My Grandpa Got a Snuggie

Jealous!

Halloween Horror Movie Madness

Every October I like to watch a ton of horror movies to get in the mood for Halloween and last year I decided to give this tradition a name, complete with alliterations! We’ve only got about three weeks left until the best day of the entire year, so it’s about time to kick off the 2nd Annual Halloween Horror Movie Madness.

I’m going for a triple whammy tonight with the complete Evil Dead trilogy. The funny thing about The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 is that a lot of people like the sequel/remake a lot more than the original. I like to let the viewer decide on their own. Anyway, a lot people reading this might say, Grace you’re crazy, there were only two Evil Deads. And my reply is hells no! You can’t forget about Army of Darkness, which takes our hero Ash out of the woods and into 1300 AD with “his car, his shotgun, and his chainsaw”. Watch all three trailers and hit up your Netflix, local movie store, or favorite illegal downloading site to enjoy.

This post was brought to you by Bruce Campbell’s chainsaw.

Dead Hearts by Dead Man’s Bones

Dead Man’s Bones are working hard to top themselves, and they accomplish this with their latest video “Dead Hearts”. Featuring Arthur Ganson’s “Machine with Wishbone”, we get fine art combined with an old West Ennio Morricone feel. The song is less catchy and more haunting than their other two singles, but the slow melancholy works in their (and Ganson’s) favor.  

Normally Ganson’s work is filmed against a plain background, where the focus is purely on the movement of the piece and the mechanics behind it. There is beauty in the simplicity of these movements, and Dead Man’s Bones have been able to capture and amplify that by placing Wishbone in a setting. As you watch, the machine takes on a human-like quality and becomes a part of the cinematic experience. The result is not just a music video, but a short film.

Make sure to see Dead Man’s Bones live on Friday October 16th at the sanctuary of the First Unitarian Church. 

Yes, oh christ yes, let me join!

Werner Herzog is teaching people how to make films in his way.

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He has survived the Peruvian rainforest, braved the wilds of the Thai jungle and shot in the heart of Antarctica. Now Werner Herzog is to enter the classroom, offering students the chance to benefit from his years of experience making movies in extreme locations and under inauspicious circumstances. The Werner Herzog school of guerrilla film-making is open for business, offering a weekend course with the veteran German director of Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Rescue Dawn, Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde for only $1,450 (£882).

For that outlay, students of the Rogue Film School will experience “the exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully”, while learning skills which include “the neutralisation of bureaucracy”. The inaugural course will take place in January in Los Angeles, but Herzog has cautioned timid types to give it a wide berth.

“The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted,” said the film-maker. “It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lock-picking or forging shooting permits in countries not favouring their projects.

“In short: it is for those who have a sense for poetry. For those who are pilgrims. For those who can tell a story to four-year-old children and hold their attention. For those who have a fire burning within. For those who have a dream.

“Censorship will be enforced,” added Herzog, declaring: “There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries and Inner Growth.” Students should not bring their laptops, he said, likewise mobile phones or pagers.

Recommended reading before the course begins includes Virgil’s Georgics, Ernest Hemingway’s The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and The Poetic Edda, translated by Lee M Hollander (in particular The Prophecy of the Seeress).

As well as benefiting from Herzog’s guidance, students will walk away with a special certificate and a signed copy of Conquest of the Useless, the director’s memoir about his troubled shoot on 1982’s Fitzcarraldo, the epic tale of a businessman who pulls a steamship over a hill in order to access a tract of jungle rich with valuable rubber trees.

Candidates need not fear for their safety, however, for Herzog has a reputation for being a professional to the end. For example, during the Fitzcarraldo shoot, a Peruvian tribal chief offered to murder the film’s star, Klaus Kinski, with whom Herzog was at daggers drawn. Herzog politely declined, explaining that he had not yet finished shooting Kinski’s scenes.

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Rogue Film School

Sign me up, seriously. Maybe Sallie Mae will loan me the money. I’ll tell them I need to learn how to be badass enough to call a bullet wound insignificant.

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I’M SO EXCITED TO SEE THIS

SERIOUSLY

I HAVEN’T BEEN THIS STOKED ON A MOVIE IN SO LONG

LIKE USUALLY I JUST PIRATE (ARRR) THEM OFF THE INTERNETS

BUT THIS ONE I ACTUALLY WANNA PAY $10 TO GO SEE

IT’S TOTALLY WORTH IT

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nerd Alert: Melrose Place is Back!

I seriously LOVE Melrose Place. The catfights, the pulling off of wigs, the bombs, the hookers..nothing gets better than an Aaron Spelling night time soap. The new CW version premiers tonight at nine, and while I’m kinda super scared of what they’ll do to it, I’m hoping for an all out ridiculous script that stays true to the original series. Let’s just pray that they bring back Heather Locklear as the eternal “special guest star”. In honor I’ve decided to post a plethora of my favorite clips. Enjoy my kittens, television hasn’t been this ludicrous and wonderful in a long time.

Slime and Snails, or Puppy Dog Tails

Treat Me Like Your Mother

Woah. New favorite band.

Oh Hey, Bruce

In the day we sweat it out in the streets
of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory
in suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on Highway 9
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected
And steppin’ out over the line
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we’re young
‘Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run

Nerd Alert: Livejournal.com

Livejournal. The word makes people think of emo kids cutting themselves and crying about how their moms and dads won’t let them wear that sweet dog collar necklace they just bought at Hot Topic last week when their best friend’s older sister snuck them to the mall and they hung around outside smoking cigarettes and scowling at people.

In reality, Livejournal is a plethora of interesting people writing about everything and anything. Before blogs became the popular go to, I got hooked on lj communities, where people could post about whatever their topic of interest was in a forum full of interested readers. These communities are still popping up and thriving like crazy, even if all you twittermonkeys and blogheads pretend like they don’t exist.

Because Livejournal was the first website I really got hooked on, the one place I truly learned how the Internet works in all its mysterious ways, I thought it was about time to give it back some love. So here are some of my favorite communities, to show off the wonderful that is LJ.

Oh No They Didn’t

Take TMZ, every tabloid, every picture ever taken by the paparazzi, and over 50,000 readers, mix them up in one gigantic pot and you have Oh No They Didn’t. If there is a rumor to be told, a myth to be busted, or a picture of celebrities walking, you can be sure to find it here. With hundreds of posts every day, this one community has literally shut down Livejournal.com multiple times, and come very close to making the internet itself explode. Yeah, it’s that good.

WTF_Nature

Nature does some incredible and amazing things, but it’s pretty hard to find all of this information in one place. That’s where WTF_Nature comes in. This community is all about the creepy, weird, unimaginable madness that nature has to offer, complete with explanations and pictures.

yahoo_lulz

Yahoo Answers is a mecca for idiots and their unbelievable questions. yahoo_lulz sifts out the serious questions and puts all the hilarity in one place for your reading pleasure.

Foto Decadent

There are many photography communities on livejournal, but if you’re looking for a more professional and avant-garde collection of fashion photography this is the place to go. Updated regularly and with information on the photographer, models, source, etc.

Philadelphia

When you’ve googled your heart out and yelp just isn’t working for you, don’t forget about Philly’s very own livejournal community. Snarky yet helpful, they’ll help you out and keep you in check.

There are so many LJ communities out there it’s too much to even comprehend, but I hope that I’ve exposed the fearful to a whole new world of possibilities. Remember, Livejournal has something for everyone.