Coast Con 2014 day 1

Slept in,Well got 4 hours,fuck it. As usual I do most of my shopping the first day.

 Some used book dealer had a weird selection of paperback cheap. Saw novelizations of "The Incredible Hulk","Spider-man" and "Spider-man 3".Which are all written by Peter David. I think I got Spiderman already. But he also has the novelization of "Catwoman" movie with Halle Barry. But instead of any of that I grabbed the above. The Martin Caidin novel that became the TV film "The Six Million Dollar Man". I am sure this will sit in the "too read someday stacks" for years. But the price and the cover had me.

Last year I grabbed a book from NOLA author Rob A.Cerio. So I got the sequel this year. The first was a mixture of Hitchhiker's guide,Red Dwarf and Lexx. It'sfairly short so I will get it read before August. Plus is an odd size. Which makes it not fit in my Stacks of unread books. So I will read it fairly soon and shelve it. Got Rob to sign it. As has happened at the last 2 cons he would later co-host a panel on Comic books in other media.

If it is in decent shape and a 70s DC horror,weird,sci fi anthology series I will grab it. Plus this is a 100 page giant. Total reader copy,but was so dam cheap. Checked it out some and some great art. Think some Infantino in this one. Also all the following were 25% off the sticker on the bag. The dealer gave all the following to me for a good deal..

I also love the 70s Marvel horror stuff.I recognize the cover art but can't think of the artist's name.Still a neat find.

Issue 1 of Prez. I knew him from I think Who' Who until his appearance in Sandman. So finding this was a nice surprise.

Yeah I know the wrinkled a fuck bag obscures the great art.Also got the next issue.

I think there is a DC Showcase Presents with this entire series but I wanted these in color.
And now the best comic book cover I have seen in my entire life.

I can't wait to read about a talking ape that can conquer the world with knowledge from Treasure Island,Moby Dick and Robin Crusoe.I am sure I saw this on some list of strange covers. And I had never heard of this series. The dealer had a bunch more but at much higher costs.

Since he cut me a deal on the above I saw he had mystery grab bags of comics.10 or so in each pack and only $2. I took a chance. Figured it would be 90s glut stuff,it is. But it is decently written and draw 90s glut.

3 early Wally West as Flash Mike Baron written issues. So that right there is 2 bucks to me.

3 issues of the Impact version of the comet. Might be decent reads. Been kind of collecting the short lived Impact line.

And 4 issues of Impacts The Fly. They will go in the fairly large "comics to be read one day" stack.

One dealer had at least 500 different buttons for around 60 cents on average. Got a bunch that got added to my backpack.

Always loved the Hydra symbol. So grabbed it first.

Starting on the top left and going to the right I got. Clockwork Orange logo,Greatest American hero logo,The Spirit,Hawkeye,Planet of the apes,Pistols Bullocks album cover,Baroness from GI Joe,Snarky antiApple button, Black SPiderman symbol,Ultra man,Another Clockwork logo,and finally Nikola Tesla.The Cap America shield I have had for a long time.

Got this Star Trek Choose your own adventureish book mainly cause I love the various choose your own adventure ripoffs.











                                                                                     

        Finally got the unrated 2 dvd version of Troma's Terror Firmer. Same dealer had Citizen Toxie,but it was the R rated cut.

Hit up the annual comic books in various media panel. And while I did record it. It is taking forever to upload.

So that is all for now.

Powerslam Productions Spring Bash 2014 March 1st 2014

Powerslam Productions Spring Bash March 1st 2014
Amite County Elementary School


Collin and I hit the road about 2 hours before the show was suppose to start. Mostly so we could find the school it was being held at. And then grab a quick bite to eat. I didn't think that because Liberty is a small town finding a meal that a vegetarian can eat might be an issue.

We pull into the school parking lot and see the normal group,Philip,Koby,Stephen and his 2 kids plus Christina and her kids. We all hang around until the doors open just bullshitting. Once the doors are open every grabs their tickets. Collin and I opted to sit in the bleachers. After buying tickets we head out to eat. Our two choices are some roadside dinner that we ate at after last years Powerslam Productions Slamfest show and Wards.Now I haven't been inside a Wards in at least 20 years. I wasn't really hungry so just grabbed an order of chili cheese fries. Collin got a baked potato. We get back to the school and head over to the gimmick table. Which as always was ran by Casey. I got the Powerslam Spring Bash 2013 and Slamfest 2013 shows. Gotta say David Nguyen did great work on the covers.We head up to the very top of the bleachers and take a seat.

Brett comes out to get the show started. And quickly introduces out first match. Princess Kristen gets a rematch with Mr Sockitoome.The crowd seemed to really love Kristen. And hell I love Mr Sockitoome. Reminds me of all the masked wrestlers that I use to see in Memphis and Mid South back in the early 80s. Like their last match back in January there was a bunch of matwork which I loved.

After a fun back and forth match Kristen gets the win.

Match 2 Danny Flamingo vs WildCard J Spade

Both guys I saw for the first time at Winter Warfare and was majorly impressed by them. Flamingo was great on his walk from the locker room to the ring he managed to get the entire crowd booing him.

Wildcard was super over.

 I love how I had no clue at all who was going to win. Many WILD CARD chants were started by the crowd. It was a neat match because Wildcard works a fast paced high impact style,and Flamingo is slowed paced more methodical style. After a great match Hardbody Harper and the House of Harper came out and caused Wildcard to lose the match. They were beating down Spade when Reggie Matthews hit the ring cleared it out and challenged The Future Foundation to a tag team title match tonight. With Wildcard being his partner. Reggie mentions that Future Foundation member Kool J Steele isn't there so Flamingo will be his substitute.

Brett grabs the mic and lets us know it is now time for the Champagne Lounge. Which as always is hosted by Shane Champagne. Shane comes out to lots of boos.

Gets in the ring and talks about how Mississippi is the fattest state in the nation. I yell out that we are now #2.Last year I think it was Texas beat us in being the fattest. Shane talks about how he got in great shape thanks to his trainer. So out comes Tarryn the traveling trainer.

They end up arguing and we get an impromptu match. With the highlight being when Tarryn yanks the wig off Shane's head. Tarryn gets the pin and the crowds goes nuts.

Match 4 Retro Tibadoe vs Bu Ku Dao

I have never seen Retro before. But since he was wearing things with the Slayer logo on him Collin had to cheer him.

I am not a huge Slayer fan,and once Bu Ku Dao's music hit I went nuts.

Retro worked a slower mat based style. Where as Bu Ku was his normal fast high flying major impressive self.

No idea how many people in the crowd had seen Bu Ku Do before but he was super over. As I have said before he is just like Rey Mysterio Jr,well Rey Jr before his knees went to powder. After what was one of the fastest paced matches I have seen in a long time Bu Ku Dao got the win.

It was intermission time. So I grabbed my two DVDs and a pen. Figuring I would get some of the wrestlers to sign it. Wes Adams and Princess Kristen had a huge crowd around them,so I walked over and talked to Wildcard for a few minutes. Who was a super nice guy. Once the group cleared around Wes and Kristen I got them to sign my Slamfest DVD cover. Then saw Big Ramp,who as always is a blast to talk too. Got him to sign it. Saw Reggie was at ringside got him to sign it and was heading back to the bleachers when I saw Bu Ku Dao. We bullshitted for a few and he signed my DVD.As I am heading up into the bleachers I see Kool J Steele enter the gym.

Intermission ended and it was time for our next match.

Match 5 Reggie Matthews/Wildcard J Spade vs Lukas Frost/Kool J Steele with manager Hardbody Harper and Danny Flamingo

Frost and Steele are the  current PSP Tag champs.

Having won the belts at the Winter Warfare show. It is always hard for me to boo Frost. I know I should,but he just brings so much to the ring. The crowd was solidly behind Reggie and J. J started the match and Frost and Steele kept him cut off from the corner with Reggie. So when J finally made the tag Reggie hit the ring and went wild taking out everyone. The crowd went apeshit. I so loved this match it had a great pace to it.

Finally thanks to interference from the House of Harper Frost and Steele got DQed. So Reggie and J won the match. But of course belts can't change hands on a DQ,so the Future Foundation is still the PSP Tag team champs.


Match 6 Wes Adams vs Calvin Rose for the Powerslam Productions Heavyweight title

This match was set up at Winter Warfare,Wes won a battle royale to get a shot at this title. After that battle royale the House of Harper cut Wes's hair. Now I have never seen a bad match from either guy. They always bring it all to the ring.

Wes was the fast quick guy,Calvin was doing more of a classic 80s southern style heel thing. When the match started I figured Wes would win. But after a few minutes I wasn't so sure. Then Skippy,the best ref on the indy scene,got crushed in the corner and knocked out. Wes goes for a pin on Calvin but since Skippy is out he can't count it. So Kristen grabs Skippy's hand and uses it to make the three count. And we get a new PSP Heavyweight champion. The House of Harper hit the ring and start beating down Wes and Kristen. So out comes Reggie and Wildcard to even the odds. Reggie grabs the mic and challenges Rose,Frost,Steele and Flamingo to a 8 man tag team match.

By this point I realized I had plenty of space left on my camera's memory card. So I stood up and videoed the 8 man tag. I apologize in advance for how it gets a bit shaky. My hand tremors acted up. And it isn't the best picture quality. I had no idea how long the match would run. So I did it in SD. I should have done HD. But enjoy the match everyone.

After the show we hung out for a bit talking to Casey and others. Then Reggie invited us to meet them all at the Waffle House to have dinner. Collin,Philip,Nathan,Koby and I hung out in the parking lot for almost an hour. Just bullshitting. I so wish I had recorded the conversation. But it was a great show and a great night.This was my 6th Powerslam show and each one has been more than worth what I had to pay to get in. Plus all the talent is so nice. Thank you to all the wrestlers and other Powerslam workers for bringing good indy wrestling to the state of Mississippi.

Pump up the Volume

Pump up the Volume
DVD
1990

I discovered this film when Showtime was airing it in the early 90s. And I was the perfect age. I was in high school. Didn't fit in.And this film spoke to me

Christian Slater is Mark AKA Happy Harry Hard on. His Dad has just got a new job. The caused the family to move from the east coast to Arizona. Mark is going to the best school in the area. But you get the feeling something is up.

Each night at 10pm a pirate radio show hits the airwaves. Happy Harry Hardon,who is Mark. He plays all kinds of great music. Reads letters from his fans and just generally acts a fool. The show is slowly building a fanbase with the local teens. Then one night Harry gets a letter from someone. Who says they are thinking about committing suicide. They included their phone number. So Harry calls them on the air. In the middle of the call the teen hangs up. The next day at school Mark finds out the caller has killed himself.

Harry's show is a huge hit. One of the teens is recording and selling cassettes of the show. Because Mark's father works for the school district he has access to all kinds of inside information. We start to learn that the principal is doing some shady stuff.

There is one lady that writes to Harry all the time. This is Samantha Mathis as Nora. She uses the various clues Harry gives to figure out he is actually Mark. The next night on the show Harry tells everyone to take control of their lives and destroy the stuff holding them back. Well one of the rich preppie girls does just that. She takes a bunch of stuff from her room,loads it all up in the microwave and sits there as it causes the microwave to explode.

This causes the principal to freak out and call an emergency meeting with all the parents. Lots of the parents are calling the cops about Harry's show. So the FCC gets brought in.

When I first saw this movie besides the message Harry is putting out,which is be yourself and stop worrying about what others think,the music he plays really connected with me. The soundtrack is loaded with all kinds of great music. You got the Pixies,Soundgarden,Concrete Blonde,Ice T,The Descendents and even Leonard Cohen. After seeing the movie the first time I bought the soundtrack. And listened to it over and over for months.

Pump up the Volume gets a A-. In some ways this is companion piece to Heathers. It isn't as dark. But still as good.

Poison Ivy TV movie 1985

Poison Ivy
Made for TV
1985

I remember watching this as a pre-teen. Thanks to Family Ties I was a huge Michael J Fox fan. And I liked Nancy McKeon from her work on Facts of Life

I have always loved films set at summer camps. Maybe cause I always wanted to goto summer camp,but I never went.

The plot is kind of generic. Fox is Dennis Baxter a camp counselor. We start off with him at a train station. He is in charge of making sure the kids in his cabin make it to camp. One of them,Timmy,is always  trying to run away. The rest of the kids fit your normal summer camp film stereotypes. There is the fat kid. The smart kid. The sports/jock kid. And then you got the con man kid.

They arrive at camp and Dennis quickly sets his eyes on the new nurse. Rhonda who is played by McKeon. You get your normal camp hijinks. The smart kid is in love with Rhonda,and keeps sending her anonymous love notes. Towards the end the camp gets divided up into two teams. The red team and the blue team. And they compete in events. Timmy who is scared of the water. Becomes a great swimmer and helps his team win.

I hadn't seen this since it first aired back in the mid 80s. But I remembered loving it. The other day I was looking around on youtube and found that someone had uploaded the entire film. Now it isn't anything special. But I did have a blast watching it again. I wish this was out on DVD or Blu Ray. And I am kind of surprised with how big a star Fox is that it hasn't gotten a digital release.

Poison Ivy gets a B.

Top 5 annoying people you will find at every online forum/message board

Now in this I refer to each of the five using male terms.But they could be female also.Shit I myself have fallen into some of these categories before.

5.The gif/jpeg guy

You know what I am talking about.Instead of taking the time to type out a reply,they instead reply most of the time with a "witty" gif or jpeg.Which gets super annoying quickly.If you can't take the time to type up a reply,please don't reply.

4.The "Funny" guy

This is the poster that thinks they are mega funny.But really all they do is repeat the same 5 or 6 jokes over and over again.In reality they are about as funny as Sam Kinison is right now.And he has been dead over 20 years.They can never take anything serious.And usually end up just rubbing everyone the wrong way.

3.The shitty troll

A good troll can be entertaining for awhile.But a shitty one just makes you want to reach through the screen and slap them with a large trout.The worst part is when the shitty troll is either good friends with the owners or is made a mod.I watched a great horror forum die because the owners made some shitty trolls mods.

2.Contrary guy

Whatever the popular opinion of the forum is they will swear they believe the opposite.And if you confront them about this they will claim you are trolling them.

1.Hey look at me I am Drunk/high guy

They are always posting about how drunk/high they are.And usually they posting handle has drunk,beer,420 or something like that in it.Sometimes they will even drunk post.I seem to encounter this more often on wrestling forums.Maybe they think they are Steve Austin or Rob Van Dam.

Top 5 comics of my childhood that suck

Like my list of cartoons,this is all about comics I loved when I was a kid.But going back and reading them now I realize how horrible they are.

5.GI Joe

This just barely made the list.The first 8 issues are bad.Then it gets better for about 2 years.Then quickly went downhill and never recovered. And like the cartoon it is one that people swear was great. I don't see it. Out of the entire run there is maybe 10 great issues.And the rest go between passable and total shit.

4.Marvel Team Up

This was one of the comics I would get my mother to drive me to as many stores as it took to find each new issue. Back in 2005 I ordered Essential Marvel Team Up volume 1.Wow what a disappointment.For every good issue there is 20 that suck dead donkey dick.And it was rare that the title had good art.

3.Legion of Super-Heroes

Legion was one of the first DC titles I got every month.In the early 2000s I got a huge run of the series from the late 70s.Which is when I read it as a kid.FUCK! It is so hokey and cheesy.And most of the time the art is bad.

2.Shazam

When this series was coming out in the 70s I was all over it.Then I lost all my issues.So when DC put out the Showcase Presents volume that reprinted most of the run I grabbed it.I was shocked at how bad it was.They totally missed what made the Fawcett Golden Age Shazam stuff so great.

1.Transformers

I clearly remember saving up my allowance to subscribe to this title.So for the first 2 years I read it every month. I have talked about how when I first discovered comic scans I grabbed every issue of Transformers.I sat down and in a week read the entire run. WHAT IN THE BLUE HELL! Bad writing,bad artwork,just all around bad.But I still see comic fans calling this "One of the best comics ever." Please take off those nostalgia glasses.It is badly written and drawn fiction about giant robots punching each other.

Top 5 cartoons of my childhood that suck

There is so many cartoons I loved when I was a kid.That now I have grown up and I go back and re-watch them I realize they suck.

 5.GI Joe a real American Hero

When I was a kid I rushed home every day and would sit there holding onto the rabbit ears so I could watch this cartoon.Once it was off the air I didn't see it until Rhino released the first season on DVD.Holy fuck is this shit.Bad writing,subpar animation and just crap. Sadly there is plenty of people my age that still claim this is a great cartoon.Sorry guys and ladies I truly believe that is just nostalgia coloring your opinion.

4.Masters of the Universe

This was another I rushed home to see.Now I didn't have to hold onto the rabbit ears.Because it aired on a channel I could get with just the rooftop antenna.When BCI put out the first season on DVD I grabbed it the day it went on sale.Fuck this show is total shit.From all the re-used animation. To the shoehorned in moral lessons.But once again you have people talking about it like it was one of the best cartoons of it's era.

3.Voltron

I can clearly remember my Art teacher talking about how bad the animation in this show was.And I argued with him about it.Then what was it almost 10 years ago Adult Swim started rerunning it late at night.I recorded a bunch.The Art teacher was right,the animation is total shit.With certain scenes used in every episode. Plus the stories I remember as being mind blowing when I was 10 or so are so badly done.Full of cliches.

2.Super Friends

By the time I was 5 this was airing every weekday on a local UHF channel.Then every Saturday on ABC IIRC.And being a young comic geek I had to watch it.Then in the late 90s Cartoon Network started rerunning it.And like everything else so far on this list I was majorly disappointed.The villains were all bad.Bad animation,and even the voice acting is bad.I will admit to enjoying the final two seasons.But even them are not that good.

1.Transformers

This is the one that most males my age and a bit young love.And I did when I was a kid.Once again I got the DVDs when Rhino started releasing them. And discovered it has to be one of the worst cartoons of the 80s.Well maybe not the worst,but the worst that gets so much praise.I actually sat down 5 years ago and watched every episode.And there is maybe 3 I found worth a shit.But to most geeks that grew up in the 80s this show is untouchable.