No Smoking in the Skull Cave: September 2007

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Keeley Hazell Glamour Pin-Up Queen

Keeley Hazell is so lovely!

Monday, September 24, 2007

Guess That Movie Quote: Week 20

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Adam Warren's super-hero cutie Empowered!

Costumed crimefighter "Empowered" is the plucky distress-prone girl wonder struggling with life on the superheroic C-list! Clad-or unclad, as fate would too often have it-in her embarrassingly revealing and maddeningly unreliable supersuit, she fights a neverending battle against overly sensitive supervillains, irrationally envious superheroines, and her own body-image issues!

Click here to see more brilliant art by Adam Warren on deviantART.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Overlooked Movie: Point Blank

"He knew the depth of our capacity for cruelty and depravity from his war experiences. He had committed such deeds, had plumbed the depths, and was prepared to recount what he had seen down there." ~Director John Boorman on Lee Marvin's acting

They double-crossed Walker, took his $93,000 cut of the heist and left him for dead, but they didn't finish the job. Big mistake. He - someday, somehow - is going to finish them. Lee Marvin is in full antihero mode as remorseless Walker, talking the talk and walking the walk in John Boorman's edgy neo-noir classic filled with imaginative New Wave style, blunt dialogue and Walker's relentless quest that, one by one, smashes into the corporate pecking order of a crime group called the Organization. Angie Dickinson plays the accomplice who uses her seductive wiles to ensnare one of Walker's prey. "I want my 93 grand," Walker growls at him. Throughout, the payoff to that demand is action that "hits like a fat slug from the .38 Lee Marvin uses as an extension of his fist".

Click here to watch the preview:

Tagline: There are two kinds of people in his up-tight world: his victims and his women. And sometimes you can't tell them apart.

Fun Trivia:
Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during WWII and was nearly killed in a Japanese foray that wiped out most of his platoon. Says he learned to "act" in the Marines, trying to act unafraid during ferocious combat, which brought him a Purple Heart during invasion of Saipan. Friends said he never fully recovered from these experiences...who could?

This was the first major picture to film on location at Alcatraz Island after the closure of the Federal prison in 1963.

During a rehearsal taking place in the home of Lee Marvin, he hit John Vernon so hard that it made Vernon cry.

When Walker, in Chris' company, switches on the TV at Brewster's house, the music you hear is the overture to Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"

Despite his reputation as an angel of death, Walker, the character played by Lee Marvin never actually kills anyone. Of the five people to die in the film one would die by suicide, one by an accidental fall, and three would be killed by an assassin played by James B. Sikking (yep Dougie Howser M.D.'s daddy).

Filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino and a slew of Hong Kong action directors credit this film as being one of their biggest cinema influences.
This film has been remade twice; the first remake was the Hong Kong cinema classic Full Contact with Chow Yun Fat and again in 1999 as Payback with Mel Gibson in the lead role.

The body of Lee Marvin was interred next to that of Joe Louis in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

Fun Quotes:
Brewster: You're a very bad man, Walker, a very destructive man! Why do you run around doing things like this?
Walker: I want my money. I want my $93,000.
Brewster: $93,000? You threaten a financial structure like this for $93,000? No, Walker, I don't believe you. What do you really want?
Walker: I - I really want my money.
Brewster: Well, I'm not going to give you any money and nobody else is. Don't you understand that?
Walker: Who runs things?
Brewster: Carter and I run things. I run things.
Walker: What about Fairfax? Will he pay me?
Brewster: Fairfax is a man who signs checks.
Walker: No, cash.
Brewster: Fairfax isn't going to give you anything. He's finished. Fairfax is dead. He just doesn't know it yet.
Walker: Somebody's got to pay.

Chris: What's my last name?
Walker: What's my first name?

And as a special bonus here is an interview of Lee Marvin talking about John Boorman.

Aria Giovanni in Blue Jeans

Aria looks so comfy in her jeans!

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Pornographic Treasures Found at Library Book Sale!

The public library in town had a used book sale over the weekend so of course I had to go. I found some very neat books including what I believe to be a first edition of Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire but I also found this:

a yellowing version of 1001 Arabian Nights from 1939 called Arabian Nights on the dust jacket and The Arabian Nights' Entertainments on the title page. I don't think it's Worth very much money wise but it has some very cool illustrations like this one:

If you want to see more of the fabulous art from this book go here where some very nice person has created a page just to show the best of these illustrations off.

In any case I only briefly flipped through the book while at the sale threw it in my bag and went on to pick out some other books. When I arrived home I took some time to really look at these fabulous illustrations when three yellowed folded pieces of paper fell out of the book. Figuring I would find an old grocery list or some one's homework I opened them up... I could not in a million years have imagined I would find these:

...incredibly simple, incredibly dirty drawings created by some nameless person years ago. They are insane so shocking and yet so innocent! Each drawing is apparently a "scene" there are three drawings and therefore three scenes of nearly anatomically correct, hilarious, sexual adventure! If you dare to enlarge the drawings you'll find stunningly disturbing dialogue like... "tits tastes good" and the oh so suave response "it's my milk".

Yeouch!

Anyways this was so bizarre I just had to share it with you all. I hope you get as much laughter out of this as I did.

Monday, September 17, 2007

Guess That Movie Quote: Week 19

Here are the rules:
If you know or think you know the source of the movie quote please leave your guess in the comments section. As people guess the source of the quote I will grey it out and give them credit (using google to find the answers will disqualify you), the person who has the most correct guesses each week will get a fun movie genius award to decorate their blog. Any person who wins 5 weeks (consecutive or non-consecutive) will earn a Movie Master award and must then refrain from guessing for 5 weeks but a master can email quote suggestions for the game.

Let the Guessing Begin!

1. "From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last. No one has ever known we were among you... until now." Thud

2. "You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles." Andy

3. "I told you there weren't no white ape. You dragged me all the way up here to look at some guy in a leopard skin bikini. If I wanted to see that, I could've stayed in Miami." SamuraiFrog

4. "I'm what you call a repeat offender. I repeat, I will offend again!"

5. "I'm giving you a choice: either put on these glasses or start eatin' that trash can." Thud

6. "Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. You want to get out of here? You talk to me." Andy

7. "I reckon the folks'd be a sight happier if I died like a soldier. Can't say I would." Captain Incredible

8. "But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, the one where he has to make love to a woman, and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing. She repents, and turns to the side of right and virtue...but not this one!"

9. "We're gonna drink this one to Ozzie. A good man who tried to save my ass by injecting me into yours." I

10. "We all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all." I

**Update**
It's a historic moment for the movie quote quiz we have a three way tie! How very cool! Congrats go out to Andy, Thud & I! Good job guys here are your awards!

Andy:

Thud:

I:

And don't forget to come on back next week for more guessing fun!

The Adorable Jessica Kramer

The lovely Miss Jessica Kramer

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Caption Contest!

Yes a caption contest! Based on the extra cool banner made by the extra coolBonK! Take a look at the original photograph below and leave your idea of what The Gorn, The Slave Girl, Kirk and the Klingon are saying/ thinking etc. in the comments section. The funniest comment (as judged by me) will win a very special prize, an original Becca drawing...ooohhh thrilling. Hey who knows I may get famous some day and then it will be worth like a million dollars...or it might look pretty cool on your refrigerator next to your fifth grade report card. So go crazy, go nuts and multiple entries are encouraged! The contest will end on 9/28.

I can't wait to see what you all come up with!

I think that poker game has stretched into overtime...

Well I'm sad to see them go but it really is about time for a new banner and not just any banner either, a very special Star Trek banner made by blogger extraordinaire BonK. Thank you BonK this banner rocks so hard it's inspired a contest! Check the above post for information.