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We're ALL misfits!!

I blame you guys and I will expose all of you in a court of law if it comes to that.

New one. (Yeah, I've been bored/prolific lately)... dunno how many of y'all remember the cheesy but fun 1989 sci-fi flick "Moontrap" (with Bruce Campbell and Walter "Chekhov from Star Trek" Koenig), but it's finally been released on Blu-Ray and a much delayed sequel is finally in the works...



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Moontrap-Cult-Sci-Fi-Film-hits-Blu-Ray-Sequel-Coming

And the Hubs keep on comin'!

Wanna feel old? Check out my list of hard rock/metal albums that are celebrating their 25th (!) anniversaries this year...



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Happy-Metal-Anniversary-These-heavy-metal-Albums-turn-25-in-2015

I can remember getting a lot of those albums - 1990 was a great year for Metal. Cannot believe it was 25 years ago!!

Thelemech wrote:

I can remember getting a lot of those albums - 1990 was a great year for Metal. Cannot believe it was 25 years ago!!

I bought most of'em on cassette @ the Sam Goody at the Mall... then re-bought them all again on CD years later!

Fat Freddy wrote:

Thelemech wrote:

I can remember getting a lot of those albums - 1990 was a great year for Metal. Cannot believe it was 25 years ago!!

I bought most of'em on cassette @ the Sam Goody at the Mall... then re-bought them all again on CD years later!

I did basically the same thing I voted for Rust In Peace by the way - still stands up today.

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I voted for Rust In Peace by the way - still stands up today.

Cool. I think I voted for Deliverance's "W.O.O.W" just for its sentimental value. I will check back on the poll results in a day or two to see who's in the lead....

Yep... bought thwm back in the day too...... fortunately I had a CD player at that point..... but I was still buying lots of blank cassettes so I could listen in my car!

Had to chose Queensryche-Empire, thought there were some fantastic releases that year even though I wasn't in the scene at the time. Wasn't long after that year though I first became a metal fan.

Fat Freddy wrote:

And the Hubs keep on comin'!

Wanna feel old? Check out my list of hard rock/metal albums that are celebrating their 25th (!) anniversaries this year...



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Happy-Metal-Anniversary-These-heavy-metal-Albums-turn-25-in-2015

Other then the GWAR, I own all of those albums, and at one time owned them on vinyl, with the exception of the Warrior Soul disc, which I do not believe was ever released on vinyl

I literally had to flip a coin between RIP and Empire with Empire winning. The Scorps were just not interesting to me anymore(hadn't been since World Wide Live at that point in time. Stryper was killer(just about wore about that cassette), Kings X(been a fan ever since), JP, Anthrax, that DD solo album is pretty darn good. I wouldn't discover Deliverance until a little later when a coworker gave me their debut album. WOW!!! What a great year.

I went with Painkiller, but it only narrowly edged out Queensryche. The nostalgia factor was strong with all as I spent many a Friday with friends after school playing ball in the streets while these blasted from our boom boxes. JP won out as I remembered psyching myself up for a lot of Wrestling matches in HS back in the day.

BTW, FF great job on the Hubpages. I read a few last night and today as we are pretty much snowed in here in New England. Thank God I got married last weekend and not this one!!!

Although I'm missing a few of those mentioned, I had to go With Rust In Peace, Megadeth's masterpiece.

Today I learned 1990 was a great year! At least for metal. I went with Weapons... as a full album, but I must say, Cemetery Gates from Cowboys would end up in a top ten list of songs for me. Of all time!

Thanx for all the kind words, fellas. Looks like my "1990 in Metal" page has already gotten more hits/views in its first 24 hours than any of the other stuff I've posted this year!

@ sentinel - congrats on your marriage!

R.I.P because i'm completely biased for 'deth.

This is actually an old entry, but I'm giving it a "bump" today to celebrate the fact that it's now been two years since I quit doing smokeless tobacco. Yay me.



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Im-Quitting-Smokeless-Tobacco

Congrats ! A hard habit to break but once it's done, it's one of the best feelings you get and feel like you can accomplish anything.

Thanx man. I think I've finally got that nicotine demon beat after all these years!!

Congrats, sir!!!

I kicked the nicotine demon back in 2003.  I just started banking all my cigarette money and quickly realized how much the nasty habit was costing me.

New entry... well, sorta new anyway.

I actually posted this one about a year ago at a different writing site that I was trying out called "Bubblews," but they suck (long story that I won't get into now)... so I took all my stuff down from there and I'm trying to re-work/re-edit/tweak some of them into HubPage entries. This is the first one to receive such a resurrection, about the 2013 "CBGB" movie:


http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/CBGB-Movie-is-a-Blast-of-Punk-Nostalgia

I enjoyed that flick, although like you, I was disappointed that the Ramones got the bum's rush in their historical significance of that place. And their lack of Ramones music within. For whatever reason ($$$), making a movie with the Ramones in it and not featuring their music seems absurd, much like that recent Jimi Hendrix bio pic that didn't feature any Jimi Hendrix music.

How historically accurate the movie is or isn't doesn't take away from it too much though. Worth a gander if you like that sort of thing.

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I was disappointed that the Ramones got the bum's rush in their historical significance of that place.

I had to admit tho, the guys playing the Ramones were pretty convincing look-alikes....especially when they started fighting while on stage, haha.