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Mike Sizemore
Mike Sizemore

“An extraordinary writer” John Carpenter

Category: Movies & TV

Ready. Not ready.

Posted on July 16, 2024July 16, 2024

The original is my favourite John Woo movie.

It’s also possibly the movie I’ve watched the most times.

Seems nuts they didn’t even mention John Woo on the poster.

“I’ll teach you how to Road War, Thomas.”

Posted on July 15, 2024July 17, 2024

Get some

Posted on July 15, 2024July 17, 2024

They had me at Samo Hung but then that dude bit a sword in two…

Two men enter; one man leaves.

Posted on July 14, 2024July 16, 2024

“Watching the match today?”

“Of course!”

The Match:

I’ve yet to miss a Thunderdome…

UPDATE:

Screenshot

I love digging that out.

 

RIP Shelly Duvall

Posted on July 12, 2024July 16, 2024

Here’s a thing. The wonderful Shelly Duvall had a tv show called Faerie Tale Theatre.

Fresh off POPEYE (1980) she got Robin Williams for the pilot which was written and directed by Eric Idle. all the episodes will reward your curiosity.

But my favourite one was narrated by Vincent Price and was sadly the only time Christopher Lee worked with Frank fucking Zappa. In Lee’s own words:

“In the early seventies I moved to America and it was there where I had my first direct contact with the genre. I’d played golf a few times with Alice Cooper. Not many people know this, but I worked with Frank Zappa. He was a fan of my work so he asked to star with me in a TV show. It was called Faerie Tale Theatre.”

What a life.

It’s called ‘The Boy Who Left Home To Find Out About The Shivers’.

The above was a quick post elsewhere. Notes over on Substack is my favourite platform right now and the more I use it the more I think I don’t need a blog here. Than again if it got nuked it wouldn’t be the first online home that fell away beneath me. But also the blog is more of a notepad archive. Maybe. Dunno. It’ll all work out.

Bonus thing with following me on Notes is that there’s no need to subscribe to my newsletter to experience me waffle.

“Give me the money, fucker.”

Posted on July 10, 2024July 17, 2024

Got a meeting tomorrow to discuss starting a Substack with another writer built on a shared love of a particular movie genre. May come to nothing but I guess I am taking the platform seriously now.

John Candy serious, mammyrammers.

 

It’s oh so quiet…

Posted on July 8, 2024July 16, 2024

Can never remember the name of these movies because the titles are fucking awful so they’ll always be HUSH! MONSTERS! to me.

This is by far the best of the three and more importantly it’s a great cat movie.

Another successful date night with Rob.

Reading the classics again

Posted on July 6, 2024July 16, 2024

Waking up to the election results this morning

Posted on July 5, 2024July 16, 2024

Bogus

Posted on July 4, 2024July 16, 2024

Gone midnight but no newsletter this evening I’m afraid. I’m bang in the middle of writing something else and on a roll.

You don’t fuck with a roll.

Once I surface from this I’ll get a new issue out before the weekend.

In the meantime here’s a photo of Henry Rollins explaining to Keanu Reeves that John Wick is what happened in the universe where Ted Theodore Logan was sent to Oates Military Academy.

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