Big Lots Cinema – Pauly Shore is Dead

I’ve previously written a series of reviews of Hard Case Crime books I found in a pile at the nearby Big Lots store.  I dig Big Lots because you can usually find interesting things at a clearance price.  Really clearance.  Down to the bare concrete pricing (that’s for all my Louisiana peeps…WHO DAT!).

They’ve recently been stocking a lot of closeout DVDs.  I’ve used their $3 per disc pricing to start building a pretty impressive UFC library.  Granted the UFC events are from the 40s through 60s, but I haven’t seen any of them so the fights are new to me.

A couple of weeks ago while searching for more UFC discs, I actually paid attention to some of the other titles I was moving aside in my search.  They ranged from the well reviewed, to the big hits at the time, to the “wasn’t that a SciFi original“, to the unnecessary remake.  They even had full seasons of Charles in Charge.

Then, being the GonzoGeek that I am I realized that using nothing more than the change in my truck’s ashtray and under the couch cushions I could create whole new feature for our website.  I picked up a title I’d been intrigued by for a while and Big Lots Cinema was born.

So, buuuuuuuuuuudy, sit back, chill and prepare your melon for the epic journey that is Pauly Shore is Dead.  It’s major.

Friday LinkFrogging – 2/5/10

Well Phil saw his shadow so we’re in for more winter.  Are you ready kids?

Unlike that pesky groundhog, you can count on us to bring you a list of links sure to brighten your day each and every Friday.

That is our promise to you.

That is our promise to you.

Sorry, had a Bill Murray moment there.

Before we set sail for the links, let’s say hello to this week’s slice of cheesecake.  Say hello to Morgan Fairchild won’t you?  Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Why Morgan Fairchild you may ask?  Well, dear reader(s), I have an answer.

Ms. Fairchild was not our first choice this week, but in a week full of superstitious rodents, I recognized the hand of fate when I saw it.  It began the other night with my wife asking me if I knew what a GILF was.  Apparently the term was used on the radio in relation to Morgan Fairchild that day.  The very next morning, the local sports radio guys got off and running on the subject of Morgan Fairchild on her 60th birthday.

Like I said, I recognize a sign when I see it.

On to the links…

The New Orleans Saints Super Bowl Drinking Game

Drew Brees

 

This one goes out to all my long time suffering friends in the Who Dat Nation!

The Super Bo…I mean…The Big Game is on Sunday and in order to enjoy it in proper Louisiana style, I give you the New Orleans Saints Super Bowl Drinking Game.

Bottoms Up!

LOST Notes: LA X, Part 2 – Indiana Jack & The Temple Of WTF?

Ben, for the last time, I'm not going to call you 'The Bandit'.

Jack Shephard: Nothing is irreversible. 

 This time: Sayid has died, Sayid is risen, Sayid will come again.  Also, no matter the universe, reality or timeline, Kate sucks.  And hey, Other Others!

LOST Notes: LA X, Part 1 – Doomed To Repeat It

What lies in the undertow of the statue?

 Desmond Hume: Nice to meet you, Jack…or to see you again.

This time: They get off the Island, but they also don’t get off the Island, Juliet dies (again!), a bunch of other dead people make cameos and even the all-knowing-all-seeing-dead-guy-of-the-universe can’t share a little info when things get heavy.

Anybody Know Where I Can Buy One of These?

SCUM has apparently gone out of business.

If you know post a comment or drop an email.

Viva La Lucha!

Friday LinkFrogging – 1/29/10

Welcome back to our weekly stroll through the back alleys of the internet as hosted by the gang here at GonzoGeek.  As always, we seek to entertain and enlighten (enlightertain?  enterlighten?).

As is the tradition around here, before we begin our journey we must introduce this week’s tour guide (also known in these parts as cheesecake).  This week, that honor goes to Mariska Hargitay.

Why you may ask?  Well, let me tell you.  Stephe suggested that we post someone whose show got cancelled because of the Jay Leno experiment.  We’d already done that.  Or, someone whose show was coming back as a result of the failure of the Jay Leno experiment.  I went the next step and suggested someone whose show was going back to its rightful timeslot.

Hello Mariska.

For what its worth, Mariska had some less than pleasant things to say about Law and Order – SVU’s ratings decline as a result of its time change.

And just as an aside, given who her mother was, you’d think it would be easier to find really good cheesecake photos of Mariska.

On to the links.

J D Salinger: Dead at 91, 1-28-10

Really.  Only now.

‘Spoonman’: iPod First Anniversary #16

KEY LYRIC: All my friends are Indians
All my friends are brown and red, spoonman
All my friends are skeletons
They beat the rhythm with their bones, spoonman 
 
Album: Soundgarden – ‘Superunknown’
Year: 1994
Producer: Michael Beinhorn
Mixed by: Brendan O’Brien

 
NOTES:  The biggest single off Superunknown. I always thought the second part of the lyrics above went: ‘all my friends are scared to dance/to feed the rhythm with their bones.’ Cornell’s one of my fave lyricists ever, but I still like my version better!  I also had the good fortune of spending 3 days with the band at Bad Animals during the mixing of this record, working on an article for Raw magazine.

The author back in the day. Bad Animals Studio, Seattle.

Below is a recent peformance of the song at the Crocodile in Seattle featuring a line-up of Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron, Tad Doyle, Tom Morello, and Ben Shepherd

Rosie O’Donnell Interview

my brothers and i were guests on the rosie o’donnell xm-radio show last week.  she dug our “operation earwax removal” clip on youtube so much that she flew us up to nyc and back.  it was a kick ass time and rosie and her whole crew were really awesome to us.  the guest in the studio before our interview was attilla shabaaz (malcolm x’s eldest daughter).  we got to meet her and it was an incredible honor.  here’s the link to the audio of our interview…

http://www.box.net/shared/6qrsrba0×1