News Archive - 2006
September 9, 2006
What's the best (fictitious) band in movie
history? Need you ask???
Recently the most excellent and outstanding Mikey MiGo wrote an article for 411mania.com outlining his 15 favorite fictitious movie bands of all time! And what band did this long-time Bill & Ted fan list as his number-one all-time best-ever movie band? Drumroll please! Okay, no surprise here . . . Wyld Stallyns was firmly seated at #1!!! Not bad! Best of all is Mikey MiGo's really wonderful write-up about WHY Wyld Stallyns is his favorite fic band, beating out such celluloid superstars as The Blues Brothers, Spinal Tap and even Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It's always nice to see in black and white the true feelings of a Bill & Ted fan, and MiGo's prose is sheer poetry to those of us who understand his passion for Bill & Ted.
Check out Mikey MiGo's outstanding two-part article by clicking the following links:
August 19, 2006
The
End of an Era . . . and the
Beginning of Another
Last week saw the end of an era in San Diego County
when the very last of the original Farrell's Ice Cream Parlours closed their
doors for the last time in Mira Mesa, California, with the fixtures and items
inside being sold at auction. The establishment, which had been operating
since 1968, was the last of the original, old-style Farrell's which used to
exist across the U.S. Those of us who grew up in the 70's especially
remember the early heydey of this fabulous establishment, where birthdays were
celebrated with fire engine sirens and the now legendary "Pig Trough"
dessert. Sound familiar? The fictitious Ziggy's Ice Cream Parlour
shown in Excellent Adventure was definitely a tribute to Farrell's.
The last original Farrell's may have closed but a new dawn may be breaking for the ice cream parlour chain. One of the "new" Farrell's parlours exists in Santa Clarita, California, and word has it another new Farrell's will be opening in Hawaii in the near future! The old Farrell's may be gone but the name lives on and who knows? Maybe one day Farrell's will again spot the U.S. landscape and everyone will be able to experience the thrill of a ridiculously giant sundae brain freeze!
For more information about Farrell's, visit
their official website.
Also this website, The
Farrell's Zone, has lots of great info about the parlours, past, present and
future!
June 24, 2006
Our Exclusive Q&A with Rappy McRapperson . . .
plus You Can Win Fight the Gorlax!
We were most ecstatic when artist Rappy McRapperson took time out of his ongoing battle against The Gorlax to answer some of our questions about his ode to the Two Great Ones, The Bill and Ted Super Song.
June 17, 2006
Keanu Promotes The Lake House
(and comments on Bill and Ted)
The excellent personages at Keanuweb referred us to
an excellent article from the New York Daily News in which Keanu promotes
his new film (and second movie with Speed co-star Sandra Bullock)
entitled The Lake House. In the article Keanu talks briefly about
Bill & Ted after the reporter brings up the supposed "Whoa!"
mentality everyone gave him after Bogus Journey came out:
"'Bill & Ted' was a really great film to me personally, and I thought a
really funny film, a successful film," (Keanu) says. "I think
for a few years people got [hung up on it]. But I never got pigeonholed in
that role by my peers - not by directors and actors. Certainly not as much
as from journalists and magazines."
You can read the full article by clicking here. And watch for Keanu to appear on many talk shows and entertainment shows, as he will continue to appear to promote the new movie in the next week or two. In fact, to keep up with all of Keanu's appearances, be sure to check out Keanuweb . . . they have all the latest Keanu news and more! Excellent!
June 3, 2006
A Piece of Excellent Adventure History in Jeopardy
of Being Demolished?? No way!!!
Many people don't realize that the movie Bill
& Ted's Excellent Adventure was not actually filmed in San Dimas,
Calfornia. It was
actually filmed in and around Phoenix, Tempe and Scottsdale, Arizona. And
the high school used for the movie was Coronado High School in Scottsdale.
This week the Most Marvelous Merlin from Keanuweb
alerted us to this
article appeared which appeared in the city's East
Valley Tribune. According to the article a mosaic, which can briefly
be seen on the outside of "San Dimas High School" in the film, was in
danger of being demolished along with the building it was affixed to (part of a
larger reconstruction project taking place at the school . . . an earlier article
explains the situation). But some former teachers and alumni rallied to
save the mosaic, which was created by students in the early 60's shortly after
the school opened. As a result of their efforts the piece was disassembled
and removed safely and now sits in several 2 x 3 foot pieces in storage to be
reassembled for the school's new auditorium, which is due to be completed in
2007.
The fact that this mosaic made an appearance on film might have contributed partly to its being saved, but credit must be paid to the teachers and students who realized that history is important and worked to save the artwork. Most excellent work, babes and dudes!!
June 3, 2006
It's An Air Guitar Nation, Most Definitely!
Yet another heads up from Merlin of Keanuweb! Making a splash at the Tribecca Film Festival as well as the SXSW Film Festival is the new documentary film directed by Alexandra Lipsitz called Air Guitar Nation. With the tagline "To air is human . . . " the film covers the year in which the U.S. Air Guitar Championships was born and follows the endeavors of contestants and air guitar afficionados C-Diddy (who performs to Extreme's Play With Me), Bjorn Turoque, Krye Tuff and others as they compete for the ultimate prize . . . representing the United States in overseas competition! We'll bring you more information when this film is officially released! Excellent!!
For more information, visit the official Air
Guitar Nation website by clicking here!
You can view the movie's trailer by clicking here!
May 28, 2006
Bill and Ted Are Tops in the U.S., Too!!!!
If you'll look further down this page
you'll remember that the British named Excellent Adventure #41 in Channel
4's list of the top 50 
comedy
films of all time. This weekend the Bravo cable channel in the U.S.
presented their list of the "Top 100 Funniest Movies" and this time
our favorite film did even better! Excellent Adventure came in at
#24! That's two slots higher than Wayne's World (which came in at
#26). The program, which aired in four separate hour-long parts, each
covering 25 films apiece, showcased clips from the top comedy films as well as
comments by actors and directors involved in the specific film as well as other
films on the list. For the Excellent Adventure segment they
featured Diane Franklin, who played Princess Elizabeth in EA. One really
positive aspect of this special was the fact that the people commenting were
actually speaking fondly of the featured films for a change, not running them
down (so typical of American clip shows these days). While no one went
into much detail about the movie, it was still nice to hear so many people speak
fondly of it and also to see it rank so high for a change. This show will
likely continue to air on Bravo for some time, so be sure to catch it to see all
the other hilarious movies which made the list!
To view the segment on Excellent
Adventure, click here!
For more information about Bravo and their
shows, click here
to visit their site.
May 20, 2006
Just when you thought that every Brokeback
parody which could be done had been done!
It was inevitable with all the Brokeback Mountain movie trailer parodies out there that someone would eventually get around to doing one for Bill & Ted. Well, here it is, courtesy of YouTube . . . .
Bill & Ted's Brokeback Adventure
May 20, 2006
Nice Dudes DO Finish First!!
There's
no doubt for fans of the CBS reality series The Amazing Race (which your
webmistress admits is one) this ninth season was the best by far. This was
in part because of one particular team who came to be known as "The
Hippies." BJ and Tyler won everyone over immediately with their
humor, positive attitudes and obvious friendship. Sound somewhat
familiar? Seriously, these two guys embody the spirit of Bill and Ted so
much. They're best friends, they seemingly have endless reserves of energy
and enthusiasm. Throughout the race they were polite and outgoing to
everyone they met . . . they would speak to people in other countries in their
own language when possible and always focused on the positives, even when they
twice came in last in non-elimination rounds, both times having to turn over
their possessions and money to Phil, the host. They even spoke their own
language of sorts . . . their catchphrase "TTOW!" was their power
phrase throughout the race although the true meaning of it seems be known only
between them. As if to prove that "Being Excellent To Each
Other" really is the correct path, BJ and Tyler narrowly beat out their
toughest competition, "Frat Boys" Eric and Jeremy, to take the final
$1 million prize. Unlike Bill and Ted, BJ and Tyler are actually
well-educated bohemians, but like Bill and Ted they soak up knowledge and energy
wherever they go, taking the time to get to know people and share their energy
for adventure with others.
If we had a "Most Excellent" award for those who live by the "Be Excellent to Each Other" and "Party On, Dudes!" creed, these dudes would be winners again. Congratulations, guys, it couldn't have happened to two nicer dudes!!
For more information about The Amazing Race, visit the CBS website by clicking here.
May 13, 2006
Our heroes are honored by a dude named Rappy!
If you haven't yet heard of Rappy McRapperson you definitely will, especially since he has chosen to pay tribute to our favorite dudes, Bill and Ted, in his awesome ode to the Two Great Ones, The Bill and Ted Super Song. This is the first single from his new album Fight the Gorlax. Brought to our attention by the outstanding fans on our forums, one of them was nice enough to even post a link to the song itself (we can't legally post it here, but check out our forums under The Music to find out more). The song itself is a really nice tribute to Bill and Ted in Excellent Adventure and their travels through time. We will try to find out more about Rappy and this song and bring it to you in the near future. In the meantime, you may be able to catch the song playing on https://www.whfr.fm's stream Thursdays from 6-9pm ET (thanks to krakn for this info).
Want to buy the album Fight
the Gorlax which
includes The Bill and
Ted Super Song?
Click here to go
to Rappy's Official Website where you can purchase his CDs directly!!
January 21, 2006
Wyld Stallyns Make the Top 50 of All Time!
Our thanks to the most excellent Raymiles for letting us know that Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure has been included in the British television station, Channel 4's, "The 50 Greatest Comedy Films of All Time" hosted by Stephen Fry. The film ranked # 41 in the poll, and clips from interviews with Alex Winter and writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson (which we believe were the same as ones previously shown on I Love 1988) were played during the review of the movie. The #1 comedy film of all time? Monty Python's Life of Brian. Wayne's World also made the list at #15.
For more information about this special and
to review the entire list you can go to Manchester Online's site here.
Or visit Channel 4's site for the special here.
For more B&T related News from the past, click
here!
