{"id":10341,"date":"2014-12-29T14:29:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T19:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10341"},"modified":"2014-12-29T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T19:45:07","slug":"death-bed-the-bed-that-eats-1977-unwanted-bed-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10341","title":{"rendered":"Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) + Unwanted Bed Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DeathBed_BR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10342\" alt=\"DeathBed_BR\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DeathBed_BR.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>Apologies for the long gap in updates, but way back on Dec. 23rd I was supposed to start a mini-vacation with a screening of <strong>Die Hard<\/strong> (1988) at The Bloor Cinema, plus a dinner\u2026 and then I got the flu\u2026 which pretty much knocked me out for days, racking up a whopping 10 hours of real sleep in 5 days.<\/p>\n<p>This thing still lingers \u2013 today\u2019s self-nourishing routine still mandated crawling back to bed for a bit after breakfast \u2013 but it is on the way out. <em>It\u2019s just taking a bloody long time<\/em>. At its most surreal, I was seeing what resembled intersecting data streams when my eyes were closed, and those were probably during the two nights where I got zero sleep and just tossed and turned.<\/p>\n<p>When conscious, I did manage to watch a batch of films, so expect uploads almost every day.<\/p>\n<p>The first is an expanded review of <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10340\"><strong>Death Bed: The Bed That Eats<\/strong><\/a> (1977), which Cult Epics released in a nice Blu-ray edition that I covered for Rue Morgue magazine back in August.<\/p>\n<p>If my voice doesn\u2019t sound too raspy tonight and the coughing finally tempers down, on Tuesday I should have the mixed podcast with Dave Strohmaier, where the\u00a0Cinerama Historian discusses working with the iconic wide film format, and restoring the recently reviewed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10234\">Holiday in Spain \/ aka Scent of Mystery<\/a> <\/strong>(1962).<\/p>\n<p>The next podcast is with composer John Murphy regarding his album <strong>Anonymous Rejected Film Score<\/strong>, and coming soon after are interviews with composer Craig Safan on the recent expanded CD and vinyl releases of <strong>Warning Sign <\/strong>(1985), and the director and subject of the film composer documentary <strong>Chasing Notes<\/strong> (2014), James Goodwin and Jaymee Carpenter, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I go finish my mug of rosehip, followed later on by ginseng, and hope a nap won\u2019t be required again. Because this is getting ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crawling back from a bout of the flu, the uploads begin with George Barry&#8217;s odd yet charming horror flick Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977), out on Blu via Cult Epics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3227,2562,3228,2563,3224],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/DeathBed_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2GN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10349,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10341\/revisions\/10349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}