kybearfuzz: (Happy Larry)
After getting the grocery shopping done and a couple of loads of laundry out of the way, I was debating on what to watch. I've been looking through a lot of my Christmas-themed horror flicks and decided to watch "Black Christmas" (1974) again.

black-christmas-1974-2


There are so many things I love about this movie, but I'd say a great deal of it involves the setting - the early 1970's. As I'm watching the movie tonight, I decided to jot down some things that clearly identify the time setting of the movie.

  • Smoking. Several characters smoke, which you don't see in movies very often anymore. In fact, a close eye sees ashtrays in offices and auditoriums.

  • Posters. The decorations on the walls of the girls' rooms give away the time frame. Some of them are very cool and I would love to see them come back.

  • Wallpaper. Like the posters, the wallpaper is very telling, very elaborate graphic patterns you would have seen on album covers of the period or the Electric Company.

  • Rotary telephones. One of the big parts of the movie is the phone calls made to the sorority sisters from the killer. The sorority house only has telephones downstairs for the sisters, so people do have to "run" for the phone, unlike today where the phone is cordless and in your pocket. The rotary dials dates it even more, as there are now whole generations of people who have never made a phone call using them.

  • Phone numbers. Probably the best gag in the whole movie is the use of a word to describe the exchange of a phone number. Barb (Margot Kidder) gives the phone number of the sorority house to a bumbling and naive desk sergeant as "Fellatio 2-0880," explaining to him that it's a new exchange "F-E" (This is actually a blooper in the movie as the number is later given/seen as a different number). Now I was born on the cusp of the exchanges no longer being described this way, so I never had to make a call giving one. An exchange, that is... not fellatio.

  • Cars. They're boats essentially.

  • The fashions. The clothes the ladies wear aren't as dated as they could look vintage today, but the hairstyles I think give the 70's away, including those on the guys. One white guy has an afro while another has hair that looks like a shag.


I was born in early 1973 so I don't recall the early 70's at all, but vaguely recall the later part of the decade mostly. If reincarnation is real, I often wonder if my past life was in this time frame, considering my admiration for the time period.

While I love the advantages of having all the technology we have today, and will have even more in the future, life certainly does seem a little simpler back then. Maybe that is also one of the appealing parts.

If anyone wants to watch the movie, it's posted, in full, on You Tube. The new remake comes out this Friday. I'm going to try my best to judge it on its own merits and not draw comparisons repeatedly to my favorite. I admit, I'm looking forward to it.
kybearfuzz: (Default)
I had no plans this weekend. None.

Friday afternoon after work, I raked leaves for a couple of hours and found myself sore afterward. I was thinking of going to see the new "Suspiria" remake. It's only showing at the local arthouse theater and it was the "opening night," so I pushed it off to avoid crowds.

The next day, I went for a run at the gym and rushed to get home for a quick shower and change. I was going to go grab lunch and see a matinee of the movie. The more I read of the reviews and the length of the movie (almost 2.5 hours), the more I felt like not going. That length of time for a movie is a commitment. Plus, the reviews was comparing it to "Mother," a very artsy, out-there flick, which I had not heard good things about. So I begged off again, grabbing lunch and coming home to take a nap. I did watch "John Carpenter's Village of the Damned" on my DVR, which is something I've been meaning to see for years.

My goal for the most part was to spend a bit of time working on the next issue of my comic book, or doing some drawing, but the creative juices just don't seem to be flowing for me right now. I can doodle and whatever, but concentrating on a project or a potential project seems to be escaping me.

So the weekend is now done and I raked the yard and did laundry for the most part. Not what I'd call my most productive weekend.
kybearfuzz: (TV)
Last night, I had tried to find tickets for the 2018 "Halloween" sequel, as I'd been looking forward to the movie for months. Every theater was packed with just a speckled number of seats in showings all evening. I hate crowded theaters, so I decided to pass until the next day.

So this morning, I'd gotten up especially early for a Saturday, went to the gym to run my 3.2 miles on the treadmill, lusted after this tall hottie that I am sure plays in my softball league in the locker room, then home to shower and change and head to the theater. I went to the 9:45 AM showing at the local Rave.

It wasn't packed, but I was surprised how well attended it was at this hour. No real spoilers for the movie, but I will say that it did not disappoint. The movie is pretty deep in a strange way. Jamie Lee Curtis plays the adult Laurie Strode, a woman in her late 50's whose life has been severely damaged by that Halloween night in 1978. There are some great scenes where you can see she has been wound tight and fearful every day since that night. She's not a shining light, full of hope. She drinks, she's anti-social, and people, including her family, believe that she's crazy. Until the night when Michael escapes again.

It's wonderfully rated R, so there's no watering down of the language and gore, which I think is necessary to tell this story.

The audience wasn't perfect sadly. There was one large, special needs kid who had no volume control. Why the parents would bring a kid to such a movie is beyond me. Still, it didn't ruin the flick for me for a change.
kybearfuzz: (TV)
I miss video stores. Back when I was a teenager, they were everywhere. Not just Blockbuster Video, but a legion of mom-and-pop independent video stores. Walking through the aisles looking for a movie to watch was fun. The box art was often beautiful and it was a mix of blockbuster films and independent (sometimes just plain "cheap") movies.

One of the movies that I remember renting over and over was a 1988 horror movie called "Slaughterhouse Rock." A handsome, furry guy with big mullet hair has horrible dreams of a monster and he and his college friends go to Alcatraz Island to find out why where most of them get killed. It's full of 80's fashion, hair, and musical styles. In fact, the biggest star in the movie is Toni Basil and the soundtrack was written and performed by Mark Mothersbaugh and Devo.

Slaughterhouse RockThe acting in this flick is average at best. The lead actor is the cutest, but he's also the worst actor in the bunch. He's not the only furry man in the movie either and all of them are shirtless at least once in the film.

Being a closeted gay teen, all that shirt-free furriness was intoxicating to watch. Whenever I had a spare dollar or two, I'd rent the movie over the weekend again. The movie crossed my mind earlier this week, so I checked to see if it finally got released on DVD via Amazon and was surprised that it had been. So I ordered it and it arrived today.

I watched it tonight and while the furriness held up, the movie is far more campy than I remember, but then it is 30 years older now. Still, it'll be fun to watch now and then.

The Nun

Sep. 15th, 2018 10:42 pm
kybearfuzz: (Grrrrrrr!!!!)
Well, a handful of us moviebears went to see "The Nun" tonight as planned. The movie is not terrible, but it's not overly great either. It was fun, with some decent scares.

What annoyed the $#!+ out of me was this one woman and three kids behind us who did everything to disrupt the movie. The kids took turns running and stomping down the steps and back up again several times during the flick. Then the one girl would stage whisper to the older girl, who seemed to be too young to be the mom of these brats. Then one of the boys kept trying to creep out the girl who replied "Stop it" to him repeatedly. I tried shushing them, but it fell on the deafest of ears. They were not so loud to disrupt the whole theater when they spoke, but those of us closest to them.

I should have gotten up to get the ushers, but then I have to miss part of the movie myself. Ideally, I should have done that, but it's been my experience that they will behave while the usher arrives, only to resume after the usher leaves.

When the movie was over, I loudly proclaims that some people shouldn't come the movies when they don't know how to behave. Normally, I get a look from them, but I got nothing, so when we exited the theater, I just told them flat out that they ruined the movie for us. I literally told them that if you don't know how to behave in a movie to stay home.

When we got to the front of the theater I went up to the customer service counter and loudly complained. When the woman with the three kids, I literally pointed straight at them and told the service rep that it was that group "right there!" I'm not above public shaming.

The group tried not to make eye contact. I told the rep that I realize it was pointless at this point, but begged the obvious teenager to send more ushers around. As we were leaving, a manager showed up, and I swear she was probably 21, who gave me and the one guy who stuck around free passes.

It doesn't make up for the experience, but I don't know what else I can do.
kybearfuzz: (TV)
Not long ago, I wrote about how I've been reading or re-reading the books of Lois Duncan. She wrote a string of scary teen books in the 1970's and 1980's. One of them was made into the movie, "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Others have been made into TV-movies. I enjoyed a few of them when I was a teenager, so I recently got in the mood to read them again.

One I recently read was "Down a Dark Hall," and I was happy to find out online that a movie made from the book was being released soon. The movie got released today on Amazon Prime and iTunes. So I plopped down the rental fee and watched it tonight.

Down a Dark Hall

The movie stars AnnaSophia Robb as Kit and Uma Thurman as Madame Duret, the headmistress. The screenplay is fairly faithful to the book for the most part, though it does modernize it as the original book was published in the 1970's. The film has great atmosphere, the scares are subtle and builds well, and Uma Thurman chews up the scenery, being both severe and fascinating.

I am actually surprised that it only got a limited theatrical release, only two cities, while it was put out on video-on-demand. In my opinion, the movie should have gotten a wide-release as I think it's superior to most scary movies out there right now.

I'll definitely buy the DVD when it gets released.
kybearfuzz: (Grizzly 3)
Tonight, after my workout and dinner, I settled on the couch to pencil more pages of Issue #25 of "Grizzly and The Bear Patrol." It's been fairly slow going, mainly because of everything else I have had to do this summer, which has sucked away my energy. I'm still training the temporary replacements for my coworker on maternity leave. It makes me very reticent to take time off and my vacation time is piling up, so I might need to burn some soon.

Tonight's DVD was "The Boy," a movie that I saw in the theater with friends, but missed out the climax of the film due to a very full, very sore bladder. It was nice to actually see the whole movie. It's not the best flick in the world, but I think it gets better after a repeated viewing.

For the last scenes of the movie, I put the comic book pages away and started a sketch that turned into the below -- The Bear Collector, who is probably my favorite of all the villains I've created. I'll be back at it tomorrow night I think.

Bear Collector
kybearfuzz: (TV)
After work today, I bee-lined to the movie theater in the hopes of catching a matinee of "Incredibles 2," thinking that the crowds would be less than the evening.

Boy, was I wrong...

So I bought my ticket and parked my butt in the seat. Lots of kids were in the theater, which is kind of expected for an animated flick, but there were some YOUNG kids in there, i.e. babies. Then, a hillbilly family wandered in, with kids, and grandma, who was a very large woman who was completely out of breath just walking to her seat. In fact, I didn't think it was her seat, as much as she stopped at the first available seat and refused to try to go further. The rest of her brood parked themselves two rows ahead.

Within the first ten minute of the movie, there was one screaming/crying baby, grandma was audibly breathing through her mouth, smacking her lips and making commentary on the movie, and then her grandson walked up to her and asked how she was doing at full volume. I'm guessing that grandma didn't think to bring her portable oxygen tank with her.

And that was all it took. I went back to the front counter and got a refund and left.

After coming home, mowing the yard, and getting cleaned up, I bought a ticket to the 7 PM showing of the movie, paying almost twice as much for the 21+ year old section to ensure no kids were near me. I finally got to enjoy the movie.

I LOVED IT! I love how they spend so much time on Jack-Jack and his developing powers, a quick spin through Edna Mode's home and her "lab," and the villains were so cool. It was well-worth a 14-year wait.
kybearfuzz: (Default)
It's been a really busy few days, mostly good and a hint of bad.

  • I took Friday off so I could jaunt down to Corbin to see my sister and my mom. Mom seems to have adjusted well to the nursing home. She has moments where she's not happy there, but others she where she's enjoying the company of the other ladies. My sister and I had a bitch-fest about my twin who hasn't visited Mom since Christmas. He lives in town, less than ten minutes from Mom, yet he does not want to visit. I'm not sure what his issues are, but I foresee me having it out with him soon over his behavior.


  • Saturday was my drive home. It was relatively uneventful. I got back to spend a few hours cleaning the house in anticipation of the arrival of Steve ([personal profile] rootbeer1).


  • Steve and I hung out for a few days, eating Skyline Chili multiple times and enjoying Graeter's Ice Cream. We did see "A Quiet Place" which was really good for a horror movie. We both agreed that sadly there was not enough shirtlessness on the part of bearded lead actor/director John Krasinski.


  • I was back in the office today and swamped. In the middle of the day, my sister texted me that the nursing home had sent Mom to the hospital, thinking that she's had another stroke. She had stopped talking and responding to people. The doctors believe that she's had a "mini-stroke," but I asked my sis if she though Mom had contracted another UTI, which caused a lot of her issues last year. They sent her back to the nursing home, as the doctors said that there wasn't anything else they could do. However, they did find out... she has another UTI. Hopefully, they can treat it and Mom will get closer to normal.


  • Tonight, I'm just exhausted, so it is just TV, watching the season finale of "Schitt's Creek" and reruns of "The Bionic Woman." I'm already looking forward to the weekend.


  • Lastly, but not least, happy birthday hugs to the somewhat invisible [profile] xianjessen ;)
kybearfuzz: (TV)
After my workout yesterday, I went home to shower and change, and then hit the movies. "Jeepers Creepers 3" was playing for one-night only at select theaters in the area. As a fan of the first two, I had bought my ticket on Monday.

I'll keep the spoilers out of it, in case there are some other horror fans reading, but I will tell you that this movie takes places between the first movie and its sequel. So, the story is taking place within the 23 day time-window when the Creeper is killing from the first movie.

I think the movie does a decent job tying the bookends of the first movie and the second movie together for the most part.

Good Bits:
  • The movie stars Meg Foster and her famous crystal blue eyes. It's not a glamorous role for her, but I recognized her off the bat. The movie also stars Stan Shaw from movies like "Rocky" and "Fried Green Tomatoes."

  • You get some info into what it's like in the back of the Creeper's killer van.


Not-So-Good Bits:
  • The story is a bit weak really and there are a couple of glaring plot-holes I picked up on, which were strange since the same creative team was involved in all three.

  • Some of the special effects were of the SyFy Channel movie computer-generated caliber. I know that they probably had a tight budget, but I think they could have done better.


No extra scene at the end, but there was an interview with Jonathan Breck who plays the Creeper at the end, after the credits, so that was fun. He's a very attractive guy out of make-up, so I'm surprised he never made it into movies as a leading man.
kybearfuzz: (Bill the Cat)
It's been a fairly active weekend, so here's a summary of everything that went on:

  • Friday I called the cable company and set up a repair visit. They could have done it over the weekend, but I have to take Wednesday off, so I scheduled it for then. And the repair will be free believe it or not. I still plan on giving the installer company a good chewing out. While it isn't costing me anything, the annoyance of being without cable in my bedroom for nearly two weeks has sucked


  • Saturday was a Cincinnati MovieBears outing to see "IT." It was a beautiful night and it was good see the guys. Everyone seemed to enjoy the movie, which I've now seen twice. I imagine that clowns will be a popular this Halloween.


  • Brian ([profile] cincycub) brought me a wonderful gift. While he was at Market Days this year, he bought me three issues of "How to Kill A Superhero," by Pablo Greene, autographed to me. According to the author's website, www.howtokillasuperhero.net, the novels tell the story of Roland, a young man who is changed forever by an occult book that grants its reader dangerous but seductive superpowers. It involves some superheroic bondage, which is very enticing. I was so thrilled with them, I hugged Brian twice. I look forward to reading them. The author is very much into superheroes, spandex, and singlets. I can relate :)


  • Sunday was mostly home stuff. I mowed the yard (by removing the boot and wearing the ankle guard), did laundry, and finished a retirement cartoon for a co-worker. It did wear me out a bit.


  • Tonight is the series finale of "The Strain." I'm curious to see how our heroes defeat the Strigoi (the vampires). It's been a very interesting show, with some cute leads. After the last season where Zach set off a nuke and gave the vampires reign over the world, I'm kind hoping he gets offed. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to watch it.


  • My next doctor's appointment is Wednesday. I sincerely hope I'm done with the boot. I need to get back into working out, as my lower body and mid-section are seriously out of shape.
kybearfuzz: (TV)
I am a huge fan of the original 1979 film "When A Stranger Calls," starring Carol Kane and Charles Durning. The first 20 minutes of the movie are the best, the one where Jill the babysitter gets the phone calls asking if she's checked the children. From what I heard, those 20 minutes were the original film and then they added the rest to make it a full movie.

The 2006 remake of the movie took the original 20 minutes and stretched them out to length of a full movie. Camilla Belle plays Jill this round, a teenager who is having boyfriend trouble and went over her minutes dealing with him. As punishment, her parents deactivate her cell phone and get her a babysitting job on the night of the big bonfire to help pay for the bill. The formula pretty follows suit after that -- creepy phone calls from an unseen stalker asking if she's checked the children.

The reviews of the 2006 remake were dismal, but I really liked the movie, enough to have seen it in the theater twice and then have purchased the DVD when released. While it may be a bit slow, it does do what most modern horror movies do not, it develops the characters so you care about them. Jill is not just a stereotypical babysitter, she's a reasonably responsible young woman. Granted, she makes some mistakes, but she becomes quite the hero toward the movie's end, definitely finding a spot as "final girl," despite the fact that the number of murders in the movie is low.

I watched the movie again the other night. It ages well, except for the cell phones being dated. While it's low rated on Rotten Tomatoes (9%), the audience score is 43%, so it looks like I'm not totally alone in liking it.
kybearfuzz: (TV)
I bought a horror movie four-pack DVD the other day. The set contains the original "Children of the Corn," "Creepshow 2," "House," and "C.H.U.D." All of them are movies from my childhood, so I had to get it.

As I was coloring a drawing the other day, I put the "C.H.U.D." DVD in and watched it for the first time since high school. For those unaware of the movie, C.H.U.D. stands for Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller. In NYC, toxic waste stored underground transforms transients into flesh-eating monsters. It's somewhat cheaply made and gory in places, but it's a very standard 1980's horror flick.

What surprised me about the movie is the number of future movie/tv-stars in early non-lead roles, including Patricia Richardson from "Home Improvement," John Goodman from "Roseanne," and the recently-late Jay Thomas from "Mork & Mindy" and "Murphy Brown."

I was thoroughly entertained as usual.

There was a sequel according to IMDB, so I may have to add it to my Netflix queue.
kybearfuzz: (Workout)
Yesterday, I went to the gym for the first time in a couple of months. I work out regularly, but I often do cardio by running outside or lift free weights at home. I joined Planet Fitness back in January because I needed to change things up and a place to get my cardio in when the weather was nasty. For the first six weeks, I was in a great routine. However, with Mom's stroke and broken hip, the aftermath of her hospital stay, the flooding at my house, the washing machine, and other bits of family-related drama, the gym visits fell to the wayside. It was just easier to work out at home and then deal with the other things.

Yeaterday's visit was perfect really. In my absence, the New Years resolution folks have bailed and the gym is a more manageable environment. I grabbed a bench in the free-weight area to get some chest presses in next to a very brawny daddy bear, then hit some of the chest and back machines. I finished out with some cardio and an episode of "Bob's Burgers."

When I got home, I mowed the yard in anticipation of rain. I got my shower and hunkered down for some coloring of comic pages, while watching both "Friday the 13th" and "Friday the 13th Part 2."

I feel pretty good today. Seriously, why should that surprise me so much?
kybearfuzz: (Comic Book Bears)
After work on Friday, I hurried to the nearest movie theater to catch a 3D matinee of "Wonder Woman". The character was one of the few highlights of "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice," so I was eagerly looking forward to seeing her solo movie.

I was surprised that the theater was so sparsely attended, even for a matinee, as it was just me and two other folks. I have to remember that I get off work earlier than most.

The movie was FANTASTIC! Any concerns I had about Gal Gadot getting the role of Diana were quickly dismissed. The story was great, the characters were entertaining, the setting was amazing, etc. The setting of the movie is WWI (hardly a spoiler), which is a bit outside of canon as Wonder Woman started in WWII, but it's forgivable. I loved the action. When Diana whips out her glowing lasso and it flies around the screen, I was almost giddy as it brings a character I adore to life for me.

I will watch it again in the theater, very soon, I think.

Saturday was a relatively dull day. The appliance repairman was supposed to show up early Saturday afternoon, only to show up at 6 PM that night. It does irritate me that I was left to linger about the house waiting for this guy to show, but the time wasn't wasted. I inked a lot of comic book pages that day. And the washer is fixed and fully operational again.

Now it's Sunday night and work will come early again tomorrow. Ugh.
kybearfuzz: (Bill the Cat)
The Cincinnati MovieBears went for Saturday matinee of "Alien: Covenant." Well, it was me and one other guy. The holiday likely kept most away, but there were a lot of "maybe" attendees, so I was surprised that the attendance was THAT low.

Anyway, the movie takes place about a decade after "Prometheus," when a colony ship heading out colonize a new world responds to a signal coming from a previously-unknown and more approximate Earth-like world for colonization. Once they arrive, a landing party goes to check it out, a couple of crew folks get infected, monsters are born, and all hell breaks loose. The formula isn't bad, but it's not the first time we've seen this. There is a returning character in Michael Fassbender, who I admit I find strangely attractive.

The movie has a 71% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes (as of this writing) and I agree that the movie is fairly good, but I can't say I enjoyed it that much. I think my personal expectations were not met, but I can't articulate exactly what I felt was missing. I just thought that bits of it were not well-written. The landing party for example just seems to wander about on this planet without any checking of biological hazards. No quarantine, no protective suits, etc. They just exit the vehicle in their ship uniforms and start investigating. And this seems to be where the problems start.

Maybe I'm overthinking it.

Anyway, I doubt I'd watch it again. And it's not something I'd plan to buy.
kybearfuzz: (Default)
I meant to post this earlier this week when I heard of the news, but things got away from me. I read online that Canadian ginger daddy-bear actor Chris Wiggins had passed away at age 87.

F-13 Chris Wiggins
John D. LeMay, Chris Wiggins, and Robey
from "Friday the 13th: The Series"


He's probably best known by most of us as Jack Marshak, the occult expert on "Friday the 13th: The Series" that aired back in the late 1980's. There was one episode where Wiggins was shirtless and the fur was plentiful. He was in his late-50's at the time, but still in great bearish shape.

I also saw him in the 1969 "The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar", which won him the Best Actor Canadian Film Award (the Canadian equivalent of an Oscar, now called a Genie award). The movie is pretty good, and also stars a young Margot Kidder in her first feature role. You can watch the full movie online on YouTube and on the National Film Board of Canada website:

http://www.nfb.ca/film/best_damn_fiddler_from_calabogie_to_kaladar/

I'd recently bought a book about Friday the 13th: The Series, which included behind-the-scenes commentary from the actors, but noticed that Wiggins was not included in the interviews. I guessed that his advanced age might have been the reason and I was right. Wiggins passed away on February 19, 2017, from complications from Alzheimer's disease.
kybearfuzz: (Default)
First, big thanks to all the birthday wishes! I really appreciate them! :)

I spent a large chuck of the last couple of days being somewhat lazy, napping and the like. The temps have fallen into the single digits and it's not much fun going outside. However, a few things did get me out of the house.

  • Friday afternoon, I went out to see a matinee of "Passengers", the sci-fi thriller about two people who wake up on a long-distance startship to colonize a new world. They wake up about 90 years early, while everyone else is still in hibernation, with no way to undo it. While the movie has a fairly low rating on Rotten Tomatoes (around 31% as of this post), I actually enjoyed it. There were some seriously big plot holes, the sight of Chris Pratt's backside was worthwhile.


  • I got home from the movies to find that my garage door wouldn't open. This happens quite a bit when it gets really cold. The metal contracts and provides some resistance that makes the door halt. This was different. So, I went inside through the front door and into the garage to find the track had come loose from the wall and blocked the door from rising. It was too late to go to Home Depot, so the Bearmobile had to sit outside in the freezing cold for the night.


  • Last night, I hunkered down and watched the Blu-Ray of "The House That Screamed", a 1969 Spanish horror movie staring German actress Lilli Palmer. The movie was in English and definitely had that late 60's Hammer-esque feel to it. It's set at a girls boarding school around 1900, where the headmistress runs a strict place, flogging girls when they are overly defiant. The headmistress has a gestapo-like "head girl" platoon who also do some questionable activities, with a distinct Lesbian vibe. Amidst all of this, girls who try to run away from the school are killed by an unknown assailant. Certainly, an odd movie of sorts.


  • This morning I got up early, without showering, to head over to Home Depot. I bought the necessary screws and support joints, checked out some very handsome bearded fellers roaming the aisles, and left to grab lunch. After I got home, I had the garage door fixed in about 30 minutes, which felt pretty good. A lot of it is common sense really, when it comes to fixing things, but I won't deny that it makes me nervous for some reason.


  • I was tempted to hit another movie, but decided to just grab a nap instead. It's cold outside.
kybearfuzz: (Mark at 43)
I was pretty happy to have the weekend start. Knowing I have several days off certainly did help. It's been a good weekend so far.

  • Friday was a Christmas party at a friend's house. I had a great time. I met several new folks and I wish I had gotten last names so I could connect with them again, but I'm sure I'll see them around.


  • Saturday was unseasonably warm. I got a break between rain bursts to get a late morning run in. I managed to do a full 3.4 miles, which felt really good. Once it gets really cold, I lose my enthusiasm to go out, but I force myself to do it.


  • Saturday afternoon, I went with friends to see "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" at a swank new movie house called Cine-Bistro, where they serve dinner along with the movie. The movie was AMAZING! I'm not giving anything away, but, in my opinion, it is exactly what Episode Three should have been.


  • I was invited to another Christmas party after the movie, but the rain was torrential and I just wanted to get home. It was so heavy that it almost doubled my drive home.


  • Today, I went out to grab lunch and get the last of my Christmas shopping done. It was just a trip to Bath and Body Works to get some lotion that my mom likes, but it was a zoo. I was the only guy in there and the lines were long. I grabbed three of the lotions and a bath soap from the men's section for me, only to have the cashier tell me that I could get two more for free. After standing in line that long, I didn't want to get out of line to grab them, so I just told her that I didn't need them. She told me it would be cheaper and I still begged off, saying it was worth the money not to have to stand in the line longer. She nicely said that if I told her which ones, she would grab them while I paid for the goods with my credit card. So I got three of my bath soaps too.

    But still, this is how I feel about standing in lines during the Christmas season, I'm willing to forgo free stuff to get out. Luckily, I am now DONE!


I hope everyone had a good weekend!
kybearfuzz: (Screaming Bride)
Back in 1999, a co-worker and I were out of town at a training class and decided to catch a showing of "The Blair Witch Project". The shaky, found-footage movie was new and exciting, and left me feeling a tad queasy.

Normally, I don't do spoilers, but since the original film is from 1999, people have had a chance to see it. Briefly, three amateur film makers (Mike, Josh, and Heather) go into the Burkittsville, MD woods to look into the legend of the Blair Witch. In the course of things, Mike gets mad at Heather and kicks the map into the creek, they get lost, Mike goes missing and is never found, Josh and Heather find an old house, Josh is found standing in a corner (as is part of the legend), and Heather is attacked and apparently killed. The footage of the film makers is later found and made into the movie.

While it certainly looks like the Blair Witch got them, my mind put the pieces together a different way. I always believed that Mike and Josh took Heather into the woods and killed her, using the Blair Witch as a cover. Mike is largely responsible for getting them lost by intentionally losing the map for a stupid reason. Heather is the only one on camera that is attacked. I believe that Josh is responsible for leading Heather to the house and Mike is the one who attacks her from behind. Anyway, that's how I rationalized the movie.

Tonight, I saw "Blair Witch", the sequel to the original. In this movie, Heather's brother is enticed to go into the woods after a video possibly showing Heather is found. He takes his friends along with LOTS of video equipment, including a video drone, and bad things begin to happen.

It definitely has more of a supernatural vibe verses what I felt from the first one, and completely wrecks my theory regarding the original three characters. It was a decent flick with some good scares. No extra scenes at the end, but I didn't expect them.

Now I'm home and tired. Thank heavens the weekend is here.

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