Thursday, November 15, 2012

My Heroes Have Always Been Monsters Part 28

It's that time again, fiends! Part 28 and it's dedicated to one of the best metal acts of all time, still going strong, still making incredible albums and putting on fantastic shows...
I picked up their original self titled debut when I was 11 or 12, I think Seventh Son was the current or most recent album at that time. I knew them from the poster for the Killers album on my cousins wall that gave me nightmares when I was little. Of all the music I already liked and would get into later, Iron Maiden was tailor made for teenage me. Their albums collected a little dust in my early twenties, but a roommate helped me remember just how much they meant to me and I've stuck with them ever since. No where in rock and roll is there a more iconic and cool symbol as Eddie, you know a Maiden track as soon as it starts and in my house they were BANNED. I was not aloud to listen to them (I had a strict Southern Baptist upbringing) which made every triumphant track just that much more delicious! From here on I'll let the images and music do the talking. Enjoy!

If you Maiden art you need this book!


Just a Quickie..!

IT FEELS SO GOOD TO HAVE INTERNET AGAIN! BACK TO BLOGGING! Here's a handful of things to get out of the way real quick.
1st up! The Bay from Barry Levinson. I'm not a found footage film fan, but this doesn't look bad...
We've got MF'ing Deathstroke on Arrow!
Sam Raimi takes us to Oz...
Did you know Thug Lit is back? Yup!
NC Comicon is THIS WEEKEND at the Durham Convention Center!





Sunday, November 11, 2012

We Shall Rise Again...

Times are hard, like a complete bitch. I'm using McCrapburger's wifi right now. Hopefully I'll have internet again no later than Tuesday and we'll have some new posts up. I appreciate the traffic we've apparently been getting in the last week and hope you all keep checking back. Lot's to discuss, lot's to show you.
A couple quick things; finally saw Amazing Spiderman and Green Hornet this weekend. Spidey impressed me more than I expected, in fact I really liked it. With the Green Hornet, why didn't anyone like that movie?!? It was funny as hell! Gondry's a great director, I've liked all his stuff so far. Loved the action. Maybe I just lost a few of you, sorry. NC Comic Con is next weekend, I hope to at least be there, I don't expect to pick anything up with money like it is. Whatever.
Talk to you in a fe day, fiends!
-T

Monday, November 5, 2012

Sunday, November 4, 2012

King Vulture's Sound Attack

Just heard this recently and found myself another band to love and this video is sweeeeeet. Ghoultown's Drink With The Living Dead.

My Heroes Have Always Been Monsters Part 27

I don't even know where to begin with Vincent Price. I guess for me, the first two roles I knew him from were Michael Jackson's Thriller (that voice!) and as Egghead from the 60's Batman series. Later he voiced the character of Vincent Van Ghoul in one of the Scooby Doo series from the 80's.  
Then of course there was his appearance in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, which is when I got interested in finding out who this guy really was. I started with the Roger Corman adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's work; Masque of The Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Raven (he did more, but I didn't see them until later), because I'd been reading Poe since elementary school. I'm a child of the 80's and grew up on the slasher films of the day, but I always had a soft spot for the classic horror of Universal and RKO and I was constantly looking out for anything by Hammer Films. The Corman/Poe   films were right up my alley. Masque...may be the best, here's the trailer;

 My favorite of Price's films though would have to be The Fly, which I've covered in an earlier post (go here for MyHeroes Have Always Been Monsters Part 2) and also The Bat (covered here in Part 6). These two films are extra significant for me since they were the first two horror films I ever shared with my son. He's become a huge fan of Mr. Price.
One of Price's other great roles was the first adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend called the Last Man On Earth, which was an influence for Night Of The Living Dead.
Price appeared in 105 films, hosted PBS's Mystery, appeared on the Muppets and several other tv shows. A true icon who's films may not have always been great, but he was always great in them. I'll leave you with something I personally love...

Keep watching the sky, nerds!