So it’s been a long time. I mean a real long time-over a year. The long time I’ve had this site has been peppered with breaks in action due to boredom with it or business, but never this long. Thanks to the persistence of a few and a few ideas that have been floating aimlessly around my brain for the past thirteen months or so, I think the site will have to make a comeback. So I’m getting things in order here and soon enough I will start to churn out some drivel again.
So I’ll have to dust off my basic HTML skills, fix up my computer so I can start capturing clips/stills from this pile of crappy VHS tapes I have and get back to work. That’s right…the worst is yet to come.
In my many hours spent with the Discovery Channel, I’ve come to know and love Bear Grylls, host of the show Man Vs. Wild. In fact, Bear should and probably will have his own spotlight made sometime on this crappy website in the near future. Until then, this point will have to be made.
He’s great for many reasons. On his show he has been featured biting live fish in half, throwing logs at rabbits, eating dead zebras by biting through their flesh and getting naked many times. It was when I stumbled upon a live chat transcript with Bear on Discovery.com that I read him say something that really caught my eye. Just when I thought I couldn’t respect this nature boy anymore I read his closing comment:
Bear: Thanks so much for your support. There has been an amazing number of emails, more than anyone has expected. In the words of Bodi in “Point Break,” “This was stimulating, but I’m out of here!”
Bear Grylls a Point Break fan? Yes indeed-he is the man.
I was over at MLB.com yesterday getting excited about the upcoming baseball season and found myself reading about Rockies pitcher Byung-Hyun Kim. Apparently Kim is getting a raw deal out in Colorado and wants out. Throughout spring training he’s been trying an array of new pitches at the request of the Rockies and as such, his game is sliding and his starting role may be in jeopardy. He’s had a poor spring spending most of his time working on a two-seam fastball inside to right-handed batters and his changeup, and as a result may end up in the bullpen. This is no big deal but what I found to be particularly interesting was that the actual article I read, instead of paraphrasing, they put the Korean pitcher’s response on the web, quoting his broken English verbatim:
“It seems to me this spring is a little bit weird,” said Kim, who as planned was not part of the contingent at Tempe for the Cactus League game against the Angels. “They say, ‘Try this.’ ‘Try changeup, inside two-seamers.’ Then, ‘You’re OK. If you give up hits, home runs, they don’t count.’ Then now …
“It’s not right, I think. If they say, ‘Competition, do this,’ I don’t do any ‘try.’ It’s not right. Hopefully, I’ve talked to my agent, and I’ll see. They’re trying to [trade Kim] and they’re going to find something. I don’t know. Hopefully.”
I read this a few times over before getting the gist of it but still I don’t understand why they couldn’t have just paraphrased poor Kim or left it at “It’s not right” or one of his more intelligible statements. Kudos to Kim though for speaking the English and not taking any crap from Colorado. I hope he ends up pitching somewhere, preferably not for my Phillies though since he’s awful.
Got not one but TWO articles up. Mike did a spotlight and I wrote a little article regarding the sad truth that BTTF: the Ride will be closing. Check them out and enjoy some new material while it’s here. I’ll probably work on a few things this week. Probably a movie review. Also I will be emailing out some questions for another celebrity interview. I won’t tell you who it is yet but hopefully it should be good. It’ll be an email interview so I’ll just be sending out the questions and then waiting to see what he has to say and hopefully they will be some good responses like with my main man Dennis Hayden (that interview is still probably my favorite item up on this entire site). Stay tuned.
Well recently I’ve been spending quite a bit of time, and soon enough, money surfing around eBay and checking out/bidding on some classic WWF items. Recently I came across the following item:
A pair of the Ultimate Warrior’s ring worn tights.
That’s right, Warrior is peddling some more of his items.
WARRIOR is doing some SPRING CLEANING!
In my recent Ultimate Warrior Action Figure auctions many of you wrote me and said you would be very interested in Ring Worn Gear — dusters, trunks, kneepads, armbands, Ultimate Warrior Custom Street Clothes, etc. For years, I’ve kept it all. Recently, I got to some out-of-state storage and grabbed what I could for the time being. It’s been over 10 years since I last performed inside a WWF wrestling ring. I’ve moved on in my life in so many powerful ways refusing to look back in the rearview mirror and drag the dead weight of “what ifs” along with me, and now it’s time for me to start letting go of some of these Incredible, One-of-a-Kind Collectibles I know many of you would cherish having
And as I blow the occasional five to twenty dollars on some unneeded merchandise on eBay, the value of this item is especially astounding. At the time of this writing, with 20 hours still left on the bidding, these undies are up at over $300.
What do you do with a pair of the Ultimate Warrior’s tights? Frame them? Wear them? Just to look at them gives me shudders wondering where they’ve been and what’s gone on inside of them.
Beyond the obvious fact that I have no use for a pair of tights, nor hundreds of dollars to waste on them, another reason I would never bid on this item is that fact that the Warrior is a complete jerk.
For those who don’t know, the Ultimate Warrior, or Warrior (he actually legally changed his name to Warrior) is a completely insane radical neo-conservative who tours the country now insulting homosexuals, handicapped people, foreigners and anyone else who disagrees with his out of control beliefs. He’s gone on to insult everyone in his former business going as far as making the claim that the great Bobby “the Brain” Heenan deserved to get throat cancer. The fact that someone so high and mighty and self-righteous has lowered himself to peddling personal items on the internet is ironic, as he’s often labeled other wrestlers of his day who milk their fame as “pathetic.” This previous exchange within eBay over some Ultimate Warrior action figures he was selling on his eBay store just reeks of this irony:
Q: Warrior, You sir are HILARIOUS!! You are my hero. If I ever become famous I wanna go off my rocker just like you. Dave - Dec-28-06
A: What you mean is that you know will never become famous, but in your dreams when you fantasize that you might one day, you would want to have the confidence and belief in the staying power and value of your product like I do MINE. The difference between the truth you are ashamed to tell and the ridicule you find humor and comfort in, can be analogized like this: You run a pawn shop and I sell valuable collectibles. You have to sell 15-16 figures to make just at $300. I have to sell one. Our ads cost about the same, around $3-5. On top of that, your 15 figures, even given away for free, can never match the value of buying the SET for $300 from me with COA’s and autographed 8×10’s. If you think so, then you win the prize for hilarity, not I. Who’s off their rocker? And who’s the hypocrite? You bash me for capitalizing off the value I worked hard and sacrificed to build, and yet, you run out and buy my Intellectual Property, which I own the legal right to license, and, then, you turn around and resale it for a profit, yourself! For you, and others like you, I consider my highly-valued auctions charitable contributions to the study and practice of psychology. All you begrudging flops get to write and belittle my auctions and, therefore, have your self-esteems fed vilely the same. It makes you all feel bigger and more socially-conscious about yourselves: Is he nuts? $300 for action figures! Why, I wouldn’t pay… Excuse me, Davey Boy, yes you would. That is, if you had it, you would. You want these figures, Davey Boy, but you can’t afford the $300. You’re welcome for, both, the business lesson and my charity. And I must, in return, thank you for the laughs and the fun break of two minutes I spent scrawling this out for further public amusement. Have a great non-motivational, indebted life. W
Q: You put that Dave in his place! That being said, I have the $300 but I’d only be willing to pay about $10 for toys. When they don’t sell for $300 would you be willing to sell them for $10 total? - Jan-05-07
A: Then go buy toys. These are collectibles and they already have sold for $300. Perhaps you haven’t noticed while you and your pawn shop buddies have been busy trying to ridicule the auction with your horrible attempts at humor and emails laden with bad grammar and foul language. The price is $300 now, and it will never be lower than that. In fact, next time around, they’ll be double that and then I can really laugh all the way to the bank. Then your friend Davey will have to sell 35-40 to equal one sold of mine. Ah, yes, the evils of capitalism, nothing quite like it, no, sir. Better get one while they are up here, Toys R Us is sold out.
Insane? Absolutely. If this site wasn’t so tiny he’d probably find out about this and threaten to sue me for using the image of his tights (note the enormous copyright) like when he threatened to sue Something Awful. I could go on about how insane this man is but I think the bit of reading material linked from/contained in this article is a nice intro. A little web search or, if you dare, a visit to his official website will make for some more comic reading for you.
Well it’s been a while but after spending the past couple weeks quoting John Landis’ classic Coming to America and watching a few recent horror movies by the director (including the Deer Woman from the Masters of Horrors series) I decided to do a little tribute. It’s been the first article I’ve done in a little bit but I have a new energy as far as the site’s concerned and hopefully I’ll get some things going up here. I’m going to look into getting some RSS Feeds and Digg features implemented as well for those who care.
In other news…pretty big news I think it looks as if there will be another Greg Root movie coming soon. I’m starting to develop some rough plans for it and filming should start this month hopefully. For those who saw and enjoyed the first one, it should be the same craziness and senselessness as the original, except with a sort of framework. I don’t want to give away too much but it’s something I’ve been thinking of doing for a few months now and I’m really excited about the idea. I’ll continue to update the progress on that but I have some people involved and some professional grade equipment to work with. I’m hoping it’s as great as it is in my mind. For those who haven’t seen the original video, it was a montage/documentary of one of the strangest people I’ve ever met that I put together about three years ago. It was made for me and my friends but because I spent so much time I went all out and pressed some copies and sold a shocking number to visitors to this site as well, even some overseas! Anyway, it’s sold out now but it’s up on YouTube in its entirety so check that out at www.gregroot.com.
This weekend I will be attending the Atlantic City Beer Festival. Apparently it’s all you can drink for a couple of hours with hundreds of samples to pick from. Hopefully I won’t make the mistake of gambling after this event. And hopefully I’ll survive. Needless to say there won’t be any updates this weekend but starting next week, I feel a new dedication coming back to this site. Hopefully it will inspire Mike to write an article instead of spending all his time buying vintage WWF memorabilia on eBay.
Recent and recently becoming typical AIM conversation with Mike:
As for me I’ve been blowing my money on T-shirts as well coming across an avenue to create some custom t-shirts. I’m seriously considering putting up a t-shirt shop on the web. We’ll see. Either way come back soon things will be moving again. Also I’ve been online a lot recently so send me an IM and inspire me with some good conversation.
Random YouTube video:
It’s been a while since I’ve written something up here. I’ve been a bit busy but really I haven’t thought that I’ve had much to share. Really that’s not true though I just realized today. I sat through the god awful movie Norbit which I couldn’t put into words if I wanted to and I did see a drunk Iron Sheik at another point for example. But beyond that, I’ve been spending most of my time lurking on YouTube and as a result, have plenty of videos to share with everyone.
Today I realized this upon looking at all of the YouTube videos that I had opened in tabs in my trusty Firefox.
Way too many Miami Vice videos:
Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight”-an example of the great soundtrack for this show.
Frank Zappa, bikini girls and some bad actors.
Gene Simmons, even more bikinis
Bruce Willis, dramatic ending
Other videos:
Random Point Break scene.
Ending Scene to Black Rain. I saw this movie yesterday for the first time after years of seeing this DVD cover and asking myself why I haven’t seen it. And the tagline: “An American Cop in Japan. Their country. Their laws. Their game. His rules.” This is the ending scene so don’t watch it unless you’re ready for a spoiler. If you do watch it, notice the squealing guitars at 2:40 point. Michael Douglas is an awful action star and wears a turtle neck throughout the whole film constantly saying “babe.” Yes I do recommend this…Highly.
Great, if not the greatest, James Bond intro.
What else was open in my internet browser? This.
So all this time I’ve been thinking I was too busy for this old site of mine…now I realize, maybe not. I should probably update more frequently instead of shopping for $40 Van Damme memorabilia.
So I know it’s a couple of weeks old, but I’ve been meaning to write about this. Just when you thought there was nothing left to say about the Dustin Diamond sex tape, some controversy comes out.
From the New York Daily News Gossip Column:
Diamond has said the video was a private reel he’d made four years ago on a dare from some poker buddies. “We tried to stop it,” Diamond said recently on “The Dr. Keith Ablow Show.”
But Phoenix-based agent David Hans Schmidt, who brokered the deal with Red Light District Video, says he’s tired of Diamond’s “charade” — and tired of getting dissed by him on TV.
“Dustin was in on this deal from the start,” Schmidt tells us. “He made this tape in a St. Louis hotel room with two girls last summer with the intention that I would sell it.”
Schmidt showed us what he vouches is Diamond’s signature on a contract dated Aug. 27, 2006. Attached is a cover letter on which Diamond’s manager, Roger Paul, appears to have scribbled, “Let’s make some money!”
Schmidt suspects Diamond has been doubly deceptive.
“I have reason to believe that is not Dustin’s [manhood] in the movie,” says the agent.
“You never see his face and his [manhood] in the same shot. If, in fact, he used a body double, I’m going to sue him for defrauding me, Red Light and the American public.”
So that’s the latest on Dustin Diamond. And soon after I read this I was barraged with a few other doses of Saved by the Bell alumni that really got me thinking. I mean, think back to Saved by the Bell and about fifteen years ago, when that show was still on and everybody saw it. It was syndicated like no other television program and whether you loved it or hated it, everybody saw at least one episode of this show if they were under the age of 18. The acting was awful, the storylines off the wall and the whole thing unrealistically silly and happy-nothing like real high school.
Now imagine fifteen years ago if someone were to tell you that Screech would be featured in a sex tape giving a dirty sanchez and not only that…but there would also be a scandal surrouding it with allegations that he used a prop penis. You’d be stunned. But he wouldn’t be the only castmate to do something in the future that would surprise you.
Jessie Spanno
Elizabeth Berkley would bare all in Showgirls in 1995. It was the first instance of a Saved By the Bell cast member doing something completely contrary to their role on such a wholesome show. A whole generation of people that grew up watching that show and thinking how hot Kelly was got their consolation prize when Jessie Spanno took it all off.
Kelly Kapowski
Tiffany Amber-Thiessen didn’t maintain her wholesome girl next door image for all that long either, to the joy of twisted Saved by the Bell fans who’d drool over her in various TV roles from 90210 to that show on Fox called Fastlane. The Kelly Kapowski actress didn’t go as far as her castmate though and has yet to appeared nude anywhere, but she did engage in a lesbian kiss scene not once but twice.
Zack Morris
Mark Paul-Gosselaar probably has the best post-SBTB career of all of them and until a few weeks ago I figured he wouldn’t make this list. Then I saw his guest appearance on Law and Order: SVU and I’ll tell you this: there’s nothing more shocking than to see that Zack Morris was found with a gunshot wound in his stomach and the semen of three different men inside of him. I watched this episode with an awkward feeling as I tried not to compare him in this role of a gay porn actor with his role as the king of cool, Zack Morris.
A.C. Slater
And Mario Lopez isn’t off the hook earlier. I found this great Gary Busey clip on YouTube the other day and sent it to a friend. He said he saw the movie and Mario Lopez is in it saying some sort of line about a guy getting his nose caught in a girl’s pooper. I did a little research in to the film, called A Crack in the Floor, and confirmed indeed that A.C. Slater delivered the following line, referring to a man with no nose: “At least when he’s 69′in a chick his nose won’t get stuck in her pooper.”
Lisa Turtle
Lark Voorhees, who played Lisa Turtle…there’s nothing I can think of her doing that’s disturbing relative to her role on Saved By the Bell. But then again, I don’t think she’s had any sort of career whatsoever.
Mr. Belding
Well…
According to WWE.com:
WWE.com has learned that former WWE Superstar Scott “Bam Bam” Bigelow has passed away in Florida.
Kevin Doll, the Public Information Director for the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Bigelow was found dead early this morning in his home in Hudson, Fla.
“We can confirm that Scott Bigelow was found in his home this morning. At this time the cause of death is unknown,” Doll told WWE.com.
Doll also confirmed that the Pasco-Pinellas Counties medical examiner has taken the body and an autopsy will be performed.
Bigelow, 45, worked for WWE, ECW and WCW extensively throughout his 20-year sports-entertainment career. A former ECW Champion, ECW Television Champion and WCW Tag Team Champion, he is perhaps best known for his rivalry with Lawrence Taylor that culminated in the main event of WrestleMania XI in 1995.
Sad to see one of New Jersey’s finest go. Bam Bam Bigelow was for me a reminder, just like many pro wrestlers, of my childhood days. I’ll remember him for the cartwheels in the ring and relatively high flying moves that were baffling for someone of his size. Sadly another pro wrestler is dead at way too young an age. Sad to see them all go.
Watch some videos of Bam Bam from the glory days:
Bam Bam vs. Barry Horowitz
Managers feuding over Bam Bam
vs. Nikolai Volkoff
Bigelow in Japan
ECW Champ
I haven’t been spending nearly as much time on the internet as usual. The site, obviously, hasn’t gotten updated as a result of this but beyond that I just haven’t blown nearly as much time on here surfing YouTube or the web in general in the past week or so. Maybe this is a good sign as a couple of the items I won on eBay early last week arrived recently.
Exhibit A)
The Wrestling Album
Exhibit B)
Piledriver: the Wrestling Album II
And yes, that is a signature there on the Piledriver Album’s record sleeve. Who signed it?
The tag team of Tito Santana and Rick Martel of course, better known as Strike Force.
This isn’t my first unusual eBay bidding war I found myself in. I remember not very long ago ending up in a battle over a complete set of Tales From the Crypt trading cards that took my bid up into the $60 range. Thank God I didn’t win that auction. This one however, I won. And then, in a fit of rage I won the second one as well. I’m not even going to say how much I spent on them. I’ll just sit here and enjoy them.
I can’t wait to enjoy songs like these in their original greatness:
Now all I need is a record player…
Well some of you loyal readers may have been frightened last week when the entire site went down without warning. Even I didn’t have any warning. Might have been the final nail in the coffin as far as traffic goes but it doesn’t matter to me at this point really, I’ll continue to churn out crap. Case in point, a new spotlight is up from Mike for Rowdy Roddy Piper so check that out here.
The site being down was, long story short, a result of some financial issues with my friend who helps me out with hosting. So give me money and I’ll give it to him so it won’t happen again. E-mail me about donating to the site.
I’ve got a lot of crappy movies stacked up nearby that I’ll eventually need to watch and review for you guys and I have a few other ideas for articles and spotlights and even an interview or two. Hopefully I’ll get around to doing all of this soon. Also I’d like to keep up on this blog on a near daily basis. I should be able to find something to blather on about for a few minutes a day at least, especially with the amount of time I’ve been surfing around wikipedia and youtube. These two sites have been great as far as giving me things to think about writing on, especially YouTube, since I spend so much time digging in on old commercials, TV/movie/classic wrestling clips. Case in point…
Don’t smoke cigarettes.
And you thought Elvira and her huge melons were only around for Halloween?
Just for Christmas, I’ve finally gotten my act together and a couple of days ago put up a review for perhaps the worst Christmas film of all time, Santa With Muscles. Stay tuned for some new content over the next week and early into the new year. So enjoy the holiday.
James Brown
1933-2006
On a sadder note, looks as if we lost a great man with the recent passing of the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. So I suggest you all take a break from your holiday festivities and observe the following classic clip in his honor. Hopefully I’ll be able to deliver a more detailed tribute to him later this week but for now, enjoy this video which in and of itself is a tribute to his greatness.
Earlier this year, Reuters reported that CSI: Miami was “the most-watched U.S. series around the world.” Between the original Las Vegas, the Miami and the New York series, it’s hard not to miss these CSI franchises. I, like most other viewers I imagine, catch the beginning of one of these shows and end up sitting through them helpless to the desire to see how it concludes. This is something I first was struck with by Law and Order several years ago, call it “the Lenny Briscoe Syndrome.”
These CSI shows are for the most part completely ridiculous. The shows feature unbelievable plots, outrageously convenient coincidences, and all of the parts that are a lot more interesting than anything that would occur at a crime lab in real life. Any observation of what I like to call the “dusting for prints montages” makes it pretty obvious. Dusting for fingerprints, waiting for lab samples, measuring footprints, searching shag carpet for hair samples and scanning an entire house with a blacklight looking for semen samples must not make for the best television. So they condense these processes, which in reality must take many tedious hours or even days, to a 45 second montage and then “voila!” the results are in. I ran into this NPR segment on the topic (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1908313) while googling and the real Las Vegas crime lab director concluded to nobody’s surprise that “the big departure from realism is in how speedy the work goes on the air.”
But nonetheless, I will often sit through more than my fair share of these episodes despite, or perhaps because of this ridiculousness. I’ll be immersed to the point where the surrounding scenes are so far from reality that details like this seem to fit into some kind of alternative CSI reality that makes the show a comedy in its own right.
The main thing that is overly ridiculous about these shows is how they could easily be mistaken for a police drama. I mean, at times you really need a stern reminder to let you know that these people are scientists. Despite all the time in their futuristic (and for some reason really poorly lit) labs with there ridiculously accurate computer software and obviously endless budget when it comes to every sort of imaginable piece of equipment, the show maintains this cop-drama edge. For starters, they have guns. Crime lab people do not have guns. This is something that anyone would presume and the NPR article I listened to confirmed adamantly. I’m currently doing some computer work at a pharmaceutical company and am working with many scientists and I could not picture one of them with a firearm. This show has somehow successfully took the stereotype of a nerdy scientist and thrown it out the window by casting these shows with beautiful, strong, tough people that could shoot a man while in reality they are the complete opposite. Think of your own stereotype of the average “scientist” and compare it with these shows.
These scientists are not in the field at the crime scenes. They do not question real suspects, they do not have real authority. If someone came banging at my door and held up a badge and said “Crime lab” I would slam the door and carry on with my business and would be within my rights to do so. In the Law and Order heyday, the crime lab was an accessory to the detectives. They’d send the bullet casings there or a blood sample and after a few days the results would come and often times, the cases would be slowed down by the time it would take the lab to process. Even L&O, somewhat notorious for its over the top unrealism, gets the crime lab down right.
I’ll conclude with a video that pretty much sums it all up. A collaboration of David Caruso one-liners that hilariously shows just how ridiculous this show really is, something that you may miss when you’re immersed in the “CSI alternate un-reality.”
Oh, and for those who dare try to be this cool, you can get your own pair of CSI: Miami Horatio sunglasses here.
I know I haven’t been posting as much as I was the last few weeks but what can I say, I’m a working stiff for the time being and I’ve been in bed by 10pm most nights. One thing I have been doing with my spare time is enjoying myself over at the WrestleCrap forums reminiscing about the good old days of pro wrestling. A recent gem by and old star was posted on there and I will share it with you guys here.
It’s a video of the Iron Sheik ranting, raving and threatening Michael Richards. Plenty of profanity and hilarity. Enjoy it here…
I posted a quick and dirty juxtaposition video dealing with this which isn’t too great but I didn’t have a whole lot to work with. View that here.
(a funny little photoshop done by “imnotbooked”)
The Iron Sheik says what we’re all thinking once again.
Christmas time is approaching. More and more houses on the streets are being lit up and every single store is playing Christmas music non-stop. It’s all over TV, all over the radio and all over the top of everyone’s conversation like it is every year even in the early days of December. But there is something different going on this year. 2006 is set to be a very merry Christmas for a lot of people. The reason: This is the year of not only the Twisted Sister Christmas album but also the Billy Idol Christmas album.
Twisted Sister - A Twisted Christmas
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
White Christmas
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
Silver Bells
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Deck The Halls
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
Heavy Metal Christmas (The Twelve Days Of Christmas)
Official Site
Listen to the whole album
Watch music video
Billy Idol - Happy Holidays
Frosty the Snowman
Silver Bells
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas Baby
White Christmas
Here Comes Santa Claus
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Santa Claus Is Back In Town
Let It Snow
Winter Wonderland
Run Rudolph Run
Blue Christmas
Jingle Bell Rock
Christmas Love
Oh Christmas Tree
Silent Night
Auld Lang Syne
So enjoy this momentous occasion because this year is a very special Christmas with two of the biggest heroes of the 1980’s heavy metal set giving us their own spin on the holiday season (plus look at those Billy Idol videos!) There may be some competition this year for best Holiday album by 80’s hair metallers but I can tell you right now who the real winner is: us.
This past Saturday night I spent with Exhumed Films and their recent “When Animals Attack!” screening. Exhumed puts on screenings of old horror movies in Philadelphia, ranging from the classics to the controversial to the zany. This weekends was a double feature of William Girdler produced films: Grizzly and Day of the Animals. Needless to say from those two titles it was a good duo.
Grizzly as the title alone suggests is a Jaws ripoff with a bear in place of a shark. The similarities between the stories of the two films is perhaps the greatest part of Grizzly. The park ranger wants the campers out, the owner of the land wants them to stay because it’s good business and the two clash while people die. Dialog from the movie matches exchanges from Jaws so closely at times it’s laughable and the film even manages to have a naked girl die while taking a swim. Overall it was a gem, and the ending absolutely priceless.
As for Day of the Animals, it’s a story of what may happen (as reported in ‘77) if we continue to use aerosol cans and mess with the ozone era. Animals start to behave strangely and violently, and any beast above the altitude of 5,000 feet goes on the rampage. Rats, mountain lions, birds, snakes, dogs, more dogs, still more dogs are among the animals that take offensive. But I think the highlight would have to be Leslie Nielsen as a power-drunk madman who ends up wrestling a bear.
Hunt these films down.
As for more recent horror films, I figure I’ll skeptically check out this “After Dark Horrorfest” tomorrow night and see a film that’s screening on it’s last night in theaters across the country. I’m not expecting much but it may be worthwhile. I was pleasantly surprised with the film Severance that I randomly saw at some horror movie festival in Germany this past June so maybe I’ll have some equally good luck with this one.
I’ve got another review in the works, as “B” as a movie can get so stay tuned for that as I slowly get it together. Also, another writer should be adding a review soon and I’m excited to see how it turns out. Bookmark the site and come back for some juicy stuff.
And by the way, right now I’m finding OJ Simpson, Michael Richards and the Philadelphia Eagles particularly disgusting.
Well not on the site but an actual work. Those of you who don’t reside in fantasyland know that this site makes absolutely no money but in fact costs me a bit on hosting fees and crappy movie purchases among other things. This isn’t a preface for me begging for donations (though Christmas time is coming up) but rather for me explaining the fact that I am heading off to start another real job tomorrow.
I got screwed over with a few jobs and worked a few part time IT jobs the past couple of months which gave me plenty of time to revamp the site and get some quality articles together but my student loans, debt that won’t go away, insurance payments, and the need to save money to move out require that I work so that’s what I’ll be doing. I doubt the site will be suffering much honestly. I don’t have much of a social life so weekends and nights I’ll be able to throw together some articles (I’ve spent more Friday/Saturday nights sitting in my basement collecting stills from crappy movies than I’d like to admit). Also, Mike is also a bit of a bum at the moment though he is currently embarking on a new position at one of Oregon’s finest 7-11 facilities (though he already wants to quit after one day). Anyway, he should be able to help get some articles in and some additional writers might be helping out soon.
I have a spotlight to post but will hold off to give the Blind Fury review some more time to shine. The site’s traffic isn’t quite peak yet so I’m not going to post every day or anything like that so that things are quickly buried in the archives. One day, hopefully, the site’ll get back to that point.
But enough of all that site-status update business.
Let’s get to the real highlight of my week: this animated gif of Uncle Phil that I recently stumbled upon on the internet. It’s probably a good thing I’m getting off my ass and away from the computer, I spent about 30 minutes today searching for Uncle Phil/James Avery photographs, as well as about 20 minutes on Jon Lithgow images which did however enable me to make this awesome wallpaper for my computer. This is far from rock bottom though, as is evidence that the desktop of my computer is filled with probably every single picture of Hulk Hogan available on the internet and the fact that I spent about an hour last night checking prices of Deloreans on every online auto dealership I could find.
Anyway, updates will be coming soon and I’m trying to get the site’s RSS feed together for those semi-nerds who understand what that means. Good to see you guys are being interactive as far as the comments go. It’s appreciated. As are the couple of emails and IM’s I’ve received. The best way for me to gauge that I am getting quality traffic to the site is from these messages not to mention the adds this site’s MySpace page has been getting. So keep it coming and I’ll spend my free time on the site instead of downloading photos like this to my computer’s hard drive:
Sigh…I’m going to miss those moments where I realize how pathetic I am as I right click on this image at 4:00am on a Tuesday night having not bathed for over 24 hours.
Been a few days since I put up the Riley Martin spotlight, so check that out if you haven’t. I was meaning to get a movie review up before the end of the week but ran into a combination of a bit of a cold and being fearful of watching these movies I’ve been meaning to review. So I haven’t been doing much besides laying in bed and watching television. And for the record, Shark is a great show. I can’t get enough of James Woods.
I’ve already started with my Christmas shopping, just threw $100 into my PayPal account and got started on some gifts and the items I’ve purchased or plan on purchasing just go to show how strange my friends are and the number of outrageous $1.00 VHS tapes I’ve bought recently confirm how strange I am. That reminds me, you can help me out by buying any of your Christmas gifts at Amazon.com through that link or the one at the bottom of this site. I get a small commission on anything so it might help out a lot. Would always be nice to make a little money off of this site, but that’s enough whoring for now.
This weekend I’ll be sure to get something fresh posted for you. And I’m starting a new job next week (hopefully) so I’ll be sure to get a few things done before that time so I’ll be able to update somewhat regularly with a little back-catalog of posts. Mike’s already got a spotlight I need to put up and I should get my act together soon so things should be rolling a bit. If anyone else is interested in writing, just send me an email or IM. There’s no money available but it’s not like the site earns anything in the first place. Pretty much an open forum for you to write anything, as long as you’re not a terrible writer and you know your stuff.
Also contact me if any of you have any episodes of Martial Law downloaded. For the life of me I have no idea how this show isn’t on DVD. Where are all the Arsenio Hall fans when you need them?
I recently went on a bit of a spending spree over at Amazon buying some crappy video tapes used which is good news for you and hopefully good news for me. Good news for you is that the main purpose of this shopping spree was to get some films for me to review for this little site. The potential bad news for me is–well let me explain.
Over at Amazon every purchase lists something called “Plot Keywords” which, as the name would suggest, shows some words that are relevant to the storyline of the film listed. Take a look at the keywords of the films I bought.
Film 1:
Plot Keywords: Road Trip | Radioactivity | Bounty Hunter | Prostitute | Shoot Out | 2050s | Poison Gas | Hot Tub | Scientist | Escaped Convict | Post Apocalyptic
Film 2:
Plot Keywords: Independent Film | Serial Killer | Slasher | Female Frontal Nudity
Film 3:
Plot Keywords: Exploding Car | Shot In The Forehead | Helicopter | Independent Film
Film 4:
Plot Keywords: Christmas | Santa Claus | Shopping Mall | Amnesia | Independent Film | Hulk Hogan
Film 5:
Plot Keywords: Blind Hero | Kidnapping | On The Run | Sword Fight | Terror | Vietnam | Violence | Katana Sword | B Movie | Man Hunt | Sliced In Two
Film 6:
Plot Keywords: Battle | Contest | Hong Kong | Tournament | Martial Arts | Violence
I don’t think I have to tell you the potential bad news on my part based on these keywords. I have high expectations for these films but, based on past experience, I know the viewings of these films pay be very painful…especially considering the fact that two of them star Lyle Alzado. I’m not going to tell you the films because, well, that would ruin the surprise but I’m guessing that some of the more skilled visitors reading this will be able to guess a couple and are already probably shaking their heads right now with a laugh.
Two arrived already and I’m hoping the films themselves are as funny as the box covers.
Check out the new video I threw up here. Same idea as the Alf Metal video only not nearly as good. Still worth a view. Also expect something else fresh to show up this weekend.
Another Halloween has come and as we all prepare to watch some classic Halloween Roseanne somewhere on the dial tonight, there’s a new movie review to be read here. Mike gave a go at the film C.H.U.D. to wrap up the Halloween season here at W.O.T. but unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like the film was all that frightening…not deliberately at least. It’s good to have Mike able to write for the site now and then, not just so that the site gets some more content so that I can spare myself from obviously horrible films like C.H.U.D. which I’ve been avoiding for years now. Somehow my instinct told me that Daniel Stern mixed with underground mutants was not exactly a recipe for success.
Speaking of cinema crap, another film that I’m tempted to look into, maybe next year, but really am afraid of is A Polish Vampire in Burbank (view the trailer here…if you dare).
One of the main reasons I’m thinking about it is this clip of Gilbert Gottfried from USA’s classic “Up All Night” where he introduces the cult film:
I’m going to miss Halloween and the endless supply of movies my digital cable provided me with over the last couple of weeks. It was sometimes tough not to find something to watch but to decide what to watch. One easy decision for me was to change the channel when Halloween III came on today on AMC. They’re playing the whole series of movies and I sat through the first and second installment and that’s where it stopped for me. How that film slipped in as a member of the Halloween franchise is beyond me, underrated or not. No Michael Myers? No Jamie Lee Curtis? No Dr. Loomis? No Carpenter?
Also, check out the links down at the bottom of the page next to the poll. I was able to get a few link partners so show them a little support and hopefully their visitors will do the same.
Enjoy the rest of your Halloween. Keep coming back for more.
This article is actually special as its the first to feature my new TV tuner card which empowers me to capture anything from television as I watch it. It’s a dangerous tool that should give me some good content for the future.
I sit here with AMC’s Monstervision on in the background airing Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, the second time this weekend I’ve seen the movie. Halloween’s great for lonely people like me that have the TV on at all hours because instead of an assortment of crap accompanying you in the background it’s consistently horror movies and shows to put you in the mood. Plus you get to see Crispin Glover get a corkscrew shoved through his hand on multiple occasions.
The other night I finally made it out to the Eastern State Penitentiary’s Terror Behind the Walls where the old prison gets dressed up with zombies jumping out at every corner. One of the better ones I’ve been to but a bit crowded and some chick in front of us managed to scream at every little thing almost killing every surprise for us. That’s a potential problem with these haunted attractions. This can always be balanced out by something like the crowd behind us led by a huge black guy that fell and screamed and laughed their way through the entire prison.
I’ll try to continue the Halloween spirit tonight by checking out Saw III. Not a die hard fan of the series but it’s out and I have nothing better to do nowadays.
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