NIGHTSCREAM, STARSHIP TROOPERS, CHRIS ISAAKS AND THE MYSTERY GRAVEYARD SONG

After a nearly a week in hospital I'm now recuperating at home. The UK Horror Channel is keeping me entertained whilst resting on the sofa. This afternoon I saw a TV mystery movie matinee called Nightscream from 1997. As cheesy as an old fondue set I thoroughly enjoyed it. 

It concerned a young sleuthing girl called Drew [a la Nancy!] who is possessed by a dead girl who is identical to her. Drew sets out to solve the mystery of her doppelganger's killing. It stars a young Casper Van Dien who found fame as Rico in Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers a year later.

I actually tuned in as I thought it was the same flick I have in my VHS big box tape collection Night Screams from ten years earlier in 1987. I've never watched it and it was yet more mistaken identity.

The biggest mystery of Nightscream wasn't anything the young Drew stumbled across but this rather cool Chris Isaaks-style twangy song in the closing graveyard scene, which you can listen too here at the very end of this copy of the film on Popcorn: 

http://www.popcornflix.com/nightscream/72a8607d-b3a0-407c-842a-226963310458

As it's not listed on the film's credits I have searched for this song for ages today and all I could find where other people's search requests on various film forums. Like them I have searched for 'I am haunted by two loves' and similar lines from the song. Alas, nada.

Oddly enough the song with the closest title is Two Hearts by none other than Chris Isaaks but it sure ain't that. Just to make sure, I have searched Chris's back catalogue and he never made the 'I am haunted by two loves' song. I remain like everyone else who has searched for this tune well and truly stumped. It is without any identity whatsoever. A nested mystery!

As a final twist of the identikit the chiseled male lead in Nightscream, Casper Van Dien, looks exactly like Chris Isaaks as you can see here!

Chris right                    Casper left

Its especially so in Chris's mega-hit Wicked Game as you can see in his official and very raunchy video on You Tube. Wicked Game has the same twangy harrowed sound as 'I'm haunted by two loves'!

If anyone can find the identity of the mystery song I would be really grateful to know as it is driving me bonkers. I may even start screaming during the night!

ST.GEORGES SHOPPING CENTRE, PRESTON, LANCASHIRE 1969

This is cool and festive. I found this old amateur footage of Preston, my home town in 1969 on You Tube. The film wanders around one the town's shopping centres, St.Georges, where I'm pretty sure Zodiac Toys was, my second favourite toy shop after Thomas Mears. 

Zodiac came to Preston in 1968. I wuz 7. Checking Zodiac Toys' own archive site it says that 'my' Zodiac was on Fishergate Walk rather than in this Shopping Centre, which is confusing.

My Folks got me all my SWORD toys at Thomas Mears and tons of stuff from Zodiac too like this Jason and the Argonauts book, as you can see on the label!

THUNDERBIRD 3 LAUNCH BAY BY ANDY ROLFE

Been going through some photos from Andercon this year, and I must say this Thunderbird 3 model and launch bay built by Andy Rolfe really impressed me. The whole diorama is only around 3 foot high and built out of plastic drum but the detail is incredible, making a great model to photograph.

UFO ENCOUNTER: SPACE PATROL 1

Here is SP1 having a spot of bother on re-entry! Take care, Kevin

ITS THE FIRST OF DECEMBER FOLKS!

Santa's little helpers are all just clocking on for the busiest month of the Year down the Pole!

A SEVENTIES PARTY

I saw this photo on the Time-Machine Seventies Facebook page and felt I just had to share. I was so reminded of those sophisticated seventies parties with Glam Rock playing in the background ,platform shoes, tank tops and flares!

Can you still get Weekend Chocolates? They were always popular at my Gran's around Christmas time for some reason.

 Remember Hi-Karate after shave with Valerie Leon seducing some nerdy bloke on the ad. I bought gallons of it, that and Denim - I didn't like to work too hard!

As for the Jackpot Bitter cans, these days, I don't  have a six-pack, more a Party Seven!

KEV'S APOLLO MODELS

Hi,

Having dug out my Apollo13 stuff, thought I'd take some pictures of some of my Apollo stuff. The Revell kit of the LEM, the Dragon diecasts of the Apollo CSM and the LEM (small and beautifully detailed) and the Revell kit of the Apollo CSM (the same kit features in loads of episodes of 'The X Files', Mulder has one in his office!).

Take care,

Kevin

DANIEL'S DINKY MSV

I received a second MSV. It was the most successful eBay purchase I ever made and is superior to the one I had in a dozen ways. 

The MSV was the second Andersonian Dinky I acquired and I didn't know about the proper paints required. It had such a rough patina of surface chipping that I tried touching it up with some white and red paint I had around. Dreadful results. Easy to remove, however.

Daniel G

New York

USA