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I watched Us last night and really enjoyed it. I don't think I even breathed during the scenes where the doubles first show up, get into the house and Red "introduces" them. So tense. So well done. Otherwise my last couple weeks of movie watching has been a little all over the place. I have watched Friday the 13th 1-8, Body Count (1986), Prom Night (1980 and 2008), Waxwork, House, Amityville Horror (1979 and 2005) and I'm sure there are others I am forgetting

Its hard to beat Conditions of My Parole

I've been thinking about how I need to rewatch The Exorcist a lot lately. Haven't seen it since whenever the DVD came out. I haven't seen the sequels, but I've always been real curious about III. I see it mentioned regularly enough that I feel like I'm missing out on something haha

Wife and I ended up watching: - Alice, Sweet Alice - Hell House LLC - The Exorcist III (directors cut) Was my first time seeing the directors cut of E3 and man it was so good. Probably cemented it as one of my favorite horror movies. Brad Dourif is a god.

They made them smell like 25 year old meat and milk? Nice!

Hope y'all had a good halloween! I decided to make a day of it. Ordered a pizza, drank a nice selection of beer and watched a bunch of movies. Don't remember the last time I had such an unproductive day, pretty fun and very relaxing! 29. From Beyond 30. Phantasm : Ravager 31. Friday the 13th part VI : Jason Lives / A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 : Freddy's Revenge / Shaun of the Dead / Trick 'R Treat / Halloween (2018) / WNUF Halloween Special

grabbed the colored version

I don't believe for a second that the pressing plant was unfamiliar with the mockups. I'm pretty sure the possible color combinations (and likely the photoshopped mockups themselves) usually come from the pressing plant. Plants use multi-colored vinyl "pucks" to achieve multicolored pressings. They know what it should look like. (You might notice that indie punk band 7"s from the same eras often have the same similar colors combos/marbles/splatters, from URP or the like. They choose from what's available) It is not an issue of the labels/artists dreaming up things that are impossible. Pressing plants would not accept orders for things that can't be done. This is a clear example of someone not caring about the final product. Maybe the blue should have been transparent, maybe the pucks were just badly mixed; who knows. Whether or not a true "test pressing" is made, low-numbered pressings are usually made one at a time; just 500 copies were almost definitely done by one single stamper. It would have been obvious if the first one came out wrong. Don't get me wrong, I love the album and will be keeping mine. But considering I paid like $10 extra and waited longer? Kinda lame. This could have been avoided. /end rant

Wasn't big on Age Of but this is great, especially the back half.

Too busy listening to people who were inspired by Mogwai and did a bad job trying to be them, instead of just listening to them.

Bouncing Souls will likely have one soon

Other than drinking free Yoo-hoo all day, my favorite Warped Tour memory was one of the early 2000s years when I saw Ozma and Something Corporate play to 10 people back to back at 11am and 11:30am. It was also cool to see the Aeffect with their original singer before they changed vocalists and quickly disappeared from everyone’s consciousness forever.

Fronz sucks as a person, but I won't deny that he's a good businessman. He seems to have a knack for it, as evident in Stay Sick records and some of his other work. He MIGHT be able to pull it off, but even before the pandemic, festivals were having an extremely difficult time. So idk. Don't get me wrong, I would be stoked to have Warped Tour back! I agree 2015 was an excellent lineup because that's the year I went too. It just feels unlikely.

The year was 2014. I had just gotten into vinyl records after dusting off my father's old Sony Turntable and starting to spin his 100 or so old records from the 70s and 80s. I had taken two or three trips to my local record store buying 20 or so dollar bin records at a time based mostly on the look of the covers. About two moths in I typed in "records" on craigslist on a whim; I ended up stumbling on a local ad for "1600+ Records" with an asking price of 220$. The picture on the listing was of a shipping pallet completely loaded with 16 or so banker boxes full of albums. My whole body started shaking at the very thought of this many records all for sale at once; the only problem was I only had 40$ to my name. So..... casting aside all humility I sent out an email to the seller reading something along the lines of " Hey, I think your collection is awesome and honestly your asking price is way more than fair, however I am a broke high school student so I can only offer you 40$. I know this is a very low offer but it is all I have to offer. I hope you find someone to pay your asking price but if nobody else ends up wanting them let me know. Thank you for your time." I expected to never hear back from him until three weeks later on an otherwise uninteresting Wednesday when he sent me an email saying " I have been storing the records in my bosses' warehouse (some kind of lumber business I think) and he says I have until the end of the day to get them out or they are going in the dumpster so ill accept your 40$ offer". Extremely exited I drove out with my Dad the second school ended that day to pick up the records. When i got there I soon realized what was listed as 1600+ records was in fact about 2,000 records. It took only 10ish minutes to load them into the family van which was subsequently riding down on the shocks on the way home with no visibility through the rear view mirror. I conned a friend of mine into helping me haul them all upstairs to my room later that day. I had absolutely no floor space in my room for about three weeks until I finally talked my Dad into buying me an Ikea kallax 4 by 4 cube shelf and another 2 by 4 cube shelf to stack on top of that. The records filled the 4 by 4 completely and took up about half the 2 by 4. To be fair a lot of what I ended up with in the collection was classical, jazz, mainstream 60s pop and that kind of stuff but there were a lot of cool finds mixed in too and at 2 cents a record I wasn't about to complain. Sadly today I live in a small apartment and most of my records are currently in my parents storage unit as they have since sold the house (honestly really nice of them to let me take up like 1/5 of their unit which they pay for so I am not complaining). While I did bring most of my favorites with me when I moved out I cant wait until the day I move into a house and can pull the rest of my collection out of storage. Sorry this story was so long and thanks for reading.

In case anyone doesn't already have one of the many variants... A Charlie Brown Christmas (Snowball vinyl) ltd to 800

SRCVinyl still says "Processing" even though I hopped on it the very second it went on sale

I ordered a copy of Misery Signals Ultraviolet from Basick Records/Supplies in the UK (I live in Canada). Record shipped at the beginning of August and still hasn't arrived. Others who live in my area who ordered the same got theirs by the end of August. Tried 4 times to get in touch with them since September just asking for tracking info and was never responded to. Had to start a PayPal dispute, which I have never had to do. Pretty bummed tbh.