fanatic

Twilight Fanatics
$0.99
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Fanatic!: Songs Lists and Notes from the Harmony In My Head Radio Show
$15.00
I've been a longtime fan of Henry's, and in '04 I lamented the fact that I couldn't hear his L.A. radio show. I later found a place online where it is downloadable (rollins-archive.com), and have listened to all the broadcasts, many more than once.
That being said, this book is an entertaining read. Henry's notes on the songs are funny and informative. Also, in the book they are greatly expanded from what was originally on the Harmony In My Head website. So I think this is a good purchase even if your a longtime fan of the show who's read the note archive online already. There is also a Vol. 2 available on his website from the '06 broadcasts.
One problem I have with the show nowadays is that you recognize a pattern. In '06 he played many of the songs from the first time out over again and has returned to them steadily over the years. He always goes back to "First Four Years" era Black Flag, that damn "Pata Pata" album by Miriam Makeeba, pretty obvious punk-comp tunes, etc. And if I hear "Dear Miss Lonely Hearts" by Phil Lynott one more time, I'm gonna puke! He still knocks me out on a regular basis, but he should look at the artist list on the rollins-archive site that shows whats been played for all the shows. He's see how often he repeats himself.
So yeah, the book is great, but the guy is in a rut with this show now I think.

The Last Horror Film (Uncut Special Edition)
$14.95
joe spinell yet again makes the film with his acting. gory at times highly entertaining. recommend

Die! Die! My Darling!
$24.95
DIE! DIE! MY DARLING! (aka "Fanatic") was Hammer Studios' most offbeat thriller. Operating like a bizarre cross between "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and "Carrie", it gave legendary Tallulah Bankhead ("Lifeboat") her final big-screen hurrah; and co-starred Stefanie Powers as the young woman in peril.

Pat Carroll (Stefanie Powers) decides to take an afternoon to visit the mother of her dead one-time fiance���, Mrs Trefoile (Tallulah Bankhead) at her run-down house in the English countryside. What starts out as a pleasant housecall soon dissolves into a nightmarish ordeal as Pat is taken hostage, the aim to "cleanse" Pat's soul in order for her to be reunited in the next world with Trefoile's son. Soul cleansing apparently involves being tied up in an attic for several days, starved, tortured, beaten and preached to by Bible-thumping Trefoile--Mrs Margaret "Carrie" White would be so proud--and her small, scrappy band of helpers (Yootha Joyce, Donald Sutherland and Peter Vaughan).

It's a nasty, gritty thriller; full of sweat and menace and entirely different from other films being made by Hammer during this period, which tended more towards glossy Victorian-era thrillers. Mrs Trefoile is a dream role for any actress with camp sensibilities, and Ms Bankhead delivers appropriately. Stefanie Powers is a worthy adversary, although her strange pseudo-British accent in the initial scenes is quite distracting.

A must for anyone who enjoys Hag Cinema (ie: movies like "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", "The Anniversary", "Trog", "Strait-Jacket").