June 22, 2004
Sleep Around the Clock
Posted by nerdling | June 22, 2004 02:54 PM
Lollapalooza has been cancelled, citing lack of ticket sales. I am unsurprised by the news, citing a redundant festival lineup and the guarantee of overpriced water.
Wilco continues with the nefarious plot to merchandise their fans into a coma.
I take back any of my marginally forgiving comments about the RIAA, as they have gone ahead with a new round of 482 suits against alleged filesharers.
The Zombies 1966 album I Love You was re-released today, featuring extra tracks!
Halloween has to be the best possible setting for a horror convention, particularly when Horrorfind is set in the middle of the Arizona desert.
The only thing they are missing is the amazing celebrity lineup that will be at this summer's Maryland Horrorfind. Highlights include: George Romero; Jeffrey Combs (the fucking Re-Animator!); Rob Zombie; Kane Hodder; members of the original cast of Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead; Tom Savini; Bill Moseley, Sid Haig and Irwin Keyes of House of 1000 Corpses; and Angela Bettis of May.
Conventions like this are fun, if it is for no other reason than watching the obsessive fanboys who come along for the ride. My only complaint is the obvious lack of Gunnar Hansen.
speaking of horror, the review for "mojave" is out on film threat (http://filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?Id=6183). pretty much what i expected, although all insight is ruined by the line "it's fun to make fun of hicks". well, this hick is looking forward to a time when i can unleash all my pent-up rage at them durn city folks by stalking, drugging, raping, and eventually murdering a few of them myself. nobody here ever had that pleasure, but it's never too late to become the stereotype you were always meant to be.
i want the outermost grave,
dan
Posted by: dan at June 23, 2004 01:37 PM
Just wait for the people at Film Threat who like to make fun of hicks to wander into Neenack. Those skinny dorks would never make it through that place; they'd probably think it was some cute, high desert version of the Village of the Damned until the locals started gnawing off their bony appendages in a meth-crazed frenzy.
Now, isn't that an appealing image of retribution?
Posted by: Marleigh at June 23, 2004 03:00 PM
if "mojave" was insistent on a factual representation of where i come from and the people therein, it would be a film about upper-middle class college kids that wander into the desert and find that people here do the same jobs they do, but for about three dollars an hour less. Gleeful at this proposition, they open up an Urban Outfitters, w/ specially made t-shirts emblazoned w/ slogans appropriate to the area, like "white trash" and "i suck cock for crystal".
they would then employ the local garbage they like to laugh at, move to quartz hill to live in a gated community, and petition the city council for relaxed zoning laws, because one locally owned business is one too many. meanwhile, the angry rednecks that usually like to terrorize "strangers" would be so consumed w/ shame and self-loathing, they would spend all their resources trying to look and talk like the city people, happily erasing all signs of their former ignorance and supposed culture. the few that resisted this assimilation would be marginalized as "conservative whackos", "racist gun nuts", and "toothless drug addicted predators", until they too relented.
wait a minute. that sounds suspiciously TOO realistic. on second thought, the slasher movie is beginning to sound like a wet dream.
soon to be a major motion picture,
dan: hick in the city
Posted by: dan at June 23, 2004 05:06 PM
