tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33092052012-02-19T18:51:49.877-05:00Random Acts of Mike WattThis is a little journal to keep anyone - particularly me - posted on my terribly rambling film and journalism careerMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-49450636903188560452011-08-19T17:27:00.000-04:002011-08-19T17:27:11.157-04:00THE FREEDOM OF THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE
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The cast: Amy Lynn Best (and producer), Debbie Rochon, Bette Cassett (ThinkGeek's Zombie Girl), David Marancik (The Sadist), Alyssa Herron Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-63059309609905456162011-04-11T15:57:00.001-04:002011-04-11T15:57:18.292-04:00The Key to Earthly Nirvana
Attention men and women everywhere - since "abortion" is currently the new emotional buzzword (until we all remember how much we all hate Mexicans), and it's an inflamatory subject for both sides, may I make this proposal: take extra steps not to get pregnant. In fact, even if you WANT to have a baby, don't do it. The only way we can rid the planet of the scourge that is humanity is by Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-28793246517899645972011-02-11T11:25:00.001-05:002011-02-11T11:30:21.661-05:00LBP'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY FAREWELL THROW DOWN
Like Brett Favre, KISS and Cher, the Low Budget Pictures consortium has announced their retirement. The brainchild of one Chris Seaver (as if there were more than one), who, at the tender age of 12, conceived, shot and completed four movies in one afternoon. Twenty years later he and his loyal compatriots have a completed catalog equal to Bollywood’s annual releasing schedule.
Seaver and the Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-34176527181598703822011-02-02T10:58:00.000-05:002011-02-02T10:58:57.473-05:00Down With Fetuses!Not sure if you’ve seen THIS, THIS or THIS yet, but in their constant campaign to protect the fetuses, the GOP wants to redefine rape. They are doing this so that taxpayer money will not go towards healthcare funding for abortions. Only in the cases of “incest involving a minor” or “forcible rape”.
Forcible rape.
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Anyone unfamiliar with Richard Moore’s work to date is truly missing out. His latest series, Boneyard, is a rich blend of classic horror movies and off-beat humor. Moore has a flair for visual story-telling, and his artwork shows a unique gift for comic timing, as the first issue illustrates with a three-panel gag about a vampire, a frightened human, and a phone book mistaken for a bible.
“Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-5987043072435263162011-01-27T12:32:00.000-05:002011-01-27T12:32:00.554-05:00THINGS I LOVE: The New Adventures of Queen VictoriaI tripped over The New Adventures of Queen Victoria accidentally one day, perusing GoComics.com and praying for death. Or, you know, something else to do. Created by Pab Sungenis, TNQoQV is a surreal and extremely funny cut-out strip about the former Regent and her extended family.
The style is reminiscent of Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python cartoons in that Sungenis uses photographs and familiar Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-80019231996565759772011-01-26T13:43:00.001-05:002011-01-26T13:43:14.317-05:00FLAME OUT - FANTASTIC 4 NO MORE
So someone took the Human Torch down and passed him around, or something. The result is: he’s dead. Like Captain America, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Angel, Kraven the Hunter and endless more before him, The Human Torch is as dead as can be legally allowed by the Comics Code (also dead. Thanks Archie Comics).
Those responsible for Johnny Storm’s murder are writer Jonathan Hickman and his Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-56805775158425245872010-12-31T12:03:00.000-05:002010-12-31T12:03:47.729-05:00Mike's Picks for Best Top 10 Lists of 2010
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And so we say good-bye to 2010. You had your highs, you had your lows. The Tea Party showed its Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-42912020962802915562010-12-22T12:11:00.003-05:002010-12-22T12:14:04.779-05:00The First Amendment: A Mother-Fucking Civics LessonAs a creative-type person, as well as someone universally-recognized as having a big mouth, I’m a fan of the First Amendment. In fact, you could say it’s my favorite of all the Amendments, particularly the Top Ten. Not to take anything away from the others, like the Third Amendment, for instance, preventing the quartering of troops and ensuring I’m not up to my elbows in enlisted men, tromping Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-44855378866574736592010-12-16T14:07:00.003-05:002010-12-16T14:58:40.343-05:00We Don't Take Kindly To People Who Don't Take Kindly To People Around HereOr… My Yearly Screech Against So-Called “Civilization”.
This time of year gets me to banging my head on my desk a little more than usual. Maybe it’s the lack of sunshine, the shorter days, the eternal struggle between “Merry Christmas” and “Happy Holidays” or maybe just general winter ennui, but for the last few years, as soon as the calendar flips its pages to December, all I want to do is Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-6492843793026487662010-12-15T21:10:00.000-05:002010-12-15T21:10:17.289-05:00New All-Things Mike WattSo... new updates to the grand ol' Mike-Watt.net website... I spent several days writing new code for it, then finally said "screw it" and went with a Google Site template.
Don't judge me.
ALSO, since video trailers for books seem to be the "in" thing, and everyone knows how "in" I truly am, I created a trailer for my new novel Suicide Machine. Amy Lynn Best reads as Tanith, I stole some unusedMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-1370029215085145222010-12-01T16:18:00.001-05:002010-12-01T16:18:13.975-05:00Book Review: It Lives Again! Horror Movies in the New Millenium (yeah, I read!)
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Because I want to be a well-rounded person, I like to know both sides of an argument and make my mind up only after I have all the facts. Like most people, though, I suffer from the occasional knee-jerk, emotional gut reactions that shut down intellectual reasoning. I found myself taking up arms against the insensitive notion of a “Mosque built nearMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-17157683727310426582010-10-18T17:44:00.000-04:002010-10-18T17:44:09.231-04:00“It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Fat Zombie Sings: Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera”Just when you think that the zombie subgenre has nothing left to offer, someone comes along and proves you dead wrong. October 15, 2010 will see the premiere of Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera at the Grey Box Theater in Lawrenceville, just outside of Pittsburgh.
The creation of artistic directors, Pittsburgh natives and alumni of Duquesne University, Bonnie Bogovich and Elizabeth Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-34386191014886252782010-09-10T18:00:00.001-04:002010-09-10T18:00:06.587-04:00Tomorrow: Think, Don't React.
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On Friday, April 23rd, 2010, fps Films and the infamous Hollywood Theatre located in Dormont, PA, are presenting a Grindhouse Double Feature. The films will be presented with a Short Subject and a reel of vintage Horror Movie Trailers. Everything in the program will be projected on 35mm film! No digital projection on this program. It will be a full evening's entertainment Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-58933372044945961412010-04-12T16:41:00.004-04:002010-04-12T17:50:54.949-04:00Post-Wasteland Summations (as much as I can recollect)
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Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-22656151213776191492010-01-13T20:00:00.000-05:002010-01-13T20:00:23.061-05:00Happy Cloud Pictures celebrates 13 years.Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-33748133900423043312009-12-30T20:52:00.000-05:002009-12-30T20:52:18.850-05:00Screw You, 2009!As we prepare to send 2009 back to the wretched depths of hell from whence it came, let's take a minute to put things into perspective.
As far as years go, 2009 was one long Trail of Tears for many of us. BUT, and this is an important conjunction, if you're reading this, you got through it. Maybe you picked up a few scars or lost a few limbs, but you're alive. In a Nietschean, Darwinian way, youMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-50903484210403444632009-12-26T12:00:00.001-05:002009-12-26T12:00:00.520-05:00Regarding EUROPA'S CRY...AN ANGEL'S TALE
As I may have mentioned ad nauseum, there’s a new book out on the market that I had a hand in. Europa’s Cry…An Angel’s Tale was a project brought to me by award-winning artist Michael Apice and I consider it to be one of the best things I’ve ever written.
I met Michael at the 2004 Pittsburgh Comicon. Like most of the big time artists I know, I was introduced to him by stunt-woman and model Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-70186997426978939012009-12-25T11:50:00.008-05:002009-12-30T20:55:27.992-05:00Seasons Greetings to One and All!
And here's to a much, much better 2010!
Mike Watt and Amy Lynn Best
Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-52341683863113287802009-12-24T12:00:00.001-05:002009-12-24T12:00:00.650-05:00Conversations for PartiesWhat’s the opposite of “going green”? I want to do that. I want to stuff polar bears into Hummers and leave the air conditioning on for them. And the radio. If I had a crop duster, I would sky-write this blog every day with the biggest words I knew. And I would sign each entry “Agamemnon Zithertopolis, Master of Pro-Antidisestablishmentarianism”. Then I would add, “A Go-Go.”
Alas, I’ve already Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-10850192920543634162009-12-23T10:11:00.002-05:002009-12-23T15:07:43.187-05:00My place in the food chainFriends and family have long marveled at what they call my “picky eating habits”. I don’t look at my habits as picky any more than I consider their eating habits to be “haphazard”. We all like different things, right? That’s why “Baconaise” was invented.
For instance, I don’t care much for salad. Or, really, vegetables of any kind. I consider eating plants to be unnatural. Animals eat plants Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-53374002870014176042009-12-22T15:12:00.000-05:002009-12-22T15:12:26.435-05:00Someone is spying on me...It’s nice to know that people read me every once in a while. A few years ago, I wrote in this very blog that there are only two constants of the human race: 1.) All women are crazy; 2.) All men are stupid.
These two tenets are fun conversation starters at parties. But no one I know has every disagreed with me.
Now, I just read that ABC has a new sitcom in the works called Women Are Crazy, Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-7456922920948588032009-12-18T12:57:00.002-05:002009-12-18T20:59:33.307-05:00Review: I SELL THE DEAD (2009)[Note: until Blogger gets around to restoring HEY, DID YOU EVER SEE THE MOVIE...?, deleted by their robots for "spamming" after I fulfilled their desire that I "monetize" my blog, this review will reside here.]
Irish director Glenn McQuaid’s feature film wants you to know that, despite evidence put forth in movies like The Body Snatcher and The Doctor and the Devils, grave robbing is actually Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-1048857365283376022009-12-17T20:12:00.003-05:002009-12-17T20:25:29.730-05:00I Officially Welcome Me Back
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mso-pagination:Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-68259426413751654932009-09-24T17:59:00.002-04:002009-09-24T18:03:26.222-04:00Brand New Blog for Your Time-Wasting Needs!Now I know you're all agog with anticipation for the Cinema Wasteland premiere of Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation but here's a little something I like to call "Hey, Have You Ever Seen the Movie...?" It's a new blog dedicated to odd and hard-to-find movies.Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-35132985103261783182009-08-26T10:29:00.001-04:002009-08-26T10:30:51.503-04:00DEMON DIVAS to premiere at Cinema WastelandJust got the news: DEMON DIVAS AND THE LANES OF DAMNATION will premiere at CinemaWasteland Saturday, October 3rd at 6:30 PM! This is a great slot and I can't thank Ken and Pam Kish enough for it. And as long as the donations keep rolling in (thanks everyone!) the 10th Anniversary DVD of THE RESURRECTION GAME will be on sale there as well. Wasteland is the patron saint of Happy Cloud Pictures!The Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-44717185060816512292009-08-03T11:12:00.001-04:002009-08-03T11:12:53.751-04:00Daily Grammar Made EasyThis is primarily for people who consider themselves writers, journalists or reviewers but tweeters, texters, bloggers and updaters should take note as well:"Look, it's simple: when you're writing out a sentence, sound out its contents for your peace of mind."In other words: "Look, it's (it is, verb form) simple:"When you're (you are, verb form) writing out a sentence"sound out its (no apostropheMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-74234993029802585322009-07-24T11:08:00.000-04:002009-07-24T11:09:11.832-04:00List of Personal EssentialsOkay, while these might not all be "essentials" - in that you don't have to worry about going to your grave without having seen some of them - if you add these to my "Essentials" list, I think it's pretty well-rounded. Tastes will vary, of course.This one is more liberal and includes many more indie and no-budget titles that I respect and have enjoyed very much.This one adds up to 180 titles and Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-15082749959778636512009-07-24T11:07:00.001-04:002009-07-24T11:08:22.158-04:00My List of Essential Film WatchingA few months ago, at the nadir of anything practical to do at the old office, I started an Excel spreadsheet of movies I've seen in my lifetime. It was more a memory exercise than anything else, but it soon developed into a cataloging obsession. After a while, it wasn't enough to just list features, but also memorable shorts as well. Of course, I had to include the endless amount of indie films Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-59537356335360198762009-01-19T12:42:00.001-05:002009-01-19T12:43:44.295-05:00Phobophobia - now on saleFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMike Watt hopes you contract Phobophobia this winter.“The only thing we have to fear, we’re told, is fear itself…”In Phobophobia, the first short-fiction collection from award-winning journalist and screenwriter Mike Watt (The Resurrection Game, Dead Men Walking, editor Sirens of Cinema Magazine), readers will find plenty of reasons to leave the light on.Thirteen (Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-61212465643682845242009-01-16T17:54:00.001-05:002009-01-16T17:55:50.442-05:00Sirens of Cinema #14 - Final Issue on Sale Now!Today, I released this news:With mixed feelings, publisher Kuiper and editor Mike Watt announce that Sirens of Cinema Magazine will complete its regular quarterly run with the publication of Issue #14, a Collector's Edition. Boasting yet another of their signature gorgeous covers, this time around by Vampirella artist Louis Small, Jr., the women-oriented magazine’s Issue #14 offers interviews Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-27604888903176646802009-01-15T17:30:00.002-05:002009-01-15T17:30:52.880-05:00A Belated Goodbye to 2008A Belated Goodbye To 2008Over the last few weeks, I’ve been reliving some personal history—cataloguing, collecting, sifting through old work and trying to decide what is worth pursuing, what is best left at the bottom of the desk drawer, so to speak. During the sifting, I’ve revisited old blog entries, re-evaluating previous years, what we’ve achieved, what alluded us, what I failed at completelyMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-68439777805747677022008-11-06T16:45:00.001-05:002008-11-06T16:46:36.104-05:00A New HopeLike most of the country, I feel like I was holding my breath for (at least) the last year. Wednesday morning, I was able to finally, release that breath in relief.This election was long, but not nearly as long as the 2000 election felt to me. 2000 was the first year I paid any attention to politics, forced in large part due to a job I had digitally archiving newscasts. And for weeks after I Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-57581389304637545482008-10-23T18:56:00.003-04:002008-10-23T18:56:51.006-04:00My Not-So-Secret ShameThis will probably come as no great shock, but like all the best people in the world, when I was in college, I supplemented my two-job income by bootlegging movies. I specialized in foreign and out-of-print cult films, primarily Hong Kong movies. I traded with other bootleggers all over the country, finding them through "USENET" groups and rudimentary websites. While I avoided anything Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-80639924789435760782008-10-20T18:45:00.001-04:002008-10-20T18:46:46.351-04:00A Happier Blog About Happier DaysSaturday, Amy, Tara and David Cooper and I made the trek out to The Oaks Theater to see a terrific double-bill: Texas Chain Saw Massacre II and Amityville II. This was the second of two double-bills set up courtesy of the great and powerful Art Ettinger, manager of the magazine that people actually read, Ultra-Violent. The premiere weekend consisted of Cannibals Holocaust and Ferrox, which I Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-406107408571038092008-10-20T18:44:00.001-04:002008-10-20T18:45:13.009-04:00My Two Cents on THE SPIRIT movieI've been harassing a great deal of you with my outrage at the upcoming The Spirit movie that Frank Miller, after years of a close friendship with creator Will Eisner, seems intent on turning into Sin City 2. I know most of you have no frame of reference for what I'm talking about. So I will ask that you all go Here to my article at Film Threat and read my final vitriolic screed on the subject. IMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-22491244030937457082008-10-13T19:02:00.001-04:002008-10-13T19:04:10.092-04:00Cinema Wasteland RememberedBriefly… It was another terrific Cinema Wasteland. Seriously, I almost wish Ken and Pam would put on one that sucked just to break up their record! But no, we had a vast amount of fun, made a decent amount of money and got to see our bi-annual friends and catch up with life. This trip we had a few "newbies"—Tara Cooper (who truthfully lost her Wasteland virginity in April), Tabatha Carrick, NikkiMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-63356118908729077962008-09-29T19:32:00.000-04:002008-09-29T19:36:36.571-04:00New adventures - Empire’s Top 500 - I guess that wraps it up for God...This is another one of those blogs that will be more catch-up than anything else. Apologies to the two of you who follow my exploits religiously. If you read this blog, you undoubtedly read Amy's, so you know we've been flitting thither and yon over the past month. We took a trip to the wilds of Baltimore a few weeks ago to see April and JimmyO Burril in "Evita", something I wouldn't necessarily Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-2506967573629768852008-08-26T18:03:00.002-04:002008-08-26T18:05:38.619-04:00Shooting "Coventry Lanes" part 2Looking back at the shoot—which seems like having taken place months ago, rather than just a few short weeks—I'm having the same feeling as I did when it was happening: it was hectic, it was rushed and it was too short. Unlike Splatter Movie and A Feast of Flesh, where we had more time and less money, this time around, time was the precious commodity. Most of the problem was our own dumb fault. Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-39416269951521740812008-08-15T16:03:00.002-04:002008-08-15T16:04:20.054-04:00New Shoot part 1 Sunday night, shooting wrapped on Coventry Lanes. In an epic shoot, beating our own personal records by completing principal photography in just seven days—which included breaking another record by extending one shoot past twelve hours to a whopping seventeen, leaving most of us exhausted and hysterical—we emerged scathed and scarred, perhaps wiser, but likely not. As Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-75915364019625568382008-07-25T17:58:00.001-04:002008-07-25T17:59:29.594-04:00Ah, Insomnia!My insomnia is back. It snuck up on me while I was sleeping. I haven't slept more than three hours in as many days. It makes the world that much more colorful and silly, except that I'm often so grumpy, I can't see the funny in it.We've been in pre-production on the new movie, Coventry Lanes, for about a month. Which is a woefully inadequate amount of time for pre-production, considering we startMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-56628867593132241762008-07-06T12:11:00.001-04:002008-07-06T12:13:00.220-04:00The Resurrection Game - NovelizationI ran out of copies a few months ago. iUniverse, the POD that published it -- yeah, yeah, but what's the difference between a vanity press and self-distributing your own DVD? The Print Industry is just as horrifying right now as the film industry, folks -- raised my "author's price" so I thought I'd try to save myself some dough and check out Amazon to restock. And I came across the fine folks Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-53173894771202589692008-06-18T16:24:00.001-04:002008-06-18T16:26:47.031-04:00F'Loathing Vegas 2: The WeddingHaving returned from Las Vegas, let me say that I am happy to be back on American soil. <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O />I have in the works a huge, vitriolic screed against the airline industry in general and U.S. Air in particular, but I'll let that wait until later in the week. Today, I just have to tell you about the wedding. When last we spoke (or I wrote and you (some of you) read), I was Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-65478325143600795622008-06-18T16:23:00.000-04:002008-06-18T16:24:28.009-04:00Happy Cloud News - Fangoria NJ and Netflix!Two bits of juicy news for you: Amy Lynn Best and Mike Watt will be appearing at the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors in Secaucus, New Jersey this very weekend - July 20-22. Come by, say hi and check out Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut screening Sunday Only! For more information, click HEREIn awesome other news, A Feast of Flesh, the vampire epic starring Amy Lynn Best, Stacy Bartlebaugh-Gmys and Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-14650536839747645452008-06-13T18:47:00.000-04:002008-06-13T18:50:20.333-04:00F'Loathing in Las VegasWell, I’m not afraid of the place, and I’m not exactly hating it, but I had to pay some homage to the Thompson title, right? I didn’t make it to the desert, the edge or otherwise, and left all drugs back home—I’ve been incredibly sober the last two days, but I think artificial stimulation, at this point, would cause utter mental breakdown. We suffered through a three-hour delay at JFK—one hour Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-15371190385565384852008-06-10T17:31:00.002-04:002008-06-10T17:34:05.645-04:00HCP meets LBPSo we’ve returned, bruised, battered and weary, perhaps wiser, from the wilds of Rochester, NY. A few months ago, Amy was recruited to take part in a new movie for Low Budget Pictures, helmed by LBP’s generalissimo, Chris Seaver. In a moment of madness, Chris asked me to take a part as well. Now, we’ve known Chris for… ever, it seems. At least since 2000 when Debbie Rochon recommended that I Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-39695828630470157822008-05-27T16:52:00.001-04:002008-05-27T16:53:42.839-04:00The Map of Your LifeThe past few weeks have been a whirlwind. The highlight was a 7000 mile (round trip) excursion to the Redwood Forest in California to witness the wedding of Bill Homan and Gwendolyn. As Bill has been one of my closest friends for more than 15 years, there was no way we were going to miss it. Plus, we had the opportunity to test drive a Prius, got 400 miles to the tank, saw trees that predated Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-25609729200468933642008-04-29T19:03:00.001-04:002008-04-29T19:05:55.074-04:00Comicon AftermathGot back from the Pittsburgh Comicon on Sunday night. Since we started going in 2000, I’ve had the same complaints—it opens too early (10:00 am on Friday, fer Chrissakes?), it goes on too long, it doesn’t bring in a crowd (to its defense, neither does any other Pittsburgh-based show), its admission is over-priced, the staff isn’t particularly friendly and it’s located in a part of Pittsburgh thatMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-28479328889110843102008-04-07T17:50:00.003-04:002008-04-07T17:57:25.112-04:00The Return From WastelandLast week, I sent out three copies of Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut, started teaching at the Savini School of Digital Photography, wrote more of my new book, copied almost a hundred DVDs - none of that compared to the excitement of a new pending Cinema Wasteland.Yes, this is another of those blogs that begins, "As you all know, Wasteland is our favorite show..." The Cleveland convention has Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-36157968544977437422008-03-24T17:14:00.001-04:002008-03-24T17:16:42.419-04:00Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut - first trailer!It took a while, but I was finally able to upload the first trailer for Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut. Don't forget that you can check this out for yourself at Cinema Wasteland, Saturday, April 5 at 10:00 PM! Ken and Pam are screening the finished cut of the film in all its glory. We're not ready to start selling it from the site yet, as we're currently shopping it around, but we'll have a Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-63083499801510794462008-02-29T18:47:00.001-05:002008-02-29T18:48:33.699-05:00Best Vampire Hunter of 2007... and the winner is -Me!Hey, I didn't know I was even nominated, which would have been an honor in and of itself! Does that mean I beat out Kate Beckensale in Underworld 2? Or did that come out in 2006? Okay, regardless, she was a vampire hunter, but still...Anyway, you can check out the other winners of The Horror Oscars, hosted by Desert Screams Productions, HERE.So, to you three or four people who hated me in A Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-86114591546401679602008-02-27T19:01:00.001-05:002008-02-27T19:02:41.081-05:00Back from ChicagoOkay, I'm dying from some new, exciting cold, thanks to the multiple temperatures my body was subjected to this weekend, not to mention ongoing insomnia, so I'll make this fast.We spent the weekend in the wonderful world of Chicago for the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors, one of our favorite shows of the year (after Cinema Wasteland, of course). As usual, we got to see the airport and the hotel, but Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-32282543081147314242008-02-20T17:41:00.001-05:002008-02-20T17:43:04.352-05:00Sleepless in WaynesburgMy insomnia continues to be my best friend, though I have been a little more successful at the shut-eye thing of late. Slowly but surely I'm remastering the fine art of sleeping.Of course, I can't just blame the stress or my natural penchant towards spaz-ism. One of our local coal companies misrepresented itself to us and our neighbors. Instead of the single line of pipe they claimed they would Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-72189908883062766072008-02-12T17:39:00.001-05:002008-02-12T17:40:00.606-05:00SPLATTER MOVIE is...Done.Every time I finish a movie and announce it's completion, I feel like I'm lying. It feels utterly strange to think of a movie as "finished". Even in this case. Really, Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut needs some minor sound work, and likely needs a few tweaks to the credits. And I still need to work out a deal with the special guest end credits musicians (not Lorraine 'a Malena this time Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-69452431964937853182008-02-07T16:37:00.000-05:002008-02-07T16:38:31.201-05:00Brief notes before unconsciousnessOkay, I haven't slept for more than two hours at a time in over three weeks, so I'm taking one last shot at relearning the fine art of unconsciousness in a few minutes, but I wanted to bring a few things to everyone's attention.First, thanks to Jeff Waltrowski, Patrick Desmond and the awesome Alan Rowe Kelly, Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut is 99% complete. Alan (The Blood Shed) stepped in to Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-69861095821633027892008-01-21T17:13:00.000-05:002008-01-21T17:39:13.021-05:00Stuff we did on our last weekend off...Had a very unproductive weekend. Primarily, we laid around and did as little as possible. I had utterly no motivation to do anything and was unsuccessful at fighting it. Aside from some cursory Sirens work, all I really accomplished was watching a few movies. To wit:Cloverfield: Okay, so we had to go out to see this one. At a packed theater in the South Side (and, yeah, Jordan, like I said - I Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-27388943748540432962008-01-12T16:01:00.001-05:002008-01-12T16:03:13.524-05:00First blog of 2008 is shameless shillingSo... the first official blog of 2008 is little more than a shill. It's been a wild 12 days so far, what with Tara and Dave's wedding, grinding away on the new issue of Sirens of Cinema, and... well, work and more work.Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut is 99% complete. We're just waiting on voice over from - wait for it - Alan Rowe Kelly! Alan, writer and director of I'll Bury You Tomorrow and Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-53424104941172432102007-12-31T13:49:00.000-05:002007-12-31T13:50:17.926-05:00Goodbye 2007!While there were a few setbacks that came with 2007, it was infinitely better than 2006, and I feel fondness towards this dying year. 2007, for the most part, was good to us, though it kicked the asses of a lot of our friends and family. Because, of course, that's what years do. We've forced our lunar cycle into this arbitrary box of time-telling--our year ends tonight, China's ends later inMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-82317432519388901862007-12-19T19:22:00.000-05:002007-12-19T19:24:10.658-05:00Sirens of Cinema and a free gift!Let's see, I've pimped the new Fangoria appearance and our blatantly-positive Feast of Flesh reviews, what's next? Oh, yes: Sirens of Cinema 10! With our swanky wrap-around cover by Holly Golightly (School Bites) celebrating 30 years of Star Wars! Also boasting interviews with Angela Bettis (May) and Kristen Kerr (Flight of the Living Dead), Julie and Lizzy Strain (Black Dahlia Movie), Debbie Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-10842190704081502532007-12-18T16:00:00.000-05:002007-12-18T16:01:54.744-05:00Feast of Flesh reviews for fun!The reviews for A Feast of Flesh are still coming in. The majority of them have been positive, and the negative ones have been truly negative. I've only seen one so far that was just "eh, it's okay". So what we have here, folks, is a "love it or hate it" movie. Which is fine by me.I thought I'd post links to some of the positive ones, here, just to keep the momentum going. I'd post links to the Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-36847932506968308472007-12-12T14:32:00.000-05:002007-12-12T14:36:10.833-05:00The Horrible AllegationAfter battling the cold and spending over three grand on a new furnace, Amy and I received a very disturbing email on Saturday. The message was sent by a former acquaintance who is not a friend of ours any longer (in fact, the email stated "We're not friends and I don't wish to be, however I can't allow this to happen to anyone I know"). The Good Samaritan told us to check out our Feast of Flesh Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-47008929572007280872007-12-05T15:07:00.000-05:002007-12-05T15:08:37.103-05:00Freezing cold and good FANGO newsOur furnace gave out over the weekend, just in time for PA's first cold snap. We're currently bundled up inside the house surrounded by space heaters (thanks to my co-worker, Jessica, for donating her office one for our current cause). No idea how much a replacement will cost or, really, how the fuck we'll pay for it, but, what the hell, right? That's what makes life fun! Anyway, one bit of news Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-29853029626845293352007-11-28T14:40:00.003-05:002010-01-14T18:44:53.731-05:00Attack of the atheists!"Why don't we trust readers? Why don't we trust filmgoers? Oh, it causes me to shake my head with sorrow that such nitwits could be loose in the world." – Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy.
So the Catholic League is at it again. They’re calling for a sight-unseen boycott of The Golden Compass, which opens this weekend, but not because they object to the movie itself.
Some Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-41138774961771577722007-11-26T19:08:00.000-05:002007-11-26T19:10:21.177-05:00Jeff's Birthday and the Technicolor YawnOver the weekend, I had another opportunity to face my mortality. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> The week previous saw several very pleasant Thanksgiving meals with my family and Amy’s and an unpaid day off from work where I was able to clean out my email and start work on the special Splatter Movie DVD teaser for Sirens of Cinema subscribers. Also Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-74979425988913746492007-11-23T11:35:00.000-05:002007-11-23T11:36:37.956-05:00The Writer's StrikeThis was going to be a very different blog entry, but I really wanted to weigh in on what's going on in Hollywoodland right now.Last week, I was browsing a message board for indie filmmakers and came across a rallying cry that all indie screenwriters should take advantage of the WGA strike and start sending in our scripts to the studios, now that the "window has been opened by the striking Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-86455243287085926212007-11-06T17:48:00.000-05:002007-11-06T17:50:06.583-05:00Return to Rocky HorrorThe Fangoria Radio stint was fun. Too short, though. I had at least an hour of brilliance I could have expounded. Debbie and Mike Gingold must have plugged everything we were ever involved in and I had a nice moment with Dee Snider when we realized we both hate Kubrick’s version of The Shining. Since I’ve actually gotten death threats (true!) over my opinion of this “classic”, I felt moderately Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-11249776224718605992007-10-31T15:18:00.000-04:002007-10-31T15:19:57.752-04:00Halloween, FEAST reviews and promotionHappy Halloween to one and all! If you subscribe to the hardline Christian belief that this is the most evil day of the year, I suggest you stay inside. If you’re of a more rational mind, say a follower of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer point of view, then evil takes today off and we’re all safe. Whichever. Halloween is more a day where most of the people I know can go outside and not get stared atMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-72892029614945574242007-10-30T14:56:00.000-04:002007-10-30T15:00:25.129-04:00A Look Back at October, part 2Traveling over the last few weeks I’ve discovered a brand new pet peeve. This is something that has always irritated me, but it’s become an obsessive hatred lately: Automatic restrooms. Toilets that flush automatically, sinks that come on if you wave your hands, paper towels that dispense if you wave your hands. No levers, no handles. And, usually, no results. When was it determined that the Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-35919637655672275222007-10-29T16:28:00.000-04:002007-10-29T16:29:27.580-04:00A Look Back at October, part 1Well... October is almost over and the weather is finally starting to figure out that it's Autumn, so the 80 degree temperatures have gone away. Looking back at the past 29 days, I can honestly say that I know where the month went.I left off at Cinema Wasteland, which was the first weekend of the year. Filled with fun and far too much alcohol, where I learned that my friends Vodka and Rum still Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-12799879328319569982007-10-18T16:27:00.000-04:002007-10-18T16:28:52.806-04:00Fangoria Loves UsThere's a longer one of these here blogs coming soon. Spent all week whipping up a Splatter Movie cut for "family viewing" tomorrow and the rest of the time was involved with making DVDs to sell and give out. If any of you are in the area tomorrow, Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut will be screening - a world premiere! - at the Hundred Acres Manor in South Park. I'm sure I've mentioned it Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-75902300951086165842007-10-10T14:08:00.000-04:002007-10-10T14:09:51.709-04:00The Memory Skips AwayWe did get one piece of good news yesterday, as a matter of fact. A Feast of Flesh is playing Saturday, October 20, at 12:00 noon at the Rhode Island International Film Festival (preceeded by a shrot from Rue Morgue editor Rod Gudino)! This is a fairly big and really cool film festival that I wish with all my heart we could go to. However, Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut will be premiering at Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-62144469848053991082007-10-04T21:49:00.000-04:002007-10-04T21:50:11.487-04:00Weddings, FEAST, Scarehouse and WastelandLong week.It started last week, actually, with the preparations for Mike and Carolyn's wedding - rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, pre-ceremony, ceremony... and then it was over. An eye-blink: some vows (including a sermon that made utterly no sense to me but was delivered in warm and even tones by Carolyn's brother, Lamar), a limo ride, some food, my brilliant toast (the bulk of which was conceived Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-81766859416969203262007-09-25T15:20:00.000-04:002007-09-25T15:21:57.338-04:00Of Bachelors and Bachelorettes and the parties they attendEarlier this year, my good friend and colleague, Mike Haushalter, asked me to be his best man for his wedding. I accepted, of course, but with the stipulation that I not plan the bachelor party. Being married myself, and wanting to remain so, I didn't want to have to arrange for strippers or car pools to nudie bars. Mike assured me that there would be others to take care of this. This past Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-10360733433128461952007-09-24T18:26:00.000-04:002007-09-24T18:27:19.564-04:00Returning from Rotten Jack'sA couple of weeks ago, Amy and I made the trek out to Rotten Jack’s Creep Show in Buffalo, NY. Despite the fact that it took forever for us to get on the road—I worked in the morning, we stopped for food and gas, traffic was ridiculous at lunchtime and wouldn’t let us out of the city, etc.—we arrived safely and wound up having a great time. For a first-time show, it ran exceptionally smoothly andMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-60692804971561696342007-09-13T15:05:00.001-04:002007-09-13T15:19:12.662-04:00Checking in while I'm running outThe new job has me bound to my desk. I rush home and get about two hours of other work in before my tired old body gives out on me. The last few days have been devoted to completing the picture lock on Splatter Movie: The Director's Cut, so I've had time for little else. Splatter Movie is almost there. Amy and I sat down and hammered out the structure while getting some good input from Jeff (Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-90823371183029687112007-08-29T15:57:00.000-04:002007-08-29T15:58:36.909-04:00New job, new plugsStarted a new job last week. It’s the first real office job I’ve had in a while. I have a desk with drawers for the first time—my own, not shared—a bulletin board, lots of office supplies and, again, first time ever, an inbox. Since my whole life is one giant inbox, I never thought that this simple plastic tray would become a symbol of stress for me, particularly at an office I only spend, at Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-17391670619250402982007-08-17T09:22:00.000-04:002007-08-17T09:25:56.118-04:00Black Wednesday (no racism intended)Been an odd week.It started well (or, maybe, last week merely ended well): we wrapped Splatter Movie, ending not with a bang or a whimper but more of an "OK, I guess we're done". Having captured all the footage, I found only one small insert needed due to a continuity error. Otherwise, it's all fine—much of it is actually beautiful, courtesy of Jeff's lighting and the natural photogenic qualitiesMike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-30488136670119548172007-08-10T08:58:00.000-04:002007-08-10T08:59:39.430-04:00Quick thingsOff to buy my bi-monthly set of tires and still digesting the news that Mike George of the Pittsburgh Comicon might be a murderer. Of course, we'd heard the news for years--a couple of his past employees have speculated that he was involved in his first wife's execution, but I always chalked this up to "stories we talk about when we're drunk and discussing weird con things". If it does turn out Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-76456275955162775552007-08-01T09:27:00.000-04:002007-08-01T09:29:17.649-04:00It's a blog! It's a column! It's a microscope under which all are we!"Random Acts of Mike Watt" was a blog I started back in 2002 and became the title of a series of columns I wrote for Film Threat a few years later. When I like a title, I really like a title. The blogging phenomenon caught on and things like columns and essays morphed into the "blog" format. We journalists, back in the day, used to fight and scratch and claw to get our own "columns". Now we just Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-82544786467729030432007-07-31T11:31:00.000-04:002007-07-31T11:40:55.057-04:00A Feast of Flesh news The movie formerly-known as Abattoir, now completely and from henceforth forever known as A Feast of Flesh, was officially announced by Fangoria last week. Read all about it by clicking this link. Camp Motion Pictures' Blood Earth Films label is putting this out November 6.As you can imagine, this is pretty exciting news for us. It'll be our first official release since Severe Injuries and Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309205.post-27597889322181789802007-07-25T15:06:00.000-04:002007-07-27T11:04:50.697-04:00SPLATTER MOVIE update The Splatter Movie odyssey continues to continue. This past weekend seemed oddly relaxed, perhaps due to the fact that we were all aware that it was our last big weekend. This shoot’s guest star was Tom Sullivan, effects wizard of The Evil Dead and co-star of The Absence of Light. Like Debbie Rochon weeks ago, Tom plays himself in Splatter Movie, so it wasn’t a stretch for him to get into Mike Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05840622317899413996noreply@blogger.com0