What a busy week!

April 7th, 2007 • 1 comment chatter

I’ve been extremely busy so I really don’t know what’s been happening in the world. I have spent most of the week looking for a new job as a Linux Systems Administrator due to current ethical issues at my current employer. If any of you run web hosting companies or know people that do and they’re looking for admins, feel free to share my info, I need something new fast.

Most of the week has also been spent winding down from work by playing Guitar Hero II for the Xbox 360. I’ve been waiting to buy this game ever since I heard that Dethklok’s Thunderhorse was an included bonus track. Now that I’ve unlocked that song, I spend more time playing it than any other songs because it’s that awesome. Dethklok’s full length debut is due to be released from the Williams Street Records imprint in mere months now. Also, the rest of the game rocks, no pun intended.

Tonight, along with my girlfriend and my best friend Matt, we all watched Grindhouse. I’ve been drawn to this movie since I first heard that Rodriguez and Tarantino were making grindhouse films which I pretty much grew up on. If you don’t know what grindhouse is, it’s nothing you can go to Blockbuster and pick up, it’s old school. Grindhouse movies were typified by sexploitation films and brutally violent, even for the 70s, horror/terror movies. All of the movies were campy, usually poorly directed, and typically contains lots of nudity and blood splatters. 80s horror and slasher films were solely inspired by grindhouse because without grindhouse, there would have never been the same level of outright gore nor the obligatory topless scene seen in so many 80s horror films. Almost all of the over-the-top humour and camp demonstrated in any horror movie since 1980 can pretty much tip its hat to grindhouse movies for making gory camp fun and accepted.

Grindhouse stereotypes everything viewers do not want to see but will watch out of morbid curiousity. And this is where Grindhouse takes its cue. Rodgriguez’s film is chock full of never-ending ammunition, pretty ladies, and metric tonnes of blood (and zombies!). It’s a direct take on many grindhouse movies and for that matter, a number of early horror flicks. If you grew up on horror like I did, you’ll love it. Tarantino’s film is a classic stalker/terror film with a strong Mad Max feel to it due to the fact it’s about a guy who stalks girls in his insanely built out “death proof” cars. In the end, the girls have their cake and eat it too. Many of the women from TXRD (Texas Roller Derby) make cameos in Death Proof and the chili bar most of them work at is a mainstay in the first half of the film.

It’s only Friday and this weekend’s shaping up to be pretty awesome. What’s in store for tomorrow? Car washes and vacuuming! Doesn’t that sound like fun?!