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Day 6
I am a fan of the VHS franchise and a new one has been released on Shudder: VHS 85. Obviously it takes place in 1985; same format, horror stories told through VHS tapes ( Read more... ) -
#5 and counting...
Since we suffered through a couple of Halloween comedies that didn't quite satisfy, I decided on a comedy I have seen and loved, and --IMHO--is definitely funny: Rockula. An older movie (1990) and has a cast of some of my favorites: Dean Cameron, Toni Basil, Thomas Dolby, and Susan Tyrrell ( Read more... ) -
Day 4 - Not a good one
There sure are a lot of Halloween comedies coming out--Spirit Halloween the Movie is another one ( Read more... ) -
Day 3
We watched the new episode of the Daryl Dixon Walking Dead spin off. While I like the Walking Dead shows, in all their incarnations, I'm having a hard time becoming invested in this one. I just don't feel the anticipation and excitement when a new episode is available. Yes, the production values are amazing, the acting is great, the characters are ( Read more... ) -
Day 2
2nd movie: Halloween II (original 1981)
My husband had never seen the original Halloween movies so I decided he needed to be educated. He (finally) saw the first movie a couple of months ago, so now it's on to #2.
Halloween II isn't that great, it seems, to me, a formulaic throw away out to capitalize on the success of the first one. It's just ( Read more... ) -
A Halloween Tradition.
Spooky season is starting! Although Halloween decor and candy started appearing the beginning of September, I still resist diving into the holiday until October proper. So, the first marks the beginning of our Horror Movie Marathon, which means watching a horror movie or horror series each day of the month. We have started off with Scare ( Read more... ) -
What do you say when someone asks "What do you believe?"
We can believe so many things at once and often our beliefs can seem to be contradictory; but that is the very nature of being human. In this vein, I enjoy this passage from Neil Gaiman's American Gods:
--" I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or ( Read more... ) -
A Literary Moment
I am re-reading Zelda Fitzgerald's biography by Nancy Milford. Zelda definitely had a way with words and has been sadly overlooked (or overshadowed by her husband) for her literary skills; she was a sensory stream of consciousness writer.
Excerpt from a letter Zelda wrote to Scott, pre-marriage:
I think I like breathing twilit gardens and moths ( Read more... ) -
Rainy Day
If you didn't care what happens ( Read more... ) -
No Sleep
So much to do, my brain won't shut down.
I'm afraid. Of everything I have to do, and what is to come.
I'm afraid I won't do it right, that, once again, I will fail my mother. Although, in truth, she has failed me more than I her. Perhaps I feel I have failed her on a larger scale, that my sins against her are deeper and wider, pushing her to the ( Read more... )