fireballs & tsunami

CARTEL!

Gotta…learn…Tommy Shaw’s onstage dance moves.

Check out this behind-the-scenes/making-of featurette from E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. SPIELBERG RULES!!! OMG LOL LMAO ROFL BRB.

I blog ’80s music videos these days. It is more economical than hiring monkeys to type up my posts. You hear that, Manic Monkey, Blogger for Hire? Your daily rate costs me an arm and a leg. And some bananas. How much potassium does one monkey require? I mean, really. Blotto, “I Wanna Be a [...]

While shopping for, let’s say, groceries, the total of the purchase often amounts to, for example, $17.68, or $19.84. I generally nod knowingly and tell the cashier, “That was a very good year.” The reaction, 85% of the time, is a sneer; the other 15%, a look of confusion. That’s sick. It’s like, what’s your [...]

HOT ROCKS ’50s/’60s Party! TONIGHT! Sat., April 14, 2007 Live music by: CHOP SHOP (8:30pm) THE BOSCH (9:30pm) MANCINO (10:30pm) DJs play ’50s/’60s all night! Doors 8pm / $5 Free PBR at 11:30pm! @ The Delancey 168 Delancey St. New York, NY 10002 (F to Delancey or J to Essex)

So many fabulous upcoming events! My recommendations: Chicks & Giggles, Tuesday, April 10th, Mo Pitkins One of my best friends, Becca, performing tonight with Phaea (the two comprise the best sketch comedy team in the city, Delusions of Spandex) at the famed comedy event. Also performing is Alana Harrison, a very funny lady I met [...]

Because I love watching early ’90s musicians embarrass themselves in the form of music videos. I’ve enjoyed almost everything I’ve seen and done in my lifetime so far, and while I see logic in the apothegm “Type A personalities MAKE things happen, Type B personalities LET things happen,” I am, in general, a firm believer [...]

Bob Clark, director of A Christmas Story, as well as one of my alltime favorite zombie horror comedies, Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things, was killed by a drunk driver in California yesterday. He will be missed. A clip from Dead Things, sort of a mix between George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead [...]