Wow, I got *nothing* posted (except some random and very occasional blog posts) during the entire month. Kudos to me. Admittedly, I got a goodly cold early on and then spent the rest of the month sleeping three times more than usual as I tried to duck one of my regular bronchitis bouts, but still. LAME!! Plus, I’ve owned this one poor woman a sponsored review for like six months now—which is why I don’t do solicit sponsorships anymore. You know, because I suck. Anyway, here’s to (hopefully) weekly pieces this month.
Meanwhile, while I was totally being a lazy bastard, you guys still paid for my bandwidth and Netflix subscription this month by hitting one of my Amazon links when you shopped there. Again, since this gives me a little bit o’ cash without costing you guys even a single cent more, I’m a big fan. It beats the tip jar hands down. Anyway, the following is *very* inside baseball, but I find nuts and bolts stuff interesting, so many a couple of you do too.
Nothing embarrassing was bought, and I don’t know who bought what, but I do know what got bought. Three presumably satisfied souls bought the DVD for Deathless Devil/Tarkan vs. the Vikings, which I direct linked in my review of the latter. I can’t say I have any fears anyone will be disappointed. Somebody also bought a companion film I suggested, Kaliman: El Siniestro Mundo de Humanon. I hope you liked it, whoever you are, but I’m pretty sure you did. It’s quite wacky.
Amongst other films attracting interest was our old subject Frankenstein Island, The Yesterday Machine, and the Vincent Price MGM Scream Legends and Sam Katzman Icons of Horror Collections. (The latter featuring The Giant Claw, our very first review subject way back in the day.) Again, I can’t imagine hearing complaints based on those suggestions. A couple of Godzilla movies got picked up, as well as a Go-Go’s concert DVD. Apparently somebody is a contemporary of mine>
There were a handful of book purchases; The Illustrated Salem’s Lot, (U.S.) Grant Come East (a novel by Newt Gingrich), Evil Empire: 101 Ways that England Ruled the World and finally Why Government is the Problem (Essays in Public Policy). No books, oddly enough, on movies. Let me suggest the following. It’s a fun, dense book, very informative, and if you like it, there are two other volumes, although the second one is a bit hard to find in this country for some reason. I bought mine off Half.com:
Putting a few more bucks in my pocket were the big tickets purchases, including a Kodak camera and the complete Buffy the Vampire set, which had been on a nice sale for a hundred bucks.
Finally, my very great thanks to the small flood of responses to my craven request that somebody burn some movies for me off TCM last Friday night. They ran a bunch of mostly obscure films featuring octopus scenes. The response to my Tarkan vs. the Vikings review indicates I’m not the only one (go figure) who loves a rubber octopus, so I’ll probably do a short dissection of the key scenes in Wake of the Red Witch, Below the Sea and Sh! The Octopus. Thanks again for everyone who offered to send me copies of not only some of those but Blood on Satan’s Claw as well. I continue to fall in love with Turner Classics. Maybe we should set up a thread on the message board for people who want to trade films like these, because, wow, that’s great stuff.
In any case, thanks again, everyone, from the bottom of my lazy little heart. Here’s to a better April, at least on my end.
