So long and thanks for all the fish!!!

Obviously I'm a fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide series.

I'm not actually blogging today about these wonderful books, but merely here to give a final farewell to 2008.

What a year a it's been. Between having two vehicles needing major work (and one needs to be redone because the dealership *cough cough CARTER SUBARU cough cough* really screwed up the car and won't do anything about it) and seeing the value of our condo drop significantly (fortunately it's still worth more than our loan but not by much) and the remodel work we have done to our condo and various trips to the middle of the state (which is not any better than being left in the middle of the desert) to see my dad and other family, it's been an expensive year for us.

The additional strain to our debt has done little for the moral at casa de kilted one, but we have trudged through and made the best of it. We have a plan in place for the new year and our debt reduction and lifestyle changes as well.

Those changes are more excercise. Not just with home programs either, but getting out on our bikes more and more time walking with the dog and being outside. More trips to REI to climb the pinacle.

Definately healthier eating. We have been better about what we eat, but like everyone we do have our lapses. Just love going to Dick's Drive In for two Deluxe, fries and a shake. I certainly don't hide the fact that I love meat.

I do like seafood. I think I will make a habit of making more seafood dishes. I especially love shellfish but that can get a bit costly.

I have had some inspiration for some other things that I would like to accomplish this next year. In 2007 the Paisley wife and I worked on an indie film named The Book of Zombie. Shortly after wrapping on the principal production I had this very vivid dream ( a feat amazing in itself since I NEVER remember my dreams) and started working on some character developement and a treatement for a short story that could hopefully be turned into a short film. I would actually like to finish that treatment and get it to a friend of ours for review and some polishing. I value his opinion as someone who works in the media and as someone that would like to see his own short stories turned into an indie film or better. He also worked on the movie with us.

At the same time the idea of this treatment has given me ideas for a childrens book. Don't ask how the two relate to each other (since they don't) but I really want to make that work. I must also give some credit to Militant Ginger and his leap into a writers career for some subliminal pushes on making this happen. Although I think he has more experiance. Still, if I try and fail then I've still succeeded.

Declutter. That is so high on the list. I really need to just start getting rid of the things in my home and my life that take up space and have no use. It's hard sometimes though when it has a personal meaning. It's good to have an objective look (wife) at things to help me get rid of this clutter that doesn't benefit my life in the here and now. Family. Obviously this is pretty important. Continue with my kids and their interests. Unlike most divorced parents, my kids are with us every Friday to Monday and at thier mom's place Tuesday to Thursday and one weekend a month.

My daughter really surprised my wife and I this year by signing up for a Japanese class. That is a pretty difficult language. I played it safe and took 6 years of French. Of course there are really no French people in the Northwest that I know of so my language skills have greatly diminished. I can still make some basic converstational talk (minimally though) and insult you and ask for sex. The things people retain.

The daughter (with the introverted personality) also ended up in an acting class. Who knew? She says it was a mistake and that she ended up there becuase what she really wanted was gone. She really likes it though and I think she's gotten a lot out of it.

The son continues to be ......... well it's hard to describe him. He's pretty smart, but most of the advanced placement classes are still too easy for him. He continues with his guitar. Self taught and doing very well. Although his guitar has been a royal pain in his arse. It was a hand me down from his aunt and needed fixing or repairing more often than not. Well he has saved his money since October and I took him out to the music store yesterday where he purched (with his own cash, thank you very much) his first NEW Ibanez RG series guitar. He really wanted to put more money in savings and spend less on a guitar since he has decided he wants to attend and arts college of some kind. This really was a minimal expenditure in his future even if he did only have $5 left after buying his guitar. He's young and has plenty of time to save for an education at Cornish. No joke. He really wants to get in there. Do they take grunge/emo kids?

This next year I'd like to make sure that I'm involved again in the non profit organisations through my office again. I did that this past fall and really enjoyed it. Now that I've done it once I think I could be of more use the second time around.
Work. This is a tough one. I really like what I do. I help make sure that the disabled have the appropriate accomodations and needs met on our cruise ships. I like doing that. The pay is shit. Do I continue to help these folks or take the capitalist way out and look for something with more money? I'm morally torn. I like money and it's a necessary evil, but it's not what drives me.

Work Pt II. Having worked on that indie film has made me want to go back to school and get minimally an AA in communications so that I can get a job in the media industry. I don't really care if it's with a small production company or a big studio. My goal this year is to find some weekend work (paid preferred) with a local production company doing anything that will get me some experiance in the industry.

Of course more involvment with the local BMWCCA chapter is something that I'd like to do. Participate in some of the weekend drives or the workshops. Get back to the annual picnic this year.

I'm sure that there's more I'd like to achieve this next year, but I don't want to be overly ambitious, so that will bring me to a closing point.

I'd like to thank everyone that read my pointless ramblings throughout the year and hopefully I can be more attentive to it in the new year and that it will help me become the better writer that I need to be in order to achieve two of my goals.

Have a safe and prosperous new year everyone. Peace and good kharma to all in 2009.



The Kilted one.

Kilts...............nothing is worn under there, in fact it's all in working order

As the title says: A Kilted Travel Agent in Seattle.

Why can't I seem to find a blog that has kilts that is up dated on a routine basis?

I thought I found a good one earlier this year, but it hasn't had a posting since August!

I don't have enough knowledge of kilts to post about them on a regular basis. I can post about mine here and now and hope that other searchers will see this and maybe even direct me to some good kilt blogs.

I started wearing a kilt in high school. We were the "Highlanders" and so our mascot was a Scot named Otis and our marching band had a pipe band and highland dancers. Yes, I did join the pipe band and learned how to play. I don't play anymore, but have thought about taking it back up again or maybe just switching over to the highland snare. I have a mate that I played with back in the day that got back into it about 5 years ago and needs a good snare drummer. One of the mosted noted (if not notorious) things this band has done is be part of the 1989 Presidential Inaugural parade (and yes I was there).

Anyway back to the experience. So here is a photo of me (in the pipe band back in the day some 20 years ago!) in a kilt.
*Contest Time!!*

It's very simple: figure out which one I am in the above mentioned photo and I'll send you a copy of my friend's piping cd of his band, Nae Regrets.

Disclaimer: Paisley is exempt from this contest since she is my wife and already knows which one is me in the photo. Sorry luv.

I attend the Pacific Northwest Highland Games and Clan Gathering, kilted of course.


The wife and I did some photos last year at a local park of us and little BJ. I was kilted in those.

For those of you who are lucky/brave enough to be kilted there is one thing wrong with my ensemble this particular day. What is it?

That's right!! I'm wearing my evening (dress) sporan. A day sporan would not be so fancy.




The Paisley and I even had a Scottish wedding. My mate Don piped and a friend of his came and did some highland dancing after the ceremony. We had a traditional afternoon tea served after the ceremony by a traditional teahouse, Piccadilly Circus. This place did a great spread!! They used to be a teahouse exclusively, but they expanded and are now a full service pub as well. Wonder if I'll be allowed to wear my Liverpool Futbol Club shirt in there? Of course the Scottish Flag tattoo on my forearm could really confuse them in there.

Here's a shot of the entire wedding party. Oh and we got married in an old opera house.

Look at all those kilts. I own mine, but the other rented.

My kilt and the rentals were courtesy of North Channel Kilts.







The Piper, the dancer and me.

He will even do requests. The non traditional march in was Flower of Scotland while the very non traditional going out after the ceremony was AC/DC Thunderstruck.

All on pipes. Don is the man.





This is the cake. If you look close enough, you can see a tartan pattern in the dark areas there. Our cake maker photocopied a sash that we ordered for the Paisley of my clan tartan and then transferred it onto sugar paper and placed it on the sides of the cake.

I'd like to give her a plug, but I can't remember who she is. Sorry cake lady.







Here is that yummy afternoon tea service provided by Piccadilly Circus.














And finally, the car. You can just see the driver in the left of the photo. He's also the owner of this lovely 1940 Cadillac limo and of the company that provided it.

Brief history we got from him on the car was that it was originally produced for a family in Michigan that was in the telephone and communications business.



When he received the car, it arrived in 10 crates and needed to be put back together again. The frame rails were from a 1970's era Cadillac and the engine/drivetrain were from a 1960's Cadillac.

This concludes this post on my kilt wearing activities. They almost seem limited. I'll have to make sure that I start including national Tartan day, but then if you're hardcore do you really need a reason?

A Very Cheech and Chong Christmas

So this year was almost a typical holiday with one exception. My dad and his girlfriend came to Seattle at the beginning of the month and took the wife and I to go and see Cheech and Chong on their national tour.

The opener for their show was Chong's wife Shelby who has been a stand up comic for at least 10 years. Haven't really heard of her before now, but she was funny. All her stuff revolved around her and Chong's life though. I guess a good comedian uses life experiences for material, but should have something else to work with.

*you'll have to excuse the photo...........we were in the very last row(nose-bleed section) and well the camera was practicing it's diving a few months ago. Oops. *

The evening started out at the 74th Street Ale House up on Greenwood Avenue. Excellent food and great selection of beers on tap. You won't find Budwiser or MGD on tap here. Thank the maker for that!!! You will find a fine selection of local microbrews and bitters from the U.K. where they are made right.

I'm a Guinness stout man myself, but when at the Alehouse I go for the Young Double Chocolate Stout. Again, I'm not your typical Yank. I've always been a bit of an anglophile so it's natural that I would think that all of the U.S. produced beers are shit.

Back to the evening at hand as it were................then off to Seattle and the Paramount Theatre for the show. Of course before hand we needed to stop of for Cappuccino's and dessert before heading to the show.

Apparently you cant take photos in the Paramount of the theatre itself, but you can take photos of the performance you're there to see. I have a bit of each thank you very much.

The show was good. I really can't give it a better rating. It was their same old material with a few updates for the current times. It was good to see them back together and touring again and getting along. Of course it was a typical Cheech and Chong show.........plenty of hippies and green to go around. It reminded me of the Pink Floyd Division Bell tour of 1994............B.C. Place Stadium with plenty of beer to go around and of course plenty of green to go around, which then flashed me to the Roger Waters tour in 2006 that I took my dad to. Same situation as above.

I guess after the show, some folks chose to hang around the side door of the theatre and wait. Well their persistance paid off. Those lucky folks got to go back stage and meet Cheech and Chong and have photos taken with them. It was all one on one.....no group meet and greets here. One of Paula's (dad's girlfriend) employees was there and waited to meet them.

This was by far in the top 10 of coolest holiday gifts received. One that I will always remember for a long time. I was able to get out and do something fun with my dad and Paula and my wife and that's what it was ultimately all about.

Happy Holidays.

Powderama........Seattle Snow 2008

So for about a week and a half now we have been bogged down in snow here in the northwest.

You're thinking "so what about you're snow" and that's cool. I couldn't agree more. What's the big deal about some city that only got on the map thanks to grunge and flannel shirts getting snow?

Since we're between El Nino and La Nina this year our weather is in limbo as far as seasons go. The spring this last year was great. Summer sucked. It wasn't as hot as I like or we're used to around this area and what heat wave we had came and went in 2, 3 weeks tops.

Fall was turning out great. It was pretty mild and I was able to keep wearing sandals and shorts until about 2 weeks ago. What can I say......I really hate pants and shoes. They're both so restrictive. Enough about my fashion sense though, we're here to talk weather!!

So about 2 weeks ago we start getting a nice little arctic blast and it makes things pretty chilly, but it's ok since there's no snow involved. Great. As soon as I think we're in the clear, that's when the "s" word hits. We get a "warning" from the weather folks on the news and their damn doppler radars. The big day comes and nothing!!!

Aha, but the next day when we're not expecting it.........BAM!!! It hits while we're all at work!! We're hosed. It's managable though. The Paisley stays at home and works remotely (lucky little vixen) while I have to trudge it in to the office. It wasn't too bad and I survived like everyone else did.

The real weather treasure came over the weekend when it started snowing Saturday afternoon and just kept going (non-stop) until Sunday nite/Monday morning. WTH!! This is a full on East Coast snow douche we're getting!! I don't mind it, but it's getting old pretty quick. Just having this tidbit of non stop snow and ice makes me appreciate the West coast that much more.

Well as I sit here and create my little weather rant, there's another front moving in that will present us with another dusting of snow overnite and possibly continue into Christmas day.

Bloody lovely. I'm really hating having to bundle for 10 minutes just to get outside.

I'll have to keep you posted on that one when comes through. In the mean time I have some photos of this past weekends little Snow-a-palooza. Enjoy.



Many of you will recognise this little gem from my past postings.

Here is the Bronze Bitch covered in powder.

The neat little thing about this is that the weekend storm had winds up to 100mph in some areas. We only saw winds up to 40 mph.

So even under a carport, nothing was spared.




This is one of the main arterial's North/South through most of the state. This one was taken sometime just after noon.

It almost reminds me of images of some little metropolitan area up in the Yukon Territory or anywhere in the arctic zone really.







Finally, here's a shot of BonJovi. Weird little Puerto Rican dog just loves snow!!

Here he is in little red/black winter jacket (matches mine of course) with a little powder on his nose and tail going just from getting out and playing in the snow.

Councourse d'Elegance 2005

I thought I'd get back to basics on this one. I see by my tracker that I got a lot of hits with my posting of this years Kirkland Concourse.

With that in mind, I thought I'd give you all more of what I see folks are reading about from me. This series of photos was from the first Kirkland Concourse d'Elegance that I went to in 2005 with my father in law. The photos are limited since it was raining that morning and most participants had their cars covered. This was the first year that there was a classic boats category.

First up are these three beauties. The ones on the ends are Triumphs and the one in the center is a BMW.

When I think of classic motourcycles I think of these two brands. Most yanks would look at me and ask me how I could say this of brands such as Harley and Indian.

Well it's easy. They're not the same. I like the Harley and Indian brand, but they have completely different applications.



This is a great car!! This is the Ford Fairlane Skyliner.

This was a one year only car and it had such an impact on the automotive world that has only now starting catching on in recent years.

This lovely sported a power retractable hard top that hid down under the boot.

The most noted manufacturer to use the power retractable hard top is Mercedes Benz in their SLK series.

Even though the ass end is long it still has a timeless shape to it with the slightly raised fins and centre dish tail lights.

This one is really well taken care of and drew quite a crowd even in the rain.







I found this little one interesting. This one is a Squire. I don't know much on the history of this car.

According to wiki, it was produced over a one year period and only 7 were made.

The company was founded in the 1930's by Adrian Squire formerly of Bentley and MG.

The car for it's size was too expensive to manufacture on a large scale level.



This is the sedan side of Woodie Row. They have the back section of the drive set aside every year exclusively for the woodies.












This is the wagon side of Woodie Row.













This one wasn't on Woodie row, but I loved it just the same.

This is the Rolls Royce woodie.

Even as a woodie. this Rolls still looks great and just has that certain regal look to it.






This is a Cadillac Woodie. This one really caught my attention just for the fact that I wasn't aware that Cadillac ever made a woodie wagon.











This is another one of my favourites. This is the Tucker Torpedo.

Preston Tucker was a visionary man that had a great idea that was unfortunately squashed by Detroit's big 3.

This car was an air cooled flat 6 helicopter engine, rear drive. It had seats belts (some 20 years before being required in all cars) and safety glass in the front windscreen.

It had disc brakes, fuel injection and a padded dash.
The centre light turned with the steering wheel to ensure that the driver would be able to see the direction of the turn in the darkest conditions.

If Preston Tucker hadn't been raked over the coals by the Big 3, the world would have seen great advances in automotive engineering decades ahead of time.

This lovely was brought in by the LeMay Auto Museum. This museum houses the largest private collection of autos in the world. Worth a see when you're in Washington state.


I thought this was an interesting vision. A Packard pulling a Packard powered boat.

This was the first year that there was a classic boat division in the Kirkland Concourse.










Here is a pair of twins. Cadillac V-16's.














This is a Bentley coupe.

I don't recall the year of this one.

I do like the fastback look of this one though. Definitely out of the normal for Bentley.





















This is the Cadillac Ghia. Mid 1950's build. Not sure on the year.












This Maserati was also built by Ghia coachworks. This is one is a removable hardtop coupe.












There were a few classic boats on hand this year. This one is my favourite. This is the Miss Sydney.












This is a great example of a Chord Convertible.

I saw one in white a few years prior to seeing this one. That one was a kit however and not in the shape that this one is in.









Here is a 1930's build Lincoln. This a great looking sedan. Nice size and great colour. Definitely another one of my favourites that day.

This sums up the 2005 Kirkland Concourse d'Elegace.

As you can see from this photo, most cars covered in plastic to protect them from the rain. What can you expect from this region though.

I'm sure the 2009 show will just as great as the 2008 show was. I hope that you enjoyed the limited photos from this earlier show.

One Downside to my job.................................

Me: "Good afternoon, this is Bruce with ******* ******* **** and I'm calling because your guest is currently occupying a wheelchair accessible stateroom and I see that they have not completed the necessary form to occupy this room."

Travel Agent on other end: "No they don't have any ADA needs."

Me: "I would like to know if your guests would consider switching to another stateroom as I have a wait list for this stateroom by another guests that does need this wheelchair accessible stateroom."

T.A. on other end: "I don't think my clients are interested in moving. They chose this room because it's close to the elevator and they can't walk very far."

Me: "I can understand that, but I do have a guest that is in a wheelchair that needs this stateroom. Maybe you could contact your guests and just ask them if they will switch to another stateroom?"

T.A. on other end: " I don't think I'll be calling them. What gives you the right to call and ask me to have my clients move to another room anyway? I think this is ridiculous for you to call me like this when they have already put a lot of money on this room and other amenities for their stateroom."

Me: "I understand that your guests have spent a lot of money for this sailing. What gives me the right to call is that I have a guest with ADA needs and it's my job to make sure that their needs are met on our ships. I can't force your guests to move, but I can ask you to ask them to do the right thing."

T.A. on other end: "Well you'll just have to find someone else to ask about moving. I'm not going to call and upset my guests with this kind of question."

(End of phone conversation)

Not every call that I have to make of this nature goes this way, but most of them do go in this direction.

Our ships are foreign flagged vessels and not subject to ADA, but since the average age of the guests on our ships is 60+, we make every effort to make sure that we can meet the needs of those guests that fall under ADA from life threatening food allergies to service animals to wheelchair stateroom accommodations.

My department is two (yes that's 2) handling requests for guests on 14 ships and one (yes 1) manager to make sure that the company is helping us help these guests. We have our hands full to say the least.

Why is it that given the average age of our guests are 60+, they feel that they don't need to do the right thing? People in this generation certainly were raised with better values than even I was!!!! Do they think that they deserve to act like prats when calls like this are made!?

Where is their sense of right or humanity? I'm sure that when I reach that age I'll appreciate having a stateroom near the elevator or some of the other nice little services that are provided for people with ADA needs. Of course as long as my legs still work (among all the other bits and pieces) I'd like to think that I will still do the right thing and make way for someone with a need at hand.

I'm grateful for the praise that we receive on the occasional basis, but really tired of the lack of decency shown for the most part to those that didn't ask to be in the positions they're in now.

Please make sure that you're doing the right thing next time you find yourself in the position to do so for folks that have a disability they didn't ask for.

Cruise ship karma lesson: when a guest says "no" to moving, you run the risk of the ship making a decision for you once on board.

A special Thanksgiving message from Ozzy Osbourne

The Oz man here..........the Kilted One has been away from blogging for a bit and he wanted me to put something out to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

This also gave me the chance to put out my own special Thanksgiving message to everyone. I made a sign. I hope you can read it.

Please don't tell PETA on me. Last thing I need is a bunch of animal activists beating down my front gate and picketing my home.

Again, Happy Thanksgiving...............the Kilted One has some time off and will be getting back to some routine blogging soon.

Election Day

So here we are on yet another presidential election. I normally half-ass the information and vote a different manner all together.............usually the way of getting the current elected officials out of office.

This year the wife and I actually spent about 4 hours going over the voters guide that we get in the post and looking at information on line. Maybe it was becuase this was a more important election than ever before.

The last time I can recall an election being this exciting of a time was when Ronald Reagan won the White House in 1980. I know I'm aging myself.

I think that was in part to Walter Mondale choosing Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. First woman VP candidate. So with Mcain chosing Palin as his really didn't float my preverbiale boat. All it did was to give the country some eye candy to look at. Have you really taken a look at Mcain? I will say one thing about his strategy though. No one in their right mind would assinate Mcain and risk having Sarah Palin as president. Outside of that, not a good choice in my opinion.

Oh yes I did watch the VP debate with Palin and Biden. It seemed to me that Palin was just riding on Mcain's coat tails with her answers. The responses were more of "Mcain's agenda is this" rather than providing her own answers. I just couldn't get past that feeling that there was puppet master somewhere under the stage with a hand up her dress controlling her somehow.

Then I watched the second Presidential debate. It was amusing that Mcain was making a lot of faces and squirming in his seat at Obama's answers. I was almost wondering if maybe Mcain had a hemmoroid and was getting uncomfortable or something. Again not a high point for the Republican party.

Now onto the local scene. Here in Washington state we have to pick another governor. Of course our current Democratic govenor is defending her post against Dino Rossi, the GOP candidate. He did win the 2004 election, but Gregoire cried like a little girl and asked for a recount that last 51 days just to prove that she had won by the narrowest of margins. I really feel for the residents of Florida with this kind of an election debacle on hand.

My wife and I have voted after that 4 hours of time with the voter guide and the internet to fill in the gaps. There was no Republican or Decmocratic decisions across the board in our choices. They were educated decisions that we felt good about and for once felt that our choices really will make differance in how this years elections turn out.

One final note: read your voters guide, use the internet and ask yourself those important questions and get out and vote before your polling station closes.

A Special Halloween Movie Treat........................

As I'm reviewing the blog I just posted about some of my favourite scary movies, my son asks me "hey did you post about The Book Of Zombie" yet?

Well it was on my list, and I just didn't get it posted up there. I'm almost ashamed of myself since this is a film that I actually worked on!!!

This film is not actually out yet. It's currently in post production and ready for our foley artists to take their crack at it and do the sound overs and clean it up on their end.


This is my wife (aka the paisley penguin) on set between takes with one of our actors.













This is our D.P. and another production member, Adam getting set up for the next shot. In the background is one of our actresses and to the left of our D.P. is another soundie that I worked with on the film.









Just me taking a break in between takes. I think this was about 2 or 3 in the morning and I was starting to feel it.

BTW- Our unofficial sponsor on this shoot was Rock Star Energy Drinks. Yum Yum.







This is me and Marcel our special effects/make up guy horsing around on the bar set with machette's. We had just blown a huge amount of fog juice from the smoker and decided we needed to duel. It was an off day so it wasn't a shoot day, but a day of set building instead.


So go to the official website for The Book Of Zombie and check out our trailer and the other fun stuff on the website. There's merchandise and a link to our MySpace Page and a link to our D.P.'s production blog as well. I have that same link to the production blog on my posting page.

We hope to have this released next year in time for Halloween. You need to be patient...........indie film makers only have so much money to get things done unlike the big studios.

My Favourite Scary Movies

So in honour of my fav holiday every year I thought I'd put out this list of some of my favourite scary/suspense movies.

First up on my list is Scream. I really loved this movie when it came out. I think I saw it in the theatre at least twice. I loved the way it poked fun of the horror film genre.

I really thought that it was a smart move to have Wes Craven do a cameo as Fred the janitor in one of the scenes and to be wearing the original Freddy Kruger sweater.

I actually liked all 3 of the Scream movies. They made sense and they had a direction. Thankfully it only took 3 of them to finally conclude everything. I don't think that series could have been drug out any further.*addendum-as I finish this I see that Wes Craven is currently in talks for a possible Scream 4.*



Next up is Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Sure I read the book as a kid and sure it was intriguing. Let's face it though, Tim Burton has a way of taking a subject and making it into something really fucking awesome.

This film reunited Burton with Johnny Depp and Martin Landau. It also had Michael Gough and Christopher Lee which he cast in films on a regular basis.





Now this was one that I just saw recently. I must say that I went into it expecting it to be more like Descent. I was a bit off on that one. They did come out the same year and have the same kind of theme.

This film wasn't a total loss however. It had a good plot to it, but not much of a back story. I was a little lost on the origins of the cave until later on in the film.

Definitely watch The Cave. It has some moments, but not nearly as scary as I thought it would be.








This is another Carpenter classic. I actually just watched it today on tv. One of the characters uses the word "totally" so often in one scene that it's almost annoying. This was 1978 and I think it was in there as we were coming up on the 1980's and the beginnings of the Valley Girl era.

One of the directors of the film that I worked on had pointed out that there is a scene in the beginning where you can see cigarette smoke drift onto the scene from a smoke that John Carpenter had lit while filming. Kind of fun to look for these things when watching films.

This was the film that really gave Jamie Lee Curtis her jump start in the industry as well cuz lets face it, no one ever remembers you from bit parts that you do in tv series unless your a reoccurring character.



I actually never saw this film in the theatre. The first time I saw it was on HBO (in it's heyday) while staying over at a friends house. Bunch of kids staying up after midnite in the middle of winter and the wood stove cranking out heat and wood popping like Chinese fireworks at the wrong time during a slasher flick...........ah good times.

This film did better out of the theatre as a cult film, which is too bad since it had a decent plot..............guy slashes up folks that celebrate Valentines Day.

The most memorable parts for me are finding that body in the dryer in the laundromat and the some of the scenes in the mine shaft towards the end. If you can get your hands on it, watch it. Beware the fact that some disappointment will come.........apparently the only version of this film out has 9 minutes of missing blood and gore footage.


This was one of those so-so films. It reminded me more of that film Cat People with Nastassja Kinski, but with some kind or weird mother/son insestual overtone.

Definitely not one of the best film adaptations of a Stephen King novel. That tends to happen to his books anyway.

The highlight of this film is Alice Krige. She is most noted for her role as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact and again in the Star Trek:Voyager episode called End Game.

Definitely peep this one!! There are cameo appearances by Clive Barker, Stephen King, Joe Dante, John Landis and Tobe Hooper (who by the way is in production right now on "From A Buick 8").





This movie is a must see!! This movie kept me on the edge of my couch!!!

Director/Writer Neil Marshall brought this film to us. He is responsible for "Dog Soldiers" and is currently working on a film called "Drive".

This one is about a group of ladies that are some serious cavers. They end up in an uncharted cave thanks to a friend that thought the cave they were supposed to dive into was too easy and the terror begins there.


John Landis always puts out a films that are fun to watch. This is one of my favs by him. A great mix of comedy and horror.

The opening sequence is one that has always stuck out in my mind with the characters walking through the English moors at nite with just the moonlight to guide them until they come across the Slaughtered Lamb pub.

Again one of the best animal/slasher films of my lifetime.

Oh and An American Werewolf In Paris wasn't able to touch this film as cool and entertaining as it was.







Again another Stephen King book ruined by Hollywood. I do have to say that of all the SK books that have been made into films, this is my favourite.

There was so much more to the book that just wasn't in the film. This one is on my list for one fact only: I think I was 13 when this one came to the theatre. There is this scene at the end where Christine is under some crates at Darnell's and all of a sudden she roars out from under these crates and the headlights come on and the engine is howling like a cat in the dryer..............at that very moment imagine if you can an 13 year old boy jumping straight up from his theatre seat and screaming: Jesus Mother Fucking Christ!!!! in front of his parents and a theatre full of strangers. Yeah........good times.



I'm not sure that I would consider this a horror film as I would psychological slaughterhouse.

When you combine horror with space you get some pretty fucking freaky films. This one was no exception.

The highlight of this film is Sam Neill. This guy really brought his piece and laid it down for this one.

His character joins a rescue ship going out to Neptune to recover a ship called the Event Horizon which had disappeared 7 years earlier without a trace. Seems it's back now and wherever it was it has brought evil back with it. The longer the rescue crew spends on the Event Horizon the more they encounter the evil within the ship.




This is actually a remake of a Vincent Price film. I have not seen the original, but this one was pretty damn good in my humble opinion. This has Geoffrey Rush in the lead role as Stephen Price which in the original film was Frederick Loren.

This film offers $1 million per person to who ever can stay the night in a house with a notorious past.

It's only fault is the ending. The special effects team did a great job of working with the director and writer on keeping the audience on the edge and then at the end it seemed as if they needed some kind of apperitional gimick which kind of turned me off.

I'm a sucker for horror films so I watch it again periodically.




Kubrick did wonders for this film adaptation of the Stephen King novel. His first brilliant move was to get Jack Nicholson to be in this one. Brilliant!!!

No special effect gimmicks in this one. Just a good old fashioned haunting.

And the creepy connection between Scatman Crothers character and the kid in this film...........man that is the other half of the tension in this film!!! Fucking awesome!!!









I know what you're thinking right now.........why did this douche bag put this piece of shite on his list?!!

Well I do work for a cruise line. I was really into this film from the very beginning when all those guests are on the bow dancing and having a great time when those Nazi hijackers slaughtered them via that cable that made Ginsu look like training wheels for Jack the Ripper.



This is the remake of the original John Carpenter film of the same name.

This one is pretty scary and I like that John Carpenter was behind it 100% and was one of the producers on this project.

I like the cast in this film: Tom Welling and Selma Blair and Maggie Grace.

The fog effects in this film are just goddamned creepy!!!










Like I said before when you combine space and horror you get some scary mother fuckin' shit!!!

The tag line for this film was: In Space No One Can Hear You Scream

How true was that!!! Great cast great original script work and one of my fav directors: Ridley Scott.

I was 9 when this film came out. I lived about 100 yards from a movie theatre and I walked up there to see it and was told I could see it by myself. I had to come back with my parents to see it. Man was that one awesome film!!! This is one franchise that just couldn't top the original. Not even with James "I'm The King Of The World" Cameron helming the sequel.

Ridley Scott, you ARE the king. Thanks for bringing me movie nightmares. I'm still smiling.....................