Top Ten Disaster Movies.

Ah, a Top Ten. #01 : Daylight (1996).

#02 : Dante's Peak (1997).

#03 : Earthquake (1974).

#04 : Deep Impact (1998).

#05 : The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961).

#06 : The Poseidon Adventure (1972).

#07 : A Night To Remember (1958).

#08 : The Core (2003).

#09 : The Towering Inferno (1974).

#10 : Airport '77 (1977).

There you go, a true pleasure to compile. Tell me all ten movies and win an invitation to come and have tea & biscuits & creamo at my villa in the country*.

*I may not be there.

The Long Ryders - I Had a Dream

Just Genius - gotta dig those guitars.

Paul Newman

RIP dude.

National Wheatley Day

As suggested by Lurch, I heareby declare September 26th National Dennis Wheatley Day.

Random Books

Boris Vallejo Cover.^

Gino Achilleos cover. ^

Frank C Pape Cover ^ (Thanks JC).

'The Devil Rides Out' for Farmer Glitch. What a fucking great cover. Don't know the artist, feel free to enlighten me (JC?).

Thought I'd just randomly post a few books I've got my hands on recently - for no other reason than I haven't posted any lately.

Dennis Wheatley

I have to say, I do love a book with a giant Nazi on the cover.

Sunburn

As Kek rightly pointed out over on Kid Shirt (while the whole 10cc fever thing winds down), I only really got involved due to Graham Gouldman doing the theme to Sunburn (1979), in which Farrah Fawcett wears this fetching get up. It also stars Charles Grodin, one of my favourite character acting gods.

Doomsday

Saw Doomsday last night. Quite enjoyed it, despite some of the worst editing I have ever seen. I can see why it got so slagged off, there isn't one original idea in it, and, although I assume it's supposed to be a homage to Aliens / Mad Max 2 / Escape From New York, it's all so specific, Neil Marshall takes chunks of films and just copies them. There's a scene in it that's identical to the chase to the subway station in The Warriors.
Still, lots of gore and Rhona Mitra makes it kind of watchable. Always good to see Sean Pertwee's still getting work. He married a friend of mine don't you know.

PS : Fantastic to see people have been finding textless soft porn genius Bugwar objectionable. I guess now he won't be premiering my ink & paper Susan Storm pix. Ah well, if you want to see some I'll happily send them straight to your inbox. I would post them here, but I have standards.

How & Why

Cool Coaster

Graham Gouldman - Sunburn

Top Ten 10cc Songs

Well, over on Kid Shirt it's gone 10cc crazy. So, anyway, here's my top ten, well eight, 10cc songs:

01/ Rubber Bullets.

02/ Sunburn (Graham Gouldman).

03/ Donna.

04/ I'm Mandy, Fly Me.

05/ I'm Not In Love (It's pretty shit, but I snogged a girl called Judith to it in 1978).

06/ Building A Bridge To Your Heart (Wax : Graham Gouldman & Andrew Gold).

07/ Under Your Thumb (Godley & Creme). Just so crap it's genius.

08/ Clockwork Creep (Never heard it but what a great title).

There you go, I feel much better for that.

ULTRAVOX!

After waffling on about Ultravox! over on Kid Shirt, I went straight to Ebay & got this 7 inch EP for 99p. It's quite sad how cheap it was, I would've gone to at least £2.99.

Still, it's a staggeringly good slice of live pop and seeing the cover again jolted me right back to 1977. Oh, Ure, what the fuck did you do?

Poor old Warren Cann never did photograph well.

Lohan Loaded

A little late for Lohan week, but many thanks to Mr Glitch for sending me this pic in which personal friend of mine Lindsay Lohan appears to be drunk. I'm sure she's really just preparing for a part or something. I'm pretty sure she doesn't drink.

Just in case anybody's interested, I have finally put together my new old album 'The Ghost Of Tracey Carter'. Recorded back in 1981 / 1982, this was my first 'proper' band Terror Fish, featuring me, Brendan Wallis (who left because I was taking too many drugs...there's a fucking irony), Steve Vaughan off crap Banshee impersonator P J Harvey, and Daffy who was, well, a twat. Ten tracks, recorded over two sessions, it doesn't sound too dated to me, this is mainly because we were so out of the loop in the first place we never found out how to be 'current'.

Anyway, it's good stuff if you don't mind rubbish singing, and if you're interested in a copy it's £4.99 + £1.00 p&p. You can use Paypal, just leave a comment & I'll drop my email address on your blog.

Lohan Week

Well, I thought Lindsay Lohan week went rather well. Though it is time to revert to The Octopus as I can't keep up with the comments...and I'm working on another Top Ten...which will be Top 10 Great Hair.
Watch this space.

The Stud

Unarguably the best British film ever made. Probably based on Lindsay Lohan's mum.

Variety El Punko #02

As mentioned over on Kid Shirt a couple of weeks back, I have now completed the uber fucking sequal to the Uber Fucking Cool Variety El Punko #01. Track listing:

1/ Emergency................................................ 999.

2/ Oh Shit..................................................... Buzzcocks.

3/ First Time................................................ The Boys.

4/ Love & A Molotov Cocktail...................... The Flys.

5/ Up Against The Wall............................... TRB.

6/ Ain't Got A Clue....................................... The Lurkers.

7/ Where Were You?....................................The Mekons.

8/ Judy Says (Knock You In The Head)......The Vibrators.

9/ Zip Nolan........................................... The Cult Figures.

10/ War Stories........................................... Starjets.

11/ New Rose............................................... The Damned.

12/ Sound Of The Suburbs.......................... The Members.

13/ California Uber Alles............................ Dead Kennedys.

14/ Young Savage........................................ Ultravox.

15/ Gary Gilmore's Eyes.............................. The Adverts.

16/ Wild Youth............................................Generation X.

17/ You've Got My Number......................... The Undertones.

18/ 5 Minutes........................................ The Stranglers.

19/ Top Of The Pops................................... The Rezillos.

20/ All Around The World......................... The Jam.

21/ Danger Signs......................................... Penetration.

22/ I'm An Upstart..................................... Angelic Upstarts.

23/ Holidays In The Sun............................ Sex Pistols.

There you go. If you want a copy, let me know, I'll send it for just £2.00 P&P, or both for £3.00. I'm aware that The Angelic Upstarts were naff second generation punk, but 'I'm An Upstart' is so funny it kind of had to be included.

Lindsay Lohan unfortunately didn't make it on there, even though her single 'I Lezzed Off With No Warning' is quite punk.

Rambo

Finally got around to seeing Rambo this afternoon (another film that strangely doesn't have Lindsay Lohan in it).

It's so fucking violent. I can't recommend it highly enough, it's just pure genius. It makes the first half hour of Saving Private Ryan look like Sleepless In Seattle.

Rent it out immediately.

Simon Says

Caught a fantastic film called 'Simon Says' on Zone Horror the other night. Teenage campers get slaughtered by a bonkers Crispin Glover who he kills mostly with a giant pick-axe throwing machine. It's just crazed. Lindsay Lohan isn't actually in it, but if she had been she would have been killed last.

Ilfracombe Skies

Lindsay Lohan Week

Just so everyone knows, next week is Lindsay Lohan week on Octopus 99. I haven't worked out what this means exactly, but I'm sure it will be good.

Nice

Smart Ass Motherfuckers

#00.

Alright then, seeing as you lot got all 10 in, like, half an hour, I've added another that I saw the other day...so what's this then?

Top 10 Films I Have Seen I The Last Couple Of Weeks

Felt like a long time since I did a top ten..and as I've completely run out of genres (feel free to suggest some)..this genre is 'Films I've Watched Recently'. Inspiring, huh? Anyway, they're all complete fucking classics with no connection to each other, so here you go...

#01 : Psychomania (1973).

#02 : Dante's Peak (1997).

#03 : Lord Of The Flies (1990).

#04 : Die Hard 4.0 (2007).

#05 : Ghosts Of Mars (2001).