Beat the Bizarro Movie Night Hiatus Blues with...Tuesday Trivia Night with Tony Kay!

Buenos Whatever, Fiends and Neighbors!

While we're still in Bizarro Hiatus, Ye Olde Schlockologist has been spending Tuesday nights regaling the throngs in Columbia City with Trivia Nights, Tuesdays at the Bourbon Bar in Columbia City!

If you've been hankering for those obscuro factoids and that witty banter you've grown to know and love from Bizarro Movie Night, head down to the Bourbon Bar at Columbia City Theater every Tuesday at 8pm for a hearty helping of both! We've done four of these already, to an enthusiastic audience. This ain't your mama's lame canned-from-the-web trivia monotony, Fiends and Neighbors: This is (mostly) yours truly pulling as much stuff from the dank recesses of his own trivia-saturated mind as possible, giving local crowds a chance to flex their smarts (or at least learn a little somethin' about darn near everythin'!).

So far we've covered Rock and Roll, Horror Movies (for Halloween), and two weeks of The Big 1980's. Next up, two weeks' worth of Movie Trivia!

Admission's free, and it's all-night Happy Hour with many tasty beverages, so get your tushes down to Columbia City next week, for Pete's Sake!

More Details on the Epic Bizarro Garage Sale!

"Me find neat things at Garage Sale..."

OK, Fiends and Neighbors--More details on this Saturday's Bizarro Garage Sale! It's gonna be a doozy! Don't miss it.

Again, it's this Saturday, September 25, from 8am to 3pm! The location is 10835 Forest Ave S, Seattle WA 98178. Enclosed is a Mapquest map from Seattle proper to the Bizarro Garage Sale:





 I've also included written directions below. The written ones deviate from Mapquest, so take whichever route will work for you! There will be obnoxious neon green signs marking the way from Rainier Ave S. And spread the word if you know someone looking to purchase:

Vintage/Weird Vinyl!
Rare/Out-of-Print VHS!
Gently-Used Clothes!
Books Galore!
And More, More, MORE, for Cheap, Cheap, CHEAP!!!

We've got a lot of stuff that's ready to go!

How to get to the Garage Sale...


*From I-5 Northbound take exit 157, Martin Luther King Way. Take a right on Boeing Access Road.
*Boeing Access Road turns into S Ryan Way.
*Follow S. Ryan Way to 51st Ave S.
*Take a Left on 51st Ave S.
*Follow 51st to Rainier Ave S. Take a right on Rainier Ave S.
*Follow Rainier Ave S about 1.5 Miles to 75th Ave S.
*Take a Right on 75th Ave S; one block up, you'll hit S Taft Street.
*Take a Left on S Taft; follow Taft, and it'll curve around and turn into Crestwood Dr. S.
*Stay on Crestwood. You'll pass Laurel Street, then you'll come to a Y in the road to your left.
*Take the sharpest left of that Y: Forest Ave S
*Follow Forest Ave S about two blocks. Just past Rowan, you should hit 10835 Forest Ave S. It's on the right side of the road, white house at the top of a set of cement steps. The garage is past the long driveway, just below the patio.

*From I-5 Southbound, take exit 158, the Boeing Access Road. Take a left onto Boeing Access Road. Then, the rest is the same as above.


 
See you there!

The ULTIMATE BIZARRO GARAGE SALE!! Saturday September 25!!!

Yes, Fiends and Neighbors, you read right...Ye Olde Schlockologist will be hosting a yard sale on Saturday, September 25 from 8am to 3pm!! Rain or shine!! Prepare to have your minds blown with shock and awe!!



This printer works. And it's CHEAP, people.



Like any garage sale worth its salt, we'll be selling many nice, gently-used clothes for men and women; various electronic items (including an HP Photosmart 3210X1 printer/fax and a TEAC vinyl turntable); all sorts of bric-a-brac and knick-knacks (cups/mugs, stuffed animals, etc.).

But we'll also be busting out some amazing pop-culture memorabilia and ephemera--the results of three decades of pop-culture pack-ratting!!

Among the items on sale:




Mucho Out-of-Print VINYL LP's: Collect obscure disco records from the 1970's? Vintage Christian pop LP's (replete with crazy covers) from that same decade? Classic pop and rock? Kid's records? Yep, we'll be selling all of those, and more! A few are even autographed...And keep an eye out for some out-of-print audio cassettes for peanuts, too!

BOOKS! Hardcover and softcover; fiction and non-fiction. We'll have a little bit of everything: pulp, bestsellers, horror/sci-fi, history, film and TV reference, classic literature, and (yeah) more! Again, a few are autographed...

MONSTER MAGAZINES: Ever wonder how Ye Olde Schlockologist learned about his favorite varieties of schlock before the dawn of the ol' internets? Why, via magazines like FILMFAX, Video Watchdog, and Famous Monsters of Filmland, that's how! And he's selling some of these great magazines--packed with informative interviews, nifty photos, and delicious content--for dirt cheap!



Pick up the Hammer, whoa-OH!



TOYS: Vintage boardgames; a genuine Kenner Yoda hand-puppet; an American Godzilla that roars; action figures; Lindsay-Lohan-in-a-box; an MC Hammer doll; a New Kids on the Block stuffed toy; a lovely Walt Disney Christmas Ornament set; a really old Marx toy train set; and much, much more!

VHS AND DVD: We'll have a ton of out-of-print and obscure VHS stuff--horror and sci-fi, and all sorts of exploitation/Bizarro-worthy curios! And DVDs, to boot!



Buy me at garage sale, you will.



 VARIOUS BITS OF POP CULTURE WEIRDNESS/MEMORABILIA: How about some charming Nelson (that'd be the eighties' hair metal band, fiends and neighbors!) earrings? Or a Shaun Cassidy or Wayne Newton pendant? Or maybe some well-worn but real cool posters, lobby cards, or stills?





 

Nelson Jewelry? Hells, YEAH!

Feel free to email Ye Olde Schlockologist if you've got any questions. More details (address, directions, etc.) are forthcoming, so stay TUNED!!



Massage Chair--and it WORKS!

News Flash!! Doctor of Schlockology takes Summer Schlock Semester Off!!

Hello again, Fiends and Neighbors! A hearty thanks to the enthusiastic crowd that attended June's BMN! Inimitable schlockology disertations! Cleopatra Jones thwarting a homicidal lesbian drug czarina, kicking ass, and taking names to the delight of several regulars and a pack of newbies! If you missed it, there's no hope for you...and you won't get another chance to drink deep from the Well of Strange Cinema until the fall!

That's right, kids: Bizarro Movie Night's in the middle of a summer hiatus. Said respite's giving Yours Schlockily a chance to catch up on the many writing plates he's got spinning in the air at present. We'll still try to sprinkle this here Blog with Bizarro-worthy recommendations and news. But come fall, we're planning to really bust out future surprises that'll blow the tops of your crazed heads off!! That means:

More Movies!!

More Insanity!!

More Monsters!!

More Bikini Babes!!

 More Rock and Roll!!

More Bikers!!

Much more from Guest Co-Host, Lucha Legend El Serpiente de Oro!!

       And

 imminent

                         world

                                         conquest!!!

Seriously, folks, BMN is planning on some major shenanigans soon! You'll detest yerself if you miss it!

Stay Tuned...

A Blaxploitation Cocktail to get you in the mood for tomorrow's BMN!

Tomorrow night, Ye Olde Schlockologist will celebrate the most bad-assed sub-genre in American Cinema with an educational discourse on Blaxploitation--and spiffy visual aids to boot! Enclosed please find a couple of things to get you into the mood:

The trailer for the Pam Grier vehicle, Foxy Brown:



...and the thoroughly awesome Blacula:



For follow-up study (and a couple of token plugs):

Two key figures in black cinema passed away in the last couple of years. They led interesting lives, and made invaluable contributions to Bizarro cinema. You can read about Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones herself) with a click here; and Isaac Hayes (the God behind the Shaft soundtrack, and the title character in the film Truck Turner) by clicking here.

Last but not least, the man widely credited with starting the entire 'Blaxploitation' revolution in the 1970's was writer/director Melvin van Peebles. An interview--and detailed overview of van Peebles' life and career--can be accessed by clicking here.

Be at the Aster tomorrow, Fiends, Neighbors, and Suckas!

Next Bizarro Movie Night: Friday June 25

Hello, Fiends and Neighbors! The finest Cinema Appreciation Educational series in Ballard is returning this Friday!

Apologies for the lack of Bizarro-ness of late: Ye Olde Schlockologist has been up to his chin in SIFF film coverage, all of which can be seen at the SunBreak.com (the most Bizarro-worthy bits would probably be--pimpery alert--the interview with giallo-horror-art film Amer's directors Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet, and the soon-to-be-posted interview with the director and star of Ticked Off Trannies with Knives!)

But the big, immediate news is this Friday's Bizarro-palooza, an educational treatise on Urban Action Cinema of the 1970's (that'd be Blaxploitation, brothers and sisters). Ye Olde Schlockologist's lecture on this cinematic movement will be followed by an educational screening of one of the finest examples of the genre.

More on this most bad-assed of cinema muthas (shut your mouth) in the coming days. BE THERE!

Ballard Goes Bizarro Once More! Sex, Sin, Vice, Drugs...and Snacks!!

Well, Fiends and Neighbors, are you ready for another round of Bizarro Good Times? You darn well better be!

Big news on the Aster Coffee Lounge front! Bizarro Movie Night's fab benefactor has added caramel walnut and peanut butter brownies to their snacking repertoire! AND you can still get a damn fine coffee or chai tea latte, AND tasty beers, wines, and other snacks. Speaking of which...

Not only will we be busting out some prime Dwain Esper dementia, Your Schlockologist Truly and the Bizarro Movie Night Promo Team will be busting out commemorative Bizarro Movie Night SNACKS as a special tie-in with tomorrow night's double-bill!

C'mon. You know you want a bag.

Be there, Fiends and Neighbors!