Also , he threw himself into his roles. He revelled in playing the villain , when , of course , in reality , you could'nt wish to meet a nicer person. And it's not about bragging rights , friends , but , I got to meet the man , twice , and his quick wit never let him down , neither did the fact that he genuinely cared about people. He really tried to give everybody some attention.....It was my great fortune that I got to meet this great man.
 He said "God" is the best definition of art he could offer , as art is where we partake of God. He was a truly kind and pleasant individual , and , though I did'nt know him as others did , I MISS HIM , AS i'M SURE A LOT OF YOU DO .
Soraia said:

Amen to that!

sleazy said:

Vincent Price had CLASS and STYLE...that's why he didn't need make-up:):):)!!!!

Or Doctor Kopper Feelgood.   Oh , you sort of said that.....
 
Steve said:

Perhaps Rev. Kopper Feelgood

Unless of course you can use both: Dr. Rev. 

Perhaps Rev. Kopper Feelgood

Unless of course you can use both: Dr. Rev. 

Hunger is one of my favorite books, and sadly, it's not as widely known as it should be. Maybe because of that whole association with Hitler by Hamsun thing. Either way, I've read it three times.

Sounds Freaky. Meth heads create a strange gray culture that exists very near home. I found this to be true at the MC Donald's in Monument CO. One of my first jobs. Whats with restaurants.... never found so many drugs

THE "FEEL BAD" MOVIE OF THE YEAR! Grim depressing tale of modern day hillbillies in Missouri who have been cooking meth for years and its aftermath. It's has a gritty documentary-like feel with almost no background music. Jennifer (Hunger Games) 
Lawrence lives with her catatonic mother and takes care of her 2 younger siblings. Her father was a meth cooker who had been arrested and skipped bond, so the family house is about to be repossessed unless she can prove that her father is dead. She walks around to all her paranoid, hostile, deadbeat relatives (they found some REALLY ugly actresses) who refuse to talk. Finally one of them forces her to take a ride and tells her that her father blew up in a lab explosion, but she checks it out and finds weeds have been growing through the wreckage for about a year. She eventually finds the scary grandpa Thump (who looks like an evil Kenny Rodgers). They take her to garage and beat her up, but eventually she is led to her father's corpse in a dark swamp and chainsaw's his hands off "because if you just turn in one hand they'll figure he cut off his hand to get out of going to jail--they know that trick" and gives them to the sheriff in a plastic grocery bag that says "Have a Nice Day." There are scenes at the high school where all the kids learn is how to take care of a baby and ROTC training. Army recruiters are everywhere. There hasn't been this kind of an unflinching look at the no-future third world in our own backyard since Gummo. The whole thing kind of reminded me a bit of a Harry Crews novel only darker. It's probably one of the scariest films I've seen in many a moon. It was nominated for 4 Academy Awards. I'll never forget the Oscar party that year at the local art theater where the executive director went dressed like a meth head in honor of this movie. Absolutely compelling. 

Augusta!!! That's awesome! Only an hour away! Keep me posted.

He had an online radio show until recently and on his facebook page he announced that he was relocating to Augusta, Georgia and will be opening a store there after the summer.

If there are any documentary makers out there, he'd be a great subject for a film.

About 2 days ago if I remember correctly...

Not sure but, please don't blame me, I'm just a drunken ape !!!

Cheers !!!

Mmm, "multi-colored luxuriant jungle" ... When's yer next episode comin' out?

And now I see light : I'm an Ape Drunke ! 

Thank you Sir.

Beware you delicious She-Apes of the mutlicolored luxuriant jungle, here I am stumblin' and dancin' !!!

I never saw Zacherle on TV but I did hang out with him at a horror convention. He's a really cool guy. 

ON Christmas eve bunch of horny rowdy chavs at a DJ club try to get laid, one of them (Bart) gets samshed in the face with a bottle after being rebuffed by a girl he's hitting on. They get into a tiny car, rob a convenience store of candy and gas (while watching a Santa Claus slasher flick) and take off for the country. They wake up with the car blocked on a dirt road by some goats, one of which is big and black and looks like it stepped off the set of a 70's devil worship film. They meet up with a guy who looks like John Holmes with wooden teeth with a perpetual shite-eating grin and a skinny retarded-looking kid who later puts locusts in a girl's bed and is later found hiding in a clock (!?) (echoes of Jean Rollin) Joe pushes the car out of the mud and they head to the villa owned by the family of one of the girls in the cadre where smiley is the caretaker and has a (seldom-seen) pregnant wife sneaking about. In true 70's Euro-horror form the upper floors are filled with dolls and mannequins. They have dinner (with a disgusting eating scene) where Joseph makes racist comments to the black guy and tells a story of a guy screwing his sister and a deformed baby coming out. He takes them into town where he introduces Bart to a girl who appears to be a nymphomaniac, who he reveals to be niece. They go swimming in a hot spring cave where a bunch of townies jump in naked and they get into a fight, of sorts. Back at the villa, they dry off and various characters pair off. The girls are on again off again. They hear a gunshot, go up the attic where one of the mannequins comes to life and they find the townies from the hot spring in the house. They take off and chase them on motorcycles and the townies crash. There are some whiffs of slasher movie, but it never really goes there. Joseph's very pregnant wife gives birth and we have a hallucination/flashback to the beginning of the movie.  Some reviews said this was meant to be a comedy. You decide. This could only have been made in France. 

Well, let's try again, shall we??!:):)

A book on the DAR:)

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They have a copy of Crews' A Feast of Snakes (I live in Atlanta, GA) at the local public library so I am going to start with that one. I used to live in San Diego for a few years, so Tapping the Source looks interesting too. (Never could stand upright on a board though . . .) They have Tapping the Source at the Kindle store as an e-book, so I'm gonna get it. Thanks again!
 
Campbell McInnes said:

Glenn, i was extremely lucky...a friend sent me his copy of The Hawk Is Dying (a first edition no less!)  that he found second hand.  And i recommend Kem Nunn - Tapping The Source.  It's long been my favorite book... still reread it at least once a year

Glenn Armstrong said:

Very cool owning a bookshop called Factotum. The Hawk is Dying looks interesting. I like the detail that the main protagonist is a seat cover salesman. The book is wicked expensive on amazon so I will try and find it somewhere. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
Campbell McInnes said:

im a bukowski tragic... hell i once owned a bookshop called FACTOTUM !  but all the usual suspects as well in my favorites

Hunter S Thompson - Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas AND On The Campaign Trail

Kem Nunn - Tapping The Source

Kerouac - On The Road

Jo Ann Beard - Boys Of My Youth

Harry Crews  - The Hawk Is Dying

JP Donleavy - Ginger Man

Henry Miller - both tropics

Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius series

Spike Milligan's War memoirs

Hemingway, Steinbeck, Hamsun, Tim Gautreaux, 

hell i read a lot! what can i say? :D

A book everyone should read:):)

Glenn, i was extremely lucky...a friend sent me his copy of The Hawk Is Dying (a first edition no less!)  that he found second hand.  And i recommend Kem Nunn - Tapping The Source.  It's long been my favorite book... still reread it at least once a year

Glenn Armstrong said:

Very cool owning a bookshop called Factotum. The Hawk is Dying looks interesting. I like the detail that the main protagonist is a seat cover salesman. The book is wicked expensive on amazon so I will try and find it somewhere. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
Campbell McInnes said:

im a bukowski tragic... hell i once owned a bookshop called FACTOTUM !  but all the usual suspects as well in my favorites

Hunter S Thompson - Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas AND On The Campaign Trail

Kem Nunn - Tapping The Source

Kerouac - On The Road

Jo Ann Beard - Boys Of My Youth

Harry Crews  - The Hawk Is Dying

JP Donleavy - Ginger Man

Henry Miller - both tropics

Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius series

Spike Milligan's War memoirs

Hemingway, Steinbeck, Hamsun, Tim Gautreaux, 

hell i read a lot! what can i say? :D

Other books on Ray Harryhausen who turned 90 recently......happy B-DAY RAY:):):)

By blackglove at 2012-07-03

Very cool owning a bookshop called Factotum. The Hawk is Dying looks interesting. I like the detail that the main protagonist is a seat cover salesman. The book is wicked expensive on amazon so I will try and find it somewhere. Thanks for the suggestions.
 
Campbell McInnes said:

im a bukowski tragic... hell i once owned a bookshop called FACTOTUM !  but all the usual suspects as well in my favorites

Hunter S Thompson - Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas AND On The Campaign Trail

Kem Nunn - Tapping The Source

Kerouac - On The Road

Jo Ann Beard - Boys Of My Youth

Harry Crews  - The Hawk Is Dying

JP Donleavy - Ginger Man

Henry Miller - both tropics

Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius series

Spike Milligan's War memoirs

Hemingway, Steinbeck, Hamsun, Tim Gautreaux, 

hell i read a lot! what can i say? :D

Not sure on the Venom film, but apparently Marvel likes what has been put on paper. And sadly, yes, anything "pre-Iron Man" is no longer "canon" in the NEW "Marvel FILM Universe". And other characters that continue to get films made (X-Men, Punisher, Ghost Rider) apparently don't fall in with what they're doing with what they want to happen in future films, and that's have crossovers. One character they have hinted at popping up in future projects is the Hulk. Mark Ruffalo has signed a 6-picture deal to somehow place himself in many of these projected ventures, but I don't think it has anything to do with the planned TV series that filmmaker Del Toro (Hellboy films, "Blade 2") has been attached to. According to Stan Lee, ABC has greenlit that series, but it won't have anything to do with the Avengers.

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

An Avengers tie-in might be a bit trickier than what they think they can do since almost all pre-Iron Man movies are licensed by someone else. Well Spiderman and the X-Men anyway.  Fantastic Four might have gone back to Marvel Productions  since THE RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER didn't too well at the box office.  The second Hulk movie was done by Marvel since the first one had a low box office performance as well.

I wonder how they are going to tell the Venomm story this time about since the Sam Raimi version was told so poorly.

An Avengers tie-in might be a bit trickier than what they think they can do since almost all pre-Iron Man movies are licensed by someone else. Well Spiderman and the X-Men anyway.  Fantastic Four might have gone back to Marvel Productions  since THE RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER didn't too well at the box office.  The second Hulk movie was done by Marvel since the first one had a low box office performance as well.

I wonder how they are going to tell the Venomm story this time about since the Sam Raimi version was told so poorly.

Exactly, Rod, Sony took a gamble while they still had the license on Spiderman. With Sam Raimi (then Toby McGuire) aborting a fourth film, someone at Sony/Columbia figured they could re-boot the character since Marvel was doing that anyway. Their dice-rolling has paid off, though, because Marvel has been very impressed with what they've seen on "The Amazing Spiderman", and like I mentioned earlier, a sequel and a Venom film is already being planned. And Avi Arad hasn't ruled out a possibility of having Spiderman crossing over somehow into the Avengers franchise...

Rockin Rod Strychnine said:

Then there's the "why bother when it hasn't been that long ago" argument such as the newest Spider-Man.  They are changing so much that I get the feeling that it's not the same at all, which is kind of what the creators are going for but why so soon?  Because Sony(?) will lose their license on the character in a few more years and not get to renew if they don't jump on it now.

Hey...

I didn't know there was a movie version of the Elementary Particles. I think Houellebec is a fascinating character - his general display of misanthropy, his public feud with his mother, his ill-fated electronic record - I can't get enough.

I have read the Elementary Particles and really enjoyed it, but I like The Possibility of An Island even more. I just went back to it again recently as part of a year of reading dystopias (which is a separate post I'd been hoping to make). It's a bit dated, but it remains poignant. If you haven't checked out his Lovecraft book, make the time - it really changed the way I read HPL.

Thanks for the post.

Stay tuned... I'll upload some tracks from his recording.

Dan