As some of you may remember, I’ve been compulsively saving the movie tickets from every flick I hit up in the theater for the last, oh, 11 years or so. A while back, I decided to take all of these tickets out of their dank, carboard prison and add them to a shiny new Excel spreadsheet (and no, I didn’t get rid of the physical tickets after that… they’re still safe and sound in my desk drawer). Check here for the original post.

I took some time this weekend to do a quick update to the list with the latest batch of tickets I’ve collected since the end of the busy Summer movie season. And this year’s by far the winner! With a few movie-going weeks left in 2008, here’re the results so far:

Number of Movies Seen: 47
Total Spent on Movies: $376.25
Total Amount of Time: 86 Hours 12 Minutes

Now, though I do count movies I see more than once into these totals, I think this has been the most successful movie-going year of my life. And just for the hell of it, I’ve posted the complete list of the movies I’ve seen this year directly from my spreadsheet, complete with date, time, cost, and runtime… kind of puts things in perspective when you have to actually scroll through the numerous flicks I’ve spent my weekends basking in the glow of. Oh, and feel free to make fun of me for seeing some of these numerous times… it was totally worth every penny.

Now, onto breaking the 50 mark!

For an abundance of mockery material, read on…

Directed by: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Jaden Smith, Kathy Bates
Released: December 12, 2008

“The Day the Earth Stood Still” follows the story of Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), and alien visitor who comes to Earth to give an important message to all the leaders of our planet. This turns out to be a difficult task when he is first shot, then help captive by a scared and confused U.S. government. With the help of Gort, a giant robot accompanying Klaatu that is only used in times of violence, Klaatu delivers his message in a destructive and terriffying manner. Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) and her son Jacob (Jaden Smith) are the only people that can convince Klaatu that we have a chance as a species… that we can be saved. But is it already too late? Dunn-duunnn-DUUUUUNNNN!

Now, be warned… ahead thar be spoilers!

After much thought and several months of (slowly) working behind the scenes to get the new Heavy Metal Geek website launched, I came to a rather obvious and much-delayed realization. I found I wasn’t as inspired to create a new website as I felt I should be. Hell, I had a perfectly good website being all but completely neglected by your’s truly just sitting in the tubes collecting dust. What I realized was I just love this Bloodtrocuted website too damn much to dump it in favor of a new one with a, shall I say, “zazzier” name.

So! Here we are! I’ve decided instead to simply update the name of this website to something that better reflects what I feel it should be about: unadulterated geekdome with a healthy side of heavy fucking metal. Plus it will be nice to give someone this URL in person and not have to repeat it half a dozen times before they undertsand what the hell I’m talking about.

I will slowly be adding content that was planned out for the now-defunct HMG site in the coming weeks, so be expecting some new content along with some much needed design and layout updates soon (yeah, I know… you’ve heard that before, right?).

Keep on truckin’ metalheads. Peace.

Yeah yeah yeah… I still suck. Work’s been uber busy the last couple months and my home PC has been on the fritz. Additionally, I’m trying to get things figured out for Heavy Metal Geek and that has been taking much longer than intended. While things have slowed down considerably for this site the last while, the site is certainly not dead. I promise.

Halloween is creeping up on us fast, and personally, I can’t wait for that special day to rear it’s beautifully disfigured and mutated head. Now that I’ve been able to break out some of my warmer clothing and bedsheets, I got to thinking about all of things I love most about Halloween and Autumn in general. Here’s what I came up with:

The Beginning of Fall
It’s fairly simple – Fall kicks ass. While I’m not saying the bright sunny days of Summer aren’t excellent around, say, the fourth of July or so, once October hits I really look forward to being able to turn off the A/C and slip on a thick, cozy hoodie. Once the hoodie comes out of sabbatical, I look forward to trekking around town, enjoying the kelidiscopic colors of the leaves on the trees; feeling a crisp breeze on my face and enjoying a nice hot cider from the nearest coffee joint. Let’s face it… apple cider is just plain badass. No amount of sunlight can ever change that. To be honest, I’ve never been a fan of hot weather. Keep your 90% humidity, Summer… I don’t need it. I’ll take a pair of jeans and a sweater, thank you very much.

My Birthday
Though I’m sure this will have much less appeal in my later years, I still find it nice to know that when Halloween rolls around it means I’m only 5 days away from another birthday. Having a birthday so soon after the most morbidly awesome holiday on the calendar gave me many chances to have some very macabre birthday celebrations over the years. I look fondly back at quite a few birthdays from my childhood… birthdays that included an overload of sugar intake and an abundance of fake blood. Even today, I find myself looking forward to my birthday, even if these days it’s not much more than an excuse to drink too much and act foolishly in public. But c’mon… what better way to celebrate the day of your birth can there be?

Horror Movies
If there’s a type of movie I love more than porn, it’s horror.* Well, good horror that is… not any of this recycled Japanese garbage or gore-porn** that the studios seem to never get enough of these days. I’m talking about good horror movies. Movies with some creativity, heart, and inovation. Movies like ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’, ‘Friday the 13th’, ‘Halloween’, ‘The Exorcist’, ‘Creepshow’, ‘Candyman’, ‘Pet Sematary’, ‘Poltergeist’, ‘Hellraiser’, ‘The Amityville Horror’, ‘In the Mouth of Madness’ and dozens more like them… the movies that, for the most part, were pretty damn successful in creeping the hell out of me as a kid. Today’s horror movies simply don’t scare me. You can’t put a CGI ghost on a screen and expect me to feel frightened. Over-the-top “bordering-on-hilarity” horror movies like ‘Evil Dead 2′, ‘Machine Girl’ and ‘Dead Alive’ would be much more preferred than the tripe theaters put out now… and I can barely consider them horror. Either way, no other time of year do you see such an abundance of horror movies on TV and small local theaters. Be sure to take advantage of it while you can.

Halloween Parties
It’s a pretty basic equation, really… costumes + morbid decorations + snack food + an abundance of alcohol = potentially the greatest party you’ll ever experience. Halloween parties are the best. They all inherently have the potential of being the most insane night of your life. You’d like die being able to say you’ve seen Abraham Lincoln pull a wicked-awesome kegstand, you say? You’ve never felt the joy of seeing a 17th-century samurai battle slutty nun in a game of ping pong? What would Chewbacca look like if he projectile vomited orange cupcakes onto Wolverine and a hobo while playing Mario Party, you ask? Well, dammit! You’re in luck tonight! Never before have your chances of witnessing these demented occurrences been better than tonight! I personally have been to a great number of Halloween parties. Some amazing, some shitty (some of the latter which I’ve myself thrown I’m sorry to say). if done right, these can be nights to remember… or depending on your tolerance to sweetly flavored shots and beer bongs, not remember at all. The best part about these shindigs is that they aren’t only reliant on the people that come, but also the amount of creativity the host and everyone there brings with them as well! So get out the makeup, start slicing up those cardboard boxes (yeah, I’m talking to you Bryan), slip on that latex mask, grab a sixer or four and have some fun this Halloween people!

* Just kidding. Nothing is better than porn.
** Troma and Tokyo Shock are exempt – their movies kick fucking ass.

Never in my most wonderful of dreams did I imagine a movie would be able to top the excessive violence and utterly laughable amount of gore contained within ‘The Machine Girl‘. Well, it appears we have a new heir to the throne of the supreme Japanese goreflick… and judging from the trailer, I don’t think any Machine Girl fan will be disappointed in the least. This movie is called ‘Tokyo Gore Police‘, and it will kick your fucking teeth in right before cutting your face clean off with it’s superfluous uncensored awesomeness.

Set in futuristic Tokyo, the film’s story follows Ruka, a sword-wielding police officer, as she battles hideous mutants known as “Engineers” who are able to transform their bodies into virulent weapons. Oh, hell yes. From the looks of the trailer, we’ll be treated to a number of these freakish “Engineers”, from a revolting snailgirl to a blade-limbed breakdancer and a chick with a T-Rex vagina. Come on… what else could you ask for in a movie aside from a chick with a monstrous, carnivorous head for a lower body? Oh, 10,000 gallons of fake blood, you say? Well, holy hell, you’re in luck! It doesn’t look like that will pose much of a problem as the trailer alone is bloodier than most full-length films.

‘Tokyo Gore Police‘ has been shown at a number of conventions over the past few months resulting in quite a few glowing reviews, and it will be hitting U.S. DVD shelves this October thanks to Media Blaster/Tokyo Shock, the same folks who brought us Machine Girl. Who’s up for a movie night this Halloween?

Check out the trailer below:

More info: ‘Tokyo Gore Police’ @ IMDB.com