MOVIES I WATCHED IN 2016

Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) 

The Defender (1994)

The Protector 2 (2013)

The Legend (1993)

Dumb And Dumber To (2014)

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)


Labyrinth (1986)




The Rocketeer (1991)


Soaked in Bleach (2015)

Nazi Temple of Doom (2012)



Galaxy Quest (1999) 




Rumble in the Bronx (1995)



Kurt & Courtney (1998)

Europa Report (2013)

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

Room 237 (2012)

The Nightmare (2015)

To Be Takei (2014)

Atari: Game Over (2014)

The Horde (2009)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

Outrage (2010) pic

Zoolander (2001)



Ghostbusters (1984) 



I Love You, Man (2009)

Annabelle (2014)

As Above, So Below (2014)



Universal Soldier (1992)


The Voices (2014)



The Dudesons Movie (2006)



Coraline (2009)


Entourage (2015)



Interstellar (2014)



20,000 Days on Earth (2014)


Tim's Vermeer (2013)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

The Oblong Box (1969)

Locke (2013)

Robocop (2014)

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)



Hot Fuzz (2007)



San Andreas (2015)

R100 (2013)

Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970)

Tusk (2014)

The Keep (1983)

Cypher (2012)



Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)


Rows (2015)



Bone Tomahawk (2015)


Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014)



Yakuza Apocalypse (2015) 


Shivers (1975)

The End of the Tour (2015)

Noah (2014)

Sebastian Maniscalco: What's Wrong With People? (2012)

Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)



Man of Tai Chi (2013)




Deadpool (2016)




Sisters (2015)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)



Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) 



Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)



Mad Max (1979)



Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) 




Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)


Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Man Up (2015)



Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country (1991)


The Purge: Anarchy (2014)



He Never Died (2015)




The Witch (2015)




High-Rise (2015)




The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 


Jurassic Park III

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)



Commando (1985)



The Raid 2 (2014)



The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

The Enforcer (1995)



Ip Man (2008)



Ip Man 2 (2010)



Over the Top (1987)

Devil (2010)

Let Us Prey (2014)

Stung (2015)

Stitches (2012)

Jackass Number Two (2006)



Tron (1982)




Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)


Deadpool (2016)

Beverly Hills Cop 2 (1987)



Beverly Hills Cop (1984) 



The Boondock Saints (1999) 


Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

Deathgasm (2015)

#Horror (2015)

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

The Girl in the Photographs (2015)

Last Shift (2014)

Death Race 2 (2010)

Death Race: Inferno (2013)

Holidays (2016)

Small Soldiers (1998)

The Hole (2009)



Awakenings (1990) 


Avalanche Sharks (2014)



Young Frankenstein (1974)

War Pigs (2015)



The Resurrection of Jake 'The Snake' Roberts (2015)



Drive Hard (2014)



I Am Thor (2015) 




Mr. Jones (2013) 



Video Games: The Movie (2014)

Indie Game: The Movie (2012)

3-Headed Shark Attack (2015)

Hammer of the Gods (2013)

Blood Glacier (2013)

Knights of Badassdom (2013)



WolfCop (2014)



Rites of Spring (2011)

It Follows (2014)

Leprechaun 2 (1994)



Cooties (2014)


Leprechaun 3 (1995)

Leprechaun 4: In Space (1996)

Hush (2016)

Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)

Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood (2003)

Frozen (2010)

976-EVIL (1988)

I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

Warlock (1989)

Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)



We Are Still Here (2015) 



Warlock III: The End of Innocence (1999)

Hellraiser: Inferno (2000)

Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002)

Hellraiser: Deader (2005)

Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)

Cropsey (2010)



Motel Hell (1980)


Sometimes They Come Back (1991)

Bats (1999)

Candyman (1992)

Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)

Manson Family Vacation (2015)

Ticks (1993)



28 Days Later... (2002) 




The Funhouse Massacre (2015)




28 Weeks Later (2007)




Freaks of Nature (2015) 



Day of the Dead (2008)

Alone in the Dark (2005)

Silent Night (2012)

Exists (2014)

Willow Creek (2013)

The Houses October Built (2014)



Hocus Pocus (1993) 




Dracula (1931) 



See No Evil (2006)



Child's Play (1988)



Contracted: Phase II (2015)

Curse of Chucky (2013)

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)



They're Watching (2016)




Out of the Dark (1995) 


The Thaw (2009)

I Spit on your Grave 2 (2013)

The Forest (2016)

I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine (2015)

Pernicious (2015)



Bug (2006) 


The Fly II (1989)



Blood Creek (2009)


Amigo Undead (2015)

Gravy (2015)

Haunt (2014)

Poltergeist (2015)

Almost Mercy (2015)



I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) 




The Handmaiden (2016) 


Judge Dredd (1995)



Metallica: Cliff 'Em All (1987)



Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)

Would You Rather (2012)

Metallica: Cunning Stunts (1998)

Joe Versus the Volcano (1980)

Under Siege (1992)

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)

Hard to Kill (1990)

Above the Law (1988)

The Green Inferno (2013)

Out for Justice (1991)

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)



Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life Of... (1992)

Perkins' 14 (2009)

Q, the Winged Serpent (1982)

Negura Bunget: Focul Viu (2011)

Swans Live 2014-2015



To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995) 



Rodan (1956)



Simon, King of the Witches (1971)



Amon Amarth: Live at Summer Breeze



Sleepaway Camp (1983) 



The Final Terror (1983)

Body Bags (1993)



Krampus (2015) 


Yoga Hosers (2016)

A Christmas Horror Story (2015)

Carcass: Wake Up and Smell the Carcass (2001)

Child's Play 2 (1990)

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Bride of Chucky (1998)



Seed of Chucky (2004) 




National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)



Elf (2013)

The Santa Clause (1994)

D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)

Encino Man (1992)

Heavyweights (1995)



Black Christmas (1974)


Rabid (1977)



Night of the Demons (1988) 

THINGS I READ IN 2016

i was reading Blake Butler's "All the Books I Read in 2012" article for Vice where he says he doesn't like EOTY lists so he decided to just list everything he read and highlight a few things. i liked that idea so i decided to steal it. here's everything i read in 2016





Oliver Sacks - Awakenings 


Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - Escape From Hell



Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 150th Anniversary Edition


Deadpool Classic Vol. 1

Deadpool Classic Vol. 2

Edouard Leve - Works




William Pauley III - The Mermaid's Gallows


Nicholas Kaufmann - Chasing the Dragon

Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods




David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not


Thomas Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe



Josh Myers - Haiku Fuck You


Nick Cutter - The Troop

William Pauley III - Mr. Malin and the Night



Sam Pink - Your Glass Head Against the Brick Parade of Now Whats


Bandersnatch anthology



Lavie Tidhar - Central Station



JG Ballard - The Crystal World



JG Ballard - High-Rise 
"As he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months."


Robert Shearman - Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical



555 Vol 1: None So Worthy Anthology


Apex Book of World SF 1




Matthew De Abaitua - If Then 


Zoran Zivkovic - Compartments

Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Steven Millhauser - Voices in the Night

Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club 2



K.W Taylor - The Curiosity Killers 



Thomas Olde Heuvelt - Hex



Neil Gaiman - American Gods


Apex Book of World SF 2

Ransom Riggs - Hollow City



Ransom Riggs - Library of Souls 
loved the whole series


James Watt - Business for Punks

Leena Krohn - Dona Quixote and Other Citizens

Bill Bryson - In a Sunburned Country

Leena Krohn - Tainaron: Mail from Another City

Poe's Lighthouse

W.H. Pugmire - The Strange Dark One

Alejandro Jodorowsky - Albina and the Dog-Men



Leena Krohn - Gold of Ophir 
collection of several novels and excerpts from other works


David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men


Henry Rollins - Before the Chop: LA Weekly Articles 2011-2012



Matthew De Abaitua - The Destructives 
this and If Then are standalone works but share a world



William Pauley III - Automated Daydreaming
Mermaid's Gallows is a part of this

THINGS I READ IN 2015

1) Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

2) Sam Pink - Witch Piss

3) Anderson Prunty - Sociopaths in Love

4) Matt Bell - In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

5) Josh Myers - Guns

6) William Pauley III - Hearers of the Constant Hum

7) Gay Salisbury - The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

8) Stanley Milgram - Obedience to Authority

9) Rob Sato - Burying Sandwiches

10) Gertrude stein - Writings 1903-1932 (QED, Three Lives, Portraits and Other Short Works, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas)

11) Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis (2014 translation by Susan Bernofsky w/introduction by David Cronenberg)

12) Ed Luce - Wuvable Oaf

13) Robert Shearman - Caustic Comedies

14) Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies

15) Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle - Inferno

16) Édouard Levé - Newspaper

17) William Pauley III - Goddamn Electric Nights

02/23/14: Weekly Song #3 - One Rose by Why? (2009)

This next entry is something i was listening to a lot around the time my Grandpa passed away. I often return to this album. Why? is a musician that started off more as a hiphopper and rapper. 

This album was conceived and recorded at the same time as their previous album Alopecia. Alopecia had remnants of hip hop left and with this additional collection of songs, he abandoned hip hop completely to show his more folky slant. 

Overall a pretty depressing album but "One Rose" is a beautiful song that I will remember forever. Why? can be an acquired taste for some, but I really love his unique approach to music. 

Thanks

02/16/14: Weekly Song #2 - So Good At Being In Trouble by Unknown Mortal Orchestra (2013)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a band I saw opening for Portugal the man a couple years ago. I wasn't crazy about their debut album outside of a couple songs. Their follow up from last year called "II" was a huge improvement. They have an interesting lo-fi sound and a falsetto vocalist. A really nice mixed sound of the old with the new 

So Good At Being In Trouble by Unknown Mortal Orchestra from the 2013 album II.

Enjoy

02/10/14: Weekly Song #1 - Ijiraq by Dawn of Midi (2013)

I haven't written for or posted on this site in quite some time. I will be trying to get back into the swing of it a bit. There is a ridiculous amount of music I have listened to since I had stopped writing that deserves a mention on here. I will try to get it on here in one way or another. I will use this site to both write about albums and songs that I think you need to hear.

In the meantime, I have started sending out a weekly music email to a few of my family and friends and decided to also post the song choices here and this is entry #1

Ijiraq by Dawn of Midi from the 2013 album Dysnomia.

It is one of the best albums from last year in my opinion. It is an all acoustic experimental Jazz Trio.