Masters of Horror season 1

Many horror television shows in the past have missed being actually scary. Some went for gore, some suspense, but too often it was just a twist in the plot hoping to be scare the audience. Masters of Horror managed to have made a few genuinely terrifying episodes. Some are just macabre stories that leave the viewer with a question, but a few were scary in the best kind of way.
The season finale, Imprint, was hard to watch and also morbidly fascinating. The story focuses on a Japanese prostitute with a horrible secret. truly a horrible thing to watch.

Drag me to Hell

Another failure. I'm almost sure the movie was intended as a comedy. Every cheap scare was attempted which only added to an overall seizure like quality to the film. I love in older movies when the camera would swing to something frightening and screeching violins would sound to let the audience know this was the climax. Drag me to Hell took a less traveled road and attempted that maneuver every 5 minutes or so.
This movie came complete with a toothless old woman gumming a young woman's face, animal sacrifice and a talking goat. Horrible.

"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"

Horrible. I expected gore, adventure and Jane Austin-style drama. What I read was boring, verbose and aggravatingly slow. The book really should have focused more on zombies eating the whiny main characters.

Bitten and Feast

Feast: A horror movie from the crack team that is Matt Damon and Ben Aflec, Feast features a bar full of small towners who have to fight off four alien/monster/beasts covered in dead animal carcasses. There were a few genuinely funny parts, and the movie even had a wheelchair ridden young man who looked strikingly like Demitri Martin. Fun movie full of gore.

Bitten: A young, looserish EMT finds a woman who has been recently turned into a vampire and tries to help her adjust to her new changes. surprisingly adorable, this macabre romantic comedy is a fun watch.

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Zombie video game revies

House of the Dead, 2 and 3: Simple arcade style shooter with no option for weapon advancement. Fun and with some fantastically gory scenes.

Dead Rising: You are a reporter helicoptered in to a mall where an outbreak of zombies are terrorizing the few locals left. I consistently have issues with the controls, but they designed it so you can spend as much time and energy as you wish mercilessly slaughtering zombies with various mall items. My favorite is the hot frying pan.

Left 4 Dead: you and three of your frfiend can fight zombies together! That is, of course, if you can find enough people not made motion sick by the camera in this game. It is really fun, but I need to get over shooting in small places and the sickness that follows if I want to play this game

Resident Evil 5: Long, gory and challenging, the makings of a good game.

Summer and Fall

I decided I hate Moscow so much I quit. I quit Moscow, and I quit U of I. After this summer I hope I never have to see this terrible boring town with smelly water again. While naturally I have learned a lot here, there has been a lot I have missed out on as well.
The hard water here left deposits in my hair and I had to cut it all off, I had to make three hour trips to have my braces tightened when I still had them on, and I missed out on time with Jack before he passed away in the fire.
It wasnt all bad, I have made many friends, found out what I want to do for a living and I have learned more about how much I love home. In realizing what I want to do for a living I have signed up for a summer course to become a Certified Nurses Assitant so that I can have a better job while I go to school to get some kind of medical technician certification. I plan to volunteer over the summer in the hospital to see what I might like to do.
It will be a while before I can get into any serious schooling again as I have the most busy next year I have ever had. For school I have my certification from June to Late August,I have Katie's wedding in August, followed quickly by my brother's wedding in early September in Virginia, followed by my older sister's wedding one week later back here. I fly to Phoenix with Cindy for a small vacation in early October, did I mention I have to be enrolled at NIC full time during the fall too? Then I must work as hard as I can and save up to fly to CHina with my family in April.
Too much traveling? never. I adore traveling and if I'm lucky I might get a traveling nurse job eventually.

Las Vegas

I'm very excited to announce that my spring break trip to Las Vegas is only two weeks away! Sarah was able to get tickets for Penn and Teller for Saturday night. I'm so looking foreward to seeing them, their HBO show "Bull Shit" was amazing and I hope the use the same wit on stage. We will be staying at the Luxor and the Venetian, and we will drive back through the desert to see the sights between Las Vegas and Coeur D'Alene.

Desperation

I read Stephen King's Desperation. I novel about a young boy with a close enough relationship to God that God tells him how to defeat an ancient God of the desert that is trapped in the body of the local Sheriff. I love Stephen King's writing style but I found this book mind numbingly boring. I only finished it because I kept hoping for an amazing ending. I wasn't entirely disappointed. The movie was abysmal though, the young man playing David Carver ( the main character) acted like William Shatner. Steve Weber was a main character though, and as always his performance was a cut above the rest.

As of late

I'm going to Las Vegas for spring break and I thought it woudl be nice to tone up a bit before I show up. I love to take tons of vacation photos and I want them to be nice! I forget, however, how much I hate the gym. I have never left the gym with that feeling so many talk about. It sounds like a mixture of accomplishment and endorphin rush, but I have never felt this, I always leave sweaty, hungry and tired. I could get lost in the desert and get the same results, but with a tan. Which is my new solution, instead of going to the gym, I will just tan before I go. Genius.
I also have a new idea for my schooling direction. I want to switch my major to "general studies" I am close to finishing if I do! Only 44 more credits and I'm done. Plus, I am going to try to become a registered CNA over the summer. I know that CNA work is mostly wiping butts and being puked on, but I really want to ceritfication for the options it will open up. And who knows, maybe I am great at taking care of sick people and I just dont know it yet!
The search for a job continues... I must get the tutoring position I applied for, because if not Taco John's is in walking distance. yikes.

The never-ending war between my shoes and comfort

I never knew that I would become a shoe addict, but here I am. I have spent over 200$ on a single pair for shoes, while not amazing for many, is still somewhat astounding for me. I have many shoes, mostly uncomfortable, impractical, but always gorgeous. I fought the weather and lost today. I would a beautiful pair of bronze boots with no insulation or traction, I paid for it with cold, numb and newly blistered feet, but by-God the looked nice.

What do I want to do?

I hate it when people ask me what I want to do. It changes daily!! One day I want to be a stay at home mom, the next day I want to move to some remote county and volunteer my help for the rest of my life.
If what I want to do is reflected in what I do then I want to:
clean
play with animals
knit
cook
spend too much time on my looks
I feel like I am a stay at home mom for now. I get up, make Tracy something to eat, clean, do laundry, make Tracy lunch, clean the house, knit/scrapbook/sew and then watch a movie and go to bed. While I am having fun and life is easy and happy right now I can already tell this is not what I want to do forever. I love not having to wake up early and work, but I'm already going stir crazy and feeling under appreciated and under-utilized.

fun pack of movies!

Ferryman: about the boatman on the river Stix, he takes over vacation boats on the Carribean... terrible

Accepted: Campy movie about a young man who was not acceptd to any college, so he made his own. Actually pretty good

All I Want To Do: About girls at an all-girls school who resist being merged with a boys academy, really cute

The Messengers: scary and unexpected

No Reservation: an anal-retentive chef is given custody of a child and falls in love with a co-worker, pretty cute

Movie: Arachnaphobia

I will never, ever watch this again. I thought I was finished being afraid of spiders when I was 9, I was wrong. I screamed, had goosebumps, and actually frightened the dog while watching this movie. The story is that a photographer from a small Californian town brings back a killer evil epic spider from a shoot in South America, IN HIS DEAD BODY. Then the town is terrorized by the spiders. Little than an hour after the movie a queen ant fell on me, its January, why was the ant out??

Hannibal Rising

This movie shows us how Hannibal Lector grew up and what forces contributed to his brilliance and madness. They laid the cannibalism on a little thick, but the gore was both accurate and unflinching. Hannibal had a little sister named Mischa, which is one of my favorite names ever. Now, though, every time I hear that name I think of a little kid getting eaten. Bad news bears.

Off-shore Oil rigs

Best hide out ever! Off-shore oil rigs provide the best protection from shambling hordes of the undead, while also providing a continuous supply of energy and food. I love seafood so I really can't see this one going badly.

Fear

This movie scared the CRAP out of me. Mark Wahlberg falls creepy in love with Reese Witherspoon and when she breaks up with him he goes psycho. The description I read of it made it seem more romatic than obsessive. I was lied to. By the end I had comeplety become disgusted with myslef for ever have a little girl crush on Mark Wahlberg, he plays crazy a little too well.