Ideas for Bad Movies and Good Whiskey

While walking to work after having voted in the special election this morning to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, it occurred to me that an inordinate amount of time had passed since our last blog update about whiskey, bad movies, music, new methods for hair removal, and the assortment of miscellany. I decided that I couldn't take it anymore and will now break the silence that has lasted for a better part of this winter. The blog was originally intended to serve several purposes:

• a creative outlet for my friends and me who, truth be told, are a pretty funny and talented bunch of dudes (our talents shall be explained at some point I'm sure)
• a recap of what had essentially been weekly meetings where we misbehaved in boyish fashion, indulging in poorly acted/scripted movies, bottles of whiskey or other mixed drinks (remind me to post that Hurricane recipe), and local takeout food
• a forum to plan our meetings mentioned in the previous point, which we ceremoniously dubbed "Bad Movie Night"

While the previous posts may contain an inkling or two of the aforementioned directives, we have failed to be consistent in keeping our audience entertained (and by audience, I mean us, the creators of this blog). With all of that said I would like to take the time to briefly mention where we get the ideas for the movies we watch and the whiskey we drink.

Badmovies.org is a good source of bad movie reviews and provides a forum for waxing poetic about, well, bad movies. I tend to browse the front page of new reviews for ideas on picking movies to watch during Bad Movie Night. Peaking at the list of past reviews is also helpful and picking movies based on rating tends to work out for the most part.

Bad Cinema Diary is also a decent little site with quick summaries and ratings of bad movies. It's not updated too often but it's fun to check out for movie watching ideas.

My childhood. My mother and sisters were really into watching horror movies of all types, from slashers to ghost stories to creature features. I couldn't have been older than 5 when I saw my first scary movie with my family. The title of the flick was called Humongous. I know what you are thinking. It's not porn. I don't really recall much about it other than the plot seemed vaguely reminiscent of Friday the 13th. After that, I was hooked. I would go straight to the horror/sci-fi movie section to pick out a movie every time we made our weekly trip to the video store (for more information about what videos and videotapes are, please ask our resident historian CRO). There was also a local television channel based in Houston, TX, I believe, that showed bad movies...on purpose! It was like watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 every Friday night without the MST3K part! Needless to say, when I met the boys (i.e. the blog contributors and my friends) and discovered their love of terrible movies, I had to share with them a movie I had seen on that channel as a boy. I shall only reveal the title of the movie and let you experience "bad movieness": Never Too Young to Die.

Now for the section on selecting whiskey. If you are in the Boston area, check out Downtown Wine & Spirits in Somerville. Ask for Steve. He's always willing to make recommendations on Bourbon, Scotch and whatever adult beverage you might be interested. For us, bourbon is a particular favorite as you'll see from future (and past) posts.

Well, thanks for reading and I hope you look forward to reading more as the months of cold weather break forth into Spring and beyond.