Of the Week, Volume I

I am re-posting this, which I removed last week:

I’ve decided that I want to do this in addition to the weekly required post because I think it would be fun. If anyone actually reads this (and likes it), then I’ll keep doing it.

Stupidly funny video of the week: Charlie the Unicorn.

This video is extremely stupid, yet awesome. The first time I ever saw it, I thought it was the dumbest thing I’d ever seen. But it’s one of those things where, despite your initial reaction, you want to watch it again the next day. I originally wanted to put this video straight onto this page, but this site is not on the “share” list, so I don’t know how to post it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY

Quote of the week: “Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” –Johnny Depp’s character referring to another character in the film “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”

News of the week: Florida College Releases Emergency Information in the Event of a Zombie Attack

- Read the news story here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_zombie_emergency_plan -

Book review of the week: “Shrieks at Midnight Macabre Poems, Eerie and Humerous” (Selected by Sara and John E. Brewton. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, Copyright 1969)

I would highly recommend this book! I love it. I enjoy the macabre immensely. Perhaps I am a sick individual, but if so, at least the rest of you can profit from that fact. Since this is a review, it does not infringe on copyright for me to make a quote. So, here is a very short poem:

Donne Redone

Ask not for whom the bells toll.
Don’t get yourself in a stew.
As long as you can hear the clang,
Relax; they’re not for you.

-Joseph Paul Tierney

This poem is one of my favorites. It is a good example of the book’s tone: it’s funny, but in a morbid sort of way. No personal library can possibly be complete without this gruesome collection of ghastly verse. Well…no personal library belonging to a person as demented as I am, anyway. It is pretty old, so you may need to buy it online, like I did, or possibly find it in a library; I don’t know whether it was re-printed.

- I wrote this review. I own the book, and that is where I got the information. -

Movie review of the week: “Pigs” 1972, rated “R”

In honor of the beginning of the Halloween season, I have chosen to review a ridiculous horror movie that I saw a few years ago with my sister and a friend. We rented it because it looked cheesy, stupid, and possibly amusing in a sick sort of way. We were correct in these assumptions.

This movie is so bad that it didn’t even hit the radar on “IMBD.” I thought that that website had every movie ever made, but I have been proven wrong. I did, however, find another review of this movie online along with the year it was made and the rating. It refreshed my memory of the plot, but I don’t want to give it away in case you want to watch it, of course. All you need to know is that 1. This film is terrible and 2. this film involves man-eating pigs.

I would recommend this movie if you are up really, really late with friends and you enjoy making fun of things. A really bad movie can be amusing if you have other people to share it with.

- I wrote this review myself. I got the year and rating from this site, which has a more complete review of the film: http://www.badmovies.org/movies/pigs/ -

Song of the week: Come Together by the Beatles

- October 1st was Rock-Your-Beatles Day! Fans were supposed to play this song at noon, but I forgot. I did remember to wear a Beatle’s t-shirt, though. -

Music review of the week: “Thriller” by Michael Jackson (from the “Thriller” album, 1982)

Since Michael Jackson died recently, and we have now entered the bewitching month of October, this week’s review is of the song “Thriller”. Most people have probably heard this song and don’t really need to read a review about it. To its advantage, it’s a classic, and it’s creepy. To its disadvantage, it is decidedly eighties. However, this song was recorded before Michael Jackson got really screwed up and was actually pretty cool. That’s another point in the song’s favor. I also like the “Vincent Price” touch (the spoken part of the song is performed by V.P. – according to Wikipedia, that part was not in the original version.)

What’s really great about this song, though, isn’t really the music itself, but the video. It features a cemetery full of the walking dead stalking a young girl – fantastic, right? I have only one question: how is it that, when the zombies first crawl out of their graves, they can barely walk and are all jerky and stuff, and yet, magically, they can dance perfectly well a few moments later?

- This review was written by me. I used this site for some of the information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(song) Here, you can see the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8 -

Suggested Food of the Week: Dreyer’s Limited Edition Pumpkin Ice Cream.

Bizarre Fact of the week: Dwight Kalb, an artist from Chicago, made a statue of Madonna out of 180 pounds of ham.

-Information from http://www.ebizarre.com/Category/Arts_and_Literature -