What's the most drunk you've ever been?

I haven't touched alcohol in nearly 3 years. Not because I had a problem or anything. I just stopped liking it for a while. Something that has happened several times over the years, although never quite this long. As long as I have other things to get fucked up on, I feel like I could easily go another 3 years. I'm just not an alcohol kind of a guy. However, I was for a while there.

Back in 2003, I made a conscious decision to become a drinker. I mean a big drinker! My friends and I were coming off several long back-to-back acid/shroom/ecstasy binges, mainly because it all dried up. I can't describe how dull and dpressing life seems after something like that happens and then just abruptly ends. As I came to this decision, I started slow by having one beer every night with my pot. My friends and I started drinking beer whenever hanging out, eventually dropping that for Vodka. We experimented with all sorts of hard drink during Spring and Summer of '03, until one of us had the bright idea to buy some 151 proof Everclear. By this time, everyone's tolerances was actually capable of handing it. But goddamn, what a hangover!!

I must have had a half dozen shots of that shit. We started drinking Everclear together at least 3 or 4 nights a week. We also decided non-alcoholic beverages were no longer a suitable chaser. So, whenever we had 151, we chased it with something usually closer to 80 prooof, which is the standard hard alcohol level. I got to the point where I could take a good 12 shots of Everclear, along with whatever else, get sick, throw it up and then continue drinking. It's interesting how getting sick off alcohol isn't so bad if you're used to it. But then, you can only go on like that for so long.

One Sunday afternoon, my friend Chris came over, and, as usual, we aimed to do some serious drinking. We went and bought some Everclear and some 100 proof peppermind Schnapps for a chaser. We sat on my parents back porch on this cool, November afternoon and took shot after shot, awaiting our mutual friend, Jeremy, to show up and drink with us. This started around 4 or 4:30, and by 6 or so, I was pretty much done. I say this because, in one flash of a second, it went from being around 6 (I think) to nearly 2 am. I woke up in my bed, naked, confused and feeling sicker than a motherfuck, not knowing much but knowing something ain't right.

I guess I continued drinking longer than I remembered. Jeremy did finally come over, and as I was told later on in the week, I did a helluva lot of throwing up in the yard before passing out, waking up and throwing up more. I didn't just pass out, I was blacked out for all of it. Something that had never happened to me before this night ... So, back to 2 AM: After getting out of bed to throw up some more, I don't think I even went back to bed that night, as I stayed up, trying to figure out what exactly happened, while watching Return of The Living Dead which, luckily, was playing on tv. As I said, I was filled in later on but bits and pieces did resurface throughout the week

So, what I was told and what I sorta remember is that, not long after Jeremy came over, my vomiting started. After a while, I went and did some more throwing up in the bathroom until I decided to go to bed, completely unaware that I still had 2 guests over. I guess I was. I'm not really sure what I knew or didn't know. But, as I always do before bedtime, I got good and naked. Not sure if I tore my room apart before or after that, but that happened too.

I'm not sure how long I laid there. Could have been 30 minutes, could have been 5, but I guess I heard my friends outside having a good time. Well, never to be a stick in the mud, I got up to go back outside to join my pals. Yes, naked, and no, neither of my parents were home. I still have a very fuzzy memory of this, but as I opened the door to the garage, which is where the party was now being held, I remember hearing the words "WHAT THE FUCK!!!" come from Chris' mouth, as he laid eyes on my naked dick. Even blacked out, I had the common sense to turn around and go back to my room, or probably the bathroom to throw up again before passing out in there for a while.

I didn't feel right all week as I was a little shaken up by some bad alcohol poisoning and coming to the conclusion that I seriously needed to chill out. So, I made the decision to dry out for a while. Sucked cuz Thanksgiving was just a few days away, and some drinkin' would have hit the spot, but I know this was bad and needed to be taken seriously. I was back to drinking in a couple weeks but took it down a notch after that. Since then, I've had a couple drinking phases but have come to realize once and for all that I just don't like alcohol enough to be an alcoholic. If it didn't happen in '03, it just plain can't. However, if I had kept on doing what I was doing during tat year, I'd be dead, now.

So, what's your story?

Southland Tales (2006)

What the fuck was that? I guess the director got really full of himself after a few people thought Donnie Darko was "hip" and "cerebral", so what does he do? He turns his artsy-fartsy high-concept sci-fi shtick to 11 with this bizarre soap opera. And guess what? I don't get it.

Lots of people in this movie though. How did he convince everybody to join this POS?

Honestly, it's not unwatchable. It's even slightly amusing at times, but it's still too complicated and weird me to consider it a good movie.

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I've updated the karma system...

...so that every time @Tromafreak reacts to me, I get a boner.

Ice Cream Man is a trash epic

This movie has been mentioned lately, so I figured I'd bite the bullet. It looked dumb as shit, which I'm usually into, but perhaps it looked dumb in the wrong way? Then again, perhaps I was being dumb as shit, because this movie is basically perfect trash.

Clint Howard overracts his way into our hearts as a deranged ice cream vendor who is released from a mental hospital after watching an ice cream man gunned down in a drive-by shooting. Now, this hospital's idea of therapy is to inject an entire pint of green liquid directing into the skull to make sure that there are no bad days. Only happy days. This must have been a reference to Clint's brother who was in that show, and this line is repeated throughout.

So how does a movie like this play out? Well, we follow a group of kids who like ice cream. They get it quite a few times throughout the movie, even though this vendor is awkward as fuck and really sloppy with the way he handles his food. This dude uses his bare fingers to serve dripping melting mush to people and they all love it. He even puts eyeballs into one guy's cone and the dude doesn't even notice, even after chewing on the strangely mushy item for several seconds. Also, this guy is supposed to be a detective, but he can't detect worth a shit.

This movie has a surprisingly great cast with Olivia Hussey as his former nurse who really likes old Clint, regardless of how much of a sloppy creep he is. David Naughton plays one of the kid's fathers, as does David Warner. There are also two detectives searching for the missing children, and while they investigate throughout the entire film, they ultimately accomplish nothing. One of them is even played by Jan Michael Vincent, who seems to not give a shit about anything that's happening in this entire movie.

The vibes are great, and there are some surprisingly good severed heads throughout. The effects are a lot of fun, and there's a general sense of stupidity through the whole thing that makes it quite entertaining.

The asshole older brother has a girlfriend whose nips steal the show, and one of the junior protagonists Heather grew up to be a total babe. How does a movie as stupid as this turn out to be so great? Well, it's all about the ingredients. Put in a little milk, cream, eyeballs, ground up dog, inept detectives, a mental institution, good actors, bad actors, and some stupid dialogue and what do you get? A trash epic.

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Clint Howard trivia

I just wanted to mention that I noticed, in Leprechaun 2, that Clint H has a little speaking part near the beginning. He plays a tourist who the character Cody tries to shame into paying to take his "Dark Side" ghost tour of Hollywood. When he (Clint H) seem disinclined to do the tour, Cody tells him something like "Oh, so you're scared, no no no that's cool, no sweat. Why don't you go have an ice cream down the street!" Get it? ICE CREAM! Clint Howard! I checked, and Leprechaun 2 was filmed four or five months before Ice Cream Man was filmed. I don't know for sure, but I bet Clint H had some idea that he would be in Ice Cream Man, and he got the Leprechaun 2 director or crew to stick in a little mention of ice cream just as a sort of plug for his upcoming movie. Had to share.

How many could you take down

https://www.newsweek.com/surprising-americans-beat-wild-animals-fight-experts-1691793

I would say up to and including the chimp (their strength is overrated) and the kangaroo and wolf.

but not the cobra, croc, gorilla, elephant, lion, bear

Who are these 28% that would lose against a rat, sure I've seen (and eaten) some big ones, but fuck mate.
Who are the idiots that think they can beat an adult elephant.
I assume that would win against any other animal (maybe struggle against a rhino)

Upcoming Feature: Posting Quotas

And it'll apply only for Vinnie. Yay or nay?

Halloween Fan Films

I've been looking into some of these lately. Obviously, most of them are going to be crap. Some amateur shit made by some "fan" who doesn't understand filmmaking, or doesn't understand the franchise in general. BUT... there are a few gems.
Today, they released one called Halloween Stalks II. It's a 25 minute suspense-oriented standalone story. A simple boogeyman story happening to some random family on some random Halloween night.






Another one I enjoyed was Halloween: Inferno (2020), a three-part series totalling 44 minutes. This one was made between H'18 and HK'21, in what I assume can only be the director's idea of what Kills could have been in an alternate universe, because yeah... it's a lot like Halloween Kills. It's basically Michael escaping Laurie's burning house and traveling down the line killing people while Sheriff Barker tries to find him, because why not?

The Female Emoji

For the site icons,

Male = 🍆
Female = 🍑
Herm = 👾
Eunuch = ✂

I'm not sure a peach is ideal to represent a woman, so I'm offering a few other options. Suggestions welcome.

Giuseppe Andrews

Awhile back I got curious about Giuseppe Andrews and looked him up on IMDB. I enjoyed him in the movies I saw him in (particularly Cabin Fever) and was curious if he had anything else coming out. This simple movie search has led me down a rabbit hole.

Long story short, he seems to have been missing since 2015 along with his girlfriend. The things I found even stated his bank accounts haven't even been touched and implied he had quite a bit of money in them. I wonder where they are or if they are even alive?