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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...

« on: October 07, 2023, 02:20:31 AM »

October is horror movie marathon month for me. I've downloaded probably 60 or more movies to watch. I won't list them all but here's some of them:

• Blood Diner (1987) a cheesy 80's horror/comedy, somewhat of a cult classic now
• Brides of Dracula (1960) starring Peter Cushing
• The Changeling (1980)  starring George C Scott
• Curse of Frankenstein (1957) starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
• Dawn of the Dead (1978) a George Romero zombie classic, they did a great remake in 2004 with Sarah Polley and Ving Rhames
• The Dead Zone (1983) starring Christopher Walken, based on a Stephen King book
• Dracula AD 1972 (1972) starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
• Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) starring Christopher Lee (dude was in a lotta Dracula movies, lol)
• Dracula's Daughter (1936) starring... no one noteworthy really. Supposed to be the sequel to Dracula (1931) with Bela Lugosi.
• The Dunwich Horror (1970) starring Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell, based on the HP Lovecraft short story
• The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) starring Vincent Price
• Girls School Screamers (1986) a cheesy 80's Troma slasher/horror film
• Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988) cheesy slasher/comedy with B-movie scream queens Linnea Quigley and Michelle Bauer
• House of Dracula (1945) starring Lon Cheney Jr as Wolfman and John Carradine as Dracula
• House on Haunted Hill (1959) starring Vincent Price
• The House That Screamed (1969) some old Spanish-made English dialogue slasher film, 60's drive-in horror movie
• Housebound (2014) some kinda horror/comedy movie, I saw that Quadz recommended it once, figured I'd give it a whirl.
• Motel Hell (1980) another cheesy 80's horror/comedy
• Night of the Comet (1984) cult classic 80's sci-fi/horror/zombie apocalypse flick that takes place mostly in a mall
• Phantom of the Opera (1925) famous silent film starring Lon Cheney Sr.
• The Plague of the Zombies (1966) Brit-made 60's Hammer film. Around '66 was shown at theaters as a double-feature along with Dracula: Prince of Darkness (mentioned earlier).
• Psycho (1960) classic thriller/horror about a weird guy who runs an out of the way motel, one of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest movies.
• The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) yet another Dracula movie with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
• The Shining (1980) psychological thriller/horror starring Jack Nicholson, based on a Stephen King book, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
• Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) yes, another Dracula movie with Christopher Lee.
• The Thing (1982) sci-fi/horror about a strange extra-terrestrial life form that kills them one by one at an Antarctica science lab. Starring Kurt Russell and Keith David, directed by John Carpenter.
• The Undertaker (1988) obscure slasher film, was unreleased until 2010, starring Joe Spinell (best known for playing Corleone hitman Willi Cicci in the Godfather and Godfather II)
• Vampyr (1932) old black & white 1930's German-made vampire movie... if you couldn't tell from the title. No idea what it's about, will be the first time I've ever seen it. Watch it here.
• Waxwork (1988) Never seen it before, something about a wax museum, starring Zach Galligan (best known for playing Billy in Gremlins), directed by Anthony Hickox (also directed Hellraiser III and Warlock 2: Armageddon)

Currently re-watching the "new" Halloween trilogy:
Halloween (2018),
Halloween Kills (2021),
Halloween Ends (2022).

I've seen the first 2 before. This will be the first time watching Halloween Ends - didn't get a chance to see it last year. I'm not too crazy about the first two new Halloween movies. They're brutal enough, they have plenty of blood and stuff. They just feel kinda weird. I don't think Blumhouse was the right company to do it. All their previous stuff has been a bunch of hokey friday-night teenage date movie bullshit.

Halloween Kills - And spoiler alert here maybe but (not that it's hard to guess what happens in this movie)... I'd give it an 8 out of 10 just because Michael kills the fuck out of EVERYBODY by the end of it, and it's nice to see the bad guy win in glorious gory fashion when the other characters are stupid hokey Blumhouse style characters. But to seriously rate it as a slasher film on the basis of it's individual merits? Eh, maybe more like a 5 - nothing special about it at all.

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Quake / Re: IRC

« on: September 28, 2023, 07:27:56 PM »

This is cute? 

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/dev/random / Re: The Official Inclusive Non-denominational Holidays 2020 Thread

« on: September 28, 2023, 01:07:17 PM »

I had a bunch of posts in here that I deleted because they were empty from missing images/dead links.

  Note to self... and anyone else who cares: probably not a good idea to hotlink pics from elsewhere on the web. Either attach them to the post or upload them to your TS webspace for future posterity so that they'll last as long as this messageboard manages to.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« on: September 27, 2023, 08:05:55 PM »

Derek and the Dominos - Little Wing (October 1970) audio only


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G5CJFrO2Oc

Sort of a last gasp of Eric Clapton's psychedelic side from Cream and Blind Faith. I like some of his solo tunes after Blind Faith and Derek & the Dominos, but late 60's Clapton was my favorite.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« on: September 26, 2023, 12:37:11 PM »

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art, music, etc. / Re: Hell's radio station

« on: September 26, 2023, 07:37:47 AM »

(Rebecca Black - Friday)

These days, she's doing her level best to look like Jane, Jesse's dead junkie girlfriend from Breaking Bad.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Hell's radio station

« on: September 25, 2023, 06:15:14 PM »

In hell, these pants are back in style for all of eternity. And you shoot the Bay City Rollers over and over again, but they just keep getting back up and playing this song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKKaKT_dtM

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art, music, etc. / Re: Live Performances

« on: September 25, 2023, 02:41:14 PM »

NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT.

I'm a professional asshole. And take my Claire's word for it, I'm a bigger one than you.
                                                                          ^and Shloo's

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art, music, etc. / Re: Pantera - Domination

« on: September 25, 2023, 02:39:57 PM »

You're cute, sugar tits.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Pantera - Domination

« on: September 23, 2023, 03:47:41 PM »

The Pantera reunion. 

Some people were pissing their pants with glee at the notion. Others wanted no part of it. I was somewhere in the middle, remaining curious. To be honest, I was leaning more towards wanting no part of it though. Dime and Vinny before each of their deaths made it abundantly clear that Pantera getting back together was never gonna happen. And once you do a little research into the person of vocalist Philip Anselmo, it's pretty obvious that his personality grated on the Abbott brothers until it was finally more than even someone as wild and crazy as THEY WERE could put up with. Don't get me wrong, I love all the music Pantera did (even Great Southern Trendkill), I loved Down, I love Superjoint... eh, not so much Anselmo's other various projects. But... they guy is just a massive DICK. He's got this thing where he always feels like he needs to put on that he's the biggest alpha dog of the cell block. He does shit in interviews just to try and intimidate people for no reason (moreso in the past, he's cooled it a little bit on that with age I'd say, but he still does it). I've known guys like him, and as much as you love them and enjoy hanging out when they're being cool, inevitably they can't help themselves and they gotta go into bi-polar mode and start smashing your buttons. And they think that because you don't react by knocking the living shit out of them that they've somehow intimidated you. It's a silly childish game they play. Anyway... yeah, Anselmo's a dick.

Zakk Wylde, as cool as he is, just doesn't have the same groove that Dime did. He plays some of the songs really close, but it stills sounds like him all the way through.

That fuckin VIBRATO though. It's his thing. There's no losing that wacked out Zakk Wylde vibrato I guess. It sounds out of place in Pantera.

It's a "when the hell will I get this chance again?" kinda thing, and even though I know the whole thing probably makes Dime spin in his grave... I was still considering going to the show when it hit Atlanta, especially since Mastodon was also going to be there. I LOVE MASTODON. But after seeing this... yeah I don't think I missed much.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnlB-LzSSNQ

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes

« on: September 22, 2023, 09:33:38 AM »

I recently watched all 4 of Bruce Lee's old martial arts movies again as well as some documentaries about his life. I originally came across this quote through google images as it was quoted in a handwritten note from Bruce Lee to his wife Linda. Bruce Lee was a lifelong student of philosophy, and likely came across the works of William Henry Channing while studying Philosophy in college.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...

« on: September 21, 2023, 02:53:37 PM »

Some quotes from various Tastyspleeners about Bill Cosby from before the fall...

From Jagermonsta:

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby

From Reaper (referencing the standup comedy movie Bill Cosby Himself, 1983)

bill cosby on dentists was really good.  ...

From PeeWee who I remember used to say he was a fan of Bill Cosby (also referencing Bill Cosby Himself, 1983)

"I brought you into this damn world, and I can take you out." 

"...and I can make another one that looks just like you"

You're dad was Bill Cosby? 

Okay... Bill Cosby.



Obviously I don't condone the actions of a person who drugs people and then has sex with them while they are unconscious. And apparently PLENTY of women came forward to make such similar accusations against him. Did he do it? If I'm being honest, I don't really know. However, I do know that several people have been unfairly accused and unfairly treated by the "MeToo" movement. It was 60 women who said he assaulted them. Sounds bad. So on one hand... part of me wonders how in the hell such a thing could happen SIXTY TIMES and stay under the radar. But at the same time, on the other hand, there ARE 60 accusers - that seems like too many to not be true.

Wikipedia as of today says:

In 2018, he was convicted of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand. He was imprisoned until the conviction was vacated in June 2021 by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, for violations of Cosby's 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment due process rights.

Personally, my verdict?

Eh, I dunno. The law did him kinda dirty, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court acknowledges that. Then again... there's a good possibility he's a fucking deviant rapist piece of shit.

All I DO know is that regardless of what the man did or didn't do, Bill Cosby Himself was and still is (in my opinion) one of the best standup comedy films/specials of all time. My parents taped it off of HBO back in the 80's and I used to watch that tape a lot. It was family friendly and funny, and with all the stuff about drunks and dentists and raising children, it still stands as relevant humor after 40 years.

Last time I had seen it was sometime back in the 90's. Downloaded it from youtube and watched it. Laughed my ass off!

No thanks to Youtubes blatant disregard for copyright laws and Bill Cosby's rights as a person after he becomes a prime target of the virtue signaling and MeToo movements... Bill Cosby Himself was easily available on Youtube for free.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymUYO4T_ZjQ

On one hand, it's shitty that Youtube seems to NOT GIVE A SHIT that they're complicit in the distribution (for the last 8 years according to the date of the video upload) of copyrighted material they haven't paid to license at all.

On the other hand, I'm glad this is on Youtube and Bill Cosby is not so blacklisted that they try to scrub every memory of him from history. No matter what Bill Cosby did, it doesn't negate the fact that he made one of the greatest standup specials of all time. Most comedians watched it and it greatly influenced them to want to become a comedian. But few of them are still willing to give him credit for it. Yeah well... OJ Simpson slaughtered two people. That fact doesn't delete the OTHER fact that he was one of the greatest runningbacks in NFL history.

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/dev/random / Re: The Good Old Days thread

« on: September 15, 2023, 02:21:04 PM »

Kinda "wankerish" in the style of the 1980's "we are the world", but kinda cool.

Never been a fan of Kevin Dubrow and Quiet Riot. I first heard him on a Quiet Riot: The Randy Rhoads Days cd I bought in my young teens when I was studying Randy Rhoads stuff on the guitar. I do not like his singing.

Kinda funny, you can clearly hear Rob Halford cutting through everyone else during the first chorus. Dudes got some lungs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5H94GHb-10

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/dev/random / Re: im drunk

« on: September 06, 2023, 03:45:03 PM »

From a pic that's been on my digital cam for a while...



Saw this at my local Publix earlier this summer, from a tiny little unknown microbrew over in the neighborhood where my folks grew up and my grandpa lived before he passed back in '95. Call me crazy, but I kinda assumed that microbrews would actually give a damn about the taste of their beer and thus use an adequate amount of hops in the recipe. Apparently these people aren't really sticklers for trivial little things like "flavor". It doesn't have that weird chemical-y flavor like a lot of mass produced major brand domestics, but perhaps that's due to how utterly watered down this stuff was. I think it was like 4.2% abv, just weak as a baby fart. I don't think I've ever seen any beer with an abv that low before. If it were legal to make "childrens beer" kinda like they make childrens cough syrup and childrens aspirin, this would be childrens beer.

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/dev/random / Re: The Man Thread

« on: September 04, 2023, 09:06:51 PM »

I like to watch Bob Ross episodes because it's amazing to see him bring a full landscape to life in one single 30 minute episode.

I think I like watching these videos for sort of the same reason. It's cool to watch these guys make a house in as much time as I can watch a movie. Plus, I used to be a pipefitter, so I like construction and tools and building shit.

But no shit, I'd kill just about any list of 10 people you threw at me to have a house up in the mountains like this, especially one this close to the Nantahala river. One of THE BEST places for river rafting.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCfgdXtOYNg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9Nb6IpCN0