KirinDave was clever enough to think to video-in the above as he was waiting in line. At the moment, he’s about an hour away from getting it. We try to start a rumour about armored cars (false!), talk about Smoothies, see the line in Daly City, and the talk about KirinDave’s work, PowerSet, going out of stealth mode last night.
I recently watched Creep, most notable for staring Franka Potent (man, was Run Lola Run really back in 1998? Crap!). The premise is that there’s some nutty monster running around in the London subways killing and eating people.
It’s heavy on gore, and has plenty of scary tunnel scenes. You know, where the camera is slowly tracking around a bending tunnel — well lit or not — and you’re all like, “shit! in just a millisecond something nasty is going to slide into frame!”
The set design — is that “production design” — is awesome, and the little short on the topic on the DVD is worth watching. The sort of story around it sort of nice, if left too open ended for my myth-loving self. It’s sort of like an urban version of Decent, but with one monster instead of a tribe. Oh, and as Kim said of the monster, “wait, is he wearing pants?”
The flippant disappointment was that they didn’t go with the Radio Head song. I didn’t even catch it playing in the background anywhere.
Coté: Her and Courtney Love should do a Thelma and Louise meet Lethal Weapon mashup remake.
Coté: They can have a scene with Juliette Lewis where she starts yelling “One bar? Two bars?! What the fuck?! I can’t tell! They always fuck you with the pregnancy tests! They fuck you! They know you’re gonna be miles away, with piss all over your hands before you know you got fucked!”
(Thanks to wkh for the photo.)
It’s no secret that I like horror movies. Kim likes to remind me that it was she who turned me on to them. (But, hey, come over here. I have a secret to tell you — don’t tell Kim! It was actually my dad. We used to watch USA Network’s UP ALL NIGHT WITH GILBERT GOTTFRIED! [he used to yell it all the time] and that’s when I started liked horror movies. OK, remember: don’t tell her!) And, indeed, it was!
Thanks to our friends over at tv-links.co.uk — I mean NetFlix! Yeah! — I’ve had the chance to catch up with Masters of Horror. One of my local indie video shops, I Luv Video, carried episodes by the more famous directors, so I’ve had to dig up the rest myself. I’m almost done with the second season.
For the most part, unless your a horror fan, Masters of Horror ain’t much. Clearly, for me, they’re fun watching. Each episode is much like Amazing Stories (Masters of Horror creator Mick Garris used to work that circuit it seems) and other TV shows of horror, fantasy, and weirdness of the 80′s…except you get to see boobies! Thank God for Showtime.
But seriously, you also get to see mega-gore. I gotta tell ya, whatever team they have working on special effects here specialized in torrents of gussing blood, especially from the neck, or even a cat’s gorged out eye-ball. In the second season, there’s also at least two (Pelts and Right to Die) instances of people getting skinned — in one episode by their own hand!
For my money, the best one so far has been Stuart Gordon’sDreams in the Witch-House. I’m a fool for anything remotely Lovecraftian, so it was a shoe-in. Other good ones: Deer Woman (not, like, “great” but incredibly novel and fun), Cigarette Burns, The Fair Haired Child, Sick Girl (not only does it introduce Uncle Stankus Bourbon, but Lucky McKee’s fascination with goth-school-girls involved in horrific events is always fun to watch: sure, May was fun, but check out The Woods too), Pick Me Up, Haeckel’s Tale, The V Word (I was surprised I liked this one, but it the walk through the dark funeral home is creepy as shit), Pro-life (if there’s demons and menstrual gushers of white goo, I’m totally there!), and Dario Argento’s Pelts (best self-skinning ever filmed!).
Finally, don’t be fooled by the zombie headlines on Homcoming. Zombies don’t vote!
In this episode, Charles and Coté explore the phrase “goat ass,” revisit ANTLR briefly, explain ways of using Amazon EC2, talk about software partnership strategies vs. being The Single Source, and then end-up with some time management talk.
Audio only is also available.
In this episode, we talk about programing in ruby and PHP. Then Coté tells us about Air Sex in Austin at the Alamo Drafthouse. Finally, We discuss ANTLR and parsers in general.
If you’d just like the audio, it’s available to download as well.
(This episode edited by Coté.)
Photo by/from Michael Marmarou
In this special episode live from WWDC ’07, Dave “KirinDave” Fayram talks with Coté about the haps at WWDC:
And some more here and there.
Enjoy, and big thanks go to superfan-come-DrunkAndRetired.com-host-at-large KirinDave. After his several appearances, I think we can say he runs the DrunkAndRetired.com San Francisco Desk now ;>
Apologies for the Skype garble from time-to-time.
In this episode, Charles and Coté talk about the life of an independent programmer and using Flex for your UI layer.
(This episode edited by Coté Sorry it’s late, I got distracted by drinks, see above.)
In this episode, we talk with KirinDave about Charles’ vacation, random kung-fu, and railsconf.
(This episode edited by Charles)
