I’ve been gone for a while, but there’s a good reason behind my absence. I’d like to share it here because apparently it is not a bad thing to publically pimp one’s special achievements. A little background first: In one of my first blog entries for CHUD.com, I mentioned something about my very first job … Continue reading
Last saturday I had one of the best Halloween’s I’ve ever had. It started off really great by my getting in Night Of The Creeps on Blu-Ray in the mail. I really like genre flicks, and anybody who loves sci-fi/horror flicks knows that this has been on their most wanted list for quite a long … Continue reading
A friend of mine emailed me a link to some images he thought I’d like. They changed my afternoon. And I had to share this with you simply because work like this needs to be shared. They are images taken by photographer Chris Jordan. (Please click on the links below the photographs to take you … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I received an email from Mr. Brown asking, ‘have you heard of a band called A Place to Bury Strangers? I read they sound like a combination of Mind is a Terrible thing to taste-era Ministry and old My Bloody Valentine. I was so intrigued at this description that I immediately … Continue reading
Dear Ti West, It is a rare thing when you wait for something for so long only to have it meet, let alone exceed your expectations. Honestly I cannot remember the last time something like that has happened to me in the realm of film. You however sir, you’ve made me quite a happy man. … Continue reading
Have you ever wondered what genius came up with the idea of garnishing meat with more meat? Last night while sick and stuck in the Phoenix, AZ airport I had a hankerin’ for only one thing. To be home with my wife and cats. However that wasn’t happening as my layover flight was delayed and … Continue reading
In recommending Black Dynamite, the temptation is to get caught up in the spirit and get silly. Let me go another way, keep it relatively serious, and promise that this is the funniest movie currently playing in any movie theater – that is, unless you’re heading to the multiplex this weekend to make fun … Continue reading
Last friday Vanessa treated me to a wonderful dinner of Chinese food, and we were going to see Saw VI. Unfortunately She had been feeling ill earlier in the evening before we went out, so by the time we were going to see it, she wasn’t feeling that well and needed to rest. She’s so … Continue reading
150,400 people in my city have lost jobs this year (August 2008 to August 2009), according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I’m sure many of these are riding severance packages and unemployment benefits, but as those eventually peter out over time, the newly unemployed are forced to enter the world of job searching. I’m … Continue reading
With the season of ghouls in full swing, television stations have begun airing an endless barrage of memorable and unmemorable scary movies that have been collecting dust in their vaults for the past year. Sometimes you’ll catch a gem, like Poltergeist. And sometimes you’ll catch a half-polished goat turd like Poltergeist II: The Other Side. … Continue reading