7 minutes to go

I'm somewhere in the countryside and obviously I forgot to bring the electrical cord for my computer so I've got about 7 minutes left on the battery. Bummer! Anyway, it's enough time to let you know such important things as I lost out on five eBay auctions last night!! And that (fuck my computer has started countdown now!!) tonight's film is DEATH WISH 2!!! Yes, the most violent and nasty of the lot. One day I ought to track down the Greek vhs which is the only uncut version in the world.

Another collector chokes

It's always sad when someone has to sell off their treasured collection due to unforeseen circumstances. I remember how Damon Foster (editor of the legendary Oriental Cinema fanzine) had to sell off his rare films. And now Chris of Cinehound (anybody who has ever tried to win an auction for a rare vhs on eBay has been up against "Mia Mauz" at some point or another. Been up against and lost I might add, LOL). Too fucken bad.

In ter net... Eh?

Mein gott!! When will I discover the existence of the Internet!!! I do this bloody blog (rimes too), I have a handful of web-pages (altho dead ones) and I'm online almost every day... and yet I keep forgetting that Cyberspace is even there!!! As I explained in an earlier post my cd player is broke (yes bad American grammar) so I'm going thru my old cassette tapes. Tonight's tape was an old Martin Hall (alternative Danish musician from the '80s) interview from 1984 and he's talking about his (then) new record he'd just put out with his band Under For: "Apparently All The Same", a record I've wanted since 19-fucking-84! In fact I spent the 80s wanting his records but never being able to find any of them since in those days alternative music meant you couldn't buy the records if you lived 3Ks outside of the city centre (I'm not even fucking kidding!!). And then... after having had an Internet subscription for a year and a half... my brain goes (kinda like Homer Simpson); Hey, I've got this fantastic idea... why don't we... okay-okay it's a bad Eddie Hitler impersonation - but Jesus Christ!!! It finally dawns on me I can probably get these records on eBay; I look them up and sure enough there they are!! In just one scoop I get THREE of them! Gott im himmel!!! I think I'll write down one hundred times "gotta realise eBay is there" and go to bed without any dinner to punish myself for being such a retard!
Hey, how you doin' by the way?

Well hello there

The past two days I've had visitors from Japan and Greenland! Cool!! Now do stick around.

The fast lane

Today I bought two bags of chips (and made my dad pay for 'em), listened to a Sonic Youth record, saw a fat cat walking on the fence, and sent off a text message to Melbourne. Throughout the day my mum called me 'Bjarne', 'Richard' and 'Jack'. Dementia is a laugh. And not. We had mashed potatoes and fish for dinner. I also watched 'Sex & The City' (are you even allowed to when you're a gorehound?).

More Jack J sites floating aimlessly in (Cyber)space like abandoned Mir stations

Hong Kong Trash Cinema
Hardboiled Crime Books
Stay Sick! (the sorry ass web edition)
All made by Jack J, all abandoned, none of them updated since 1954.

It's a sad and beautiful world

Funny story. As you probably know I watch all kinds of weird horror movies from around the globe. One of my recent discoveries is the "Flying Head With Intestines Dangling Underneath" genre. For years I've been familiar with the very entertaining MYSTICS IN BALI but I always figured it was just a single film and not an entire genre but as it turns out there's a whole heap of films from Indonesia and (especially) Thailand about flying heads! Recently I've been able to find some of these films on VCD from Thailand (and on video from Sweden!!!) and a couple of days ago I found another one, KRASUE KUD PORB, at an eBay store in Thailand. Unfortunately someone else had already made a bid for it but I thought I'd just try and outbid him. After all, how many people are interested in these films. But then something most unexpected happened; the other "seller" kept bidding until we reached $60. Now, dear reader, think about this again; we're talking 60 dollars for a bloody un-subtitled video-cd with crappy picture quality. Even my bidding $60 was crazy so I decided to stop when the other one outbid me with $61. None of that is suspectful... but then this morning... I received an email from the seller saying the other bidder didn't have the money to pay for the VCD! So if I wanted the film I could have it for $60! Yeah right, you think I'm an idiot!! One of my film friends and I have both previously experienced to have lost auctions from this seller and just after the end of the auction he has emailed us and said that by chance he has just found an extra copy which we can buy for the same price as the winning bid. I got a feeling this seller now got greedy and wanted to see how far he could stretch the bow. I was so annoyed I began going thru all the VCD's at eThaiCD.com (often you can't do an ordinary search due to Thai titles being transcribed differently from Thai to Roman letters) and after about two short minutes I found it... at the price of... 6 dollars!! Including postage!!!
It's pretty cool to get this rare VCD ten times cheaper but it's also sad that there are people who'll go to such great lengths in order to make a buck.

Ahh, life is beautiful! I'm on holiday on the continent - and soon, very very soon, I'll be getting THIS:


The STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL from 1978!!!
It's weird; STAR WARS has been such an overwhelming success ever since the first film came out in 1977 but still almost nobody knows about this little seen TV holiday special that was made in 1978 to keep the interest in STAR WARS afloat. It stars the original actors from the real films; Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and maaaybe Mark Hamill (although some Internet sources say it's not actually the real Mark Hamill!!). It's supposed to be the worst pile of shite ever and George Lucas has (allegedly) stated he'd like to smash every copy of it with a hammer. One girl on IMDB wrote: "I lost an hour and a half of my life and really nothing happened during that time other than losing any shred of respect I may have had for George Lucas." This may very well turn out to be true... but by Jove I wanna watch this regardless.

The big wait

I ordered FATAL TERMINATION (violent Hong Kong movie) and WARDOG (violent Swedish movie) in February from "Dragon & Tiger" in Austria and now, three months later, they're finally shipping them out to me! Both DVDs were 'in stock' and it still took them three months. I emailed them and they never bothered to answer me. Anyway, screw the wait and all, I'm getting them now, they're both uncut and supposed to be excellent versions so woo-hoo!!!
You can check out D&T here.


FATAL TERMINATION stars Moon Lee, Simon Yam and Phillip Ko!!

You make me sick!

It took me ten minutes to chow down a whole bag of lollies (i.e. candy/sweets if you speak different kinds of Engerlish) and now I feel sick! For fuck's sake when will I learn!!!