Showing posts with label GIJOE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GIJOE. Show all posts
Saturday, August 10, 2019
2019: August 10th
Starting the day like I ended last night, with some vintage High On Fire. My copy of the band's first album, The Art of Self Defense, is the old Man's Ruin version, and a few years ago I discovered that when I put the disc into my computer and open iTunes, it reads it as Sleep - The Art of Self Defense. I've wondered since if when Matt Pike split ways with Cisneros and Hakius, his original plan was to record a new Sleep album with new members, and it ended up just becoming High On Fire. Either way, The Art of Self Defense is a fantastic album that features a little bit more Doom/Sabbath influence on HoF's songwriting than later albums, and that always makes it fun to go back to.
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I keep forgetting to plug the latest episode of The Horror Vision here. For this episode, Chris, Anthony, Ray, and I discuss Genre Icon Rutger Hauer's passing, our favorite movies/moments from his career, and we give you our reaction to 1992's Split Second, a kind of schizophrenic action/horror/sci fi flick that Hauer chews through the scenery on. Other topics of discussion include but are not limited to, What We Do In The Shadows the show, Slaughterhouse Rulez, Holy Mountain, and my painstaking attempt to watch my way through the Friday the 13th movies in chronological order!
The Horror Vision on Apple
The Horror Vision on Spotify
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There's news on the web about the about-to-be-in-production third GIJOE movie. Said news, forwarded to me by Mr. Brown, is that the character known as Chuckles will be featured. Now, that might seem funny to some, but as several of THIS article's commenters point out, Chuckles figured prominently in the Mike Costa's GIJOE series Cobra from about ten years ago. This is by far the best Joe Story I have ever read. No disrespect meant to those classic Larry Hama issues at Marvel, but this is another level altogether. The entire storyline is collected in an omnibus titled The Last Laugh and is absolutely worth checking out. If this third flick is based on Costa's run, we are in for a treat indeed.
And now I'm excited for another Joe movie!
Interesting also that my two main 80s toy obsessions made it into these pages with current news this week, even if I mis-reported the release date of Simon Furman and Guido Guidi's Transformers 84 issue 0 - which I learned is stand alone at this point - by a week or two.
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I caught Michael O'Shea's indie Vampire flick The Transfiguration yesterday. Loved it. Highly recommended, especially if you like a more psychological approach to your horror. Reminded me a lot of Larry Fessenden's movies, and knowing nothing about this film going in, I was overjoyed to see Fessenden make a cameo about half way through!
The Transfiguration is streaming right now on Shudder!
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Playlist from 8/09:
Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Sleep - The Sciences
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Spread of the day:
All big ideas and macrocosmic influences. Paradigms are shifting. The idea of turning The Horror Vision into a Publishing Imprint is still intimidating, as dealing with massive ideas like The Universe, The Star, or something as volatile as Lust is, but intimidation is a not insurmountable. Lust is also known as Strength in the original Tarot, and while Crowley changed the name, it retains many of the qualities/attributions originally associated with it. Also, Sephirothically, we're looking at a path that traces the Tree of Life's spheres from Wisdom, to Strength, to Foundation and eventually The Kingdom, by way of Beauty. I can't help but read this confluence of Major Arcana influences as further confirmation that my venture will transform my world.
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Carpenter's Classic "The Thing" Recreated w/ GIJOE's?
Yep. And it's awesome. Mr. Brown just sent me a link to an article on buzzfeed where Jack Shepard (assuming it's not the oxy-popping, dying on the island Jack Shepard) posted a link to this almost five years ago. The video itself, done by Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann for the band Zombie Zombie, was originally uploaded to youtube in '08, so the question is how have I never seen this before and why does something this amazing only have 77K hits?
Spread the word. This is awesome on every possible level.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
The End of The Cobra Files
image courtesy of xplosionofawesome.com |
Is on tap at my Comic Column on Joup this week. Drop by and raise a glass with me to the end of one awesome comic.
Friday, April 12, 2013
GIJOE animated Movie (80's) Intro
That last post made me think of this and so I had to look to see if it was on youtube (everything is on the youtubes - soon you will be too!).
The Cobra parts still give me chills - the Joe parts are blatantly goodie goodie. But I love the animation used here - even if the movie is pretty goofy.
"When I'm done with you their going to scrape you off the walls with a squeegee."
Sure sarge, sure.
While I'm on the topic, here's my review of Retaliation on Joup. I mean, not retaliation on Joup, but the review I published on the website I write a weekly comic book column for, Joup.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
4 Minutes of Ninjas fighting from GIJOE 2
Ain't It Cool News just linked this. I know the first one wasn't a "good" movie, but I dug the hell out of it. Heck, it was like they made one of the old school cartoon episodes into a live action. This one had me the moment I saw this:
They got the mask right!!! And is that Firefly in the background? WOWBOBWOW, as long as they have that I'll even forgive the lack of sexpot The Baroness.
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