Phone Sex Grandma reaches 250k on Youtube.com

B-Side raunch-fest selection “Phone Sex Grandma” recently surpassed a quarter million views on You Tube. Nine and a half minutes of pure profanity laced creep-itude, the short shows Grandma Opal (the filmmaker’s mother… no kidding) hard at work operating her in-home phone sex line. I never get offended as I easily have the foulest mouth of anyone at B-Side, but “Phone Sex Grandma” gave me a serious case of the “ickies” – a case that still reverberates over a year after my first viewing. That being said, it’s awesome and provocative and points a long ruby-red-fingernail-tipped-finger at sex line callers who truly believe that the babe on the other end of the line is a blonde 36-24-36 bombshell.

NEW: Dirt Road to Psychedelia: Austin Texas during the 1960s

New to B-Side is the Scott Conn-directed music doc “Dirt Road to Psychedelia: Austin Texas during the 1960s”. Examining Austin’s critical part in shaping the psychedelic scene of the era, “Dirt Road” provides historical footage and uncommon insight into the birth of the psychedelic music movement by way of folky Janis Joplin and purveyors of psych the 13th Floor Elevators (fronted by legendary rock hero Roky Erickson). Music fans, especially those of Janis and Roky, as well as popular modern neo-psychedelic band The Black Angels (who recently toured around the film) will dig the jams as well as the historical reference.

NEW: Shadow Company

Also new is the investigative doc “Shadow Company” that scrutinizes the modern day phenomenon of “Private Military Contractors” — more commonly known as mercenaries. With an estimated 20,000 contractors currently on the ground in Iraq and with last year’s Blackwater scandal, the film asks where do these people come from and what compels them to fight for money regardless of the side they are on?

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