Hollywood is Dead

The always great website The Retroist led me to these zombified works of art:

Awesome!

The site is Hollywood is Dead.

Here is what the site says about itself:

This collection of re-imagined movie posters is brainchild of notorious artist Matt Busch.  Each HOLLYWOOD IS DEAD poster parody is faithfully recreated by Busch’s ability to adapt any painting style thrown his way.  As opposed to just taking the original posters and altering them digitally in PhotoShop, Busch has painstakingly hand-painted every detail with traditional mixed media, before slaughtering them with a zombified treatment.

Head on over for many more and even a blog!

Some posters look more interesting than the film they are parodying!

Starz Bunnies do The Princess Bride!

Day Twenty-One: Favorite Movie Quote

Day Twenty-One: Favorite Movie Quote
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So many to choose from!

Here are 21 movie quotes I love, instead.

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(The Princess Bride)

Inigo Montoya: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

~also~

Westley: Give us the gate key.
Yellin: I have no gate key.
Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, tear his arms off.
Yellin: Oh, you mean this gate key.

~and so many more~

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(John Carpenter's Halloween)

Dr. Sam Loomis: I met him, fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes... the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... evil.

~or~

Sheriff Brackett: It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare.

~and~

Laurie: It was the boogeyman.
Dr. Loomis: As a matter of fact, it was.
 
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(Friday the 13th)

Crazy Ralph: Doomed! You're all doomed!
 
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(Dracula)

Count Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
 
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(Elf)

Buddy: He's an angry elf.
 
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(Christmas Vacation)

Clark: Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?
Eddie: Naw, I'm doing just fine, Clark.

~or~

Bethany: Don't throw me down, Clark.
Clark: I'll try not to, Aunt Bethany.

~and~

Clark: Russ, we checked every bulb, didn't we?
Rusty: Sure, Dad.
Clark: Hmm... Maybe we ought to just go up there and check...
Rusty: Oh, woo. Look at the time. I gotta get to bed. I still gotta brush my teeth, feed the hog, still got some homework to do, still got those bills to pay, wash the car...

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(Psycho)

Norman Bates: We all go a little mad sometimes.

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(Rear Window)

Jeff: Why would a man leave his apartment three times on a rainy night with a suitcase and come back three times?
Lisa: He likes the way his wife welcomes him home.
 
~or~
 
Stella: Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
 
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(Arsenic and Old Lace)
 
Mortimer Brewster: Look I probably should have told you this before but you see... well... insanity runs in my family... It practically gallops.
 
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(Airplane!)
 
Controller: Bad news. The fog's getting thicker.
Johnny: [jumps to an overweight controller] And Leon is getting laaaaarrrrrger.

~and~

Steve McCroskey: Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

~and~

Hanging Lady: Nervous?
Ted Striker: Yes.
Hanging Lady: First time?
Ted Striker: No, I've been nervous lots of times.

~and~

Rumack: Can you fly this plane, and land it?
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.

~and~

Captain Oveur: You ever been in a cockpit before?
Joey: No sir, I've never been up in a plane before.
Captain Oveur: You ever seen a grown man naked?

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(A Christmas Story)

[Mr. Parker reads a side of the box with the prize that he won]
Mr. Parker: Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian.
Mrs. Parker: Uh, I think that says FRAGILE, dear.

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Day Four: Favorite Book

Day Four: Favorite Book

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A few years ago, I would have answered this question with The Witching Hour by Anne Rice. It is a great saga of a story, with rich, interesting characters amid the backdrop of New Orleans, past and present. When Rice is on her game, she can transport you to a place you can almost see and feel. Amazing stuff.
 
However, I think another book as replaced that one as my favorite.
 
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The Princess Bride by William Goldman
 

 
The Princess Bride is mostly known to the world due to the equally awesome 1987 film based on the book. And while the movie is great fun, the book is its own brand of wonderful.
 
Goldman writes the book as an abridged version of a longer, boring text by S. Morgenstern. His version is supposed to be the "fun" version, filled with adventure, comedy, fantasy and true love. It is all of that and more.
 
If you only know the story of The Princess Bride from the movie, pick up a copy of the book. You won't be disappointed, and you'll see why it is my favorite book.
 
Click here for an excerpt of the book.

Most Loved Meme

Okay, yesterday was about the "hate", so today is all about the "love"

And I am already late, as Cal has already done this one, as have Darius Whiteplume and Dr. Monkey!



Here we go:

1. Most Loved Food: So many to choose from! I will go with Chicken Parmigiana with Garlic Bread. Mmmmmm

2. Most Loved Person: That would be Ravyn, my Mrs. I am one lucky dude!

3. Most Loved Job: Have to say that I loved aspects of my supermarket job. The organization part of it filled a neurotic OCD need my brain has, which in turn made me pretty good at it.

4. Most Loved City: Well, it's a town, but I really love little York, Maine.

5. Most Loved Band: Red Hot Chili Peppers.

6. Most Loved Website: I guess I will have to go with IMDb, since I am always checking it to find out some obscure fact or another about movies and TV.

7. Most Loved TV Program: Friday the 13th: The Series

8. Most Loved Movie: Halloween. The original, not the remake, of course.

9. Most Loved Artist: Dolly Parton. I know you may think I am playing loose with the term, but I am not. She has such a talent for writing and performing music that hits just the write spot in the heart and brain.

10. Most Loved Book: The Princess Bride by William Goldman. The movie is awesome and the book is so wonderful, as well. I think I am gonna read it again this year.

11. Most Loved Shop: Yummies in Kittery, Maine. Wall-to-wall candy, with many retro favorites.

12. Most Loved Organization: The ACLU.

13. Most Loved Historical Event: Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle.

14. Most Loved Sport: Baseball, 'nuf said.

15. Most Loved Piece of Tech: PCs. They have changed the world, and my life is one of the many profoundly affected for the better.

16. Most Loved Annual Event: Christmastime. We celebrate a non-religious holiday that goes from the day after Thanksgiving until New Year's Day, and we try and enjoy everything about the season, so that it isn't all just build up for one quick day.

17. Most Loved Daily Task: Having the first cup of coffee in the morning.

18. Most Loved Comedian: Right now, it is Jeff Dunham and his menagerie.

What do you think?

10 Comfort Movies

Curious George at TVANDCELLULOID did a post on his 10 Comfort Films - movies that make you feel good and give you an escape. I liked the idea, so here are my top 10 Comfort Films:

Casablanca, which Curious George also mentions. Love this movie, love the characters and the message of self-sacrifice that comes across in different ways from different people. Always a good one to watch. Love the song, too.

Rear Window, which is my favorite Hitchcock film. I just love it, love the main characters, love the story. It all feels so personal.

Halloween. I have seen this movie many times over the years, and I enjoy it each time. If you just watch this film for what it is and forget all that would come later, it is just so creepy. Michael Myers is so creepy, lurking barely hidden here and there. Great film. Sadly, the remake was NONE of those things.

Arsenic and Old Lace. Such fun! This is such a great movie. They don't make them like this anymore - actors or movies.

The Princess Bride. A modern classic. And so damn quotable! Love it all, each scene is so good. "As you wish."

Christmas Vacation, I usually just watch this in Demember, but it is a comfort movie for that time of the year. Funny, goofy stuff. And all of Clark's mania is redeemed by the scene of him watching the old family movies in the attic. He just wants to achieve once more what he remembers from childhood. So relatable.

Overboard. Not an Academy Award winner, but that doesn't matter to me. This is fun, relaxed, inane stuff. Loved Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell here more than anything. "Andrew! I'm sitting!" heh!

Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI. To me, this is the perfect "Jason" movie. Fun, creepy, totally '80s - just a fun, slasher-film ride from start to finish.

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes. Okay, this may seem like an obscure one, but I caught this on TCM one time when I was laid up in bed, and watched it from start to finish and fell in love with it. Next time it aired, I recorded it to save. The characters are great, love Edward G. Robinson and Agnes Moorhead and Margaret O'Brien. There is a scene in this movie, where little Selma shows her selflessness, that rivals the end of It's a Wonderful Life, in my opinion.

The Emperor's New Groove. Animated, zany fun! This movie had a torturous process being made, going from serious drama to wacked-out comedy, but it is just so damn funny. David Spade, Patrick Warburton and the late, great Eartha Kitt are just fantastic in this. And I just got it on DVD from my kids for my birthday. Sweet!

There others I thought of including (Harvey, The Thin Man, Die Hard), but these ten seemed like the best choices for the "top". What about you? What do you pop in when you need a boost?