Thursday, October 12, 2006

You'll Never Live Like Common People...

Shatner Songfest


You can't defend him as a singer... but you can make a case for him being an underrated performance artist.

There's the classic "Rocketman" to the more recent Priceline.com interpretations of popular song... which led to his teaming with Ben Folds on "Has-Been"... look closely at the musicians and you'll see Folds, Lisa Loeb and Petra Hagen.

Drink deep from these waters...
No Rest For The Guilty...


Quite a lot to cover -

First of all, you might want to pop over to my sister blog MUSIC SNOB, to check out recent postings there - I've joined the file-sharing crowd!

Second, BUNKER HILL just started shooting pickups today (or yesterday, technically) - we'll be going for the next 5 days. So more pix will show up soon...

Todd Norris
, a filmmaker in KC has posted some of his films up on MySpace... take a peek. Some great stuff there...

If you're in the Topeka/Lawrence area, Patrick Rea's THE EMPTY ACRE will be screening at the second annual Slash & Bash Horror Film Marathon in Topeka, Oct. 13 & 14 - ACRE will screen Friday night (the 13th!) with a Q&A with the director and cast following the showing.


EVENT HORIZON is just as shitty a movie in its 2-disc incarnation as it was watching it on the big screen... and no amount of "this is what we WANTED to do" whining on the commentary will make it into a 'cult classic'... much like the added footage in THE ABYSS can't turn that into a good movie.

Too bad - EH had a good core concept, great design and photography and a decent cast... why they decided to turn the last third of the film into HELLRAISER IN SPACE is a unfathomable mystery within the folds of Paul Anderson's brain... "director's vision", my ass!

... and the bonus features are among the most boring that I've viewed - only about 10 minutes is actually interesting. Still... EH definitely fits the term "guilty pleasure".

Hopefully, after the dust settles, I'll actually get to do an extended Halloween posting.