Doctor Octoroc Presents: After These Messages

Artwork by Jude Buffum

Do you like cartoons? How about video games? Even old school TV commercials? Well of course you do, that's why you're here!

Well, as luck would have it that there's a new album that's just for you and it's not even the best part: you pick your own price! Composed by Doctor Octoroc and featuring a super-rad cover design by Jude Buffum (seriously, this guy's work is just downright cool), After These Messages features over "30 tracks inspired by classic TV shows, cartoons and commercials. Each track is arranged as the theme song for a theoretical 8-bit video game, much like titles found on the Nintendo Entertainment System."

Check out a preview above and then get your copy!

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Uncle Eerie's Howling Halloween Shiver Show

You may remember our 'ole Uncle Eerie from a few months back when we dropped by the clubhouse to shill out some of his trademark sinister sideshow mystique... and a bag of "authentic" shrunken heads. Well, that cool ghoul is back again and this time he's brought a boatload of his favorite friends with him for a special Halloween Shiver Show that aired this past October.

Equal parts Ren & Stimpy and Boris Karloff (by way of Groucho Marx), Eerie's unique brand of humor shines with a faux-commercial for candy-coated razor blades— the perfect treat for that little brat in your life. Segueing the typical Halloween horror movie special, Eerie gives us a showcase of classic cartoons, vintage toy commercials and an assortment of trailers. Things get started with Wot a Night, an oldie featuring the original Tom and Jerry as two cab drivers who find themselves trapped in a castle that offers more scares than cab fares. It was definitely my favorite of the bunch, though the "blackface" skeletons near the end was sort of a buzzkill.

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Interview w/ Laurie Pizzi from Knit Terrors

With the holiday season literally upon us (it's almost sad to think that Christmas has now started to eclipse Halloween AND Thanksgiving) the stores are filling with overpriced knicks and/or knacks for your family and friends. That's why this year at the clubhouse we'll be searching for something a little more special to stuff your stocking. Something such as Laurie Pizzi's Knit Terrors whose custom creations are certain to warm any horror fans still beating heart this winter. Laurie was kind enough to stop by and offer us some insight into the creation of her little minions as well as offer some tidbits of what's in store for the future of Knit Terrors.

Thanks for joining us, Laurie. Can I interest you in some zombie jerky or perhaps a tall glass of Tang?

Is it un-vegetarian for me to indulge in zombie jerky? Eh, I won't tell if you won't!

So how did your interest in knitting first develop?

A few years ago I decided it was something I wanted to learn. I got sick of finding scarves that in my opinion were way too short, so I asked my incredibly talented grandmother to teach me. That was about 5 or 6 years ago, and I haven’t stopped knitting since! My grandma’s amazing and I credit her with any sort of creativity I have. She’s one of my biggest cheerleaders.

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Short Film Review: Contact

At only a little over 11 minutes, Contact delivers a skin-crawling atmosphere that exudes paranoia that borders on Hitchcockian. With only a few lines of dialogue this short film by director Jeremiah Kipp is truly one of "sight and sound" that plays like a bad trip from William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch thanks to Tom Burns' foreboding score.

Do you remember that scene in Demolition Man between Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock where they start to make out in some trippy, virtual reality simulator? Imagine that if it were choreographed by David Cronenberg and you might have an idea of the psychotropic vibe that this short emanates with it's decidedly dystopian tone.

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