BRAINSTORM starring my FAVE American actress of all time....Natalie Wood (RIP:()

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwcqkVFa_WA

Watch out ......BRAINS can be DEADLY sometimes:):):):)

Campy as they can be, I've got a fondness for them (Bomb ones especially). The best ones often pass for restored stockers, which are my faves, but are there any folk on here with a fondness for them too?

I'm not a fan of airbrushed murals, but being a Smiths fan, I'll one make on exception to the rule: One of Morrissey or a Smiths publicity shot (assuming I can get permission from the copyright holders). Being English, I'll base it on a 60's British or European car.

Yeah, good shout, been meaning to check out his comics as well.

Thanks!

Looks like I have some reading up to do! I'm familiar with DRIVE IN... but have mostly read his Comic work.

I recommend the Jonah Hex stuff, TWO GUN MOJO and RIDERS OF THE WORM AND SUCH. Both drawn by Tim Truman and quite trashy reads.

PLUS: PIGEONS FROM HELL is crazy with fitting art by Nate Fox and based on a Robert E. Howard story.

Bubba Ho-Tep is one of the best things out there - always amazes me.

All sound good, I'll keep an eye out for them and hopefully they'll end up on my growing pile of un-read books...

Start with Savage Season and work your way through the Hap & Leonard series. Great books. Also The Bottoms is a fantastic read laced with innocence, darkness and guilt. It's got the morality of To Kill a Mockingbird sitting on top of the atmosphere and feeling of The Grapes of Wrath.

Well done for finding a great author. My first Lansdale read was also The Drive-In. Good stuff.

I just read Bad Chili, which was my first Lansdale book - wonderfully dark, funny and great overall!

I'm kind of a new convert. I read the Drive In trilogy a few months back - great stream of consciousness story telling and very, very funny in the blackest sense possible. A bunch of people trapped by an alien presence in a drive in turning feral. Also read through A Thin Dark Line which is a great little coming of age story.

Hadn't realised he wrote the original story to Bubba Ho-Tep which I'm a bit embarrassed about. I'm thinking I should track down some of his short stories now.

Anyone else a fan? Any recommendations about what to pick up next?

I've always used a PC with Windoze. Why? I can afford one, I can customize the living shit out of it and the biggest two reasons; Cause I like violent video games and I think consoles are consumerist bullshit. Plus I use a lot of freeware/very cheap software from the net that I rely on heavily to do stuff, some of which isn't available for Mac's.

I've also been tinkering with Linux a bit over the last few years and as far as I'm aware making a Mac into a dual boot machine is more trouble than it's worth.

I'd like to own a Mac, when I've had to use them I've found them very intuitive to use but the tech support down here totally blows, everyone I know that's had Mac problems has had to pay massive amounts of money to get the problem fixed and that normally takes a couple of goes. Seriously, $700.00 to get a $90.00 hard drive and a Mac OS installed! Fucking rip off!

Ha ha, Internet Explorer?? Do people still use that??

Actually my first computer was a Commodore 64, a totally rocking 8 bit monster!

I've used Macs since high school. Bought my first one in 1994 and have never used anything else. I can't imagine NOT owning a Mac, honestly. People might complain about their higher prices, but they forget the software that comes bundled with each one, including a lot of stuff that would cost you a lot of money to put onto a PC. That, and their warranties and support are amazing. I've had issues with some of my computers over the years and they always offer to repair them under warranty, even if they're a few months outside the warranty window.

I also love the OS better than Windbloze. It's much smoother, softer, nicer to look at, and intuitively easy to find things. Microsoft has always appeared to be several years behind... and don't even get me started on Internet Explorer. Also, the fact that there are virtually no issues with viruses also adds to its appeal.

In light of the recent passing of Steve Jobs, which one do you prefer?

I love the Tri-Bubbletop shot. I have yet to see these cars with my own eyes.

Mike said:

Bubblicious! A pic from yesterday's Long Beach Motorama. Great to see The Beatnik Bandit, Mysterion and the Orbitron all in the same room. Also with them but not pictured, Roth's Tweedy Pie T-Bucket

 

...and Hitler was an underappreciated painter which led to his path is politics. Should he also be honored?  Whoever thinks this is a good idea has a fairly tenuous grasp of reality.

Dude, Obama isn't the Prime Minister of Canada...

Axel Björnsson said:

Ok another reason how this threads from Obmama are ridiculous is that he allows inuits in Alaska and northern Canada to hunt whales because it in their tradition....

 

and for you whale friends. the type of whales icelanders are hunting minkes(Balaenoptera acutorostrata) and fins (Balaenoptera physalus) are not in extinction risk ..

 

and the dude talkin shit about disel spraying in the sea.. very much out of context...

So much good stuff in here!

Couple of my recent ones:

RAY BRADBURY TICKLES MY FANCY :):):)

Couple of recent charity shop finds. One obvious, one not so obvious.

The Chris Foss cover on the Ursula K LeGuin was has sod all to do with the story exactly as I expected :)