Weblog » Archives » January 2005

  • It's fast approaching 3:00am, I'm WIIIIIIIDE awake, and I have to work at 9:00am tomorrow. After near 2 years of continuous day schedule work, I have yet to acclimate to the 9 to 5 bullshit. Just NOT wired that way...For…

  • A day at the matches...Bart Kapitzke approaches his AWS shows differently than any other promoter I've ever encountered. Bart wants every style of wrestling represented - something for everyone - in cards that are smorga…

  • Not enough room for ninja toys...This is mostly American stuff from the 80's boom.This is all new Japanese merch cashing in on a wave of nostalgia for their early 60's ninja craze.The biggest (18" Commando Ninja) and sma…

  • Gallery Nucleus Ninja Art Show was pretty great. HUGE crowd. Art fell into two primary schools of thought: the somewhat juvenile "ninjas are awesome" attitude of the boys, and the "ninjas are cute and so am I" girly tha…

  • Last night I shot these cross-processed-look photos of Eddie and Lili for use in a book of Australian designers being done overseas. Managed to achieve a Mario Bava-esque movie lighting look with a mere 2 clamp lights, b…

  • Fellow b-movie masochist Dave Schow has been on a BAD movie bender as of late, fixated on really awful made-for-cable giant snake and killer rat movies. Sometimes these direct-to-vid cannon fodder flicks are actually ent…

  • "101 Reasons Not To Be A Pro Wrestler" - documentary coming later this year wherein myriad pro wrestlers are given the chance to openly rag on their industry, the severity of the business and lifestyle, and former emplo…

  • We saw a significant spike in orders for HOODTOWN this past week from Amazon, and I can confidently attribute it to both my and especially Christa Faust's Live Journal blog (and I highly recommend it, read it here. The t…

  • Well I took one for the team today... yes, there were ninjas on the big screen this weekend, but not in a movie fit for human kind. Still, ninjas on the big screen, had to go, didn't I?"Elektra" is Marvel's 4th straight …

  • Finished the Wrestlecrap/Alvarez book "Death of WCW" - evoking all sorts of emotions. There's plenty of outright humor in how completely f'd up tha company was at all times, but towards the end they were downright Dada-i…

  • WOW! GREAT trip out to Lucha Libre Mexicana - a new lucha gear tailoring shop/boutique in San Gabriel. REALLY nice custom masks, boots at great prices, capes, t-shirts, vintage mags, porcelain busts, and more. Proprietor…

  • "Azumi 2" is hitting theatres in Japan in March, and will more than likely get a domestic DVD release here later in the year. I really liked the first film, a good balance of over-the-top cartoonish violence and drama - …

  • The domestic release website and trailer for the amazing-looking film "Kung Fu Hustle" is here. Almost looks like a liquid sword/wire fight comedy version of "Gangs of New York", and it's done by the "Shaolin Soccer" fol…

  • Man, I bowled like ASS tonight. Swamp ass. Our mostly animators and related professionals bowling group was pretty small tonight, thus we all bowled more strings and really blew our arms out. Amid was on fire, though, a…

  • Why I live in LA despite it being LA... part 72:They've been teasing this for a while, but a future exhibition now formally announced by the Gene Autry Museum of The American West:"Once Upon a Time in Italy . . . The Wes…

  • Sweet mother of GHAWD! There's a blazing fireball in the sky, and it lights everything and provides warmth and DRIES things out!!!More good news as HOODTOWN is now available to mainstream bookstores via Baker and Taylor …

  • Since the weekend, the severe storms and water damage catastrophes out here have really made the national news, so now the same people complaining about my "wining" about the rain are now calling all concerned if I'm bur…

  • Check out this nifty shit:Of course, the opening is the same night as the next PWG show... so typical for LA, nothing goes on until everthing goes on the same night.

  • So just finished watching newly released Western "Renegade" - which despite it's low rent packaging and exploitation-ish retitle for the US video market - is actually the somewhat renowned/notorious avant-garde adaptatio…

  • So I'm FORCING 2005 to be an improved year. First piece of biz I did was pay out a nice royalty check to Christa Faust for HOODTOWN, which was tremendously satisfying. Hey, I'm actually helping a writer make a living fro…

  • I ONCE TAUNTED A MOB HITMAN...This from Wrestling Observer onlinetoday:"Ion Croitoru, who wrestled in the 80s and 90s under names like Johnny K-9 and Bruiser Bedlam, was arrested yesterday and charged with two November 1…

  • HAD to share this...God Almighty does this not look SICK?!?!?'American Dragon' Brian Danielson kicks the living hell out of Samoa Joe at last month's PWG show in Los Feliz. OW!!!! I was there and HEARD this, but man this…

  • Dinner earlier tonight (actually yesterday now) with Eddie and Lili wherein many things lucha were discussed. Really bummed out right before heading to dinner by the news of the passing of both comic book legend Wil Eis…

  • Contacted again by Carlos Avilla last night, a real nice guy who's done a lot of documentary work, some finding renown on PBS. Carlos has been working on funding and general pre-production on a lucha documentary since la…

  • Ninja Research Hell!In ten-some-odd years of researching Mexican film, the vast majority of which was never dubbed or subtitled, with no real research database and a major language barrier, I NEVER encountered anything n…

  • "Lucha vs. Ninja... WHO WILL WIN?!?!?" is the operative question at the begining of 2005.IN THIS CORNER - with a successful inide publishing pedigree dating back to 1996, fans on five continents, and it's finger on the p…

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