Saturday, August 29, 2015
Friday, August 28, 2015
(Recommended Reads) 'Uncle Bush's Live Funeral' by Scott Seeke
On the publicity tour for the 2010 film Get Low, the first question from the audience was always "What's the true story that inspired this film?" After more than a decade of research, Get Low writer Scott Seeke answers that question with Uncle Bush's Live Funeral. This book tells the incredible true story of Felix "Bush" Breazeale, a feared hermit who attracted ten thousand strangers to the funeral he held while still alive in 1938. Seeke had begun researching Get Low as an outsider, a New Yorker married into a skeptical East Tennessee family. By the time Get Low arrived in theaters ten years later, he had earned their trust. They opened doors that allowed him to finally learn why Bush had his funeral while he was still alive, and why so many people came. He found the moving story of a man trapped by his culture and past, desperate to rewrite his life's story before it was too late. Uncle Bush's Live Funeral shows that any outcast can find acceptance, and any label can be overcome, all masterfully told by Get Low writer Scott Seeke.
Thursday, August 27, 2015
(Recommended Reads) Arcane Solutions (Discord Jones Urban Fantasy Series Book 1) by Gayla Drummond
On New Year's Eve 2000, the stroke of midnight returned magic, both light and dark, to the world.
Discordia Jones missed it.
Struck down at that same instant like a cut-rate Cinderella/Sleeping Beauty mash up, she awakened three years later to a far stranger life, and saddled with psychic abilities.
Working as a private investigator for Arcane Solutions only brings on more strangeness.
At least there aren't talking mice...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
(Recommended Reads) MALUS DOMESTICA by S. A. Hunt
From the award-winning author of the Outlaw King series comes another harrowing adventure in the grand tradition of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Charlaine Harris.
Robin Martine has come a long way.
She's not your usual college-age girl. More often than not, Robin's washing a load of gory clothes at the laundromat, or down at the lake throwing hatchets at pumpkins. She lives in an old van, collects swords, and dyes her mohawk blue.
Also, she kills witches for a living on YouTube.
You see, Robin's life was turned upside down by those hideous banshees from Hell. She spent high-school in a psych ward, drugged out of her head for telling the cops her mother Annie was murdered with magic. Magic from a witch named Marilyn Cutty.
After a 3-year warpath across America, she's come home to end Cutty for good.
But she'll have to battle hog-monsters, a city full of raving maniacs, and a killer henchman called the "Serpent" if she wants to end the coven's reign over the town of Blackfield once and for all...
RETROSPACE presents 'Double Feature #8: Unlikely Chick Magnets'
From RETROSPACE
This film was a lot dirtier than I thought it would be, considering it starred Don Knots. No nudity - not by a mile - but it definitely touches on some adult themes out of the normal domain of Barney Fife (but maybe not Mr. Furley). In fact, Doris Day turned down a role in this flick because it was too sexually explicit...
This film was a lot dirtier than I thought it would be, considering it starred Don Knots. No nudity - not by a mile - but it definitely touches on some adult themes out of the normal domain of Barney Fife (but maybe not Mr. Furley). In fact, Doris Day turned down a role in this flick because it was too sexually explicit...
Why is Timothy (Robin Askwith) so happy? He just rocked his driving instructor's world (which literally destroys the vehicle) and now has a license to be a driving instructor himself. Let the hilarity commence!
This isn't my first rodeo with the Confessions series, so I pretty well knew what I was in for going in: lots of ribald humor (Benny Hill would approve). I'd compare them to the Carry On films, but they're a smidge randier...
Monday, August 24, 2015
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