George Romero´s zombie classic. Which one you prefer?
The original black and white or the color version. I dig the color treat very much, but i also treasure the original black and white classic as one of the finest moments in modern horror world. I guess the colors emphasize scenes a bit differently. Like just now i noticed the psychedelic pink tie with black dots that Barbara´s obnoxious brother was wearing before hitting terminally his head in tombstone. I wonder if there´s more old classics that need similar boost like this one.

Yeah, i've seen links to that museum...i think it's merely two miles down the road from the Liberace Museum, and the Rum Runner, Your Packer Backer Bar! There are indeed a lot of good pinball repair sites on the web, but a lot of them are still too advanced for me. It's like "huh? What? Take what off how? File what where? Solder this wha?" Oh well. I have four machines: Zig Zag ((1964 Williams)), Daffie ((1968 Williams)), Aquarius ((1970 Gottlieb)) and Darling ((1973 Williams)), of which only the Darling works essentially correctly, the Zig Zag and Aquarius work partially, and the Daffie doesn't work at all. Oh well, maybe i gotta find a smart dude to fix this stuff for me.

I've always been obsessed with pinball. Haven't managed to get my hands on my own table and don't know any of the tech stuff. theres a cool museum i want to check out in Las Vegas this year http://www.pinballmuseum.org/ Been trying to talk my uncle into giving me his "bride of pinbot" table for years. He may own the fucker but at least I got the number one score. I do most of my pinballing at bowling alleys or bars. Another could pinball resource is pinside.com you might find repair articles there.

I am wondering if there are any other folks on this site who, like myself, have a pretty much fatal weakness for old pinball machines and jukeboxes. I've got four electro-mechanical pinball machines and two jukeboxes ((one of which works)), and i live in a *tiny* house. There is definitely a mental illness component to the whole thing, because these machines are heavy as fuck ((at least jukeboxes are)), they gobble up space, they break constantly, and i'm no fucking mechanic. Yet, they are SO FUCKING COOL that i got rid of my kitchen table just to make room for another pinball machine. After all, i ALWAYS wanted to own pinball machines -- never really had an opinion on kitchen tables one way or another. I know there are a lot of pinball/juke related sites in the world, but, quite frankly, i'm always a smidge embarrassed by my technical incompetence on those sites. Lots of those dudes who have basements full of pinball machines are, like, plumbers -- to whom welding mechanical parts is almost second nature. Me, i'm just a rock geek. I'd like to exchange maintenance tips and tricks ((par example: I understand that to replace a Gottlieb bumper body, i need to desolder the light socket that, in essence, holds it in place. What are the odds that, after i desolder the light socket, that i can remove it in one piece -- that it doesn't just come apart in bits and pieces of 35-year-old metal??? No one will tell me this, so here sits my Aquarius machine with icky bumper bodies! Well i never!)) with other such brain-damaged yokels, if, in fact, any such yokels do exist. And, if not, what the hell are you waiting for??? GO BUY A JUKEBOX, YOU PANSIES!!!

"Lonely Heart" by Tara McPherson is a cool book. She's kinda girly but her images are very cool.

It's a real shame about Juxtapoz as it was the only art mag I read due to the fact that it wasn't at all 'arty'. It's just trendy shit now. I got Kustom Graphics: Hot Rods, Burlesque and Rock 'n' Roll the other day. I thought it was gonna be just some more bandwaggon jumping shit for the emoburlesque crowd but it's great! Concentrating more on graphic design than art prints, with loads of posters, flyers and LP covers by such luminaries as Rockin' Jellybean, Mitch O'Connel, Vince Ray and a whole load of incredible artists that I'd never heard of but will now be stalking to the ends of the earth. There's even some stuff to rival the mighty Art Chantry in there. A real good find. There's a little bit of stuff that was obviously done on Adobe Illustrator but not enough to detract from the superb quality of this book. It's published by Korero by the way.

Thanks. I couldn't put into words how dissapointing the new juxtapose... you're right the same six artist over and over.

Wolverton's great.

I just bought the art book of basil wolverton...good stuff if you like crumb and robert williams stuff, he was an inspiration to both of them i believe.

There was a zine I was browsing through in a store the other day called Craphound. From what I've heard they're pretty popular and back issues can be difficult to find, but there's was some great new/old tattoo flash in there. There didn't seem to be anything too sleazy... excuse me low brow on the pages but as far as the sketches and collage style layout of the pages goes, it seemed worthwhile, if you can stand that kind of hipster shit. This was from the issue I was browsing. Craphound #6 "Deaths, Telephones and Scissors"

Kubrick you say? Im into that kind of "ultra-violence". I'll be sure to check it out this weekend. Thanks again maribel!

I have to recommend this movie to everyone out there! I have to say the instrumental music in the movie reminded me of Kubrick's films, so if you dig that you will probably enjoy the music in this film. I really loved the movie and now I want to own it. It needs to be mine.

Heath, you went to early mate RIP.

Two of my favourite movies of Heath Ledger starring in were "Two Hands" and "Candy". I thought Heath played the streetwise characters very well.

I don't know any drive-ins that just play old crap; i'd LIKE it, but i don't imagine it's commercially viable. Still, that's almost not in the spirit of the problem -- if you are under the impression that, somehow, drive-in theaters used to be bastions of cool once upon a time -- and not commercial establishments that, like today, would just do whatever it takes to make a buck -- you are living under a rose-colored sun of nostalgia-inflicted brain damage. But, yeah, that said, i DID see "Dawn Of The Dead" at a makeshift outdoor theater a few years ago, and it was AWESOME. But, that said, the nostalgia of, say, corded drive-in speakers is about on par with the nostalgia of, say, corded home telephones...i.e., not particularly appealing at all.

There is one outdoor theater about 20 miles out of town from where i live, and another perhaps 45 minutes away. I go to the closer one all the time in the summertime. Why the hell not, i got a sunroof.

The coolest outdoor theater i've ever seen was on the outskirts of Kansas City. It was called "The Twin," or something similar. It looked like it was straight out of Bedrock.

I used to go to drive-ins right at the very end of the original wave, in the early 80's. The movies were godawful, they were usually porn movies with the explicit parts cut out ((i.e., anything after boobs)). As such, they mostly drew high school kids and miscellaneous scumbags, who always seemed to want to fight at the concession stand, and every other god damn thing. That was cool in a way ((yes, i used to sneak in in the trunk)), but, honestly, my suggestion is that you just get a bunch of beer, drink it, and learn to appreciate Harry Potter on some level -- even if it's just the level of "it's nice out and i'm sitting in my car getting drunk and there's some lame movie playing." The movies that people nostalgically consider "drive-in movies" were, almost without exception, so mortifyingly lame as to beggar description. Take what is there and make it yours. Thank you and good day.

There's only a couple of Drive-In's left in Melbourne and they only show what's on at the Multiplex, no HGL or Roger Corman, nothing that would get Joe Bob Briggs fired up.
The Coburg Drive-In is not far from Stately Yates Manor.
When I owned a car we used to go on hot nites, eat pizza, drink beer and fool around

i was the girlfriend, so i don't have any stories lol except i used to sneak in my guy into my dorm when i was college. 2 ppl sleeping and doing it on a twin size bed...good times?

A: Homeless.
This was a joke I'd heard in the mid 90's. After hearing it I couldn't laugh. I was the punchline. So now, (about ten years later) I enjoy hearing the stories of other couch surfing punks. The craziest predicaments I once found myself in. Now I can look back on and laugh. I'd like to hear yours.
Here are a few quick whips.
I once spent the night in a graveyard in Boise. Jumped a train from Nevada to Arizona. Sold my hoodie (covered in band patches) to a cop. Interrogated by CHP while on acid. Ate stale bagels and water for a week while on my way to Canada.

Dear goth-granny´s gone...r.i.p.

Sniff...

Nurmi, TV's Vampira, dies at 85

By JACOB ADELMAN, Associated Press Writer
Tue Jan 15, 2:07 AM ET

Maila Nurmi, whose "Vampira" TV persona pioneered the spooky-yet-sexy Goth aesthetic, has died, coroner's officials said. She was 85.

Nurmi died Thursday afternoon at her Hollywood home, Los Angeles County coroner's Lt. Fred Corral said. The cause of death has not been determined, Corral said.

Nurmi created her Vampira character -- reminiscent of Charles Addams' spooky New Yorker cartoons -- to host horror movie broadcasts on KABC TV in Los Angeles in 1954.

With darkly mascaraed eyes and blood-red lipstick, Nurmi appeared each week in her revealing black dress and slinky fishnets to introduce such films as "Revenge of the Zombies" and "Devil Bat's Daughter."

"The Vampira Show" was canceled after about a year, but Nurmi remained a cult figure among B-movie buffs and is thought to have inspired the vampish Morticia Addams on "The Addams Family," which premiered about 10 years later.

But Nurmi's cultural resonance did not translate into long-term wealth. In 1989, she lost a $10 million lawsuit that contended Cassandra Peterson's late-night horror hostess Elvira pirated her character.

"There is no Elvira. There's only a pirated Vampira," she was quoted as saying in an Associated Press story at the time. "Cassandra Peterson slavishly copied my product and made a fortune. America has been duped."

Among Nurmi's scattered film appearances following her TV career was a cameo in Ed Wood's 1959 cult classic, "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Nurmi was played by Lisa Marie in "Ed Wood," Tim Burton's 1994 tribute to the B-movie director.

Nurmi was born Maila Elizabeth Syrjaniemi in Finland on Dec. 11, 1922 and emigrated with her family to Ohio, said Heather Saenz, a friend.

In her late teens she went to New York, where she fell in with a clique of actors and artists and moved with them to Hollywood to seek a film career, Saenz said. She worked as a chorus girl and model before appearing as Vampira, Saenz said.

Nurmi supported herself late in her life by selling handmade jewelry, Saenz said.

Saenz and her husband, Bryan Moore, met Nurmi in 2005 when they recruited her to serve as grand marshal in a procession of hearses sponsored by Los Angeles' Petersen Automotive Museum.

Moore said he plans to transport Nurmi's casket in a vintage 1951 hearse that appeared in a scene of "Ed Wood."

Moore said he plans to transport Nurmi's casket in the same hearse she rode in at the parade -- a vintage 1951 vehicle that appeared in a scene of "Ed Wood."

"So that's going to be Vampira's last ride," he said.

Funeral arrangements are pending. Nurmi has no known surviving family, Moore said.

(This version CORRECTS spelling of Saenz; CORRECTS that couple met Nurmi in 2005, not 1995; CORRECTS that Nurmi's casket appeared in 'Ed Wood,' but was not featured in museum procession.)

Some nut called the movie theatre where I work and tried to get us to show this. After explaining to him that neither I, nor anyone working in the building, has any say in what is scheduled, but that he could rent the theatre for $450 if he could provide a 35mm print or a DVD (I don't think either exist although a DVD seems more plausible), and directing him to contact the head office in LA (who will not listen to him, but I had to try and get rid of him somehow), he went on to try and talk my ear off for about twenty minutes about microchips imbedded in dollar bills so forth. He kept talking really low and quiet like the feds were outside his door listening to him.
Then he wanted me to watch the movie with him on the phone. I told him I didn't have access to a computer at work (a lie, I was playing on the internet when he called). Then he told me to watch it when I got home and he'd call back tomorrow to find out what I thought about it. Suffice to say, I let all the calls go into voice mail the next day.

And here's a little somethin' somethin' on Snopes.com about George Bush and the NAU.

I like this review on Boing Boing.

I agree completely with those who say that "Grindhouse" worked better in the theatres. The fake trailers were the best part of the show. On their own, the two films don't work as well as they do in the "Grindhouse" concept. My vote would go to "Planet Terror" as the better of the two films. It's cheesy and knows it and was never boring. "Death Proof" has that great car chase scene and the usual killer QT soundtrack, but the dialogue stretches were way too long. Plus, it was filled with things like text messaging that weren't even around in the 70s. That, and the trashed film effect completely disappears in the middle of the picture. So, "Death Proof" was the less accomplished of the two, IMHO.

you cant beat the classics.