Yiddish lesson for today

Kvetch [kvech] slang.
–verb (used without object) 1. to complain, esp. chronically.
–noun 2. Also, kvetcher. a person who kvetches.

kvetch
intr.v. kvetched, kvetch·ing, kvetch·es
To complain persistently and whiningly.
n.
A chronic, whining complainer.
A nagging complaint: "a rambling kvetch against the system".

kvetch
noun
1. (Yiddish) a constant complainer
2. (Yiddish) a nagging complaint
verb
1. express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" [syn: complain] [ant: cheer]

Pre-cert Betamax

Blah! I ate too much pizza tonight and I feel sick now! I guess I shouldn't have started off with that burger!

Anyway, I finally received my second batch of Betamax tapes from the UK! Yes, exiting!! They're in a terrible condition but that's not important. They're just cool to have (and they cost close to nothing).



Werewoves on Wheels Banned Pre-Cert Beta
Demon Pre-cert vhs
Hellnight Pre-Cert Banned Beta
House Of Exorcism Banned Pre-Cert Beta
I Drink Your Blood Pre-Cert Banned Beta
Love At First Bite Pre-Cert Beta
Mothers Day Pre-Cert Beta
Scanners Pre-Cert Beta
Terror Express Pre-Cert Beta
The Awakening Pre-Cert Beta
The Black Cat Banned Pre-Cert VHS
THe Blood Spattered Bride Pre-Cert Beta
The Slayer Pre-Cert Beta
Unhinged Banned Pre-Cert VHS
Virus Pre-Cert Beta

Only surviving "Vampira" show finally screening at Attic J.

Last night I watched the only surviving episode of the original "Vampira" TV show from 1954!!! It was quite a treat finally getting to watch this show after having read about it for years and years, and after having watched Tim Burton's rendition of it in his (very good) film ED WOOD. The very first time I saw Vampira (the character) was around 1991 when I went to the cinema and watched PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE in Melbourne. And now, 15+ years later I finally get to watch her old 1950s TV-show. It was great, dark, cool, horrifying, and everything. In other words; as cool as "Vampira" in ED WOOD makes it out to be! I thought the DVD would only contain the show itself but actually it also contained the film Vampira showed on that dark and chilly night: THE MYSTERY OF THE 13TH GUEST (a Monogram horror movie from 1943). I watched the whole thing and the film was alright, not the best horror movie ever, but alright. But of course, it was nothing compared to the joy of finally being able to watch the "Vampira" show, even if the whole thing only lasted five minutes or so. An interesting feature is they kept the original TV ads in the movie and altho I usually hate TV ads I thought this was pretty cool. By the way, I found an online listing of all the films Vampira showed and guess what; She did actually show WHITE ZOMBIE as portrayed in ED WOOD! However, in ED WOOD we see WHITE ZOMBIE being shown on Halloween eve which is, eh, let's call it an stroke of artistic freedom on Tim Burton's part, haha. Actually it was shown in May. The Halloween film (shown the night before Halloween '54) was actually KING OF THE ZOMBIES! Ahhh, Vampira.






PS: Yep, I was sick of this blog being all black so now we're all red! (press F11 to remove the bar on top).

À l'intérieur

Woo-hoo! I finally received À l'INTÉRIEUR aka Inside in the mail today. It's taken a while, apparently it's shaken up such a stir that it's been sold out everywhere for a while but now it's here, here at Casa J!! I also got NEKROMANTIK 2 so the weekend is saved! Hah.

Sons of Mike Nomad doing Eindhoven '84

My cd player is busted so I'm going thru my old cassette tapes (now it really IS like living in 1988 'round here; I bought Betamax video tapes last week and now I'm fucking listening to cassette tapes, haha). Anyway, one of the tapes I pulled out is a bootleg of the kings of garage-rock, THE NOMADS, playing live in Eindhoven, Holland, 1984. It's just so good and cool and... Nomads-ie! And all day I've been thinking: 'Why don't they put out something new!!!'
They ought to. Nomads forever.

(and I should probably chose which lingo to use for this blog!)

Bruno Matteis store mesterværk

I dag fik jeg Bruno Matteis RATS indenfor døren. Jeg prøvede at sætte foden for, men den rendte sgu ved siden af og nu har den gemt sig et eller andet sted. Fandens!!
Som enhver exrental-samler med repæækt for sig selv vil vide, så udkom den på Polygram lejevideo for længe siden. Jeg har i mine år som samler kun een eneste gang præsteret at finde den. Men nu er den altså så kommet tilbage til Danevang, ikke fra Polygram, men AWE, så hvorfor tar du ikke bare og køber den. Skidt med filmen, det er bookletten, du skal koncentrerer dig om.

Det er i øvrigt sjovt, som omslags-info ændrer sig; på det nye dvd-cover nævnes det, at filmen foregår i år 2240. På den gamle vhs står der 2015! Men okay, selv hvis 2015 havde været korrekt (det er det ikke), så ville jeg nok ha foreslået, at man ændrede det. Sådan er det jo uheldgivis med science fiction-film, der foregår i en nøjagtigt bestemt tidsperiode; tiden har det med at nå op til filmen, og ganske som i "Månebase Alpha" (der foregår langt ude i fremtiden, nemlig år 1999), så er virkelighedens fremtid sjældent så radikalt anderledes, som den er i forfatterens fantasi. Eller også er den. Nogle gang meget mere. Hvem havde fx forestillet sig, hvor meget computere skulle være kommet til at fylde i vores liv. Vel at mærke, UDEN at de er blevet dræbermaskiner, vi behøver leve nede i kloarkerne for at undgå. Æv! Det havde sgu nok været meget sjovt.

(Hvis du ikke kender så meget til billige horrorfilm fra Italien, og hvis du synes at kunne fornemme en vist, ahm, ironisk distancetagen til filmen, så har du naturligvis ret; RATS er et makværk uden lige, men som trashfilm fyldt med blod, vold, og bare patter, så gør den det, den skal; den underholder. Og dét er bestemt det vigtigste!)

PS. Coveret er ikke det nye, det kan man sikkert snart se alle mulige andre steder, så jeg syntes, det var sjovere med den gamle danske vhs.

An unnecessary list of film purchases in April

Homicidal Maniac (hk vcd)
Shrunken Heads (hk vcd)
Curse of the Zombi (hk vcd) - this is one I've wanted for yrs and yrs ever since I first read about it in the Asian Trash Cinema book!!!
Devil Medusa (hk vcd)
Awakening (hk dvd) - Simon Yam and Anthony Wong in the same movie! How can this go wong... wrong.
Hired Guns (dvd from China)- rare Phillip Ko flick from '81.
Hero Shed No Tears (dvd from China) - the eBay seller page promised this would be a 93 min. version. Yeah right. You live and learn!!
Fu Bo (hk dvd) - horror flick starring Eric Tsang & Anthony Wong! How could it go wong (you're getting sick of this already, aye!).
Painted Skin (taiwan dvd) - horror flick starring Joey Wong.
Nang Nak (hk dvd) - thai horror.

Flesh And Bloody Terror aka The Beasts (hk dvd)
Blue Jean Monster (hk dvd)
Devil's Three (swedish ex-rental) - from the Philippines, sequel to Cleopatra Wong.
Island Warriors (swedish ex-rental) - wild hk weirdness. Finally! Difficult to find and usually retails at a much higher price than I can afford at eBay.
Aakrosh (uk vhs) - Bollywood gangster movie. Three hours without subtitles, LOL.
Vigilante 2 aka The Citizen Rebels/Street Law (uk betamax!!) - Franco Nero!
Penitentiary 2 (uk betamax)

Warbus (uk betamax) - starring Ron kristoff.
Demon Seed (uk betamax)
Return of the Evil Dead aka Return of the Blind Dead (uk betamax) - yes it's cut by the bbfc but the cover is great!
Fear No Evil (uk betamax)
Silk 2 (uk vhs) - Cirio H. Santiago's sequel to his own Silk. From the Philippines. Not on dvd.

I need longer days with more hours!!!

Endelig truslen fra det ukendte

Yes! Endelig efter flere år har jeg endelig fået fat på Jakob Stegelmanns psykotroniske bog "Truslen fra det ukendte", som beskæftiger sig med... well, alt mulig psykotronisk popkultur! Herligt. Okay, det skal så også tilføjes, at selvom jeg har ønsket mig bogen i årevis, så har jeg rent faktisk ikke rigtig gjort noget for at få fat på den, såå... men NU er den altså hevet indenbords. Den kostede mig at bestille en Troma-dvd fra USA til sælgeren!

TAXI HUNTER - endnu en brutal Hongkongfilm endelig på dvd!

[More gibberish. Feel free to complain]

Jeg ville lige nævne, at en anden voldelig og ubehagelig Hongkongfilm (ud over FLESH AND BLOODY TERROR) netop er udkommet for første gang på dvd, nemlig Herman Yaus TAXI HUNTER, der ellers kun har været ude på vhs og vcd. Herman Yau står som bekendt også bag så ubehagelige (og underholdende!) sager som EBOLA SYNDROME og UNTOLD STORY, og endnu en fællesnævner er Anthony Wong, som også her spiller hovedrollen (som en ægtemand, det slår klik for, da hans gravide kone ved et uheld bliver dræbt af en taxachauffør, der stikker af fra ulykken). Det er iø Anthony Wongs egen favoritfilm blandt hans egne film.

Jeg har længe haft HK vcd'en i samlingen, men nu er den altså kommet på dvd, underligt nok ikke i Hongkong, men i Malaysia, og desværre har Morbid Angel denne gang god grund til at ærgre sig, for dvd'en er i fullscreen (vcd'en er en smule i lbx). Jeg har endnu ikke fået den hjem og kan ikke snakke om billedkvali, men den burde være bedre end på vcd'en. Den kan fås fra de sædvanlige butikker down Malaysia way!

Funny thing about weekends when you're unemployed. They don't quite mean so much.

Mondays are a drag. Well, except for when you're unemployed then it doesn't really matter how terribe they are, you just spit them in the face and go back to bed.
(and that headline is from a Primus song btw).