"Disclaimer" video....

My first attempt at using sensible video editing equipment - albeit with a crappy Flipcam and no cameraman. Easy.

I had literally zero idea what I was doing at first and pretty much had a melt down for a week or two.
Think I've got it now.
To some degree at least. It'll do for now.
It can only get better I guess.

This one is off "Let's Be Friends" (soon I swear) and it's probably way too honest for my own good.
Stupid, overly happy loops are good for masking what is essentially a pretty depressing song.

WOO! LET'S SHIMMY!

Enjoy and share around if you dig it.
Many thanks.

Oh yeah - it's a little NSFW.... (boobies)

Radio Rust Podcast 31 - GO!

Unbelievably late podcast..... 
Even by my standards. Oh well. 
It's a belter to make up for my tardiness. 

Enjoy!!!!

DOWNLOAD/STREAM/SUBSCRIBE - WOO!

"What happened to her eyes??"…. not much.

So......
Probably the second or third horror movie (on tape at least) I ever saw was The Evil Dead.
I must have been 8 or 9.
As I remember it, Mum was a fan and thought it'd be a good, healthy way to terrify me and therefore steer me away from my obsession with "monsters"….. a fine example of successful parenting.
And I can't thank her enough.

The impact this movie had on my life really can't be understated.
I practically wore the tape out. Loved it. Still do. I literally know the thing inside out and backwards.

On countless Saturday mornings I'd sit there in my equally obsessed buddies parents living room watching heads explode and eyeballs squeezed out.
We'd compare all the different cuts and bootlegs we managed to track down while his awesome mother would bring us breakfast and juice.
Seriously - Ollie's folks RULE.
Check out this cake she made for his birthday one year!......

He was, and thankfully still is, a little more delicate than me though.
He told me recently that the dubs of Driller Killer and I Spit On Your Grave we watched back to back depressed him for weeks. Ha.
Usually a couple hours later we'd be in some field or had broke in to some abandoned army base with some other dudes to film fake heads being crushed or some masked zombie type thing pull someones guts out.
I always played the killer I've just realised.
It felt like I'd really achieved something as I walked home covered in food colouring and offal.
I'd get to the front door to be greeted by Mum and "DON'T MOVE!!!"
Good. Old. days.

So. The remake.
I, like countless other fans, heard the rumours about this one about ten years back.
My first reaction was probably anger. It's likely. That was about the extent of my emotional store cupboard back then.
So yeah, probably anger, horror, denial and finally a numb acceptance.
Like someone did a die. What a dick.

Then, slowly, the hype started popping up. And holy crap, what hype...
Mr Raimi and co clearly have a LOT of cash floating around for promotion these days and, I have to admit, I saw the first teaser and got amped.
Really amped. Like near tears amped (loser).

Last Friday.
Ollie and I rock up to the Komedia. I collect tickets while he orders two beers and a cookie (?)
I decide to elbow an entire pint over the balcony and down the stairs. That was fun.
This photo got done token via a goth lesbian chick with a big neck Tattoo.
I look awkward because I was and mostly am. Also I'd just chucked a beer everywhere.

The film…Christ. Tangents. Whatever.
Opening scene.
Seemed vaguely promising. And then, for me, it really didn't.
That whole intro was some unnecessary horse shit in my opinion. It should have just started. Pointless.
Maybe I'm being too harsh, it might have worked for some people. But the dialogue. Ugh. Corny lines and naughty boy words with the yawn-inducing doubled up demon voices you've seen a million times over.
I'm sure there wasn't ANY swearing in the original now that I think of it. Anyhow, whatever, those demon voices. Come on. Unless its done ridiculously well (Exorcist) it's pretty much a no.
People were laughing all around me. And this was an audience mainly of hardcore fans. Poop.

Ollie took this for fuck knows what reason...

The "deadites" (as if) were just your standard, modern zombie formula. I'm talking 28 Days Later maybe. Complete with pretty much the same contacts.
The eyes SUCKED. Why they didn't stick closer to Tom Sullivan's original look I'll never know. That really, really got me. Which sounds ridiculous I'm sure. Probably because it is.

You can get with this....

...or you can get with that...

I couldn't give a crap about any of the characters. They had nothing - apart from Mia who put in a decent performance with what she was given. She provided the only vaguely creepy scene - and you see that on the trailer.
There were two more forgettable characters who were instantly annoying and/or dull, plus a speccy nerd and some blonde fart with all the charisma of an endless row of Ke$ha's singing R.E.M covers.

And they all died so easy.
WHAT'S THAT ABOUT?
In the original they were near on impossible to kill. They kept getting up!
That's what made it all so effective and, yep, you know, scary?  Every time you'd think it was finally over they'd re-appear with more filth, were more pissed, more messed up and generally more repulsive.
The only thing to shut 'em up (sometimes!) was the "act of bodily dismemberment" - also mentioned in the new film.

So let's look at that.
What does that mean? That means they get chopped up. Or they get you.
But all that seems like a lot of effort right? So just shoot a hand off instead. Now you'll get un-possessed (new word there), die and we'll never see you again.
What a merry load of arse.
Oh yeah…or you can bury them alive. That's another way to stop them. Then you can dig them up later and they're all better. Like a dirty Lemsip (new band name).
Oh ok.
Rubbish.

Don't get me wrong, there were a few choice bits but you pretty much saw all that in the trailer. Really.
Unless it was heavily trimmed for the big screen? I don't know and either way I don't really care. Which makes me kinda sad.

What else?
The "return" at the end was gash. Shouldn't have been in the story in the first place.
And what was it, three hands/arms coming off during the film? The end one (dear god that was a low point) just seemed tacked on to get the Evil Dead 2 chainsaw reference in.

Then there's the nailgun scene.
I've survived a few "shoot-outs" across construction sites with these things. Yes, really. I'm very dumb I know. Point is you can't just aim it, pull the trigger, and fire a billion nails off like that.
It's not how those things work. Also they looked rubbish in your face Mrs Blonde Fart or whatever your name was. I don't care.

What else? The Book Of The Dead just looked straight up duff. It looked new. One more time. It looked NEW.
Trivia: Ollie told me this. It's not called the "Necronomicon" this time around as Lovecraft's estate wouldn't allow it - why?
Dunno.

I've probably put you off enough but ignore me and go see it for yourself as, by my own admission, I'm incredibly hard to please.
Truth be told, I don't think anything would have been good enough for me on this particular occasion.

Personally I felt deflated but all around me folks were cheering so you never know you might rate it. I hope you do.
It was nice at least to be part of an audience of appreciative geeks who stuck around to the end of the credits and beyond.
Ollie and I talked shit all the way home then sat in an empty pub garden discussing the old movies we nearly made....

So much hype. This is probably the only time in your life you should ever take advice from Flavor Flav.
It's just relentless. All the glowing reviews. I don't think I've seen a negative word about it yet.
Money, money, money. Maybe. Meh. Whatever.

Go see the Maniac remake instead.
Apart from a ridiculous choice to replace Joe Spinell's lead, that one, on the whole, was pretty dope.

.....but fuck the poster. Toodlepip. x

Halloween Podcast! (and one that I forgot to post here...)

Oh, is it Halloween time again? Really?
WOOOOOO!!!!
Yep - I quite like this time of year...

Firstly, here's the podcast that I forgot to post a while back - I wrote this on it....

Slightly longer show with a slightly different format this month - let me know if you slightly like it better this way. Usual crap talk from me and a bunch of good music. This is probably my favourite show to date. So there. Playlist is a bit all over the place (details within) but it's got 60's Psych, old and new Hip Hop, Dub stuff, Blues stuff, me stuff, library stuff and bum fluff. Enjoy and tell you're Mothers how much you did. Michael. x

IT'S REALLY GOOOOOOD - Grab it HERE

Now then - Here's the Halloween show I did this morning. Super amped with it.
Share if you dig it. Thanks a lot!!!!

SHARE/DOWNLOAD/STREAM THE HALLOWEEN RADIO RUST PODCAST HERE

Yes that IS me.....

GANGSTER KITTENS

Just being dumb....I dunno.
Watch it.
X

SOLE - "I Think I'm Noam Chomsky" - THEORY 77 Remix

Another new remix from me. 
The epic, insane, angst-fuelled and utterly relentless rant "I Think I'm Noam Chomsky" by SOLE. 


It makes me want to hit stuff...Yay!


Enjoy peeples..... x

DMC 2012 - THEORY 77 - RUSH JOB

Jeeeeeeez...this is SO horrifically sketchy!
Ok, so I decided about three hours before the final deadline to enter this - and yeah, I didn't manage to upload it in time.... Dang it.
It's the result of zero planning whatsoever as you can see...(!!!).

It's been ten years now since I was involved in anything DMC. That's seems mental somehow.
As you can see all my equipment is still screwed up, gaffa-taped together and, er...well loved.
Plus the attic was sweltering today!
I thought I'd submit something a little different - I reckon there weren't too many routines like this one... Oh well. Silly internetzzzzz.
Many thanks. Do the shares.

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Eat your greens.