"Neu Zexy Replikantz! Jah, jah!" (und links)

Kicking myself really hard for not posting more, that’s what I’ve been doing!

It seems like I’m making more coherent, thoughtful and introspective comments around the blogosphere than on my own blog! Sheesh!

Some topics I’ve been mouthing off on and the places I’ve been doing the mouthing off include:

Remembrance of Chainsaws Past @ Soiled Sinema

Books I’ve Been Reading @ Otto Mannix

CAMPATHON, CAMPATHON, we want CAMPATHON! @ She Blogged By Night

Nobody Likes Satan Jr.—except me! (Also @ She Blogged By Night)

Lovecraft's Unhappy Hollywood Adventure @ Dinner With Max Jenke

Ivanlandia joins the Nuclear War @ John Kenneth Muir’s Reflections on Film/TV

More Post-Atomic Vehicular Madness @ John Kenneth Muir’s Reflections on Film/TV

Roger Corman takes a trip to Las Vegas and Sees the Center of the Universe @ Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind

Here’s one of the best articles I’ve read in a while—all about the overblown hysteria around meth and the stigmatization of folks who like to have fun….

BTW, I finally caught up with Black Swan—what incredibly loony craziness: great stuff!
If you took Mommy Dearest, William Castle’s Straight-Jacket, De Palma’s Carrie, a dash of Suspiria, a teaspoon of Ken Russell and a pinch of John Waters’ Female Trouble—add a heaping dose of Tchaikovsky, and voilà! Black Swan.

And now for more pictures….ENJOY!

Oh, Baby....

Today in 1933, there was a 6.2 earthquake in Long Beach, California.
The perfect reason to feature some
LINKALICIOUSNESS!

The Lethal Hurt Weapon Locker

Life is a box of chocolates—a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for.

No conspiracies here, move along, citizen!

Why all the ladies are wearing it!

Foetus reads! And has a nifty book collection.

New documentary about The Great Stanley K.—unfortunately not available yet on DVD…

Netflix has fucked up BIG TIME and are pissing a lot of people off

“Does my writing need to be good?” Yes.

Happy 92nd Birthday to Mickey Spillane (who is, unfortunately still dead)!

Many times the titles are the best thing about a movie

God Says Fuck You

The title of today’s post is not referring to the righteous album by the Electric Eels, it’s how we feel about the weather.

Don’t know how it is where you are, but
here in the Big Apple, Fun City, The Place So Nice They Named It Twice,
the weather has been nothing but fuckin' garbage:

The past week and all weekend it’s been rain, rain, rain, rain, cold, wind, rain, rain, wind, cold, rain, rain, cold, cold, rain, cold, cold, cold, cold, rain, wind.

Then Monday, when we have to drag our sorry asses back to
THE DAY JOB—
It's calm blue sky.

Sigh….


But don’t forget:
Next week (October 26, to be precise) is Ivanlandia’s big
RED DAWN
megapost, done in concert with This Distracted Globe’s “Class of 1984” blogothon!
BE THERE!

And now,
For your job-avoiding pleasure:
Here’s some piping hot
Linkaliciousness!

Inside the Soviet Doomsday Machine

“Our nation is doomed unless these kids realize they can't kill people for shit once the electricity cuts out and they can no longer play Xbox 7.”

“Much like Evil Dead II (1987), Phantasm II (1988) works as a sequel and an upgrade in terms of budget and scope.”

Where the Wild Things Are “takes forever to get to the good stuff, and then the good stuff turns out to be...not so good.”

“Perhaps one of the sickest films of the mid 1930’s.”

A Brian De Palma flick you may not be familiar with

The oil ministers of Saudi Arabia have a whacky sense of humor

Meet the CEO of the Silver Shamrock Novelties Company! Remember, only 12 more days till Halloween! Get your masks now!

Oh, skycake…why are you so delicious?

It’s a Shatneriffic Link-O-Rama!

Like Jesus on burnt toast,
The Shat can appear anywhere….
(The REAL revenge of the Big Head!)

I hope this sticker is part of a Situationalist movement, and not an advert for a band….

Links. Gotta love ’em.
The Ivanlandia High Command is in deep lockdown in Bunker #9 of Section Zero
(so you know this is serious),
prepping for
October 26’s massive 1984 double-plus-good blogorama/mass psychosis
at the awesomeriffic This Distracted Globe site
where Ivanlandia will be examining and dissecting the great/awful Reagan era-Brat Pack/Invasion USA mash-up,
RED DAWN.

So this week’s absurdist tome about some obscure subsection of cinemaramania will be temporarily replaced….

Let the Linkerocity begin!


Charles Bronson catches fish with his hands and you can’t.

Whatever happened to Alex DeLarge?
He became author James Ellroy.


BTW, Ellroy’s latest novel, Blood’s a Rover, is FANTASTIC!

A must-read for all Ellroy fans
(and a should-read for everybody else),
this conclusion of his Underworld USA trilogy is much better plotted, constructed and written than The Cold Six-Thousand
(although not as unique and surprising as the first in the series, American Tabloid; although, how could you top that psychotic tome?)—

In my opinion, you could read American Tabloid and skip over The Cold Six-Thousand; in fact, Blood’s a Rover works fine as a stand-alone novel, I feel. It’s that good.

I fully intend to reread Blood’s a Rover as soon as The Missus is done with it.

Meanwhile
Read the barkings of the Demon Dog!


Zeitgeist Alert: Ivanlandia compares and contrasts Clint and Kubrick, Arbogast on Film compares and contrasts Clint and Chuck.

Meet the Dr. Jekyll to Ivanlandia’s Mr. Hyde.

Sonny Chiba Vs. the Mermen!

The Ivanlandia philosophy regarding photo placement (sixth patagraph)

So what exactly does “as incendiary as a gummi bear dropped into molten potassium chlorate” mean?


Although, I am a fan of much of their output (like The Incredibles and Up), I was not such a fan of Pixar's Wall-E. Neither is this guy.

Whaddya mean, “worst toy”?!? In The United Provinces of Ivanlandia, that fuckin’ thing is mandatory!

And in a similar vein, Ivanlandia Hearts Michael Haneke.



Speaking of movies guaranteed to bum you out….
Before Dawn, but after Night…
There was The Crazies!

If I saw this while driving,
I would die in a fiery car crash,
screaming,
“Omigod! It’s a flying saucer; it’s a flying saucer!
Holy fucking shit, it’s a motherfuckin’ flying saucer!”

Tom Savini is God!

Stan Freberg! ’Nuff said!

The Secret History of Alvin and the Chipmunks—a genuine American success story!



Stupid Human Tricks

Stupid Human Movies

Because they’re soft and white….

I like the way that man Nugent thinks!


If enough people visit Toestubber and leave comments, maybe, just maybe, the lazy bum will put up a new post! Don’t let him let a whole year go by between posts! Pleeeeease!

...no muppets but a solid nine minutes of good weirdness

My new fave daily sword & sorcery & smut comic strip (NSFW)

New fave neo-porn daily random photo (absolutely NSFW)

"I am Gor. I need your body as a dwelling place while I am here on your Earth."


The Shat forgives you for all your sins, all he asks if your devotion.

Do that, and your feet will soon be running through the fields of The Shat.