Garrett’s Grumblings – Binge Media Expanding Its Horizons By Covering This Year’s Texas Frightmare Weekend May 5th-7th
How’s it going CS’ers? Hope your week is starting well and the 18 hour or so Bingecast is helping said week go by even faster by moving in and out of your ear holes at an expected drunken pace. I also hope you are saving some of that fright feeling for the rapidly approaching Halloween holiday.
Anyway, let’s get down to business. I am making this post to kind of announce something Binge has been toying with getting into for quite awhile. There have been suggestions that we start covering some conventions. Now I cannot speak for my bosses over here. But I can only assume that the reason they resisted was because they started this site as more a way of continuing doing their podcasts and bringing friends along to help enhance their network than some other site which covers conventions. Many sites do that, and Binge would not be sticking out if we fell on that same exact bandwagon.
But when the opportunity to go to the Texas Frightmares Convention in May came along, I pretty much begged and pleaded to Law and Moreno that we cover it. Now the coverage is not going to be the same type of coverage you are used to from other sites. There will not be ten people from the site there to cover each and every panel, and get interviews with each and every celebrity which comes our way. The staff there representing the site will be me, myself and I. And I will not say there WON’T be interviews and coverage of certain panels. But instead of each one getting their own page, I will more than likely just include them in one or two articles that will wrap up the event.
With all that in mind, if any of you cocksuckers are in the Dallas Texas area, May 5th – 7th is going to be something truly special. And not just because your friendly ol’ 4 on 10 is going to be there.
Some highlights from this convention include:
- A 35th Anniversary Celebration of John Carpenter’s The Thing, featuring Keith David and Wilford Brimley, among others.
- A reunion featuring the principle cast of Tom Holland’s 1985 original vampire next door flick Fright Night. Including writer/director Tom Holland, Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, and yes, Stephen Geoffreys.
- The appearance of one Shannon Elizabeth.
- The Hills Have Eyes 40 Anniversary Celebration, featuring Jim La…I mean, Michael Berryman.
- Did I mention Keith motherfuckin’ David?
- Jurassic Park, the original Halloween, and Back To The Future trilogy cinematographer Dean Cundey.
And sooo much more, some has still not been announced yet. Go here for updates on upcoming guests, and join their Facebook group. And of course, keep checking in with Binge Media and The Aftertaste for more updates and interviews.