OooooOOOOoo!!! It’s the special edition! Happy watching!
City of the Living Dead
Short Film: Capitol of Conformity. Prepare to be creeped out.
For some reason I have never posted a Fulci film. I don’t know why, it just turned out that way. I am solving that issue tonight. I chose City of the Living Dead for a couple of reasons:
- It doesn’t get seen as much as Zombi.
- It is part of a trilogy of similar zombie films done by Fulci, which focus on religious aspects of the dead rising (i.e., priest commits suicide, the dead rise.) The other films in this series are the excellent The Beyond and House by the Cemetery. I do recommend watching The Beyond if you have never seen it. A link to the full film on Tubi is above. Make it a double feature night!
- Really great cinematography* and special effects. Fulci put so much fog in the latter part of the film that a dude nearly ran his nice convertible into a tree. Yeah, that scene is in this copy.
- Plot? What plot? I thought we were touring a Halloween haunted house.
So #4 gets brought up a lot with Fulci films. Either you get into it, or you don’t. This came out in 1980. It had serious gore, zombies, and it was a solid entry in the field of zombie films. Fulci is absolutely guilty of mangling plot lines to some degree here. I forgive him, he is Italian. Also this is a zombie film. What do you want, MacBeth? This isn’t going to be Shakespeare.
We get to watch the special edition of the film tonight! That means no scenes cut out. For example, there was a drill scene that was cut from one version that was commonly at rental stores. Even if you have seen this movie in the past it is worth watching to see what new things you don’t remember.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary until the dead walk the earth in search of brains! Oh wait, that already happened… Well, anyway, next week we watch another classic, The Raven with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff!
*Does that mean the film copy is clear as a sunny winter’s day? Heck no! This was shot in the late 1970s by a coked up film crew. As all films from that time period were. Get out the fuzz-o-vision goggles! I will say that the Tubi copy of The Beyond is absolutely pristine and well-focused. Well done, whatever company transferred that.
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We get to watch the special edition of the film tonight! That means no scenes cut out. For example, there was a drill scene that was cut from one version that was commonly at rental stores. Even if you have seen this movie in the past it is worth watching to see what new things you don’t remember.
But are there boobs?
Can’t recall, oddly.
There will be boobs in Lady Frankenstein, which is coming up after The Raven. Lady Frankenstein is also an uncensored copy.
Bow-chicka-bow-bow?
There is a blowup doll, which doesn’t count.
Asking if there are boobs is always an acceptable form of Firstinng.
Dunwich. Lovecraft fans. Nice.
*hits play*
“The Raven with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff!”
YAY!
🙂
Bloated, death-warmed-over Peter Lorre, no less.
Price was the only one of the three looking good.
“Karloff? Sidekick? Fuck You! Karloff does not deserve to smell my shit!”
A classic “fuck you” worth an Academy award.
If I made movies* I’d make a “This Old House” Half-mockumentary just so I could have Norm Abram say ‘Vila? Sidekick? Vila does not deserve to smell my shit”
*obligatory
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I would watch that.
Dunwich? Lovecraft reference?
Yes, it absolutely is.
Fun fact, somebody put maggots in Fulci’s tobacco pouch during filming. Not sure hilarity ensued.
She had Daddy Issues.
And he’s a cuckold.
“I’ll take vomiting up intestines for $200, Alex.”
Yours or someone else’s?
Is this one of those films where only the slutty people get killed?
I am fairly certain this is one of those films where Italian people get killed.
It must be some great dubbing because it looks like they are speaking English.
These are the jokes!
Those old Chevy wagons looked beat up even when new.
I can’t wait to get off work. And watch this. And drink beer.
Next week is The Raven?
That is so cool.
You peeps seem to be liking the classics. Halloween week will be different. Something special.
I borrowed some culture and class.
I had to give mine back. Something about “stolen land.”
You know, you can just twitch your lips and give a Land Acknowledgement.
<==points to avatar
Lips don’t move.
OK, Shakira.
Macbeth has witches
Hamlet is the one with a ghost
You’re right Shakespeare never did anything with zombies.
Replace “zombies” with “bitches” and you have a Burma-Shave jingle.
I was told that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were dead.
No, just in England. Pretty much the same thing.
Yorick, you forgot Yorick.
So, skeletons, at least.
He was just a skull – that doesn’t count as a full skeleton.
I seem to recall he had just been dug up, so his bones were there, but Hamlet just didn’t pick up the rest of them.
Mrs. Holden’s whole job in this film is laying around and sleeping.
Jelly.
You know it.
I woke up with a fucking leg cramp at 5am.
Bit pissy about the whole “sleep” thing today.
Stretching.
Maybe some potassium. Eat a banana.
Yeah, I need to up my banana intake – like by infinity percent.
I get them once or twice a year. Sucks balls.
Lesson learned on trip up to MI UP/WI/MN: the best hotel breakfasts include bananas.
Sadly, none of them had bacon. 😞
No bacon? That’s a violation of the Geneva Convention.
You should have dispensed mad lead on those ass clowns.
Eat an Apple Banana instead of a standard banana. They have a much better taste and texture.
I grow them and most folks out here won’t touch a standard banana.
Athena can back me up.
‘I need to up my banana intake’
*raises eyebrow*
That is what I tell my wife too.
https://www.wfmz.com/features/eat-sip-shop/lehigh-valley-chef-finds-recipe-for-success-with-new-food-trailer-dishing-out-60-types/article_f089287c-63c4-11ee-b54f-1792f30d3e65.html
No one needs 60 different types of empanadas.
“We have vegan, vegetarian and lactose-free options, and I’m also working on gluten-free varieties,”
No. I assume this means you don’t have normal empanadas.
Slow down there R.J. That man is speaking my language.
When your menu gets too big, it implies that you don’t do anything particularly well.
Yup. Gordon Ramsey makes a big, correct deal out of that.
Maybe if they have all those ingredients fresh but I doubt it.
Six possible fillings that you can put in or not. 2^6 = 64 types of empanada. 🙂
You can put 37 different things in a burrito. How many is that?
Baskin Robbins?
128 Gigaburritos?
Is that a food truck, or a pop single?
I know my convertible is parked when I hit the tree.
Right? WTF was going on there?
And earlier, the blue Chevy wagon totally side swiped another car. In a later scene it had a paint kiss on the door. How much drinking happened during the filming?
All of it. All the drinking.
I gotta drop off for the night and get some sleep. I’ll finish this in tomorrow.
Thanks RJ!
Thanks for coming!
That lathe will never be right again.
This is what they need to deal with that pesky flying worm problem!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/275910003131
https://www.bugasalt.com/
I like the “Salt Wars Freedom Edition.”
This sherbet is good shit.
That’s what John-John said.
He was baked when he crashed that plane?
Ross Tucker is smart enough to know deep dish is not pizza. Ian Eagle, not so much.
Awesome. I hope you enjoy tonight’s film, and I hope you weren’t disappointing that John John….
Right. No spoilers.
After this Tubi started “Hell of the Living Dead,” which is one of the two movies used to make “Corona Zombies.”
My text to speech function is balls.
It also lets big tech know everything you say.
Everything I say, translated incorrectly. I got that going for me. I just got lazy and didn’t want to type on the phone keyboard.
“Corona Zombies” should be a drink.
Here is Vivek surrounded by bloodthirsty leftists. This is right before some asshole hit his car and shot the finger. Why? Because he is against the war in Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1710022056706744616
Campus Crusade for Meat Grinders
I feel like I’m living in a looking glass.
I was a Democrat in the 70’s because they opposed the Vietnam War.
My, how things have changed.
Fucking kids
I remember kids burning draft cards.
It’s bananas.
We should not admit Ukraine to NATO evokes the deep, well thought out response of…why not.
And the little ginger shit asking the question would be the first one in line to flee to Canada if we went to war with Russia.
My own sister gave me the white feather treatment when I told her I had no plans of going to fight in Ukraine, something which Biden himself has cautioned Americans against doing. She’s also hardcore for Team Blue. According to her, Hunter Biden’s shenanigans with Burisma are fake news.
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At the start of World War I, Admiral Charles Fitzgerald, who was a strong advocate of conscription, wanted to increase the number of those enlisting in the armed forces. Therefore he organized on 30 August 1914 a group of thirty women in his home town of Folkestone to hand out white feathers to any men that were not in uniform. Fitzgerald believed using women to shame the men into enlisting would be the most effective method of encouraging enlistment.[5][6] The group that he founded (with prominent members being Emma Orczy and the prominent author Mary Augusta Ward) was known as the White Feather Brigade or the Order of the White Feather.[7]
While the true effectiveness of the campaign is impossible to judge, it spread throughout several other nations in the empire. In Britain, it started to cause problems for the government when public servants and men in essential occupations came under pressure to enlist. That prompted Home Secretary Reginald McKenna to issue employees in state industries with lapel badges reading “King and Country” to indicate that they were serving the war effort. Likewise, the Silver War Badge, which was given to service personnel who had been honourably discharged by wounds or sickness, was first issued in September 1916 to prevent veterans from being challenged for not wearing uniform.[7] Anecdotes from the time indicate that the campaign was unpopular among soldiers, not least because soldiers who were home on leave could find themselves presented with feathers.
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Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
‘ Fitzgerald believed using women to shame the men into enlisting would be the most effective method of encouraging enlistment.[5][6] The group that he founded (with prominent members being Emma Orczy and the prominent author Mary Augusta Ward) was known as the White Feather Brigade or the Order of the White Feather.[7]’
Sorry to hear about your sister. I’m lucky enough that my sister is libertarian and my brother is disenchanted with any politics.
Channeling Jordan Peterson: Nothing more terrifying than your ideal mate* telling you that you aren’t worthy, more terrifying than death.
*All eligible women get idealized until men actually meet them, which is why so much sticking it in happens to crazy
The soldiers in these photos look unusually slovenly. Neither of them bothered to straighten their collars. One is wearing a PT shirt with his duty uniform instead of the regular undershirt in an official portrait. It makes me wonder what’s going on in the Army these days. RIP to them though.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-army-identifies-2-soldiers-killed-transport-vehicle-flips-alaska-training-area
Wow. My basic training initial “portrait” is better than that.
Expecting soldiers to be well groomed is ableist.
I’ve read a lot of reviews and seen clips from a lot of Italo zombie flicks, but I don’t think I’ve actually watched any other than the epic “Dellamorte Dellamore” aka “Cemetery Man”. With that exception, they haven’t sounded particularly appealing aesthetically. DD is gorgeous and has some amazing sequences – had to import a blu-ray though.
Capitol of Conformity was suitably dystopian. Did remind me of Brave New World.
+1
It was great. Love the BioShock esthetic.
For the early birds: Chilean protesters disable police drone with laser pointers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIOh9-RoAaE
Neat! How many lasers do you think that took though?
Also, it is from 3 years ago, any idea if this still works, is green the best color for this?
The other killer cyborg named Terminator:
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Fellow Spaceknights, including comrades Starshine and Terminator, adopted the same oath and left Galador.[15] Terminator ultimately went insane, killing Starshine and attempting to kill Rom and his human friends, as he thought all had been “contaminated”.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom_the_Space_Knight
I wonder if this is where James Cameron got the idea for the 1984 Terminator movie. I know Harlan Ellison sued him because of its similarities to sci fi stories Ellison had written.
I’ll be doing some backwoods camping (sorta*) with my wife and son this weekend. Please send prayers.
*There are no amenities, just a patch of dirt, which makes it legit backwoods, but there is a paved bike path nearby… which is weird.
Good morning all! Today’s music selections are from Talk Talk.
First up, It’s My Life.
Then the eponymous Talk, Talk.
Share and enjoy!
It’s My Life
Good morning, Beau, Lack, and Sean!
Last work day before a three-day weekend! Thank goodness the Federal Reserve hasn’t “cancelled” Columbus Day (or whatever they’re calling it now.)
I have ‘staff development day’ instead of a holiday, and my son doesn’t have it off at all, but the week after is a ‘non school day’
I guess calling it a holiday or even ‘day off’ is non-inclusive. People are getting out of hand with euphemisms.
We never got the day off from school for C’bus Day, and when the credit union I worked for was the school employees’ CU, we didn’t get it off because the Board was comprised of old retired teachers who didn’t recognize it as a holiday for that reason. Branch staff had to do transactions offline, I believe, because of the Fed being closed.
That reminds me – I understand there’s a big football game tomorrow in Indigenous Peoples, Ohio.
Is that the Delhi Indians versus the Boston Beefeaters?
Delhi should field a team – I don’t care which sport – called the Delhi Dots.
“Beefeaters” is good, but I find it irresistibly tempting to suggest “Beaneaters” instead.
What, did you think I meant Boston, Massataxes?
I stand corrected!
Now I want to go there! I might even break my commercial flight “fast” for the chance to see that landmark!
Beaneaters is the team from Juarez, it is known.
Really? I herd it was the Juarez Wallonians.
Look, even wacko NY still calls it Columbus Day.
Italian lobby?
Not for lack of lots of radicals trying to change it. But the large number of New Yorkers of Eyetalian extraction aren’t having it.
Since when did the Party care what the People think?
“Nice state ya got there. Shame if anything should happen to it…”
“Too late.”
Well, the last time it came up was under Cuomo. So yeah, it might be more a case that he wasn’t having it.
Mornin’
According to our HR department, the final arbiters of pronouns, holiday names, and sundry other contentious subjects, Monday is Indigenous People’s Day. The science is settled.
Sounds like your HR department needs reeducation.
I’ve never dived into this part of the culture war to decide if C.C. was in fact the monster they claim, or it’s just the left spinning another fantasy.
Other than his poor sense of scale, he was unremarkable.
I never dug beyond the greatest hits album but that collection is remarkable in that all the hits are, in fact, great.
Yup. Sadly under-rated band.
Happy Friday morning Glibs!
🌄☕
Kick some ass today. I’m planning on it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OrNS2zbTZg
🎶🎶
Don’t the Glibertarians Terms of Service include something about no Kid Rock links? If you’re trying to get hyped to kick some ass Master of Puppets is the only acceptable song.
I approve this message.
Mornin’, reprobates!
What’s a Kid Rock?
Good morning, ‘patzie! Continuing to feel better, I hope?
A Kid Rock is like a Pet Rock, but you’re legally obliged to support it for at least eighteen years.
Best
eighteentwenty-five years of my life!rat on a plane
So, how was your flight?
Awwwww! It’s just a widdle baby otter!! 🥰🦦
Yeah, in what manner did it “Terrorize: the flight? Was the picture taken after someone took away its bomb vest?
“Awwwwww! It’s such a cute widdle bomb vest!!”🥰💣
🤣
https://youtu.be/4fx_I4piqpY
“A subsequent police search of the vessel also located a box containing 28 live turtles, a snake, one marmot, two otters and two other rodents of unknown species among the luggage upon landing in Taipei.”
Cat lady liberated from toxic speciesism, proudly lets freak flag fly.
This reads like a script from a 1950’s farce. “Some like it hot”, 21st century style.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/men-claim-to-be-nonbinary-to-crash-womens-job-fair/
Anchal Katyalm, a software developer at Amazon, aired her grievances on LinkedIn: “It saddens me to see all those cis men attending #GHC23 and misrepresenting their gender.”
I wonder how xe knows they are cis men.
I love this story.