Aeronautic Primates and Other Delights

Sorry I missed last week. Work was crazy busy to start the week off and then by the time it calmed down, it felt too late. So we're covering two weeks today.

I've mostly been playing Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (although I've kind of quit due to some disappointing forced plot elements). sol_se and I have finished Star Trek Season 2, but are kind of on a break from the show accidentally. We're trying to watch a horror film per day in October, although I think it will be more like we will watch a horror film for each day in October. So, some days may have no movies, but there will be 31 total by the end of the month.

Movies I've seen before are in italics.

Lured (1947)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Enola Holmes (2020)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Black Sabbath (1963)
MST3K: Pod People
Re-Animator (1985)
Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

So Lured is early Douglas Sirk, stars Lucille Ball and George Motherf**king Sanders, with highish billing for Boris Karloff. It was okay. The plot didn't make a lot of sense, it had that weird thing where people who barely know each other get engaged, and Boris Karloff isn't throughout the film, just in one little bit.

In a turnabout of the way things usually are, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a classic Hollywood film that sol_se had seen but that I had not. It's a lot of fun. Marilyn Monroe is a comic genius, frankly, and Jane Russell is extremely horny throughout the film.

Enola Holmes is pretty good. I did not care for the compulsory heterosexual agenda, but Millie Bobby Brown is an engaging lead. I've also come around to being pro-Henry Cavill, his take on Superman aside.

Not much to say about Star Trek III except that Uhura got sidelined and I do not stand for that.

Sol_se loves a good lesbian vampire film and The Vampire Lovers is definitely in that category. Ingrid Pitt makes for a very seductive vampire. Plus Peter Cushing can never be a bad thing.

We watched the first episode of Monsterland and found it somewhat disappointing. It's definitely good, but also very depressing. It's not the spooky stuff that the trailers intimated. To get to a properly spooky place again, we watched Black Sabbath, a trilogy of terrifying tales from Mario Bava. It definitely did the trick.

I finally showed sol_se Re-Animator after talking it up for some time. She loved it and we immediately set about watching both sequels, one of which I had not seen. The quality of the series generally declines, but all three films are enjoyable to one extent or another.

We've mostly been watching original Trek and I've been playing Fallout games.

Movies I've seen before are in italics.

Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Frankenstein (1931)
Clue (1985)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
King Kong (1933)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

A lot of films in my tour of showing sol_se classic Universal horror.

I mainly want to talk this week about what a profound disappointment I found King Kong. I had such fond memories of this movie and it's just a load of white colonizer bulls**t. None of the male characters are likable and the female lead is a non-entity. The only thing the movie has going for it is Kong, who is admittedly quite impressive.

We watched "Space Seed" and so followed it up with Wrath of Khan, which is still probably the best Trek movie and just a damn good film in general. "Like a poor marksman, you keep. missing. the target."

This year for Escapade, I put together a tribute reel for Leonard Nimoy, split into two parts. The first was a mix of Spock clips (heavy on the K/S) interspersed with Nimoy interview clips, all very reverent. The second was a reel of humorous and interesting commercials, cameos, music videos, and con appearances.

KisCon requested an edited-down version of the reel to play as part of their Nimoy remembrance and I decided to take the opportunity to finally post it online. This is the version that played at KisCon, so it's missing Killa's "Dante's Prayer" from the first part and Bruno Mars' "The Lazy Song" from the second.

Password: leonard



This isn't going into my fanvid listing because I did precious little editing, beyond cultivating the actual clips. When I have time, I'll put up a list of the various sources.

Title: crushcrushcrush
Source: Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Pairing: Julian Bashir/Miles O'Brien
Song: Paramore - crushcrushcrush
Made for: destina (Vividcon Auction 2013)
Warnings: One bright flashing light.

Summary: "You're not an in-between kind of guy. People either love you or hate you. I mean, I hated you when we first met. And now... I don't. I really do... not hate you anymore."


Vimeo password: ilikeyoumore


Download 22.2MB MP4 file (right/ctrl-click and "Save link as...")

Notes to come when I'm am not completely conned out.

Rewatching DS9 for just the Bashir/O'Brien bits makes me flail and yell "BOYFRIENDS!" constantly.

I guess I'm just a romantic.

You guys, I'm ten episodes away from the end. The END. Why does this show have to end? It's so awesome.

Hello Chicago! I am here!

Had relatively few issues flying in (Virgin America is AWESOME, by the way, highly recommended). LeVar Burton was on my plane. As steinba tweeted to me, "I guess he CAN fly twice as high."

Met with my best friend from high school for drinks. I was really worried, because I hadn't seen her in, like, eight or nine years. But it was great. We caught up, reminisced, and generally enjoyed the company of one another. Yay!

Vividcon starts up tomorrow, so that's good. 

Now I have to give echan zir laptop back or very bad things will happen to me as I sleep.

Simon Pegg to play Lt. Montgomery Scott in JJ Abrams' Star Trek reboot.

Hell. Yes.