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Friday, September 14, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Signal Watch Call for Entries: What Spooky Movies Shall I Watch this October?
Hi y'all!
October is just around the corner. I need to consider what spoooooky movies I can watch as we head into the haunted season.
If you've hung around the past few years, you should know all about my love of Frankenstein movies and classic Universal Horror films. And, of late, I've liked a lot of the Hammer films I've had a chance to see. I'll check out a Vincent Price flick, and I'm pretty fond of stuff that rides the line between cheesy and scary.
October is just around the corner. I need to consider what spoooooky movies I can watch as we head into the haunted season.
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| let's blow the lid off this Halloween! |
Monday, September 10, 2012
Gotter DAMN erung! We're taking a break from blogging.
Y'all, I'm kind of not going to be posting this week.
WHY?
Because Wagner's The Ring Cycle is going to be playing every night this week on PBS.
For some reason this opera keeps crossing my path of late, and I think it's all leading to something, man.
So I am going to take a break from blogging and I am going to get cultured.
Hey. So. Why not join in? It's on all week! It might be a nice break from the usual stuff on TV.
It's got mermaids and trolls and gods and valkyries and dragons and all kinds of crazy stuff. It's the basis for half the fantasy, comics, sci-fi and bigger-than-life entertainment we enjoy today.
It's going to be a blast!
So, put on your viking helmet, dust off your love of Bugs Bunny cartoons, and we can all rock out to some old fashioned Wagner.
WHY?
Because Wagner's The Ring Cycle is going to be playing every night this week on PBS.
For some reason this opera keeps crossing my path of late, and I think it's all leading to something, man.
So I am going to take a break from blogging and I am going to get cultured.
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| Deborah Voigt in the role of Brünnhilde |
It's got mermaids and trolls and gods and valkyries and dragons and all kinds of crazy stuff. It's the basis for half the fantasy, comics, sci-fi and bigger-than-life entertainment we enjoy today.
It's going to be a blast!
So, put on your viking helmet, dust off your love of Bugs Bunny cartoons, and we can all rock out to some old fashioned Wagner.
Watch Wagner's Ring Cycle Preview on PBS. See more from Great Performances.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
No Post Sunday Night
Y'all, I was pretty pathetic this weekend. I accidentally knocked myself out with Benadryl on Friday night and slept (more or less) from 8 PM until 8:30 AM. I'm also still sick, but in this weird, pathetic way that just involves a dry, wheezing cough.
Because I can read the boxes on over the counter medications, after 5-7 days of persistent symptoms this being day 6, I have sought medical help, and I am now on an antibiotic, because that's what they do when "go home" doesn't sound very good. The good news is that I don't have pneumonia, which I was glad I had not thought about until the doctor said "pneumonia, you don't have it".
Anyway, I have a very early meeting at work tomorrow, and I'm going to bed super early, and I didn't really do anything worth mentioning over the weekend, so, there you go.
Also, congrats to the UT Longhorns who waited for me not to watch them to win a game 45-0 against Los Lobos of New Mexico.
Because I can read the boxes on over the counter medications, after 5-7 days of persistent symptoms this being day 6, I have sought medical help, and I am now on an antibiotic, because that's what they do when "go home" doesn't sound very good. The good news is that I don't have pneumonia, which I was glad I had not thought about until the doctor said "pneumonia, you don't have it".
Anyway, I have a very early meeting at work tomorrow, and I'm going to bed super early, and I didn't really do anything worth mentioning over the weekend, so, there you go.
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| this would be a meeting worth getting up for |
See our own NathanC talk about 20 films in record time
Plus he talks about film and filming in San Antonio.
Signal Watch Watches: Frankenstein Island (1981 - but you'd never know it from looking at the movie)
I don't really know where to start.
Ok.
To explain, we watched the VOD version of this movie from RiffTrax with Doug, and he was right - the new VOD stuff RiffTrax is doing is every bit as good as the better MST3K stuff.
While the RiffTrax guys strayed from the world of punching-bag-bad movies and have stepped up to big budget Hollywood stuff in this format (and absolutely killed with it), it's still fun to see the old tools come out and see these guys at work.
So... Frankenstein Island (1981).
There are many things one could say about this movie, and among those things is the idea I find inescapable that director Jerry Warren, who had spent the mid-50's through the mid-60's creating the exact sort of movie that wound up on MST3K in the first place, was sitting around with his pals and said "Hey, let's do one more! It'll be great. Let's make a movie!" and this is what happened. And so, in a way, I really hope those guys had fun making the movie, because it makes no sense and it's both mind-boggling and boring.
Ok.
To explain, we watched the VOD version of this movie from RiffTrax with Doug, and he was right - the new VOD stuff RiffTrax is doing is every bit as good as the better MST3K stuff.
While the RiffTrax guys strayed from the world of punching-bag-bad movies and have stepped up to big budget Hollywood stuff in this format (and absolutely killed with it), it's still fun to see the old tools come out and see these guys at work.
So... Frankenstein Island (1981).
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| Oh, John Carradine, even your unused b-roll deserved better... |
There are many things one could say about this movie, and among those things is the idea I find inescapable that director Jerry Warren, who had spent the mid-50's through the mid-60's creating the exact sort of movie that wound up on MST3K in the first place, was sitting around with his pals and said "Hey, let's do one more! It'll be great. Let's make a movie!" and this is what happened. And so, in a way, I really hope those guys had fun making the movie, because it makes no sense and it's both mind-boggling and boring.
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