Heck, no one comes by on weekends anyway. The choice was to sit around and twiddle my thumbs… OK… one thumb twiddles the other just sits there not doing much of anything… or perhaps do a random post. Random post won out… after which I just may pop in a movie.
Speaking of movies… I re-watched Towering Inferno yesterday. Yes, I’ll cop to the fact that I do own several disaster movies from the 70’s… that I’ll also admit I enjoy quite a bit. It’s a guilty pleasure I’ve had for years. Yeah, most of them are cheezy… but that’s half the fun. I think what has stuck in my mind is going to see them in the movie theaters and taking minor bets with the friends I went with on which characters would make it and which would bite a movie death. The bets were always taken out in the lobby as we looked at the cast pictures displayed on the poster. I remember that there was also always a display of production stills. Do they do that anymore? So, disaster movies became sort of a perverse sport. The only thing I do not own yet are the “Airport” movies. (The first one is still the best of the lot.) I still laugh out loud at “Airplane” because it is such a great take-off on those. George Kennedy sure got a lot of work when that genre hit. I think he was in just about every “Airport” ever made as well as “Earthquake” (dang, talk about cheezy).
My other guilty pleasure are horror movies from Hammer Studios… also from the 70’s. Yeah, there are a lot of things from the 70’s that I like. Can’t help it… those were my formative years. Anyway, those movies still tickle my fancy. OK… admittedly the gratuitous and copious cleavage shots did help “up” the appeal quotient… but those guys knew horror. Really… the English have the blood and gore down to an art form from centuries of indiscriminate blood letting in their history. It really shows in these movies… and they are not even really trying… just cranking them out. I suspect that the tale of Sweeney Todd is just a charming bed-time story for the kids over there. Even watching these movies today… the blood seems redder than red. (For us color blind guys… this is big.) Plus, many of the movies actually had plots… bonus! Hmmm…. perhaps a Hammer movie is in order tonight. Vampire Lovers or Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde? Perfect for a blue moon night, don’t you think?
I think most of what needs to be set-up for tomorrow has been taken care of. Now, all we can do is hope that a decent audience turns up to the gig. It’s not exactly Shakespeare… but it will be a fun show for those who turn up. What happens tomorrow and how it happens will be a major factor in some decisions that I’ll be making soon.
Now I think I’ll pop a movie in… hmmm… let’s see… oooh … Taste the Blood of Dracula…
EDIT: 10 AM, Sunday
Speaking of Sweeney Todd… did you know a movie version of the Sondheim musical is currently in production directed by Tim Burton with Johnny Depp in the title role? Yeah… cool, huh?