Tanka Time: Lost Eden

It's been awhile now...
I've never felt so alone.
What have I become?
A zombie? Unfit to love?
Rotting and covered in blood?

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Tanka Time: Remorse

I can no longer
tell what time of day it is;
I no longer sense
what is right or what is wrong.
I merely roam Blood filled streets....

Mutely I scream with
The pain of vicious death and
Repugnant decay;
Not comprehending what has
Befallen me here today....

Who am I really?
I no longer know or care.
I only know I
Don't want to be here this way;
an empty shell of remorse....

(Have you missed the first 2 installments of my ongoing Zombie Tanka? Well fear not! You can read the first installment here and the second installment here. When you are done, be sure to sign up for my RSS FEED so as not to miss the future installments guaranteed to be bloody and fun!)

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Tanka Time: Transformation

How did I get here?
Is that blood staining my hands?
And who’s this person
that lays bleeding at my feet?
...is he meat for me to eat??

I can’t think or talk
I can barely walk at all
-I’m sooooo hungry and
The F’n body calls me
like a dinner bell for hell!

Have you missed out on my first Tanka Time installment? Well worry not! You can read it here!

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An Extraordinary Life

Some of you might have noticed that I have not posted much lately. It's not that I have not wanted to; it's just that life seems to have gotten in the way.

If you are aware at all of my other blog, you would know that Donna, my mother-in-law, was diagnosed in July at age 56 with non-small cell, stage 3 lung cancer. She also has malignant tumors on her esophagus, and as well, the cancer is in her lymph nodes. Her cancer is inoperable, and it is terminal. The only hope she has is for intensive chemotherapy to maybe add a couple of months to whatever amount of life she has left.

When this kind of reality is not staring you in the face everyday, it's easy to go through the motions of daily life; of daily normalcy. It's for this reason alone that I have posted over the last couple of months, using zombies and psychopaths as a mental escape.

Donna doesn't have that luxury. She has no escape. She has no normalcy.

Donna has no real time to do all the things she had put off until tomorrow. No time to take that vacation to Hawaii she always wanted; no time to travel the countryside in an RV; no time to really appreciate all the things she had taken for granted.... at least, not without jeopardizing the time she does have left.

But I do. I have time to let her know how important she is to me; how much she has impacted my life. And together, my husband and I are making the time to make our lives mean something more than just existing. We are committed to not waking up tomorrow and find ourselves at age 60 and wondering what we did with our lives. We no longer want to risk being told we only have months to live before we realize we were simply going through the motions. We plan on taking steps to make our ordinary life an extraordinary life, in honor of an extraordinary woman: Donna.

One way we are doing this is by recapturing our love affair with the saddle. A bike saddle that is, and we plan on riding our first century next year in Philadelphia's 2009 LIVESTRONG Challenge.

The LIVESTRONG Challenge is the Lance Armstrong Foundation's signature fund raising event for the fight against cancer. Whether we choose to walk, run, ride, volunteer, or simply donate $1, $2, or $5, each and every one of our participation is yet another powerful weapon in this fight. As well, any money my husband and I mange to raise through donations, we plan on matching - in honor of Bill's mother, and my family members already taken by this life altering illness.

So if my blog seems lacking in the next couple months, please don't abandon me. I have grown quite attached to the very few of you who frequent my blog on a regular basis, and your absense would be sorely missed. I do intend to keep posting reviews of gawd awful movies, and I even have some more zombie survival skills to throw your way. Of course, my Zombie Tanka of 1000 Verses is just getting under weigh so you won't want to miss any of those posts. They will surely get bloody and ruthless before you know it!

And if you feel like contributing to an awesome cause, visit my LIVESTRONG Challenge fund raising page here. It would mean a lot to me, and to all those fighting for their right to live everyday as they battle cancer.

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Rob Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses

There are two things I learned while watching Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses: 1. If you wanna see a boob shot of Marilyn Monroe, watch this movie (and don't tell me it's a fake photo!! No one would EVER Photoshop Marilyn!) and 2. Don't ever trust some guy in clown paint.

Rob Zombie, founder and front man for the metal band White Zombie, made his directorial debut with the horror movie House of 1000 Corpses. It's the story of four kids, Jerry and Denise, and couple Bill and Mary, who, while on their way to visit Denise's father, happen upon "Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters & Madmen" -a combination gas station and Carnival type Side Show that showcases the history of former serial killers.

Jerry could not be more excited as ironically, he is writing a book on roadside attractions. He falls into hog heaven when he learns that Captain Spaulding (played by the talented Sid Haig) has the inside scoop on Dr. Satan, a mad scientist who was obsessed with creating a new breed of humans - super humans if you will - through bizarre and grotesque surgeries performed on human subjects. Live human subjects (needless to say he failed.)

Jerry begs his friends to visit the nearby legendary Deadwood Tree, the execution site of Dr. Satan, and although Denise wants to skip visiting the tree and head straight to her father's house as planned, she is out voted, so together the foursome set out to visit Deadwood Tree.

(Probably not the smartest decision they made on their trip, but unfortunately, not the stupidest either.The stupidest decision they make is while on their way to Deadwood Tree: they pickup a hitchhiker named Baby Firefly.)

Soon the tire of their car is shot out by an unidentified man, but luckily it's not far from Baby's house. Baby (played by none other than Rob Zombie's real life bride Sheri Moon) invites them over until their car can be repaired. (Typical for B movies, the spare tire concept was apparently lost on the foursome and not factored into their travel plans. Dumb kids.)

That's when the fun really begins.

It seems the Firefly's are a family of torturous and demented freaks who like to unmercifully violate their victims. We learn they already have in their possession five missing cheerleaders, whom they have taken great pleasure in beating and abusing. We also learn that the Firefly's enjoy an occasional meal of human flesh. Too bad our foursome isn't informed of this tidbit of information before dinner.

What happens next is a sick carnival ride of blood, gore, and shock effects that only Rob Zombie could deliver (and if you watched his vision version of Halloween, you'd understand.)

I do not believe that Rob Zombie was going for a cohesive story line with this movie. Instead, I think he was aiming towards glorifying the horror classics that influenced his pension for such things, such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Evil Dead, and Last House on the Left and ff you are paying enough attention to the details of this movie, you will catch images and references to those very films. A homage of sorts.

Zombie's vision glorifies the exploitation genre, providing enough bloodshed, gore, and slasher type shock effect to satisfy just about every caliber of horror fan. That is as long as you have an open enough mind for the suspension of belief, and are not a stickler for details. But isn't that the case with most horror movies? Isn't that why we enjoy them so much? The "unbelievable" factor? At least it is the reason for me....

Although the majority of the "crimes" committed in this film have been witnessed on film before, Rob Zombie's slant is refreshing and creative, and I can only imagine what the unedited and unrated directors cut (if ever released on video) will offer. I'm guessing a whole lot more blood and guts than even I could handle, with plot and substance of course, remaining optional.

The movie wraps up with a climatic chain reaction of Denise's dad calling in the cops to go looking for her, and all of them ending up dead in a graphic manner at the Firefly's hovel. Although this is not typically the type of horror movie I add to my drawer of keepers (as his version of Halloween has) I must say that while I did not thoroughly enjoy the movie, I enjoyed it enough to say that I think it's worth watching.

....don't you?

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Gotta have that zombie!

So the gang over at Internal Bleeding are doing a way cool giveaway. One that I simply must win and I don't care if they have to rig it, damnit! Just make it happen!

So as I was saying, the giveaway over at Internal Bleeding is for a very cool, unique and coveted (by more people than just me, I assure you) zombie FIGURE (I was promptly corrected when I referred to it as a doll, as it is NOT a doll.)

This zombie is an exclusive, limited 12-inch FIGURE from Sideshow Collectibles "The Dead" series. It is Subject 138: The Street Profit. He features the following:

• All new zombie portrait and 'hands'
• Fully articulated standard Art S. Buck male body with 30+ points of articulation
• Shirt, Pants, & Shoes
• Military jacket
• Cigarettes
• Vodka
• 'THE END IS NEAR' warning sign
• Gnawed leg
• 12" figure display stand with a print of 'The Dead' logo

How f'n cool is that??? I can' tell you how happy I am Internal Bleeding hooked me up with them! Now I just have to figure out how to convince my hubby I need one of this bad boys!

You guys stand a chance to win this though, as long as you don't disqualify yourself as I did. Be sure to read the rules before posting your submission. I see a lot of comments that do not meet the criteria so PAY ATTENTION!

And if you win the zombie, I'll tell you where to send it to me!

So what are you waiting for???

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Doodle Doodle….

Today's doodle is doodle pet and my boxer was PERFECT for the part! He is a ferocious zombie killer and works non-stop at protecting me and the other puppies who live with us. I caught him on camera in one of his rare moments of rest.... please be sure to commend him on his amazing zombie slayer abilities!

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Calling Evil……

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