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Maiden, Mother, and Cronenberg
Oct. 1st, 2018 11:53 amBeth and I are currently in the process of moving. We're in the new place, but most of our stuff isn't, and Beth's mom is helping to get it cleaned up and ready (and by "helping," I mean "doing pretty much everything"). The movers are coming tomorrow, and the cable installer is supposed to be in on Wednesday. So we're without wi-fi at home now, and we've also used up all the data on our phone plan. We can still use it, but it's a lot slower. That resets this weekend, by which time we'll hopefully have the wi-fi set up. I'm not sure whether the modem is in storage or in New Jersey, though, so I might not be able to write posts from home until next week. Right now, I'm at the library, and they have a thirty-minute limit. We also need to bring the cats here at some point, and right now we don't even know where we're going to put the litterbox. We took them to the vet on Saturday, and they're doing well for the most part. Reagan has had a broken-out face and ears for a while, and she rubs her head against things even more than usual. The vet thinks it's an allergic reaction, so she got some shots for that. They also bathed her, something we've never done, and she seemed really out of it afterwards. When we got her home (well, Beth's mom's home), she went off by herself to sleep, and it was some time before she was discovered in a box in Beth's uncle's closet.
Last Wednesday, we saw another Kevin Geeks Out show at the Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, this one about David Cronenberg. We've seen three of his movies: Videodrome, The Fly, and Crash. He's known for body horror, often in relation with mental issues, and for being really Canadian, topics that were covered during the show. Kevin Maher showed a scene from The Brood that included a box of Shreddies.
Canada, your cereal sounds dangerously sharp.
He also talked about how Videodrome was part of a trope of movies looking down on television, in this case portraying it as sinister, but other times just making it look stupid and boring. There was a clip from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which is interesting also because that was adapted from a BOOK that really knocked TV, probably a related trope. Now it seems to be more TV telling us how bad video games are. Everybody wants to put down the competition instead of making their own product better. For the record, I spend a lot of time reading, but I also like TV, movies, and video games. They're all different experiences. Another humorous segment compared Cronenberg films to Eddie Murphy ones.
On Saturday evening, while Rea was still sleeping off her experience, Beth and I went to Creamy Acres, a dairy farm in Mullica Hill that has Halloween events. There were two walk-through attractions, a hayride, and a corn maze (although maybe it technically wasn't a maze, as there was only one way through). I didn't notice any teenagers who scoffed at everything on our wagon this time, although there was one girl with a laugh that sounded like Woody Woodpecker. We're going to Sleepy Hollow later this month.
Last Wednesday, we saw another Kevin Geeks Out show at the Nitehawk Cinema in Williamsburg, this one about David Cronenberg. We've seen three of his movies: Videodrome, The Fly, and Crash. He's known for body horror, often in relation with mental issues, and for being really Canadian, topics that were covered during the show. Kevin Maher showed a scene from The Brood that included a box of Shreddies.
Canada, your cereal sounds dangerously sharp.
He also talked about how Videodrome was part of a trope of movies looking down on television, in this case portraying it as sinister, but other times just making it look stupid and boring. There was a clip from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which is interesting also because that was adapted from a BOOK that really knocked TV, probably a related trope. Now it seems to be more TV telling us how bad video games are. Everybody wants to put down the competition instead of making their own product better. For the record, I spend a lot of time reading, but I also like TV, movies, and video games. They're all different experiences. Another humorous segment compared Cronenberg films to Eddie Murphy ones.
On Saturday evening, while Rea was still sleeping off her experience, Beth and I went to Creamy Acres, a dairy farm in Mullica Hill that has Halloween events. There were two walk-through attractions, a hayride, and a corn maze (although maybe it technically wasn't a maze, as there was only one way through). I didn't notice any teenagers who scoffed at everything on our wagon this time, although there was one girl with a laugh that sounded like Woody Woodpecker. We're going to Sleepy Hollow later this month.
