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Jul. 19th, 2023 09:09 pm1. So now folks from Reddit have jumped over to DW? Let's see we've gotten Tumblr, Twitter, FB, and now Reddit refugees, prior to all of that LJ.
DW is among the few social media platforms that is not designed as an insane marketing platform and not owned by a tech-billionaire, or controlled by Russia's crazy-ass brand of fascist capitalism (LJ) or China's crazy-ass brand of capitalism (TikTok).
2. The new trailer for the Hunger Games Prequel - makes me want to read the Hunger Games Prequel. It looks really good. Whomever go the rights to the Hunger Games - new what they were doing with casting, script and direction.
3. Pop Culture Items whose insane popularity is lost on me...
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4. Has anyone see the Barbie Movie? Is it any good? What about Oppenheimer?
5. Twitter was agog a few days back on the casting of Little Mermaid and Snow White. ( Read more... )
My niece has the right idea - spend the summer in the mountains, hiking, chasing bears, putting out campfires, and off the grid.
6. Latest audio book, Blood, Sweat & Chrome - the Making of George Miller's Mad Max Fury Road, is surprisingly enough quite good. It goes into George Miller's career as a film maker. I didn't realize that I'd pretty much seen all of his movies. He did Mad Max films, Babe film, Lorenzo's Oil, Happy Feet, Contact, the Witches of Eastwick...so apparently, without quite realizing it, I'm a diehard George Miller fan?
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I dumped Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube - couldn't follow it. Reading some romance novel or rather two - not sure which to pick yet. I might go with the Cinderella meets the Fae one by Elisa Kova. It's better written. The one I'm reading on the subway is a bit flowery and too descriptive - so my attention wanders. I need minimalism in my prose at the moment. I blame all those contracts, tech specs, etc that I'm reviewing, editing, reading and analyzing at work. Also working on editing my book.
7. Regarding Horror movies and television shows? I rarely watch them. Unless, I decide they aren't scary and won't keep me awake at night. Horror novels on the other hand - I do read and enjoy.
If I'm going to watch a Horror film or television series, it's usually:
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I tend to stay away from:
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That said, I've read a lot of books, and seen a lot of horror films and television series. So, there's clearly a part of me who likes it? I mean one of my favorite cartoons growing up was Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
I've still not seen the entirety of the film Alien. I've seen Aliens (twice), but it's the only one I've sat through. I actually saw it in the theater - it was a great horror movie. JAWS also is a very enjoyable horror movie.
What makes a good horror film? ( Read more... )
Some Writers/Directors who can do horror well?
Steven Spielberg was good at it. Steven King equally good, along with Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Shirley Jackson, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison. Jane Campion. Peter Wier. George Miller. James Cameron. Kevin Williamson. Mike Flanagan.
I think its hard to pull off.
Favorite horror television series?
Haunting of Hill House, Bly Manor, Lock & Key (S1), Vampire Diaries, Angel the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Orphan Black, Being Human (UK), Misfits (UK), Jekyll (UK - Stephen Moffat), Doctor Who (yes, yes, I know some people don't think it is horror)...Twilight Zone, Outer Limits...
Films? The Shining (Stanley Kubrick's version), JAWS, Haunting of Hill House (dir. Robert Wise), Andromeda Strain (dir. Robert Wise),
Tremors, Aliens (James Cameron), Terminator series (James Cameron), The Others, The Sixth Sense,
Films that still haunt and scared me silly?
The Skeleton Key, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween,
DW is among the few social media platforms that is not designed as an insane marketing platform and not owned by a tech-billionaire, or controlled by Russia's crazy-ass brand of fascist capitalism (LJ) or China's crazy-ass brand of capitalism (TikTok).
2. The new trailer for the Hunger Games Prequel - makes me want to read the Hunger Games Prequel. It looks really good. Whomever go the rights to the Hunger Games - new what they were doing with casting, script and direction.
3. Pop Culture Items whose insane popularity is lost on me...
( Read more... )
4. Has anyone see the Barbie Movie? Is it any good? What about Oppenheimer?
5. Twitter was agog a few days back on the casting of Little Mermaid and Snow White. ( Read more... )
My niece has the right idea - spend the summer in the mountains, hiking, chasing bears, putting out campfires, and off the grid.
6. Latest audio book, Blood, Sweat & Chrome - the Making of George Miller's Mad Max Fury Road, is surprisingly enough quite good. It goes into George Miller's career as a film maker. I didn't realize that I'd pretty much seen all of his movies. He did Mad Max films, Babe film, Lorenzo's Oil, Happy Feet, Contact, the Witches of Eastwick...so apparently, without quite realizing it, I'm a diehard George Miller fan?
( Read more... )
I dumped Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube - couldn't follow it. Reading some romance novel or rather two - not sure which to pick yet. I might go with the Cinderella meets the Fae one by Elisa Kova. It's better written. The one I'm reading on the subway is a bit flowery and too descriptive - so my attention wanders. I need minimalism in my prose at the moment. I blame all those contracts, tech specs, etc that I'm reviewing, editing, reading and analyzing at work. Also working on editing my book.
7. Regarding Horror movies and television shows? I rarely watch them. Unless, I decide they aren't scary and won't keep me awake at night. Horror novels on the other hand - I do read and enjoy.
If I'm going to watch a Horror film or television series, it's usually:
( Read more... )
I tend to stay away from:
( Read more... )
That said, I've read a lot of books, and seen a lot of horror films and television series. So, there's clearly a part of me who likes it? I mean one of my favorite cartoons growing up was Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
I've still not seen the entirety of the film Alien. I've seen Aliens (twice), but it's the only one I've sat through. I actually saw it in the theater - it was a great horror movie. JAWS also is a very enjoyable horror movie.
What makes a good horror film? ( Read more... )
Some Writers/Directors who can do horror well?
Steven Spielberg was good at it. Steven King equally good, along with Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Shirley Jackson, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison. Jane Campion. Peter Wier. George Miller. James Cameron. Kevin Williamson. Mike Flanagan.
I think its hard to pull off.
Favorite horror television series?
Haunting of Hill House, Bly Manor, Lock & Key (S1), Vampire Diaries, Angel the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Orphan Black, Being Human (UK), Misfits (UK), Jekyll (UK - Stephen Moffat), Doctor Who (yes, yes, I know some people don't think it is horror)...Twilight Zone, Outer Limits...
Films? The Shining (Stanley Kubrick's version), JAWS, Haunting of Hill House (dir. Robert Wise), Andromeda Strain (dir. Robert Wise),
Tremors, Aliens (James Cameron), Terminator series (James Cameron), The Others, The Sixth Sense,
Films that still haunt and scared me silly?
The Skeleton Key, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween,