Category: General

Even though I didn’t go, here’s a really nice Facebook album of Zombiewalkers, including my pal Duncan
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=37504&id=507161784

You may recall I worked on “The Veil” with Mr. Mike Jackson. And now there’s news!

AAAAAH!! Indie Horror Hits announces DVD film selections

Toronto, October 13, 2008 – Crypt Club Productions Inc proudly announces the films selected for AAAAAH!! Indie Horror Hits – Volume 1.

AAAAAH!! Indie Horror Hits is a new feature length collection of award winning independent short horror films coming to DVD in September 2008 – just in time for a Happy Halloween.

“ALL KILLER – NO FILLER” This is the good stuff. The short horror films that caused a buzz on the festival circuit – then vanished. If you saw them the first time you know what we mean. If you didn’t, you can enjoy them now – for the first time.

From a dark, cautionary tale (The Crypt Club – with Alison Pill from Pieces of April) to gallows humour on the job (Ghost Busted); from the grotesque otherworld of H.P. Lovecraft (The Veil) to today’s outbreak fears (The Ninth Entry); from the stylishly bizarre (My Skin! – with Tony Simmons from Human No More & Carnie) and the chillingly macabre (Oculus) to the dire family survival drama (Old Friends – from Kevin Greutert, editor of the SAW films).

We’ve resurrected these great short indie horror films. Turn down the lights and dig in for your own private horror film festival.

FEATURED SHORT FILMS (alphabetical order):
The Crypt Club (23:00 Canada) Dir: Miguel Gallego
Ghost Busted (3:00 USA) Dir: Vance Null
My Skin! (13:00 USA) Dir: Christopher Alan Broadstone
The Ninth Entry (5:00 USA) Dir: Anthony Falcon
Oculus (32:00 USA) Dir: Mike Flanagan
Old Friends (14:30 USA) Dir: Kevin Greutert
The Veil (12:00 Canada) Dir: Mike Jackson

DVD INFO: 2008 – Horror/Drama – 110 Minutes Total – NTSC – All Region Disc – Color – English – 4:3 Letterbox – Dolby Digital Stereo – Not Rated
SPECIAL FEATURES: Play Options: Play All (Festival Order); Individual Film Selection – Chapter Jumps – Trailers – Greetings from creator Miguel Gallego – Subtitles: English/Spanish – DVD@CCESS link to Secret Web Content.

AAAAAH!! Indie Horror Hits is produced and distributed by Crypt Club Productions Inc.

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MORE INFO: Miguel Gallego, e-mail: miguel@thecryptclub.com

“Steven, Kat the rest, trapped inside the mess, won’t go down without a fight.”

These lyrics in The Thickets’ song “Cultists on Board” are a reference to Dr Steve O’Shea (the album The Shadow Out of Tim is dedicated by me to Steve) and Kat Bolstad, his assistant. Well I found out a few days ago that Kat is coming to Vancouver this week! She gave me a heads up and I’ve arranged with Mike to get some footage of her for the “A Marine Biologist” and to show her around town, or at least the Vancouver Aquarium. If you’re like me, you’re super excited!

Hopefully green ink on white stickers.

This is something I did art for. I should have copies at our merch table for the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in October, but in the meantime, see [here].

Atomic Overmind Press proudly announces the publication of Kenneth Hite’s Tour de Lovecraft: the Tales. A wide-ranging and friendly journey through H.P. Lovecraft’s tales of cosmic terror and wonder, the Tour de Lovecraft is the ideal companion to the work of the twentieth century’s greatest American horrorist. The book alternately ambles and careens through all fifty-one of the Master’s horror tales in chronological order from “The Tomb” to “The Haunter of the Dark,” offering cheerful opinion, incisive literary criticism, playful speculation, and the occasional unhinged rant.

[Link]

Cute yet heartbreaking.

Soon to be found at PAX and http://stores.ebay.com/Dead-Space-God

A couple days ago I used one of the Cooperative Auto Network cars to do a bunch of stuff. This included taking the “boom box” I bought off Craigslist from my workplace to my studio (anyone have any old timey cassettes they want to unload, bring it on – the radio sucks), taking the original masters of Great Old Ones (that our old engineer Terry Podealuk brought to my workplace because he was moving) home, and the transfer of Kodos (my cat, for the uninitiated) from Kitsilano to East Van.

Many of you know that Kodos had a hard time adjusting to life in Kits. He hates frat boys and yuppies so his reaction was to strike out at anyone around him. He got in fights with Max the other cat, with Mike’s leg, and was generally belligerent for the first couple of months. He cooled off slowly over time, but I would inevitably hear tales of certain piquant interactions from the roommates when I got home from work or whathaveyou. This has always been a concern but the simple fact of the matter was that between work, my studio, band stuff in Chilliwack, and of course Deanna, there was just no way to get in the requisite amount of quality time with my canine dependent.

My studio, my workplace and Deanna’s are all within a 15 block radius. On the other hand, the distance between Deanna’s place and home in Kits is about 45-50 blocks. The solution that Deanna suggested and which I took was to move Kodos into her basement suite. That way the 3am bike trips home to make sure Kodos didn’t starve to death could be avoided, and I wouldn’t have to rely on the generosity of my roommates to take care of someone else’s curmudgeonly pet.

Interestingly, Kodos is reacting slightly better towards this move than the last one, even though there is a dog in the house! Maybe cats are naturally more pissy towards their own kind, despite everything I’ve been taught by cartoons. Maybe Kodos feels more comfortable with less footsteps surrounding him. Who knows. The hidey hole we set up for him in the bathroom is ignored, as he favours the spot behind the couch, but he comes out often and doesn’t hiss at Lunch the dog until she’s well within 4-5 feet. We often get to watch an exercise in cat recall as Kodos will walk around the living room, bump into Lunch, get all growly, sulk off, then get curious about what the humans are doing and repeat the entire process.

Deanna is convinced that in short order they’ll be best friends. I’m waiting for the bloodbath. Either way there’s now a better chance I’ll be around to watch my little Kodos grow up.