tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76662242011-04-21T15:38:47.298-07:00"Superhero movies are the new 'Police Academy.'" - Keith GiffenBrother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.comBlogger2221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-69258729480301188422007-03-20T21:49:00.000-07:002007-03-20T21:55:51.280-07:00

For quite some time, I've been maintaining Blog'D here, as well as over at LiveJournal and MySpace. This era of triple-posting to these three sites is coming to an end, and the Blogger-flavor of Blog'D is no longer going to be available.Please feel free to continue to read about the adventures in D-Land over at the LiveJournal or MySpace editions.Thanks, and see you over there!- D

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I saw 300 this past Sunday . . . I was cautious; the director has yet to prove himself to me (he was the director behind the needless Dawn of the Dead remake), and the future of an upcoming Watchmen comic-to-film adaptation hinged on the success-or-failure of this film . . .I was not disappointed.300 is an incredibly well-done film. The performances were solid, the direction was tight, the

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Oh, I had such grand plans for February. Getting back into a solid writing routine. Hitting the gym regularly. Moving forward on House Improbabilia projects. February Feedback. Oh, February was going to be the best damned shortest month of the year.And then I got sick.My body slowly crawled toward the edge of sickness. It didn't hit all at once. But slowly, ever-so-slowly, I was losing the battle

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Mr. Clegg:I belong to your email list, include myself amongst your MySpace "friends," and have posted about you on my blog, but this is the first time I've sat down to compose a proper letter.I've been an avid reader for many years, and while Clive Barker's earlier novels have had permanent homes on my bookshelves, I've not read a lot of horror fiction. I love the horror films (and the occasional

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There's no mail tomorrow (President's Day), so Tuesday morning, a copy of this letter will find its way into the mail.Mr. Moore:There are some weeks I look at my stack of new comics and I struggle. Your comic doesn’t come out monthly, or even bi-monthly, so this doesn’t happen very often, but when a new issue of ‘Boneyard’ is released, I find myself never quite sure where to place it in my “

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Award-winning comics writer Beau Smith inspired me to do this. In his column Busted Knuckles, he's preached that emails and message board postings are fine, but that there's still a certain sense of "magic" associated with plain old letter-writing. I agree with him. There's just something a bit more personal about a physical letter, I think. (That said, just yesterday I did get a completely

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1993-1995: I took a class called Video Production at Laramie Country Community College over and over and over again. It was a great class; the final of the year was to make a "Mini-Movie," and I had a blast. Other class assignments included making music videos, commercials, documentaries, etc. I could only take the class three times for actual credit, but I went over that limit because I loved it

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My writing has been slow in 2007 so far . . . And I blame NaNoWriMo for that a little bit.I mentioned this when I first started NaNoWriMo, but I decided to try something totally new for me writing-style-wise with my novel. Somewhat inspired by Douglass Clegg, I decided to write Memories of Home using a first-person perspective, so instead of, "He did this," and, "She did that," I wrote, "I did

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So the first few days of the week started off rough, but then I got something in the mail that changed my mindset and gave me one helluva charge.My book.If you "won" NaNoWriMo and completed your 50,000-word novel, Lulu.com, as a supporter of NaNoWriMo, offered to print one free copy of the book. I worked up a .pdf of my novel, designed a cover, and uploaded it. I didn't expect a fast turn around,

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It's only Tuesday, and this has been a very hard week for me.Nothing overly stressful at work hitting me or anything like that. We had what we're calling a "House Meeting" over the weekend, and I spent a good chunk of Saturday planning the future of House Improbabilia, which got the gears going for all the different projects that could see the light of day in 2007.And then Monday hit and I went

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I'm looking at a new video card. About a week ago, Brenda and I braved the wilds of Best Buy and picked up a new ATI Radeon something-or-other for the computer. I haven't installed it just yet, and that probably should speak to the priority I've assigned being able to play MMORPGs.Initially, the primary reason we picked this up was because we wanted to be able to play games, or at least play them

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I'm home from work today. We had another bout of snow (grumble, grumble), and I was EXTREMELY grateful that I had already scheduled today off when I got up this morning. (Brenda had to work today, though. The snow on the roads wasn't insurmountable, but most of the drivers around here turn into blithering idiots when snow falls, so it took Brenda 90 minutes to make the normal 30-ish minute drive

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Directed by Raymond Zablocki, Binding Silence is a short film that tells the story of William Barner (played quite convincingly by Paul Guyet) who, while working at his uncle's used book store (his uncle is played by Michael Graves), stumbles across an old book that initially piques his curiousity but eventually snags his utmost attention. We never see much of the book; instead, we watch William

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The Shadow-Haunted Outside by The Unquiet Void is a darkly melodic, melancholy composition whose roots are inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. You might classify this music as ambient or some variant of electronica, but the truth is, this CD is damn near in a class all its own. Some music can be listened to half-heartedly and left playing passively in the background, but The

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2006 saw the 100th birthday of writer Robert E. Howard. While he is perhaps best known for his creation of the character Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard's writing spanned many different genres, leaving the literary landscape littered with hundreds of stories, dozens and characters and thousands of fans. Seventy years after his death, his work is still enjoyed today, and his fans are

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Monte Cook's Ptolus: City by the Spire can hardly be called a "supplement;" it's a record-breaking, full-color, near-700-page hardcover tome. Designed for the Dungeons & Dragons game system, Ptolus is a single city, and author/game-designer Monte Cook shares his homebrew campaign world with the masses. This is the gameworld Cook used to help co-create and gametest the 3rd edition of Dungeons &

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"The Dungeons and Dragons ride!" For years, this cartoon was only available as a bootleg at conventions, but in 2006, it finally received the DVD treatment. It's an incredible package collecting all three seasons of the cartoon series on four discs, and includes a fifth disc packed with features, including a documentary and a radio-show version of the script originally written for the finale

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Cobb: Off The Leash was a three-issue mini-series released by IDW Publishing released in mid-2006 (which is going to enjoy a reprint as a magazine-format collection in 2007) telling the story of former Level One Secret Service Agent Frank Cobb, the Russian mafia, terrorists and a good, healthy dose of action. The characterizations are tight, the plot is brisk and the artwork - by Eduardo Barreto

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To keep the "ensemble cast" vibe going (see previous award winners Deadwood and Heroes), ensemble-cast (of characters AND creators) comic 52 wins the Blog'D Award for Best New Mainstream Comic. Released as a weekly book (the title comes from the number of weeks in a year), this year-long maxi-series chronicles a year of real-time in the DC Comics Universe. While DC is best known for its iconic

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Similar to fellow award-winner Deadwood, Heroes also sports a great ensemble cast. The difference here, however, is that the ensemble cast spend very little time interacting with the each other proper. The characters interact with the same world, but with little exception, the characters are all on their own individual journeys, and they're all exciting.This show definitely appeals to the comic

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Halloween: 25 Years of Terror was ultimately the result of a Halloween convention organized not by the filmmakers, but initially by fans of the long-running film franchise. In the end, representatives from all the Halloween films were involved in the convention and this documentary, giving an incredibly dense and entertaining view of the saga. This DVD is packed with a number of worthwhile extras

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A great ensemble cast, a dedicated and talented crew, and a unique vision of the Old West, Deadwood was easily the best show of 2006, and it's a damned shame that HBO did not renew the the contracts of those involved at the end of the its third season (there is hope that a rumored TV-movie wrapping up all the dangling storylines will be broadcast, however).Obviously, a great deal of the charm of

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There are literally thousands of Internet radio shows and podcasts floating around out there, some of them serving rather general audiences, some of them targetting particular interests.Deadpit.com, hosted by the Creepy Kentuckian and Uncle Bill, is a weekly often-two-hour-plus show covering both current and 80's-classic horror films, both theatrical and straight-to-video releases. While it's

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We're going to do something a little different this year. Instead of creating one massive posting here at Blog'D covering all the award winners, we'll be posting single posts for each category. Understanding that all Blog'D readers are not created equal and those interested in the Blog'D Award for Best Television Series No Longer in Production may not care as much about the winner for Best

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Tomorrow night, January 8th, the 2006 Blog'D Awards will be announced!Originally scheduled to be announced January 7th but needing to be pushed back a day due to a ballot-tallying error not unlike the Gore-vs.-Bush Presidential election Floridian miscounts, the Blog'D Awards honor the best of . . . whatever the hell I decide. For the third year running, I will recognize those creators and

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Does anyone ever live up to their New Year's Resolutions? I've made the yearly promises and gone through the annual goal-setting myself; no reason to break tradition here.In 2007, I've got a number of personal goals, and maybe that's the key: to look at them as mono-syllable goals instead of multi-syllable resolutions. Might make them easier to swallow.In 2007, I plan to take better care of

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The year is winding down, and a number of websites are doing their annual "Best of 2006" reports, wrap-ups, reviews, and whatnot. Blog'D is no different. (Well, technically it is, but I'll get to that in a moment.)Since 2004, I've awarded the Blog'D Award to a number of different . . . things. There are no set categories for the Blog'D Awards. Put simply, the Blog'D Awards recognize the best in .

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13 rolls of wrapping paper. 150-plus presents. 12-plus hours. And I only drew blood once.Brenda works at a residential facility for children, and there are over 15 children that are going to be staying there over Christmas. Some of them might have families, some really don't, but either way, being at a treatment facility over the holidays can't be something that they're looking forward to, so I

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I've mentioned Mike's Shirt before here at Blog'D.Mike's Shirt wanted to wish everyone a Happy Holidays.

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Been a busy week in D-Land. After my birthday, I dove back into the real world, which meant working, writing . . . and playing with my new toys . . .Brenda took good care of me. Even though it's an Apple product, I'm digging the iPod Shuffle she got me for my birthday. While it is a little frustrating to not be able to manipulate my playlist while listening to it, I'm quite pleased with it, and

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1165868353298497002006-12-11T11:58:00.000-08:002006-12-11T12:19:13.313-08:00

I am now 33-years-old. I don't necessarily feel older today than I did yesterday or anything like that. I just . . . I'm older.12,045 days. On the one hand, that sounds somehow worse than throwing the number 33 around, but I've written MANY more words than that (in a month even), so for whatever weird reason, 12,000-plus days feels lesser than 33 years to me.Last night, Brenda wrapped my birthday

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I'm happy to report that I shook the funk, and I'm enjoying the end of my weekend. Saturday was an interesting mix of braving the Christmas-shopping-crowds and chilling at home with Brenda, and today (Sunday) has been a bit more of chilling at home. It's been nice (a few emails I'd rather not have received aside).Brenda's out in the living room wrapping my birthday presents, so I'm bouncing

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On the one hand, I'm thrilled as hell that today is Friday. On the other hand, it just feels like another tired day to me today.I think my apathy stems from a combination of a number of different factors: the rush of write-write-gotta-write from last month has faded a bit (unfortunately); the heat hasn't been working at work, so just keeping my fingers warm enough to type (an essential part of my

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I've talked about my friend Mike before. We met in Bozeman, and even though I moved far away from the god foresaken land of Montana, he and I are still good friends . . .Such good friends that when he came to visit back in May and he left a shirt behind, instead of sending it to him, I kept it, took pictures of it around town without him.Such good friends that when I went to Arizona for a short

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My birthday is next Monday, and I haven't quite decided just what to do with myself. Brenda and my mother have both been asking me what I'd like for my birthday (and Christmas, since that holiday's exactly two weeks later), but that's always kind of a hard question for me to answer. Sure, there's plenty of books and DVDs out there I'd like, but the best presents for me, anyway, have been the

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1164953746603277792006-11-30T22:09:00.000-08:002006-11-30T22:15:46.610-08:00

My NaNoWriMo novel Memories of Home is finished; now what am I gonna do?Seriously. What?I've been thinking about this off-and-on today. On the one hand, Memories of Home isn't REALLY finished. To make NaNoWriMo work for me this year, I had to find my "inner editor," bind him with duct tape, tie him up with rope, handcuff and stuff him in a large burlap sack, and lock him in a closet, then lose

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Let me show you a little something . . .50,399 words . . . A complete story . . . Beginning-middle-end and all that . . . No cheating . . . No avoiiding contractions to pad the word count . . . And, no, no writing "All work and no play makes Derek a dull boy."I actually completed a novel in a month.That's dope as hell.I'm pretty beat, and have another long day of work ahead of me tomorrow, so I'm

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It's 10:50pm, 11/29/06. I have 47,192 words. The goal is to hit 50,000 before calling it a night tonight.I might just pull this off.Technically, I have until the end of TOMORROW night to complete the 50,000-words-in-a-month-challenge, but my hope is to be able to brag about my 50k-words completion for at least a day.I'm off to load up some music, load up Word, and throw some words down. I'll be

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The DreadThere is one thing in this world above all others that fills me with so much anger and rage, that just imagining the possibility of this thing creeping into my world will set me on edge. My eyes tighten and burn, my neck and shoulders ache, my attitude shifts and my ability to enjoy anything leaves me. The fact that others around me might encourage this thing, hope for it, probably pray

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I hit the 30k mark tonight with my novel!I know I've blathered a bit about it here before, but this really is a pretty big deal for me. Last year, when I participated in NaNoWriMo, I didn't make it much past the 20,000 word mark. Thing was, the story I was trying to write was one that's been with me, in various forms, for at least a decade now (those who know me well would recognize it if I told

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Well, didn't make it out to the movie(s) tonight. I think I am starting to come down with something, and, yeah, I suck with that whole don't-like-going-along thing (I REALLY need to work on that, figure out where that came from, and make it go away because I'm not getting out to the movies as much as I'd like because I'm allowing the fact that those I call friends aren't as interested in some of

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1163883029244892002006-11-18T12:49:00.000-08:002006-11-18T12:50:29.260-08:00

Well, this weekend is starting to look like a busy. Original plan: Take (another) week away from the semi-regularly-scheduled gaming group. Brenda was scheduled for a hair appointment, so during that time, I'd put some more work in on my novel, then meet up with her after ward for a bit of errand-running/shoe-shopping/Christmas-gifts-for-other-people-acquistioning. At some point today, hit up

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1163327432073994562006-11-12T02:21:00.000-08:002006-11-12T02:30:32.086-08:00

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The Riddle of SteelI'm going to take a break from talking about my participation in NaNoWriMo for a moment (I'm still writing, and I have a short term goal of hitting 20,000 words by this weekend's end - wish me luck!), and talk about music. Film music. By Basil Poledouris. By the time I hit high school, I was listening to film music (in addition to a healthy and slightly weird mix of "Weird Al"

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1162876680652935952006-11-06T21:09:00.000-08:002006-11-06T21:18:00.666-08:00

National Novel Writing MonthI've mentioned before that in order to meet the 50,000-words-by-the-end-of-November NaNoWriMo goal, I need to write 1,667-ish words a day, but I fell behind last night. I'm confident that I can make up for everything this evening, though. By the time I put the novel to bed tonight, though, I anticipate being able to hit the 10,000-word mark, so I should be okay.Writing

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1162633655187486502006-11-04T01:42:00.000-08:002006-11-04T01:47:35.203-08:00

Technically, it's Day Four as I post this, but since I've been doing my writing at night, just because it's 1:36am on November 4th, I'm still viewing tonight as November 3rd.Which means three days in, and I'm at 5009 word. That's just over 10% of the 50,000 word goal.I'm pleased, but I'm also keeping in mind that last year, I reached almost 20,000 words before throwing in the towel; I've got a

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1162543898369218082006-11-03T00:50:00.000-08:002006-11-03T00:51:38.370-08:00

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1162440494038657162006-11-01T20:05:00.000-08:002006-11-01T20:08:14.053-08:00

In years' past, I've tended to get a bit down just after Halloween. I think a big part of that stems from dealing with watching the world around me put all their horror movies and memorabilia away for another year whereas I'd be just as happy keeping it up year round. Another smaller part, I think, stems from knowing that there are only two months left before the end of the year, so all the goals

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1162346652037684642006-10-31T17:59:00.000-08:002006-10-31T18:04:12.053-08:00

My cell phone woke me up this morning at 5:30am. No one was calling me; I had intentionally set the alarm clock on my cell phone to wake me this morning that early. With the Halloween title theme ring tone. I've been getting up early-early-early Halloween morning the past few years so I would have time to do up my make-up and costume. The past two years at work, I've won the costume contest; I

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1162194507889249762006-10-29T23:48:00.000-08:002006-10-29T23:48:27.903-08:00

I'm not doing a whole lot this year for Halloween. Brenda and I are still recovering a bit from the gall bladder drama from the beginning of October, and I"ve been stressing over a number of other projects and gearing up for NaNoWriMo. But, that said, I still wanted to try to catch at least one horror flick in the theater this Halloween, so this past Friday, right after work, I caught Saw 3.I

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1161745039187126992006-10-24T19:56:00.000-07:002006-10-24T19:57:19.200-07:00

The Fangoria Chainsaw Awards were on Fuse this past weekend, and I tried to DVR it, but for some reason (either on Fuse's end, Comcast's end or my DVR), the show recorded poorly, so I'll catch it on one of the many reruns of the show playing this week (for once, Fuse's insistence on mimicking MTV here by playing the same show over and over and over again for weeks on end is somewhat appreciated).

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1161408820630014252006-10-20T22:27:00.000-07:002006-10-20T22:33:40.636-07:00

As this posting will be, the next month-or-so are going to get fairly "writerly" here at Blog'D. With NaNoWriMo starting in less than two weeks (!), I'm trying to get my brain (practically stuck) in "writer mode," which isn't necessarily a bad thing. If you're here looking for my rantings and ravings about my upcoming non-novel-ish projects (Lovecraft's Life Lessons and Weaver are both still

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1161129325354535802006-10-17T16:27:00.000-07:002006-10-17T16:55:25.716-07:00

So, in further paring down on all the extra "stuff" going on, and refocussing and reprioritizing, I've made some decisions that aren't very popular with my friends. At the very least, I hope they understand; at most, I'm hoping for a bit of support here and there as I move forward.So, NaNoWriMo is in November, and the 50,000 words-in-a-month goal breaks down to around 1,666 words a day. That's

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1161054044865564402006-10-16T19:59:00.000-07:002006-10-16T20:00:44.880-07:00

As much I love this time of year, it also typically brings a lot of things into focus for me that typically get me, at the very least, thinking about contemplatively, but this year is hitting me even harder than normal. Not that I'm whining, mind you, but I do feel . . . I don't know if I'd say I feel "inadequate" or anything like that, but at this point, I would like to think that perhaps I

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1160720407905561222006-10-12T23:19:00.000-07:002006-10-12T23:22:02.003-07:00

I didn't watch it the night it originally aired, but I did record it, so last night, I caught up with Spike TV's 2006 Scream Awards.I don't quite know what to think.This year, we're being treated to two televised awards geared to the horror audience - the Scream Awards, and Fuse TV is broadcasting the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards (the Chainsaw Awards have been around for years, but to my knowledge,

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1160635250809618712006-10-11T23:39:00.000-07:002006-10-11T23:40:50.820-07:00

As promised, here are my pictures from this year's festival. Enjoy!

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1160419589791904072006-10-09T10:57:00.001-07:002006-10-09T18:09:21.023-07:00

The last day of the festival has come and gone. The three of us got down to the theater in time for the 2:00 show. Jason and Mike went to the Hellboy animated show sneak peak while I checked out Mariano Baino's film Dark Waters.Dark Waters wasn't bad. There were some genuine creepy moments and images - the director kept layering more and more "creepiness" on top of the movie and the audience, but

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1160332586464681242006-10-08T10:53:00.000-07:002006-10-08T11:36:26.483-07:00

Mike, Jason and I made it down to the theater around 2:00-ish (and didn't have nearly as hard a time this time as I did the first day driving around that part of Portland!). Checked in with a few people (something about this year seems "off" - don't know what it is, but there's a lack of the connection so far with the people I was most looking forward to see - I suspect it has a LOT to do with my

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1160243789083686142006-10-07T10:12:00.000-07:002006-10-07T11:15:53.173-07:00

(I almost didn't make the festival this year. Earlier in the week, Brenda started experiencing severe abdominal pain, and two trips to the emergency room (the first being last Sunday night), we found out her gallbladder had to be removed (which was done Tuesday night). She's recovering well, and so I was (selfishly) able to attend the festival this year . . . )This year was going to be a little

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1159425090988229052006-09-27T23:08:00.000-07:002006-09-27T23:41:01.620-07:00

. . . where I belong.I got back from Arizona Sunday night, and almost as soon as I got off the airplane, I knew I was home. I know that sounds little obvious, but there used to be a time when I was younger that I wanted to live in Arizona. I was born there (in Tucson), and my grandparents live in Scottsdale and I hate snow and I can tolerate the heat just fine and . . . and . . .. . . and I'm not

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1158816817033935242006-09-20T22:32:00.000-07:002006-09-20T22:33:37.033-07:00

I know I said I'd post when I got back, but I had to say that I find it more than a little funny that the TSA actually has to post on their website that meat cleavers are not allowed as carry-on items on airplanes . . .No kidding . . .See you in four days . . . !

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1158816430053285692006-09-20T22:26:00.000-07:002006-09-20T22:27:15.353-07:00

Heading down to Arizona for a few days; I meant to post here at Blog'D beforehand, but I waited until the last minute to pack . . .I'll swing by once I get back . . . !

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1157958403787577702006-09-10T23:45:00.000-07:002006-09-11T00:07:47.163-07:00

It's not quite even mid-September, and yet I'm starting to come across a few Halloween-isms.I had to go to Target yesterday. Now, I hate going to Target (there's something about that place that just sucks away at your soul, and, no, not in a good way). Only go there to pick up some prescriptions, so I was hoping to just run in and run out and call it good.But as soon as I walked in, immediately

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1157792716465470192006-09-09T01:43:00.000-07:002006-09-09T02:05:16.480-07:00

- At the beginning of last month, I mentioned a new character that managed to pull enough neurons together and find some sort of birth somewhere deep in my brain. I'm still writing his story, and perhaps by the middle of next month, I can start shopping the short story around . . . I'm writing in a slightly different style than I normally use (a subject for a future Blog'D . . . ).- I made some

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1156489540163356582006-08-24T23:49:00.000-07:002006-08-25T00:05:40.176-07:00

I don't know why it is. It used to be different. And it's not like I've stopped caring overall.But I just don't really feel driven to see moves in the theater much any more.The last movie I got REALLY excited about seeing theatrically was Land of the Dead. I've seen a few flicks since then, sure, but I just haven't felt the pull I used to.I used to be a lot more active as a film-goer. I haven't

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1155418347313030762006-08-12T14:27:00.000-07:002006-08-12T14:32:27.326-07:00

I logged into my account at RPGNow.com today before starting to work on a new review for them, and the total amount I have on deposit with them caught my eye.Just made me giggle . . .

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1154501752800116932006-08-01T23:55:00.000-07:002006-08-01T23:55:52.813-07:00

After a lot of soul searching, staring at a calender, recalculating my daily/weekly/monthly schedule, I've made the decision that there's no way I can complete a video production to enter into the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival this year. There's not a lack of interest. There's not a lack of concept or script. There's simply a lack of time, and I know that if I were to push something out now, I

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1153637118264190302006-07-22T22:48:00.000-07:002006-07-22T23:45:18.290-07:00

I actually prefer the heat. I was born in Arizona, for crying out loud. But living in Portland, OR, I don't expect the temperature to hit the triple-digits. If it was something I was used to, wouldn't be a problem, but Portland isn't built for such high temperature. I've gotten soft in the Northwest, I guess.And it made me sick. Literally. Maybe it was a form of heat stroke. I don't know what it

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1153122519144436192006-07-17T00:38:00.000-07:002006-07-17T00:48:39.146-07:00

It's a late Sunday night/early Monday morning, and I'm about to bid an official adieu to the weekend and start back in on the weekly routine. I'm not overly looking forward to Monday at the office, but I feel a little better about putting in my time after having a pretty decent weekend.The recent Thieving Ideas post apparently did more than give me an opportunity to vent. In about a day's time

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1152866346325112462006-07-14T01:38:00.000-07:002006-07-14T01:39:06.336-07:00

I’ve got to cut something out.Not sure what, yet, but something. There’re too many things going on in my schedule these days that are keeping me from what I NEED to be doing. Video projects languish in mid-production. Scripts and stories hang in mid-scene. Even a website is quite HTML-less right now.I’ve looked at my schedule before, and tried to make adjustments, but maybe it’s time to get a bit

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1152743731221255192006-07-12T15:16:00.000-07:002006-07-12T18:39:22.250-07:00

So I'm chillin' online last week, checking out some gaming sites, minding my own business, and I stumble across something that . . . man, I can't even put words to how angry it made me. Not not-another-horror-movie-remake angry or even why-did-they-cancel-this-or-that-comic-book angry. No, this was a he-just-ripped-me-off angry.I'll be a little vague on the details here as I don't want to

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1152251429127597642006-07-06T22:49:00.000-07:002006-07-06T22:50:29.146-07:00

Sunday afternoon, I crammed into the sold-out auditorium at the local Imax theater to catch a showing of Superman Returns. Big screen. Big sound. Big, blue Boy Scout. It was a good mix. (Although if anyone is considering seeing Superman Returns at an Imax, be forewarned that the film was not shot for the Imax format. There are some scenes and sequences that tend to visually blur quite a bit.)

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1152059867598196002006-07-04T17:16:00.000-07:002006-07-04T17:37:47.706-07:00

There are some months in which I post every few days or so here at Blog'D, and then there are some months (which seems to be the case most recently) in which I don't post much of anything. I've always enjoyed updating Blog'D; I like that I have a few readers here and there. That hasn't changed. And it would be overly easy to just say, "I've been busy."Okay, I really HAVE been busy. Let's take a

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1151272785572797122006-06-25T14:02:00.000-07:002006-06-25T14:59:45.590-07:00

I place my comic book orders once a month. I actually prefer to do it this way; paging through the latest Previews catalog gives me an opportunity to not just get the same-old, same-old every month. I might stumble across new titles, series or even companies this way, and I enjoy trying out new comics.(I'm making the best of an awkward situation here, to be honest. As a former retailer and even

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1150358240281372322006-06-15T00:53:00.000-07:002006-06-15T01:05:20.936-07:00

The other day, a conversation was had about movies. A particular movie was brought up, and one of the people looked over at me and says, "Oh, Derek, you must LOVE that movie." (I'm paraphrasing a bit.) Now, internally, I'm telling myself that I don't love the movie in question, and I have no problem telling people I don't love this particular movie, but I have a tendency to rant at times about

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1149831443216400312006-06-08T22:36:00.000-07:002006-06-08T22:37:23.230-07:00

Been pretty chill in D-Land lately.Still putting in my time at work. Got a raise. Go me.Still plugging along on my current video project. Still can't talk too much about it right now. It's not a "typical" video project for me as it's not really a narrative-style movie. There's a little bit more to it than that (and, yep, you guessed it, can't really talk too much about it right now). The reason

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1149147575584546852006-05-31T23:55:00.000-07:002006-06-01T00:39:35.676-07:00

Okay, I didn't quite ditch work as I DID have the time off scheduled, but in what may very well become an irregular middle-of-the-week/middle-of-the-day trip to the theater, I saw X-Men: The Last Stand today. I'll try to be as spoiler-free as possible here . . .Overall, yeah, I liked it. It wasn't bad. It wasn't phenomenal-knock-your-homo-sapien-socks-off, but it was good.There was a DEFINITE

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1149054340459350812006-05-30T22:00:00.000-07:002006-05-30T22:45:40.590-07:00

I spent 26 hours with my homeboy Mike. He hitched a ride with a few of his friends who happened to be driving through this way, so he had them drop him off here while they went and did whatever, and then picking him up on their way back. Mike's an old friend of mine; we've known each other for at least ten years now, and when I lived in Bozeman, I called him my best friend. (Not that he's not my

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1148485291743879672006-05-24T08:20:00.000-07:002006-05-24T08:41:31.846-07:00

(Feeling a little self-reflective this morning . . . )I've written about my movie-making history before, and I'm not going to rehash much of it here. Those who know me well know at least some of it. Let me see if I can summarize a bit (and I'll even try to keep most of it in sequential order!) Bit by the movie-making bug in junior high school. Learned by experimenting, and in high school, found

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1147927247726078572006-05-17T21:30:00.000-07:002006-05-17T21:40:47.726-07:00

Yesterday afternoon, I took a little extra time on my lunch break to catch a movie. Originally, Brenda and I were going to see Poseidon, but since she was still recovering from whatever it was that kicked both our immune systems' asses over the weekend, I was flying solo, and I ended up going to An American Haunting instead.You know, throughout the entire movie, I kept thinking to myself that at

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1147678030748721752006-05-14T23:27:00.000-07:002006-05-15T00:27:10.843-07:00

I try not to let too much time pass between Blog'D entries, and here it's been nearly 10 days since my last posting. A number of things going on right now in D-Land:- We're slowly picking up steam on a video production (or two or three!). I'm still not quite ready to discuss too many details, and despite having to call off shooting yesterday (see below), I still feel pretty good about the

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1146816151330921802006-05-05T01:01:00.000-07:002006-05-05T01:02:31.346-07:00

Okay, I know the internet's a'buzzin' about it, and on the one hand, it really IS kind of a big deal. The original Star Wars trilogy on DVD?!? How can that NOT get people excited? I mean, we're talking about a series of films that has NEVER seen a proper DVD release. (Do I have to fill in the blanks here? The so-called Special Edition was in NO WAY "proper.") The demand for the films is there,

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1146641765855066232006-05-03T00:28:00.000-07:002006-05-03T00:36:05.886-07:00

I'm a little late, but this was inspired by gmskarka. Here here assigned me the letter D. Here goes . . .Dracula: Sure, it was a novel first, and even had a stage run, but for me Dracula = horror movie villian. One of the icons of horror films, it seems like every seven-to-eleven-or-so years, another movie studio takes a crack the story . . . and, in recent history, blows it (don't get me started

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1146519630711423232006-05-01T14:11:00.000-07:002006-05-01T14:40:30.806-07:00

Well, I wasn't able to participate this time around, but the Final Girl Film Club just watched Visiting Hours. You can check out Stacie's comments on the film here.

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1146424099341269202006-04-30T12:04:00.000-07:002006-04-30T12:08:19.353-07:00

As reported over at Final Girl, it looks like something, some force of unspeakable power may have brought Jason Voorhees to a standstill . . .The legal system.Final Girl gives us this link in which an unnamed insider from the studio involved states Sadly, it seems like things are at a standstill because of rights issues. So now the remake-y prequel/"re-imagining" is on hold.Yep, I can tell you're

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1146376607550250662006-04-29T22:42:00.000-07:002006-04-29T22:56:47.576-07:00

No, I didn't make it. I wanted to. I really did. And I was ready to go. My friend Jason was going to come along. I was going to see a few other friends out there.Instead, Jason and I started a'brainstorming . . .People who know me have heard me say over and over again that I'm meaning to get back into the movie-making game. This past Tuesday, an idea slipped into my head, and I've been mulling it

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1146176276331971052006-04-27T15:09:00.000-07:002006-04-27T15:18:46.366-07:00

This weekend is the first annual Zompire: The Undead Film Festival here at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR.Oh, hell yeah . . .Friday night is "Vampire Night" showing Fright Night, Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter and a "secret screening" (featuring garlic gas grenades, leeches and retractable stakes!).Saturday night goes the route of the zombie, showing Night of the Comet, Dead Alive and

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1145915232098677422006-04-24T14:46:00.000-07:002006-04-24T14:47:12.110-07:00

So I did it . . . or, at least I tried to. Last night, after the game, I put Vampires Vs. Zombies or Zombies Vs. Vampires or whatever the hell it was called in the DVD player and gave it a shot.I tried. I really did. I wanted to give it a fair chance. Honestly. But I couldn't get past the first fifteen minutes, if that.As much as I can be overly critical of movies, especially horror movies, I try

Brother Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11319126451180386894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666224.post-1145685747527002362006-04-21T22:47:00.000-07:002006-04-21T23:02:27.546-07:00

(Yes, I admit, that's a lame title . . . maybe I should write this Blog'D using an alias . . . )Word is spreading across the 'net that J.J. Abrams has been tapped to helm the next Star Trek flick. While I won't speculate too much, if the rumors starting to circle involving doing the film as a sort-of prequel (the word prequel hasn't been used in any official capacity yet) and featuring the

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I saw this over at The 600-Second Miracle, and thought it would be fun to take a crack at myself. Four jobs I've had:- Comic shop owner (Fanboy Comics, Bozeman, MT)- Head projectionist (Procrastinator Theatre, Bozeman, MT)- Assistant manager of a video rental shop (Video Library, Livingston, MT)- Customer service "expert" (PacifiCorp, Portland, OR - where I am as I type this!) Four movies I can

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- I woke up this morning with both hands asleep, which made it very difficult to hit 'Snooze' on the alarm clock. After a few minutes, the feeling returned to my hands, but it was definitely an awkward morning.- Work had a definitely "weird" vibe today (and I've mentioned before how much I try to avoid mentioning work here at Blog'D). Turns out only ONE person called in sick today (the sun wasn't

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A few days ago, Stacie over at Final Girl mentioned an upcoming horror flick called Hatchet. The link is here. Go there . . . seriously . . . check out the trailer . . . I'll wait for you . . .Isn't that great?!? Sure, it's minimalist and all, and pretty much the only title screen missing was one proclaiming that Hatchet isn't rated PG-13. That just makes me giggle . . .(I promise a more

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Thursday is my comic book day. Or, at least one Thursday a month is. I've opted to have my comics shipped monthly through the mail-order service I use, so one day a month, UPS drops a box of comic goodness off at my doorstep during the day while I'm at work.Which makes for a long day.Part of it is the worry that somehow UPS is going to screw up the shipment. When Brenda and I owned our comic shop

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I just stumbled across a bit of net-babble. I don't know if it's true or not, but, oh, dear god, I hope it's not.A remake of Nightmate on Elm Street is in the works. With Paul W.S. Anderson tapped to direct.And Hank Azaria cast as Freddy.I hope . . . I REALLY hope this is some sort of belated April Fool's Day fake-news-item. Somehow, though, I almost believe that this could happen. I mean, if

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I'm online a lot . . . checking email . . . updating Blog'D . . . following several comic book news websites and horror movie blogs . . . But up until recently, I pretty stayed away from most of the IM programs.I used to rock all the IMs though. What was the name of that program? Trillian? Let you log into Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and ICQ all at once? Yeah, I was on that. But like I

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It's time for the Final Girl Film Club. Stacie's first movie pick was Bloody Murder, a straight-to-video "gem" directed by Ralph Portillo. My hopes weren't very high going into this movie, but I bravely slid the disc into my DVD player and hoped for the best. Would I recommend Bloody Murder to anyone?Not bloody likely.This movie has some of the intentions of your standard summer camp slasher

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Yes, another week has come to an end. It's been a rough week. Tried to get caught up on my RPGNow reviews (going to upload my fourth for the month later on tonight). Got used to driving to and from work with ease with the new(-ish) car on some days, but taking the bus home on some nights. Worked through an incredibly stressful (end of the fiscal year) week at work. It's been a long past five

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Call it a guilty pleasure. Call it whatever you want. But tomorrow night, the 29th, Brenda and I will be glued to the SciFi Channel. Ghost Hunters is back with a new season, and we can't wait!Some of you might remember that I gave the DVD release of the first season of Ghost Hunters the 2005 Blog'D Award for Best DVD-Release of a TV Show. This is a show that we stumbled across quite by accident,

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It's Sunday afternoon . . . the weekend is slowly coming to an end, and while Brenda's catching up on some sleep (she ended up working an unplanned overnighter at her work last night), I thought I'd take a second to randomly mind dump here on Blog'D.- Sold another t-shirt at CafePress. This time, I sold a shirt from my Zombies Don't Run shop. It's just kind of neat to know someone out there is

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We went to see this Sunday afternoon. As much as I want most all comic book films to succeed, I feel that, really, films based on comics or graphic novels shouldn't be allowed to make excuses for any failing just because they're based on comics.As a FILM, V For Vendetta didn't really disappoint. No, it wasn't perfect. Yes, it seemed to have some difficulty in maintaining its own stylistic

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