It's Me Birthday

Yes, yes, yes. It is Lord Shockedelic's 39th. Thank you for all of your kind cards and letters... both of you. Yeah. So. 39. It's kind of a placeholder birthday, y'know? Everyone who has brought up the subject has told me something I hadn't thought of: "One more year until 40!!!" Thanks. Yeah. Not obvious. At all.

So, my 39th has been slow so far. I've forgone the whole cake and cards thing. I'm not one to want too much attention drawn to me. I like a little, but lavishing is overdoing it.

I went shopping for things today; soap, paper towels, stuff that one needs to make it though the day. That's when I saw it. Big Lots must've known it was my birthday, 'cause they got a bunch of Sony and MGM DVDs and priced 'em all at $3.

I bought the following:

• Art School Confidential (hadn't seen it yet, but wanted to)
• The Amityville Horror (1979; the remake was there, but no one offered me money to take it)
• Amityville 2: The Possession (a sick, sick movie... Awesome!!!)
• The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (once again, a movie I wanted to see, but haven't yet. Steve Irwin RIP)
• Burnt Offerings (anyone for a double feature with The Changeling???)
• The Brood (to replace my Laserdisc that John Beluvich stole back in the 90's. No. I NEVER forget.)
• Foxy Brown (A classic that's worth much more. But why not Coffy?)
• The Ghoul (the 1933 Boris Karloff classic!!!!!)
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (Haven't seen it since I was a kid. I've been wanting to revisit it.)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. 'Nuff said)
• The Fall of the House Of Usher (AIP! Vincent Price!)
• Jack the Giant Killer (the original version, not the musical re-edit. Damn.)
• Roadie (Meatloaf! Alice Cooper! Kaki Hunter! Blondie! Roy Orbison! Art Carney! Hank Williams, Jr.!)
• Scanners (because, believe it or not, I didn't have a copy yet)
• Swamp Thing (Maybe I'll get lucky and it'll be the withdrawn disc with Adrienne Barbeau nudity! Update: Nope! Same old Brief nudity PG version. Doesn't matter. It's DC and Wes Craven's arguable finest hours.)

So, yeah. Lot's of AIP/Filmways, a couple of Cronenbergs, some comedies; A nice haul, don'cha think?

Some I passed over. Killer Klowns From Outer Space ('cause I already own it), John Carpenter's The Fog (might go back for that one), Amityville: The Demon (because I have it on DVD in it's original 3D field Sequential version), Bert I. Gordon's The Magic Sword (might go back for that one, too)... can't remember the others I almost went for. A nice bag of goodies for my 39th.

I'll probably spend the rest of my impending middle age chilling out and watching movies, though maybe not the ones I just bought. I just got two Korean movies that are barking at me to watch, and soon: A Tale of Legendary Libido (a period comedy about a man with an unstoppable erection... shades of Sex & Zen!) and GP506 aka The Guard Post (a military zombie movie).

Lastly, who else has formed a crush on Stephanie Courtney aka Progressive Insurance's spokes lady, FLO? She went from mildly annoying, to strangely attractive to I have to stop everything and watch whenever one of the commercials are on. It's not enough to make me go Progressive, but throw in a date with her and I might change my mind! What am I saying? Stop me!!!!!!

Kimura Kaela Day!!!!!!!

I want to wish Kimura Kaela 木村カエラ a most wonderful 23rd birthday today (October 24th; I know, it's a day early over here, but the time difference between here (Eastern USA) and there (Japan) makes it a longer than usual Birthday celebration). In honor of my favorite J-pop/rock girl's birthday, I'm dedicating my audio and video enjoyment to her music and videos for today. For you, dear reader, who might not know of the wonderment that is Kaela-Chan (please, please pronounce her name correctly: It's pronounced Kai-Rah, not Kay-Lah), here are some Youtube representations of her music videos.




Beat




Real Life, Real Heart




Tree Climbers




L. Drunk



Level 42



Magic Music




You




Happiness!!!




Snowdome




Ground Control




Samantha




With the Sadistic MIKAela Band Sadistic Twist




...And her BRAND NEW Video - Yellow

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAELA! I'm going to watch her concert DVDs today, "Kaela Live 4U", "The Circle Tour" from M!-ON tv and her latest DVD, "Live Scratch".

For more info, Here are a couple of WIKIs on her:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaela_Kimura

http://wiki.theppn.org/Kimura_Kaela

ENJOY!!!!!!!

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I guess They're NOT Coming from all over the world!

Well, the 19th of this month came and went and there was no release of "The T.A.M.I. Show". Bastards. I was all excited, too. Remember when I said I just couldn't believe it was being released? Well, there you go. There was a reason I couldn't believe it. At least one online retailer lists the release as the 17th of next month, but virtually all other websites just have it listed as not available. Solid bummer. Oh, well, there's still my bootlegs and my 8mm print. Damn, though, I wanted to hear that commentary by Steve Binder.

Time is now converging on my 38th 28th birthday as I write this and I suppose it's some milestone. A gateway into middle age. Halftime is about over, they say. Bull**it, I say. Still, some things are nice while I'm not being reminded of my impending mortality.




The nicest thing is something I'm listening to right now. In the last moments before my birthday, I'm listening to the new Love Psychedelico album, "Golden Grapefruit". It's not coming out until the 27th, but I got an advance and it will do nicely until my import comes sailing across the Pacific. I'll hold back on a review for now, since it'll be a few thousand listens before I completely digest it, but I'll say I dig it. It's not quite their best, but it's never not a pleasure to hear Naoki's jangly guitar blending with Kumi's gorgeous vocals. Not a bad song on it so far.




Hey! there're a couple of noteworthy reunions in the works. The Spice Girls and The Brilliant Green are both regrouping for some new music and I couldn't be happier. Ok, you are undoubtedly saying, you love Tommy, so I can see why you're excited about The Brilliant Green reuniting, but the SPICE GIRLS??? Hell, yeah. I can't wait. I'm more excited about this than the Police reunion.


True, it'll be a bit of a wait before the Girls of Spice release any product, but The Brilliant Green already have a song in the pipe (reportedly entitled, "Stand By Me") and it'll be out sometime next month. Excited? You betcha. I'm breathless with anticipation to find if Tomoko can still coexist with her creations, February and Heavenly, if she decides to record another album with her band mates from BuriGuri.

I suppose I'll go to bed now to get an early start on my birthday / vacation, so please be safe out there. May all the good music be on your iPod.

T - out!