It sure has been awhile since my last post. It hasn't been due to
the fact that nothing has been going on. In fact, it's the polar
opposite. I have been busy. I've been to a few shows, went on the
mother of road trips, and even started an internet radio show. Which
means that I have had plenty to write about. I watched the latest
Full Moon movie this afternoon, which was produced, and directed, by
Charles Band. Afterward I felt the urge to blog about it. So, here I
am.
My last blog was way back in February. Don't worry, I am not going
to go into this big long-winded rant about all of the stuff that has
happened since then. But, some of the bigger events of the past
several months have had one thing in common. Now, you're asking
yourself what could that possibly be. I'll tell you. It's whiskey.
Back at the end of April I found myself in Chicago with a group of
some great friends. We were there to attend the first Moonrunners
Music Festival. I won't spend too much time talking about the actual
festival. The one thing that I will say about the festival itself is
that I was prepared to be very disappointed with it. Turned out to be
the opposite. It was one of the greatest musical experiences I have
ever experienced. During the festival itself I really didn't have
anything to do with whiskey. Other than doing a shot of whiskey with
Justin Wells, from Fifth on the Floor. The whiskey part came in
later. After the festival was over I walked back to the hotel that we
were staying at. My friends Blake, Mollz, Jen, Mel, and I were all
sharing a room. Jacob, also my friend, was hanging out in our room
when I got back. The one missing actually was Mel. But, the bottle of
cinnamon whiskey that Mel had brought with her was in the room. Jacob
and I proceeded to drink all of the whiskey that was left in the
bottle. From what I have heard, we had the greatest conversation
anybody has ever had while we were drinking. Sadly neither one of us
remembers it.
Now let's jump forward to the end of May. At the end of May a big
group of people congregated in central Illinois for the taping of
episode 100 of IBWIP. Again the same group of friends that I was with
in Chicago were back together. Just like in Chicago we had a bottle
of cinnamon whiskey. This time Jacob was the supplier of the whiskey.
Also, just like in Chicago, we managed to drink the entire bottle.
But, unlike Chicago, Jacob and I didn't have a great conversation. In
fact the whiskey almost lead to blows. See, the location that we were
at for the taping of IBWIP is located right next to a cemetery. In
said cemetery there are a couple of caches. For those of you who
don't know what a cache is, please go to
www.geocaching.com.
I found one of the caches earlier in the day. But, after it got dark
I wanted to go find the other one. Turns out cinnamon whiskey turns
Jacob into a big pussy, who is afraid to go into cemeteries after
dark. Needless to say, we didn't find the other cache.
The final whiskey story comes from my recent vacation. As many of
you know, my lovely wife and I just got back from the granddaddy of
road trips. We went on a 4883 mile journey through 12 states in 12
days. One of the stops was in Deadwood South Dakota. When I was a kid
I went there once with my family, but after the HBO show, I always
wanted to go back. We got into town around lunch time. In the
afternoons there is a reenactment of the Wild Bill shooting in the
new Saloon #10. So, we made our way over to the bar. One of the
things that I wanted to do in Deadwood was do a shot of whiskey for
Wild Bill, Calamity Jane, and Seth Bullock. My wife said that she
would do a shot too. There is one thing that you need to understand
going into this story. My wife is not a drinker at all. She
occasionally has one drink. If she does happen to do a shot it's
something pretty girly. So, I asked her if was going to do a shot of
whiskey too. At first she was going to do something else. I pushed
her to agree to whiskey. After some encouragement from me she finally
agreed. Once we were at the bar in Saloon #10 I ordered up a couple
of shots of Jim Beam. Apparently in Deadwood they don't have normal
shot glasses, because the bartender proceeded to place on the bar two
glasses that were roughly the size of high ball glasses. Then he
filled them up with Beam. What happened next I am sure that my wife
would trade her first born to have never experienced. She thought she
was just going to sip it. But, I told her that it was a shot, and she
needed to drink it all at once. She slugged her shot back, and I
swear I thought she was going to die. She did make a full recovery,
but I did spend the rest of the day promising that I did like
whiskey. I am pretty sure that if she ever even smells whiskey in the
future it will cause some sort of reaction.
Now, onto the reason we are all here.
Unlucky Charms was actually released just today. Full Moon has a
deal with Red Box, so right after work I rushed out and picked it up.
The movie itself was exactly what I was expecting. The plot was a
mockery of those modeling reality TV shows, only with monsters. It
basically was some leprechaun type monsters chasing around women in
their underwear. But, the truly exciting thing about Unlucky Charms
was that Full Moon has brought back Video Zone. Now, for those of you
that aren't familiar with Video Zone, it was a featurette that was
after the credits of the Full Moon movies on VHS. They usually were a
making of type of video. Now a days most DVDs are full of extra
features. However, I think Full Moon was the first to include them on
all of their movies. There was also mention of a couple other really
cool things that Full Moon has up their sleeves. But, I'll let you go
out and rent the movie for yourself to find out about them.
