You Are What You Buy, Aug 2010…

Dedicated to our most dearest GalaxyJane, per her request.

Let’s see. Start with books. Or, in this case, book. This used to be such a literary crowd.

When I left for Texas I left up a link for Nathan Shumate’s exceedingly nice volume of Cold Fusion Video reviews, The Golden Age of Crap. One person took advantage of the link. I hope they will let us know what they thought of it. I bought a copy myself, and am entirely satisfied that it is a great bargain.

A friend (coff) bought a new computer, an external hard drive for it, and the latest Microsoft Office suite, disc version. Also, someone else bought a pair of Fujifilm flash memory cards.

Toys & Games: 3 jigsaw puzzles; a dinosaur themed one (cool! 100 pieces), a teddy bear (200 pcs) and the Brooklyn Bridge (2000 pcs–yikes!).

Shoes: A pair of MBT Women’s Lami Sneakers.

Music: One album; Monsterican Dream by Lordi, an import.

Nick-knacks: A 12 pc set of little skull & crossbone button ornaments.

And now, what we’ve all be waiting for. Movies!

The winner this month (I put a link up to it when it was on sale) was 3 copies of Mantango Fungus of Terror / Attack of the Mushroom People. I own it myself, I can’t imagine they didn’t consider the money to be well spent.

We also bought 1 copy each of Clash of the Titans (the real one, obviously); the awesomely delirious kung fu flick Fearless Fighters (again something I own); Forever Evil–which sadly I don’t own, despite the fact that it was written by an features an all too brief performance by the B-Masters’ own Dr. Freex, aka Freeman Williams; a combo disc for Frankenstein Created Woman / The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires; Lordi: Market Square Massacre (presumably the same person who bought the Lordi CD above); Metropolis The Restored Edition; the Ringu Anthology; a Silent Night Deadly Night set; The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (yay!); The Bermuda Depths (yay again) and a Blu Ray of There Will Be Blood.

And that wraps up August. Thanks for stopping by before you buy, everyone.

  • Rock Baker

    Frankenstein Created Woman/Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires double festure? GOT to pick that one up sometime! I’ve not seen either one!

  • The Rev.

    I haven’t seen FCW, but LotSGV was a hoot the one time I saw it on TNT’s Monstervision years ago. I too need to pick that up, as well as Forever Evil (a movie I never have finished) and The Bermuda Depths (mostly so I can finally read Ken’s review).

    Judging by her T-Fest shirt, I’m guessing the Lordi stuff was bought by none other than GalaxyJane.

  • Rock Baker

    Speaking of nick-knacks, check this out:http://robojapan.blogspot.com/2010/09/fly-bobble-head-figure.html

    What a magical time to exist!

  • GalaxyJane

    OK, OK, I’ll cop to the Lordi stuff, but it was tthe first time anyone had carried “Monsterican Dream” at a reasonable price.

    Had NOT realized that the latest restoration of Metropolis was out yet, will be adding that one directly! As well as LotSGV which I only have on VHS.

    And Nathan’s book is awesome, buy lots of copies.

  • BeckoningChasm

    Nathan’s book is excellent. It’s also available for the Kindle (if you’re like me).

  • The latest restoration of Metropolis is actually due out in November and available for pre-order until the title “The Complete Metropolis.”

  • Gamera

    Ok, I’ll ‘fess up to buying one of the copies of Mantango, Clash of the Titans, The Ringu Anthology, and the LOT7GV/FCW double feature.

    The Seven Golden Vampires was great fun but I have to admit the other had to be one of Hammer’s weaker Frankinstein films. Still the double disc set is no more expensive than the single disc of Legend so you could buy it for Legend and consider Frankenstein a ‘bonus’ disc.

    I looked at Nathan’s book but passed on it since I have piles of books waiting to be read. I’ll have to add it next time I order from Amazon though. I’m definatly up for the Complete Metropolis DVD.

  • Chad R.

    I’ll cop to one of the Matangos and the Dr. T.

    Okay, million dollar idea. Big budget Broadway remake of The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T with Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Terwilliker. It can’t fail!

  • Actually…that’s not a bad idea, at all. Run with it, Chad!

  • Chad R.

    Dottie, get me Neil Patrick Harris’s agent on the phone!

  • Rock Baker

    Think about that a little. If the play is a hit, some studio buys the rights to remake it as a new feature film. At once, Tim Burton is tagged to direct. He brings Johnny Depp with him to star. All the harmless magic is removed and replaced with nightmarish imagery. Parents think it a harmless kids’ flick. Millions of children are hopelessly scarred for life. Piano students give up their classes. Handsome plumbers and attractive widows begin to marry at an alarming rate. Families with lazy kids and funny names become the norm. America is renamed “Tinkzoonkle” or something like that. Other nations laugh at us. We’re invaded by the French because we sound like such pushovers. We’re all forced to wear black turtlenecks and dark glasses! Russia gets excited and reverts to communism, then invades Tinkzoonkle! North Korea invades South Korea, no longer protected by the Tinkzoonklians! They decide they want Tinkzoonkle too! Korea and Russia trade blows! All-out atomic war! Earth explodes! Mars crashes into the sun! Increased heat destroys Mercury and Venus!

    Now do you want that to be your legacy?

  • Chad R.

    If Tim Burton couldn’t destroy us with that Planet of the Apes remake then he just can’t do it. And anyway, we’ve still got Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo supremacy.

    Back to work! We’ll get Hugh Jackman as August Zabladowski!

  • Gamera

    The scariest thing is when I see ‘The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T’ my mind keeps misreading it as ‘The 5,000 Fingers of Mr. T.’ which would be an entirely different movie altogether…

    Murdock: (shoving sock puppet in B.A.s face) ‘I’m Captain Cabbie’s sidekick Socko!’

    B.A. (Shoving fist up in Murdock’s face) ‘I’m B.A.’s fist and my name is KNOCK-OUT’)