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Required Watching: October- Week 1

Filed by DrNecropolis  |  October 7, 2009

We all know the October is the best month of the year and is best celebrated with awesome movies.  Considering that Halloween is waiting at  day 31, makes it the SPOOOOOOOKY month.  So what are you gonna watch?  The same old flicks that come on the tele every Halloween?  No!  You should will watch the following for week one (yes I know this is coming a bit late).  To start off we will do the JC run..that’s right John Carpenter.  So your requred watching for this week is:

Big Trouble in Little China

The Thing

Prince of Darkness (alt. They Live, since Prince can be hard to find)

In the Mouth of Madness

It should also be noted that The Thing, Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness are the three films that compose John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy, which make them especially good for the season!

Better RESPECT: Scooby-Doo’s 40th Anniversary

Filed by DrNecropolis  |  September 11, 2009

That’s right 40 year of Awesome.  This Sunday, September 13th, 2009 is the 40th anniversary of Scooby-doo.  I don’t want to hear any haters out there saying the show sucks, that’s how motherfuckers get shot!  The show is full of teh w1n for  at least 2 reasons:

1. Daphne is the HAWTNESS

2. It has provided children with a healthy dose of skepticism, and the idea that things are not always as they appear.  Not everything should be taken at face value and we need to use our brains and keen senses of observation to determine what is true and what is falsehood.

So please join me on Sunday (in spirit if not in person) and get down on watching some Scooby, preferably with Scooby Snax!!!

I Sell The Dead (No, that’s not my part-time job…yet)

Filed by DrNecropolis  |  September 3, 2009

Never trust a corpse… The tag line for Glass Eye Pix stunning flick I Sell The Dead, is what slapped me in the face to check out this movie.  Arthur Blake(Dominic Monaghan, Lost) and Willie Grimes(Larry Fessenden also the Producer, Mulberry Street) are professional Grave-robbers who’ve been caught and sentenced to beheading.  On the night prior to Arthur’s execution, he is visited by Father Duffy(Ron Perlman, Hellboy/Chronicles of Riddick/ Many more awesome ass movies) to take his confession.  With the application of a bit o’ whiskey, we soon learn that Arthur’s carrear as a grave robber began at a young age and through the years his profession has led him to many a bizzare encounter.  From Zombies and Vampires to Aliens and Revenge, this movie has just about everything I look for in a great flick.  Due to the theme, one would think that this would be a dark journey through the lives our protagonists, but in actuality it’s a hilarious adventure of the first degree.  I give it 5 out of 5 Zombie Apocalypses, you need to see this film!…You will see this film…

Yeah, Like You Don’t Have the Time

Filed by DrNecropolis  |  September 1, 2009

It’s come to my attention that many of you haven’t been indulging in internetty goodness like you should be.  To catch a few laughs, drop what you’re doing and head on over to Those Aren’t Muskets right now.  Skip straight to the S.W.A.I.M. module and and dig in.  I recommend episode 13 to kick things off with.  Why you ask?

1. A respectful depiction of Austrailians

2. Tunak Tunak Tun

3. Why? Because he’s the fucking Walrus!

MADD nerds (zing!) (updated after coffee)

Filed by phoenixMagoo  |  July 15, 2009

i always thought madd was a solid, good intentioned, advocacy group. plus they always hand out rad pens and stress balls at any college or high school event. however, my opinion has now changed, check out this bullshit:

MADD feels that “The combination of a roadway and advertising for any kind of a beer doesn’t make any kind of sense.”  [Source: Autoblog]

let’s say you are from a small town in ohio with a micro brew that names a beer after the exit number for your town. the exit number for you town is 81-A. you move to washington state, and are shopping in a whole foods. you see a label that says 81-Ale over a background image of the state of ohio. why wouldn’t you buy the beer? maybe you were beat up in high school, idk.

another example. in the metro dc area there is a micro brew named capital city. my favorite beer at capital city is “pale rider ale” and the motto for the beer is “hell on wheels.”  i think that is about 10x worse than the jersey turnpike brew mentioned in the autoblog article cited earlier.  AND! it’s also a mega tasty beer.

basically, if the branding and motto didn’t help sell the beer, then the name of the beer would of obviously been changed by now.

so MADD, a combination of a roadway (even driving) and advertising sell beer, and a business selling a product makes sense.

the end.

Drag Me to Hell–FTW

Filed by DrNecropolis  |  June 5, 2009

See it, or we’ll come for you in your sleep…