New art: Cheeseheads
Because there’s nothing like finally finishing a new assemblage (I’ve got half-assembled artifacts all over the house) after hours of work, and then taking some crummy cellphone photos at the last minute, right? Special bonus: I also experimented with painting on ceramic tiles (this one’s 5″ x 5″). Both will be at the Pandemonium Gallery…
Movies Seen Recently: Oasis of the Zombies, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, The Rescue
Oasis of the Zombies (1982) – Depressingly shoddy project directed and co-written by workhorse Jesus Franco (directing as “A.M. Frank”). Franco helmed over 200 movies — and some of them were even good! — so what appears here can only be attributed to extreme apathy. We’ve got: Age makeup so light that twenty or thirty…
A Terrorist T-shirt.
So I had toyed with (or threatened, if you prefer) designing and selling this T-shirt several weeks ago. Actually, I uploaded it to one POD shirt service, but they rejected it for just about every word it contains. But it’s currently available from TeePublic, and what’s more, it’s on special sale price for the next…
Movies Seen Recently: Tales That Witness Madness, The Darkest Hour, The Ice Pirates
Tales That Witness Madness (1973) – This British-made horror anthology wants very much to be in the vein of Amicus’s Tales From the Crypt or Asylum (both 1972), but it’s substandard fare. The four stories are either inconclusive or far too drawn out (or, for extra points, both at the same time), and the framing…