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No two ways about it, it’s been a heavy week. Our main man William ‘Baseball Fury‘ Lacey’s been in the hospital with freaky and undiagnosable engine trouble. There’s the sad business with Heath Ledger, which seemed to come out of nowhere. And all this on top of the usual daily sorrows and nerve-wreckers: our soldiers in harm’s way around the globe, this toilet economy, these turkeys in charge, some new staph superbug creeping around, and now someone tells me that the goddamn honey bees are going extinct?!

Well, that’s plenty for me. Today we’re just gonna talk about cheerful and fun and life-affirming stuff here…

Hey, here’s a good one to start with. Click the link below and check out our new best friend Rachel Whitmire from Orlando, Florida…

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=131298914&albumID=0&imageID=17592863

HAH! She even got the child molester glasses right! And the befuddled expression! Rachel rules.

And speaking of ruling, let me hear ya say…..

Stacy Stacy Rock Y’all!

In a movie like Murder Party  that’s just over-fucking-flowing with ugly dudes, it’s crucial to maintain at least some element of hotness to keep things balanced. Of course, Skei’s super hot too but she gets killed off at the very start so for the majority of the flick’s running time, the only eye candy for the audience is Stacy. (Apologies, Randall…we’re just dealing in facts here.) And the best part is that she’s funny as fuck, which leads me to this…

http://medialysis.blogspot.com/2007/12/golden-flix-awards-2007.html

The groovy culture blog Medialysis voted Stacy one of the two Funniest Femmes of 2007! (The other being Amy Poehler, which ain’t too shabby company to be in.) Additionally, these masterminds declared Murder Party to have the Best Ensemble Cast (along with something called Ocean’s Thirteen, I dunno, I think it was on YouTube or something…) So congratulations to Stacy for some well-deserved kudos and thanks to Medialysis for knowing what in the fuck they’re talking about.

And since we’re talking about the multi-talented Ms. Rock– who also has a flourishing career as a singer songwriter (check her out right here:    http://www.myspace.com/stacyrockmusic )– we’re very proud to mention her upcoming appearance at the Gorilla Productions Battle of the Bands, which goes down on January 27th and the legendary Don Hills in NYC.

Go on out and make some noise for Stacy! Here’s the deets on that: http://www.myspace.com/stacyrockmusic  

Oh, and another fun event for all you music lovers is the long-awaited finally-impending debut show of Ain’t Rights, the Brooklyn party rock trio featuring Bill Lacey on gits and the formidable Irene Trullinger doing the pipework. Fast, heavy, wailing: not to be missed. (If any of you have seen our short film Crabwalk, you’ll know Irene for playing the crab shack waitress who so very realistically beat the living shit out of Macon. Expect her live show to be just as merciless.)

That’s the first-ever live performance of Ain’t Rights: Friday, Feb. 1st, at Rocky’s in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (351 Kent Av @ S. 5th St., doors at 8pm, $5) If you miss it, you ain’t right.

Annnnd let me point you to the page for East Hundred– the Philly-based band featuring Murder Party composers Brooke and Will Blair– which has some new tracks up including a haunting cover of Radiohead’s ‘Climbing the Walls’. Dig it:   

http://www.myspace.com/easthundred  

And finally, here’s this, just because it makes me feel good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTe7w5XDvmk

See? Better already.

To be honest, I was initially going to call it Tuesday Bluesday. Now, I decided not to because I felt that really went against the new All-Positive theme we’re working on for 2008.  But holy shit, man…the New York City subway. That big rotten sumbitch can really take the wind outta your sails if you’re not careful.

Even on days when I’ve literally leapt out of bed to pirouette through my apartment, singing to the cheerful cartoon animals waiting on my window sill for me to rock them a step routine straight out of How She Move in which I interpretive-dance all the ways in which my day is going to be fantatstic (Here’s me gettin a compliment from my boss- LEAP! Here’s me volunteering after work- SHUFFLE!)….well, even on days like that, days like today, somehow the subway commute just has a way of sucking all that Yes-I-can right the fuck out’ve me. I hate to throw around terms like pathological misanthropy- because then, hey, who’s the real asshole on this train? It’s me!- but if the unfortunate shoe fits, well…

Some thoughts for my co-commuters, may I never annoy them so ferociously as they annoy me:

1. Shoving people out of your way is always rude. But on a crowded twelve-foot wide platform with trains pulling in from both directions, it’s potentially deadly. So cool it, you over-perfumed prune-woman with orange hair at the 42nd Street Q at around 8:55am.

2. Everyone, everywhere: smacking your gum is disgusting. It is a thousand-fold more disgusting to do so in another person’s ear. That’s the stuff of barnyard animals.  You’re not in eighth grade- rolling your eyes and blowing bubbles in stoopid homeroom- you’re an adult on your way to a job that apparently requires you to carry a briefcase. Knock it off.

3. Look, I get it: standing in the doorway is kinda nice because you can lean your back against the door and somehow it’s not so claustrophobic with people pressed in on you, in front and behind. I like to stand in the doorway myself, on occasion. However, you are not allowed to act indignant- sucking your teeth and muttering angry comments- when people then must push by you to board the train, especially if you can’t even be bothered to turn sideways to make a little more room to let them on. You fucking idiot.

(deep breath)

I think I’m losing my mind. I think I need to move to the country. Here’s some news and shit…

ITEM! We got a really sweet write-up from Horror Reviews…check it out!

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=156258504&blogID=346834615

ITEM!   Murder Party’s ace makeup magician and  doomed 19th century vampire Paul Goldblatt has been tapped to do effects work for the upcoming thriller As Good As Dead. The flick stars Melissia Leo from Homicide and Brian “Original Hannibal Lecktor” Cox. (Don’t diss the spelling: that’s how they rolled in Manhunter.) Paul was decribing to me some of the kills he’s designing and it sounds totally badass. Not so much like Murder Party’s chainsaw-to-face gonzo aesthetic…more along the lines of Taxi Driver’s icy realism. S’gonna be good!

ITEM! Avengers Classic 8 is on sale this week at your local comic shoppy! In the original Stan Lee adventure we meet Kang the Conqueror for the first time (don’t act like you’re not excited) and in an all new short story written by Murder Party’s Macon Blair and expertly rendered by Nick Dragotta of The Losers, we get a peek into the love life of Avengers sidekick Rick Jones! ‘Nuff said!

ITEM! There Will Be Blood? More like There Will Be Fucking Awesome. The Twin Peaks Gold Box? Up until Epsiode 16, it’s the best television ever. The Zodiac Collector’s Edition? James Ellroy is an enjoyable freak on the commentary, the Arthur Leigh Allen doc is powerfully ambiguous, the digital effects breakdown is astonishing and yeah, after long consideration, I think this one just barely edges out No Country  as my favorite of 2007. (Not speaking for the whole of Murder Party here, just for myself, the Wolfmelt…say, Jeremy and Chris and Paul and Sandy and Skei and Stacy or anyone, for that matter: What was your favorite, just out of curiosity?)

That’s it for now, folks. We’ve got some new theatrical screenings coming up that we’ll announce details for soon and hopefully some news about our next filmic endeavor, as well! Thanks for listening to me rant (I already feel better, out from under that bleak subway-induced funk) and we’ll talk to you later…

Take care and lotsa love.

Hey friends!

Everyone here at Murder Party hopes you all had a great holiday and that your families and loved ones are all well and good and we hope your 2008 is a non-stop whirlwind of luck and goodness….

Two Thousand And Great: Let’s Rock It Positive!!  Yessir, that’s gonna be the new motto around here.

No specific theme today, we’ll just ramble a bit, if that’s alright…

Here’s a swell little notice we got on KillerFilm.com, which called out Murder Party as one of their faves of 2007, along with big league hot dogs like No Country, Knocked Up, and Hot Fuzz…

http://www.killerfilm.com/features/read/Best_of_2007-34

Now, you know I love our little movie (Murdie, as I will sometime affectionately call him) but I could never mention him  in the same breath as No Country For Old Men and keep a straight face. If someone else wants to, though…well that’s just fine and it makes me feel all kinds of warm inside. Thanks to Donny Broussard and all the folks at KillerFilm.Com for that!

Hey– have you guys seen Once? How did I miss that one when it was in theaters? Holy shit, is that a great movie or what? I caught it on DVD over the holiday and I finally get what all the buzz was about. So simple, so sincere, so unpretentious and kindhearted. Those fucking Irish and their music…always making me cry and whatnot…jeez…

If you’re a fan of the Law & Order shows (and if you’re not you’re a Communist), keep an eye out for next Tuesday’s Special Victims Unit. Macon from Murder Party makes an appearance as a shifty suspect and both Mariska Hargitay and special guest Erika Christensen give him the hot cop treatment. That’s Tuesday, January 8th at 10pm on NBC: set your Tivo and make sure you have Visine handy because if you blink you will miss him.

If being excited for the new Rambo movie makes me lame, then I don’t ever want to be cool.

I am also going to watch the fucking shit out of Cloverfield. With my face. Twice.

I spent New Year’s Eve in Austin, Texas. Here is a scientific fact: ten Lone Stars and three shots of Maker’s will absolutely turn you into a werewolf, full moon or no full moon. And speaking of Austin, The Texas Sapphires– whose music appeared in Murder Party when Chris was making his deadly pumpkin bread– have a new live CD out and it’s fantastic. The recording quality is a little lo-fi (I already said it was live, sheesh!) but the tunes are so catchy and they play and sing so well, it just doesn’t matter. Nineteen tracks that make you feel great, go on and check ‘em…

http://www.thetexassapphires.com/home.html

My little brothers (who did the score for M.P., as many of you already know) offered to host Christmas at their place in Philadelphia next year. My folks said that was a good idea. The thought of not making it back to Virginia for the holiday– to miss seeing all the old faces and the new babies and flying remote control airplanes at the school field and lurking around in the woods at night and getting Slurpees at the 7-11 and hanging out on Mom’s back porch and all that shit– made me absolutely insane. I’m not exaggerating. You saw what Britney did the other day, right? Yeah, I mean nuts like that. Having an imaginary fight with my Dad on the subway on the way home, muttering to myself and shit, slamming the doors, kicking the walls, email ultimatums like ”You motherfuckers can have Christmas in Philly…WITHOUT!! ME!!”

Can you imagine? A grown-ass man, behaving like that? Damn shame. But then again…we’re all only as God made us, right? Heh heh…oh well.

Here’s my New Year’s Resolutions:

1. Lose twenty pounds.

2. Quit smoking cigarettes.

3. Complete two feature-length screenplays.

I think all that’s reasonable and doable. Feel free to share your resolutions in the comments, if you like, and we can all support each other in our efforts and come 2009, if we’ve failed, we can all clap each other on the back and say “Well, it was a good shot anyway!”

I also want to get a dog at some point. A mutt, I think. These are the names I’ve been thinking about: Batman, Cuss Word, Bar Fight, Yeti, Scatter, Horsey, Sandwich, Second Grader, Kevin, and Bank Robber.

Ehhh…well? I guess that’s it for now. Until next time…high fives all around!