Ah can you believe it? Today is Final Girl's birthday, she is now 20 years old! Time sure does fly when you're writin' about horror movies. At some point I suppose I'll have to change the name of this place to Final Ma'am or Final Crone or what have you, but that's the future. This is the now, and in this here now she is still supple and sprightly. Effervescent!
Wow, rude as ever. Some things never change.
But some other things do. And in case you missed the post I made on "social" "media," let me hip you to a change: There is now a companion podcast to this here blog! It's called Final Girl After Dark, and it's available wherever you like to listen to podcasts. You can also listen at FinalGirlAfterDark.com.
I gotta tell ya, I'm super excited. I hope that it feels like Final Girl, except you're listening instead of reading. We'll see! Once in a while I might have a guest, but mostly it'll be just me. Look for it in the "old woman with microphone" category of your local podcast directory. I posted a little introduction yesterday--well, "little" is relative. Usually those sorts of things are 1 or 2 minutes long but this one was 10, which should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever read this site. As we all know I can spend 600 words talking about whatever before I remotely get to some kind of a point or the name of the movie I mean to address. But you know what? That's power of the BLOG, baby, I won't be tied to some notion of "concise writing" or "staying on topic."
So, it'll be like that. New episodes will be posted on Wednesdays, and the first full episode went up today. I'm celebrating the launch of the pod and FG's bday by talking about FEARDOTCOM (2002), which is certainly a choice.
Part of the celebration also takes place over at The Evolution of Horror's Patreon, wherein I chat with Mike Muncer about this blog and The Old Days and I answer a slew of questions from listeners. I had a good time, so I hope it's also a good time to listen to.
I probably should have come up with some grander way to mark this milestone, you know, a look back on my favorite posts or something, but honestly that Q&A filled up my Being Perceived Meter enough for a while. So I will just give a heartspacefelt THANK YOU for hanging out! It's truly flattering that anyone wants to read what I write (or hear what I have to say) about horror movies or anything else, and I know some of you have been around for close to--if not all of--these past 20 years. It blows my mind! And I'm really grateful. I know there are many things vying for our attention 24/7, so thanks for making time for the ol' FG.
22 comments:
Happy 20th birthday FinalGirlRocks, and congratulations on the birth of your newborn, Final Girl After Dark! Really enjoyed the first episode, including the unexpected “turkey talk” segment. So glad to have a new podcast once the TP podcast ends. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on Part 18!
This is excellent news. You are very good at the ol' podcasting lark, and I wasn't looking forward to you going dark again. And now you're still going dark, but in a good way!
Bless you and your Wild Turkeys! (Not a euphemism.) Thanks for making me laugh for 20 years, for introducing me to Cathy's Curse, for making me contemplate wearing a Rhonda Johnson costume for Halloween someday. May Josie Packard pop outta your dresser tonight!
Happy 20th anniversary! Just one more year and Final Girl can finally get drunk legally.
In earnest, though, I think this really is quite an impressive achievement. Most blogs don't even last ten years, let alone 20. And while I don't mean to be presumptuous, I do hope we'll get 20 more.
Episode 1 a total banger, and I'm not just talking about that sweet interstitial music. Happy 20th!!
Thank you so much!! As for Part 18, I'm going to watch it tomorrow night to record Friday! I can't believe we're at the end, it's so upsetting. I need to live in denial.
Thank you friend, you know this means a lot.
"May Josie Packard pop outta your dresser tonight!" Hahahaha dare to DREAM! Honestly, just getting one person to watch Cathy's Curse would make the entire 20 years worth it. I am honored to have brought such joy into your life!
Thank you! Though it's 10000% understandable, I get a little bummed when I go check a blog I used to read Way Back When and find they've gone silent or worse, they're just gone. So I'm gonna do my best to keep this place going for as long as I am able. Having a place to talk about Amityville IV: The Evil Escapes time and time again is what Virginia Woolf was talking about in A Room of One's Own to be sure, and the LAST thing any of us want to do is let her down. (And PS, don't tell anyone but I do allow her to drink in the home occasionally, so long as I'm there to supervise.)
I LOVE MY THEME MUSIC SO MUCH so thank you for the kind words, especially the kind words about that!
Happy Anniversary! I haven't been here 20 years, but it's well into the teens. I do remember the Ludlow days fondly and still have the DVD around here somewhere. I listened to the podcast despite not having seen Feardotcom (though it really does sound interesting). The Wayback Machine at archive.org has a capture of feardotcom.warnerbros.com from 2002 (feardotcom.com was apparently a redirect): https://web.archive.org/web/20021126044640/http://feardotcom.warnerbros.com/
Congratulations on 20 years of BLOGGING and the birth of your new PODCAST! We're all so lucky to have Final Girl in our lives.
Congratulations!!! (I think I started reading around 2008? I miss the days of going to blogs!)
The theme music to this new podcast is EVERYTHING
Thanks Riccardo! Oh yeah you're talking early FG days for sure, wow. And thanks for digging up that link--I wish movie-specific sites like that would just stay up forever.
WOOOO thank you!!
2008! Holy moly, thanks, Steve! And you are 1000% right about the theme...the whole thing is like 3+ minutes and it's really hard for me not to just add the whole thing to every episode, I love it so much
An amazing achievement, Stacie. The 'Briefcase Woman' within me is celebrating.
I think I've been coming here for about 15 years now and you're still the best.
15 years! Thank you so much. And thanks for all the comments and discussion over those years!!
Happy birthday, FG! Been loving the TP podcast, will check out the new one.
Happy Birthday! Pretty sure I've been following Final Girl nearly the whole time (discovered through Arbogast on Film). Hooray indeed!
Another Steve enters the chat! Thank you!
Whoa, Arbogast, one of the all-time great (horror) film blogs!
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