While I thought the movie adaptation of I Am Legend with Will Smith was ok, I would have probably benefited more by not having read the book before seeing it. It strayed WAY away from the parts of the book I found most interesting and relied more upon special effects than the core story. While the alternate ending that was made available on the DVD release of the movie was more satisfying than the one in the theatrical release, it still lacking.

I found out that there were a few more movie versions of the book with the most interesting being that of The Last Man on Earth from 1964 staring Vincent Price. I, could not find it in the local video stores (big surprise) but the excellent Archive.org has it up and streaming and for download.

I just watched it and agree that this one was far superior to the new one based on the fact that it let the core story drive it instead of letting the special effects rule it

Enjoy and if you want to download it in a higher quality format, just go here.

Tags: entertainment, I am Legend, movies

A while back we had a discussion @ FreakScene.net about the fantastic documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke. The film by Dave Markey featured many of the brilliant artists that made the soundtracks of many peoples lives. Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Babes in Toyland & Gumball. We were all just very disapointed that the only format this film is available in is VHS. I found that he posted on his site about it being re-released on DVD with some new footage included but even after putting together all the work, it has been (AND STILL IS) sitting in the void within the halls of Universal Records. I contacted David & Steve Shelly (Sonic Youth) about that and neither one of them new why it this was the case either.
I figured the least I could do was try to raise some awareness about this because it would suck to have this film fade away to nothing but a memory so. Thus the myspace.com/theyearpunkbroke page was born. It picked up a little press and gained shows that I am not alone in this. As I no don’t have time to properly mange it any more, I have given the profiles ownership to David and hopefully, we will see some updates soon.

If you want to help, add them to your friends and let Universal know that you want to see it released!

Just posting for my memories (a late night ramble that may not make much sense when I read it later…..)

If you are reading this you must be lost. I’ll get the 404 up for your next visit as I’m sure this is not what you were hoping to find. If you have stumbled upon these pages expecting to find a cure for cancer you will leave disappointed. In fact, if you expected to find anything of value to anyone other than myself you are probably wrong there too.

High expectations? You bet!

Another year passes and I have decided that I would try putting some of my thoughts where I could find them again later instead of the recesses of the mind never to be returned.  Incidentally, if you still have my H.R. Pufnstuff figure, please return it.   Jimmy thanks you.

What to expect? Whatever tickles my fancy. Tech talk, music, project idea, rants on the abuse of smell hounds….. No excuses & no apologies.

So there. If you insist upon staying on the site you must keep you hands inside the ride at all times. I am not responsible for you losing your lunch, keys or patience.

Tags: ramble