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thinkin' on halloween

2008-09-05T06:04:52Z

for whatever reason, i didn't dress up for halloween last year, and really, i haven't done so too many times in the last 10 years or so. year before last i was the plaidboy zombie from dawn of the dead, thanks to a cheap, but official costume-in-a-bag joint from the folks at rubies.

(oddly, i can't find an accurate picture of this costume online. the one i linked to there shows a face mask, while the kit actually includes an over-the-head half-mask...)

this year, i plan on getting a decent mask(s), but i don't want to really talk about it too much, because i might somehow jinx myself. let's just say that instead of picking a character that's been very popular this past season, i'll be picking a classic who's going to be making his screen return this coming february...

eric the red does not use his bone

2008-08-31T07:46:10Z

drooling

2008-08-31T06:31:40Z

oh, man. check out these upcoming masters of the universe classics figures.

toyman @ 2008-08-30T03:03:00

2008-08-30T07:18:53Z

work has been pretty good since i got back from my week off, on sunday. however, i did have one really inconsolable customer thursday afternoon. she just wouldn't shut up about how she wanted the nanny: season 3 on dvd. i almost felt like opening up on her. "bitch, i want the adventures of pete & pete: season 3. lots of people want the wonder years to come out. people in hell want ice water. no one cares."

they're made out of meat

2008-08-26T06:23:37Z

toyman @ 2008-08-24T02:35:00

2008-08-24T06:38:51Z

yummy!

2008-08-24T02:03:48Z

just got back from the grocery store a little while ago. i picked up these awesome newman's own organics champion chip cookies. i usually don't like dry cookies (or "biscuits", if you will...), but these are really tasty.

i almost the espresso chocolate chip, and then i shot chocolate chocolate chip a glare before settling on orange chocolate chip. before you say that sounds like a strange flavor combo - guess what they taste like...

yeah. take that, pepperidge farms. i dunno how these compare, price-wise, but there are certainly a few reasons that one might consider buying the newman's own brand over pepperidge farms, among those being that their cookies contain palm fruit oil, the organization is exceptionally charitable, and that the chocolate they use is certified (somehow) to be procured from slavery-free sources in south america.

i hope i don't get banned for uploading this...

2008-08-23T08:11:51Z

so, i've been wanting to upload certain short segments of cheap seats episodes for a while now, in specific, their "def poetry slam" segments. the first of said segments showed up in season 1, episode 21. while i was scanning to see where the start/end of the bit fell, i came across another segment that i'd found especially funny...

toyman @ 2008-08-22T18:19:00

2008-08-22T22:24:37Z

dagnabbit. i wish svengoolie ~~would~~ could do this.

trailers galore!

2008-08-22T20:23:19Z

watched the first and third volumes of 42nd street forever collections.

far and away, the best trailer i've seen yet, as i'm watching the second volume right now, was this amazing trailer for the blood spattered bride / i dismember mama double-feature. it's so wildly over-the-top, it's like, totally wild man. groovy!

here are some other films i'm thinking about tracking down, based on the trailers i've seen-

jaguar lives! (no pre-existing trailer available online)
the stranger & the gunfighter (reminds me of horror express, with the close-ups and modern rock music.)
beyond the door (totally think i saw this on late-night cable as a kid...)
phase iv (what the fuck?! this looks trippy as HELL!)
werewolves on wheels (was aware of this one, never saw the corny werewolf make-up, though.)
chappaqua (wow, dude. too many/too much drugs.)
the raiders of atlantis (why does this remind me of kiss meets the phantom of the park?!)
star crash (wow... an evil space lord made a large weapon in the shape of a planet? HOW ORIGINAL!)

i also wanted to post a trailer of behind convent walls, but... yeah... it's not on youtube because it's full of titties and 70's bush. i probably wouldn't even be interested in it if i didn't know that walerian borowczyk (la bête) had directed it.

OMG! IT'S ALIVE! RUN!

2008-08-22T01:24:05Z

the schlock haul continues!!! just got back from moviestop, and if i do say so myself, i made off like a bandit.

42nd street forever: volume 1 ($4.99)
42nd street forever: volume 2, the deuce ($3.99)
42nd street forever: volume 3, exploitation explosion ($4.99)
the howling III: the marsupials ($1.99!!!)
the driller killer ($5.99)
blood shack ($5.99)

alright, so howling III is actually a pretty corny movie, but you wouldn't believe how geeked out i was to find it on the shelf at that price. driller killer is also available in a 2-disc set from the same company, cult epics, but the second disc was mostly short films of abel ferrara, and unrelated to the film. i'm not sure but i think the disc i got is identical to the one that appears in that set. yeah... blood shack, aka "the chooper"?! well, compare it to some other ray dennis steckler films. can't beat anything that has a joe-bob briggs commentary, either. plus, the star, carolyn brandt isn't hard to look at, either...

the three 42nd street forever discs are trailer collections, about 2 hours long, each. they're a lot of fun. i've just started watching the first one, but it reminds me a lot of something weird's extra weird sampler.

toyman @ 2008-08-21T16:59:00

2008-08-21T21:06:02Z

does anyone watch streaming movies online? i just happened upon americafree.tv the other day, and while it has a certain charm, i dunno how often i'd actually sit still throughout a whole film. not being able to pause, or browse the library at will sort of takes the fun out of it for me. on the other hand, if they happened to have a listing for something really rare or crazy that i wanted to see, i might be more likely to watch.

wrestlethoughts

2008-08-21T20:31:10Z

lemme get this straight-

takeshi morishima has a "wwe physique", but samoa joe doesn't?

more "demons" movies...

2008-08-21T19:02:05Z

okay, while i haven't watched demons III: the ogre yet, i'm already thinking about what's next. i looked into it, and the demons series just kept going and going. michele soavi's the sect is unofficially regarded as demons 4. oddly, lamberto bava's la maschera del demonio 1989) is considered by some to be demons 5, even though it was made two years before the film we'd call demons 4. last, and quite probably least, luigi cozzi's film adaptation of an edgar allen poe story, il gatto nero is sometimes called demons 6 even though it, again, was released the same year as demons 5, and two years before demons 4.

man, i hate to love / love to hate the way italian horror movie marketing works.

oh, wait- it doesn't stop there! michele soavi's dellamorte dellamore (us title: cemetery man) is also known as demons '95!

i think, at this point, as i continue to collect italan horror and exploitation films, i'll just refer to each new film as another installment of the demons series, regardless of whether or not it has demons that come out of movie/television screens in it or not.

I LOVE MOVIES

2008-08-20T03:16:08Z

while i'm on vacation, i'm trying to hit a few spots here that sell used dvds. i usually find some sort of crazy gem that's long been out of print. today i hit blockbuster and found some goodies. they happened to be running a 4 for $20 sale. i'd wanted to pick up hot fuzz for a while, but i couldn't justify paying full price for a film i've seen half a dozen times, so that was a good pick for me. next was eastern promises. the other day i was at hollywood video and i saw this, and for some reason, i kept thinking it was a history of violence, so i didn't end up buying it. also, i grabbed something called samurai fiction, without having ever heard of it. i was mostly interested because it was filmed in black & white, despite only being a few years old. last, and certainly not least, i just had to pick up the dentist. i'd never seen it, but i'm fond of the work of the people involved, and i've seen some of the trailers.

(anyone with a fear of dentist and dental work is going to want to skip that trailer. i'm looking at you, jesse...)

toyman @ 2008-08-18T22:51:00

2008-08-19T02:53:29Z

oh, i also purchased this swanky "death story" t-shirt today. it's awfully bright, and yes, that's a dark blue, not black.

toyman @ 2008-08-18T18:22:00

2008-08-18T22:32:28Z

got myself a sweet present with some birthday money i received earlier today. demons triple feature which includes the other hell, demons III: the ogre, and black demons.

it's another sweet package from the superdorks at shriek show, a division of media blasters. i thought that, despite what i'd heard about these films, $19.99 was a nice price, even before i got my employee discount.

and really, wouldn't you say that the other hell is probably the best/worst movie title ever?!

toyman @ 2008-08-15T16:57:00

2008-08-15T20:58:55Z

just bought a used copy of casshern for $10. w00t!

toyman @ 2008-08-13T22:44:00

2008-08-14T02:52:37Z

listening to "jeffrey combs reads herbert west: re-animator", and while i new the film varied from the original story, i didn't know to what degree. i'm thinking that this story could really make a great film, if it followed the original story more closely. of course, that isn't to say that re-animator wasn't a good flick, it was just very much a part of the horror/comedy era in which it was born.

someone random

2008-08-12T08:24:11Z

alexis arquette

starred in the video for "she's a beauty", the 1983 hit by the tubes.
ten years later, starred in the purported horror gem "jack be nimble".
played the marilyn manson-esque goth poseur in "bride of chucky".
shoots at/through jules and vincent in "pulp fiction".

that's interesting, man...

2008-08-12T07:07:23Z

for some reason, i'd misread the release date of the upcoming the big lebowski 10th anniversary dvd, and it's actually coming out tuesday, september 9th. i'm so totally putting a pre-request on any store displays or posters that we might get in conjunction with the release. take a look at the sweet-ass deluxe bowling ball packaging that can be had for about twice as much as the regular 2-disc set.

random peeve

2008-08-12T06:59:43Z

people who use "seen" instead of "saw". OHMYGODEXPLODEPLEASE.

dirty, dirty rockstar...

2008-08-11T09:36:17Z

i didn't even notice it until a few days ago, but this past july 7th was the 15th anniversary of gg allin's death. to commemorate his passing, i compiled a disc i'm calling "GREATEST (S)HITS".

01. intro
02. highest power
03. dope money
04. i wanna fuck myself
05. carmelita
06. ass-fuckin', butt-suckin', cunt-lickin, masturbation
07. dog shit
08. you hate me & i hate you
09. i wanna kill you
10. shove that warrant up your ass
11. drink, fight and fuck
12. die when you die
13. piss on cosloy (i wanna piss on you)
14. i kill everything i fuck
15. needle up my cock
16. outlaw scumfuc
17. sluts in the city
18. bite it you scum
19. don't talk to me
20. gimme some head
21. i'll slice yer fuckin throat
22. tough fuckin' shit
23. fuck authority
24. scumfuc tradition
25. my revenge

nasty color key:
poopy brown: carnival of excess
pissy yellow: freaks, faggots, drunks & junkies
pukey green: hated in the nation
bloody red: brutality and bloodshed for all
corpse bruise: always was, is, and shall be

toyman @ 2008-08-09T01:28:00

2008-08-09T05:31:09Z

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fear of the unknown - i has it

2008-08-08T10:24:20Z