Book Seven, Chapter Two

You Tyr… glance place gesture stay gesture.
Here mind walls touch you they? images.
“Them” gaze answering one… pause MY- knowing.
Here glance they? you investigator sort disappearance.
Disappearance new tea recommended… work… smiles shrug.
Amateur amateur professional… fun- professional miss really?
Towards deliberately scatter worst- it really bloodshot.

Book Seven, Chapter One

Ultimate Prize Gone As All Crumbles Down

Shrill gone white boney glows glow then.
In back unfettered covered close smile M.?
Now- down two nothing Mynril inside! wait!
Insane! men insane! fury wall sees end…
Speak emerges see screams down later afternoon.
Quickly? doing? them? out there… it? requests?
Charcoal enters walls fingers reality silence There.

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)

Remake featuring a cool cameo from the star of the original.

Definitely some cheezy parts, with Donald Sutherland as the obvious acting highlight.

It’s cool to see Leonard Nimoy in something else, too.

Gets better as it goes along…although I have to say it’s not really an improvement over the original, more of an interesting slight alteration.

“The function of life is survival” – Wow, this movie was creepy enough when I thought they just turned you into an emotionless thing…but a LaVeyan??? Oh, the inhumanity.

Inspirational Scream: Wait for it…

Grade: C

That Guy… Who Was In That Thing (2012)

A bunch of semi-famous actors talk about the lifestyle of being a non-STAR actor: the ups, the downs, the weirdness, the motivation, and so on.

It’s not exciting but it’s somewhat interesting, fairly informative, and occasionally amusing.

Inspirational Quote: “I had a job for three months…in a law firm…stapling.”

Grade: D+

7/14/18: The Great Grade Update. Grade: C-

Deep Puppy Thoughts (Part 68)

So on my online radio station, there’s an ad (which I fully support despite the joke coming) in which people talk about giving blood to help save lives, and how important it is. And all through it I’m having this naughty tingle in the back of my head, and then at the end when the guy says very emotionally and seriously – “Save Lives…Give Blood”, I can’t help thinking “Yeah, that’s cool…but it would be so much cooler if, right after that guy’s plea, they inserted Eric Idle from the ‘Blood/Urine Bank’ sketch of MPFC saying “Alright…I’ll give you some blood.”

Tombstone (1993)

Finally…after watching endless clips on Youtube, tis on Netflix Streaming.

Unfortunately the bits I’ve watched endlessly are the best bits.

Basically it’s a mixture of really good scenes and hokey, overly dramatic ones. Should have been cut down to about 1:45 and Wyatt’s immortal vengeance toned down JUST a bit.

The good scenes are enough to make it worth a watch, but it’s far from a classic.

Best acting by a longshot: Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday.

Inspirational Quote: “…I don’t.”

IQ2: “…I wasn’t.”

Grade: C+

Advice/Site Review

I’m not going to give the name, because that would just give them publicity, BUT:

If you ever find yourself on a MUX, or MUD, or MUSH, or any other den of supposed roleplaying, and you make a character who is a good-natured and pleasant but naive virgin, and another character forces her to masturbate so hard that she bleeds profusely, and she is upset by that and complains, and you (as player, and character) are accused of behaving “neither fair nor proportional”, and a/the Imm then suggests maybe this isn’t the place for you…agree.

The Monkey’s Paw (2013)

Come on, do you need a description? What happens when someone gets a – sorry, THE – monkey’s paw? Three wishes and a lot of twist to them. Really bad bleepin twist.

New Orleans…nice setting.

A somewhat interesting take on the premise. Pretty predictable, and VERY dark, but for horror movie fans, probably worth a watch.

Personally I found it got worse as it went along, as I realized there was less and less time for it to NOT be predictable, right til the end.

If you don’t like dark horror, you’ll hate it anyways.

Inspirational Quote: “So much for ‘lover not a fighter’, huh?”

Grade: D+

Dead Within (2014)

Extremely minimalist: almost the entire movie takes place between a couple in a small cottage.

The story involves some sort of plague that turns people into infected/zombie monsters. We don’t see the cause or very much of the effect, outside of the two featured characters.

As time goes on and on, supplies become scarce, tempers become short and both undergo a gradual descent into semi-insanity; he from his constant journeys out to get food and other supplies, she from her constant and unbroken complete isolation.

Things become a bit unclear near the end, when the story and visuals could be shown through either’s eyes, one or both of whom may be seeing incorrectly.

Overall it’s somewhat interesting, especially given the limitations of the setting. But as part of me cheers the lack of generic descent into zombie action, part of me grows bored at what is basically a very long story of a failing relationship.

Grade: C-

Galaxy Quest (1999)

The Star Trek parallels are cool.

Basically a washed-up group of actors, beloved for a series in times past, cruises on that mutual love but finally begins to feel…well, washed-up.

Then it turns out that a REAL group of aliens wants to recruit the crew, who they believe to be real as well.

The female alien is kinda hot, and Tony Shalhoub is quite lucky.

I found it both amusing and actually somewhat moving.

Recommended to both Trek fans and Trek haters.

ON Netflix Streaming as of 10/1/14.

Grade: B