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It's been running around the 'Net all weekend, but here's the convenient YouTube version:
A dark and kinky turn on the Disney icons. (h/t ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) drzarron) Which Disney characters do you... think about? 'Fess up, you know you do. Which ones hit various buttons? Mine would be Belle (who actually hits the "nice girl you could easily fall in love with" button), Jasmine, and -- in some of the darker dreams -- Alice (grown-up, thank you), Aurora, and Tinker Bell.
Yes, I know I'm late on this one. I was working. Just saw Coraline. Very good, very beautiful, very creepy. Henry Selick's script and direction are tight, the vocal work is excellent, fabulous music, the effects and the visualization of the world are gorgeous, and it's not necessarily a movie to take the kids to -- only a few very minor cat-scares, but a good deal of stuff that'll slip into your dreams for a few weeks. Thoughts from you guys? I've been specifically avoiding most of the conversation, as I haven't read the book.
Tue, Feb. 17th, 2009, 07:51 am
DVD Day
Big day if you're into High School Musical. Apart from that, the things I have some interest in are Bill Maher's Religilous; Changeling, directed by Eastwood, written by JMS, starring Jolie; and a direct-to-video of Clive Barker's The Midnight Meat Train, starring Brooke Shields, Ted Raimi, and Vinnie (I'm The Juggernaut Bitch) Jones. Any other new vid we should know about?
Okay, one last video for the evening. Remember the noise last week because Tina F- er, Sarah Palin had pardoned a turkey up in Alaska, and then answered reporters' questions in front of an automatic turkey killing machine? Well, Keith Olbermann hadn't seen the video, and he decided to watch it, live and on Countdown:
... Aaaaaand there's a new Silent Hill game I didn't even know about. Been out on the consoles a couple of months, but only available on the PC for a couple of weeks (through Steam). Video preview here.
Thanks so much for telling me about this, huskiebear. No, really, actually, thanks. Looks cool. Out on DVD this Tuesday. Likely not work safe, definitely not kid safe. If you were to write/direct a horror film, what would your subject be?
A couple of posts in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) scans_daily have introduced younger readers to the magnificent horror of Alan Moore on DC's Swamp Thing title, work which single-handedly resurrected not only that comic but several others, overhauled the mystical aspects of the DC universe, gave us John Constantine and the reborn Woodrue and many other memorable characters, and paved the way for Gaiman's Sandman and the entire Vertigo line. Poking around for some online info for somebody, I discovered a very good site for either finding out about it or getting back into it: Roots of the Swamp Thing. What's your favorite Swamp Thing storyline? Mine, absolutely, is Love and Death, featuring the corruption and destruction of Matt Cable, the return of Arcane, and Swamp Thing going to Hell to rescue the unjustly damned Abby. Right after that, it's a toss-up between "The Anatomy Lesson" and the Annual which capped off the Crisis on Infinite Earths. And Swamp Thing careening from world to world, trying to return home, was amazing. Especially "My Blue Heaven". Really, though, I love Moore's entire run. It redefined so much about comics, and we watched it happen.
The official Sweeney Todd movie site has song excerpts. (Click on "Enter the Site", then go to "Audio" in the upper right of the window that pops up.) They sound good. Not great, not fantastic... but certainly good. I wish the singing director had told them to put more energy into it... but we'll see how it works on screen. Please, please don't suck.
( And awaaaaaay we go.... )ETA: Lyrics to the first song. ETA: Well, I wasn't going to do this for 24-Hour Comics Day originally anyway. I'm sick -- not awful sick, but distracting sick. I'll do as much as I can of this off and on today and over the next few days... but I'm not going to be able to write it all in one day. Sorry, gang. I'll post to a new thread as soon as the next song's done.
So I'm dealing with a sudden spate of Real Life, and I'm trying to find the fricking time to finish researching and scribbling out the songs for the lovely idea Randy Milholland handed me, Herbert West, Re-Animator: The Musical, when I suddenly remembered: This Saturday is 24-Hour Comics Day. So what are you doing this weekend?
Continuing in the horror theme -- 'cause, hey, it's October -- you can now view the trailer for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, starring Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin, Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, and, oh yeah, some guy named Depp. On a sheer acting level, it looks fantastic. But the music suffers even in this trailer. Depp is doing a Rex Harrison, which can be just fine, but he's also doing a very, very quiet Todd. It may work. I think the movie will be entertaining; I hope it will be good. But nobody's prying my George Hearn videos or Len Cariou OCRs away.
If this doesn't have you wanting to watch the show... I bet this will. Thanks to Anne for aiming me to the first one.
Sadness in the land of Dementia. Bobby "Boris" Pickett, who sang the all-time classic "The Monster Mash", has passed away at the age of 69. Here's Pickett performing with Richard & The Young Lions in 2005, and this machinima video is pretty good, and of course has the original music.
Tue, Mar. 20th, 2007, 12:04 am
DVD Day
Rocky Balboa, meh. Eighty-seven versions of Eragon, feh. Two-disk reissue of Re-Animator and Season Two of Justice League Unlimited? Sign me the hell up. What's on your DVD horizon?
On this date in 1809. So, what's your favorite Poe pastiche or adaptation? There's a lot to love in those old Roger Corman flicks -- I've got The Raven and The Tomb of Ligeia (that latter on a double disk with the TV production An Evening of Edgar Allen Poe -- all Vinnie all the time), and I really need to get Masque of the Red Death.
On this date in 1847. So, what's your favorite version of Dracula? I've got a few: the Marv Wolfman/Gene Colan comic series, some of the Fred Saberhagen novels (although my brain still seizes up at the thought of Fred Saberhagen's novelization of James V. Hart's screenplay of Francis Ford Coppola's movie of Bran Stoker's Dracula), the original Bela Lugosi, the Jack Palance made-for-TV movie. Individual performances in movies I don't necessarily like are also valid -- it's hard to fault Frank Langella or Christopher Lee, even though the movies weren't necessarily the best.
Mon, Nov. 6th, 2006, 08:55 pm
BAAAAAAA
Why, yes. I do know there is a movie called Black Sheep coming out, that features evil sheep. Approximately fourteen thousand, seven hundred and eight people have informed me over the past several weeks of this, wondering if I had heard of this, because I wrote "The Ballad of Fenton". Yes, I have heard of it. And, having seen a few clips of what appears to be a lame rip-off of Evil Dead, only with sheep, I wish never to hear of it again. That is all. No, really.
One of our true literary forefathers, Edgar Allen Poe, was born on this day in 1809. Pulled a Mozart (whose birthday, coincidentally, is next Friday): the quality and quantity of work in his short life was astonishing, seminal, influential beyond belief. (The old Tom Lehrer joke springs to mind here -- you know which one.) What's your favorite Poe story or stories or poems? Mine are, probably unsurprisingly, "The Raven", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado", and, for sheer knuckle-biting nerve-clenching horror, "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar".
Anne pointed me to this. Not exactly Not Work Safe, but... not safe for anyone, really. Funny as hell, gross as hell. Lavishly illustrated.
Cover art for the 3-disk American Gothic DVD set to be released Oct. 25. Some deleted scenes, and a commentary track by Shaun Cassidy for the pilot.
Unconfirmed, but word from creator Shaun Cassidy at the San Diego ComiCon is that American Gothic will be out on DVD October 25.
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