THRILL SEEKER COMICS™: HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE! - A Friendly Reminder

 

THRILL SEEKER COMICS™: My website has been Updated

 

As we get ready for the New Year, we did some housecleaning and updated/upgraded the look and function of the thrillseekercomics.com website.

If you haven't visited in a while, I invited you to stop by and visit.

THRILL SEEKER COMICS™: Appearing in TWO stories next issue! How about that?

 

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FILMS: My Top Five Most Memorable Movie Experiences Going to the Theater

 

# 5 – I saw CASABLANCA, which is now my favorite film, while I was a college student at Illinois State University around 1990. I saw it at the college run movie theater at the time by myself. The movie mesmerized me and I became a lifelong Bogart fan in that moment.

 

# 4 – I saw THE SEVEN SAMURAI by Akira Kurosawa starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura in a classroom theater setting during my freshman year of college at Illinois State University where I was taking a non-Western film class also in 1990. I became an instant Kurosawa fan and it is one of the greatest films I’ve ever seen.

 

# 3 – Seeing THE BLUES BROTHERS starring John Belushi and Dan Aykryod in 1980. I was in Memphis with my dad and my Uncle Mike. It also changed my life and turned me on to soul and blues music.

 

# 2 – The most memorable was seeing PULP FICTION in Atlanta, Georgia in 1994 with my first wife after we were recently wed and graduated college. The film was unlike anything I had seen before. It was the first time that I was in a movie theater and at the end of the movie, the audience stood up, clapped, and cheered. For several minutes. You would swear we were at a Cannes Film Festival.

 

 

# 1 – The greatest moment of my life going to the movies was seeing STAR WARS on opening day with my Dad and brother in May 1977 in Fresno, California. It literally changed my life forever. My imagination was unlocked. Countless touchpoints related to Star Wars to this day have impacted my life that I couldn't list them all.

THRILL SEEKER COMICS™: MS. TITTENHURST™: FINDER OF LOST THINGS Online Comic Strip Debuts January 1st.

 

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A little teaser for the New Year. You can read it here online for free.

FILMS: GODZILLA MINUS ONE is a Great Film!

Yesterday I took the day off to take care of some personal matters and finished up early by lunchtime. With some free time now on my hands, I had an impromptu thought and called my son Mitch who met me for an afternoon matinee. We went to the IMAX Theater here locally and caught the Japanese film GODZILLA MINUS ONE by Toho Studios (it is a Japanese film with subtitles) to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of their iconic giant kaiju monster. WE LOVED THE FILM. WOW!!! One of the best films that I've seen in the past decade. The film begins at the ending of World War Two and is then set in postwar Japan that deals with the emergence of Godzilla. The look of the film is spectacular as a period piece and the touch points of the human experience is the best I've ever seen in any of the near 40 Godzilla films over the years. A real drama while still giving what I think was the best Godzilla portrayal. 10 out 10. And on a giant IMAX screen... um.... Godzilla is spectacular and frightening to view.

VINYL RECORD COLLECTING: Rest in Peace Denny Laine

SAD NEWS. Just read the news that Wings band member Denny Laine passed away this morning from Lung Disease. His wife posted on his Facebook page. Poetic that his greatest album with Paul McCartney was released 50 years ago today in America. BAND ON THE RUN. My favorite Paul McCartney and Wings album. Which ironically, I just pre-ordered the 50th Anniversary 2 LP special edition from paulmccartney.com website today because it is a 45 rpm Half-Speed Master plus the never before released "undubbed" version of the album of just the three of them without all the overdubbed orchestra and extras. Thank you, Denny, for the wonderful music you made with the Moody Blues, with McCartney, and solo. He's a rock legend in my book.

Happy birthday to my Mama

 

Happy birthday to my Mama. She turns a young spry 75 today. I am so wonderfully blessed and thankful to have her as my mama and for raising me. And keeping an eye on me. And for occasionally pulling out the flyswatter to spank me when I got out of line. Or at least to hold it up and threaten to use it on me. And for making me homemade chocolate peanut butter cups. And teaching me my first drawing lessons and encouraging me my whole life in my art and pursuits. And for being a wonderful Granny to my kiddos. And for taking care of my Daddy all these years. And... well... for everything.

VINYL RECORD COLLECTING: Tip- Cleaning Your Turntable Stylus

I have an Ortofon 2M Blue Moving Magnet Cartridge on my Dual CS 429 Automatic Turntable. I love the sound this provides on my system. Here's a tip when needing to clean the needle on the cartridge. ALWAYS clean "back to front".