Well if you really want to see an ass, go see a full moon picture. You don't hear much from full moon anymore though they still exist churning out direct to something style horror films. Their last big hurrah was with Tommy Chong in a little film called "Evil Bong." Between that and the seasonal "treat" "Gingerdead man," you should get a clue over where they are at the moment in terms of art or even craft.
"Haunted Casino," is about a guy that inherited an old abandoned casino from his dead uncle. He and the usual gang of idiots come over to um... do something there. It's a little vague, but so is the crew. There's the Velma, the Shaggy, a Daphne, a slut and an asshole. Of course, from the title you expect there will be a ghost. Actually, I'll give some credit that there are actually five ghosts. Two are played by nearly real actors; Sid Haig and Michael Berryman. They don't do much except pick up a check but their sour burps would liven this film up so let's not kick the gift horse in the mouth right?
The other three ghosts were workers at the casino and now are glitchy, gimmicky "gambling" ghosts. There is a slot girl (yeah and there's about the height of the humor of the film right there folks), there is a barely there roulette ghost, and a rather effective black jack ghost. Each offers bets to the bags of meat and of course they lose. We lose as the audience when the ghosts take on their ghosts forms which are well... muppetity.
It's bad, bad, bad. But it is over pretty quickly and it could be enjoyed with the right mental state.
STRANGE SPANNERS being an accounting of strangeness of the warp and woof of my mind For those of you new here, think of this as 1/2 "Night Gallery" Our Motto: Nos somnium quisnam es futurus fatum quod insolitus tutus vos!
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Inventor Hall of Fame: Max
Source: Pi
Greatest Invention: Not all invention are things... some are ideas. Max worked out mathematics to predict parts of reality.
Greatest Limitation: Suffers from blinding migraines and didn't consider the impact of his work.
Philosophy: "11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature."
Greatest Invention: Not all invention are things... some are ideas. Max worked out mathematics to predict parts of reality.
Greatest Limitation: Suffers from blinding migraines and didn't consider the impact of his work.
Philosophy: "11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature."
Monster of the Day: Mirkwood Spiders
Source: The Hobbit
Location: Mirkwoods
Threat Assessment: 4. They are big ass spiders. Fangs. Webs. Poison. They can easily over power a party.
Limitation: Surprisingly cowardly.
Location: Mirkwoods
Threat Assessment: 4. They are big ass spiders. Fangs. Webs. Poison. They can easily over power a party.
Limitation: Surprisingly cowardly.
Today's secret code:
"The purple potion is the relaxing lotion, the bitter brew is for the brave and few." Again: "The purple potion is the relaxing lotion, the bitter brew is for the brave and few." Today's Colour is not purple nor rhymes with purple except in Korean. Today's Author remembers that that purile potion is refracting motion while the sitter stew is savory and true." That is all, maho maho.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
The Long Time Out
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| In 1982 little Sue was told to sit quietly in time out there was a gas leak she sat very quietly indeed even now she sits waiting for permission to be free |
Last Night On Grimm
Well at this rate we are going to run out of stories quickly. I honestly didn't think they'd reach for the 3 bears story so quickly. I'm curious if that is a true grimm fairy tale or a later edition because it just doesn't have much fear factor associated with it. Luckily, in the Grimm-verse the bears are Jagar Baers who are basically kick ass were bears.
The thing I like about the show so far is that is trying to be a bit more nuanced in how it is handling the supernatural element. Here instead of having a bunch of were bear bogeymen, they instead gave a little insight in how these creatures are dealing with the modern world. There is an internal clash between those that want to adapt and those that want to keep the old ways. Since the old ways involve a lot screaming death we the audience of course hope the reform movement wins out.
Meanwhile, there is still the conspiracy trying to kill Grimms to worry about. About Aunt Marie finally dies so what ever else our hero is going to learn about himself will have to be from elsewhere. The show certainly moves faster than it's "sister" show "Once upon a Time." It certainly doesn't take itself near as serious either. I can say now after seeing a few episodes of both that I perfer Grimm at the moment.
The thing I like about the show so far is that is trying to be a bit more nuanced in how it is handling the supernatural element. Here instead of having a bunch of were bear bogeymen, they instead gave a little insight in how these creatures are dealing with the modern world. There is an internal clash between those that want to adapt and those that want to keep the old ways. Since the old ways involve a lot screaming death we the audience of course hope the reform movement wins out.
Meanwhile, there is still the conspiracy trying to kill Grimms to worry about. About Aunt Marie finally dies so what ever else our hero is going to learn about himself will have to be from elsewhere. The show certainly moves faster than it's "sister" show "Once upon a Time." It certainly doesn't take itself near as serious either. I can say now after seeing a few episodes of both that I perfer Grimm at the moment.
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