FEBRUARY 2025 TOP TEN LIST

 HERE ARE MY 10 FAVE MOVIES I WATCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN FEBRUARY 2025: 

And here is everything else I watched during the month of February:  

And the books I read during February 2025 are:  

BATTLING BRITONS: REVIEWS OF BRITISH WAR COMICS FROM THE 1960s TO THE 2000s by Justin Marriott, ed.

MIKE FINK:  A TALL TALE by Steven Kellogg 

THE SHADOWED CIRCLE COMPENDIUM by Steve Donoso, ed.

THE FAGGIEST VAMPIRE by Carlton Mellick III

FACTS CONCERNING THE LATE ARTHUR JERMYN AND HIS FAMILY by H.P. Lovecraft

BATTLE STATIONS (WAR PICTURE LIBRARY) by Donne Avenell & Hugo Pratt

PULP ADVENTURES #46: THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD by Bart Pierce, ed.

BATTLER BRITON (WAR PICTURE LIBRARY) by V.A.L. Holding & Hugo Pratt

GANGDOM'S DOOM by Maxwell Grant (a.k.a Walter B. Gibson)

THE SHADOW:  HITLER'S ASTROLOGER by Dennis O'Neill & Michael Kaluta

FLASH GORDON:  KING'S CROSS by Jeff Parker, Jesse Hamm & Grace Allison

THE SPIDER VOL. 1:  TERROR OF THE ZOMBIE QUEEN by David Liss & Colton Worley

DOCTOR WHO:  A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME LORDS by Steve Tribe

PENDA, MERCIA'S FIRST KING:  THE LAST GREAT HEATHEN WARLORD OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND by Paul Barrett

THE SPIDER VOL. 2:  THE BUSINESS MAN FROM HELL by David Liss & Ivan Rodriguez

THAT GIRL by Paul W. Fairman

FROG AND TOAD TOGETHER by Arnold Lobel 

DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!:  THREE OF THE BEST SUBMARINE-WARFARE COMMANDO COMIC BOOK ADVENTURES by Calum Laird, ed.

Finuary Ends ???

FEBRUARY HAS COME TO AN END.  Does this signal the end of FINUARY?!?!?!  Oh no, it can't be!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaand it isn't.  See, I didn't do as well with watching as many shitty shark movies as I wanted due to this being a particularly shitty month for me.  So yeah, I was a little disappointed in myself.  Felt like a bucket of chum. 

HEY!  That's not a shitty shark movie; that's a really GOOD one!!!

However, due to popular demand, I have been convinced to extend FINUARY into the month of March.  That's right, my little minnows.  FINUARY is slopping over into TWICE BITTEN MARCH MUNCH!!!  But hey, I'll still be calling it all FINUARY.  So by the end of February, here are the shitty shark movies I've managed to make my way through.  We'll just call them the unlucky 13: 

     So check back in TWICE BITTEN MARCH MUNCH month to see what other goofy shark flicks I subject myself to!

OUR 20th ANNIVERSARY 2005 - 2025

 OH YEAH . . . I ALMOST FORGOT.  This year is the 20th anniversary of this here blog.  All I can say is . . . wow.

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