Well Ello all old and new BCBers. Its sunday so im glad your here with me and ready to dive into the world of things that slightly matter to things that impact our everydaylife. So go on and get ready for bed, ill wait while you go and put on your PJs. Done? Ok i guess i can start. So this past week was kinda uneventful, i did manage to have a free firday and that was AWSOME, what did i do with it, well i went VHS hunting. For those of you who dont me too well ill clue you in. I love VHS films. I love the poor quality, the tracking, and everything else about it. I know thats a little strange but dont give me that cus each and everyone of you out there has a one strange thing that no one else gets. And well i love VHS movies, but i guess i should explane more. I enjoy the experiance of watching B-rated (B movies are movies that are really crappy, you know what im talking about), and B moives are the best when watched on vhs. But i just dont buy chessy horror movie, of old sci-fi movies i also like to buy bad melodramas, bad thrillers, just about any poor movie made before 1995. So i look and hunt for movies that have sliped through he cracks of time and have been placed in the 99 cent bins and left to the buzzards. Its kinda funny but i like to think of myself as a care taker for these movies, cus all these movies are liked endangered animals on there lst life. What kinda of world would we live in if there is no Attack of the Crab Monsters, C.H.U.D., Death Ship, and Invasion of the Animal People(alot of the b movies i watch tend to come from the 80s and 90s cus apparently everyone thought they were Steven Spielberg). I dont know what kinda that is, and i never want to find out. So if you are like me, and enjoy a very poorly made movie even do you part and save a B-movie (paid for by the BMovie Makers of America). I ask how can you not want to go out your nonchain movie store and go rent a cheesy monster movie, thats all i do around Halloween. I use to not like this holiday cus i never really understood it. You could do two things: Scare someone, or give/take candy. Even after reading what its all about (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween) i still a little confused. Growing up Mexican we had something similar but not similar to halloween. Its call Day of the Dead. Its when everybody goes to the gaveyard and places food on the graves of your dearly departed. I know that sounds a whole lot crazier then dressing up for candy, but just bare with me. So you put out the food for the dead and then the dead come back to enjoy the food. Now dont think i belive this one bit, far from it. I see it more as a national day to and remember your loved ones. But i still think halloween is crazier. But this halloween ill be comming off a HUGE buzz that is the Fullmoon Horror Convention being held in Little Rock. It will be awsome cus ill finally get to meet Joe Bob Briggs. If i had to look back on my life and pick a mentor id have to say its him, he and Elvira where the ones to get me down this B-movie path. Anyway hes going to be there and i cant wait till its Saturday. This is another reason im getting all my Halloween talk out of the way cus the next BCB post will be about the weekend. And you know ill be takeing pictures of all things creepy and scarey, costume people, and famouse celebs. Im only really going to see three people but if i see othere ill be happy: Tony Todd, Micheal Berryman, and Joe Bob Briggs. I would have loved to meet http://www.fullmoonconvention.com/Horror_Con_Celebs.html. And you know ill be updateing my Zune (notice how i totally dont that huge hint) to have me meeting them. Oh so you noticed my Zune. hahaha. I have to say this is my new fav toy right now. I know everybody goes with the iPod and dont get me wrong i had one but the Zune is a little bit more fun. They both do the same job, and they both have the same amout of memory. Im just tired of everyone telling me how much more better anything Apple is. So i tried a Zune and i love it. I think i like the pictur aspect a lot. I still getting use to the interface but ill get it. Look there is one clear winner in this fight. One good reason i got the zune was b/c it was a whole lot cheaper, right now the zune is at about $100. I could even get a 4 gig iPod for that much. The one i bought has 30 gigs. So heres the skinny. Everyone use to hate the Zune cus it hardly let you play anyother format then WMA, so microsoft comes out with the zune2 and fixes that where you can listen and watch other formats. Good, fine ill get one, but they surprise everyone by saying that you really dont have to buy the new Zune 2, if you want to just update your old zune to have the zune2 software. So with all the old zunes going donw in price and having a good amount of storage, how could i not buy one. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/zune/firstgen-zune-getting-all-the-new-features-this-is-how-you-treat-your-customers-306422.php. So if you have an Ipod, great. If you have a zune, great. Its the same product, just in a different package. Time for Top 5. Well actually we have a Top 5 +1 today, just go with it.
6) Boots - http://www.zappos.com/gs/boots.shtml
On thursday my parents sent me one of my old pair of boots o left back home. Oh how i missed them. Its like finding a lost famliy member who looks awsome with anything you wear. If you dont have a pair, then i suggest you forget about the whole should i buy an ipod o Zune and buy yourself a pair of good old dead cow. Everytime you put on a pair of boots an angle gets its wings.
5)Elvira Mistress of the Dark - http://www.elvira.com/
So if i had to say who was my first girlfriend, id have to say it was Elvira. I can remember watching late night Movie Macabre, and thinking id marry her one day. Well now im 22 and she 58 and its kinda creepy to think of us getting married, but its still fun to watch the old episodes.
4)Race for the Cure - http://ww5.komen.org/home/
Now how ever you read this Top 5 you might think im wired. Elvira is more important then cancer? well your reading too much into this list. All item on this list are equally if not more important then the next. The race was this past saturday. I didnt get to run in the 5k this time but come next year ill be ready and in pink for the gun to go off. Its a really good cause. For thoes who dont know almost 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breat cancer, and 40,000 of them will die of it. So do your part and help out this great cuase.
3)Dancing - Just watch the links, do i need to say more
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WVYPSz6tWsg Salsa
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jmby9J42OfE Tango (one of my persona favs)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JsfkJCN5L0g I think this is Merengue
2) Manu Chao - http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/manuchao
Go to the little gray box with a few of his tracks and youll understand why he's on the list tonight. I found him on this one website that lets you download whole albums and im glad i did. If you can understand Spanish, French, and Portugues then youll really love this CD. Dont be scared b/c of all the languages give it a real try.
1)Music Blogs - http://robinhoodofindiemusic.blogspot.com/
I have been have a ball downloading off this one website. Now with my new Zune in hand, ill have to get a whole other new hard drive. It helps if you have a rapidshare account, because yes you can download with out an account but you can only download once a day. And you better have WinRAR to extract the music, so it take a little know how about computers. so get your best computer buddy and ask them to explane the ends and outs of donwloading music. Now on to this weeks recomendation.
Recomendation of this week goes to my very good friend Jerry LaFevers, and he has this to "I recomend a Holga. How does one describe a Holga. Ah yes plastic gold." Ok this it a little new, i want to explain what hes talking about. A Holga is a picture camera. Its is the worst made camera in the world. And at the same time it is the most awsome camera in the world (theres a differance in "made" and "awsome") The reason Me and Jerry love this camera so much is b/c it takes some of the most unique pictures. Go here http://shop.lomography.com/holga/galleries/ and check out all this camera can do and i bet youll want to get one also. You'll "Learn to Look"
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