Archive for January, 2013
Try a Little Kindness or the Kindness of strangers
I was not going to do a post today. I have been doing on average two a day for a while now and thought, ‘what the heck, I can take a break now and then, can’t I?’ The obvious answer being yes as I don’t have to sing for my supper to any man or… Read More ›
My Biggest Baddest Bucket List X2
Reblogged from Bucket List Publications: (Confusion settled and reentered. Now I need your vote!) I can win a six month, six continent, all expenses paid trip; oh and don’t forget the $50,000 when I get back! Travel and adventure encompass my life. It is as much a part of me as family and friends. I was… Read More ›
R-Point (2004): Ghosts & Ghoulies Vietnamese style
Reblogged from MikesFilmTalk: This 2004 South Korean horror “war” film was the first horror film I’d seen set during a war. More importantly it was the first horror film set during the Vietnamese war. This highly unpopular war (protested vehemently in the US on university campuses across the country and more draft dodgers than all… Read More ›
R-Point (2004): Ghosts & Ghoulies Vietnamese style
This 2004 South Korean horror “war” film was the first horror film I’d seen set during a war. More importantly it was the first horror film set during the Vietnamese war. This highly unpopular war (protested vehemently in the US on university campuses across the country and more draft dodgers than all the wars ever… Read More ›
Ernest Borgnine: Keeping his Nuts Warm
The full title of this autobiography by Ernest Borgnine is: Ernest Borgnine: I Don’t Want To Set the World on Fire, I Just Want to Keep My Nuts Warm. The title came from a sign that Mr Borgnine had seen in his younger days that was advertising hot chestnuts, the sign stuck with him and… Read More ›
Uzumaki (2000): The Spirals in the town go round, round, round
Uzumaki originally began life as a three-volume horror manga by Junji Ito. The theme (according to Wikipedia) is as follows: The story concerns the inhabitants of the small Japanese town of Kurôzu-cho that seems to be cursed by supernatural events surrounding spirals. Many people become obsessed or paranoid about spiral shapes, which starts resulting in several gruesome… Read More ›
The Chief, British Rail, and My End
I had mentioned doing an episode of The Chief in a previous post Name Dropping Pt 6 Stanley Kubrick, that was the last of my “extra” jobs for my duo of agents in Norwich. It was actually a great morning out. It paid over £125 for just a half days work and I was “upgraded”… Read More ›
Eggs
Tom‘s grandpa called him from outside his grandparent’s house. “Tom, come on out here. I want to show you something.” Tom reluctantly tore his eyes off of the roller derby he’d been watching and stood up. It must be something interesting, Grandpa wouldn’t have called him otherwise. “Okay.” Tom shouted back. He switched the television… Read More ›
Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth by Trevor Norton: Eccentric Experimentation
The title of this vastly informative and entertaining book comes from a “self” experiment towards the end of the book. The experimenter in question was testing decompression rates and a rapid ascension caused “one of his filled teeth to emit a high-pitched scream and explode because of air pockets that couldn’t vent fast enough.” The… Read More ›
Sidney Sheldon: the other side of me
If you didn’t grow up through the 60′s and 70′s you can be excused for not knowing who Sidney Sheldon is. I mention those two decades because it was through that time period when he had not one, not two, but three hit television programs that he wrote and in some cases produced. In case… Read More ›
