The Man, The Movies, The Legend

Hi all. Newbie here. I've been a fan of Ed's movies since the first time I found a trailer for Plan 9, and I've been hunting his stuff down ever since-- not easy here in the Netherlands, but I'm making some progress. I finally managed to get my hands on a copy of Death Of A Transvestite, loved every bit of it. I'm actually quite surprised by how clever and open-minded the book is... really a nifty story, excellent quotes and pacing and characters and such, just... well, the usual Ed Wood writing style that makes it so wonderfully off-beat. I feel like I'm really starting to understand Glen/Glenda now. (For those of you who haven't read it-- (s)he's the main character of the novel, and is now a notorious mafia killer. Yes.) Also mad love for the character of Paul(ine), actually quite a deep character-- especially considering it's mostly a porn/murder/fashion novel (kind of like American Psycho, eh?), reminded me of Hedwig & The Angry Inch more than once... I'm just really happy to see Ed was so open-minded and clever, and really seemed to understand the differences between all types of "queers" (despite the silly dialogue in Glen Or Glenda). So much love.

Moral: if you haven't yet read Death Of A Transvestite, or Ed's other novels (which I'm just going to assume are just as good), go out and buy them... it's wonderful stuff.

(And apologies if I'm preaching to the choir. ;) )

gopher_bites and I were just smoking cigarrettes and some how the conversation transitioned from Toe Jam and Earl to Johnathan Winters, because I saw his evil twin at work the other day. In discussing him we connected that in the 70's he was hatched from a gigantic egg in Mork and Mindy. Then in the very early 80's he played a gigantic egg (Humpty Dumpty) in the sweeping television miniseries of Alice in Wonderland. Then in the late 80's and early 90's he made pro egg eating comercials for the national egg council. How did the man's life become devoted the cause of eggs anyway?


1925-?
Superstar, Egg Maniac

In case anybody's interested, Reverend Steve Galindo, founder of The Church of Ed Wood ( http://www.edwood.org/ ), and who has a blog @: http://reverendsteve.blogspot.com/ , now has an RSS feed for LJ, in case you want to add him to your friends list.

Here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/r…

Enjoy.

happy woodmas!

Howdy,

Just saying hello and directing aanyone who has not yet seen it to this cheesy treasure trove of Criswell-tinted delights:
http://www.evil-pumpkin.com/jake/c…

Incredibly the site is still online despite not been updated in some years (I believe). I have already downloaded the various deeply hilarious Criswell soundfiles for my listening and dining pleasure - I suggest you do likewise!

Criswell may well have predicted that you would do just that...

I don't have a paid account but I have always been able to do community searched. That's how I found the communities I am in. As of today LJ is telling me that you can't do a community search unless you are a paid customer. This doesn't make sense to me. Anyone else have this problem?

I don't know if anyone has already mentioned this, but I just got back from the dollar theatre. Seed of Chucky was bad, but better than I thought. That, and there was mention of Glen or Glenda?. Chucky's kid didn't know if s/he was a girl or boy... Chucky called "him" Glen and Tiffany called "her" Glenda... there were a couple other small Wood remarks and all. I would tell you what happend with the kid... I mean, how they chose the gender and all, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone who wants to watch the movie.

Please, don't promote your asinine rating communities here, or anthing else that has absolutely no relavance to Ed. You can go do that in timburton. All posts of that nature will be deleted as soon as I catch them.

Thanks!

Your lovely and humble maintainer,
saysthemaria

PS. I don't meant to be a bitch about it, but it really irks me <3 on second thought, yes, yes I do mean to be a bitch about it <333333

EDIT: pps. repeat offenders will be banned from posting. No one cares how hot you or your friends are ^_^

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Considered the worst filmmaker of all time, Ed Wood won a cult following after his death and now fans can see his long-lost last film "Necromania," a work some say shows he was so bad that he was brilliant.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Mo…

I saw this in the news and figured I'd find an Ed Wood community and let them know about it. Enjoy :)