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bobcat

making mistakes to kill some time

About Me

i am from the distant future.

My Interests

any weather that makes the sky dark (ie. thunderstorms, blizzards, etc), art, bears, being an ass, black humor, cats, comic books, Ethiopian food, feeling human, film, guns, history, Japanese food, killer robots, killers, monkeys, monsters (especially city-destroying monsters), music, my dog, my mancrush Christian Bale, occult and paranormal stuff, people-watching, pulp fiction (the literature... not the movie), reading, sarcasm, singing and dancing when nobody else is watching, smoothies, Thai food, tattoos, true crime, video games, Wikipedia, wolves, zombies, zombies, zombies, and stuff

I'd like to meet:

other robots

Music:

any 80s pop (especially New Wave), Fiona Apple, Aqualung, Aqueduct, the Arcade Fire, Joseph Arthur, Autolux, Badly Drawn Boy, Bauhaus, Bis, Black Box Recorder, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blackalicious, the Bravery, Broken Social Scene, Calexico, the Cardigans, Johnny Cash, Cibo Matto, the Cure, the Dandy Warhols, Death Cab for Cutie, Depeche Mode, Devo, Kevin Drew, Duran Duran, the Faint, Feist, Marvin Gaye, the Glove, Gogol Bordello, Gorillaz, Harry and the Potters, Iggy Pop, Interpol, Iron and Wine, James Kochalka Superstar, Joy Division, Kent, the Killers, the Knife, Ben Kweller, Ladytron, Le Tigre, Ben Lee, Sean Lennon, the Magnetic Fields, Stephen Malkmus, Metric, Morrissey, Mos Def, NERD, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Nine Black Alps, Noise Addict, Ol' Dirty Bastard, old school hip-hop (70s and early 80s), Pavement, Liz Phair, the Pixies, the Remus Lupins, the Roots, Spookey Ruben, Siouxie and the Banshees, Elliott Smith, the Smiths, Matthew Sweet, Tenacious D, Travis, TV on the Radio, Merriman Weir, and Hawksley Workman

Movies:

Far Too Many To List (pretty much anything -- bad, good, campy, and/or intelligent)(I do have a deep love for horror films though. A DEEP LOVE.)(old movies are good too)(as are B-movies and lower grade films) eh... you might just look at my heroes instead

Television:

Don't really watch much but: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Man to Man with Dean Learner, Snuff Box, pretty much anything on HBO except for Entourage (which sucks ass)

Books:

Mishima, Murakami, Hawthorne, Brett Easton Ellis, Rowling, Tom Clancy and many more. I'm a big non-fiction fan. I grew up loving comic books and that love still resides in my heart... but not in my wallet

Heroes:

Dario Argento, Rick Astley, Richard Ayoade, Mario Bava, Matt Berry, John Carpenter, Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, John Ford, Karl Freund, Lucio Fulci, Alfred Hitchcock, Matthew Holness, Boris Karloff, Akira Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, Bela Lugosi, Takashi Miike, Sam Peckinpah, Vincent Price, Sam Raimi, Robert Rodriguez, George Romero, Martin Scorsese, Bryan Singer, Terrance Stamp, James Whale and the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.

My Blog

the Strangers

My family moved around a lot when I was a child.  We lived in secluded homes in the middle of the woods several times in my youth.  Believe me when I tell you that being alone at night in th...
Posted by bobcat on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:27:00 PST

The Tripper

I believe that the Tripper may actually be the first combination of the Cheech and Chong formula with the slasher genre.  It's kind of odd, but it works. It mixes and matches its separate element...
Posted by bobcat on Thu, 29 May 2008 09:53:00 PST

April Fools Day

Holidays.  I love them in a twisted way.  I don't actually enjoy the holidays themselves (unless we're talking about Halloween), but I love the horror movies made about them.  Halloween...
Posted by bobcat on Wed, 28 May 2008 10:15:00 PST

Lord of Illusions

It seems I'm a little behind on my horror reviews this week.  My negative review of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull pretty much drained me for this week.  The show should ...
Posted by bobcat on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:04:00 PST

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Once again, audiences are awaiting the return of a beloved franchise gone for almost two decades.  Nostalgia has grasped the world's attention as the return of Indiana Jones nears.  Unfortun...
Posted by bobcat on Tue, 20 May 2008 06:53:00 PST

Xtro

I had a line I wanted to use about this film before I even saw it.  "This movie was Xtro crappy!"  Fortunately, it wasn't.  Xtro was actually pretty damned entertaining despite the fac...
Posted by bobcat on Thu, 15 May 2008 12:28:00 PST

Hatchet

Finally& the family movie we've all been waiting for has arrived. Wait a minute& scratch that.  Most horror buffs have probably heard quite a bit about Hatchet by now.  It's had incredible...
Posted by bobcat on Tue, 13 May 2008 11:44:00 PST

Nightmare Man

The After Dark Horror Fest movies are a mixed bag.  Eight independent horror films each year (with a few bonus movies) are picked to be distributed by After Dark films and ran during the film fes...
Posted by bobcat on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:13:00 PST

30 Days of Night (2007)

30 Days of Night   I had decided to start my horror film review project last night, but I hit a brick wall instantly.  What would be the first film to watch?  Did I want to watch an act...
Posted by bobcat on Thu, 08 May 2008 08:56:00 PST

Film Review Project

Recently my friend Joe turned me onto a horror movie review blog (http://www.horror-movie-a-day.blogspot.com).  I wasn't impressed initially since the first review I read blasted a particular fav...
Posted by bobcat on Wed, 07 May 2008 09:09:00 PST