The heat continues.  It’s pretty miserable, to be honest.  I can’t wait for the fall and the winter to get here.

My focus continues to be on getting ready for our annual horrorthon here at TSL!

Here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week.

Films I Watched:

1. Abby (1974)
2. April Rain (2014)
3. Back the School (1986)
4. Blackenstein (1974)
5. Blood Thirst (1971)
6. The Chill Factor (1993)
7. Combat Shock (1986)
8. Death Wish V (1994)
9. Dial M For Murder (1954)
10. Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
11. Dragnet (1966)
12. Five Desperate Women (1971)
13. Gaslight (1944)
14. The Giant Claw (1957)
15. A Great American Tragedy (1972)
16. I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
17. Kickboxer (1989)
18. Kickboxer 2 (1991)
19. Kickboxer 3 (1992)
20. Night Must Fall (1937)
21. The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1977)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Big Brother 25
2. The Challenge USA
3. City Guys
4. Claim to Fame
5. Dr. Phil
6. The Love Boat
7. Night Flight
8. Radio 1990
9. Saved By The Bell
10. Stars on Mars
11. Superfan
12. T and T
13. Welcome Back Kotter

Books I Read:

1. I Killed Stalin (1952) by Sterling Noel

Music To Which I Listened:

1. ABC
2. Adam Rickfors
3. Adele
4. Adi Ulmansky
5. Annie Hardy
6. Avril Lavigne
7. Calvin Harris
8. Charli XCX
9. The Chemical Brothers
10. The Cure
11. Blue Swede
12. Britney Spears
13. David Bowie
14. Dire Straits
15. Eurythmics
16. Gwen Stefani
17. Howard Jones
18. Jakalope
19. Jake Bugg
20. Kedr Livanskiy
21. Marianne Faithfull
22. Mick Jagger
23. Olivia Rodrigo
24. Rita Ora
25. Sade
26. Saint Motel
27. Sting
28. Supertramp
29. Tears For Fears
30. Thompson Twins
31. U2
32. Van Halen
33. Wham

Live Tweets:

1. April Rain
2. Death Wish V
3. I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
4. The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Trailers:

1. Maestro

News From Last Week:

1. Actor Ron Cephas Jones Dies At 66
2. Britney Spears Speaks Out After Divorce News: ‘I’m Not Here to Explain Why Because It’s Honestly Nobody’s Business’
3. Box Office: ‘Blue Beetle’ Stumbles With $25 Million Debut, Ends ‘Barbie’s’ Four-Week Streak
4. Elon Musk Says X (aka Twitter) Will No Longer Let You Block Other Users
5. Actor, Senator candidate Hill Harper hosts town hall meeting in Flint

Links From Last Week:

1. An Aerial Display Above Paris! Colorful Jets Over The Louvre And The Champs-Elysee!
2. Tater’s Week in Review 8/18/23
3. ♫♪ The cats come out at night ♫♪

Links From The Site:

1. I reviewed Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, T. and T., Welcome Back Kotter, and A Great American Tragedy!
2. I shared my week in television!
3. I paid tribute to Nicolas Roeg!
4. Erin shared Society Nurse, Famous Detective, Virgins No More, Like Wild, Trial By Fire, and Bye Bye Baby!
5. Jeff shared music videos from Guns N’ Roses, Neil Young, Michael Penn, Steve Winwood, Ramones, and Guns N’ Roses again!

More From Us:

1. At Pop Politics, Jeff answered Daily Prompts from the 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th!
2. At her photography site, Erin shared Huffhines Park, Turtles at Huffhines Park, The Morning In Black-and-White, Buzzard, Gathering, White Cross Gray Sky, and Purple!
3. At my music site, I shared songs from Adam Rickfors, Blue Swede, Adele, Charli XCX, Calvin Harris, Rita Ora, and Olivia Rodrigo!
4. At Reality TV Chat Blog, I shared Week 2 Veto Meeting, Is There A Blindside Coming, Let’s Open Up The Diary Room For Week 2, About Tonight’s Vote, Week 3 Nominations, Week 3 Veto Comp, and Is the Blindside Back On?

Want to see what I did last week?  Click here!

As I’ve already said this week, rest in peace to the great William Friedkin.  Much like Paul Schrader, he was a veteran of the Golden Age and he was willing to say whatever was on his mind, regardless of whether it was the conventional wisdom or not.  We could definitely use more filmmakers like Friedkin.

It’s still hot.  When I try to think about what I did over this past week, I mostly remember getting mad about the heat.  Right now, my main focus is on getting things ready for October.

I watched two of the best crime films of the 70s, Dirty Harry and Death Wish, Eastwood and Bronson at their best!

Here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week!

Films I Watched:

1. Aerobicide (1987)
2. Blood Harvest (1987)
3. Brian’s Song (1971)
4. Cinderella Liberty (1973)
5. Corbin Nash (2018)
6. The Cosmic Man (1959)
7. Death Metal (2023)
8. Death Wish (1974)
9. Dirty Harry (1971)
10. Frogs (1972)
11. Houston, We’ve Got A Problem (1974)
12. John Wick: Chapter Four (2023)
13. The Lost Arcade (2015)
14. My Friends Need Killing (1976)
15. Shocking Dark (1989)
16. Superfights (1995)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Big Brother 25
2. The Challenge USA
3. Claim to Frame
4. Dr. Phil
5. Double Dragon
6. PGA Tour on CBS
7. 60 Minutes
8. Stars on Mars
9. T. and T.
10. Welcome Back, Kotter
11. Yes, Minister

Books I Read:

1. Shakespeare’s Book: The Story Behind The First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare (2023) by Chris Laoutaris

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Avril Lavigne
2. Big Data
3. Britney Spears
4. Calvin Harris
5. The Chemical Brothers
6. Christina Aguilera
7. Jessica Simpson
8. Katy Perry
9. Lindsay Lohan
10. Olivia Rodrigo
11. Saint Motel

Live Tweets:

1. Superfights
2. Death Wish
3. Dirty Harry
4. Frogs

News From Last Week:

1. Director William Friedkin Dies at 87
2. King of the Hill Voice Actor Johnny Hardwick Dies at 64
3. Musician Robbie Robertson Dies at 80
4. Actor Robert Swan Dies at 78
5. Cinematographer Stan Waterman Dies at 100

Links From Last Week:

1. Tater’s Week in Review 8/11/23
2. RIP William Friedkin…A Celebration Of The Director Of “The Exorcist”, “The French Connection” and More…
3. Witch Hunts

Links From The Site:

1. I reviewed John Wick: Chapter 4 and Houston, We’ve Got A Problem!
2. I reviewed Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, T. and T., and Welcome Back, Kotter!
3. I shared my week in television!
4. I shared scenes from Psycho and The Ten Commandments,
5. I paid tribute to Alfred Hitchcock, Sam Fuller, Stuart Gordon, William Friedkin, and Nicholas Ray!
6. Erin shared Amazing Stories, The Stirrup Boss, Convention Queen, Fantastic Adventures, Pep Stories, Love Story, and Sensuous Loves!
7. Jeff shared music videos from Van Halen, X, Def Leppard, Robbie Robertson, Poison, Wang Chung, and BRuc

More From Us:

1. For Horror Critic, I wrote about Night of the Bloody Apes!
2. At Reality TV Chat Blog, I shared Week 1 Veto Meeting, Too Many Alliances, It’s Time To Open The Diary Room …. Or Is It?, About Tonight, Week 2 Nominations, No Updates Yet, and And We’re Back With A Veto Winner!
3. At my music site, I shared songs from The Chemical Brothers, Lindsay Lohan, Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera, Big Data, and Saint Motel!
4. At her photography site, Erin shared Caddo Lake, Caddo Lake 2, Caddo Lake 3, Caddo Lake 4, Caddo Lake 5, Caddo Lake 6, and Hiding!

Want to see what I did last week?  Click here!

The heat continues!  I’ll be glad when winter gets here.

I have started my Summer side job of writing about Big Brother and I’ve also been getting an early start on this year’s October Horrorthon reviews.  I can hardly wait for the fall and the winter to get here!

Here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week.

Films I Watched:

1. Big Top Pee Wee (1988)
2. Black Wake (2018)
3. Bleach (2020)
4. The Chemical Brothers — Live at Glastonbury (2007)
5. Clinton Road (2019)
6. Dark Image (2017)
7. The Dead Want Women (2012)
8. Deadly Nightshade (2021)
9. The Eagles In Performance (2005)
10. Ghost Track (2022)
11. The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
12. Jackie Brown (1997)
13. The McPherson Tape (1989)
14. The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1986)
15. Six-Headed Shark Attack (2018)
16. Summer of Sam (1999)
17. The Wrong Man (1956)
18. Zodiac (2007)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Big Brother
2. City Guys
3. Claim to Fame
4. The Love Boat
5. The Moment of Truth
6. Saved By The Bell
7. Solid Gold
8. Stars on Mars
9. The Steve Wilkos Show
10. You Don’t Know Jack

Books I Read:

1. Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 (2003) by Roy Morris, Jr.

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Above & Beyond
2. Adi Ulmansky
3. Armin van Buuren
4. Avril Lavigne
5. Big Data
6. Blanck Mass
7. Britney Spears
8. Calvin Harris
9. The Chemical Brothers
10. Christina Aguilera
11. Chromatics
12. Dillon Francis
13. The Eagles
14. Edwin Starr
15. 50 Foot Wave
16. Fitz and the Tantrums
17. Gwen Stefani
18. Katy Perry
19. Kelly Clarkson
20. Nico Marks
21. No Doubt
22. P!nk
23. Saint Motel
24. Taylor Swift

Live Tweets:

1. The Return of the 6 Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
2. Jackie Brown
3. Big Top Pee Wee
4. Six Headed Shark Attack

News From Last Week:

1. Actor Paul Reubens Dies at 70
2. Actor Mark Margolis Dies At 83
3. Actor Angus Cloud Dies At 25

Links From Last Week:

1. Musings on SECRET INVASION series – despite the stellar cast, the show has killed off any remaining interest I had in the MCU
2. Mick Jagger Turns 80! Do You Know His Controversial 1970 “Performance” In A Bathtub?
3. Happy Caturday! (8.5.2023)
4. Tater’s Week in Review 8/4/23

Links From The Site:

1. I reviewed Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, The Master, Welcome Back Kotter, and Trial By Fire!
2. I shared my week in television!
3. I paid tribute to Wes Craven, J. Lee Thompson, and Mario Bava!
4. I shared my July Oscar predictions!
5. I shared a scene from Black Sunday!
6. Erin shared On Borrowed Time, Showroom Girls, Dinner at Antoine’s, On Company Time, The Greatest Adventure, Baseball Stories, and Black Mask!
7. Erin shared the covers of Jungle Comics and Speed Detective!
8. Jeff shared music videos from KISS, Icehouse, Phil Fearon, Slayer, Anthrax, Bryan Adams, and Milli Vanilli!

More From Us:

1. At Reality TV Chat Blog, I shared: Is Cirie The New Paul, We Have Our First HoH of the Season, And Your Nominees Are…., And The Very First Power of Veto Winner…., and Lamest Twist Ever?
2. At my music site, I shared songs from Chromatics, Kelly Clarkson, 50 Foot Wave, Nico Marks, Britney Spears, P!nk, and Edwin Starr!
3. At her photography site, Erin shared Flowers 6, Two Flights, Sunrise in Black-and-White, Troll Face, Charge!, Wall, and Alley!

Want to see what I did last week?  Click here!

Another hot week comes to an end.  I will be glad when fall gets here.  I can’t wait for October!

It’s kind of funny how we’re not hearing more about the congressional hearings on alien life.  I mean, I’m usually a proud skeptic about stuff like that and even I kind of want to know a little bit more.

Sinead O’Connor, R.I.P.  On Friday night, Jeff and I joined our friends Pat and Brad in watching two of O’Connor’s concerts that had been uploaded to YouTube.  One concert was in Dublin while the other one was in Finland.  She had an amazing voice.

Big Brother starts this upcoming week.  I’ll be writing about the show that I both love and hate on the Reality TV Chat Blog!

Here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week:

Films I Watched:

1. Children of Divorce (1927)
2. Deranged (1974)
3. Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
4. Invaders From Mars (1986)
5. The Mule (2018)
6. Perfect Body (1997)
7. Robowar (1988)
8. Saint Jack (1979)
9. Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear (1945)
10. Stone Cold 2 (1997)
11. Trial By Fire (1995)
12. When Friendship Kills (1996)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. City Guys
2. Claim to Fame
3. Degrassi: The Next Generation
4. Geraldo
5. Jenny Jones
6. The Love Boat
7. The Master
8. Sally Jessy Raphael
9. Stars on Mars
10. Steve Wilkos Show
11. Welcome Back Kotter

Books I Read:

1. The Madman in the White House (2023) by Patrick Weil

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Avril Lavigne 
3. Britney Spears
4. Cedric Gervais
5. The Chemical Brothers
6. The Five Stairsteps
7. The Four Tops
8. Garbage
9. Leslie Carter
10. Lisa Loeb
11. The Main Ingredient 
12. Michael Fredo
13. MILCK
14. No Doubt
15. Poppy
16. Saint Motel
17. Sinead O’Connor
18. t.A.T.u
19. Wu-Tang Clan

Live Tweets:

1. Stone Cold 2
2. The Mule
3. Earth Girls Are Easy
4. Invaders From Mars

Trailers:

1. The Great Escaper
2. Golda
3. The Exorcist: Believer
4. The Meg 2
5. Boy Kills World

News From Last Week:

1. Sinead O’Connor Dies At 56
2. Writer Bo Goldman Dies At 90
3. Writer Julian Barry Dies At 92
4. Box Office: ‘Haunted Mansion’ $9.9 Million Opening Day Can’t Scare ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’
5. Emmys Vendors Have Been Officially Informed That the Telecast Is Moving Out of September
6. RIP Randy Meisner…A Musical Appreciation Of This Eagles Founding Member…

Links From Last Week:

1. “Dinner And A Movie” With The “Big Kahuna Burger” Recipe From “Pulp Fiction!”
2. R.I.P. Sinead
3. The Dance of the Hummers
4. Tater’s Week in Review 7/28/23

Links From The Site:

1. I reviewed When Friendship Kills, Saint Jack, Robowar, and Children of Divorce!
2. I reviewed Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, The Master, and Welcome Back Kotter!
3. I shared scenes from Slacker, The Sopranos, Bullitt, and Full Metal Jacket!
4. I paid tribute to Christopher Nolan, Enzo G. Castellari, Gus Van Sant, and Stanley Kubrick!
5. I shared my week in television!
6. Erin shared The Out of this World Covers of the Pulps and invited you to celebrate Paper Back Love!  She also featured the Eyeful Covers of Peter Driben!
7. Erin shared The Strange Way, Sorority House, The Scorpion, Into The Fire, Strange Sisters, Sin Girls, and The Lion House!
8. Jeff shared music videos from Mungo Jerry, Frank Sinatra and Bono, KISS, Jah Wobble and Sinead O’Connor, Megadeth, The Doors, and Milli Vanilli!
9. Leonard reviewed Barbie!

More From Us:

1. At my music site, I shared songs from The Four Tops, The Main Ingredient, The Five Stairsteps, MILCK, Lisa Loeb, Leslie Carter, and Britney Spears!
2. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared Ryan Gosling’s performance of I’m Just Ken!
3. At her photography site, Erin shared Friends, Friends 2, Flowers, Flowers 2, Flowers 3, Flowers 4, and Flowers 5!

Want to see what I watched last week?  Click here!

Eh.  I don’t even want to talk about this week.  Maybe I’ll be in the mood to talk about this week next week but hopefully, when next week comes around, I will have moved onto other things.  It’s nothing to be too concerned about.  It’s just that some weeks are crappy and, as a result, you don’t want to talk about them when they end.  You just want to move on!

I will say this.  If you’re a billionaire who wants to run a social network, build it up from scratch.  Be there from the start and be clear about what you’re planning.  Don’t buy another popular site and then ruin it just so you can then force everyone onto your site.  I mean, really, I’m not difficult to please.  All I ask is that people be polite and give fair warning before changing everything.

*SIGH*

Anyway, here’s what I watched and listened to this week.  Yes, I decided to avoid the crowds as far as Barbie and Oppenheimer are concerned.  I’ll see them this upcoming week, after I get my car inspected.

(Don’t even get me started on how I feel about car inspections.)

Films I Watched:

1. Convoy (1979)
2. The Creeping Terror (1964)
3. The Frozen Ground (2011)
4. Killer Elite (2011)
5. Overkill: The Aileen Wournos Story (1992)
6. Texas Killing Fields (2011)
7. The Untouchables (1987)
8. White Line Fever (1975)
9. Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009)

TV Shows I Watched:

1. City Guys
2. Claim to Fame
3. Degrassi High
4. Fantasy Island
5. Happy Hour
6. The Love Boat
7. The Master
8. Night Music
9. The Simpsons
10. Stars On Mars
11. Welcome Back Kotter

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Backstreet Boys
3. Bjork
4. Billie Eilish
5. Britney Spears
6. The Chemical Brothers
7. Christina Aguilera
8. Crystal Method
9. Dillon Francis
10. Felony
11. The Five Stair Steps
12. The Four Tops
13. Gwen Stefani
14. Human Nature
15. In This Moment
16. Jakalope
17. Kedr Livanskiy
18. Lady Gaga
19. Michael Fredo
20. Muse
21. Poppy
22. Rolling Stones
23. Saint Motel
24. Sophie B. Hawkins
25. Spice Girls
26. Taylor Swift
27. Tony Bennett
28. The Wallflowers
29. The Who
30. will.i.am

Live Tweets:

1. Killer Elite
2. The Untouchables
3. White Line Fever
4. The Bat

Trailers:

1. The Marvels

News From Last Week:

1. Tony Bennett dies at 96
2. Twitter is being rebranded as X
3. ‘Barbie’ Box Office to the World: The Pandemic Is Officially Over
4. Oppenheimer box office collection Day 1: Christopher Nolan’s film delivers biggest Hollywood opening of the year

Links From Last Week:

1. Tater’s Week in Review 7/21/23
2. Did Mickey Rooney Really Have A “Potato Fantasy” Restaurant? The Answer Is Here!
3. La lune

Links From The Site:

1. Jeff shared music videos from Slash, Tony Bennett, Phil Collins, Metallica, Aerosmith, The Clash, and Jane Birkin!
2. Erin shared The Broken Vase, Bedtime Stories, Secret Session, A Picture of the Moon, Parole Chief, Miss Understanding, and Argosy!
3. Erin shared a pulpy view of the Moon!
4. I shared my week in television!
5. I paid tribute to Paul Schrader!
6. I shared a scene from The Taking of Pelham One Two Three!
7. I reviewed Murder In New Hampshire, Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, The Master, and Welcome Back Kotter!

More From Us:

1. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared Can You Hear The Music?
2. At her photography site, Erin shared Searching, Spring Creek, The Return, Moon, Missing Winter, Dallas In The Distance, and Tower in Dallas!
3. At my music site, I shared songs from Poppy, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, In This Moment, Backstreet Boys, Billie Eilish, Spice Girls, and The Rolling Stones!

Want to see what I did last week?  Click here!

And just like that, Hollywood shut down.

It’s been a busy week for those of us who follow entertainment.  Not only did we have the Emmy nominations but we also had SAG-AFTRA going on strike, joining the Writer’s Guild and effectively shutting down Hollywood.  It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.  I don’t want to say too much because, honestly, what do I know about labor negotiations?  But I will say that, with the era of AI approaching, I’m on the side of whoever is going to continue to give us films that are written by, directed by, and star human beings.

(As a sidenote, I usually don’t write anything about what’s been going on over at the AV Club because I’m acquainted with a few people who have written for the site and I don’t want to make things awkward for them.  But there is just something so unbelievably depressing about the news that the AV Club will be one of the sites experimenting with AI-generated articles.)

I watched a lot of true crime this week, in preparation for our October horrorthon.  Watching and reviewing 31 true crime films sounds like a good idea until you discover how depressing they are to sit through, one after another.

Here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week!

Films I Watched:

1. Andrea’s Story — A Hitchhiker’s Tragedy (1983)
2. Barbie Dance Club! (1989)
3. The Case of the Hillside Strangler (1989)
4. The Day My Kid Went Punk (1987)
5. The Drug Knot (1986)
6. The Fourth Man (1990)
7. Goodnight Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston (1990)
8. Happy Face Killer (2014)
9. The Hunt for the I-5 Killer (2011)
10. It’s Only Rock n Roll (1991)
11. Men In Black (1997)
12. Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Smart Story (1991)
13. Night of the Zodiac (2022)
14. Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)
15. The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004)
16. Portrait of a Teenage Shoplifter (1981)
17. Ricky 6 (2000)
18. SADD: A Contract For Life (1985)
19. Stalking Laura (1993)
20. Stoned (1980)
21. Testing Dirty (1990)
22. The Wave (1981)
23. The Wraith (1986)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. All You Need Is Love
2. The Ashley Madison Affair
3. City Guys
4. Claim to Fame
5. Fantasy Island
6. Geraldo
7. Gimme A Break
8. Jenny Jones
9. Lifestories: Families In Crisis
10. The Love Boat
11. The Master
12. Night Flight
13. Welcome Back, Kotter

Books I Read:

1. Crooked: The Roaring ’20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal  (2023) by Nathan Masters

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Avril Lavigne
3. Britney Spears
4. The Chemical Brothers
5. Christina Aguilera
6. Fatboy Slim
7. Fiona Apple
8. Gwen Stefani
9. Jessica Simpson
10. The Killers
11. Lindsay Lohan
12. Saint Motel
13. Souxsie and the Banshees

Live Tweets:

1. Parts: The Clonus Horror
2. Men In Black
3. The Wraith
4. Blood Vessel

Trailers:

1. Napoleon
2. Wonka

News From Last Week:

1. Writer Milan Kundera dies at 94
2. Actress and singer Jane Birkin dies at 76
3. Producer Daniel Goldberg dies at 74
4. Actor John Nettleton dies at 94
5. Former Rolling Stones tour manager Sam Cutler dies at 80
6. Actors are going on strike after talks with major studios and streaming services fail
7. SAG actors join writers on Hollywood picket lines
8. All the TV Shows and Movies Affected by the Actors Strike (Updating)
9. Actor Hill Harper announces US Senate bid in Michigan
10. Ben Savage lends himself $800K for Congress race; Shyne plays catch up

Links From Last Week:

1. The Case For Warren Zevon…His Complicated Life And Brilliant Music…
2. Tater’s Week in Review 7/14/23

Links From The Site:

1. Jeff shared music videos from Coolio, Eric Clapton, Art of Noise, Ice-T, Faith No More, Lindsey Buckingham, and 10,000 Maniacs!
2. Erin shared Wrong Kind of Love, Paris Nights, Western Short Stories, Brief Stories, Shark-0, A Night With Laura, and Walls Rise Up!
3. Leonard shared the trailers for Napoleon and Wonka!
4. I shared my Emmy picks and my thoughts on the actual Emmy nominations!
5. I shared my week in television!
6. I reviewed Can Ellen Be Saved, Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, The Master, and Welcome Back Kotter!
7. I paid tribute to Monte Hellman!
8. I shared scenes from Dracula and Apocalypse Now!

More From Us:

1. At her photography site, Erin shared Iris, Caddo Bird, Cemetery, Graveyard, Tree In The Backyard, Summer Day, and Two Ducks!
2. At my music site, I shared songs from Fatboy Slim, Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera, The Killers, Saint Motel, Britney Spears, and Fiona Apple!

Want to check out last week’s activity?  Click here!

This week, I celebrated the 4th of July with my sisters, I binged a lot of television to get caught up for Tuesday’s Emmy nominations, I read a lengthy and heavily detailed book, and I also watched quite a few films.

I’m tired.

Check out what I watched, read, and listened to this week while I go get some sleep.

Films I Watched:

1. 12 Days of Christmas Eve (2022)
2. Elmore Leonard: But Don’t Try To Write (2022)
3. Father of the Bride (2022)
4. Graduation Day (1980)
5. High & Outside: A Baseball Noir (2018)
6. Inside High Noon Revisited (2022)
7. Jerry and Marge Go Large (2022)
8. Jesus Revolution (2023)
9. Kemper: The CoEd Killer (2008)
10. Over The Top (1987)
11. Pamela, A Love Story (2023)
12. Prey (2022)
13. The Princess (2022)
14. Shania Twain: Not Just A Girl (2022)
15. Sheena (1984)
16. Sick (2023)
17. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)
18. The Zebra Force (1976)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. 60 Days In
2. Big Beasts
3. City Guys
4. The Crown
5. Daisy Jones & The Six
6. Dead To Me
7. Diff’rent Strokes
8. The Diplomat
9. House of the Dragon
10. Fleishman Is In Trouble
11. Forgive or Forget
12. The Last Of Us
13. The Last Thing He Told Me
14. The Love Boat
15. The Master
16. MH370: The Plane That Disappeared
17. Midnight Special
18. The Old Man
19. Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
20. Real Time With Bill Maher
21. Rollergames
22. Slasher: Ripper
23. Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99
24. Welcome Back, Kotter

Books I Read:

1. The Shards (2023) by Bret Easton Ellis

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Britney Spears
2. Camila Cabello
3. Carrie Underwood
4. Felony
5. Gwen Stefani
6. The Hues Corporation
7. Kelly Clarkson
8. No Doubt
9. Olivia Roridgo
10. Taylor Swift

Live Tweets:

1. The Zebra Force
2. Over The Top
3. Sheena
4. Graduation Day

Trailers:

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Bob Marley: One Love

News From Last Week:

1. The good version of TweetDeck is back, but for how long?
2. Privacy expert issues warning about Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor
3. How Jim Caviezel’s Faith-Based ‘Sound of Freedom’ Became This Summer’s Unlikely Box Office Hit
4. Box Office: ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ Dethrones ‘Indiana Jones 5’ With $32.6 Million Debut
5. ‘The Flash’ Struggles Toward the Finish Line at the Global Box Office
6. ‘The Good Doctor’ actor Hill Harper is inching toward a potential Senate bid in Michigan, report says
7. Actor Eduardo Verástegui may run for president of Mexico, says conservative party there ‘is dead’

Links From Last Week:

1. Fashionistas! Let’s celebrate National Fashion Day!
2. Exploring Gritty 70’s Cinema With “Straight Time!” Dustin Hoffman Fires Himself!
3. Tater’s Last Couple of Weeks in Review 7/7/23

Link From The Site:

1. Jeff shared music videos from Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Beck, Ringo Starr, The Backbeat Band, ZZ Top, and Alice In Chains!
2. Jeff shared a scene from Stripes!
3. Erin shared Mammoth Detective, Cartoon Humor, Man To Man, Bedside Manner, The White Bikini, Ribbon, and True Cases of Women In Crime!
4. Erin invited us to celebrate Bikini Day and International Kissing Day!
5. Erin wished everyone a happy 4th of July!
6. Erin shared a scene from A Boy Named Charlie Brown!
7. Erin shared some vintage fireworks, The Covers of Ace G-Men Stories, 42 Texas Ranger homeruns, and celebration of rural America with the pulps!
8. Erin reviewed A Baseball Noir!
9. I shared a music video from Lady Gaga!
10. I reviewed Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, The Master, and Welcome Back Kotter!
11. I shared my week in television!
12. I shared a scenes from Shaft and Tropic Thunder!
13. I paid tribute to Jean Cocteau, Michele Soavi, and films featuring fireworks!
14. I reviewed Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway and Detective Knight: Independence!
15. I shared an AMV of the Day!

More From Us:

1. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared music from Cymande!
2. At her photography site, Erin shared Ribbon, Happy 4th of July, Red Flowers, Caddo Lake, Armadillo, Spring Creek Nature Trail, and Spring Creek Nature Trail 2!
3. At my music site, I shared songs from Taylor Swift, Hues Corporation, No Doubt, Britney Spears, Gwen Stefani, Carrie Underwood, and Olivia Rodrigo!

Check out last week by clicking here!

I hope everyone (or at least everyone who is celebrating or living near those who celebrate) has a good and safe 4th of July!

Here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week!

Films I Watched:

1. Bundy: Legacy of Evil (2009)
2. Deep Rising (1998)
3. Detective Knight: Independence (2023)
4. Easy Prey (1986)
5. Exterminator 2 (1984)
6. Grunt: The Movie (1985)
7. Hell House LLC (2015)
8. House on the Hill (2017)
9. Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993)
10. Killer Bees (1974)
11. Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
12. Out of the Darkness (1985)
13. Party Monster (2003)
14. The Preppie Murder (1989)
15. Purple Rain (1984)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. 1923
2. The Bear
3. Beavis and Butt-Head
4. Dirty Pair Flash
5. Forgive or Forget
6. Friend of the Family
7. Jenny Jones
8. King of the Hill
9. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
10. The Master
11. Only Murders In The Building
12. Paul T. Goldman
13. Perry Mason
14. Shrinking
15. Ted Lasso
16. Wednesday
17. Welcome Back, Kotter
18. Yellowstone
19. Yes, Minister

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Carly Rae Jepsen
3. The Beatles
4. Big Data
5. Bloc Party
6. Bob Dylan
7. Britney Spears
8. The Chemical Brothers
9. Fitz and the Tantrums
10. Halsey
11. Kid Rock
12. Lynard Skynard
13. Michael Fredo
14. Rolling Stones
15. The Runaways
16. Saint Motel
17. The Wallflowers
18. The Who
19. Wu-Tang Clan

Live Tweets:

1. Deep Rising
2. Lone Wolf McQuade
3. Purple Rain
4. Hell House LLC

Trailers:

1. Five Nights At Freddy’s
2. Natty Knocks
3. Retribution
4. The Collective
5. Dune Part Two

New From Last Week:

1. Actor Alan Arkin Dies At 89
2. Julian Sands: British actor confirmed dead after remains identified
3. Actress Carmen Sivilla Passes At 92
4. Actor Nicholas Coster Dies At 89
5. Actress Meg Johnson Dies
6. Actress Judi Farr Dies At 84
7. Melanie Lynskey Remembers Julian Sands in Heartfelt Tribute: “I Will Never Forget You”
8. Gabriel Byrne says late friend Julian Sands was ‘destined for stardom but craved adventure’
9. Elon Musk under fire from Twitter users for limiting posts that can be read: ‘Picked a fight with America’
10. ‘Boy Meets World’ Cast Breaks Silence On Being ‘Ghosted’ By Friend, Co-Star Ben Savage

Links From Last Week:

1. There was a darkness behind the film’s frivolity – Merchant Ivory and the making of A Room with a View
2. Inside Boxing Helena, the macabre misfire that delighted Julian Sands – and broke Kim Basinger
3. No One Believes Elon Musk’s Explanation For Breaking Twitter
4. Censoring RFK Jr. is only making his voice louder
5. The World’s Common Tater’s June 2023 In Books
6. Would You Dive Into “The Grave Pool?” Welcome To The World’s Most Dangerous Theme Park – “Class Action Park!”

Links From The Site:

1. I reviewed Under the Influence, Purple Rain, The Exterminator, and Exterminator 2!
2. I reviewed Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, The Master, and Welcome Back Kotter!
3. I wrote about twitter and Tweetdeck!
4. I shared my week in television!
5. I shared my Oscar predictions for June! 
6. I paid tribute to Sydney Pollack and Paul Thomas Anderson!
7. I shared a scene from Nashville and The Master!
8. Erin shared the Groves of Desire, Awake to Darkness, Between Darkness and Day, Cameras, Dark Destiny, July, and The Man From Avon!
9. Erin shared a photographic essay about walking in the rain!
10. Erin shared covers of the cities and patriotic posters!
11. Jeff shared music videos from Metallica, The Pointer Sisters, Richard Marx, Bryan Ferry, Rodney Dangerfield, Rush, and Twisted Sister!

More From Us:

1. At my music site, I shared songs from Adi Ulmansky, Carly Rae Jepsen, Bloc Party, Fitz and the Tantrums, Bob Dylan, Halsey, and The Runaways!
2. At her photography site, Erin shared Away From The World, Shadow Bird, Eye, Camera, Collapse, Pond Near The Cemetery, and Sunset at the Pond!

Want to see what I did last week?  Click here!

What a strange week.

I started out hoping against hope that the Titanic submersible would be found.  Of course, by the time it was found, it was already too late.  A lot of people online took seemed to take a ghoulish joy in the tragedy, reminding me of just how awful some people can be.

(I have to be honest.  Whenever I heard about the submersible in the past, I assumed that it was built and equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and that it was being guided by grizzled but competent Navy veterans.  I didn’t realize it was basically just something that someone made in their back yard.)

I then got caught up in the Russian “coup,” which turned out to be a big nothing.  On Saturday afternoon, I tweeted this:

And, by the time I returned, it was all over!

And now, today, people are sending me pictures of RFK Jr. without his shirt on and it’s true that, for a 70 year-old, he looks about 10 years younger.  But I kind of yearn for a world where presidential candidates stay off twitter and keep their shirts on.  It’s just shaping up to be a weird year and 2024 is obviously going to be a lot stranger.

As for this week, I continued to work on my reviews for this year’s Horrorthon.  I’m getting an early start so I can enjoy October this year as opposed to spending all of my time playing catch-up.  I finished watching all of the religious films and now I’m watching movies about serial killers.  It’s a strange world.

Anyway, here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week!

Films I Watched:

1. 2025 — The World Enslaved By A Virus (2020)
2. A Little Game (1971)
3. The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)
4. Cross Purposes (2021)
5. Day of Defense (2003)
6. D.C. Sniper (2010)
7. Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas (2009)
8. Edge of Salvation (2012)
9. End of Days: Global Catastrophe (2019)
10. Exodus of the Prodigal Son (2020)
11. The Exterminator (1980)
12. Freeway Killer (2010)
13. Happy Gilmore (1996)
14. Hot Fuzz (2007)
15. Plane (2023)
16. Prayer Never Fails (2017)
17. Step Over The Edge (1976)
18. The Texas Railroad Killer (2022)
19. Tiger Claws (1991)
20. The Touch (2005)
21. Trust (2018)
22. The World’s End (2013)
23. The Wristwatch (2020)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Andor
2. Are You Being Served?
3. Beavis and Butt-Head
4. Bubblegum Crisis
5. City Guys
6. Dancing With The Stars
7. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
8. The Love Boat
9. Making the Cut
10. The Master
11. Night Flight
12. So You Think You Can Dance
13. Welcome Back Kotter

Books I Read:

1. Up With The Sun (2023) by Thomas Mallon

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Annie Hardy
3. Britney Spears
4. The Chemical Brothers
5. Christina Aguilera
6. Fiona Apple
7. Haim
8. The Hives
9. Kid Rock
10. Kylie Minogue
11. Lynard Skynard
12. Muse
13. Phantogram
14. Public Service Broadcasting
15. Saint Motel
16. Taylor Swift

Live Tweets:

1. Tiger Claws
2. Hot Fuzz
3. Happy Gilmore
4. The World’s End

Trailers:

1. Priscilla
2. Drive-Away Dolls

News From Last Week:

1. Actor Fredric Forrest dies at 86
2. Dean Smith, Olympian-turned-stutman, dies at 91
3. Former Megadeth drummer Lee Rauch dies
4. Guitarist John Waddington dies at 63
5. Human remains found near where Julian Sands went missing
6. No Hard Feelings opens soft
7. ‘The Flash’ Box Office ‘Disaster’ Exposes DC’s $1.1 Billion Problem for Warner Bros.
8. All five passengers on missing Titanic submersible dead after catastrophic implosion
9. Lost with the Titanic: Will submarine passengers’ remains ever be found?

Links From Last Week:

1. Is This America’s Most Dangerous Hike? I Found New Video Of Our Hike To Angel’s Landing!
2. Tater’s Week in Review 6/24/23

Links From The Site:

1. I reviewed Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, The Master, and Welcome Back Kotter!
2. I reviewed A Tattered Web and Plane!
3. I shared my week in television!
4. I paid tribute to Billy Widler!
5. I shared a scene from Evil Dead II!
6. Jeff shared music videos from Andy Summers, Whitesnake, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Phil Collins, U2, and Metallica!
7. Erin shared Walk in Darkness, The Search, The Murders of Fox Island, Road Kid, Summer Sidewalk, The Young Titan, and Super Science Stories!

More From Us:

1. At my music site, I shared songs from Phantogram, Kylie Minogue, Christina Aguilera, The Hives, Kid Rock, Haim, and Annie Hardy!
2. At Days Without Incident, Leonard share music from Spider-Man Across The Spider Verse and John Mayer!
3. At her photography site, Erin shared Do Not Enter, Head in the Shadows, They’re Coming To Get You, Best Friends, Evening Tree, Get Down, and This Tree!

Want to see what I did last week?  Click here!

The Emmy Ballots have been released and I have a lot of shows and movies that I need to watch between now and the end of July!  I got started this week but I’ve got a long way to go.  Luckily, this is going to be a harsh and hot summer so I’m going to have a lot incentive to sit inside my air-conditioned private office and spend a lot of time watching stuff.

Here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week!

Films I Watched:

1. Commando (1985)
2. The Favorite (2019)
3. Glorious (2016)
4. Held For Ransom (1976)
5. I Can’t Breathe: God Forgive Them (2022)
6. Killdozer (1974)
7. Liar Liar (1997)
8. Maniac Cop (1988)
9. Ninja Apocalypse (2014)
10. The Prodigal Planet (1983)
11. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
12. Survival (1975)
13. Uncommon (2021)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. A Small Light
2. Agent Elvis
3. Andor
4. Archer
5. Bob’s Burgers
6. Captain Power & The Soldiers of the Future
7. City Guys
8. Fantasy Island
9. Forgive or Forget
10. Harley Quinn
11. The Love Boat
12. The Master
13. Obi-Wan Kenobi
14. Rick and Morty
15. Rollergames
16. U.S. Open Golf
17. Welcome Back, Kotter

Books I Read:

1. Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction (2022) by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Annie Hardy
3. Avril Lavigne
4. Blondie
5. Britney Spears
6. The Chemical Brothers
7. Cheryl
8. Dillon Francis
9. DJ Snake
10. Fiona Apple
11. Halsey
12. Jakalope
13. Katy Perry
14. Kid Rock
15. Lynard Skynard
16. Michael Fredo
17. Pigeonhead
18. Taylor Swift
19. The Verve

Live Tweets:

1. Ninja Apocalypse
2. Liar Liar
3. Commando
4. Maniac Cop

News From Last Week:

1. Cormac McCarthy dies at 89
2. Legendary comics artist John Romita, Sr. dies at 93
3. Actor Treat Williams dies in a motorcycle accident
4. Actress-turned-politician Glenda Jackson dies at 88
5. The Flash is the latest comic book movie to disappoint at the box office
6. Two Dead, Three Injured as Shooter Opens Fire Outside Washington’s Gorge; Day 2 of EDM Festival Canceled
7. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Labeled ‘F—ing Grifters’ by Spotify Exec Bill Simmons After Deal Ends

Links From Last Week:

1. Tater’s Week in Review 6/17/23
2. Is Nicolas Cage AKA Superman In “The Flash?” Does Tim Burton’s Doomed “Superman Lives” Project Have A Cameo?

Links From The Site:

1. I reviewed Dr. Cook’s Garden, Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, The Master, and Welcome Back Kotter!
2. I paid tribute to Cormac McCarthy and Lucio Fulci!
3. I shared my week in television!
4. Jeff shared music videos from AC/DC, Styx, Glenn Frey, Urge Overkill, Rick Springfield, Genesis, and Billy Joel!
5. Erin shared Flirt, Prison Stories, Flags on Briarcrest, Jill Harvey, Smart Romance, The Progressive Grocer, and Ginger Stories!

More From Us:

1. At her photography site, Erin shared Shelter, A Dark Place At Sunset, The Fountain, The Tree, Hanging On, A View of the Sun, and Driving in the Rain!
2. At my music site, I shared songs from Britney Spears, Cheryl, Halsey, Blondie, Pigeonhead, The Verve, and Britney Spears again!

Want to see what I did last week?  Click here!