All Hallow's Eve

Oooooh, scary boys and girls! A very Happy Halloween to everyone - there were a number of other horror flicks I caught over the weekend, but haven't yet got around to reviewing. It'll get here eventually. In the meantime, have a ghouly ghouly day and remember to give lots of good candy to all the kids out there - no damn pennies wrapped in foil! Man I always hated that as a kid!

Oh the Horror! Movie Review Weekend

Once a month my wife works the entire weekend. All day Saturday, all day Sunday. It's kind of like her little gift to me - takes the blinders off my peepers and letting me run in circles, doing whatever I want, sleeping as late as I want, basically indulging my inner Bacchus to run wild without having to worry about any eye rolling or frowns of disapproval when I go about my daily routine wearing nothing but sweats, my vintage (i.e. old) Nightmare Before Christmas T-shirt, and the trusty old blue bathrobe. So how do I typically spend this hard-earned freedom?

Usually watching movies while eating every last bit of food from the fridge. Thank God I'm married; this isn't exactly serving as an open call to the ladies...

So, in honor of the Halloween weekend, I'm gonna plop myself down and start pouring through the dozens of DVDs that have been sitting around waiting to be watched. Yeah, I know...thousands of geeks all over do this marathon type of thing, and usually pick the most obscure films they can find just to prove how with it they actually are. Well, that's why I'm starting off with one big steaming pile of excrement called House of Wax - yes, the one with Paris Hilton. I promise the rest will be of a different caliber - I still have the new Val Lewton collection and the most recent Bela Lugosi package to go through as well. Plus there'll be a few non-horror flicks in there too: one classic and one big ass-whomping surprise I want to re-visit from my youth (thank you Netflix), so I'll have numerous reviews up over the weekend.

But first, I'll attempt to get through this pile of dreck first.

Opeth at Webster Hall 11/3

Opeth is coming to Webster Hall Thursday night, 11/3 with Nevermore and Into Eternity supporting. As I will be dragging my uber-indie friend Sean with me, maybe we can have a kind of Point/Counterpoint review of the whole shindig. I've gone to a few concerts with him to see bands like Interpol, The Pixies, and Tegan & Sara (all of which I really enjoyed), so it'll be a real experience to see how he responds to progressive death metal.

Opeth have been around for in some form or another for years now. Their new album Ghost Reveries is the first to feature full-on keyboards, and I think it just makes the music coming out that much more adventurous and different than what currently serves as "the metal scene." Mikael Åkerfeldt's vocals continue to get stronger - his clean singing has grown in leaps and bounds since the Damnation record. Hopefully after the show I can put a picture or two up here.

One More Democrat Dies in 2055

Well, it's official. I'm finally blogging on this thing again (thanks Sean). And it's about time, because my liberal ass only has until 2055 before I'm toast. July 2055 to be exact. At least that's what http://www.okcupid.com tells me. And let's face it - if you only choose one authoritative source for all your Cosmo-type tests, then I guess you better choose one with the cojones to call itself OkCupid.com. Not to worry, though. Apparently I'm still going to live 10 years longer than the average:

Cancer though, man...that's rough.

I gotta believe it man...this thing can't be wrong. After all, it pegged me straight away for the bleeding heart liberal that I am:

Have no fear - I will continue to "exhibit a very-well developed sense of Right and Wrong" while believing in "economic fairness." At least until 2055, that is.