It’s a new year, it’s a new day and R.J. is playing something weird again…
Welcome to 2025! Now what to post…
Feet of Death? No, that one really does not look like it holds up. Great title for a Sasquatch film though.
Piranha Women? A Fred Olen Ray movie with terrible reviews. No.
The Werewolf of Washington? Maybe. It has merits, despite a 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Deceased Won’t Desist? OK. This is it. This is the official first Glib Flick post of the 2025.
This is one of those true low-budget films, produced, directed and written by the same guy: Mark Pirro. IMDB user Richard Butch sums this movie up perfectly below, thank you Richard:
My favorite movies directed and produced by Mark Pirro have always been A Polish Vampire in Burbank and Curse of the Queerwolf in that order. Both movies were low budget but very entertaining. I can now add The Deceased Won’t Desist to my list at number three. The movie has a good plot and I have always loved a mystery movie. As a bonus it is also a comedy. As always – since it is a Mark Pirro movie – the movie is low budget, but it is also entertaining. From the start of the movie to the end of the movie I wasn’t bored one bit. I thought I knew how the movie was going to end but I was wrong. And that is how a good mystery movie should be.
I would add that Mark Pirro also made a Kaiju parody called Rectuma, which has been on my list to post for some time now. I heard Swissy’s call for posts, so I threw this together (mostly with Richard Butch’s help). Just before this article posts, I will be in a title company signing off on the sale of my old house. I was going to beg Neph for a fill-in, but I cannot refuse a call for posts. After I sign away my house I am going to take some acid and go to Applebee’s to celebrate. A few months from now if all goes well, I will be in stately new R.J. Manor.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! As usual, Thursday nights is your time. Never feel bad about OT, talking about your vegetable garden surviving the snows, or anything else. For example, our fine government must certify the election results on Jan 6th – What is anyone’s bet on wacky shenanigans of some sort? Next week, hopefully things will calm down and I can resume some well-thought-out and pre-scheduled posts.
“After I sign away my house I am going to take some acid and go to Applebee’s to celebrate.”
That sounds like a weird combo.
Sadly, I have a cold and so I have to refrain from strafing orphans from a spaceship outside of Applebee’s. I remained fine through the signing and now just want to lie down.
It was that exhausting?
The cold is, yes. I hate colds. I pushed hard to get out of the house in less than a month. I’ll be find in a week, but I need some rest.
OK, get well soon!
“For example, our fine government must certify the election results on Jan 6th – What is anyone’s bet on wacky shenanigans of some sort? ”
Way more peaceful than the Trump inauguration was, which was way more violent than “J6”.
I am absolutely expecting a January surprise of some sort. I hope I am wrong.
There seems to be a lack of TDS, hysteria, and general pants-shitting this time around.
The surprise is Biden is even less competent than we feared.
Abortion clinic receptionist looks just like an ex.
additional movie-watching homework for me: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058947/
to remind me that 250,000 Americans died fighting the Nazis so that English bureaucrats can arrest people for posting unpopular ideas on facebook
and to remind me to hate even more furiously people who …. fuck it: too long a list to go into
I wonder if Q can point us to the porn version.
As for the Brits, they either do a Thatcherite turnaround when Starmer falls or they are toast.
*presses play*
What can desist, deceased by what has been ceased, will not cease once deceased.
What you did. It was seen.
Only because the past came before now is future that looks at all,
and we flip her the bird.
Yogi Berra to the white phoe please, Yogi Berra…
Yogi Berra could have been a Kamala speech writer.
Fortunately we will not be burdened by what would be, at least for four years. Kamy 2028!
I gotta check out Curse of the Queerwolf. Just too perfect. 1988, damn. “Larry meets someone he believes to be a woman, but is actually a transvestite, who turns him into a “queerwolf” by biting him on the buttocks. He transforms into a transvestite at night when there is a full moon… The only way for him to combat the transformation is to look at a medallion with a picture of John Wayne.”
[Insert epic serial-killer guitar solo here]
That’s mighty prescient, and way to take it to the fuckin’ hoop from the start. This movie came out the same year as Willow, a severely underrated flick. Mom took Infant Me to see it and…we had to leave. (That movie was created *For Me,* and my joy explosion couldn’t be contained.) Perfectly over-the-top, well-crafted fun. *feverishly claps*
I know! It’s a director who appears to have an inventory of entertaining schlock. If tonight goes well, more will be shown.
I could do Night of the Queerwolf with Queen Kong as a double feature.
“There’s no need for the foul language, you gold-digging cunt.”
LOL
Everyone has a plan until Tyson 2.0 punches you in the mouth.
https://tyson20.com/
The edibles are shaped like ears!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
That’s fantastic.
You don’t want to put anything from the bug farming company in your mouth, that’s for sure.
“chicken” yeah, right.
“Pirromount”
I already like this guy.
I see that the Queerwolf is tied into the Polish Vampire.
I like this guy.
I’m in there, somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYJo89u1Cq0
That was fun.
Last week I did watch Die Hard with my 24 year old son. He likes it. Things he noticed:
Gas was 74 cents a gallon in Los Angeles
Cops used to carry nightsticks. Now we have Tix Tok videos of cops getting beat up.
My son deadlifts close to 500 lbs but swears John McClain has way more grip strength to catch himself after falling 20 feet down an elevator shaft.
Adam Carolla has pointed out that action stars are all about grip strength.
To wit:
https://youtu.be/elpUGB9Ap1Y?feature=shared
Things I noticed when I watched last week:
Gas came in Regular and Unleaded, meaning the $0.74/gal gas was leaded.
There is no reason why the electromagnetic locks needed their power cut at the grid level.
I haven’t seen the coked up salesdude archetype in a long time.
McClaine was allowed to carry a firearm on a plane and into Los Angeles.
That CRT he tossed down the elevator shaft probably cost more than the cop car.
The first THICC Thursday After Dark of the New Year!
https://archive.is/jTmQf/363f42ccdf38de064e1db8bb1b8b4675bd5b88e1.jpg
NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
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NSFW.
https://archive.is/Sn84z/8652c210bc77a16657ee1fdc668a4b1957f44ea2.jpg
NSFW.
This one.
Ho-hum. Chicago started the new year with 5 murders yesterday. No one, except the families, care.
Some guy wrecks himself and a borrowed truck in front of a Trump Hotel and the country tries to
connect it to a mass murder in New Orleans.
Sugar Bowl gets increased security by the jillions, Chicago’s government keeps on in debt spending.
It’s just another day in Chicago. No reason to put it in the news.
I went slightly overboard acquiring DVDs recently. I was somewhat distressed when I saw that 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was a Disney film. I don’t want to give them money, though the message of “the old stuff was better” is a bit of a consolation prize.
Stuff that arrived today:
One Million Years BC (the more famous Raquel Welch version, not the earlier reptile snuff version)
Zulu
Godzilla Minus One (haven’t seen it but you guys seem ro recommend it)
Jason and the Argonauts (the Harryhousen version)
Flight of the Phoenix
Lethal Weapon 1-4* (It was a four film box)
Still waiting on
Flight of the Phoenix. (No, I didn’t get duplicates, I’ve seen the remake and thought it was okay, the remake has already arrived, I’m waiting on the original.)
*Lethal Weapon 4 was the first time I saw Jet Li in a movie, I still have a hard time seeing him as a leading man and expect him to play the villain.
Disney’s 20k under the sea implies Nemo’s Nautalis is Nuclear. I’m trying to recall what Verne’s iteration was powered by.
Serial hamster wheels.
According to the internet:
It’s a coal-powered EV.
Knowing now that Disney’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was released in 1954, I have to say that the work on the squid was very impressive.
On a storytelling note, I still wonder if there was an intended protagonist or if it was a case of “These are our characters, flawed as they are”. I mean Arronax is an idealistic fool, Nemo is the Villain, Land is an asshole, and the apprentice is ineffectual.
The issue with 20kL is that it was a special Disney club release never on the open market (best buy, amazon, etc) – unless they updated with a blu-ray release. Exclusivity like that sucks balls.
I have the silent 20kL flick – apparently the first movie actually filmed underwater- a little slow, but impressive for the period.
In Re Jason and the Argonauts – How does one choreograph a fight between live action humans and claymation Skeletons?
I admit, I never saw One Million BC before, but the depiction of the tribal humans is failing some very basic elements of logic. Their constant infighting would lead to extinction. Even amongst animals, you only see challenges to the heirarchy when signs of weakness appear.
Also, in this desert, we have seen a colossal iguana, a sauropod dinosaur, a giant tarantula, a cricket to scale, a non-sapiens hominid, and practically no plant life.
What are they eating?
There’s been pretty much no dialog for the first half hour, so I’m noticing these things.
Have you noticed something about a lot of AI visual art? There is no logic whatsoever. The appeal is pure emotional. The art, not so much aimed at leading the eye is calculated to lead you by an emotional leash.
The illustration for an ambient sleep sound video I listened to recently had a very cozy cabin on the shore of a lake with light rain and very calm water as the setting. The little cabin was barely large enough to be a dog house. The fireplace faced outward to a kind of livingroom setup – rug, couch, chair, little coffee table that had a steaming cup of coffee on it, all set up in the yard in front of the outward facing fireplace.
Given our idiot pols and cult leaders success in leading the feeble-minded around by their emotions I fear what more and more intelligent AI’s will do with knowledge of emotional manipulation. They wont need an army of T-100’s, they will recruit useful idiots.
As for what they were eating in the movie world I will give you three guesses.
Well, the sauropod was made of clay, so it didn’t need to eat, and the other critters were composite shots of regular sized animals made to look huge…
Handbrake has been pissing me off.
It always wants to burn in subtitle tracks, and goes on a cropping spree when there’s no need to crop the video but leaves the letterbox bars when there is.
Yes, I know that I can change all of those settings, but combing through every tab for every file, I miss things, and it referts to bad defaults every new file.
And now I’ve got one movie where the studio logo is taller than the frame for the film proper, so proper cropping to remove the letterboxing cuts into the logo at the start and makes me think it’s overcropping 🙁
Zulu is a much slower paced movie than I remember.
2 hrs 18 minutes?
The dead LV SF NCO has been reported to have been in some marital difficulties. By killing himself at 19 years he has assured his wife will not get his non-existent retirement. If his death in ruled “not in the line of duty” then his death benefits are forfeit as well. SGLI will still be paid to the current designated beneficiaries.
I have no idea how DoorDash’s business model works, other than ” we make it up in volume”.
I made an order for a sandwich from a national chain. They failed to include the toppings I asked for. I complained. DoorDash comp’d the entire order +$10 on my next order.
How are they making any money?
Services fees + number of orders not fucked up theoretically covers the comps and overhead.
Volume. You’ll use them again.
So just like a casino.
Math checks out.
So I’m participating in Jamuary, a challenge to produce something musical everyday during the month. I’m unlikely to do something everyday, but I do as much as I can. I’m 2 for 2 so far….
Audio at the bottom….
Jamuary 2501
https://peaksandnulls.net/index.php/2025/01/01/jamuary-2501-music-for-people-who-hate-dancers/
Jamuary 2502
https://peaksandnulls.net/index.php/2025/01/02/jamuary-2502-two-versions/
Much respect. I don’t hate dancers, though I shouldn’t and should be one… That style isn’t my bag, but I feel the groove and what went into it. I have this issue frequently, being a drummer makes it much harder for me to get into music without physical percussion, takes much longer to click.
I have similar issues with electronic drums (being a guy who’s played drums myself a long time, though I’ll stop short of calling myself a drummer), which is a major reason I don’t use them very often, and a reason why I tend to mess with time when I do use them. Jamuary 2501 is a good example of that.
I’m more often into sounds much closer to Jamuary 2502. Drones. Ambient. Stuff that doesn’t generally follow time at all. I actually really dig both of those 2502 recordings for different reasons. It’ll be a patch technique I’ll return to for sure.
Jamuary is mostly about sketching, not as a means to produce ready-to-rock music everyday. I use it to try new things, and mess around. It taught me a lot of things last year, and I’m hoping for the same this year.
I have an external Blu-Ray drive. MakeMKV can rip from it, but VLC can’t play directly from it – What am I missing to let VLC play movies off the drive? (VLC works for DVDs just fine, just not the Blu-Rays)
Not sure I trust it, but maybe in an isolated environment try this
https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/
Seems some db and other issues before playing encrypted brs
Yay, Friday,
Snow in today’s forecast. Do I take the car or the suv?
🤔🌨️❄️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqFLXayD6e8
🎶🎶
Yes.
Good morning, Sean and Ted’S.! We got some of that snow here in SW OH. Today’s doesn’t look that bad. It’s what they’re predicting for Sunday night into Monday that has me a little concerned. 😟❄❄❄❄❄❄❄
Morning.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
Yep Sunday evening is looking to be our first snowstorm.
I just called out of work today. The reason is pathetic – I’ve managed to end up with an inverted sleep schedule. So I am very tired.
Good luck keeping all the planes safe, OBE!
U, hope the weekend helps you get your sleep schedule back on track.
🤞
UCiv:
Steel this Sunday at 1:00. You could bring your application by. Match is on Practiscore.
Sounds like a plan.
Have they improved practiscore any?
It’s in a constant state of improvement. Like a highway.
The club name for the post-whatisname matches is “KFGC Action Pistol.”
Cold weather has finally arrived which means a higher gas bill.
It’s 41 in north TX. In a few days it will be in the 20s.