The most badass marine ever and a small personal update.

July 30th, 2010   No Comments »

I know I haven’t posted anything this month, simply because I had nothing to say, but this was worth posting about.  This guy is a complete and total badass and everyone needs to know his story and recognize him for the awesome badassedness that he emanates.  Be sure to read the main story and the side text.  This is a great story.

http://www.marines.mil/unit/imef/Pages/MarineabsorbsIEDblast,walksaway.aspx

Nothing going on with me really.  Same old boring life with no direction.  I realized today as I was browsing through the personal ads on Craig’s List just how little desire I have to make any new friends.  People have been a constant source of disappointment for me.  I give everything to a friendship and they either just take, hurt me personally, hurt me financially or any combination of the above.  I just don’t have the energy for it anymore.

Other than that, I’ve started weight lifting again and getting back into shape.  It was well past time for me to be doing that.  It’s funny how with weight lifting, you actually gain weight before you lose it, because your muscles get more dense and you add to them at a faster rate than you start to lose the fat.  I can visibly see I’ve lost a considerable amount of fat already, but I’ve gained four pounds or so over where I started because of the muscle.  It’s weird when you’re doing this.  You can’t watch the scale.  You just have to look at how you’re changing physically and ignore the scale entirely.  So far it’s been going really well.  I had the muscle base already after years of weight lifting.  I’m just getting it back to where it was when I stopped.  I’m not sure why I ever did stop really.  I think it was a combination of depression and laziness on my part, but I’m back to it now and it feels great.

This weekend is my 13th anniversary.  The one bit of luck I’ve had in my life is to be married to someone I absolutely love and who is an almost perfect personality match for me.  Sharon and I are and always have been best friends, and having her in my life has made it worth living.  I hope she knows how much I love her. :)

Anyway, that’s it for now.  I’ll post again when I have something interesting to say.

  (Current Mood: tiredtired)

The July 2010 issue of Rogue Cinema is now online!

July 2nd, 2010   No Comments »

Hey folks, :)

Once again the magazine was late.  This time it was because a big chunk of the content got wiped out by someone’s overly zealous work e-mail server.  It finally got to me though, so now the new issue is up and running!  Here’s what we have for you this month.

Interviews:

Bob Freville
Matthew Robinson
Roxy Vandiver
Scott Goldberg and Mark Nadolski
Travis Campble and Nicola Fiore

This Month’s Sleepover Girl:

Brooke Lewis makes our summer even hotter as this month’s Sleepover Girl!

Articles:

It’s been a long while since David Stephenson has submitted anything to the magazine, but after visiting this year’s Cannes Film Festival, he got a really itchy bug up his butt to write about his experiences there.  Since it’s David we’re talking about, you can be sure that he held nothing back.

You know, brains are more than just zombie food. They also make for some pretty damn awesome monsters as well!  This month, Phil Smolen takes a look at five films in which brains were the main attraction.

Do you love archeology? What about Adventure Films? Well, this month Independent Filmmakers Jason S. Lockard brings us a film that has best of both worlds. 1954s Valley of the Kings!

I sometimes wonder if Danny Runion has a little, dark room somewhere where he sits with insense and meditation music playing so he can keep coming up with all these movie mashups. Then again, for most people, some quality time sitting on the crapper can be pretty meditative as well. Wherever he comes up with them, he’s got some all new mashups for us, so head on in and check ‘em out!

Movie Reviews:

Alphonso Bow
Balls Out
Brooklyn’s Finest
Change for a Dollar
Dark House
Deadly Beloved
Destination: Outer Space
Eyeborgs
Forbidden World
Forward/Slash
Fragile
Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer
Fugue
Galaxy of Terror
George’s Intervention
Grimm Love
Heartless: The Story of the Tinman
Hell is Full
Hellraiser Deader: Winter’s Lament
In the Dominican
Legend Has It
Level Up
Nara
Pig Hunt
Road Kill
Sex Stories
Sex and the USA
The Crazies
The Darkest Corner of Paradise
The Haunting
The Tomb
Traces
…a Thousand Words

Book Reviews:

Evelyn Brent: The Life and Times of Hollywood’s Lady Crook
Olive Borden: The Life and Films of Hollywood’s Joy Girl

So head on over to Rogue Cinema (http://www.roguecinema.com) and check out all the goodness in this month’s issue.

Hope you all enjoy it!

  (Current Mood: tiredtired)