Last night I watched a documentary film on TV called Gone to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film. The movie was, obviously enough, an examination of the history of the slasher films, discussing Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream and several others. There were lots of interviews with horror directors such as ( Read more... )

Last night was pretty quiet. I spent most of the evening watching Doctor Who on DVD. I watched An Unearthy Child, which was the first Doctor Who story broadcast back in November 1963. In the story, set in London 1963, two school teachers are curious about a girl who displays an unusual amount of knowledge of science and history, so they follow ( Read more... )

Last night I more or less passed out on my bed while writing my diary. I woke up with the lights on and my book and pen on the pillow beside me ( Read more... )

It's been quite an eventful couple of days. Yesterday I went over and met up with Emily. We had some dinner and watched some TV and had a jolly good time ( Read more... )

Last night was pretty quiet. I was talking to Emily on the phone for about an hour, which was very nice ( Read more... )

Last night I listened to the first part of a radio adaptation of Dracula. It was pretty good, and despite a number of changes in the story structure and a few other changes, presumably to make it more understandable for a radio audience ( Read more... )

Last night I watched a film called The Innocents, directed by Jack Clayton, and based on the short novel The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. The film stars Deborah Kerr as a governess in presumably Victorian England. She is hired to look after the orphaned neice and nephew of an extremely wealthy, and almost always absent, man. The governess ( Read more... )

Today I went along to my parent's house for lunch as usual for a Sunday. Lunch today was tacos with mince, tomato, spring onions, grated cheese, mushrooms and salsa sauce. It was very nice. The afternoon was pretty quiet, for the most part. I sat around reading the supplements for the Sunday newspapers. Next Sunday we are going out to a ( Read more... )

I thought I'd post some of my poetry. They are usually written very much on the spur of the moment and are really pretty rubbish, but I thought I might share them anyway ( Read more... )

This morneing I went out and bought a book as a birthday present for my mum. The book was Making History by Stephen Fry. Mum was saying last week she wanted to read one of his books, and it should be very funny if it's by Stephen Fry. I also bought a card and some wrapping paper. On my way home I stopped off at the supermarket for my weekly ( Read more... )