As we all know, I'm a little nerdy for the lesser known horror film and this gigantic 50 disc box set that is "Horror Classics: Anniversary Edition" has been burning a hole in my DVD collection for awhile now. Having bought it 2 years ago, I really could never make time to sit down to at least watch a few of the movies I haven't seen in this set (hint, the movies I have seen is the number between 9 and 11).
It seems pretty perfect that I write about classic horror on this fixer upper of a blog and I needed to organize out how I will consume myself with these horror films. So for one time and one time only, I, B, the certified 30s-50s horror nerd, will become a TCM-like programmer. 1982's holiday special "A Disney Halloween Treat" and "Hocus Pocus" will be watched sometime during the gaps below,
**Most of the movies are clickable for a trailer/tease**
**Most of the movies are also on YouTube in their entirety**
It's that time of year again! It's that time of bags and bags of caramel apple milky ways, peanuts with candy corn, and every casserole made from my online recipe book. But most importantly, it is the time for all the classic horror movies that AMC and ABC Family just won't touch! Turner Classic Movies does not entirely knock it out of the park (How many times can a girl watch "The Devil Doll" or "The Dead of Night" without wanting to recreate a few classic murder movie scenes?), but a whole night devoted to Val Lewton! Halloween Disney things! Homicidal! Mark of the Vampire! The Haunting! The list only goes so far,
I do understand that Turner Classic can only acquire so many movies considering copyright, but maybe it's time to break out some Universal or, be still my heart, anything creepy lingering in the Warner Archives now forgotten. A night of German expressionism maybe? I find myself very excited for Val Lewton night (which will summon every ounce of my TCM Halloween marathon watching skills acquired in the past 5 years...), a little known British production of "Fall of the House of Usher", and the Spencer Tracy version of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" which I have not seen yet! This will prove to be a very productive October.
I know. It's been almost a month and a half since I have advertised a few of my (new) favorite things, but you know, life. In the lieu of life and wondering if anyone is actually reading this blog or this post, leave a shout out in the comments and make a girl feel good. Please? But since it has been a month and a half, there has been plenty things cooking in my Vspot folder...
Five of the Best Words in the English dictionary: Emmy the Great, New Album
Our favorite anti-folkster has moved to the West Coast from England and adopted a new sound, this we already knew from her "Swimming Pool" single from last year. Now there are three more songs attached to this new EP entitled "S" and they all are made of ambient, sensitive, honest, and electropoppy goodness. Even in the first few seconds of "Somerset (I Can't Get Over)" you feel that "oof" factor in the "tell me something that's real like please don't get over me." But that's what Emmy has done even in her previous incarnation of Regina Spektor's lyrical cousin with her cleverness. Case in point in the same song, "F. Scott Fitzergald, Tennessee Williams/Come on let's talk about something different..." I always find it fascinating that an album or an EP comes out around a life experience of hers and that's why I love her so much. Now Taylor Swift on the other hand....(j/k)
NEW TRAILER for
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
Ten of the Most Orgasmic Words in the English Language:
Josh Groban, Three New Videos and a New Album Coming
Josh Groban will be putting a new album into the world that sounds much more promising than "All That Echoes" (sorry!) IN TWO WEEKS! While it will be nothing original like "Illuminations," which I will forgive because my Joshy has been very busy for the last few years, he will tackle the Broadway standard. Already it's been reported that standards such as "Pure Imagination" (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory), "What I Did for Love" (A Chorus Line), "Bring Him Home" (Les Miserables) "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Carousel), "Finishing the Hat" (Sunday in the Park with George), "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (The Wizard of Oz), "Try to Remember" (The Fantasticks), "Not While I'm Around" (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), "Children Will Listen" (Into the Woods) among many others. Oh, and "All I Ask of You" from Phantom of the Opera. You *do* *not* want to hear the noises I made when I discovered that one. This will be a VERY happy experience!
The Von Trapps Are Doing Indie Pop
The Sound of Music notwithstanding, "Kurt" or Werner in the real world von Trapp's great grandchildren, Sofia, Melanie, Amanda and golden hair God -- I, I mean -- August made a band and they're awesome. While the von Trapps have already released an album with the easy listening band, Pink Martini, they are putting out a more Indie poppy sound on their "Dancing in Gold" EP that will come out -- oh hey! -- today. Unfortunately, I missed the chance to see them in Des Moines a few weeks ago (but luckily I got the secondhand scoop from a friend who opened for them) but I'm ready to hear more than just the YouTube clip of their new song. Their genetic harmonies are just as genetically tight and I am so ready for this!
[EDIT: (4/14 1:23) IT'S HEERREE!]
My Homegirl Mackenzie Scott is Being Awesome Again...
By this point, you all know my deep homegirl affection for Mackenzie Scott. She's adorable and awesome and honest and can rock a Kum and Go trucker hat like no one's business. But I digress. That honesty has come back in a more vibrant way via "Sprinter" coming out May 5. While her first album was painfully truthful and beautiful in that melancholic kind of way, this time around (if her singles "Strange Hellos" and "Sprinter" is any indication), it's raw and as autobiographic as the first album. In an interview with pitchfork, she explains the lyrics come inspired by her family (she herself being adopted as well as the mother who raised her).
"Whether it be abandonment, or fear of rejection, or perhaps inability to connect with people, comes down to that fear of isolation, of not being good enough. Those are themes that have cropped up in my personal life, in my writing, and my Mom can definitely understand that herself."
Sold!
All the "N.P.H."
Pretty much all of this. All. Of. This.
" "American Sniper" alone is responsible for over $300 million of that. So congratulations to them. To put that in perspective, everyone on this side of the theater is the 7 other nominees and American Sniper is Oprah."
"Tonight on this stage we have come together to celebrate and hopefully fall in love with moving pictures all over again. OK, maybe not "Smurfs 2.""
"An actor [Channing Tatum] who is as appealing playing a male stripper as he is playing a wrestler in a onesie. He's the real deal, pants down. Hands down. Did I say pants? I meant pants. "
[on Dana Perry's pompom dress]
"I like that dress, it takes a lot of balls to wear a dress like that."
[After coming on stage in his underwear via "Birdman"]
"After that last entrance, I am a changed man"
"In "A Million and One Ways How to Die in the West," I pooped in a hat."
"Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck."
"The original title for "Gone Girl" was "Bitches Be Trippin', Yo!"
The Best Moments
"To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it’s our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!" - Patricia Arquette
and Meryl's response....
[Describing five actresses in Best Supporting Role as four actresses and...] "In accordance to California state law, Meryl Streep" - Jared Leto
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Fortune Feimster
Nathan Fillion
Patton Oswalt
Julieanne Smolinski
Film School Rejects
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