Last night I caught this bullshit reality show called FILM FAKERS. Where they sucker 3 actors into thinking they've been cast in some sort of straight to video thing. So, for a full hour we get to watch these three kids put up with a metric tonne of crap to the sadistic delight of the actors who're in on the joke and don't know a thing about filmmaking. And the marks literally bend over backwards just to be in a movie, ANY MOVIE.
And the real fucked up part, The fake movie they aren't making, looks like it'd be a better movie then most of the shit that gets released these days. The acting and dialouge is like something out of an Ed Wood movie, delivered with straight faces, it's hilarious. Screw the reality show, I'd rather watch the fake movie they made...
Friday, October 29, 2004
The Ninja Squad [1986] 10:08 AM
Lots of people have asked me about THE NINJA SQUAD and if you've looked around the internet you'll see that it's out of print. But if you still want to own a copy of it you can get it on DVD. Of course I still recommend that you just check the shelves at your local used video stores, which is where I found my copy for only $3. There are lots of copies out there on VHS just waiting to be found on the cheap...
If you're interested in FORKLIFT DRIVER KLAUS you can buy the region free DVD here.
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Don`t go in the basement!!!! 11:24 AM
Halloween 2004 and I'm thinking I'm not gonna be there. Nope, not this year. I'll turn all the lights off and hide out in my room or maybe over at Bruce and Mundee's place. I'm just not feeling like passing out candy to teenagers without costumes on. On the other hand, listening to Ed's Boingo Alive CDs got me in a pretty good mood, not to mention the Ghouls With Attitude MP3s...
Oh..
You can tell a dirty story
In the old conservatory...
But don`t go in the basement!
You can make a scene
On the mezanene
But don`t go in the basement!
You can fill yourself with static
With the ghosts up in the attic
But don`t go in the basement!
You can light yourself a torch
On the old front porch
But don`t go in the basement!
Oh you may think that it`s real cool
To ride down the bannister like some darn fool
Oh don`t go... DONT GO!!
Don`t go in the basement!
You can feel quite aloof
Playing rummy on the roof
But don`t go in the basement!
Where the cockroaches dance
You can wallow in romance
But don`t go in the basement!
You may think that it`s deluxe
To ride the bannister filled with rust
Oh don`t go, don`t go!
Don`t go in the basement!!!!
And I can't get RIBOFLAVIN outta my head:
When the moon arises on the western sky
and the vampires are out on the sly
at times they have trouble finding necks to bite
that's why I cook up in my roon tonight...
My riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood
(her riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood)
Drac came to me one night at 12
and said the blood bank had no blood on the shelf
I exclaimed "don't fret!" i'll give you on fix
of my newly regenerated mix
I gave him riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood
(she gave him riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated
blood)
It gives you quick relief you see
from fang aches and corpusle deficiency
Natter! consuming my laboratory brew
will make a new vampire out of you
It's that quality unleaded, only one calorie, polyunsaturated blood
that riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood
Drac enjoyed my brew without a hitch
now he's one of those that would rather fight than switch
if you're biting mre necks enjoying it less
try my new non-carbonated best
My riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood
(her riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood)
Oh..
You can tell a dirty story
In the old conservatory...
But don`t go in the basement!
You can make a scene
On the mezanene
But don`t go in the basement!
You can fill yourself with static
With the ghosts up in the attic
But don`t go in the basement!
You can light yourself a torch
On the old front porch
But don`t go in the basement!
Oh you may think that it`s real cool
To ride down the bannister like some darn fool
Oh don`t go... DONT GO!!
Don`t go in the basement!
You can feel quite aloof
Playing rummy on the roof
But don`t go in the basement!
Where the cockroaches dance
You can wallow in romance
But don`t go in the basement!
You may think that it`s deluxe
To ride the bannister filled with rust
Oh don`t go, don`t go!
Don`t go in the basement!!!!
And I can't get RIBOFLAVIN outta my head:
When the moon arises on the western sky
and the vampires are out on the sly
at times they have trouble finding necks to bite
that's why I cook up in my roon tonight...
My riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood
(her riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood)
Drac came to me one night at 12
and said the blood bank had no blood on the shelf
I exclaimed "don't fret!" i'll give you on fix
of my newly regenerated mix
I gave him riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood
(she gave him riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated
blood)
It gives you quick relief you see
from fang aches and corpusle deficiency
Natter! consuming my laboratory brew
will make a new vampire out of you
It's that quality unleaded, only one calorie, polyunsaturated blood
that riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood
Drac enjoyed my brew without a hitch
now he's one of those that would rather fight than switch
if you're biting mre necks enjoying it less
try my new non-carbonated best
My riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood
(her riboflavin flavored, non-carbonated, polyunsaturated blood)
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Playing with blocks... 2:45 PM
I was thinking about design and shapes and volume...I want to have backgrounds that have an odd yet simple feel about them. Like a video game type of design, with fake 3D, not iso but similar...
Monday, October 25, 2004
Post Oni-Con thoughts 8:44 AM
Rented a Malibu II and drove down to Houston with Ed. Found Oni-Con and spent a few minutes looking for a parking spot, got lucky and found one close to the loading dock. Went in and found Bruce and Mundee, went to the bar and knocked back 3 G&Ts to steel myself for OtakuHELL. Found the room, it was a smallish video room and luckily I was able to set up a half hour before the show. Unfortunately we had sound troubles. I broke out the portable speakers and hooked them to the Audiovox but they couldn't really do much for the room. I may need to look into some sort of portable yet powerful computer speakers/amplifiers for future shows. And it looks like I'll be buying a switch box just for the VCR/DVD problem. As things were set up in the Atlanta room I was unplugging the Portable DVD Player and plugging in the VCR because the DELL Projector wasn't getting a signal from the L1/L2 inputs on the VCR. [It was a decent VCR, too, I didn't run anything from the Audiovox Portable VCR] Eventually I got a tech who figured out where my sound problem was and I cannibalized the connector from the Eddie Bauer and we had sound. That left me with about an hour left of the show before the GTO Movie was scheduled. I felt ok with that. I'd rather surrender the room to GTO then something like, say, HentaiFEST...
We had a great crowd for the show, and the room was packed the full two hours, and they even put up with the prerequisite technical snafus. Gogo and his Gold Ruberg egg machine was well received, as was Lolita 18's VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR. FORKLIFT DRIVER KLAUS was a bigger hit then I expected, despite the fact the DVD player froze up at least 3 times. Once the audio problems were licked I played ARE YOU LISTENING and TOOTHACHE OF A CLOWN. But once again the break out hit was NINJA SQUAD with Master Ninja Gordon up against Ivan the Red in an all out Ninja battle for Ninja supremacy. I ended the show with some FARTING EVANGELIST to appeal to the lowest common denominator factor. Then I packed up just as the Oni-Con Video Director, Michael Unfried, came in to run GTO. I shook his hand and then we were off for a big steak dinner!
All in all it was a great show and I want to thank everybody who showed up and had a good laugh. I hope we can do it again next year.
We had a great crowd for the show, and the room was packed the full two hours, and they even put up with the prerequisite technical snafus. Gogo and his Gold Ruberg egg machine was well received, as was Lolita 18's VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR. FORKLIFT DRIVER KLAUS was a bigger hit then I expected, despite the fact the DVD player froze up at least 3 times. Once the audio problems were licked I played ARE YOU LISTENING and TOOTHACHE OF A CLOWN. But once again the break out hit was NINJA SQUAD with Master Ninja Gordon up against Ivan the Red in an all out Ninja battle for Ninja supremacy. I ended the show with some FARTING EVANGELIST to appeal to the lowest common denominator factor. Then I packed up just as the Oni-Con Video Director, Michael Unfried, came in to run GTO. I shook his hand and then we were off for a big steak dinner!
All in all it was a great show and I want to thank everybody who showed up and had a good laugh. I hope we can do it again next year.
Friday, October 22, 2004
Tetsujin 28 Gou Trading Figures 1:59 PM
TETSUJIN 28 GOU for my wallet! Yeah, I'm a sucker for trading figures and this set is pretty damn cool. If you like GIGANTOR you'll want this...
Thursday, October 21, 2004
OtakuHELL Oni-Con update 1:49 PM
Just got an e-mail from the Oni-Con Director of Video. I'll be mixing a 2 hour set sarting at 7pm on Saturday, October 23. I'll try to keep it as tight as possible and get as much stuff in as I can. I've got new YATTA footage, VERMILLION PLEASURE NIGHT, FORKLIFT DRIVER KLAUS, New Shorts, New Trailers, New Commercials, and much, much more!
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Happy Halloween! 1:23 PM
Happy Halloween: I gotta burn this compilation to disc! Too Freakin' Cool!
UPDATE: This is a very popular page, I couldn't download more then a couple MP3s yesterday and today [Thursday] I'm getting bandwidth errors on everything. Luckily somebody posted torrents...
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
The OtakuHELL Video Project 10:08 AM
I set up a project page for the OtakuHELL Video Project. In the meantime I'm just gonna make some copies of the OtakuHELL SVCD that I passed out at AWA-X to give away at Oni-Con. I should probablly add that to the Project list, too...
Monday, October 18, 2004
Tentacles with cuticles? 2:51 PM
| Ed had his fondly fondue get together last night. The usual gang of reprobates showed up and snaked and drank all the wine. I made many trips to the recycling bin with empty magnums, the beer was hardly touched by comparison. I don't know why Ed had stopped having his Sunday night saturnalia for so long. Everybody likes hanging out and eating and drinking. Earlier on Sunday I waited for Bruce to come over. We'd plan to go to Home Depot and pick up a lawn mower. We got a model exactly like Josh's for $150. It's cheaper then hiring a lawn service... |  354 Originally uploaded by tohoscope. |
Friday, October 15, 2004
Cats do not understand fences 11:43 AM
This morning it was Chico who was trapped behind a fence. And once again I had to coax him out. I think the score is 2 all for Chico and Sgt. Tibbs being trapped behind fences. Who sez cats are smart?
I found that The Illuminated Lantern is back online and I'm rereading the Lam Ching Ying reviews. Swinging times with hopping Vampires!
Today's doodle...
I found that The Illuminated Lantern is back online and I'm rereading the Lam Ching Ying reviews. Swinging times with hopping Vampires!
Today's doodle...
Thursday, October 14, 2004
A hardy collection of intermission clips and countdowns. My favorite parts are the unattractive food that is displayed for sale at the Refreshment Shack! Ugh!
This is an eye-opener for anybody who's never seen TV Commercials for cigarettes. They had some fairly sophisticated ads with animation and catchy jiggles that invited you to sing-a-long between puffs on your coffin nails...
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Master Ninja Gordon! 9:41 AM
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That's right, the other Richard Harrison from Ninja Squad. And he's been in more then a hundred movies. Surprisingly, not all of 'em have "ninja" in the title. Although I think it's safe to say that Master Ninja Gordon is his signature character as he's played it in over a dozen movies (almost all of which have "ninja" in the title...)
One thing I'm really curious about is who has the copyright on the Ninja films? Almost all of them are out of print and I can't find any of them on DVD. Perhaps they are in the public domain? Gotta find out!
I'm still looking for Richard Harrison's contact info. I'm dying to do an interview with him...
Classic TV Commercials Volume 3 9:22 AM
I previewed a bit of this compilation last night while making dinner. If Volume 4 is just as good as Volume 3 I'm gonna hafta get Volumes 1 and 2...
