i was very excited that my birthday falls on new comic book day this year, particularly because i was under the impression that there was a dc/vertigo frank quitely anthology coming out today, but apparently it has been cancelled (#klassic birthday) (also i ripped the crotch of my pants at work this morning and then spilled curry on my shirt at lunch. really knocking it out of the park today!) so i picked up a few other things instead and then ate a comical amount of indian food and now i'm going to go home and take a nap and then get dragged out of my hermit cave for drink later tonight.
i hate getting my picture taken, so whenever anyone points a camera at me—still or video—i reflexively make this face
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which i guess isn't that much different from making a duck face like some damn tween, but whatever, PRANKS.
one year a friend texted me on christmas morning to ruin my day and let me know that james brown had died, so i am totally in favor of NO NEWS ON CHRISTMAS.
i liked the flashback where ichabod was like "i've HEARD about a secret war, between men and--" and then katrina cuts him off like "demons?? you've SEEN demons?? OMG YOU'RE THE CHOSEN ONE" like that's not a HUGE leap from what he said.
the stupid recap-the-premise-of-the-show thing at the beginning of the episode is now eating into the perfect goth fever dream title sequence, which means it is officially a PROBLEM. we're all on board with the show already, birdbrains! knock it off!
i recently found out that one of my co-workers that i thought was a decade or so older than me is actually like, three years younger than me, and i'm dead now. R.I.P. ME!
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hi, ruth gordon! you and this movie are both perfect and the best and i love you both forever!
on monday i started playing in a new band, kind of. i don't know how i feel about it! the singer from my old dumb band had some solo stuff that was always more popular than our stuff, and after we broke up he played a solo acoustic show that i guess went over pretty well, and now he's putting a proper band together, and i'm drumming for him again. i'm very ambivalent about it. on one hand i kind of just want to give up playing music, because it just doesn't quite interest me the way that it used to anymore, and also because the stuff he's writing now is more complex than our old stuff and i am i mediocre drummer AT BEST, so it has been very challenging and i am quick to give up. BUT, i think i'm going to try to stick with it, for now at least.
i really don't want to go into work today. it is the start of the holiday season for us, so every day from now until january is going to be a CRAZY busy nightmare. there's too many people! and they're all so rude and gross! i just want to stay home and catch up on the month-long horror movie marathon that i over-ambitiously planned for myself. i'm off tomorrow, though, so that will be nice.
okay, this totally had a picture of the damned's first album where they are all covered in cake (hence the joke) ("joke") attached, but then it disappeared. i am really being klassic mac all over this thread. HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND EVERYONE, DON'T CRY FOR ME, I'M ALREADY DEAD.
my friend's band is playing a halloween show in the back of a comic book shop tomorrow night, so i think i'm going to that, although i don't have a costume because my original plan of going as charles nelson reilly didn't pan out due to me not making any effort to put it together.
this is my favorite movie, and i was very excited for it to be part of spoOoooOOoooky movie club, but now that it's finally here i can't think of anything to say other than "it's so great." IT'S SO GREAT THO! it's just one of (if not THE) most visually interesting movies i've ever seen. why don't people make movies like this anymore?? (edgar wright, maybe, notwithstanding.) like, obvious weirdness aside, there's such a variety of styles and techniques blended into one perfect evil-dead-directed-by-pee-wee-herman fever dream. the old-tymey silent movie flash back? the use of quick irising in for visual emphasis? the weird animated backgrounds in the trains sequence? the scene where they get of the bus and the background is clearly a painting in the close-up but then they leave the painting up in the wide shot for a weird picture-in-picture thing? THIS MOVIE IS PERFECT. hausu i love you, love is forever fan love you.
when i used be on the truck team at my work and had to wake up at three in the morning every day, i had my alarm tone set to the sonic screwdriver, because it is shrill and obnoxious and always got the job done. now i have it set to the duck sound and it is great, 10/10 would wake up to again.
i just woke up because i am a garbage person and now i've missed even more of videogum than usual!
my week has been kind of lame so far (among other things, goblin were playing in sf for the first time in forty years and i didn't go because somehow i don't know anyone as into semi-obscure horror movie-scoring italian prog rock bands as i am), but yesterday i made a successful trek out to the good comic book shop near me because the one that is closer to me kind of sucks and didn't have the black beetle: no way out! hardcover that i had been looking for, and tomorrow i'm going to see rifftrax live: night of the living dead, so now everything's more or less coming up milhouse.
now i am going to trying and figure out what to have for lunch and then watch torrented legally downloaded versions of last night's new girl and brooklyn nine-nine because fox is REALLY against me watching halloween episodes of their shows, apparently. (my tv froze up and missed half of the bob's burgers halloween episode, and last night my local fox affiliate went out. #goldenageoftelevision)
i only caught a little bit of crazysexycool, and it was delightful, but my favorite feature-length commercial is still the stephen colbert christmas special that ended up being a commercial for the dvd of itself.
ahhh, thank you, i've been trying to remember the name of this story forever! although i seem to remember the version i originally heard being slightly different (it was in russia, not germany, and the evidence seemed to suggest multiple killers who had been living on the farm undetected for several days prior to the murders) but this is probably it. unless this has happened twice??
once time i was on the bus and a guy sitting in the sideways seat at the front threw up and some of it got on my suede oxfords. celebs: they really are just like us!
torrentedlegally downloaded versions of last night's new girl and brooklyn nine-nine because fox is REALLY against me watching halloween episodes of their shows, apparently. (my tv froze up and missed half of the bob's burgers halloween episode, and last night my local fox affiliate went out. #goldenageoftelevision)