My tastes are very wide ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach to Slayer. From The Miracle On 34th Street to Zombie Flesh Eaters and from Captain Z-Ro to The Sarah Silverman Program. However while my tastes do have range, they are mostly confined to things made BEFORE the 21st century. This is by no means set in stone and there's no question that I enjoy many movies, books and television from the last 17 years, but most of it is very different and very inferior to the stuff that was around when I was growing up. No, I'm not some superior snob who starts every sentence with "well back in my day...". Actually most all of the novelties I enjoy the best are from long before I was born. The issue here is that since computers really took over we utilize them for EVERYTHING and this has had very subpar results. Between work and my off work time, I spend around 12 hours a day on a computer so there's no question that I love them, but the moment they became the main attraction in things like songs and cinemas I gave up. I mean we actually have movies that are over 95% CGI and songs where every piece of vocalization is run through a computer! Computers have made things easier, but they are also taking away the art from the artist. What's worse is that because of the huge amounts of money involved today, everyone seems to be making an effort to endlessly promote this trash while trying their damnedest to bury all the wonderful entertainment from the past as if it were all just Atari 2600 E.T. cartridges. That's what made me start ALLNEWSUX.
All of my friends and co-workers have already heard a million times about how underrated Bob Dylan's 1980s work was. Because of me they all know who Dario Argento is and they've probably remembered a few lines from Titus Andronicus. People who had "borrowed" my Black Sabbath Sabotage or Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers albums and never returned them actually made me happy because I knew I had helped interest them in something new. When that dickhead Dan quit the job we worked together and never gave me back my VHS recording of Abel Gance's Napoleon or my book on port wine I thought "good, maybe now that clown will be able to watch the greatest movie ever made all while drinking one of the world's greatest beverages". I love teaching people in whatever way I can and I feel that I am somewhat needed in this day and age when everyone from IMDb to Redbox to Rotten Tomatoes rather push the Zoolander sequel over Citizen Kane.
Despite my rather negative sounding name, I actually am very positive with what I do. Oh sure, I'll occasionally rip into some vile conservative saying how poor people enjoy being poor or some noob who has seen 46 movies in his whole life and every week proclaims the latest one he's seen as "the greatest movie of all-time", but mostly I try to be fun, humorous and most importantly educational. I don't want you to hate Rogue One, I just don't want you to forget about the original trilogy before George Lucas minimalized it with his offensive CGI add ons. I'm not saying you can't like Beyoncé, but I'd like to introduce you to some really obscure, yet wonderful songs from The Supremes. You can read DC Comics New 52 all you like, but never forget Crisis On Infinite Earths, where all this multiverse rebooting started. Perhaps someday I can parlay all of this into a book, radio, television or internet TV series. After being bombarded all day with the newest everything, it might be nice to come home and hear about Commodore 64 games, Basil Rathbone and old Tangerine Dream records...who knows?
P.S. If you were wondering where my AllNewSux handle comes from, it's about 90% courtesy of one of the funniest Kids In The Hall sketches ever where Bruce McCulloch tells Kevin McDonald "all that new stuff sucks" and the other 10% from Beavis and Butthead simply saying how everything sucks. I went ahead and posted the sketch below and a few other things I hope you'll find favor with.
The Kids In The Hall "Into The Doors"
John Lennon often said he wished The Beatles had done a
slower tempo version like this one
Easily one of the most terrifying zombie films ever made
If you're a fan of the hokey comic books you'll love the TV show
