Year 2 - Day 154 - Sunny Outside Now
Aug. 19th, 2021 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI should take a walk - but it's very warm, and I just finished laundry. Also sleepy. Still struggling with the sleep issue. Changing my sleep habits is easier said than done, apparently. Dosed off again while writing this.
We didn't get much from Tropical Storm Fred, just some fleeting showers. They expect more rain over the weekend. This has been an exceedingly damp year.
Been listening to Bruce Campbell's bio - "Chins that Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Star" , which contains a be rather in depth description of the filming of the Evil Dead. The Evil Dead is a low budget horror movie that Sam Rami, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell filmed on a shoe-string budget, and raised or rather scrapped together $85,000 to shoot in a remote area of Tennessee. The shoot was about as horrific as the film. And almost as brutal on both cast and crew.
Example? Apparently they used plaster create molds of peoples faces for the dead makeup. When they took the molded face off one actress - her eyelashes were removed.
Also at one point, Campbell sprangs his ankle and Sam and Rob takes turns hitting it with a stick.
It's an entertaining book to listen to - and a nice change from the other bios. Campbell, ironically enough, isn't quite as full of himself as other actors. The story is told with self-deprecating snark that I enjoy.
I've not seen the films The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, or the remake. Nor really want to - it not really my sort of film. I don't like gory three stooges style films about zombies. But, I got an idea while listening to the book - which is why not make a horror film about a film crew venturing into a remote area to shoot a horror film, only the horror is real. [I went to sleep as I wrote all of that, and had to edit it again as a result. Reminds me of when I was in school - if I had an early class, my notes were unintelligible, and kind of went down hill.]
Did laundry - it was great doing laundry today. No one was down there. My favorite laundry days are when no one is in the laundry room - probably all outside frolicking around. Like I said - it's nice outside, after three days of being crappy, with a breeze. Best laundry days are when it is nice outside.
I keep trying to get up the nerve to try the citibikes. I may try again this weekend. I have an acquaintance who rides them around the city all the time- and is a Bike Angle, picking up bikes and ensuring they get put back in their racks.
On twitter someone posted a video of a maskless asshole, tornmenting an elderly woman wearing a mask. I've not seen this in reality - thank god. Most people wear masks on the trains, only one or two don't. So really the maskless nitwits are rare sightings in NY. Most like rural nitwits, who don't understand what it means to be in the city. But the video haunted me, and I remember wishing someone had smacked the guy.
Talked to mother.
Me: I kind of screwed up. After talking to you last night...I bought you a ...well a very big gift basket filled with chocolate. It's enough to probably last you a month?
Mother: Oh I just purchased some chocolate.
ME: ugh.
Mother: Only three bars.
Me: Well, this is a whole lot more than that. And various types. I think you should share it with people. Lots of people.
Mother: I can always freeze it.
Me: It occurred to me - when I was trying to go to sleep last night that I should not have done this. You are pre-diabetic. You do not need chocolate. I may have killed you with kindness. But alas, when I got up this morning to try and cancel the order - it was too late.
Mother: You are an incredibly sweet daughter.
Me: No not really. Just an incredibly helpless one.
**
Found on FB: "Before you argue with someone, ask yourself if that person is even mentally mature enough to grasp another perspective, because if they aren't - there's no point."
And yet, I do it anyhow - usually in fandoms.
***
FB is also advertising luxury or expensive trips that...well, even if I had the money to do them right now - I wouldn't. One is a trip on the Venice Express - a luxury train from Paris to Venice. Another is or well are trips on Branson's Rocket Ships to the moon and back. Uhm, no.
Anyone else feel like they've fallen head first into either a Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury or Kurt Vonnegurt novel? And if so, do you know how to escape? And can you take me with you?
Today's random photo from better times and better places.
We didn't get much from Tropical Storm Fred, just some fleeting showers. They expect more rain over the weekend. This has been an exceedingly damp year.
Been listening to Bruce Campbell's bio - "Chins that Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Star" , which contains a be rather in depth description of the filming of the Evil Dead. The Evil Dead is a low budget horror movie that Sam Rami, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell filmed on a shoe-string budget, and raised or rather scrapped together $85,000 to shoot in a remote area of Tennessee. The shoot was about as horrific as the film. And almost as brutal on both cast and crew.
Example? Apparently they used plaster create molds of peoples faces for the dead makeup. When they took the molded face off one actress - her eyelashes were removed.
Also at one point, Campbell sprangs his ankle and Sam and Rob takes turns hitting it with a stick.
It's an entertaining book to listen to - and a nice change from the other bios. Campbell, ironically enough, isn't quite as full of himself as other actors. The story is told with self-deprecating snark that I enjoy.
I've not seen the films The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, or the remake. Nor really want to - it not really my sort of film. I don't like gory three stooges style films about zombies. But, I got an idea while listening to the book - which is why not make a horror film about a film crew venturing into a remote area to shoot a horror film, only the horror is real. [I went to sleep as I wrote all of that, and had to edit it again as a result. Reminds me of when I was in school - if I had an early class, my notes were unintelligible, and kind of went down hill.]
Did laundry - it was great doing laundry today. No one was down there. My favorite laundry days are when no one is in the laundry room - probably all outside frolicking around. Like I said - it's nice outside, after three days of being crappy, with a breeze. Best laundry days are when it is nice outside.
I keep trying to get up the nerve to try the citibikes. I may try again this weekend. I have an acquaintance who rides them around the city all the time- and is a Bike Angle, picking up bikes and ensuring they get put back in their racks.
On twitter someone posted a video of a maskless asshole, tornmenting an elderly woman wearing a mask. I've not seen this in reality - thank god. Most people wear masks on the trains, only one or two don't. So really the maskless nitwits are rare sightings in NY. Most like rural nitwits, who don't understand what it means to be in the city. But the video haunted me, and I remember wishing someone had smacked the guy.
Talked to mother.
Me: I kind of screwed up. After talking to you last night...I bought you a ...well a very big gift basket filled with chocolate. It's enough to probably last you a month?
Mother: Oh I just purchased some chocolate.
ME: ugh.
Mother: Only three bars.
Me: Well, this is a whole lot more than that. And various types. I think you should share it with people. Lots of people.
Mother: I can always freeze it.
Me: It occurred to me - when I was trying to go to sleep last night that I should not have done this. You are pre-diabetic. You do not need chocolate. I may have killed you with kindness. But alas, when I got up this morning to try and cancel the order - it was too late.
Mother: You are an incredibly sweet daughter.
Me: No not really. Just an incredibly helpless one.
**
Found on FB: "Before you argue with someone, ask yourself if that person is even mentally mature enough to grasp another perspective, because if they aren't - there's no point."
And yet, I do it anyhow - usually in fandoms.
***
FB is also advertising luxury or expensive trips that...well, even if I had the money to do them right now - I wouldn't. One is a trip on the Venice Express - a luxury train from Paris to Venice. Another is or well are trips on Branson's Rocket Ships to the moon and back. Uhm, no.
Anyone else feel like they've fallen head first into either a Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury or Kurt Vonnegurt novel? And if so, do you know how to escape? And can you take me with you?
Today's random photo from better times and better places.
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Date: 2021-08-20 10:22 pm (UTC)They did something like this in Shadow of the Vampire, and it was really neat.
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Date: 2021-08-21 01:25 pm (UTC)