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Twitter Updates for 2010-08-18

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:39:00 +0000

I uploaded a YouTube video — New Loops: The Dark Collection http://youtu.be/x8qilluOp8I?a #

Twitter Updates for 2010-07-11

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:39:00 +0000

hangin with charlie laine and shay laren at kink.com party. http://s2t.vg/rkLTwV #
the after party in the ynot suite! http://s2t.vg/IFk9AU #
charlie laine butt. http://s2t.vg/ybU54z #

Twitter Updates for 2010-07-08

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:39:00 +0000

Go team BJ!!! #
Heading out to San Fransisco this morning for a convention this weekend should be fun. #
Oh and doing photo and video shoots with Charlie Laine, Shay Laren and Capri Anderson. Life is good! #
Oh and for my 9 hour drive I will be listening to the Dog Blood. The sequel to Hater by David Moody! I loved Hater, can’t wait! #

Thanks For Caring Xbox Live!

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:15:25 +0000

I have been on xbox live for about 4 years now. I play honest. I don’t cheat. I report cheaters. Can’t stand them! I have put up with xbox live and the 3 or 4 times I had to send my console in to be repaired. I still used it, I played often. I love the Call Of Duty games, it’s all I play. That is until today.

I was just online with friends, in the middle of a game when I am suddenly disconnected. I think that’s odd. I just paid for a full year again last month. And just before I did that I added a full year worth of one month memberships. So I was good for two years! So why could have been disconnected? Bad internet? Nope, my account was suspended!

Why was it suspended, because in my bio I list a website were you can go and out people that cheat at Call Of Duty. I guess xbox live has no problems with cheaters. I guess all the times I reported people for cheating meant nothing.

I called xbox live to resolve this issue and was told there was nothing they could do right now. That I would have wait the two days of my suspension and then make a post in their forum. Well, that was not acceptable to me. I play fair and honest, I never cheat and they are gonna turn around and treat me like a common cheater? I don’t think so!

So billing transferred me to someone else, they couldn’t do anything so they transferred me back to billing so I could close my account. I asked that I be refunded the 49 bucks I just paid for year long subscription. A very cheery lady happily canceled my account and told me my money would be returned to me in 3 days.

Not once did any of these customer service reps every try to keep me as a customer. No offer was made, no apologies, just they can’t do anything and will refund my money. I mean, I am paying them for a service and this is the way I get treated? Sorry, you can try that with 12 year old little Johnny but not with me!

What a shame, I was just going to buy the new xbox console in a couple of months. Basically their two day suspension just cost them about 500 bucks! Good job Microsoft. You have irritated me so severely that my next computer just might be a MAC! I hate MAC’s but, I am so disappointed in MS right now, I just don’t think I could spend another dime on them without a serious apology and some kinda offer to make this right. Until that happens, I will make sure that everyone knows about the treatment I received from this.

Twitter Updates for 2010-06-03

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:39:00 +0000

I subscribed to InfinityWard’s channel on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/InfinityWard?feature=autoshare #
I liked a YouTube video — Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Map Pack - Official HD http://youtu.be/C-oeuggD0Ms?a #

Twitter Updates for 2010-06-02

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:39:00 +0000

Playing poker while editing a Sasha Grey video. Life is good. #

Hayley Williams of Paramore shows her boobies!

admin — Sat, 29 May 2010 07:08:59 +0000

Yes, there’s nip slips and see thrus and upskirts and it goes on and on. But, when a little cutie like Hayley Williams shows it off on purpose, well, that’s just classic!

Horror Movie Essentials!

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:51:16 +0000

I have been a fan of genre for as long as I can remember. When I was a small child, for 3 years I lived on Okinawa. My dad was in the army and worked for FEN. He was a DJ and really popular at the time. Now, I was really, really young when we lived there. From the age of 4 till I was 7 and to this day I am convinced that I can remember each and every day I was there. It was an amazing experience. I am 40 now and that time frame was really influential to me. When my dad got the chance, he would have them play “I Was A Teenage Werewolf” for me. So basically, it would get put on the schedule and played. It was cool. Imagine talking to someone at say ABC and saying, “Hey, can you make the Late Night Movie this Saturday ‘Jaws’?” They say ok, and come Saturday night the movie is playing on ABC. I loved that movie and it really is what got me hooked on horror movies I believe.

Now I don’t claim to have seen every horror movie and there’s a great many classics I am sure that I know that I have missed and someday will soon see, just because, to call yourself a horror fan, there are certain movies you just have to see.

Watching this list isn’t going to make you an all knowing fan. That’s just not what this list is intended for. I guess the best way to describe a good use for this list is as a tool. Say for example, you’ like someone and you know they love horror movies. Watching these movies will at least give you a good starting point for a conversation. Watch them and then feel free to start up that conversation with them and see what they like. See, I just made the move for you! I know, I’m a giver.

Oh and one more thing, this is just a basic list, I am gonna leave off a lot of classic horror movies because as of right now, what we’re trying to do is just introduce you to the more common of the horror movies so you should be able to relate to almost any horror fan.

Let’s start first with some classics. I’m talking some old school here. Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein and The Wolf Man. These Universal classics are a must. Now, they are all in black & white of course but so worth it. And, as you go through these movies in the order I am suggesting you will be able to see how horror films have changed over the years.

	House of Wax with Vincent Price. When first released it was in 3-D. Never saw it in 3-D but it’s a fun one. Vincent Price operates a wax museum whose wax statues look eerily life like!
	The Creature From The Black Lagoon. This is actually probably my favorite horror movie of all time. The over dramatic music, the look of the creature, and Julie Adams oh god I’ve had a crush on her practically my whole life! It’s basically about a group of researchers who head down the Amazon River in search of the rest a fossil one of them found of a webbed hand that is of unknown origin in the development of man. Oddly enough this one was also originally filmed in 3-D but it’s not needed, it plays great without it!
	Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This classic is all about paranoia but it’s like they, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re still not out to get you! Little by little it seems that people are changing over night. Something’s happening to them! It’s soon discovered how and then it becomes a frantic race against time, them and even ourselves!
	The Blob! Bad special effects make this worth watching. And, really I shouldn’t say, I should say fun. The title says it’s all. A meteor hits in a small town. Someone touches it and this blob of red jello looking stuff attaches to them. It keeps growing until there’s nothing left of the person. The more the Blob consumes the larger it gets!
	The Fly. Another Vincent Price classic movie! A scientist, an experiment gone wrong and a chilling ending.
	The House on Haunted Hill. Vincent Price again! He really is the king of horror movies. This movie is best watched home alone, at night, in the dark. Vincent Price has invited several people to spend the night in his haunted house. He’s offered each of the 10,000 dollars if they make it till sunrise. The house has a history and it’s one scare after another until the truth is finally revealed and you won’t see it coming!
	Psycho. Now honestly, I found the movie almost boring. However, Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates is iconic. His acting was just perfect. He made every moment he was on screen believable. If you’re in the mood for a good story that makes you think and question it, you will love it. There’s not a lot of action. There’s some scares in it and a lot of suspense filled with a lot of creepiness. But, when you’re kid and you want to go see Star Wars again and can’t be Psycho is going to be on TV, well, Psycho is way boring.
	Night of the Living Dead. George Romero. Not the first zombie movie ever made as many think. I don’t know even know if it was the best. But, for the time, it had a black man in the lead role. He was the one who kept calm when the white people were freaking out. For goofy concept like the dead rising, he sure made it real and scary and creepy!
	The Exorcist. I saw this on TV for the first time when I maybe 8 or 9. I was sitting in the living room with my parents. My grandfather was in his room watching Battle of the Network Stars. I don’t want to give anything away, but I made to the head spinning scene and I just looked at my parents and said, “I don’t think I should be watching this.” I got and walked down the hall to grandpa’s room and watched TV with him. For two nights after I had trouble sleeping.
	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Now we’re in to the 70’s and there’s several worth seeing but I think I will only list a few. People to this day think the movie is based on a real story and it is not. It’s all fake. Never happened, just a scary movie about a man in a mask killing teens.
	The Amityville Horror. This movie I found to be really scary. It was supposed to be based on a true story. Many people think it still is. It was all a lie used in a defense to get someone off of murder charges. But, even knowing that, it has some truly creepy scenes to it.
	Halloween & Halloween II. Amazing music and sound that actually caries the film only it’s done so well that you don’t realize it. The story revolves around Laurie Strode. A high school girl who is being stalked by Michael Meyers, and escaped mental patient.
	Friday the 13th. Camp Counselors arrive at Camp Crystal Lake a week early to help set up the camp that’s re-opening for the first time in a few decades. The counselors soon loon that the lake had been closed years ago because bad things kept happening every time the camp opened. The bad things are about to start happening again.
	An American Werewolf in London. This changed forever what was possible in horror movies. Here we see a man actually change in to a wolf! This is years before CGI. Real special effects and great acting make you believe what you’re seeing is real. It’s a love story, a comedy and some gruesome horror to make this one of the best horror movies of all time!
	Poltergeist. A great supernatural story. Great acting and just a plain good time being scared. It’s a story of a salesman who moves in to a new home. He works for the company that built the homes. More developments are planned in the area. But, soon, strange things start to happen. There’s a stormy night and the youngest daughter somehow goes missing. Taken to the other side. Now the parents with some help have to get her back!
	The Thing. This movie again takes special effects to new levels. It’s bloody! It’s a remake of a 50’s classic and to this day you can watch it and be blown away by the special effects. The story is about a research team in Antarctica. The team is disturb from the boredom one day by the sound of gunshots. A helicopter is chasing a dog on the ground. They’re shooting at it. The copter crashes. The team investigates and soon they realize something is effecting them and it’s not a good thing!
	A Nightmare on Elm St. An original concept for a horror movie and a classic killer is born! A high school is having bad dreams, someone in them is chasing after her. Her friends are dying in their sleep and whatever it is, after her!
	Scream. A new twist on horror movies. Sure there’s teens being killed by a psycho but this a mystery to. It’s fun, witty and doesn’t take itself too seriously. Sidney Prescott is having problems dealing with her mother’s brutal murder one year ago, and now her friend Casey has also been killed. The list of suspects is long, but Sidney’s boyfriend Billy is a prime suspect. News reporter Gail Weathers and Deputy Dewey Riley investigate and look at clues that may link the killer to Sidney’s mother’s murder.
	The Blair Witch Project. It started the whole people video taping themselves craze in feature films. I loved the movie, found it really interesting and scary though a lot of people didn’t like it. For an anthropology class, three students hiked into the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland, to investigate a ghost story about the Blair witch. This particular witch is rumored to be responsible for mysterious disappearances, murders, and apparitions. The group got lost in the woods and disappeared. One year later all that was found was their film footage.
	28 Days Later. A different look at zombie movies. A virus has turned people into murderous zombies that have wiped out most of England’s population. Now, 28 days after the virus attack, a few of the survivors gather in Manchester, England, to save Earth’s remaining human population.
	Shaun of the Dead. It’s horror movie but it’s more of a comedy. It’s just flat out funny. No description is needed it’s just great.
	Final Destination. Alex has a premonition about his high-school group’s flight to Paris and, along with some of his friends, is able to get off the plane before it leaves. True to his premonition, the plane explodes shortly after takeoff. But Death does not like to be cheated, and the students saved by Alex start dying, one-by-one. A slightly different take on the teen slasher genre.
	The Grudge. An American nurse working in Tokyo, Karen is plagued by a supernatural curse “the grudge,” which has traveled from person to person and then has killed each victim. It will continue until someone achieves freedom from it while still alive. Will Karen be the one to free herself from its control and bring an end to the curse?
	Saw. A serial killer named “Jigsaw Killer” by the police is on the loose, and his latest victims, Adam and Dr. Lawrence Gordon awaken to find themselves chained to pipes in a warehouse bathroom with a dead body between them. They are told through an electronically produced voice that the only escape route is for one of them to kill the other within the next eight hours.

And with that, we come to end of the list. It was difficult. So many movies not on the list. Alien, Aliens to name a few. Must see movies that didn’t get a mention. But, again this list is a starting point. A way to start your journey in to horror movies. Seeing these films will at least allow you a place to go in a conversation. A reference point, if you will. It will at least give you an idea of the various types of horror out there and from there you can better find the kind of horror you like.

Twitter Updates for 2010-04-25

admin — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:39:00 +0000

Still working on my blog. Horror Movie Essentials! My list of must sees! It’s taking forever to write that post. #

Twitter Updates for 2010-04-24

admin — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:39:00 +0000

Working on my blog, should have some cool updates soon! #