THE BIG ONE

Sorry for the lack of blogging /and or responses. October + Playoff Baseball x The Mets = Devo not here.

GRINDHOUSE -TRAILER

I don't normally Post twice in the same day, but X-mas cometh early for me with this homage to the stuff I used to watch with my dad and brother on 42nd st.

This is what I've been waiting for. This is what it's about. A Man, a motorcycle and a machine gun. A Stripper Whore with a machine gun leg. Tom Savini in another Zombie Flick.

This is the Robert Rodriguez part, and the others may be just some of the phony trailers thrown into this movie.

Rodriguez and Tarantino are officially GODS in my book.

PS- Fuck Ang Lee.

Let's GET IT ON!

This is why Yankee fans can't stand us....Let's go Mets!

Knight Rider - 3000

I was never much of a car enthousiast, since most of the cars in the 1980's sucked but here's a poster for the new Knight Rider movie (I think). This is the role Ben Affleck was born to play. I guess the Riptide movie's only a stone's throw away.

MLB PLAYOFFS

Down to the nitty gritty. The A's @ The Twins today. Later Tonight the Detroit Tigers dust off 19 seasons without a playoff berth against the stupid Yankees.

Weds. I got the LA Dodgers against the team they spawned when the left NYC in 1957, THE AMAZIN' METS.

Lets get it on!

Off The Top Rope

What a wild week .

We got stupid ass psychos shootin up our schools; as off today some asshole shot up an Amish school. Amish. What a dick. I hope he gets raped by 70 virgins with pitchforks in hell.

Moving on-

My brother Jeff who was out here earlier finally met his niece, gave me his other Sirius Satelite radio Receiver so I've been catching up with the King of All Media himself, Howard Stern.

It's nice to hear him again unadulterated whenever I feel like it -as his show repeats daily. I also like the fact that Mr. Sulu himself is now on the show from time to time, as he adds a really cool vocal dimension to the broadcast, as well as just being funny. Sulu's got a whole new audience out there now.

I can't wait for Beetlejuice to make an appearance.


Go Phillies go came up short by a game, but they'll be back again next year. I got to move on and watch my Mets play the Dodgers in a five game series this week. I'll take the Mets in 5 games and they'll play The San Diego Padres in the NLCS series after San Diego makes quick work of the Cardinals.

As for the American League I just hope the mid market overachievers, the" Little Piranaha's" The Minnesota Twins (a team I've followed since 1991's Cinderella World Series against The Braves, where both were in last place the season before only to both get to a 7 game WS) can make quick work of the stupid Yankees.

The picture above was a fan poster for a non-existent DIE HARD sequel. I hear it's titled "Live Free or Die Hard". I'm kind of on the fence about it.

They came out with "ROCKY" figures and they even made a "figure" package of the Meat he spars with a Paulies' work. Weird. Just for the record the Adrian figure's kinda ugly.

I've seen the newest Bond trailer for "Casino Royale" (w/ Cheese) and as trailers go, it doesn't look that bad. I'm actually rooting for this guy as the "underdog" Bond. Quick note about the details that all the Bond Net nerds are bitchin about him not having Brown hair like the Connery Prototype- Roger Moore didn't have it either- and even his worst movie (Moonraker) is still more entertaining than most of Pierce Brosnan's.

Got The Godfather Boxed set at Costco for $35.00. Nice transfer. Paramount actually did justice to Gordon Willis's cinematography - I never saw a print that was lightly sepia toned. Haven't got to watch GDIII yet, but I'm sure it's better than most crummy stuff out now.

I want to see Jackass 2. Looks classic. The first one had me rolling. Except for the paper cuts between the toes segment. That one had me squeezing my schpincter so hard I could taste it.

Saw Jayden "Tiki" Milagros Amalura Beanfield de la Vega wan Kenobi Jolie Pitt Ryan yesterday. What a cute kid. Someone get her a top hat, a clarinet and call Craig Chernov in 15 years. Congrats Ryans!

Been reading too many comics lately- My favorties being JONAH HEX and RED SONJA.
Nothing like a rip off man with no name character from the 70's, and a Barbarian Red Head who wears a chain mail bikini while killing her foes.

PS - Fuck James Joyce.

LETS GO METS!

YOUTUBE

Back on.


Well as most of you know I've taken a long break from blogging with my newest obsession: Uploading video on YOUTUBE, which is probably the best distribution system for my kind of content. Plus it free.

As of this typing I've had 6900 viewings of videos I've created and re editited with more on the way. Plus I'm uploading movie trailers for film no one cares about from the 1970's and early 80's that I've had on a VHS tape for more than 10 years.

I'm actually quite amazed that PULP FICTION - Jedi Edition has moved as fast as it did; but after viewing some of the other trailers using the same idea and soundtrack I have to admit the one I recreated is pretty damn good, makes sense.

So sit back and subscribe friends because I've got a lot more footage to upload....

Stay Tuned....

Writer's Block

We'll return after these messages

How SUPERMAN Should've REALLY ENDED

First we had the Bunnies at Angry Alien .com and they're :30 sec renderings of Movies. Now these guys and they're alternate Flash animated endings for some classic flicks.

Funny stuff.

The Death Mobile

As I borrowed the image from an AICN posting; this is the car that Kurt "Snake" Russell will drive in his auto- homocidal rampage in the Quentin Tarantino opus, "DEATH PROOF" part of the double bill on the film called "GRINDHOUSE".

Not too many cars get my attention - the 1978 Trans Am from "Smokey and the Bandit", The Rocket car from "Hooper", The V-8 interceptor from Mad Max 1&2 and now this.

Can't wait for GRINDHOUSE which opens next April. Makes me want to find my copy of "CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST" an Italian Splatterfest that was banned in 62 countries!

PS- Fuck Nu-Arthouse Cinema!

THE PLAY

I don't generally care about college football, but this game's final seconds between Cal State and Stanford in 1982 (who had John Elway at QB) is one of the greatest sport endings I 've ever seen.

Stanford is leading Cal State 20-19 and if they win this game they go to the HALL OF FAME Bowl; and it was to be John Elway's last game as a College Senior. All Stanford had to do is tackle the ball carrier and they win the game. What happens next is 5 flea flickers amoungst the Cal State players towards the end zone, capped off by a touchdown on the head of a Saxaphone player from Stanford's band.

The Marching Band stupidly entered the field prematurely thinking they were going to win. It's probably the most famous play in football.



The broken Saxaphone incindentally is in the College Football Hall of Fame

ALL HAIL THE CHIEF !

Our college buddy Matthew "Chief" Flesher dropped in for the week for his buddy Corbin's wedding last Sunday. We had dinner with him last Thursday and I finally got the pix outta my camera. I was disappointed as I was still expecting him to maintain the beard. Ironically Josh has one now, to hide him from the scary Snakes on a Plane he was too much of a wuss to watch.



Nonetheless it was great to see him since he left LA back in 1999. I hadn't seen him since DP Somar's Wedding in 2003.
We all met at President Clinton's favorite restaurant right here in the heart of Burbank, BJ's.





I've added Chief's Sculpting site on the side bar links. He's actually sculpted a few action figures that I actually own. I guess he's like Dave Deneen who's Buddy Christ I own as well.



Happy trails Chief buddy! Hopefully we'll see you soon!

Also - congrats to the Ryan's and their new spawn Jayden Ryan!

Fightin' Phillies are DANGEROUS

That's picture of The Phillies future - RYAN HOWARD who just passed MIKE SCHMIDT with the most Home Runs by a Phillie in one season. He currently has 48, (Schmidt had 47, with 536 total) as the Phillies suddenly have gotten hot, and are 1/2 game out of the Wild Card in the National League.

The Mets still have the best record in the National League, lead the Eastern Division, and second place Philly by 15 1/2 games.

Do they have a shot in the playoffs? Everyone does as the hottest team going into the playoffs has won THE WORLD SERIES in the 4 out of the last 5 played (Diamondbacks, Angels, Red Sox and Marlins). In September they'll play mostly crummy teams that'll give them an edge to hopefully make a playoff push in the Wild Card. But then The Mets will have to kick their asses.

I still have a lot of love for the 1993 Wild Bunch team that came up short; and for the record the first baseball glove I ever had was a Rawlings, "signed" by MIKE SCHMIDT.

INCREDIBLE

So far this August I'm 2 for 2. I've never heard of Vince Papale before; being from NYC I had the luxury and curse of having 2 teams for every major sport, so if one's stinking up the joint hopefully the other wasn't. Except for the Yankees who just suck.

When I went to College in Philadelphia, in 1989 I knew that I was in unfamiliar ground. I was a Mets / Rangers / Knicks / Giants & Jets Fan. But I was warned about the Philadelphia fans (the ones who made throwing snowballs at Santa Claus and opposing NFL teams fashionable) so the one time I went to a Phillies game in Sept. of 1989 at Vets stadium I didn't wear any METS regallia or open my mouth, especially since I went by myself.

As for the Eagles, I always had a healthy respect for them; even as a kid I thought their helmets looked cool with the wings on them, and the Randall Cunningham team of the late '80's early '90's were always exciting to watch.

How times have changed- Sports now is 1000% an Business and I feel that most of the millionaire players with their questionable character off the field makes watching football cold and lifeless for me, because of the mercenary way players move from team to team, only really caring about themselves.

Which is why INVINCIBLE is a lightning shot of confidence that makes you want to believe in sports figures and to bigger degree yourself again. Nothing is out of reach for anybody.

Mark Wahlberg's impressive performance rivals that of his star making turn in Boogie Nights, and dare I say it, Oscar Worthy. I don't believe that with the more "Serious, Cynical and Darker " films that end off each year he'll recieve one , but if Tom Hanks can win for "Forrest Gump" I don't feel that it's out of reach.

They captured the feel and essence of the 1970's Philadelphia real well, from the clothes, music, the location shooting, and even adding a dead ringer for Joe Lampone - the actor who play's Papale's best friend. According to Keegs this was a close to 1970's Philly as we're gonna get today.

Papale hits rock bottom before making each painstaking step closer to achieving his dream of playing for his hometown team, however it's his HUMILTY that makes him so special. I actually got choked up when at one point he causes a fumble on a kickoff, and ends up with touchdown- and stands with his arms outstretched, acknowledging the hometown fans and allowing all of them to live the dream with him. I really also liked the added real footage of the real Papale added at the end of the film. On the 30th anniversary of ROCKY I couldn't think of a better film to hand the torch to.

Invincible is OUTSTANDING.

FANGTASTIC !!!

Christmas cometh early my friends. After months of hype and chuckles, SNAKES ON A PLANE delivered. Big time. This was the first Hollywood movie that really lived up to all the publicity and hoopla surrounding it; I feel completely satisfied from wire to wire with this movie- because it didn't lie to the public about what it was - it did what it set out to do and give you and your $$ and rocking time at the movies. The Great American B movie might yet have a future my friends.

Yesterday's fun fiesta started with Cheesesteaks at the South Philly Steaks restaurant on Victory and Olive Blvds in Burbank @ 6pm. We had great debates about pop culture and the TRANSFORMERS, and - after gourging ourselves with greasy cuisine we set out to find our friend Russ waiting on line for us at the AMC 16 theater at 7:10pm. He was the second guy on line so everything was going to plan. The Crew for the night were Jon Gebhart, Keegs, Jay Warnesky, my buddy Eugene Abano from work at FOX, Kim Le, her boyfriend Ed, and about 10-11 of Gebahart's buddies at the Simpsons.

My Friend, Joshua Taback, I will note was a BIG PUSSY and didn't show up. Rrrrrarrrh!

ON WITH THE SHOW:

So we're let in at about 8:15pm for a 8:50pm show and had two split rows of people. At this point I was a little concerned about the movie as the theater wasn't full yet, but by showtime it was at 90% capacity. After the crummy "Pre Show" Countdowns and a few shitty trailers (Note: I will see "JACKASS 2"; and "Tenatious D and the Pick of Destiny") Sam and his friends were about to start.

The lights dimmed and the energy level rose as I, and the rest of the audience started to cheer and clap because SNAKES ON A PLANE was finally here. I'm not going to go on a detailed account of the movie as to not spoil it for everyone, but I will note a few great audience "POPS" that happened throughout the movie.

POP # 1 - The Villian screaming "whooo" Ric Flair style as his smacks his victim with a baseball bat.

POP # 2 - Sam Jackson's first appearance in the film the house went nuts.

POP # 3 - The Plane takes off from Hawaii / and then they show the cargo hold with the snakes.

POP # 4 - The snakes are released and all hell breaks loose on the plane, there are ways of killing people with snakes
I never thought of. The audience goes nuts for 40 mins straight.

POP # 5- Sam says the line "We gotta get these Muthafuckin' Snakes off this Muthafuckin' plane!" -It was great to hear but
a little anti climactic as we were all expecting it - there was an earlier line about the snakes that was just as funny.

POP #6 - A surprise "Pilot" causes the audience to cheer his name...

As movies with creatures go this one's at the top eschelon with ANACONDA, TREMORS, and LAKE PLACID. There were some genuine "scares" that made me jump out of my seat.

You'll have to hand it to Sam Jackson for not taking himself too seriously to make this movie; and the audience participation on this one was on par when I saw "There's Something About Mary" back in the late '90's. It was refreshing to see a movie and have fun again from beginning to end; and not complain about anything (plot,shot selection,editing etc.) because with a title like SNAKES ON A PLANE you honestly know what you're getting.

Maybe next time they'll re-name a movie like ARMAGEDDON- "OIL DRILLERS IN SPACE" and I'll actually enjoy it.


http://www.snakesonaplane.com

Saturday Snake Fever !

It's finally here. I'll be there with the crew Saturday night @ 8:50pm at the World Famous Burbank AMC 16...

I'm gonna cry tears of joy....

Just Gimme a Cocaine Addicted Donkey Already!

I got Snakes later on this week. Today I get Midgets who work at Target. The Mets are in first place. This week could only get better if George Lucas would CGI a puppet Yoda riding a Coke addicted Donkey in the first 3 Star Wars movies....

http://www.midgetswhoworkattarget.com.html


DOUBLE PRIZES !!!!! DOUBLE PRIZES, YEAH !!!!




The TRON GUY- I forgot who orignally sent me this link but this dude loves Tron (calling Joe Lampone)

Check out this guy's site here:

http://www.tronguy.net.html

I also got some free posters of Star Wars Episodes II and III that I'll be wiping my ass with later today. What a way to start a week!

P.S. I Love my Wife Shelley, and my baby girl Emily!

Seven Days...and counting....

Captain America is Cool again

There's a Civil War brewing in the Marvel Universe currently, and taking a cue from Brad Bird's "Incredibles", the American Government is making Superheroes register to become civil servants of America. This is after a bunch of "C" type Heroes with their own reality show get in over their heads; fight it out with some powerful supervillians, and end up tragically blowing up an entire school killing most of the children in it. The backlash becomes intense, and this creates a rift between a lot of the super powered community and a fierce debate turns into a battle royal between allies.

Iron Man, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and others see this a natural progression and line up to reveal their secret identites and enlist with the Government, with the Pro Registration act. But the Hero that suprised me was CAPTAIN AMERICA who gives the Government the finger, kicks the crap out of 50 government agents, goes AWOL, all to defend the privacy and civil liberties of other superheroes who don't want to give up their identities...

So currently Cap's underground with a rag tag bunch of heroes who usually patrol the streets (Daredevil, Luke Cage) fighting a battle on two fronts- 1) Supervillans/Crime and the Government sanctioned heroes who now have to bring these renegade heroes in.

Not a bad way to revamp your character after 65 years....I'm also exicited because ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2 comes out tomorrow; and hopefully this will be better than the first one

GO CAP GO!!!!

Swayze, Mullets, and Kung Fu

I love this movie. I remember first seeing it in the theater in the late '80's and not knowing what to make of it.
I dug the action, was confused by the bad guy who lived across the river and started noticing a disturbing trend in action movies at that time, that lead had to show off their butts.

What makes ROADHOUSE so special? It's that guilty pleasure that most men have seen, and like a strange slow burn realize the greatness in it because of all it's flaws...A movie with mullets,kung-fu, monster trucks, and a Polar bear that falls on a fat guy? sign me up!

Recently a new DVD (the one in the picture above is the older release) was released with Commentary by the director Rowdy Harrington and a second commentary by filmmaker Kevin Smith who's a huge Roadhouse fan... I heard that he contacted MGM and begged them to do it even for free. The DVD even has a "What would Dalton do? " Feature and a Retrospective on the Cult fan base of this American B movie classic.

Furthermore an Off-Off Broadway play was done in honor of Swayze and CO



...his name is DALTON!