Category: movies/tv

alt_Happy Death Day?

Hey, cool:

https://youtu.be/p2n2yJL3aog

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The Elvis Room is now a bar

Who knew, right? May have to swing by there next time I’m in Portalandia.

No worries, though. “The Elvis Room” is still a ThisIsHorror chapbook, still a short film.…

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Best of 2017

For the first time ever, I kept a running tab of the best of every month:

It’s not everything I read/watch/listened to. Just the stuff I dug.

And? I had this big idea that I’d peel back through all those, dither and negotiate about which is actually my favorite whatever of the year. But what I’m right-now finding? I like to remember better, on the idea that if it was good, …

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Favorite Horror Movies of 2017

Feel like I’m posting this too early, as I might get blown away by some movie X over the next five days. But I’ve got ten minutes right now, can get these down and in order, I think—with the caveat that I’ve yet to see Hounds of Love or Raw or Prevenge or Super Dark Times or Boys in the Trees, all of which I’m fairly certain would place in this list. Thing is? I would have had time and mind to cue all those up, except this past couple of months I’ve been burni…

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The Last Jedi

I mean, first, yeah, loved it, clapped at the end, c’mon: of course.  Best part? All the younguns in the audience laughing and talking to the screen. New hope indeed.

Second, couple of good links:

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Process

This is what writing is: you throw a lot of stupid stuff at a wall, then see what sticks. And you never really understand it enough to do it like that again, and, meanwhile, people say it means this and that, and for reasons you can’t figure out, the story lasts, even though it was just something you thought might make someone smile:

http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/david-s-pumpkins-oral-history.html 

As for where I think the humor in this is? The effort to intellectua…

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File under: Costumes I Need

This is probably only funny if you grew up watching Perfect Strangers—”Perfect Stranger Things” feels like a Jeopardy! question to a mashup answer—but never mind all that. What matters here? This costume. I wonder how that face petals opens like that? Animatronic? Air? I mean, the spindly fingers are useless, but so what. And I dig the platform shoes/feet. I want to be this for Halloween, please:

. . . but, while the video/player will sort of embed, the permissio…

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