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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 20, 2019 10:23:28 GMT -5
Just heard about this on NPR:  |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 20, 2019 13:01:52 GMT -5
Just heard about this on NPR: I wonder if "Baby It's Cold Outside" is on there.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 20, 2019 17:34:43 GMT -5
Just heard about this on NPR: I wonder if "Baby It's Cold Outside" is on there.
Wouldn't be surprised, but it's questionable Shatner has been sober enough to get it up since about 1971 or so.... |
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Apr 21, 2019 4:49:54 GMT -5
That's what the little blue pills are for. Denny Crane!
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Apr 21, 2019 12:18:43 GMT -5
That's what the little blue pills are for. Denny Crane! True story: my first wife grew up in the 1960s in whatever neighborhood in LA most of the TV actors lived in back then. Shatner used to get ripped and tear up and down the streets in his tighty-whities knocking over trashcans with his motorcycle... Apparently he kept this up until my ex-father-in-law came down and told him to knock it off. Mike was an interesting character -who could be intimidating as all heck when he wanted to be... |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 15, 2019 3:59:48 GMT -5
Man, there's a hell of an image for you. Shatner was arguably the biggest name at the last Pensacon. Didn't attend his Q&A, but apparently he was on point. Sharp and funny. Maybe he is finally off the sauce? Maybe he's back on it? Who knows?
As far as new entertainment discoveries: I'd read that the soundtrack to the movie "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb" was scary great, so I went seeking it in my usual haunts. While I didn't score that particular soundtrack in it's entirety, I found a ton of Dr. Who movies/TV that the composer composed. Fellow named Tristram Cary. Wonderfully original and unique. I can't handle overexposure, but certain tracks must surely rank as some of the best science-fiction theme music ever.  |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 15, 2019 20:04:40 GMT -5
Here's some prime Tristram Cary weirdness from the soundtrack to "Quatermass & the Pit":
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Sept 28, 2019 10:37:39 GMT -5
Here's an album of movie theme music that I was excited about that ended up being a terrible disappointment. The music's there and as great as expected, but there's an annoying voice-over before each track.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 7, 2019 20:25:18 GMT -5
Anyone else psyched for this?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 8, 2019 13:17:36 GMT -5
Anyone else psyched for this?
It's news to me -- I'm psyched now though! |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 8, 2019 18:18:25 GMT -5
I just found out about it myself. I loved his adaptation of the Clark Ashton Smith story "Mother of Toads" in the anthology horror The Theatre Bizarre (2011) . If he brings a similar vibe to the Lovecraft, it could have potential.
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Post by El Santo on Nov 14, 2019 17:01:38 GMT -5
Speaking of Lovecraft...
I've been reading tons and tons of 20's-40's pulp stories lately, and I was just about ready to switch to something in a different vein-- even though I hadn't yet tackled the longest piece in the Lovecraft collection I was working on, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. It's one of his few novels, you see (albeit a short one), and when you're talking about Lovecraft, 141 pages is a whole lot. I'm so glad I bit the bullet and made myself read this thing despite my current state of Weird Tales fatigue, because it turns out to be the missing link between Lord Dunsany and Clive Barker. I never even suspected that there was a link missing between those two!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 14, 2019 17:10:40 GMT -5
Speaking of Lovecraft... I've been reading tons and tons of 20's-40's pulp stories lately, and I was just about ready to switch to something in a different vein-- even though I hadn't yet tackled the longest piece in the Lovecraft collection I was working on, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. It's one of his few novels, you see (albeit a short one), and when you're talking about Lovecraft, 141 pages is a whole lot. I'm so glad I bit the bullet and made myself read this thing despite my current state of Weird Tales fatigue, because it turns out to be the missing link between Lord Dunsany and Clive Barker. I never even suspected that there was a link missing between those two! Is that the one with the intelligent cat species on the Moon and all? Because I loved that one. Seemed more fanciful and poetic than most of his work. It's Lovecraft, so like you say, had to take it in pieces, but it was ultimately worth it. |
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Post by El Santo on Nov 15, 2019 10:15:52 GMT -5
Speaking of Lovecraft... I've been reading tons and tons of 20's-40's pulp stories lately, and I was just about ready to switch to something in a different vein-- even though I hadn't yet tackled the longest piece in the Lovecraft collection I was working on, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. It's one of his few novels, you see (albeit a short one), and when you're talking about Lovecraft, 141 pages is a whole lot. I'm so glad I bit the bullet and made myself read this thing despite my current state of Weird Tales fatigue, because it turns out to be the missing link between Lord Dunsany and Clive Barker. I never even suspected that there was a link missing between those two! Is that the one with the intelligent cat species on the Moon and all? Because I loved that one. Seemed more fanciful and poetic than most of his work. It's Lovecraft, so like you say, had to take it in pieces, but it was ultimately worth it. Technically they're just normal cats that live in Earth's dreamworld, but have the ability (which humans generally lack) to jump between the dreamworlds of different planets. Apparently interplanetary dreamworld-jumping is common to all cats everywhere, because the cats that live on Saturn's dreamworld can do it, too. It's funny that you should mention the cats in particular out of all the bizarre stuff that happens in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, because Randolph Carter getting rescued from Selenite slavers by a battalion of kitties was the exact point at which I fell in love with this demented tale, too. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 15, 2019 14:11:40 GMT -5
Is that the one with the intelligent cat species on the Moon and all? Because I loved that one. Seemed more fanciful and poetic than most of his work. It's Lovecraft, so like you say, had to take it in pieces, but it was ultimately worth it. Technically they're just normal cats that live in Earth's dreamworld, but have the ability (which humans generally lack) to jump between the dreamworlds of different planets. Apparently interplanetary dreamworld-jumping is common to all cats everywhere, because the cats that live on Saturn's dreamworld can do it, too. It's funny that you should mention the cats in particular out of all the bizarre stuff that happens in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, because Randolph Carter getting rescued from Selenite slavers by a battalion of kitties was the exact point at which I fell in love with this demented tale, too. Thanks, it has been a while. I recall reading it at the most opportune time. I was heavily into Dungeons & Dragons and had also just discovered the joys of marijuana. It was like a perfect storm of phantasmagoria. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 15, 2019 20:03:44 GMT -5
Is that the one with the intelligent cat species on the Moon and all? Because I loved that one. Seemed more fanciful and poetic than most of his work. It's Lovecraft, so like you say, had to take it in pieces, but it was ultimately worth it. Technically they're just normal cats that live in Earth's dreamworld, but have the ability (which humans generally lack) to jump between the dreamworlds of different planets. Apparently interplanetary dreamworld-jumping is common to all cats everywhere, because the cats that live on Saturn's dreamworld can do it, too. It's funny that you should mention the cats in particular out of all the bizarre stuff that happens in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, because Randolph Carter getting rescued from Selenite slavers by a battalion of kitties was the exact point at which I fell in love with this demented tale, too. So, a lot like the secret dimension-jumping ability of the fly.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 20, 2019 12:46:10 GMT -5
Happened on one called Emmanuel in Wonderland (2012) that sounded like the stuff of legend. It's an "Emmanuel" movie, it features x-rated odes to a host of children's stories of the past, and it was filmed in exotic locales like Thailand, Egypt, and Brazil. Unfortunately, it's total crap. I'd watch Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963) over this. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 2, 2020 23:24:13 GMT -5
I just ordered a Spanish movie (Eng subs) called Blood Cake (71) aka Cake of Blood. Because either way, that is the greatest movie title ever.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 5, 2020 22:42:01 GMT -5
I just ordered a Spanish movie (Eng subs) called Blood Cake (71) aka Cake of Blood. Because either way, that is the greatest movie title ever. And what a great double feature with BUCKET OF BLOOD! |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 21, 2020 10:50:38 GMT -5
The Dodo is my current favorite YouTube channel. It's just video after video of cute animals being cute.
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