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Saturday, 6 December 2003
KAIJU BIG BATTEL
Mood:
 caffeinated
It's amazing that no one has thought of this before cuz it's a brilliant idea.Take WWF Wrestling,dress it up in big rubber monster outfits,wrap it in Japanese Pop visuals and add a little blood and you've got Kaiju Big Battel!
They play it out in New York alot,live and in person,but if ya can't get out there to catch it luckily they've released a taste of the experience on dvd for us.The dvd features four matches,such as a battle between long time enemies Soup & Sandwich,or better known as thier Kaiju names-Kung-Fu Chicken Noodle & Club Sandwich.Inbetween the action and low brow color commentary we're flashed with crazy Japanese style banzai tv commercials.
I'm just bettin(and if they don't then they're gonna miss out on a good thing)that Comedy Central will snatch this up.Hey,it's much better than that geekfest "Battlebots!".
The only thing that it's missing is hot chickies in bikini's.Needs some sex appeal.
I'm sure seeing this stuff live is a real kick,but til then we gots the dvd.It'll leave ya happy long time!
Ragz Rates It A:7.0
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 2:21 PM PST
KISS-THE LOST CONCERT
Mood:
 happy
Unauthorized KISS videos usually consist of long drawn out shakey video camera shots of KISS Conventions,10th generation copies of old tv appearences and no KISS music whatsoever due to the Disney like Gene $immons tight reign on copyright infringement.
But someone,in this case Passport Video,has dug up some freshly old black & white footage of a concert blasted out in 1976 at the Roosevelt Stadium in New Jersey.It's a great document of a time smack dab in the middle of a transitional moment in KISStory where the boys are emerging from a low budget schlockshow to the superhero supergroup they will become.We see a young KISS,full of hunger & energy(even Ace!),wiggling thier REAL hair and toungues.They even perform "Flaming Youth"which has rarely been heard live(tho I don't know why.It works pretty good live.).Gene spit blood & fire,Paul prances,Peter rises to the ceiling and Ace is in top form,just making us KISS fans all the more dissapointed in him for not sticking with the silver boots & greasepaint.
Also included on the dvd is the complete television appearence of KISS on the "Mike Douglas Show",thier first major television appearence.Here we witness an almost embarrasingly over-enthusiastic Gene $immons trying to make his mark in rock & roll.The band performs "Firehouse" raw & nasty,yet you can still see alot of the awkwardness that would later be smoothed out in the yearz to come.Funny stuff!Not yet perfect,KISS is seen as a black diamond in the rough.Now if they would only release footage from thier appearence on "The Paul Lynde Halloween Special".Makes a great KISSmas gift!
Ragz Rates It A:8.0
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 2:12 PM PST
THE EYE
Mood:
 a-ok
I almost gave up on the "supernatural/horror"film a few yearz ago until M.Night Shyamalan shook our senses with "The Sixth Sense."It's atmospheric intelligence and quick spooky glimpses of the other side made it stand out from all the big budgeted splatter/explosion/big bug monster crap that waz coming out at the time.Sure,it spawned a legion of Hollywood copycats,but at least they tried with others like "Stir Of Echoes","The Others" & "Stigmata".Better than sittin' thru another crap ass "Scream"sequel.
Then,as soon as the whole "I see dead people"angle was becoming as familiar as seein'your neighbors taking out the garbage we were suprised and spooked by "The Ring."Looks like there's hope for us horror fans after all.It had it's faults but there's moments in the film that stand right up with the grandaddy of all horror flix-"The Exorcist".But sure enough you know there's gonna be a handful of filmakers trying to jump on that bandwagon and regurgitate the best of that film.
This time tho,Honk Kong has beat Hollywood to the punch with it's burnt offering called "The Eye".I had to check it out cuz I've heard alot of buzz about it.
The story is a well worn concept.A young woman who has been blind since the age of two goes in for a corneal transplant.All goes well til she starts seeing a shadowey figure that leads people off to the big dirt nap.We get glimpses of blurry faces and wierd sounds and strange happenings thru her dead sad eyes.It's a big mix of "The Ring",some old Twilight Zone & Tales From The Crypt episodes,"The Blair Witch"&"The Sixth Sense".
There's very few actually really scarey moments to one such as myself who's seen so many horror flix,but I like how we get to feel the anguish and torment of the young woman,which is well played out,so much that I'm suprised she just doesn't pluck her eyes out after awhile in good ol'Ray Milland style.But then that wouldn't lead up to the big finale.Which isn't scarey or creepy at all,just kinda suprising for a low key supernatural film.In fact,it's so perfect that it's no suprise that Hollywood's very own Tom Cruise has been rumoured to be producing an American version of this film.I just hope he can "spook"it up a little more.Course if he jumps around in his skivveyz to a Bob Seger tune in it,it may just be too spooky for me to bear.Eyes wide shut indeed.
Ragz Rates It A:6.75
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 1:58 PM PST
Saturday, 29 November 2003
KISS-BEHIND THE MASK
Mood:
 rushed
The book starts out in big ass letters "If you are not a KISS fan then put this book down NOW!" exclaims the writer David Leaf.It's abook about KISS for KISS fans,cuz if you don't really know anything about KISS and started to read this book alot of the content would be lost to you.But actually,much of the first part of the book,which is interviews that Leaf did with KISS in the late 70's,is common knowledge to KISS fans.There isn't all that much that us members in The KISS Army hasn't read a million times before.There is some snippets that are interesting,such as Casablanca's(KISS's label in the 70's)shady dealings and comments from people who knew KISS such as the members high school and college buddies.
What really takes off is the second half of the book,where the band,producers,various songwriters and session musicians break down each album and comment on the vibe of the time the albums were recorded and the process that took place in writing and recording the songs.There's quite a lot of surprises there.And a thrill for the well-versed KISS fanatic.It's interesting to read Gene $immon's views of Paul Stanley's songs and visa versa cuz they tend to dislike alot of each others' stuff,but they're also honest about thier own toons,such as Paul's repulsion at such songs as "Let's Put The X In Sex" and Gene's dislike of much of his stuff from the 80's.Also for a band that proclaims loudly that they "Don't bow down to know one",they sure did second guess themselves alot and tried to follow almost every music trend that came along.But who could blame them,gotta keep the cash flow and chicks coming in ya know.
Regardless,ya gotta love them,cuz in the end they put on the greatest live show ever!
But it doez kinda bother me that the guitarist from Mr.Mister did alot of guitar work on "Creatures Of The Night"
Sometimes it's better not to know what is "Behind The Mask"
Ragz Rates It A:6.5
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 12:21 AM PST
Sunday, 23 November 2003
VICTORIA SECRETS FASHION SHOW
Mood:
 cheeky
Last year I missed out on the Victoria Secrets Fashion Show on TV cuz I waz out in Detroit Rock City catching the last Guns N'Roses Mach 2 show.It waz well worth the trip and missing the special tv event but that's another story.
This year I got to see what all the soft porn hoopla waz all about!The Victoria Secrets Fashion Show is the closest you can get to masturbatory delight from a network tv show.Hot chickies wearing shoe strings for underwear and stomping down the runway in stiletto healed Gestapo struts and Warren Worthington wingz is the show that puts the boobs in Boob Tube!
Inbetween bouncing butt and breast cleavage we get a glimpse of the chaos that goez on backstage.We see one ubermodel get tangled up in her own outfit and almost bites the dust on the stage while another nearly takez out the lighting rig with her massive Hawkgirl wings.
Unfortunatly the action is distracted by a few musical numbers performed by Sting & Mary J.Blige.Sting doez a fine job but Blige ruins the moment when she duets with Mr.Karma Sutra,wailing like a guttercat gettin' the ol' firecracker lit in thru the outdoor.Sheesh,can't one of the supermodels shove a pair of panties in her mouth and shut her up?
So other than that.the VSFS is one of the finest moments in TV.Lotsa fodder for us guyz with a video capture card(All Praize Snappy!!).
Can't wait for next yearz show.
I suggest Poison az the musical act.Just seems more appropriate.
Ragz Ratez It A:7.0
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 7:28 PM PST
Tuesday, 18 November 2003
REIGN OF FIRE
Mood:
 on fire
Anyone who knowz The Ragzter knowz I dig post apocalyptic moviez.Something about seeing a once modern world all destroyed & lain to waste givez me a thrill.From the old 70's "Killraven"comics to recent flicks such az "28 Days",I get a kick out of the modern world getting kicked.Not that I wish that fate on us,but I think it paints an interesting picture.Nothing like seeing The Golden Arches half buried under dust n' rubble.
Mix that backdrop with giant fire breathing dragons and you've got yerself a winner!
It's just like the old "Killreaven"comix but instead of Martians taking over the world we here have the dragons,swooping out of the cloudy skiez and raining hell on a small band of survivors.
Matthew McConaughey(who I didn't even recognize at first)playz the tough ass American milititary leader who has the helicopters,missiles & battle axes,while Christian Bale iz the classic almost-midieval knight.The two men battle over who'z gonna lead the remaining ragtag humans left against the dragons.Other than that,it's all out action time.
People that also know me know I hate computer generated characters.I prefer guys in rubber suits or old Harryhausen stop motion puppets,but I'll be damned if they didn't finally get CGC right this time.The dragons are friggin' awesome!
I don't usually get out to the theater very often,but this waz one of the movies my gal & I trekked out and saw on the big screen when it first came out and the only dissapointment for me waz there wazn't enuff dragons in it,but since seeing it again I thought it waz just fine.Woulda liked to see scenes of when the dragons took over the world-seeing city's like Las Vegas & Japan destroyed by dragons woulda been a super thrill,but the scenes in downtown dessimated London looked really gloomy n' dark.
I doubt there'll be a sequel to it being that I don't think it did all that well in the theaters,but it would be interesting to see how the rest of the world dealt with theze beasties.
Ragz Rates It A:8.0
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 12:12 AM PST
Monday, 10 November 2003
BEYOND EVIL
Mood:
 smelly
"Beyond Evil".Hmmmm.
More like "Beyond Comprehension Due To Lack Of Attention Span".
From what I gather about this 70's type horror flick is that John Saxon & his wife buy a fancy dancy house on some tropical isle and an old resurrected sorceress inhabits the body of his wife and makes cars fall apart while driving them,gets Saxon's best friend to give her a kiss and then tosses him out a window and superimposes her face on tabletops.
The horror! The Horror!!
Oh,and she shoots green lasers out of her eyes!
It's a piece o' crap,maybe good for a teeny weenie bit of chuckles but basically it's pretty boring.The sad thing is that it's the best of the four movies of a cheapie box set called "Blood Thirst"that also features the flicks "Back From Hell","Project Vampire"& "The Passing"."Beyond Evil"indeed.
Ragz Ratez It A:2.0
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 2:07 AM PST
Friday, 31 October 2003
WELCOME GLITTERCATZ & GHOULIEDAWGZ!
Now Playing: Guns N'Roses
Yep,yet another bloggie from The Ragzter.But this one will solee be for reviewing muzik,mooviez,comix,tv showz,concertz,magazinez & anything elze that I feel like rambling on aboot!
It's time for Ragz-O-Riffic A Go Go-Bloggie Of A Media Babie!
Enjoy!!
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 1:37 AM PST
Updated: Friday, 31 October 2003 1:54 AM PST
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