I Have To Go Out Two Days In A Row? The Horror!
► Eh, feeling like crap tonight, worried and nervous. Going out tomorrow with Dad on our weekly excursion, first to visit my grandmother (who "has something" for me, either she just remembered my birthday was last week or someone reminded her), and then I want to make a quick stop at Walmart to get a loaf of bread and see if they have their annual Halloween horror movie DVD display.
I just found out today that I also have to go out on Saturday to Dad's for Thanksgiving dinner (2 days early because most of the others will be going to their in-laws Monday on Thanksgiving Day). Because I now have to fast the day before I go out just to function, I'm a bit freaked about how I'll need to eat tomorrow after I get home from shopping, and how it might affect me when I go out the next day. These stomach and food neurosis are killing me.
► Blowjobs Are Actually Causing Cancer - ...if the person being pleasured's genitals are infected with "HPV". If only there was some kind of "sheath" or thin protective covering that could be rolled or placed over a penis... Someone needs to get to work inventing that!
► Superman fan turns to surgery to become Man of Steel (well, Silicone) - I don't know when innocent fan worship becomes an unhealthy and bizarre obsession, but I think this guy found it. Must be good money in beauty pageant training.
► EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Alan Davis' "Captain America" - Whoa, whoa, whoa... Alan Davis is taking over penciling writer Ed Brubaker's awesome Captain America run? I think I'm in danger of experiencing Homer Simpson like drool.
I will admit to being completely shocked by this since Davis' style is classic comic book superhero, while the majority of Brubaker's Cap run has had more "pseudo-realistic" art. It might be a sudden and dramatic change, but dammit, Alan Davis is one of my top five comic book artists!
► Top Ten: Horror Children - I actually haven't read the article completely through after a week, because the kid in the top picture keeps giving me the friggin' heebie-jeebies. But I do want to point out the list is missing the 1972 film The Other. Oh, and The Shining. Seriously, Danny Torrence and the blood soaked twin ghosts? That movie is ripe with disturbing kids.
► 12 Most Over-Used Horror Clichés - The author is wrong about "creepy kids", as kids are creepy (see above). It's interesting how increasingly in our modern society of the past 100 years the view is that kids are born pure and innocent. Because prior to that in the Victorian era (and before) kids were seen as born savage and evil and had to have good instilled in them by learning manners and schooling. This explains the change of attitudes towards from how children used to suffer corporal punishment and now even light spanking is a hot potato debate.
Back to the list, most of these clichés remain because they work, but I think horror movies in general would be better served letting some if not all of them fade away.*
Yeah, definitely.
* I suddenly want to see a horror movie that spends the first 5 minutes using all of these 12 clichés in the first 5 minutes, and then move on to originality.
Quote of the Moment
Man: Is that Batman?
Woman: I see Flash and Flash Jr.
Man: Isn't his name Speedy?
Kid: No, Speedy's Green Arrow's sidekick.
Man: Well, that makes no sense.
- Young Justice (2010 - )
Drinking: water
Last Watched: The Mentalist (2008 - ; latest episode "Pretty Red Balloon"); Young Justice (2010 - ; premiere episode "Independence Day")
I just found out today that I also have to go out on Saturday to Dad's for Thanksgiving dinner (2 days early because most of the others will be going to their in-laws Monday on Thanksgiving Day). Because I now have to fast the day before I go out just to function, I'm a bit freaked about how I'll need to eat tomorrow after I get home from shopping, and how it might affect me when I go out the next day. These stomach and food neurosis are killing me.
► Blowjobs Are Actually Causing Cancer - ...if the person being pleasured's genitals are infected with "HPV". If only there was some kind of "sheath" or thin protective covering that could be rolled or placed over a penis... Someone needs to get to work inventing that!
► Superman fan turns to surgery to become Man of Steel (well, Silicone) - I don't know when innocent fan worship becomes an unhealthy and bizarre obsession, but I think this guy found it. Must be good money in beauty pageant training.
► EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Alan Davis' "Captain America" - Whoa, whoa, whoa... Alan Davis is taking over penciling writer Ed Brubaker's awesome Captain America run? I think I'm in danger of experiencing Homer Simpson like drool.
I will admit to being completely shocked by this since Davis' style is classic comic book superhero, while the majority of Brubaker's Cap run has had more "pseudo-realistic" art. It might be a sudden and dramatic change, but dammit, Alan Davis is one of my top five comic book artists!
► Top Ten: Horror Children - I actually haven't read the article completely through after a week, because the kid in the top picture keeps giving me the friggin' heebie-jeebies. But I do want to point out the list is missing the 1972 film The Other. Oh, and The Shining. Seriously, Danny Torrence and the blood soaked twin ghosts? That movie is ripe with disturbing kids.
► 12 Most Over-Used Horror Clichés - The author is wrong about "creepy kids", as kids are creepy (see above). It's interesting how increasingly in our modern society of the past 100 years the view is that kids are born pure and innocent. Because prior to that in the Victorian era (and before) kids were seen as born savage and evil and had to have good instilled in them by learning manners and schooling. This explains the change of attitudes towards from how children used to suffer corporal punishment and now even light spanking is a hot potato debate.
Back to the list, most of these clichés remain because they work, but I think horror movies in general would be better served letting some if not all of them fade away.*
Yeah, definitely.
Click to view* I suddenly want to see a horror movie that spends the first 5 minutes using all of these 12 clichés in the first 5 minutes, and then move on to originality.
Quote of the Moment
Man: Is that Batman?
Woman: I see Flash and Flash Jr.
Man: Isn't his name Speedy?
Kid: No, Speedy's Green Arrow's sidekick.
Man: Well, that makes no sense.
- Young Justice (2010 - )
Drinking: water
Last Watched: The Mentalist (2008 - ; latest episode "Pretty Red Balloon"); Young Justice (2010 - ; premiere episode "Independence Day")