Holy Crap, Batman.

Jesus, it's been a month since I blogged.  Been an exciting month for sure.  We're booked into and start rehearsals on Sunday for...

Half in the Bag and Bored!

Which is going to be a sketch comedy revue put on during the upcoming C2E2 comic book convention here in Chicago, at McCormick Place.

Sat. 4/17 at 2:45

So, me and my writing partner, the uber talented Joe Goltz (Shout out Wisconsin!) were writing our asses off this last month.  Script is final, still some last minute tweaking but we planned for that.

Hired a great director, Jason Chin, with deep comic knowledge and 15 years of directing sketch~!

Cast a FANTASTIC group of performers, now known as Mid Grade Comics!, Ana, Alex, Rammel, Jeff, Siobhan, Kelsey, Mark, Joe and Myself to put it on.  More on them as we near the show.

Truthfully, I really hope it's funny, and moreso that my team feels it's worth their effort.  They're going to be putting in a lot of work, we all are, and I hope it lives up to it.  That's my fear, that the group would feel it's not at least palatable material.

We will be putting on a Tech Rehearsal at Gorilla Tango theater the week prior.  More on that as it nears...

So great stuff.  Movies have been about 80%, but I'm trying to keep up one a day~!

MotD: The House that Dripped Blood

Hammer Horror has a nice big soft spot on my neck.  It bit me as a kid, just a couple of them, and I've loved everything I've seen of theirs, which admittedly isn't much.  I've got a ton of Hammer in my queue and this is the start of them.  This was an anthology of a house that brings doom to all who live in it.  Steals a bit from House of Wax, but that was what Hammer did best, take the cool aspects of other horror movies and put Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in it and make it more awesome!  No let down here.  Really fun.

Oil and Water

Busy week!  Put down some cocktails in NOLA for the Superbowl, passed out through the game, but rallied for the afterparty.  What can I say, I got  issues. ;-) Biggest news is we're putting on a show.  That's right, I and some friends will be writing/directing/producing/starring in a sketch comedy show for the upcoming C2E2 convention.  Details to be forthcoming, but needless to say excitement is high and creativity is popping!

Reading Son of Ambush Bug this week.  LOVE me some Ambush Bug!

For those uninitiated out there, AB is a creation of Keith Giffen and scripted by Robert Loren Fleming.  He first showed up in Superman books as kind of a villian.  He possessed a 4th wall breaking sense of self and his comic series were always a mish mash of wacky, metatextual gags on the comics industry.

Giff and Fleming use a Borscht Belt style humor which is just note perfect.  Corny at times, there's such a sense of fun in all his books that the groaners are easily overlooked.

Cheeks, The Toy Wonder, might be my favorite cast member, after AB himself of course.  He's just a doll, but gets into misadventures.  Kinda like Peter Sellers in Being There. 

AB's archenemy is Argh'yle, Doctor Doom reimagined as a sock.

This is funny comics.  In a way, it's a precursor to the JLI books that everyone loves so much.  Seek these out for a good time.

Now for something completely different...

MotD: United 93 and World Trade Center

This is what happens when Netflix recommends movies.  Your queue becomes a rolling account of your interests, flowing with styles and actors.  At times it becomes like a six degrees of Kevin Bacon game, where you can see how the movies in your queue are connected to one another.  So, when you select one movie, it recommends another one like it.  You then get a double whammy of United 93 and WTC in back to back days.  I'm very glad I watched these, both are very well done and I recommend them to everyone.  Just not back to back and just be ready for it.  Not feel good, it stirs a lot of memories, as it should.