Thursday Already? (January Edition)

[handful_ofdust]

So...I'm on Chapter Fifteen, which means I've been keeping up a pretty damn nice pace, considering I'm also dealing with Cal being home/sick. Of course, this mainly means reminding him to eat and pee, while simultaneously fielding TV requests like: "I want 'Figure Eight' on Schoolhouse Rock! again please, Mommy." (Fun fact: "Figure Eight" was also my own favourite Multiplication Rock song, back in the day. I never quite picked up whatever trick it was meant to mnemonically teach me, aside from multiples of eight echo multiples of four, sort of, which can be helpful or not, depending. But I can still sing the main theme from memory, along with the plaintive outro: Place it on its side and its a symbol that means...eternityyyy...)

Otherwise, very little else is getting done. Them's the breaks. I'm making occasional notes about stuff I might like to post on later--some of them projects left over from last year, for example, like comparing the two versions of Exorcist: The Beginning, which both have massive problems and frustratingly fascinating aspects, which makes watching them run one after the other on AMC surprisingly interesting.

I wish I could do three things at once anymore, but...yeah, just can't. 'Cause I'm old, and sick, and tired. Stroke me.;)

Comments

[baggyeyes]

There are a few Shoolhouse Rock! videos on Youtube.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I know! But we're working off the DVD, which I ordered before he was born.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Oh God, I so want to hear your opinions on the two Exorcist prequels. I know they're bad but I just can't stop watching them, and have seen both at least five times. :)

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my stupid love for both should be fairly obvious by now, what with "Marya Nox" et al. I'm also amused by the fact that when Stellan Skarsgard finally got around to playing "young" Merrin, he was actually older than Max von Sydow had been in either Exorcist or Exorcist II.

What do you think of The Rite, BTW? They at least seem to be adding some interesting twists to the usual possessed girl template, from more recent trailers--acknowledging the not-so-secret truth that it's always all about the exorcist rather than the possessee, for example. I approve.;)

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Well it does seem right up your alley. What I dig about it is the colonial/postcolonial angst of the setting.

I think The Rite looks promising, my horror-movie-friend and I are definitely going to see it. I'm a little annoyed with/wary of the whole "cats are evil" slant I've seen in one of the trailers (I'm a cat person), but it looks creepy and well-done and Sir Anthony's presence is always a plus.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

I think the things with "cats are evil" as a trope has to do with A) cats are something you can find almost anywhere in an urban environment and B) they're nice to look at/deceptively easy to love, unlike (say) bugs, or pigeons. So it's flattering, in a way!

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

I think it's also that they're non-obedient and (can be) bitchy as hell. But they're just misunderstood!

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

I prefer the “For he keepeth the lord’s watch in the night against the Adversary” view of cats. OTOH, one of mine has on occasion behaved like a horror straight out of M.R. James while I tried to get to sleep,* so YMMV.

*just try to sleep knowing that the darkness has a mouth in it, full of small pointy teeth.

[baggyeyes]

I have so many movies I want to see, and this is one of them. I'll probably only get to see it on DVD. Bugger.

[sovay]

like comparing the two versions of Exorcist: The Beginning, which both have massive problems and frustratingly fascinating aspects, which makes watching them run one after the other on AMC surprisingly interesting.

I would like to hear that. They both contain Stellan Skarsgård, so I've always been vaguely interested.