Freak Number One!

Well, I waited to find a good new freak, but I haven't been working much, so no new weirdos. Thus, I'll tell you about the bane of my existence: D. D is a short, round, bald, smelly little man who works in the candy department of a department store at the mall that I work at. He and his equally creepy wife came into the store some months ago asking about hand creams and the like. (I work at a European soap store, by the by.) They put off an intense weirdo vibe. After a while, D and his wife split off and began looking at different things in the shop. D began talking at length about his Photoshop prowess and his impressive community college schedule. After a while one of the girls I work with noticed the look of intense discomfort on my face and called me off to do some nonexistent menial task. After that first incident, D comes into the store on a fairly regular basis and asks about me. My manager has gone so far as to let me hide in the back room when he comes by. I'll update on him at a later date, I don't want to use up all my D stories at once. ^_^

Back

I'm sorry I haven't posted in so damn long (again). Things have been ten shades of crazy for the last couple of months. Let's see... I got dumped, I got a new job, I started going out (!!!), I started my last semester of community college, I crashed my car (no injurues at all and the other car is fine), yeesh, so much stuff! I think that I'm going to take a cue from Bubs, over at Sprawling Ramshackle Compound and start posting a freak of the week. Only these will be the freaks I personally encounter. I have quite a collection you see. They follow me at work, harass me when I go out dancing, it's truly magical. So once I have some time and a fresh juicy freak, I'll start posting. Till then, toodles!

Late Night Ramblings

I got home from work at the comic book store not too long ago, and I'm not ready to go to sleep yet, so I blog. Tomorrow should be an exciting day; a bunch of Rats are going to get some french fries cooked in duck fat and then we're gonna go build some freak bikes. Cody got me a gorgeous vintage cruiser to chop (I'll post pictures tomorrow night). So I'm going to make an elongated fork that I can switch out with the regular one so that I can have a chopper when I want one. I'm really excited to learn more about bike anatomy and how to work a welder and other machinery. Geez, I'm suddenly really tired. Well, I should be posting some neat chop shop pictures amongst others in the next few days. Tata for now!

Sorry it took me so damn long....

So I have finally decided to try blogging again. I realized that I have absolutely nothing worthwhile to write about, so I'm going to write about my new favorite movie, Ichi the Killer.

I had put Ichi on my Netflix list a while ago, and it's time finally came. It showed up at my house the other day. Now, I normally HATE torture movies, but I'd heard such wonderful things about this film that I decided I would at least try to watch it (I could always pack it up and send it back if it was unwatchable). So I put it on while no one else was home and settled in. I was terrified at the prospect of watching Ichi. I had heard so many things about the brutality, the torture, the gore. So I sat down with a snack and a blanket (to pull over my head if it got bad) to watch the fabled Ichi the Killer. Well, unbeknownst to me, I had gotten a dubbed version. So here I am watching a yakuza film where all the characters have British accents and use British slang! I think that might be part of why I liked the movie so much... Well, anyway, I was shocked that even the torture scenes were funny! I have very little experience with Takashi Miike's films (I've only seen The Happiness of the Katakuris and the first half of Audition), but I wasn't expecting this to be a full blown comedy like The Happiness of the Katakuris. I shouldn't diminish the violence, though. Ichi is one of the most brutal movies I've ever seen, but a lot of the violence and gore are so over the top that it becomes hard to take really seriously. My only real beef with Ichi is all the violence toward women. It wasn't any worse than the violence toward men, but something about the way it was presented was meaner than I would have expected, given the tone of the rest of the film. In the end though, I could look past that and enjoy the rest of the movie just fine. One bad thing about Takashi Miike's films (at least the ones I've seen) is that they make me REALLY hungry. He shows his characters eating a lot, and it always looks delicious, so I might watch this with food close at hand. So, Ichi the Killer is good, bloody fun for those with iron clad stomachs. Wow, I really don't know how to end a review! Well, toodles!!

I've Been Tagged AGAIN

My dad, Bubs, over at Sprawling Ramshackle Compound, has tagged me again.


Popcorn or Candy? usually I go for the Junior Mints, but popcorn makes for a nice change of pace now and then.

Name a movie you've been meaning to see forever. For a while it was Back to the Future, but I just watched that with Cody, so I'm not sure.

You are given the power to recall one Oscar: who loses it, and to whom? I don't know who would lose it, but Best Actor would go to Johnny Depp in Ed Wood.

Steal one costume from a movie for your wardrobe. The black and white stripy dress Christina Ricci wears at the end of Sleepy Hollow.

Your favorite film franchise is: That is an unfair question....Evil Dead, Saw, Spider Man.

Invite five movie people over for dinner. Who are they? Why'd you invite them? What do you feed them? Lloyd Kaufman, founder of Troma, the longest continually running indie film company ever. I've met him twice, and I'd love to get to know him. Tom Savini, "The Wizard of Gore". I've met Savini as well, and he's a great story teller and a neat guy. I'd invite William Castle, master of the box office gimmick. I just read a book about him, and my favorite movie as a kid was House on Haunted Hill. George Romero, the creator of the modern zombie movie, my most favorite genre. Bruce Campbell, because after reading his autobiography and his novel, I think I love him. Johnny Depp, a brilliant actor, and, from what a gather a good person. I think I'd do a basic steak, potatoes, salad thing for dinner. And I'd probably get these guys liquored up, that'd be a hoot.

What is the appropriate punishment for people who answer cell phones in the movie theater? They should be forced to leave the theater and eat their phone.

Choose a female bodyguard: Ripley from Aliens, Mystique from X-Men, Sarah Connor from Terminator 2, The Bride from Kill Bill, or Mace from Strange Days. The Bride! She's INCREDIBLE! She gets shot full of rock salt, buried alive, SHOT IN THE HEAD! What can't she survive and then dismember?!?

What's the scariest thing you've ever seen in a movie? Jeez, I know the scariest movie I've seen....I'll say any scene with the rickety spiral staircase in the original Haunting.

Your favorite genre (excluding "comedy" and "drama") is... HORROR! Notably splatterstick and zombie. ^_^

You are given the power to greenlight movies at a major studio for one year. How do you wield this power? I'd give adequate funding to gifted low budget film makers, regardless of genre (though expect a lotta horror ;) )

Bonnie or Clyde? Umm...Bonnie?

Friday Random 10

I just got home from school and am contemplating a nap. It was a late night. So here's my random 10.

Attack of the Ghost Riders- The Raveonettes

Fade Together- Franz Ferdinand

1969- The Sisters of Mercy

One More Cup of Coffee- The White Stripes

Wild Cats of Kilkenny- The Pogues

Main Man- T.Rex

Tame- The Pixies

I'm Afraid of Americans- David Bowie

Rock'’n'Roll N**ger- Marilyn Manson

I'm Coming Over- X

Something is Wrong Here....

I got an email this morning from my dad, Bubs over at Sprawling Ramshackle Compound. It was a link to a website dedicated to a man named Malachi Ritscher. On Friday, November 3, this man set himself on fire in the Chicago Loop. He did this in protest of the war in Iraq. This man's death has received virtually no media coverage. Why is his death going unnoticed? I don't understand.