EXCITING NEWS. The upstairs floor of the house, heretofore vacant, has been leased. My housemate (does that count? We don't actually have to interact) is moving in next week; all I know is that she's single and attending college on the G.I. Bill. Which is enough for me to rest easy, actually. My landlord was like, "Yeah, I showed it to a couple ( Read more... )

Last year I kept a list of the media I consumed over the course of the year, and it was awesome. This year not only did I not keep a list, I went long stretches without reading or watching anything, and not much of what I did catch was memorable. Still, if I flip through my bookshelf and blogs I can probably figure out some of what I read and ( Read more... )

Amazon is having some kind of Sci-Fi Extravaganza or something, which means significant discounts on a lot of DVD collections, and if I don't stop myself I'm going to end up spending a ton of money. Kingdom Hospital and the original Kingdom? The Lost Room? Eureka? Augh.

I'm watching a movie called Dance of the Dead. It's exactly the kind of movie you think it is. There's a lot to love about it. You should watch it.

ETA: Okay, this movie was made for me. Ee hee hee. There was one point where I was like, "Oh noooo, you can't die like that!" and five minutes later, I was eating my words when they came up with a ( Read more... )

I caught Watchmen at the matinee yesterday, and really, I'm the least qualified person to actually say whether it was good or not, since, as I mentioned to my sister yesterday, the pleasure centers of my brain lit up pretty much every time a piece of litter with "Gunga Diner" on it danced across the screen; I was squeeing at graffiti, for heaven's ( Read more... )

Have you heard anything about this new movie Push? From what I can gather, it's about superpowered people hiding from a government agency that wants to either weaponize or exterminate them, I can't tell.

You guys know I'm all over that, and I love superpowers to the extent that I remember Jumper as an exhilarating good time*, but I have to ask--is ( Read more... )

This year, for some reason I thought I'd write down all the books I read and movies I saw over the course of 2008. Somehow the lists actually turned out pretty complete. The number of novels I read was kind of depressingly low, but the graphic novels, man, I really racked up. So I'm going to list them here, in no particular order, and maybe make a ( Read more... )

I have no patience for middle-of-the-road horror movies; they've got to be great art, or glorious schlock. So when I was flipping through the Red Box rental thing and saw the description of Dark Floors as "starring members of the internationally successful heavy metal band" I just didn't bother to read any further, there was no way this was not ( Read more... )

NaNoWriMo is almost upon us, so nanomojo is upon us too. Go and make merry ( Read more... )

I guess I should post occasionally, yeah?

I spent the weekend at home, cooking mostly, and hanging out with my brother and our grandmother. Very nice.

I'm prepping for NaNo, and have been reading horror stories--the two are only tangentially related. I've also learned that I'm deeply annoyed by Clive Barker. Dracula 2000, on the other hand, ( Read more... )