January 26, 2005
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Here’s an interesting thought via plasticbag.org – “I wonder how long it will take people to stop thinking of weblogs as publishing, and start thinking about them being people interacting to diminish the role of publishing”. And via the same site – Spandexman unitards.
Eddiemuerte is now also on myspace. (Elsewhere on the web, interestingly, he seems to be most popular with the Germans)
Jungle Larry Safari! (via eye of the goof)
Bedazzled! – a music/pop culture blog by the Scopitones guy.
I recently found out that Nova Express Cafe (sci-fi themed cafe, Fairfax neighborhood) has a schlocky movie night every Wednesday! This one’s on tomorrow: The Giant Gila Monster. I think we gotta go…
Amazon.com Review -
The tranquility of a small Texas town is ruined when an enormous rear-projection lizard begins to terrorize the place! At first, the adults dismiss the kids’ hysterics as nonsense. The sheriff is helpless and the adults fail miserably to defeat the thing, so it’s up to the teenagers to take it on. Though this movie relies a little too heavily on plot and characters and not enough on giant lizards, it’s still a fun slice of ’50s camp. The lead character (played by Don Sullivan) sings some wildly inappropriate and goofy songs for some unintended comic relief. Rock & roll, hot rods, teenagers, huge monsters… all the elements are in place for this faintly ridiculous ’50s funfest. –Jerry Renshaw —*UPDATE - Nova Express made a mistake with the schedule. We arrived and there was a private party instead… The Giant Gila Monster will be showing NEXT wed!
Comments (3)
that reminds me of watching MST3K when it first came out. I LOVED Joel and the bots.
and the cheesy movies were great too.
Funny story about The Giant Gila Monster…
A while back I bought a collection of old black and white horror movies the included The Giant Gila Monster. After bringing them home, I was talking to my Dad about them. We were chatting about this and that as he looked over the collection to see if there were any movies that he recognized. After a couple of minutes his eyes got really big and he looked up at me with this strange, kind of freaked out, kind of laughing look on his face. “The Giant Gila Monster! The Giant Gila Monster! When I was six my Mom and Dad took my brother and me to the movies one Saturday morning to watch a double feature! The Giant Gila Monster was one of them and they scared me to death!” We laughed at that for a while and he continued to thumb through the titles of the collection. Soon after I finally asked him, “So what was the other movie?” The words had barely left my mouth when he started laughing hysterically and pointing at the box. “THE KILLER SHREWS!” He quickly tossed the collection back to me and left the room…
… That story cracks me up.
Jared – Ha! Thanks for sharing! Yeah we can’t wait to see this next week!!