Sunny and clear today A high of 78F.
I might have slept three hours last night. And still, I wrote 1,921 words on The Night Watchers. Hopefully, they were good words. Oh, and I drew a monster doodle I owed someone and signed books we'd sold in the Dreaming Squid Sundries shop.
And have you read
the mosasaur paper? Just kidding, I don't actually expect anyone who isn't a paleontologist to reacd such a thing. I mean, unless you just wanna.
This afternoon I watched Luc Besson's The Fifth Element (1997) for the first time in ages. I was so in love with this movie when it was new, I saw it nine times in the theater. Last night, Kathryn and I had meant our spooky movie to be Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), and when we couldn't find it streaming, we tried for William Dieterle Portrait of Jennie (1948). No luck there, either. Entirely defeated, we watched to uttterly silly Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013).
Today's Halloween list! My favorite vampire movies, unranked:
1. Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppolla, 1992)
2. The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983)
3. Byzantium (Neil Jordan, 2012)
4. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013)
5. The Reflecting Skin (Philip Ridley, 1990)
6. Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie des Grauens (F.W. Muranu, 1922)
7. Dracula's Daughter (Lambert Hillyer, 1936)
8. Vampire's Kiss (Robert Bierman, 1988)
9. Låt den rätte komma in (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
10. Innocent Blood (John Landis, 1992)
11. The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987)
12. Dracula: Prince of Darkness (John Sansom, 1966)
13. Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
Likely I will add more.
Please.
The shop.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
4:03 p.m.