a notorious outlaw to protect a local widower from a railroad tycoon's ruthless gang. Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale, and Henry Fonda.

Musician and sound engineer Dean Reis, currently of Gary Wilson and the Blind Dates, Los Dug Dug’s, and the Sess. Formerly of the Sultans, the Heartaches, and Spider Fever. Has also recorded albums by Witch Face, Mistress77, Schizophonics, Slaughter Boys, and many more.

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (1967): Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, three gunslingers form uneasy truces to track down a fortune in gold in a remote cemetery.

Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef. Brilliant score by the master, Ennio Morricone.