JANUARY EARWORMS

 SO YES. . .I'M A WEIRD CUSS! 

I have this thing where I wake up most mornings and there's a song playing over and over in my head.  It's not a song that I consciously put there and it's not a song I recently heard.  It's just there.  And sometimes it takes me a couple minutes after waking to notice it's spinning around and around in my head.  So being the weird cuss that I am, I have endeavored to keep track of these odd little earworms in my BUJO each month.  And here are all the songs that appeared in my noggin during the month of January 2025:

• Jan. 1st - VAN DIEMAN'S LAND by U2  (How odd that it wasn't NEW YEAR'S DAY but that just shows ta go ya that there is no logic to what song appears in my head!!!
  
  
  
• Jan. 2nd - THIS TRAIN DON'T STOP THERE ANYMORE by Elton John
  
  
  
• Jan. 4th - CAN'T EXPLAIN by The Who
  
  
  
• Jan. 6th - AT LAST by Etta James
  
  
  
• Jan. 7th - DINNER WITH DRAC by Zacherley
  
  
  
• Jan. 8th - THAT'S ALL RIGHT by Elvis Presley
  
  
  
• Jan. 9th - HOOKED ON POLKAS by Weird Al Yankovic
  
  
  
• Jan. 10th - WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS by War
  
  
  
• Jan. 11th - CHICK HABIT by April March
  
  
  
• Jan. 16th - TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING by Diana Ross
  
  
  
• Jan. 17th - THE MAGIC TOUCH by The Platters
  
  
  
• Jan. 18th - READ 'EM AND WEEP by Barry Manilow
  
  
  
• Jan. 19th - I'M A BELIEVER by The Monkees
  
  
  
• Jan. 20th - TRYING TO GET THE FEELING by Barry Manilow
  
  
  
• Jan. 21st - THE SENSUAL WORLD by Kate Bush
  
  
  
• Jan. 22nd - SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES by Guy Lombardo
  
  
  
• Jan. 23rd - STILL THEY RIDE by Journey
  
  
  
• Jan. 24th - EV'RY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE by Sarah Vaughan
  
  
  
• Jan. 25th - WHISPERING PINES by Johnny Horton
  
  
  
• Jan. 27th - GHOST LOVE SCORE (LIVE AT WAACHEN 2013) by Nightwish
  
  
  
• Jan. 30th - SHUFFLE OFF TO BUFFALO by The Boswell Sisters
  
  
  

ANNOUNCING FINUARY

 THAT'S RIGHT, GANG(PLANKS)! 

The month of February, for me, will be "Shittee Shark Movie Month" where I will try to watch as many shittee shark movies as I have managed to gather in my net!  And that's a chum bucket full of waterlogged, bitey goodness (or is that BADness???).  So stay tuna-d because this post will float to the top of the blog come the end of February to let you know how I did. . . and, if indeed, I managed to survive!    

WEEK ONE PROGRESS REPORT

January 2025 Top Ten List

 HERE ARE ALL THE MOVIES I WATCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN JANUARY 2025: 

1.  SOUNDTRACK FOR A COUP D'ETAT (2024)
2. HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS  (2022)
3. MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK  (2022)
4. THE POOCH  (1932) *
5. CONCLAVE  (2024)
6. ELTON JOHN:  NEVER TOO LATE  (2024)
7. SATURDAY NIGHT  (2024)
8. CHOO-CHOO!  (1932) *
9. KOREA:  THE NEVER-ENDING WAR  (2019)
10. THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT  (2022)

* Just a note regarding the appearance of two short subjects on this top ten list, since I usually only include feature films.  Well, I simply didn't watch that much this month (spending most of it reading booky-books) and rather than put 3 stars films on my top ten, I decided to go with higher rated short subjects.  So sue me! 

And here is everything else I watched in January. . .

And starting this year, I'm also going to put everything I read during the Month of January on these posts as well . . . since this year I'll be focussing more on reading a LOT of books.  This year's reading challenge is to read 100 books so here we go... 

• MEN'S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY #11 by Robert Deis et. al.
• SUPPER WITH THE STARS: WITH YOUR HOST VINCENT PRICE by Peter Fuller & Jenny Hammerton
• THE HAUNTED PLANET by D.J. Arneson
• MCBROOM'S GHOST by Sid Fleischman
• IT ALL STARTED WITH EUROPA by Richard Armour
• THE GHOST ON SATURDAY NIGHT by Sid Fleischman
• MURDERS MACABRE by Norman Firth
• HAUNTED HOUSE by Jan Pienkowski
• EDGE # 12:  DEATH'S BOUNTY by George G. Gilman
• TOMBS by Junji Ito
• HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU FOR BEGINNING READERS by R.J. Ivankovic
• NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD FOTONOVEL by Steve Abramson
• THE CLASSICS RECLASSIFIED by Richard Armour
• THE BONE KEY:  THE NECROMANTIC MYSTERIES OF KYLE MURCHISON BOOTH by Sarah Monette
• EDGE #13:  A TOWN CALLED HATE by George G. Gilman
• INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS FOTONOVEL by W.D. Richter
• RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT! 21ST SERIES by Robert W. Ripley

Paul, Cheeks and Rickster. . .

 Though the many years have gone by, somewhere out there in the dark, these three still cruise through the night and they always will.

"Still they ride,

on wheels of fire,

They rule the night.

Still they ride,

the strong will survive

Chasing thunder. . . "

Songwriters: Jonathan Cain / Neal Joseph Schon / Stephen Ray Perry

Still They Ride lyrics © Hipgnosis Songs Group

MY MOVIE YEAR (UPDATED!!!): THE KNOTTILY-SPICY STOOKY-TIZWIN FLICKERS PROJECT 2024

 AS THE YEAR TURNS, HERE ARE THE STATS FOR MY YEAR IN MOVIES 2024 AND THE RANKINGS THERETO!

All the details as usual can be found on my letterboxd list right here .

And click here to see my tmdb list of all the movies AND TV shows I watched in 2024.

Then there's my yootuberz playlist (click here) with all the movie trailers of every film I watched in 2024!

Here are my most watched starry stars of 2024:

And here are my most watched directors:

And that makes the Star of the Year Rod Taylor!

And TMDB was a little late with their "That's A Wrap!" thang, but it's out and here are my top movies, worst movies and top TV shows watched in 2024 . . .