Enjoy the terrors of these classic old-time radio horror productions. These are some of the tales that people used to spend their evenings listening to back in the 1930s and 40s. What a treat for a stormy night! You’ll stay up very late listening to these frightening dramas.
We’ve got stories from ‘Frankenstein’ to Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ to Orson Welles’ original ‘War of the Worlds’ broadcast.
These incredible stories feature the voices of Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Agnes Moorehead, Basil Rathbone, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, Vincent Price, and Orson Welles.
Josh and Jeremiah Daws directed this short horror film almost entirely during a trip to Disneyland. That's a form of guerrilla filmmaking I can appreciate because it actually uses all that time wasted in lines for a good purpose. So, three friends go to the Haunted Mansion and vanish. Someone then finds their video camera.
Little Green God of Agony is a free comic book offered by Stephen King on his web site. The adaptation of his short story is drawn by Dennis Calero of X-Men fame. You can read it in installments three times a week.
Tomb of the Mummy is a terrifying, brain-twisting, head-bashing, nightmare of a horrific puzzle. It will make you insane and angry because you’ll think there’s no way to figure it out. You will be wrong. Keep trying.
Charles Bukowski’s poem here advises writers on all the reasons why they should not do it. Fascinating. Inspiring. And of course complete rubbish, easily and cheerfully contradicted by the many great writers who have done it for money and food and women and adulation.
The Rolling Stones need none of my help selling anything, but damn I like what they do in this single! This is some Rock. I love reading the lyrics in the video because they are so damn good. They punch and drawl and leer with all of Jagger’s wit and silk-tempered vitriol. The man is a goddam world treasure and we shall never see his like again. If you can, go see this band play. It is like a bolt of lightening. Nobody does it better.
The late Alan Watts makes a rather pedantic speech about doing what you love. He’s probably right, but most of his skill is in making something boring sound really good. And his advice only works for the wealthy. Everybody else can just forget everything this man ever said.
This short documentary contains the only known secret recording of New York City police conducting a “stop and frisk” for absolutely no reason other than simple harassment. The audio is both illuminating and terrifying because it makes clear that the officers have no respect for the rights of citizens. They simply want to fulfill their quotas and impress their bosses. They shove, threaten, mock and restrain this teenager in Harlem, but he's recording them all the while on his cell phone – which is legal in New York! Congratulations to him for the excellent work and for bearing up well against the brute force of criminal cops.
The film, directed by Ross Tuttle, goes on to interview some actual NYPD cops about how unpleasant the stop and frisk policy is and how it makes the police hunt civilians. It is my opinion that populations need to turn against police departments that are clearly veering out of control. In New York, every stop and frisk should result in an immediate mob scene that gets out of control within moments. Police should be surrounded and isolated by large groups of New Yorkers. Sudden and total shutdowns of police harassment by large mobs will be an extreme problem for the police. It's called resistance and it works. If a police officer wants to stop and frisk someone for no reason, they should draw a crowd. If the courts can't stop this nonsense, people will.
That’s my opinion on how to treat these cops in New York.
Red Bull is a drink company that I always associate with a general low-brow, trailer trash sort of existence. Chances are if you are drinking Red Bull you are an abject fool in a tank top. Maybe you’ve got a tattoo right at the top part of your ass. You’re just a lumbering primate who thinks they need some extra energy. Okay? Deal with it.
But this former Air Force parachutist is preparing to jump out of a balloon capsule from 23 miles up wearing a pressurized suit that will allow him to survive a supersonic fall from the edge of space. That’s pretty interesting because you just have to wonder if he will make it in one piece. Can a person re-enter earth’s atmosphere from space? I’m sure one can. I enjoy this little advertising film for the live stream of the jump. Hopefully, the stream will actually show us something in the next few days since inclement weather has so far delayed the jumper, Felix Baumgartner.
This 1972 documentary on the brilliant photographer Diane Arbus contains her own words which turn out to be quite possibly some of the most penetrating observations and comments about the art of photography that one will ever hear. She says she never takes a photograph that she intended. She says what a photograph is of is more important than what it is.
Bloody Cuts of the UK produced this stylish and rhyming Gothic horror nightmare that will teach kids the terrible lesson of not sucking your thumb! It’s a true creep-out to begin our October month of ghoulish distress.
