I'm here in Chicago after having visited the set of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET and figured I might as well stay awhile. My brother is moving to Miami at the end of the month to pursue his doctrine (yay, he can support me!) and I figured I might as well enjoy the next few weeks with him and it will be the last time we can just randomly go, "Wanna drink? Wanna watch a movie? Wanna go randomly drive around like assholes bored?" So my short trip turned into a long one as I'll be here until July 18th. The second I get home I need to prepare for Comic Con, which has become the most dreadful 5 days of the year. I know, I know, from your perspective I'm a whiny bitch, but if you only knew how much work (not fun) it is to cover, you'd be feeling some sympathy. Following Comic Con it's back to Chicago for two weddings (yep, Blueteamno is getting married) and then off to Toronto (maybe) for Midnight Madness, back to LA for the month of October (madnesssss) and then AFM in November. No rest for the wicked.
So, I've been busy and out of my element, which is my latest excuse for lack of blog entries. Plus, it's hard to focus when all of your friends are just a short car ride away. Yesterday Tom and I played some basketball, worked on our skills. I'm looking to get signed in the off-season. I think with my vertical I have a good shot, what do you think?
For those of you keeping tab, ELM STREET was doing some shooting in Gary, IN, which was the day we visited. After the shoot my brother and I drove to the Jackson's old house on 2300 Jackson Street in Gary. The town is deserted and quite sad, I wonder what it was like when Michael and co. grew up there. Below is my crappy cell phone picture of his house; can you believe 8 people lived in that box? Insane.
I'm fairly sick of the people who are acting like such assholes about Michael Jackson's death. If you didn't like his music, fine, but what he did for African Americans is so tremendous. And to sit there and point your finger at him and call him a child molester is such a load of crap, especially if you call yourself American. That's the problem with this country and paparazzi and TMZ and all that sh*t, everyone is guilty until proven innocent. The fact that MJ was accused and never convicted doesn't matter, because you know, people don't take advantage of each other on a daily basis. I'm waiting for the Culkin or Feldman to speak out, and until they do…
Anyways, I personally have a lot of good family memories that revolve around him. He brought us together on many occasions from seeing Captain EO to camping around the couch after The Simpson's for the debut of Black or White. I grew up on Thriller, Bad and Dangerous and my early love for horror came from the Thriller video. I'd say Michael is the first celebrity that died that hit me a little bit. I always take the stance that they're just people and I don't know then, don't care about them and have my own friends and family to worry about. But Michael was someone who was a part of our family in the sense that it brought us together. So f*ck ya'll who don't like it.
On the brighter side of things, last night we got together in Slice's basement to watch The State. Yup, you heard me right, The State is finally coming to DVD this July 14 (
get it here) and I got my grubby little hands on the entire collection already. For those of you unaware of this classic MTV skit show, it featured Tom Lennon (Hancock, Reno 911 and tons more), Robert Ben Garant (Reno 911), David Wain (Role Models, The Ten, The State, Wet Hot American Summer), Michael Ian Black (Reno 911, Stella, The Ten, Wet Hot American Sumer, I Love the 80's), Kevin Allison (Reno 911) and more. Here's Amazon's description:
The State was simply one of the sharpest, funniest, and most under-rated shows of the 1990's. Originally created as MTV's first foray into the sketch comedy genre, The State was a comedic gem that rocked Generation X with slapstick, smarts and witty sarcasm. The dynamic cast features 11 multi-talented actors that have continued to collaborate on such projects such as Reno 911!, Stella, Viva Variety and Wet Hot American Summer. MTV's timeless sketch comedy show, The State, is finally here.
FACT.
Speaking of funny, how hilarious is it that Variety continues to steal news from our website, and various others. I give mad props to The Hollywood Reporter for giving us credit on the AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON remake news, but Variety just straight up plagiarized us. I know a lot of other sites are sick of it too, one even joked about starting Varietystoleourews.com and linking up all pieces of evidence. I think that would be hilarious. The fact of the matter is it does nothing for our traffic, but it's nice street cred to show that your site is on top of your sh*t and not making crap up. Speaking of, anyone who says we make our scoops up can suck it. ALIEN, PREDATORS, POLTERGEIST, ELM STREET, AMERICAN WEREWOLF... we broke the news here on Bloody-Disgusting. But hey, I guess we made that up ROFL.
In other horror news, we're not doing anymore HorrorHound Weekends. Instead, we're getting behind
Ultimate Horror Con, which will have its first show in Chicago this September 11-13 before moving to Indianapolis, IN. The best part of that show is the appearance by American Olivia (yes, the crazy hot nude chick from the opening of FRIDAY THE 13TH and star of BITCH SLAP). People who pre-order can score free autographs and DVDs, details on
the site.
Let's see, what else is going on? Did you guys hear the new Alice in Chains single? Yeah, I know, it's Alice without Layne, but Jerry wrote most of the music and even sang a ton of vocals (sounded very similar to Layne). You can get the single at the
official website, tell me what you think. I think it's actually pretty 90's awesome.
Then there's the new The 69 Eyes track "Dead Girls Are Easy" (
listen here) that's got that some-ol' pin-up girl metal/punk blend that I love. I'm so excited for the new album, I like to think of them as Type O Negative if they hadn't started to suck ass.
Anyways, I got stuff to do, so I'll leave you with this. I saw ANTICHRIST. How jealous are you?