Playground Love

Watching:
Land of the Dead (dvd & all the extras)
High Tension
Unleashed
Thumbsucker
Sci-fi's 13 Days of Horror (woo-hoo!)
Family Guy's Stewie Griffin, The Untold Story
Proof
Wallace & Gromit: Curse The Were-Rabbit
Poltergiest II

Reading:
Kite Runner
The Dread Central Forums
A Fanatic Heart, Edna O'Brien
Paper Garden, Jerome Wilson
Some HP Lovecraft
Some Wallace Stevens
Poems written by one of the most amazing women I know--Wendy W.
The Tinsmith's Son, By Joe Werner (ok, I am actually editing it for him as well)

ding dong you're dead

the best f*ck*ng halloween site (and artist!) ever:

www.pumpkinrot.com

somewhere bewtween nowhere & goodbye

What a great line, "somewhere between nowhere and goodbye." It perfectly describes the place I want to slip to when an old lover walks into the room, when my mother calls receeding emotionally back to an age younger than I am, when I feel invisible to those I love, when I view my life and my paltry accomplishments. When the line rolled out of Morgan Freeman's mouth I felt it instantly in my gut, as if he had revealed something personal and secret in what turned out to be an oscar winning movie, "Million Dollar Baby." (Of course with Morgan Freeman narrating, you could make a soap opera seem like a haunting universal human story--classic and profound. He is such a badass.) I'm glad I finally watched it. It was beautifully written, wonderfully shot, and brillaintly acted. And I'm glad I never have to watch it again. A well written drama is more horrifying than any horror movie I can think of, and at times the possible-ness of it is more than I can take. I am grateful for those movies. I need them. I seek them out. They are art. They make me feel alive. But most days, just give me the screaming blonde, the red karo syrup, the deformed monster in the closet--that way, I can relax.

I've also watched:
The 40 Year Old Virgin. Hilarious--I adore Steve Carell. I really hope he does more movies.
The Office, Season One.

Listening:
to my new lime green iPod.

Reading:
Wendy's poetry.

my holga is laughing at me

Just found this little gem (check out the photo archives!):
www.rileymanion.com

and this, which has regretably not been updated recently:

www.digitalsucks.com

A Pumpkin For An Eye

A few of the movies from over the last couple of months:

Broken Flowers
Fitzcarraldo
Grizzly Man
The Ring 2
Dukes of Hazzards (yes...yes I did.)
Primer
Kiss of Fire
They Came Back (a must see, graceful, beautiful, wish-I'd-fucking-thought-of-this horror film)
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Gates of Heaven
Incident at Loch Ness


Reading:
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress by Susan Jane Gilman
Taschen's 20th Century Photography

Listening:
"Everything Ends", Six Feet Under's Soundtrack Volume II
Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974

I have something to say: I have nothing to say.

Movies:

Amityville Horror (remake)
Danny Deckchair
Vernon, Florida
Boogeyman
Land of the Dead
The Punisher
Greg the Bunny (the one and only season)



http://www.abandoned-places.com/
http://www.sublimestitching.com/

Sisterhood of the Neon Glow

Movies:

Blade Trinity
Deep Shock (made for TV "horror" movie)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Nuff said.

Through the woods and back again

Movies:

The Woodsman: Brilliant, brilliant. So well shot & acted. The colors & cinematography amazing. The score I loved immediately. Same fellows who did Monster's Ball, and unfortunately the score was not released.

Closer: ouch.

Deathtrap: An old favorite.

the Haunting (1964): So worth it.
the Haunting (200?): Ew. Seriously, ew. Talk about destroying a perfectly good story.

The Staircase series on IFC
Carnivale, HBO series...which I was savoring slowly by watching on HBO on Demand. Then last night I settled down to watch the last three episodes of the season only to discovered they had removed Carnivale from the available viewing list. GOD DAMMIT.

Reefer Madness, the original.
Caine Mutiny: what delicious fun...
Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madame: I was bored outta my mind 10 minutes into it. Who gives a flying fuck about these privledged, narcissitic people? The documentary was done by Nick Broomfield who also did the documentary Alieen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer. This guy is the worst documentary filmmaker I have ever seen, & his slimy voiceovers don't help. These are the only two works I have seen of his, but my opinion is RUN...run from him like the plague.

So many more I can't remember...

Reading:
The Haunting of Hill House
White Oleander

Listening to:
Magnolia Soundtrack
Back to Me-Kathleen Edwards
Code 46 score
White Oleander score

The Northern Lights Are Waving

movies:

the bunker-- a fantastic little british film with two actors whose careers i intend to keep track of... jason flemyng (yum) and eddie marsan. at least, i think it's eddie marsan. i can't find a picture of him on the web to make sure. he's the one who hears the voices in the drain... anyway, i think these two fellows are brilliant. the script was tight and economical. very well done.

deathwatch
storm of the century--i really like this little made-for-tv gem. excellent in the story & suspense department.
shirley valentine--great!
madhouse--pretty to look at, but a waste of time
exorcist, the beginning (not bad in the beginning. some genuinely good scares & interesting shots. but the story just sort of rambled along in a very uninteresting way, then it totally fell apart...and that's okay as i wasn't expecting anything good to begin with.)

watching today: i heart huckabees, the "i" inside, and the stephen king series "kingdom hospital"

listening to:
2 songs over and over... "amber waves" by tori amos & "away" by kathleen edwards (off her new cd "back to me")

crocheting: a huge yellow, orange, red, blue variegated afghan. despite how it sounds, it's lovely.

they say he's got a healing machine that glows in the dark

i've been a bit delinquent in keeping track of my movie watching the past few weeks. i'll have to go from memory as best i can...
gray gardens (wow. seriously, wow.)
without a paddle (to indulge my matthew lillard crush)
saw
ghengis blues (brilliant!)
we don't live here anymore
alien vs. predator (why oh why did i do that?)
the core ( a cable obsession of mine of late. i can't help but find it entertaining --esp. the shuttle crash landing scene, the music is the key to it's brilliance-- and i will watch hillary swank any chance i get)
a documentary on north korea--the name escapes me (i'll try to find out and revise). tons of footage from within the country-- i don't think there is a spookier place on earth....except perhaps chernobyl.
shaun of the dead, which i now own.
goodfellas (for the 20,000 time)

i desperately want to see "no one knows". perhaps it will make it to theaters here.

i know i've seen more movies then this in the last few weeks, but i simply can't remember them all. the whole point of this blog is so that i can keep track. guess i'll have to blog a little better.

rereading "Wintering, a Novel of Sylvia Plath" and still reading "Oracle Night".

listening to tori amos' "Scarlet's Walk" non-stop.

days just ticking by

movies of late:
ju-rei, the uncanny (did i spell that right?) BRILLIANT camera work, brave & wonderful sense of time on the director's part. actual story...so-so.
taxi driver
the forgotten
the village
zero effect
bringing out the dead (again)
film (beckett & buster keaton!)

listening to: kathleen edwards, "failer" (one of my old stand-bys)

a thicket of kisses

movies in the past few days:

shivers
the prophecy (1979)
full metal jacket
ghost in the machine
leatherface III
gigli (yes...yes i did)
in the cut (again and again and again)*

*about "in the cut"...i love this movie. i know it is indulgent as hell, but i don't care... i fucking love everything about it.

these days when i'm not watching movies, i spend my time crocheting & taking photos. i'm joining the midtown artist market inside midtown books the first of february.

listening to: passengers by U2

More of the Same

movies i've watched as of late...

three kings (again)
the grim reaper
the kindred
young adam
the life aquatic
blood tide
ripper (bad, so bad)
ginger snaps 2 (again)
the bone snatcher
deep red (again)

listening to: my life without me soundtrack
garden state soundtrack
cd mixed by brian
cd mixed by jessica (they don't love you like i love you by the ya-yas)
as much white stripes as possible
anything by andrew bird

reading:
the unabridged journals of sylvia plath
ariel (in the originally intended format)