Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol...O, Who the F#@! Cares?

I've finally had time to repost more old blog entries (just ahead of Adoresixtyfour's 9-year anniversary). Now you can go back in time seven long years and see just what kind of tumultuous thoughts were grazing in my skull:

February 2003

March 2003

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 16

Five more "lost" melancholy mysings from the not-so-nice year of 2003: Death, poetry, summer, fear, and fathers.

My Best Friend's Parents

Dog Daze

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Open Ground

The Orange Tree

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 15

Another batch of long-missing essays--a couple more entries in the "Vanishing Chicago" series, and other pieces of my mundane life:

(Dis)comfort Food

Marshall Field's

Of Possums and Procrastinators

Saturday Night at the Laundromat

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 14

A mixed bag of old essays: Some about sports, some about public transportation, some about artistic friends, some about kitty sadness. (At this rate, I'll have all of last decade's missing files up on the blog by the end of this decade!)

Can't Take Anymore

Opening Day 2007

Three and Out

Quickies

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 13

More blasts from the past, this time from the "awesome" (/snark) year of 2002:

A Hazy Shade of Winter

The Lions in Winter

Ends & Odds

The Screening Room

The Horkin' o' the Green

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 12

By now, you must be wondering: "how many files did this guy lose?" The answer? Dozens.

Here are four more "lost" entries: One on sports, and three on vanishing movie theaters.

This Sporting Life: Middle of the Road

Vanishing Chicago: The Nortown

Vanishing Chicago: The Esquire

Vanishing Chicago: The Neighborhood Movie House

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 11

Several years ago, I wrote a series of essays devoted to places and things that were disappearing from the civic landscape under the title Vanishing Chicago. Ironically, nearly all of these essays vanished in the process of moving from my original site to here. Below are a couple of them.

Vanishing Chicago: The Hub

Vanishing Chicago: The Gym

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 10

The last of the missing movie reviews (finally!): A couple of year-end roundups; a couple of Universal classics; a couple of made-for-TV horror flicks; Disney's attempt to cash in on Star Wars; and a fistful of Val Lewton.

Popcorn Kernals 2004

Popcorn Kernals 2005

Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

The Black Hole (1979)

The Night Stalker (1972)

The Night Strangler (1973)

The Leopard Man (1943)

The Ghost Ship (1943)

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 9

More lost movie reviews: all remakes, all the time.

Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Phantom of the Opera (1962)

The Fog (2005)

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 8

Four more lost reviews: One of a classic by George Romero; one of a virtually forgotten horror film by Romero; one of a remake of the aforementioned Romero classic; and one of a blatant rip-off of Romero directed by and starring one of the zombies from Night of the Living Dead.

Martin (1977)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Flesh Eater (1988)

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 7

Even more lost movie reviews, this time focusing on the classic (and not-so-classic) Universal horror films:

Dracula (1931)

Dracula (Spanish Version) (1931)

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

House of Frankenstein (1944)

House of Dracula (1945)

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 6

Still more movie reviews. This time, they're all silent-era horror films:

The Golem (1920)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)

The Hands of Orlac (1925)

Frankenstein (1910)

Weird Tales (1919)

Waxworks (1924)

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 5

More lost movie reviews:

Walk the Line (2005)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

The Corpse Bride (2005)

Alien Apocalypse (2005)

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 4

More lost posts: An essay on the Kennedy assassination, and a whole assload of movie reviews.

A Bad Day in Dallas

Review: Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Review: Halloween H2O (1998)

Review: Fear (1990)

Review: Satan's School for Girls (2000)

Review: Black Sunday (1960)

Reveiw: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)

Review: Susperia (1976)

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 3

A few lost holiday entries:

A Christmas Casa

"O Holiday Tree, O Holiday Tree..."

Mourning Christmas

A Joyful Noise

The Forever Tree

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 2

As promised, here are more files that weren't transferred over when the old site was shut down. Today, they're all movie reviews.

In looking back over them, the temptation to rewrite is strong, but you know what? This blog has always been a "warts-and-all" kind of deal, so these old reviews (and the many to be posted over the next few weeks) are what they are. Enjoy.

Review: Urban Legend (1998)

Review: The Man Who Laughs (1928)

Review: The Brainiac (1961)

Review: Maniac (1934)

Adoresixtyfour: The Lost Files, Vol. 1

When I shut down my original website, many of my entries migrated over to this blog--many, but not all.

There are plenty of reasons for this--sheer volume (I was much more verbose in those days when I updated less frequently); sheer laziness (not wanting to sit at my home computer for hours and hours copy and pasting); and technical difficulties (my home phone line started malfunctioning some time ago, and even if it did work properly, my poor home computer is so old that she probably can't get on the Interwebs).

However, over the Thanksgiving weekend, I finally resolved to remedy the situation by buying a flash drive, loading the old files and photos onto it and bringing them into work. It's slow going--I have to edit out old URLs, update copy where needed and upload tons of pictures--but progress is being made. I even found a holiday special review that I never finished, but will post on the bloggity soon.

In the meantime, I'll post periodic "Lost files" entries to let everybody know what old entries are now available...like the ones linked below.

Ghosts Along the Midway

Grandma's House

Review: Samson vs. the Vampire Women (1961)

Review: Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)