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shadowkat1. My snarky sense of humor is keeping me sane at the moment. And amusing my co-workers. One of them said that my telephone conversations are the highlight of her day.
At work today while on the landline work phone with Project Manager, a loud signal went off...
Me: WTF?
PM: Oh that's the national emergency alert they were talking about.
Me (looking down at cell phone): What national emergency alert system? Is it a flood warning? No..Presidential Alert?? WTF?
PM: The president sends out alerts to warn us if nuclear missals might strike. It's a new thing they are testing. This is the test.
Me: Yeah, knowing this administration that could actually end up being a problem. Let's get off that topic now, shall we?
Later...after second alert goes off.
Me: Frigging hell. This nutjob of a president has far too much time on his hands. We need to impeach him, give him something productive to worry about. Let's see how well he multitasks that.
Co-worker: You would keep a travel blog if you were independently weatlhy? Really?
Me: Why not? I happen to enjoy writing. I blog now.
Co-worker: I think you'd be more into the wealthy lifestyle.
Me: I've no clue what that is, I've never been independently wealthy.
Co-worker: You should try it sometime.
Me: Well, my brother is independently wealthy and currently farming, although not for anyone else just for himself.
Lando: Has his own vegetables. Green beans and stuff.
Me: And pumpkins and squash...on about 11 acres. I'm not sure what he is doing with it though.
2. I'm still in a reading slump. But I finished Iron & Magic by Illona Andrews, which is something considering I've started and given up on about five other books so far this summer. And I'm thirty percent through Magic Triumphs by Illona Andrews -- the last book in the Kate Daniels series. I'm enjoying it more than expected. I like the lead character's snarky sense of humor. She has the same dry wit that I do. But for some odd reason that dry wit doesn't transfer to ANY of Illona Andrews other novels. I'm wondering if the writers are working over time to differentiate between their books/writing styles -- if so, it's hurting them.
FB: I've read 100 books.
Me: You're much further than me. My goal was 60 and I've barely got past 24. (And several of those shouldn't count since I could not finish them.)
FB: Well I haven't turned on the television once when I was home by myself.
Me: Well that would definitely help.
Mother: She's probably not writing as much as you are.
Me: No she writes, but she's not doing on her commute (drives) and probably not before bed (which is the only times I have to read), also she doesn't really blog any longer...outside of occasional, once in the blue moon tweets and posts on FB.
Mother: See, that also makes a difference.
Me: And she's a computer programmer...so there's that. (ie. doesn't have to read for a living).
I know this is politically incorrect -- but I happen to love television. I actually enjoy watching television more than reading. Less work. Also can do stuff during it. Like eat. Surf the net. Blog.
Robot vacuum.
3. Horror movies coming out in time for Halloween that look appealing.
* Hold the Dark -- starring Alexander Skarsgard, Riley Keough and Jeffrey Wright, about a man being hired to track a missing 7 year old kid of two eerie parents in a wolf-ravaged wilderness...
* Malevolent (Netflix) - Florence Pugh and Ben Lloyd-Huges star as scam-artist paranormal experts who meet what may be their match inside a haunted orphanage.
* Suspiria - remake by Luca Guadagino with Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton. About an aspiring dancer at a Berlin academy fronted by a mysterious and perhaps sinister art director.
* Anna and the Apocalypse - A band of survivors navigates their way through a yuletide musical zombie outbreak. It's a Christmas Musical with Zombies. (Sigh, just when you thought there was nothing else they could possibly do with Zombies...)
* Terrified - on Shudder network (yes, there's apparently a network on streaming called SHUDDER, it's new to me too.) It's the winner of the very scary audience award at the Fantasia International Film Festival (which apparently also exists), directed by Demian Rugna, and explores a quiet neighborhood in Buenos Aires that endures a number of unsettling events.
* Apostle - Netflix (geeze Netflix has a lot of content, I seriously doubt they'll miss the Marvel stuff when it leaves). Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens of Legion) mounts a search and rescue mission after his sister is abducted by a wacky religious cult in early 20th Century Britain. (Okay, I feel old...we are now referring to it as early 20th Century...as opposed to an actual date).
For me...I have a love hate relationship with horror films. I like them and I don't at the same time.
Mostly, if I give in to the urge to watch the things, I pay for it by not being able to sleep at night. It's sort of like giving in and eating chocolate...except with nightmares.
Anyhow..the memorable ones or favs that I've seen, with the above in mind?
* Halloween by John Carpenter (which pretty much redefined the slasher film.)
* The Haunting of Hill House by Robert Wise -- based on Shirley Jackson's novel of the same name. Wise is a minimalist director. See also Andromeda Strain by Wise.
* The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock. (I know everyone says Psycho, but I thought the Birds was scarier.)
* Aliens by James Cameron...with Sigourney Weaver going up against the nasty Momma Alien
* Jurassic Park by Stephen Spielberg
* Silence of the Lambs by Jonathan Demme
* The Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton
* The Shining by Stanley Kubrick
* The Lost Boys
* Poltergiest -- disturbed me as a kid
* Jaws
A good horror movie should be a character piece...and make you care about the characters. A lot of them don't. But the really good ones? Do.
At work today while on the landline work phone with Project Manager, a loud signal went off...
Me: WTF?
PM: Oh that's the national emergency alert they were talking about.
Me (looking down at cell phone): What national emergency alert system? Is it a flood warning? No..Presidential Alert?? WTF?
PM: The president sends out alerts to warn us if nuclear missals might strike. It's a new thing they are testing. This is the test.
Me: Yeah, knowing this administration that could actually end up being a problem. Let's get off that topic now, shall we?
Later...after second alert goes off.
Me: Frigging hell. This nutjob of a president has far too much time on his hands. We need to impeach him, give him something productive to worry about. Let's see how well he multitasks that.
Co-worker: You would keep a travel blog if you were independently weatlhy? Really?
Me: Why not? I happen to enjoy writing. I blog now.
Co-worker: I think you'd be more into the wealthy lifestyle.
Me: I've no clue what that is, I've never been independently wealthy.
Co-worker: You should try it sometime.
Me: Well, my brother is independently wealthy and currently farming, although not for anyone else just for himself.
Lando: Has his own vegetables. Green beans and stuff.
Me: And pumpkins and squash...on about 11 acres. I'm not sure what he is doing with it though.
2. I'm still in a reading slump. But I finished Iron & Magic by Illona Andrews, which is something considering I've started and given up on about five other books so far this summer. And I'm thirty percent through Magic Triumphs by Illona Andrews -- the last book in the Kate Daniels series. I'm enjoying it more than expected. I like the lead character's snarky sense of humor. She has the same dry wit that I do. But for some odd reason that dry wit doesn't transfer to ANY of Illona Andrews other novels. I'm wondering if the writers are working over time to differentiate between their books/writing styles -- if so, it's hurting them.
FB: I've read 100 books.
Me: You're much further than me. My goal was 60 and I've barely got past 24. (And several of those shouldn't count since I could not finish them.)
FB: Well I haven't turned on the television once when I was home by myself.
Me: Well that would definitely help.
Mother: She's probably not writing as much as you are.
Me: No she writes, but she's not doing on her commute (drives) and probably not before bed (which is the only times I have to read), also she doesn't really blog any longer...outside of occasional, once in the blue moon tweets and posts on FB.
Mother: See, that also makes a difference.
Me: And she's a computer programmer...so there's that. (ie. doesn't have to read for a living).
I know this is politically incorrect -- but I happen to love television. I actually enjoy watching television more than reading. Less work. Also can do stuff during it. Like eat. Surf the net. Blog.
Robot vacuum.
3. Horror movies coming out in time for Halloween that look appealing.
* Hold the Dark -- starring Alexander Skarsgard, Riley Keough and Jeffrey Wright, about a man being hired to track a missing 7 year old kid of two eerie parents in a wolf-ravaged wilderness...
* Malevolent (Netflix) - Florence Pugh and Ben Lloyd-Huges star as scam-artist paranormal experts who meet what may be their match inside a haunted orphanage.
* Suspiria - remake by Luca Guadagino with Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton. About an aspiring dancer at a Berlin academy fronted by a mysterious and perhaps sinister art director.
* Anna and the Apocalypse - A band of survivors navigates their way through a yuletide musical zombie outbreak. It's a Christmas Musical with Zombies. (Sigh, just when you thought there was nothing else they could possibly do with Zombies...)
* Terrified - on Shudder network (yes, there's apparently a network on streaming called SHUDDER, it's new to me too.) It's the winner of the very scary audience award at the Fantasia International Film Festival (which apparently also exists), directed by Demian Rugna, and explores a quiet neighborhood in Buenos Aires that endures a number of unsettling events.
* Apostle - Netflix (geeze Netflix has a lot of content, I seriously doubt they'll miss the Marvel stuff when it leaves). Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens of Legion) mounts a search and rescue mission after his sister is abducted by a wacky religious cult in early 20th Century Britain. (Okay, I feel old...we are now referring to it as early 20th Century...as opposed to an actual date).
For me...I have a love hate relationship with horror films. I like them and I don't at the same time.
Mostly, if I give in to the urge to watch the things, I pay for it by not being able to sleep at night. It's sort of like giving in and eating chocolate...except with nightmares.
Anyhow..the memorable ones or favs that I've seen, with the above in mind?
* Halloween by John Carpenter (which pretty much redefined the slasher film.)
* The Haunting of Hill House by Robert Wise -- based on Shirley Jackson's novel of the same name. Wise is a minimalist director. See also Andromeda Strain by Wise.
* The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock. (I know everyone says Psycho, but I thought the Birds was scarier.)
* Aliens by James Cameron...with Sigourney Weaver going up against the nasty Momma Alien
* Jurassic Park by Stephen Spielberg
* Silence of the Lambs by Jonathan Demme
* The Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton
* The Shining by Stanley Kubrick
* The Lost Boys
* Poltergiest -- disturbed me as a kid
* Jaws
A good horror movie should be a character piece...and make you care about the characters. A lot of them don't. But the really good ones? Do.
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Date: 2018-10-04 02:16 am (UTC)I do believe this is a sentence I've never read before.
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Date: 2018-10-04 02:47 am (UTC)