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| Monday, January 25th, 2010 | | 6:02 pm |
Neil Gaiman had to have his cat Zoe put to sleep today. You can read all about it at www.neilgaiman.com. Itmade me sad- I've been reading about her for awhile. She's blind, and evidently a very loving little kitty, and cute as can be- she looks a little like my cat Chim (who is in my icon) but more round and not as fuzzy. She went blind awhile back, and, well, Kyle Cassidy wrote about her in his journal: She lives in the turret, wary of the Great Rambunctious Dog that lives downstairs but can't get through the cat door (much to his dismay). She spends most of her days on a bed, resting comfortably. But when a person comes into the room she lifts her head into the air and makes noise "mewp! mewp!" as if to say "I'm here! I know you can't see me, so I shall make this noise to guide you!" And when you scratch her head she appreciates it like no other cat. And when you leave, she makes the noise again, lifting her head as though to say "foul winds have blown you from me! you are lost! I shall make this noise so that you can find me again!" -- and, of course, you can't leave, so you go back and pet her again and again.
"I used to try and write in the turret," Neil told me, "but the only thing that would happen was that I'd pet Zoe all day." This is not in, and of itself, a bad thing but it interrupts the Great Works of Literature.
Whenever there was down time (when I wasn't out photographing some author or eating dinner or looking at the bees) I would say "I'm going upstairs to pet Zoe," and Neil would smile and say "that sound like a loovely thing to do. She would like that very much."Anyway, she got an inoperable tumor that blocked the pathway between her mouth and stomache, so they put her to sleep today. She was 14. I can remember every cat (and the couple of dogs) I've had, and when they died. I've only had to have 1 put to sleep. But I get very attached to my cats- it's weird to me, people who don't have much of a relationship with their pets- they say "It's only an animal". They treat them like furniture or something- a decoration. But cats have such distinct personalities, and feel so much. I have 4 of them, and they're like my children. So I know what he's going through. Maybe he'll write a story about her. | | Monday, January 11th, 2010 | | 8:20 am |
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Today's date is a palindrome... | | Thursday, December 31st, 2009 | | 1:49 pm |
As I sit here, getting ready to go to work, I'm reflecting on the fact that this year really sucked!! Next year is poised to suck even worse, but maybe it won't. I'm hopeful. But as it's the last day of the decade and I'm reflecting (and as Krystal has admonished that I claim every year has been the worst at the end of it), I'm going to rate the past 10 years: OK, 2000 sucked. It was a very bad year. 2001 was ok- not really bad or good. 2002 really sucked. Fuck that year. 2003 was ok up until the end, when my sister was killed by a drunk driver. That put a damper on it all. 2004 was a decent year. Not really good or bad (but after the sucky 2002 and bad end of 2003, it seemed better than it really was). 2005 was pretty good. 2006 was even better. Best year of the decade I think. 2007 was pretty good, but not as good as 2006. 2008 kinda sucked overall (tho it was a very good year for movies). And 2009 is the worst year since 2002. Fuck this year, too. End reflection. Hope your year and decade have been good, and the next one is even better... | | Saturday, December 26th, 2009 | | 3:50 am |
Well now, Christmas is over. I like to watch the lights on the tree flash in the dark on Christmas night. The holidays are over, and now we got awhile before there's any more excitement (I don't really care about New Years). This year has kinda sucked, so I'm a bit subdued about it all, but I had a pretty good Christmas. I got lotsa good stuff, and gave lotsa good stuff (spent too much this Christmas, but that's ok). I got Gremlins and Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince on dvd (as well as the aforementioned MST3K box set as an early present). Also Red Green the 2001 season box set. The Hammer Story book, Oi! compilation cd, Alchemy Gothic calender, Chili's gift card, and 2 tires for my car (I needed them bad). We didn't watch the whole A Christmas Story movie, which perterbed me a little, but evidently everyone doesn't love it as much as I do. We watched the whole Jim Carrey version of the Grinch, tho. I took Krystal to see Avavar, because she wanted to see it and didn't get to. We watched it in 3D on th extra big screen, and I noticed a lot more than I did the first time. We had to wait in line awhile this time. We waited by some girls who had just moved here from Detroit because the economy is so bad there. It sounds like it's hell there. Well, I haveta go because it's late and my food is ready to eat. Time just keeps slipping away... I hope everyone had a great holiday! | | Monday, December 21st, 2009 | | 8:34 am |
I believe I've mentioned how humorous I find righteous indignation. Lately I've been seeing a lot of it from people who are just seething for a fight about saying "Merry Christmas". I mostly see it at my job- people just dare you to say something other than Merry Christmas. So far I've only taken the bait a couple of times, when a paticularly annoying person says "Merry Christmas" and I can tell they're ready to pounce, so I say "Happy Holidays". Both times they've taken the bait back and said something along the lines of "What, you can't say Merry Christmas?". I blame that tool O'Reilly. I don't have anything against people who say 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Holidays'. I just don't care. I wonder what level of existence I would have to fall to where that would enrage me? I mean, if you think your religion is the best ever, and don't want to acknowledge anyone else's holidays, you can say Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah or Happy Kuanzaa or Blessed Winter Solstice or whatever and I don't care. These things are funny to me- I think that people just don't have enough problems. When you're starving to death or something like that, I bet things like how people wish others a happy holiday just don't matter much to you. So I saw the previews for Avatar and it looked a bit underwhelming. It's been kind of quietly building up a little hype for awhile, then this year it burst out like crazy. Suddenly, it was like the second coming of Jesus Christ- everyone was proclaiming it's greatness: "It must be seen to be believed!". "It's like when I saw "Star Wars" for the first time when I was a kid!". I still felt a bit underwhelmed- it looked a bit predictable, and I'm sick of movies where the main character(s) give a rousing war speech before leading their troops into a war they shouldn't be able to win. Seen that too much this decade. But I went and saw it anyway, and you know- it was indeed very predictable. As a matter of fact, there is absolutely nothing that happens in it that you won't see coming at least several scenes before it happens. It's not just predictable, but very cliched as well. But oddly enough, it doesn't hurt the movie. I liked it. I should have been rolling my eyes, but I didn't. I think it's because of the scope of the imagination- this is an awesome world, with a lot of stuff going on. The main character is a bit bland, but I think he's supposed to be, and the alien/ cat chic was really cool. So I liked it even tho I thought I wouldn't. I've gotten about 75% of my Christmas shopping done. I've been working so much it's hard to get it all in. I work every day from now until Christmas day, so I'm going to be pretty busy. I haven't gotten anything for my Mom yet, but I've got at least one or two things for everyone else. I have a couple of things coming in the mail I hope get here in time. I'm also having some pretty crappy money problems. I did already get the new MST3K box set, which has the Santa Claus episode in it (one of my favs), so we'll have to watch that soon. Well, I have to go to work in awhile, and I've been up since around this time yesterday, so I'd better get some rest. Things are pretty hectic and chaotic up there (which I like- this is my fav time of year to work in retail). If I could just find some of those little candy canes I like, I'd be ok. Even Wal-Mart doesn't have them this year... | | Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | | 11:47 pm |
Today was Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a good one. I woke up with a bit of an upset stomache, and ate some carrots to try to get something in it. A Little while later, I started puking, which was a nice start to the holiday centered around eating. The worst part was that the vomit pushed tiny carrot chunks into my sinus', so I kept trying to snort them out (they were pretty uncomfortable) for a couple of hours. But I finally got them out and went to my Mom's for turkey and dressing. We watched the parade like we do every year, and I always think "Was it always this commercial?", which the answer is 'Yes, it was' but I have a year to forget that fact. But despite the vomiting it was a pretty decent day (I can't help but remember Thanksgiving 6 years ago, which my little sister had been killed by a drunk driver about a week before, so it wasn't a very good day. Those of you who have lost a close family member know how the holidays can be right after. It helps you to put it all into perspective. Little things like money problems and vomit aren't really that big of a deal). We went and saw the new version of A Christmas Carol, which was ok, but the best version is still the 1984 British one with George C. Scott as Scrooge. Everyone keeps asking me what I want for Christmas, and I don't know. I mean, I know some stuff I want, but it's hard to ask for them. For example, I really want a drum machine, but it's hard to tell people which one I want. I think I'll make an Amazon list. Tomorrow is 'black Friday', and I have to work longer than usual, but I like the chaos and business that you get on that day (and in general this time of year). Let me tell you what I am not looking forward to, that I have already seen begun: "Best of the decade" lists. Yeah, I don't give a shit about your list (well, for most people. I guess there's some people who's I'd find interesting, but EVERYONE is going to make one, and it's going to get tedious quickly). Every single person will have a different best of the decade list, so who cares about someone elses? Actually, I can't even begin to come up with one for music. Movies would be a little easier, but still. I don't really even want to think about it. I bought a lottery ticket the other day- I was paying my gas bill at Kroger's, and I didn't have any cash. They make you pay the fee to pay the bill seperatly, so I got a lottery ticket so I would have more than a dollar to put on my card. The jackpot is 13,000,000 bucks. I haven't bought a lottery ticket in probably over 10 years, and what a rip-off! I got a 'quick pick', and the first 3 numbers are '3', '4', and '5'. They never draw 3 numbers in a row like that! And my bath tub just broke. Poodoo! I guess that's about all I have for right now. Trying to get another podcast up tonight, so I'm gonna shut it down for now. | | Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | | 2:35 am |
| | Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | | 4:15 am |
Well, the Halloween costume of the year this year (at least in this area) for females was the bumble bee. There were so many girls dressed up like bumble bees- it has to be some kind of group-think collective unconscious thing. They was everywhere we went- the Renaissance Festival, Kemah Boardwalk, Westheimer- everywhere. It was kind of weird. Anyway, the day could have turned out to be terrible. But I saved it (sort of). We got up too late (we went to #'s Friday night, '80s night, costume contest. It was pretty cool, as usual), so didn't get out to Ren/Fest until about 2. We had to leave at about 6 or so, so that kind of sucked. It was a bit rushed- got to watch the birds of prey show, and the end of the bellydancers, but that was about it (other than the usual walking around and eating stuff). But you know, I just love being there, people watching and soaking up the atmosphere. The reason we had to leave early is because Krystal wanted to go to a 'zombie fashion show' waayyy out on the other side of Houston at a tattoo parlor, where the owner said she could come sell some of her art and stuff. She asked me earlier in the week if we could, and even tho I've been looking forward to Ren/Fest throughout these wretched past couple of months, the fact that a) she reeeaallly wanted to do it (and it will help her to get to do more events in the future); and b) we'll probably go back to Ren/Fest (we'd better) again this year made me agree. Sooo, we left Ren/Fest later than we should have, and I thought I knew a faster way to get to Houston from there, which actually made us go about 20 minutes out of the way. But I got back on track, and we drove and drove and drove. We left Ren/Fest at about 6:30. At 8:50 we were finally in the area where the place was supposed to be. She told me nevermind- let's go home, because it was only supposed to last until 9 PM. I thought I was going to vomit. If I had known that we were going to leave Ren/Fest early, have to rush everything, and drive 2 hours to be at an event for 1 hour, I would have said no way. But that's what I get for not asking more questions. So, I felt a bit enraged, because the drive had been terrible and everything has been sucking lately, and that all just kind of capped off the suck that has been my life recently. But I decided instead of freaking out or getting upset, I was going to turn it around (or at least try to). So, I noticed we were close to Kemah Boardwalk, and I had never been there before. I figured they might be doing something cool for Halloween, so I went there. Krystal was upset for missing her thing and thinking I was mad, so she didn't say much. We get there, and there was a haunt. I figured it would be a little rinky dink crappy one, but it was actually pretty long and decent. We had to wait in line a long time, but you always do at those things. There was a girl dressed up like the Wicked Witch of the West in front of us, and she looked just like her. The haunt didn't have that many actors in it, but a lot of cool effects, and it was only 10 bucks, which is pretty cheap. I also talked her into riding the ferris wheel. She wouldn't ride the rolly coaster or any of the other rides, but I got her on the ferris wheel by telling her she could take some cool pictures from up there (photography is a big interest of hers). When we got on it and is started going, she was too scared to take and pictures or do anything other than death grip the pole. But she got Starbucks afterwards, then we went to Late Nite Pies and got pizza, so she was ok. She also got to take some pictures of the industrial section of Pasadena (all the glowing factories with smoke billowing out of them) so that made up for the lack of ferris wheel photos. And that was pretty much our Halloween. It cold have been better, but you know, it could have been a lot worse. I spent way too much money, but it's just money. I'll just have to not spend any for awhile. Hope everyone else had a good one... | | Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | | 1:04 pm |
~HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN EVERYONE~ I'm off to the Renfest. Have a good one... | | Friday, October 30th, 2009 | | 6:56 am |
Yeah, it's 7 am and I can't sleep. Been up all night (tho that's not unusual, I usually can get to sleep by now. Maybe a little writing will help. Sometimes it does). Went to the Crypticon Houston horror convention weekend before last, and it was a bit disappointing. No one came. Granted, it was a bit expensive and had very little advertising, but I expected more. We had a table there and did pretty well, but it got kind of boring sitting there with no one coming by. The bass player from World Burns To death who had a table at Frightmare last May had his table here, too, so it was cool talking to him. I also talked to several of the guests quite a bit. Loyd Kaufman was pretty friendly. He seemed surprised that I knew so much about so many of his movies (later on, at the hotel, someone asked him about something and he pointed at me and told them "Ask that guy- he knows everything", haha). Also talked to Edwin Neal (the Hitchhiker from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and got him riled up about Tobe Hooper ripping him off. He talked to me a long time about that (and a bunch of other stuff). When I was eating in the area set up for vendors and guests, Michael Berryman came in and sat down to eat and talked to me a long time about all sorts of things. He's a real friendly guy. So overall it was cool; I just wish more people had went. A couple of days ago a limb fell out of a tree and stuck directly into the roof of my house. That sucked. I had to borrow a ladder from my neighbor (who kind of reminds me of an old Peter Cushing) and climb up and pull it out and staple a trash bag over it. Went and saw Saw VI, which I liked better than parts 3, 4 or 5. # was always my least favorite one, 4 was confusing, and 5 was just kind of lackluster. But this one was pretty good. The Misfits have finally put out a new song. It's called "Land of the Dead", and is ok, but nothing special. Kind of makes me think of those hundreds of Misfits rip-off bands that all sound pretty much alike. Anyway, if you want to hear the new song, go to www.misfits.com and it'll automatically start playing. It's Jerry Only on vocals. Michael Graves says that he's just a phone call away, and would come back and sing for them, but I think Jerry has always wanted to be the frontman, and isn't going to give it up. Which is too bad. Still not feeling that great, but trying to pull it together. Making plans, staying positive, blah blah blah- you know the tune. Hope everyone else is doing well. Hope to go to the Renaissance Festival on Halloween (if it doesn't freaking rain- a distinct possibility). TTFN... | | Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 | | 1:56 am |
Every day I see people come into my place of employment who are dead, they just don't know it yet. Life has beaten them down, and they have no capacity for passion or joy any more. Some of them might have been born like this- I don't know. Most of them are parents. I don't know if their children have sucked the life out of them, or if there's some other reason that parents seem to make up a large portion of these people, but they do. At any rate, I'm afraid to become one of them. Shuffling around like zombies, looking for something to brighten their existence, their dead eyes betraying their soullesness. In recent months, I have been thoroughly beaten down by life. Little things, big things- it's always something. I've always been pretty good at rolling with the punches, so to speak, but it's getting harder. I feel beaten down. I have so many things that I want to do- so much passion and need, but I can't seem to get them done. It's so frustrating. I have no time or money for anything, and recently all kinds of petty bullshit has taken even more of my time and money. Of course I know quite well that most of my problems are caused by me- my own lack of foresight, wisdom, self control, will power, etc. I guess that may be the one thing that separates me from most other people- I know that most of my problems are brought on by one thing- myself. But the knowledge doesn't help me much, because I keep on doing the same shit. But I don't know how to go about doing something else. And it seems like the 2 or 3% of my problems that aren't actually caused by me always hits at the worst time. So, I don't want to become a passionless, soulless, joyless zombie like so many others, but I feel it creeping up on me. I just feel like giving up, like I'm down in this deep hole and I can't climb out. And when good things happen, it's really just like someone has thrown some candy down into the hole I'll enjoy a bit, but I'm still in the hole. I don't want to give up on, not to sound cheesy or melodramatic, my dreams, but they keep getting farther away and less possible to achieve. It's so frustrating and upsetting. And things only seem to get worse (and will only get worse in the near future, as far as I can tell). I have a lot of good things in my life, and a lot of good stuff going on right now. I guess I would go crazy without Krystal and my cats and the radio show- the one small bit of creativity I actually get to pour into. And a lot of cool stuff going on this month. But it's all dampened by the hole, and all the terrible little things that keep happening to offset all the cool things. But I keep trying, even when things seem hopeless (and they often have recently). The struggle continues. I know there is a lot of people with a lot bigger problems than I have, but they still seem to crush in on me and sap my happiness. I'll stop whining now. Well, I will also say that I fucked up my leg and it's kind of freaking me out. I tripped and hurt it a little bit last week- just twisted my ankle a little. But then I tripped and twisted it again Sunday night, and now it really hurts a lot. The thing that is freaking me out, tho, is the swelling. It's swelled up pretty bad, and it feels like Stretch Armstrong- when you push in where it's swelled, it feels like there's hard jelly in there or something. It stays pushed in awhile, too, then slowly goes back to normal, like one of those temporpedic mattresses or something. It's kind of creepy, which I guess is ok since it's October. It'll have to be- there's no way I can afford to go to the doctor! | | Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 | | 11:51 pm |
going to austin...
When my friends bought tickets to see Screeching Weasel's 1 show in Austin awhile back, they asked me if I wanted to go. I said no, because tho I love their old stuff (first 2 albums and Punkhouse 7"ep) their later stuff (tho some good songs here and there) I don't care as much about. Also Jughead wasn't going to be with them, so it's not a definitive line-up, and lastly, they wanted to stay and watch the Riverdales (Ben Weasel's other, more Ramones-esque band) the next night. It's funny- I actually introduced these friends to Screeching Waesel a long time ago, then didn't really foolow them when they left punk and picked up pop punk. My friends kept following them, and are into everything they did. So thyey all bought tickets to Emo's on Friday (and Saturday for the Riverdales) and hotel rooms. Well, one of them backed out, so they asked me if I wanted to go for free, with a free hotel room. I was still kind of up in the air, but thinking that would be pretty cool. Then I found out that Magrudergrind, Unholy Grave, and PLF are playing inside Emo's the same night that the Riverdales are playing outside. So I'm going. It should be cool (esp since I'm not driving!). In other news, the new Witch hunt album is totally channeling Husker Du. It kind of surprised me. I almost got into a fight with an old man today because I was running a little late for work, and accidently bumped the side of his giant truck with my car door. There was no dent or mark, but he freaked out. He kept yelling at me. If I didn't have my name tag on, and be about to walk into my job, it might have gotten ugly. We're training several new people at work. Most of them are pretty cool. That's about all I have to say right now... | | Sunday, May 17th, 2009 | | 4:33 am |
part 2: the bad
Yesterday at work I started coughing and couldn't quit. It was weird and embarrassing. I hadn't been coughing at all, no sore throat or anything, but suddenly it was like something caught in my throat and I started coughing and couldn't stop for like 4 or 5 minutes. People were staring at me, and becoming uncomfortable. That sucked. I judge how the year is going to go (for me) not from New Years Day to New Years Day, but from my birthday to my birthday. If the past couple of weeks since my birthday are any indication, this isn't going to be that great of a year. The Texas Frightmare Convention was great (to see how great, read my last entry- if you want to see some pictures go here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/tfw/pool/), but starting Sunday things were already going bad. I didn't get enough sleep (I usually don't, but it was bothering me more than usual), and felt sick. The elevators were screwed up, and only one was working (and it didn't work well), so they were very crowded and slow (and check out was at noon). We left the hotel at about 5:30 PM, and were going to get something to eat at Extreme Pizza (there used to be one here but they closed down). I had a google map printed out, and it said to take a "spur" off the highway (a spur is an offshoot from the freeway- an exit you usually don't have to slow down as much for) so I was paying attention to landmarks so I could figure out how to get back to the freeway, and by the time I noticed that it wasn't a spur, but an extremely sharp turnpike (possibly the sharpest turn I've ever seen off a freeway) it was too late. It had been raining all weekend and my reflexes were slow from being extra tired and sleepy, so I slid into the guard rail at about 65 mph. I actually hit the end of the rail right at my driver's side front tire, which spun the car all the way around and slammed the other side into another guard rail. I remember hitting my head on the driver's side window, but not much else. Oddly enough, we weren't really hurt at all (my shoulder started hurting a while later where it hit the window, and still hurts some, but nothing too bad). We had only gone about 10 miles from the hotel. So, stuck 300 miles from home on the side of the freeway on a Sunday night. An 18 wheeler with a nice lady trucker stopped and called the police, and a cop showed up and made a report and called a wrecker driver. He towed my car to an auto shop that the local Saturn dealership uses, which luckily enough had a hotel right beside it. It was a cheap-ass hotel, 69 bucks a night (after taxes), but I actually liked the room better than the expensive hotel we had stayed in all weekend. It had a much better air conditioner, kitchen, and more tv channels (we also found a red bra under the mattress). But the phones sucked (I had to use a credit card to call out, and spent about 60 bucks on it). We laid on the floor in front of the air conditioner and slept. The next day I called my insurance company, and because my insurance had renewed the day before (the day of the wreck), they couldn't pull it up. They said they would call me back when it pulled up. The guy at the shop said that they would almost assuredly total it out. We had to book another night in the hotel because they couldn't pull my insurance up that day. I also missed doing the radio show that morning, and it was the 4th anniversary show (the first episode was on my birthday 2005). So that reeeaaally sucked. And the station decided to pre-empt overnight shows for the next 2 weeks, so I haven't gotten to do my show since. Not until a week from tonight. It sucks being stuck that far from home having no idea what was going to happen, no internet so I couldn't look up how much they might give me if they totalled it (I still owed around $10,000.00 on it!). There was a movie theater within walking distance from the hotel, so I thought we'd go see X-Men Origins: Wolverine (even though it looked pretty bad) to take my mind off things, but it turned out to be a dollar theater, so we saw Taken instead. I had heard from a lot of people that it was really good, but I was kind of underwhelmed. It was decent- better acted and slightly better plot than most action movies (tho it still had that stupid thing I hate where 25 people with machine guns can't shoot the hero, and he picks them all off with a pistol and a knife) but not really my kind of movie I guess. Tuesday brought the info that they did indeed total out my car, but I had rental car pay on my insurance, so we got to go home. They gave me a PT Cruiser and it was only 2 bucks a day above how much my insurance pays, so that was good. We went back to the first hotel and ate the buffet one last time, and came home. On the way home, a red car got on my ass, and I had always heard that police always pull over the last car if several are speeding, and that red cars are more likely to get pulled over, so I sped up and started making good time (I was quite ready to get home). Well, a highway patrolman went right around the red car and pulled me over about 200 miles from home, and I got a ticket. Just what I needed 2 days after a wreck. I was quite worn out, physically and emotionally when we finally got home, but had to go to work the next day plus find a new car before my insurance company decided to take the rental one away from me. I knew I had it until Saturday, so I got someone to cover one of my shifts and went looking for a new car. Oddly enough, the one I found that I could afford was exactly like the one I had just wrecked (color and everything), but one year older. It was also about $2000.00 less than I still owed on the one I wrecked. Speaking of, after the insurance company paid for it (the one I wrecked that they totalled), I'd still owe $500.00. Luckily, I found out that I had got gap insurance that will pay that. Additionally, I also found out that I had done so good with my payments on the car I had just wrecked that I didn't need a co-signer on this one (like I did that one), and I got a pretty good finance rate- 7.9%. I had to borrow some money to come up with a down payment, but my payments are less than $200.00, which is good since my insurance is probably going to go up. The next several days I had to find lots of different information and forms to keep taking back to them, but now I just have one last thing to do before the car is mine. While all that was going on, the insurance company told me I had to have the rental car back by Monday, and that I had to return it to the place I had gotten it from (in Dallas)! If I returned it to another one, it would be a $240.00 additional charge. So, I had to bother my Mom to follow me 300 miles back to Dallas (Irving to be exact) on her day off (which also happened to be Mother's Day) to drop the car off and then bring me home. I would like to comment right here that between Huntsville and Dallas, there are only 3 kinds of radio stations: country, Christian, and Latino. There was a pretty good restaurant called Sam's in Fairfield, with a bar-b-que buffet and really good chocolate merangue pie that we stopped at. Some where in there (Thursday) we went and saw Star Trek (they were showing it at 10:30 instead of midnight- kinda weird). It was pretty good, but I was expecting it to be REALLY good, like I'd be blown away, so I guess I was expecting too much. They seemed to be trying too hard to make young Kirk into a stereotypical rebel. I can see the meeting that the filmakers had in my head: "These kids today, they aren't going to like this. This was a show their parents liked. We have to make it appeal to them!". So we have Kirk listening to the Beastie Boys in the 23rd century (that'd be kind of like someone jamming to Lawrence Welk right now and it being cool). And the Kobayashi Maru test was a bit of a disappointment. I'm not sure what I expected, but it didn't live up to the years of people wondering what happened after it was mentioned in The Wrath of Khan (I think I just expected it to be more clever). Other than that, tho, it was pretty good. Even the Trek-hating Krystal liked it. She, however, hated Wolverine (and she's the big Wolverine and X-Men fan). We did finally go see it, and it was cheesy and ridiculous like I thought it would be, but I was expecting it so it didn't really disappoint me. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It just seemed really rushed- if they had taken a bit more time, and developed the story a little more, it could have been pretty good. The director obviously was out of his league- he is not a comic fan or action movie director, and so he made a lot of mistakes (he even had the over-cliched scene where something blows up in the background while the main character is walking away from it in slow motion, pretending not to notice). I liked the X-Men movies a lot (especially 2), but this was bad. I just called my car's lein holder and the insurance company check still has not made it to them (they supposedly paid it last Thursday). Work has been average (other than the coughing incident). The cats are all doing well. Add Starlog to the list of magazines that have folded that I read (along with Dragon and Metal Maniacs). I can remember reading Starlog when I was a little kid- it's been around forever (at least for me)! I picked up the new Get Fuzzy book and finished it. Good as always. I rented a movie called Burrowers, kind of a horror western. It was pretty good, but I just couldn't get into it much- I think I just wasn't in the mood, I guess. It was about these creatures that paralyse people and bury them alive to eat later. Had a fairly downbeat, NOTLD-type ending. Last week the owner of the company was suppose to come to our store, so there was lots of anxiety and fretting and staying late, but he never showed up. That man is unreliable. Then on Saturday night I couldn't get people out at close. It was full! We close at 11 PM, and didn't get everyone out until after 11:30! The4y just wouldn't leave. I made 3 announcements, plus walked around telling people we were closed. Also went and saw Angels & Demons at midnight Thursday night. I liked the book a little better than The Da Vinci Code, and hoped they didn't screw up the movie as much as they did that one. Well, the movie is ridiculous- completely preposterous, but if you relax and go with it, it's an ok, entertaining ride. I read the book around 5 years ago, so I don't remember it as well. I've been writing this in a couple of different settings- it's been over 24 hours since I started it. So I guess it's time to finally wrap it up and get to work on other things! There's a horror convention coming to Houston on October called Crypticon that I hope will be good. That's worth looking forward to. That and Drag Me To Hell. It's good to have things to look forward to... | | Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | | 11:00 pm |
horrorfest part 1 (the good part)
Well, it's been quite a few days. Just got home from going to Dallas (which I've never liked much- I love Austin, San Antonio's cool, and of course I live in Houston which is also cool, but Dallas I just don't like the vibe) for the Texas Frightmare Convention. Started out great, then went to shit. Yup. Let me tell you about it all... Left around noon on Thursday and made good time. Ran into some traffic, but got to the hotel and checked in (at the Sheraton, a pretty nice hotel. We were on the 9th floor, and you had to use your key card to make the elevator work. It had a pretty cool restaurant named Ashely's that had a different buffet every day. The Tex Mex one on Saturday was the best. But I digress...) then left for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre screening with Tobe Hooper, Marilyn Burns, and Teri McMinn. Google totally screwed up the directions, but we made it just in time. I'm too young to have seen TCM on the big screen when it first came out, but I did get to see a midnight showing of it in the late '90s, and it's definitely a 'see on the big screen' movie. What a great movie. Afterwards the guests answered questions from the audience. Didn't really learn much that I didn't already know- a couple of little things. Tobe told how he made some of the music (some of the first experimental/ industrial noise type stuff I ever heard). That was pretty cool. Friday we set up the table early, then went back to the room and slept awhile. Got back to the table by 5 PM (when they let early ticket holders in). I walked around a bit and looked at the booths. One had a lonely looking guy at it who turned out to be Mal Arnold (who played Fuad Ramses in Bloodfeast) who was hawking his new movie Midnight Drive-In. He was pretty cool. We talked a little while, then I moved on. I was really excited to see Dick Miller (who's been in everything from It Conquered the World to Rock and Roll High School to Gremlins to (my favorite) Tales From the Crypt- Demon Night). I don't really care that much about celebrities- I appreciate a lot of their work, but I don't get the worship. I don't collect autographs or anything like that, but I did go up to him (which not many people did- I don't think a lot of people know who he is) and told him I really enjoyed his work. He shook my hand and thanked me. He seemed very nice. One person who was extremely nice and friendly was Caroline Williams (who played Stretch in Texas Chainsaw Massacre II). She started talking to me just from me walking by her booth and looking over at her. I was kind of expecting the celebrities to be more aloof or something, but mostly they weren't. The horror punk band Calabrese had a booth, and I talked to them a little bit. I told them I do a punk radio show, and they didn't seem interested, but later on while I was minding the table, one of them came up and gave me 2 cds to play. I went to a screening of the movie Laid To Rest at 10 PM, which was pretty good. A slasher film, but done well. Afterwards the director and some of the actors were hanging out, and I told him I really liked the movie. I realized that Johnathon Schaech was there, and told him I liked the movie, and really liked The Doom Generation (which he was also in). I forgot he was in Quarantine, which I also liked pretty well. Saturday was my birthday, so I actually bought a lot of stuff- I bought Mal Arnold's new movie I mentioned earlier, a TCM soundtrack, a Frankenstein's monster mouse pad, Godzilla t-shirt, and a very cheesy looking movie called Pot Zombies for 5 bucks, and a couple of other things. Several more celebrities showed up, and a few more booths opened. They had a booth that sold carnivorous plants, and one that sold pictures of people (girls, mostly) made up to look like they had been killed violently. This booth also made people up at the convention, and would photograph you like you were in a morgue (with a tag around your neck and sheet and stuff- I saw one couple have this done). I met the bass played for World Burns To Death who runs a booth selling horror movie t-shirts and some other stuff. The woman who had a booth behind ours was very friendly- she makes leather accessories. Her name is Little One, and she seemingly knows most of the celebrities. She evidently does a lot of conventions. She talked to us a lot throughout the convention (I guess she talked to everyone a lot- she was very talkative). One thing I noticed about this convention is how friendly everyone is. I've been to Anime and comic conventions before, but no one is as nice and friendly as they were at this horror convention. It was good. When I was walking through the exhibition room, I ran into someone who was quickly coming around a corner. He said "My bad dude-you ok?" tho I actually almost knocked him down. It turned out to be Jason Mewes, who was coming out from behind his table to pose for a picture with someone. I actually missed the Dick Miller retrospective, but saw the Black Sunday screening. Barbara Steele was supposed to make it to the screening to answer questions, but she didn't. Out of all the celebrities, she's the only one who seemed kind of aloof. I hadn't seen Black Sunday in ages, so it was cool to see it on the big(ger) screen. Then I went to the buffet, where Tyler Mayne asked me how the food was. I told him it was ok, but all you can eat so that makes it better. He agreed, but was particularly concerned with how good the London Broil was (it was better than I thought it would be). When I went back to the room Rob Zombie's Halloween was playing on tv, which I thought was kind of ironic. I ventured back out and watched the iMurders screening. It was ok- a bit convoluted and needed to be a little better edited, but decent. Afterward there was a question and answer session with the director and some of the actors (including William Forsythe, who was pretty funny). I asked them how it was working with Tony Todd (he was in the movie but not there) because I heard he was a prick, but they said he was very awesome to work with and funny. Something strange happened earlier that day while I was watching the table- two young girls came by, one who's birthday was the day before (I don't know many people who's birthdays are close to mine). We were talking about that, and the other girl was very quite, but suddenly she told me "I like your eyes!" out of the blue. I think that's all she said the whole time. I saw her later wearing a face mask that said 'cunt' on it. I've had people say they like my eyes before (they're probably my best feature, but that's not saying much), but I say it was weird this time because the next day, while I was eating lunch, Fairuza Balk was the next table over, and she kept looking at me like she knew me or something. When she got finished and got up to leave, she said "I like your eyes" to me. That's a really weird coincidence. I wonder if people thought I was wearing special contacts or something? Sunday began with the elevators being screwed up. There was a tornado and terrible weather the day before, plus evidently a ton of drunken foolishness, and something between the two put down all of the elevators but one, which automatically stopped at every floor (remember I was on floor 9). Barbara Steele got in the elevator at one point, and when she heard another guy on it talking about how one of the elevators got stuck between floors for 45 minutes the night before (at like 4 am), her eyes got huge and she got off at the next floor. When I made it to the dealer room, Alice Cooper was coming out. A little kid ran up to him and growled, and he said "Hey boy" then growled back. I went to the Jason Mewes Q and A (barely missed the Linda Blair one), but didn't ask any questions. Someone asked him if he felt typecast by his Jay character from Kevin Smith movies, and after he answered that another person asked him almost the same question. He made fun of the guy, who was pretty goofy. He said he's kind of starting to get away from the Jay typecast a little bit. Finally it was time to tear it all down at 5. Most everyone said that this convention wasn't as successful, because of the swine flu fear and the bad weather on Saturday (usually the biggest day), but we didn't do bad. I have to go to work, so I'll tell the rest of the story (the bad part) later... | | Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | | 2:28 pm |
So, in the midst of all this swine flu bruhaha, just remember: fear is the mindkiller. Haha- good ole news media. The terrorists, immigrants, pedofiles, socialists, and the swine flu are all coming to get you. Be scared. Leaving for Dallas for the big Horror Convention Thursday. This one: http://www.texasfrightmareweekend.com/lifetype/Get to watch the original TCM with Tobe Hooper and Marilyn Burns. Gonna be cool. I've been doing some music reviews for No Funeral online 'zine- the cool thing is that they post an upload link to every album we review (if available). So far only Hatebreed have asked to have their link taken down. Go check it out here: http://no-funeral-zine.blogspot.com/Gotta go- tons of stuff to do. | | Saturday, March 21st, 2009 | | 2:20 pm |
Why do I keep buying Fangoria? It's really expensive, and not much to it. Why don't I just read it in the store? Rue Morgue is so much better. But I think it's just habit. You know, I used to buy like over 20 magazines a month? All these different horror and sci-fi/ fantasy and music magazines. Psychotronic, Cinefantastique, Cult Movies, Midnight Marquee, Cinescape, Film Threat, Scarlet Street, a ton of Famous Monsters of Filmland rip-offs and gore/ exploitation rags. Most of them have gone under, tho. I just heard that Metal Maniacs is ceasing publication. Dragon went under last year (I think). Never thought that would happen. I have all these back issues- I don't know why I keep them. Some I do, but most aren't anything special- all about what's coming out at the time. I guess they're kinda cool as a time capsule. But what's left now? Phantom of the Movies Videoscope is still going, somehow. I think that Starlog will be around after all the others fall. I don't ever get Starlog, tho. Sci-Fi Entertainment has the Sci-Fi Channel's money behind it. Wizard's mags (with Toyfare and Anime Insider) are still going, but I don't like the new Wizard format- it's too lean and pop culture/ not much substance for me now, probably to appeal more to overstimulation generation's tastes. Too many lists and short articles, not enough good writing. Toyfare and Anime Insider are still good, tho. At least Maximumrocknroll is still around. I hope they never go under. My fav music magazine (and not just because I used to write for them). Probably my second most fav music mag is Decibel. And Terrorizer is good, but when it comes to music mags, the fanzines are the way to go. But the fanzine scene appears to be close to dead. I used to buy (and put out) soooo many 'zines, of all kinds (mine were called Hatefilled, Godvomit (both mostly music 'zines), Brain Snot (which reviewed other underground 'zines and horror books), and Chunk Blower (horror movie reviews and commentary)). I guess because nobody buys 'zines anymore. It's all about/ because of the internet, baby. I still miss the old 'zine days, tho. Haha- "Shut up, ya old bastard!". Ok, fine. Well, to me Watchmen was quite awesome. Better than The Dark Knight- much better. Been waiting 15 years for that stupid movie to be made, and here it is. At least it lived up to what I was expecting. The (few) changes didn't bother me, and it really came to life on screen. I want to go see it again. Also saw The Uninvited which I liked pretty good. It's a remake of a Korean film called A Tale of Two Sisters (a more appropriate title I'd say) which I haven't seen. But this one had a lot of mood and atmosphere and sinister mystery, and I didn't quite get where it was going like I do most movies. Saw a preview for a remake of The Last House On the Left, which looks quite pretty and not filthy and sleazy/ decadent like it should (and it looks like at least one character who died in the original lives in this one). They should have brought in Eli Roth to do the remake- I bet he'd do it right. This just looks too safe and clean. I'm sure there'll be gore and stuff, but it's just not going to be filthy enough- like looking at pretty pictures perfectly cinematographied (haha- is that a word) with the prop department and set decorators having it all set up perfectly. When talking about making the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, members of the cast mentioned how between takes they had to run to the windows of the house and vomit because of how the set smelled, 'decorated' as it was by carcasses and things they found in the Texas countryside. I wonder if those thin, pretty girls in the Last House On the Left remake had to vomit because of the set decorations? Well, I'll get off that shit, too. Maybe I'm just onery because I've been sick as hell. I even had to go to a doctor. Those of you who know me know I don't do that. Nope. Noooo doctors. But off I went. Evidently, I had bronchitis and an extremely bad upper respiratory infection. Well, I still do. I always heard about people getting those and being sick for like a month and not being able to get rid of it, and wondered why. Well, I've been dealing with thius one since Wed the 11th. I kept going to work and ignoring it, and getting sicker and sicker until finally I went to the doctor this week and he gave me a shot and antibiotics. I also couldn't go to work (well, I went one day) which sucks. Well, it sucks that I couldn't go but also couldn't do anything cool. It's hard to describe, but it's like all of your energy and will is being sucked into this dark void in your chest. Then you cough and it's like someone is drawing a rusty metal bow across your vocal chords and throat muscles. The music that comes out is not that good. It also feels like someone has filled your lungs with gunk. I kept picturing them like a honeycomb full of honey, but instead of honey they were full of yellow infected gunk. I also had to have someone else do my radio show for me one night, which is very annoying. He does a good enough job (I usually have the same guy do it, and I do his when he can't), but I like to do my own show, you know? But anyway. Oh, yeah, I also got some rats. Someone let them go in my store, some stupid kid thought it would be funny I guess. So I caught them and brought them home. There's 2 of them. I'm not keeping them (I have 4 cats), but they're staying here until I find a place for them, which I'm going to try to give them to Petco first. When you put them in the bath tub and squirt them with water, they hop up and down. Well, about time to go, but I almost forgot to mention that I really liked Midnight Meat Train a lot! I wanted to go see it in the theater sooo bad, but I didn't find it until it had went to the dollar movie on the other side of Houston, and couldn't make it. But it came out on dvd and I got it and liked it a lot. Once more a movie with a lot of atmosphere, style, and mystery. A decent amount of gore (I can always take more, haha), I really wish I could have seen it in the theater- it would have been a lot better. But still, I recommend it. Good stuff. OK, I best be off, now- things to do, pills to take, etc. | | Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 | | 3:00 am |
| | Friday, February 13th, 2009 | | 4:00 am |
You aren't as funny as you think you are. I can almost guarantee it. I know I'm not. But since I know that, I'm ahead of a lot of people, who think they are quite hilarious. Let me give you an example. Every day that I work register, at least once a day (usually more), when something doesn't scan correctly, the customer thinks it's quite funny to say "That means it's free, right?". I don't remember if I ever thought this was funny or clever (I would doubt it), however I'm so sick of hearing it now that I imagine stabbing people in the eye when they say it. I've talked to some of my fellow employees, and they are with me on this. This is just one thing among many, but it's the first one that comes to mind. I just went and saw the Friday the 13th remake midnight showing. I wasn't really excited or anything for it, however I felt like going to a movie. I was actually trying to decide between Push and The Uninvited (neither of which I was all that excited about either) when I found out they were doing a midnight showing, so we decided to stay. I'm not as much on the 'all remakes suck' bandwagon as most people I know, because most of the ones I've seen haven't sucked (with the exception of the festering pile of infected pig offal that was Black Christmas), they've just been underwhelming and fairly pointless. Generally studios would do better to re-release the originals to theaters with updated sound, etc. (like they did with Alien and The Exorcist awhile back). But the remake train rolls on, and some of them are fairly decent (really, I haven't watched a lot of them, but of the ones I saw most weren't horrible). Now Friday the 13th to me isn't as classic or important as, say, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (which the same director who remade that also did this), and this really isn't a remake, since nothing that happens in the original Friday the 13th happens in this one except for in the very first scene. Really, you could kind of consider this just another Friday the 13th sequel, which is what I pretty much did. You can tell it's the same team that remade Chainsaw, because it has the same feel, the same beats; the kinda bad pacing and stagy sets. It has a lot more nudity, tho, as expected in the post- Hostel horror movie era (tho oddly enough not really more gore than a lot of the mid-period Friday sequels), and the characters are very Judd Aptow movie-esque. It starts off fairly awkwardly with 2 prologues, the second featuring a group of people who I found a lot more likeable and interesting than the main group (with the exception of the Asian guy) that's in the rest of the movie (even tho one is wearing a Fear t-shirt). We establish some slightly worse than average 'bad horror movie dialogue' (not as bad as The Devils Rejects, but worse than the usual 'bad horror movie dialogue'), then get to the killin. The kills are mostly decent (tho as I mentioned before not as gory as expected), but really nothing special. Jason doesn't act quite like the old Jason- he's not as animalistic. More calculated and human. Overall the movie was as entetaining as most average slashers- it didn't suck; it just wasn't that great. Maybe worth hitting at the dollar movie. I've bought a lot of metal cds lately, most recently the new Napalm Death ("Time waits For No Slave"). The only ND cds I've bought since Barney's been singing for them has been the covers ones ("Leaders Not Followers"). I really like the old grindcore stuff, and think they should have changed their name since no one from the first 3 line-ups is still in the band (and only 1 person from the 4th line-up!) and they sound completely different. I've been bitching about that for over a decade, now, so I decided to check out what their new stuff is like (mainly since I've heard some stuff off their last 2 albums and they're pretty good). I have to say it's pretty good. I've never liked Barney's vocals (another reason I've resisted later Napalm), so fortunately on this new one they're kind of distorted and don't sound as much like he usually does. I also got the new Extreme Noise Terror, which is really good grind, and the new Cannibal Corpse, which I like a bit better than the last one. The new Bastard Noise is really good. I've ordered the new Thyrfing, but haven't gotten it yet. Dropdead is playing tomorrow night, and I have to work, which sucks. I like them a lot. Oh, well. I see that Lux Interior died. Another iconic figure down. I was never a big Cramps fan, but I acknowledge their importance and they had some songs I liked ok. Guess I'd better be off to bed, now. It's almost 5 AM. | | Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 | | 4:09 am |
So January is already almost over. Doesn't seem right. Time sure flies sometimes. Well, I went to full-time up front management last Aug, a little because I need more money, but mainly because I needed insurance and you have to be full time to get insurance. I also kind of wanted a change from the position I had been working for so long, but insurance was the main reason. I like working up front, even having to deal with a lot of stress and pricks. You have to have a lot of patience and problem solving skills to do it, and many of the other managers don't have these. Most of the people tell me that I'm their favorite manager. I assume they aren't just saying that, but who knows. Anyway, even though I like the job most of the time, I've had to give up a lot to do it- a lot of sleep and free time. Between the 2 jobs and the radio shows, I had no time for anything; so I took off this semester from KTRU- I'll probably go back in the winter semester. I already miss it, but something had to go for a bit, and I just spent a bunch of money on a bass guitar and 300 watt amp, because I want to get some music projects that have been foundering off the ground. I hate it because I have so many ideas, and I forget them. This bothers me to no end. I try to write stuff down sometimes, but I know I've forgotten a ton of stuff I wish I hadn't. Anyway, I very much miss the free time I used to have. I never get to do anything anymore. I've worked every Friday night and most Saturday nights for almost 6 months. I've missed a lot of movies I wish I had gotten to go see; countless live shows. The website is way behind. I never get to read much anymore (tho I have been working on the new Stephen King short story collection Just After Sunset, which wasn't that great at first, but then I got to a story called N, which I liked a lot). It's annoying. And here's the topper: I didn't get the insurance last Aug when I went to full time, because they have open enrollment in January and June, and I needed to use the money for some other stuff at the time, so I figured January is just a few months away. Well, come January (this month) they've changed their policy- they just instated insurance for part time associates and now their open enrollment is January, and full time associates can only enroll in June. Yeah sometimes shit drives you crazy. I also had to send home one of my employees last week because she had lice, so I hope I didn't get infested (or anyone else we work with). I did get to go see Repo! The Genetic Opera last Saturday night at #'s, which was pretty cool. Who knew Bill Mosely could sing.? Yeah I know he did Cornbugs, but he mostly kind of talked through that. Nivek Ogre used this kinda goofy Italian (I think) accent, so you couldn't tell it was him (he definitely doesn't sound like he did in Skinny Puppy, or Ohgr even). The dude from Buffy did really good- I like his 'evil' Repo Man vocals. And Paris Hilton and Sarah Brightman, well, I never thought I'd go see a Paris Hilton movie, but here I did. At least her face fell off. Sarah was all gothed out with fake eyeballs. It was cool. Some of the songs weren't so great (tho most were decent), but I really liked one song that the Graverobber sang about the vials and the drug that he extracts from dead people and sells to junkies (like Paris Hilton- "So Amber Sweet is addicted to the knife. Addicted to the knife? Addicted to the knife..." etc. and so on- I don't remember all the lyrics, but that song was cool). I need to find the soundtrack. I also watched In Bruges yesterday, which was also pretty good. I had heard it was really good, kind of a comedy/ drama. Really good cinematography. I rented Saw V but haven't watched it yet. Probably right after I finish this. Well, maybe right now... I'm out. | | Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | | 5:41 pm |
So, I hang out on the Rifftrax blog a lot ( http://blog.rifftrax.com/). I don't go to that many places on the internet, and most of the ones I do go to are music related (no not downloading but informational); however you can often find me making snarky comments on the Rifftrax one. Their brand of irreverent humor and pop culture absurdities appeals to me. I recently discovered that another KPFT dj, Jeffrey Thames, also goes there. He does the Sound Awake show that comes on during the day on Tuesdays (he plays lots of indie rock, Brit pop, and '80s edge-of-the-mainstream stuff). He calls himself 'The King of Grief' (which made me start calling myself the 'King of Giving Grief' on occasion). Anyway, Kevin Murphy (one of the bloggers) posted a blog comparing Neil Gaiman to Leonard Cohen, and Jeffrey added a comment that said "Gaiman…rhymes (more or less) with Diamond. Rethink about it." (Neil Gaiman = Neil Diamond, ho ho) (at this point I should mention that Most people don't realize that it's pronounced 'Gay-man', and tho I always correct them they never believe me). So someone else, calling themselves 'Neil Gaiman' corrected him. Jeffrey replied back that he didn't believe him, because "I work at a used bookstore. Some of my fellow employees are comic and sci-fi fiends. They say it rhymes with Diamond. I know better than to argue with comic/sci-fi fiend used bookstore employees, especially if I can’t escape them for eight hours." 'Neil Gaiman' replied "Well, there’s an FAQ on my website, www.neilgaiman.com, that says how it’s pronounced. And people who work in SF and Comic stores always know everything, but they are mostly wrong.". It went on a few more posts, then someone else pointed out that Neil Gaiman mentioned this blog in his own journal at his personal website ( http://www.neilgaiman.com/). So I went to it, and sure enough he does! So it was actually Neil Gaiman that Jeffrey was arguing with about how to pronounce his own name. In the words of Daffy Duck- "That's rich, I'll say!". hahaha. And I have to say that I can't wait for Coraline- it looks awesome!! |
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