Untold Horrors

[vovat]

I had a dream last night where, for some reason, I was voting for Senators or Representatives (not sure which, and it didn't really matter) in all these different states. In Texas, the Republican candidate was running unopposed, and I considered writing in the name of one of my Texan LJ friends. There was also another dream that somehow involved seeing Jian Ghomeshi (formerly of Moxy Früvous) in concert, but I don't remember anything else that happened.

bethje and I have recently watched three Stephen King films: Misery, Christine, and Cat's Eye. Misery was easily my favorite of the three, primarily due to Kathy Bates's uncanny ability to play a batshit crazy character. But I also liked the old sheriff and his wife, who constantly baited each other yet still were able to work together when it counted. Sounds kind of sappy when I put it that way, doesn't it? {g} Christine was pretty ridiculous. As far as stories about evil cars go, I prefer the Futurama episode where Bender turns into a were-car. As for Cat's Eye, I'll definitely give them credit for coming up with three quite different stories. (Hmm, is this where the yearly tradition of three Simpsons Halloween stories comes from? Considering that regular Simpsons episodes are always in three acts, probably not. Still, the similarity is interesting.) I couldn't help being somewhat bothered by the fact that the second segment (the one with the guy walking on the ledge) is supposed to take place in Atlantic City, but it looks all wrong. The cat crosses a street that's a whole bunch of lanes wide, and where the traffic never stops, which is in front of a casino. Most of the Atlantic City casinos are on Pacific Avenue, which is only four lanes wide and has a lot of stoplights. Some casinos are located elsewhere in town, but I don't think any of them are next to a street anything like that one. Am I just a nitpicker, or are any of the rest of you bothered by misrepresentations of places that you've been? I remember hearing that my grandmother didn't like how Pocahontas showed mountains in Jamestown.

We also watched Friday the 13th Part 6, and I can say that the series definitely improved over time, even if Jason's resurrection was kind of hokey. They never really have characters you care about, though. It's always a bunch of horny teens and assorted other people who are in the woods for whatever reason, and their sole purpose is to be slaughtered by Jason. I have to wonder why the camp is still open after all those mass murders. If nothing else, the insurance rates for the place would have to be incredibly high. This was the first movie in the series where there were a lot of kids, but they were careful not to have Jason hurt any of them.


vovat's Halloween party:

3x1minus1 dressed as a mean lizard.
aliste dressed as Monica Lewinsky.
arfies dressed as Bill Clinton.
bartkolounger dressed as Princess Leia.
bec_87rb dressed as a disturbing self-made character called "Gidget Girdleface".
bethje dressed as a pixie.
chrisstangl didn't dress up, spoilsport.
colleenanne dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Candle of Darkness.
countblastula didn't dress up, spoilsport.
dave_noisy dressed as Rebecca Gayheart.
daveychu dressed as a fullback for the Vikings.
dragonxbait dressed as David Letterman, and it suited them disturbingly well.
eagledna dressed as a character from "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith".
jazzsammich didn't dress up, spoilsport.
jenhime dressed as Venus Williams.
k1cup dressed as a 1960's hippie child.
kristenjarrod dressed as Calvin Coolidge.
l8erngr8er dressed as a new superhero: Wombat Djinn.
leolapyre dressed as a Level 9 paladin.
listenesmerelda dressed as something saving, but what, specifically, you can't tell.
little_octagon dressed as a justice.
lozenger8 forgot to put on clothes!
majellen dressed as Karl Rove.
matt_argos dressed as Bono.
mikeleffel dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Excessive Magician.
mmpoetatheart dressed as a interpretation.
not_glimmer didn't dress up, spoilsport.
obsessical dressed as your grandfather.
onib dressed as a Michigan & Company Stores, LLC employee.
petie_s dressed as Ali Landry riding a dog.
punterschlagen dressed as Brad Pitt's father.
revme dressed as Ozzy Osbourne.
rockinlibrarian dressed as the Average Power Ranger.
sailorptah dressed as a bottle of Asperxac.
secretnthewings dressed as Mary-Kate Olsen with her very own conjoined Ashley.
shadarko dressed as the Cardinal of Kytroooid.
skylark_king dressed as Chekov from "Star Trek".
slfcllednowhere gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as an external hard drive.
themall dressed as a oblivious goblin.
tisok dressed as the Brady Bunch -- all of them.
travspence dressed as a squirrel.
twobitme dressed as the love child of Guy Pearce and Connie Chung.
unclemilo dressed as a vampire.
yosef gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as the King of Bermuda.
zaph dressed as a elk.
zimbra1006 dressed as Wile E. Coyote.

Comments

[bethje.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Atlantic City of over 20 years ago was more bananas than it is now. Maybe there were no stop signs and the traffic from the expressway could just blast into the city at 55+ mph, or so it appeared. I'd look up where the hotel ledge scenes were filmed, but I'm supposed to be doing my case study. :p

[loz]

I did not forget to put on clothes.

I haven't seen a horror film for ages.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I did not forget to put on clothes.

Hey, take it up with the random meme generator, not me! I guess demon cows weren't in their database. {g}

I haven't seen a horror film for ages.

I hardly saw any before I started dating Beth.