I watch terrible movies

I'm not sure when it happened exactly but I've become a fan of some truly terrible cinema. There is a certain cost effectivenes to it. Generally for the price of a rental you can buy one to two movies that will be a combination of terrifying, hilarious, and enjoyable if you look at them in the right way. So it was when I purchased the 1957 epic The Monster That Challenged the World (tagline: Instant TERROR...just add WATER!).



A rift is discovered off the pacific coast and in a shocking turn of events, its radioactive. The overall story involves a new naval sargent assigned to the area trying to make sense of giant irradiated sea slugs. There's a single mother involved also. Throw in the cute kid who happens to make one small mistake that leads to mass destruction and you have a winner! No its not within the same realm of Beast from 20,000 Fathoms or Them! (the one with the ants, not the remake) but it has a definite charm all its own. Unlike a number of these movies, you get sea slug death and destruction pretty much right from the get go.

Go get yourself some giant sea slugs :)

and now........ACTION SHOTS! (all pictures are screen captures taken from the movie and are not intended to violate any copyright laws or any laws in general)


Now I know I left it down here somewhere...


There really are no words...


Even less words...


As she stared at the monster her only thought was "man I bet shirley temple never had to deal with this"

Thats all for now. Big weekend coming up but nothing I'll write about here. Next week we'll discuss cartoons from the 60's and why its not necessary to do drugs to enjoy them.

Oops, sort of forgot about the blog

I kind of forgot about keeping a blog but I'll try and keep up a bit more and maybe someone will actually read this.

One of the original reasons I started this was to keep track of shows I've been to this year. Seems a little silly but they all tend to run together after a while. I don't remember all dates but here's the short list:

Cave Singers, Lightning Dust, Mean Creek, Old Abram Brown - TT the Bears
Cursive, Where The Land Meets the Sea - Middle East Down Stairs
Jon Snodgrass, Austin Lucas, Two Cow Garage - Middle East Up Stairs
Landmines, The Guts, Pretty Boy Thorson and the Fallen Angels, The New Warden - O'Briens Pub
The Appleseed Cast, Where The Land Meets the Sea - Middle East Down Stairs
Super Time Pilot, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys - TT the Bears

sadly thats all thats coming to me at the moment, so this list will be added to eventually.

The other new goal of this blog will be to document the impending Where The Land Meets The Sea tour in October/November hopefully with excellent stories and potential videos. We'll see how that all goes.

Thats all for now, we'll see what the weekend and the next week bring us.