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Saturday, 21 October 2006
Taliesin (Taliesin Meets the Vampires), hipped me to this new thing: a haunted house made completely out of balloons. They've got all sorts of nasties, and there is a website for the Balloon Manor, complete with interactive virtual tour of the Manor (requires latest version of Flash). What won't they think of next??? Below is one of their creatures, a vampire, of course. Profits from this haunted house go to cancer charities. 
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Updated: Saturday, 21 October 2006 11:23 AM EDT
Friday, 13 October 2006
Supernatural's "Bloodlust" synopsis is up on the "One offs" page and the addition of an episode of "Walker, Texas Ranger" just did make it. Also, on Spankavision2, there is a whole new More Commercials and Ads page for your bemusement. Now, there's M&M's, Jagermeister, UNICEF, and an old Coca Cola ad from 1992. It's like I always say: these pages are NEVER done!
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Saturday, 7 October 2006
After much fretting and moving of information from one site to another, as well as researching new topics, I have now published Spankavision2 to the web! It now features not only the topics I moved (web movies, Trivia, WWE's the Brood, and Commercials and Ads), but now includes Anime and Vampire XXX. (Note to parents, kids and perverts: there is no explicit content on the XXX page. There are only very general descriptions, a few catty remarks and box covers, none of which are explicit. If you're only clicking on the page for a cheap thrill or an excuse to protest me, don't go there. You're wasting your time.) As more stuff develops, I'll add more content. Until then, enjoy Spankavision and Spankavision2!
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Thursday, 21 September 2006
When Sci-Fi Channel originally aired this show, I loved it. I watched it every Thursday at 9pm, when it aired. I loved it so much, I started to tape it, but I didn't want commercials, and I was seeing someone (not my fiance, Tim) at the time, so I let that idea slip by me. I figured it would re-run into perpetuity, right? Wrong. It aired once more, then a marathon, then to Fox Reality Channel, which my cable provider doesn't offer. Then, it was gone. I was furious with myself. I let several opportunities slip through my fingers to keep a copy of this show, and now it was gone. There would be no DVD set, I would soon discover, unlike ridiculous shows it would commit to DVD, like Frankenfish and that crappy Dune remake. I was stuck. I began to solicit the online tape trading sites in January 2006, hoping SOMEONE would have the heart to help me out. One lady in North Carolina took a check for $20 and five blank VHS tapes. With shipping, it cost me $40 for the whole shooting match. About a dozen emails passed back and forth from January until March, then I realized I'd been had. Another person offered to sell it to me on his personally-burned DVDs...for $50. I couldn't afford that, so I moved on. Eventually, a nice man in Michigan sent me the DVD-Rs and I have enjoyed them ever since. Now: an overall synopses. Ten "guests" (read: "normal" people) are invited to participate in a reality show in which they stay in a mansion with a "family". What they don't know is that the family in question is actually a group of "alts": people living alternative lifestyles. There is a Wiccan named Fiona (pretty blonde; will get to her in a minute), a Voodoo priestess named I'aya Ta'shia, a naturist named Avocado, a "modern primitive" (read: pierced and tattooed guy) named Art, and our resident vampire Don Henrie. The guests are the usual reality show suspects: Nichole- the pretty one- Seems nice, but everyone bags on her for being "fake," a big crime on reality TV Brent- the Christian- He's barely on for two episodes, because every challenge is against his religion Bonnie- the Mom- Nice older lady who dives right into everything Eric- the Villian- Although the point of the show--and what the winner HAS TO ACTUALLY DO--is to open your mind and to embrace the Alts and what they teach you, Eric decides to take down Nichole and "play the game". He lies about everyone that "gets in (his) way", in order to make them look bad. Loana- the good girl gone bad- Claims to be a Christian, but is soon working as a co-conspirator to Eric, and lies about other contestants. Best known for raising the ire of Fiona, the Wiccan, by claiming that Nichole is not really interested in learning about Wicca, then getting her own ass in trouble. Noel- the slacker with a heart of gold- He came in as a punter trying to win the money, but actually seemed to learn from the experience. Too bad Eric and Loana messed him out of the chance. Kelly- the Bitch- Initially starts out as the Virgin, but it isn't like she has a choice---she kind of looks like Monica Lewinsky without the charm or the attractiveness. She announces on her first day in the house that she's a Republican who lives in a convent. Eventually, when she starts having trouble accepting the Alts, she decides to hate everyone and calls people names...safely behind their backs. Hamin- the ladies' man- also a Christian, but is called out by I'aya by not being "black enough". First eliminated. Tim- the redneck- WILL NOT SHUT THE F*CK UP! Tried to call out the beefy Art to fight during a challenge. Made a huge production when asked to maintain a vow of silence, until they told him to forget it. Jamie- the retired stripper- A pretty Southern girl who no one took seriously because she didn't play the game. SHE WON. Now, Jamie winning is an important point. She followed through the challenges, didn't always win, but kept an open mind and LISTENED to what everyone had to say. She never objected to the challenges, which went the gamut from blood-drinking and a hanging to streaking naked on the mansion lawn. She simply participated and didn't judge anyone. This wasn't easy, what with Eric and Loana conspiring to make others fail in the show and the Alts having their own agendas.
Remember I mentioned before that Fiona was a pretty blonde? Though there were attractive girls as guests on the show (notably Nichole and Jamie), Fiona was prettier than any of the girls, and maybe all of them combined. She looked the part of a fantasy witch, something you might have seen on a Coors Light Halloween standee in your local 7-11. According to Wikipedia, she was a former rock musician/actor/model/pin-up in her native Australia whose latest incarnation was as a witch. It caused a concern for those in Wiccan circles who felt she wasn't an accurate representation of a witch. More to the point, she seemed to walk in with an agenda. The male guests seemed to garner her attention readily, while she seemed lukewarm to the female guests. Her first roommate was Hamin, the ladies' man. She was the first Alt to claim that Nichole was used to getting whatever she wanted, and some might say, slanted the other Alts against Nichole. She also listened to Eric, whose lies were not only transparent, but unbelievable. It was only after it was too late that Eric was voted off the show, and by then Fiona had made up her (and possibly, the others') mind. Not that Fiona was the only one. My personal favorite of the Alts, Don Henrie, also gunned for Nichole, although he kept it quiet. However, during deliberations, Don made fun of perky Nichole, agreeing with Eric that nobody could truthfully be that upbeat. (Are pleasant people THAT HARD TO FIND?) Even after Nichole let down her guard in the house, Don seemed to keep the pressure on her in the closed deliberations. However, his agenda was slightly different than Fiona's, or Eric's for that matter. During an elimination ceremony, Don cast his vote for Nichole, telling her he was alerting her to a 'psychic catfight' going on in the house. It was during a dinner later in the house that Don decided to stir a little more shit, and without naming names, told Eric that it seemed he was constantly pointing out Nichole as a fake. It got Nichole to finally take action and stand up for herself. But Fiona seemed to try and rule the roost with the Alts. Whenever any of the men (usually Avocado or Art) tried to stand up for Nichole, Fiona began her campaign with I'aya Ta'Shia, claiming that 'they're only men," implying that they were allowing an attraction to Nichole to influence their way of thinking. This was an interesting assertion, considering what would happen in a episode close to series' end: during a thunderstorm, a security camera shows Fiona and Avocado lounging in bed together...dressed...but still. Though the show was supposed to expose we, the viewers, to ideas of acceptance and openness, the real moral of the show was that no matter what we do to set ourselves apart from others---practice witchcraft, pierce ourselves, drink blood, vote Republican and live in a nunnery--- we are all human, and horribly so. Even the nicest people, with few exceptions, became raging assholes in the face of a $100,000 payday. Even those who weren't eligible for the money were using the power of giving that money to make their own agendas. It caused rifts and embarrassments on national television. It made me aware that as good as we try to be, sometimes we can't help but to be monsters. Even bigger monsters than those the guests might have perceieved the Alts to be.
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Updated: Sunday, 3 June 2007 10:56 PM EDT
I have only recently picked up "Club Dead" by Charlaine Harris, though I have seen her books around in stores for a while. The odd thing was, once I actually picked it up, I found I could relate to Sookie, the heroine of the book. See, I have read all of the Anita Blake books by Laurell K. Hamilton, and though I understood that Anita, the tough necromancer/Federal Marshal/hybrid of different supernatural elements forced on her by her boyfriends, had issues, I couldn't relate. Hamilton kept piling things onto her, until she wasn't relatable anymore. I couldn't feel for her. Harris' heroine, Sookie Stackhouse of Bon Temps, Louisiana, on the other hand, is downright close to my heart. Here she is, dating a vampire (Bill) who had fought in the Civil War, and she suspects he's up to something. He's suddenly distant, and she doesn't know why, but she has her suspicions. He tells her he needs to take a trip, but that he needs her to hide his computer and if anyone comes asking to protect it. It sounds serious, but as soon as he's gone, her boyfriend's romantic rival, Eric (another vampire) comes calling and can't wait to spill the beans: Bill is seeing someone else. The antagonism here is pretty straight-forward: there's another woman, and that other woman may be setting her now-ex-boyfriend up to be killed. Sookie would rather just be left by her man, to stay a cocktail waitress, and to leave all this underworld stuff behind. However, she feels a moral obligation (he IS in danger...) to her man and goes off on a mission to find him. She's given a bodyguard, a werewolf named Alcide, who's big and handsome and smells good. (Harris helpfully supplies the description of Alcide smelling like Tide detergent and Irish Spring soap.) They hit it off, but they can't be involved: they're on a mission to save Bill. However, it doesn't stop Harris from giving them a couple of romantic interludes to complicate matters. Just like real life, no? They head into Mississippi, where they settle into an apartment and go to Josephine's, aka, Club Dead, to try and get information to help find Bill. They end up getting tangled with mercenaries and Alcide's ex-girlfriend, Debbie. I won't tell you more, only to say that instead of grand magical and supernatural powers described in Hamilton's books, Charlaine Harris's characters are pretty normal, given their circumstances. They are very strong, but no one can simply acquire supernatural powers from sexual encounters or from bites. The action is very realistic, with people being shot and stabbed, rather than killed with off-the-wall deaths. But, like Hamilton's Anita Blake, Harris' Sookie Stackhouse is confused about her place in with these vampires and wolves around her, and doubly confused about her attraction to them. They both wish they could be with someone normal, knowing it's not in the cards. I recommend this book, as well as Hamilton's books and Harris' other books, anyone who has dreamed of men fighting to the death--or un-death--for her.
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Friday, 15 September 2006
Okay, Associated Press, get a God-damned grip. For the last time, stop using Goth culture, Marilyn Manson, and bloggers as the cross hairs through which you aim your stories. You did it with those two little bastards in Columbine, but since you couldn't manage to hang the shootings in Arkansas and West Paducah, KY, I suppose that this idiot in Montreal, Quebec fit their need to slant the story. Before Columbine, I remember the last time someone referenced black clothes and Marilyn Manson as signs of teenage murderous intent: the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful." Back in the mid-nineties, little Eric Forrester, Jr. (now Rick) shot his then-step-father, now-half-brother Ridge in a fit over his mother's marriage to Ridge, shortly after she divorced Ridge's dad, Eric. Instead of looking to their fucked-up family ties, Ridge goes into Eric, Jr's bedroom to snoop, only to find Marilyn Manson posters (overlapped, to avoid revealing MM's full name or image...presumably to avoid a lawsuit) and metal CD's. Back then, it was just an excuse. Now...it's still just an excuse. Plenty of Goths (most docile people on Earth...ever seen "Goth Talk" on Saturday Night Live?), Marilyn Manson fans (again, not exactly ass-kickers...that would be Metallica fans...), and people wearing black (sorry to most of the fashionistas of New York City...and everyone ELSE in New York City...) don't mess with anyone, don't cause any trouble, and don't go 'round shooting people for shits-n-giggles. It's just a fact. My thought: do what you should have done and call these shitheads on the carpet for not only committing mass murder, but also for taking the coward's way out and committing suicide to avoid prosecution. These people aren't truly suicidal, BTW, or else they would have done themselves in. They wouldn't have put it off by killing others. The article follows. From the Associated Press: Police say Montreal gunman killed self By PHIL COUVRETTE, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 14, 7:03 PM ET MONTREAL - A 25-year-old man who mounted a deadly shooting rampage at a downtown Montreal college had posted pictures of himself on the Internet with a rifle and said he was feeling "crazy" and "postal" and was drinking whiskey hours before the attack. The man, identified by police as Kimveer Gill, also said on a blog that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado and wanted to die "in a hail of gunfire." In the end, Gill — dressed in a black trench coat like the Columbine shooters — put his own gun to his head and pulled the trigger during a shootout with officers at Dawson College on Wednesday, police said. Gill, wielding a rapid-fire rifle and two other weapons, had already wounded 20 other people by the time he took his own life. One of his victims, an 18-year-old woman, later died. Four others remained in critical condition Thursday, including three in extremely critical condition and one in a deep coma. The Internet postings and neighbors' accounts reveal an angry, solitary young man who lived with his mother in Laval, near Montreal. He sported a mohawk, dressed in black and was filled with hatred for everyone from jocks to preppies and everything from country music to hip-hop. He once worked for a carpet company and more recently an auto parts business. "Work sucks ... school sucks ... life sucks ... what else can I say? ... Life is a video game you've got to die sometime," he wrote in his profile for a Web site called vampirefreaks.com. Authorities searched Gill's home Wednesday evening and seized his computer and other belongings. "I don't know what they found in the computer," said a woman who answered the phone at Gill's home and said she was his mother. "They took everything." She described her son as "a good man." "Just ask anybody. Ask the neighbors. He was a good son," the woman told The Associated Press. She refused to give her name. A neighbor across the street said he was a loner. "There were never any friends," Louise Leykauf said. "He kept to himself. He always wore dark clothing." Another neighbor, Mariola Trutschnigg, said she noticed a changed in his appearance in recent months when he "started wearing a mohawk and black clothes." In postings on vampirefreaks.com, blogs in Gill's name show more than 50 photos depicting the young man in various poses holding a rifle or a knife and wearing a black trench coat and combat boots. One photo has a tombstone bearing his name and the epitaph: "Lived fast died young. Left a mangled corpse." The last of six journal entries Wednesday was posted at 10:41 a.m, about two hours before Gill died at Dawson. He said on the site that he felt "crazy" and was drinking whiskey that morning and described his mood as "postal" the night before. "Whiskey in the morning, mmmmmm, mmmmmmmmm, good !! :)," he wrote. "His name is Trench. you will come to know him as the Angel of Death," Gill wrote at another point on his vampirefreaks.com profile. "He is not a people person. He has met a handful of people in his life who are decent. But he finds the vast majority to be worthless, no good, conniving, betraying, lying, deceptive." This inscription is below a picture of Gill aiming a gun at the camera: "I think I have an obbsetion (sic) with guns ... muahahaha." "Anger and hatred simmers within me," said another caption below a picture of Gill grimacing. He wrote that he is 6-foot-1, was born in Montreal and is of Indian heritage. It was unclear whether he meant east Indian or American Indian, but Gill is a common name in India. He said his weakness is laziness and that he fears nothing. Responding to the question, "How do you want to die?" Gill replied "like Romeo and Juliet — or in a hail of gunfire." Gill repeatedly said on his blogs that he loved black trench coats. He wore a black trench coat during the shooting and opened fire in the cafeteria just as Columbine students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris did in 1999. He also maintained an online blog, similar to Klebold and Harris, devoted to Goth culture, heavy metal music such as Marilyn Manson, guns and journal entries expressing hatred against authority figures and "society." (my GOD! What dumbasses!) He said he liked to play "Super Columbine Massacre," an Internet-based computer game that simulates the April 20, 1999, shootings at the Colorado high school when Klebold and Harris killed 13 people and then themselves. Gill complained that a video shooting game, "Postal 2," was too childish. He wanted one that allowed him to kill more and go "beserk." "I want them to make a game so realistic, that it looks and feels like it's actually happening," he wrote in his blog. Danny Ledonne, the creator of "Super Columbine Massacre," posted a message of sympathy on his site. "I am, like most, saddened by the news of the recent shooting at Dawson College. I extend my condolences to those affected by this painful event," Ledonne wrote. A 23-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl accused in a triple murder in Medicine Hat, Alberta, earlier this year also had profiles on vampirefreaks.com. Montreal Police Chief Yvan Delorme said the lessons learned from other mass shootings had taught police to try to stop such assaults as quickly as possible. "Before our technique was to establish a perimeter around the place and wait for the SWAT team. Now the first police officers go right inside. The way they acted saved lives," he said. Delorme said some officers were at the school on an unrelated matter when the shooting began and reinforcements were sent in. Witnesses said Gill started shooting outside the college, then entered the second-floor cafeteria and opened fire without uttering a word. Anastasia DeSousa, 18, of Montreal was killed. Police initially said Gill shot himself but later Wednesday they said they thought officers killed Gill during an exchange of fire. On Thursday, however, Francois Dore of the Quebec provincial police said "preliminary results of the autopsy showed that he died of self-inflicted wounds." Dore said police shot Gill in the arm before he turned his gun on himself. Canada's worst mass shooting took place in Montreal when gunman Marc Lepine, 25, killed 14 women at the Ecole Polytechnic on Dec. 6, 1989, before shooting himself. That shooting spurred efforts for new gun laws achieved mainly as the results of efforts by survivors and relatives of Lepine's victims. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it was too early to begin questioning how tougher gun control laws might have averted Wednesday's rampage, but that current laws clearly did not work. "The laws we have didn't prevent this tragedy, which is why our government will be in the future — because of this incident and many others — looking to make our laws more effective," Harper said. Canadian laws prohibit the possession of unregistered handguns, and the rules for ownership of registered guns are stringent. Many politicians and police contend illegal guns flowing across the U.S.-Canada border are behind a recent spike in firearm violence.
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Updated: Sunday, 3 June 2007 11:01 PM EDT
Tuesday, 12 September 2006
I have been looking for the "Love in Vein" episode of Dark Angel since SciFi Channel has been airing the reruns. I didn't watch its original run on ABC, so I was mostly left out of the loop on the popularity. I only got to see Jessica Alba's more recent stuff (Fantastic Four, Honey). So, when I ran across the show coming on last night, I popped in a tape and settled in. I have a few questions, beyond the military state that Seattle will eventually (according to the show) become and the questions about Manticore:
Next time it comes on SciFi Channel or if you can rent it, see if you can't answer some of these questions for yourself.
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Wednesday, 6 September 2006
Yeah, I talk a lot of romantic shit on Spankavision about sexy vampires and hot fanged creatures of the night. But nothing like this. Don't try this shit at home...or in the local cemetary. Your true love (lust?) will come to you, and not in a fucking box.
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Monday, 28 August 2006
Come on! Kindred the Embraced has become a cult classic, with fans connecting on the internet everyday. Those ridiculously overpriced, out of print DVD's sell like hotcakes when they are on eBay or Amazon. (I'll probably plunk my cash down for one, too!) The only non-genius move on Spelling Television's part with the show was not continuing it. Admittedly, Mark Frankel's untimely passing was a contributing factor, as producers were in talks to bring it possibly to a pay-cable network, but still... Compared to other nitpicks I have with the broadcast (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition over Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List? Come on!) it's relatively minor. However, I think they should have included this show among the other clips.
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Sunday, 27 August 2006
To the right of Frankie, our good neighborhood Count is representing for a PostSecret reader's...clinical depression. Hey, we're not all cheery monsters...
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Last night's Aaron Spelling tribute was long, long overdue, especially for someone who, before his death, had done 50 years' worth of service for the television industry, as an actor and producer. However, when I saw the tribute, there was a glaring omission: in all of the clips from the shows he either acted in (Gunsmoke, for example) or produced (Dynasty, Love Boat, 90210, Melrose Place, etc.) they'd left out freakin' Kindred the Embraced. (Okay, to be fair, they also left out stinker Models, Inc. too, but hell, they put Honey West and The Rookies on the tribute! If you're under 50 and have heard of them, let me know!) 