I kind of screwed up on this one. It was all my fault , really, forged foolishness and a touch of hubris. You see I’d had a general theme of horror comedy and I had two perfect films on my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At first I’d planned to put off watching this film since I’m generally very picky about what I see in the theaters these days but the main reason I wanted to see the Martian in the theater, other than a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m really beginning to wonder if I could have written my Halloween Inktober list if i’d been drunk because I’m really wondering what in the name of the lords of causality possessed me to put the Kelpie in there. Granted if[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhapsody is Doc Severinsen’s Rhapsody for Now.
Once again a very happy birthday to Mr. Dizzy Gillespie! The biggest thing about Diz I always liked, besides his astronomical talent, was what a fun guy he was, and because of this I will never be able to resist[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While zombies have been all the range for over a decade now for my next selection of Halloween based double feature I decided to go back to basics and go with Hollywood Voodoo. I’d been marginally interested in Voodoo and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just for a bit of fun here’s Peaseblossom’s Columbia costume from the current storyline.
With the death of Christopher Lee earlier this year I finally was drawn to watching him along with Peter Cushing in Hammer Films Horror films’ versions of some of classic monsters. I’d been hearing about some of these for year[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s been a bit of a pet peeve of mine for a while that in modern fantasy the troll has pretty much become just another word for ogre. And while in the original Scandanavian stories there are giant trolls who[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For this week’s entry in our Tuesday Rhapsodies we return to Frederick Delius with his first Dance Rhapsody (I’m afraid I did them out of order) I’m really liking the “dance” between Oboe and Clarinet in this one.
