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Evans wrote: "Angie wrote: "Evans wrote: "Angie wrote: "I took my grandson to see Thor 2 today, and got Terry Pratcett s New book. The boom looks really good so I'm looking forward to reading it in a little whil..."Good times. I thought we went to see House 2 that day. Both of them sucked.
Oh yeah, you're right! I guess we tried a couple times that week. House 1,now that's a movie I haven't seen in 20 years or more. My guess would be it hasn't aged well.
I don't know. I have it queued up on Netflix, but Jen and I watched Carrie today - her first time seeing it - and that might be too much of the Greatest American Hero for one day.
Yeah. I was shocked at the cast of Carrie. I had not seen it in many moons. Forgot John Travolta was in it, too. William Katt plays the sucker that takes Carrie to the prom.
Evans wrote: "Angie wrote: "Evans wrote: "Angie wrote: "I took my grandson to see Thor 2 today, and got Terry Pratcett s New book. The boom looks really good so I'm looking forward to reading it in a little whil..."I remembered The Lost Boys being a pretty good movie, but Emily watched it with Aunt Sarah and she totally panned it.
I might have to check it out again sometime.
LOST BOYS really isn't that great of a movie, but the nostalgia factor is pretty high.
Evans wrote: "LOST BOYS really isn't that great of a movie, but the nostalgia factor is pretty high."I have occasional bouts of nostalgic movie binging. I almost always regret them, but I don't think I will ever learn.
Spending some time reading and doing some housework. I must be ADHD or something because I absolutely cannot stay focused over about 30-40 pages without taking a break from reading. Think I have found my niche now. I just read until I can't focus and then do a little housework. It worked really well for me yesterday. I managed to read almost 200 pages. I was trying to force myself to stay with it and that didn't work very well. I would forget important parts and take an hour to read 20 pages. This seems to work a little better. Hope everyone has a fantastic day. It's supposed to get really cold here starting Tuesday.
I saw this today and couldn't leave it behind:
Cindy wrote: "Spending some time reading and doing some housework. I must be ADHD or something because I absolutely cannot stay focused over about 30-40 pages without taking a break from reading. Think I have fo..."
Sounds like a technique!
Settling in to read a little further into
Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum.
Evans wrote: "I saw this today and couldn't leave it behind:Cindy wrote: "Spending some time reading and doing some housework. I must be ADHD or something because I absolutely cannot stay focused over about 30..."
I can see why you couldn't leave without that, Evans. Very nice.
Evans wrote: "I saw this today and couldn't leave it behind:Cindy wrote: "Spending some time reading and doing some housework. I must be ADHD or something because I absolutely cannot stay focused over about 30..."
Oh man. Too cool!
Adam wrote: "Evans wrote: "LOST BOYS really isn't that great of a movie, but the nostalgia factor is pretty high."I have occasional bouts of nostalgic movie binging. I almost always regret them, but I don't t..."
I've had a bit of a nostalgic month, I've watched all the Freddy films, 8 hellraiser, 3 lost boys and 5 postmaster, it's been whilst I've been reading but most of them just aren't very good,!!!
That's really cool misty!! Out of all that I watched the Freddy films were the best except for the second. I don't know what went wrong with it!' At the moment I've got breaking bad on, the last episode of s2. I always read or have my kindle on when the tv is on as I'm never that interested in it. It's also nicks birthday today, he's 28 so we're going out later for dinner.
Misty wrote: "Angie wrote: "Adam wrote: "Evans wrote: "LOST BOYS really isn't that great of a movie, but the nostalgia factor is pretty high."I have occasional bouts of nostalgic movie binging. I almost always..."
Picture?
Misty wrote: "Angie wrote: "Adam wrote: "Evans wrote: "LOST BOYS really isn't that great of a movie, but the nostalgia factor is pretty high."I have occasional bouts of nostalgic movie binging. I almost always..."
Where did u get them? I would love to have some. Growing up that was my fav movies series. I started watching them when I was 8. Even got my aunt to take me to the theater for one.
I'm reading Opal. A friend sent me the Lux series friday night and I'm on the forth one now. I can't believe how into these ya books I get lol. Must be my inner teenage outcast.
I've got season 3 of The Walking Dead on trying to catch up, I'm at the half way point now, and I've actually seen it so I can start s. 4
Angie, I heard the two new Lost Boys sequels were nothing like the old one. What did you think? Worth watching? I thought Hellraiser was pretty much done after the second one, there might have been one other that I thought was kind of okay.
Love Freddy movies, though I haven't watched any for awhile. I thought part two got better in comparison to parts five and six. The new nightmare was excellent when it came out, but hasn't aged well. I enjoyed Freddy vs Jason when it was released, but haven't seen it since. Wonder how time has treated it?
I enjoyed watching the 1st lost boys but 2&3 are terrible, they just don't have anything in them to make them special. With the Hellraiser films, all 8 of them, I found the first to be interesting with the the practical effects but it wasn't scary like I remembered it to be, the other 7 of them, well they don't get any better, although I liked finding out who pinhead was.And the Freddy films, they are the best of them all, I've got them on DVD, and the 1st has commentaries with Wes craven and some of the girls. It was good listening to that, apparently Wes Craven has got the scariest garage anywhere filled with lots of stuff from the film's including Freddy' s glove! I even still liked the Freddy v Jason film for it amusement factor.
I also watched the puppet masters but they were just daft. I got the idea to rewatch all these films of someone who said they do this through October to celebrate Halloween, it sounded like a good idea, and I've enjoyed doing it the only ones I've missed have been the Friday the 13th films as I ran out of time!
Angie wrote: "I enjoyed watching the 1st lost boys but 2&3 are terrible, they just don't have anything in them to make them special. With the Hellraiser films, all 8 of them, I found the first to be interesting ..."Never watched a Puppet Masters film. Thanks for the insight on the others.
Evans wrote: "I saw this today and couldn't leave it behind:Cindy wrote: "Spending some time reading and doing some housework. I must be ADHD or something because I absolutely cannot stay focused over about 30..."
The Mole People figure is awesome! I have a small collection of Universal horror movie figures as those are some of my favorite movies, and I have one of the Mole people figures, but it's pretty much gray and dark gray!
Rick wrote: "Evans wrote: "I saw this today and couldn't leave it behind:Cindy wrote: "Spending some time reading and doing some housework. I must be ADHD or something because I absolutely cannot stay focused..."
If I had all the Universal Monster figures I'd play Monster Squad...all...day.
There's some cool new universal monster figures released this week. More obscure ones. I saw The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Mr. Hyde, too.
Those are pretty awesome, Misty. I like the Halloween ones, too.
Misty wrote: "Ugh the Puppet Masters. It scared me when I was little. I used to think my dolls would come to life at night. So I used to hide them in the closet. Which was dumb because they could open doors."I refused to have any dolls when I was small, because mine would be able to hide under the bed and get me! Or in the wardrobe, in the corners ...
I love the bookends as well Misty, they look pretty cool.
Misty wrote: "https://www.etsy.com/listing/10951096..."Misty, thank you for the link, I'm going to have to get the Frankenstein and Dracula bookends. They are incredible!!
I think I need to start a discussion on bizarre things our elders say (i.e., my grandmother in the nursing home). I was out there last night. Whereas her last roommate was constantly pulling Grandma's toe all night long so she couldn't sleep, this new roommate of 3 days has friends and relatives staying overnight all the time, and Grandma can't even turn over in bed because they're all over the place. (She has macular degeneration and glaucoma, so she is practically blind - some of the stuff she tells me she sees is absolutely incredible!)Anyway, at work now, but I keep thinking back to last evening, visiting her at the home, and I figured I'd share!
Did you talk to the nursing staff or administration? They might be able to put the other woman in a private room or one without a roommate.
Lol nevermind I was a little slow on that
Rick wrote: "Misty wrote: "https://www.etsy.com/listing/10951096..."Misty, thank you for the link, I'm going to have to get the Frankenstein and Dra..."
I might have to get the Ghostbusters ones for myself. They are so cool!
I'm thinking about the Mickey Mouse ones for my son too as he would love those.
What a great find!
I want the Ghostbusters ones as well !! They just look so cool:-) I'd have to move some books so they'd fit though....then where would the books go?
★Joycedale★ wrote: "Lol nevermind I was a little slow on that"Yeah, none of it's true. But she sure believes it all.
Angie wrote: "I want the Ghostbusters ones as well !! They just look so cool:-) I'd have to move some books so they'd fit though....then where would the books go?"Haha, this guy is going to wonder why his sales have suddenly gone through the roof :-)
After a bit of a dry spell on the thrift store / USB front, I stumbled into a batch of bargain priced rarities today!
Phobias: Stories of Your Deepest Fears
Shock Rock, Volume I
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 20
Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters
and
The Dark: New Ghost Stories
Not bad for an average couple bucks each! Best New Horror books typically run $6 or more each whenever I see them, which isn't ofter, so this is the first I've added to my collection.
The first two look like a lot of campy 80's fun as well.
I used to have the whole Shock Rock series. Some great stories in those, man. You got some good stuff at the "USB" whatever that is...
I wish we had a UBS up here. I check the Salvation Army store and Goodwill every once in a while, and never have luck like you have!
The last good find I had was at the library book sale. Picked up
. Thought that was a pretty cool find. Especially for a buck.
You guys have really good second hand book stores! I've got some Richard laymon books from Amazon market place, but they can take forever to arrive. I got Glory Bus
The Cellar, Beast house and Midnight tour
Body rides
All for £6,00
And I've just finished carrion comfort, and I got that as an e-book for 59 pence. What a crazy book that turned out to be.
I loved Carrion Comfort, Angie. I made the mistake of starting the new Blake Crouch book. He hooks a reader pretty quick and doesn't let go. Had to stop at page 60 sp I canget some sleep.
I'm forever not going to sleep, it's 3,40am again, and still not sleeping.:) I've got a Blake crouch ready to read on my Kindle so I. Might read that.I get my nexus 7 tomorrow, it's in a sale for £130, which is £50 knocked of the price:-). I can't use it till Christmas though.
Spent half the day filling out financial aid forms for college applications. A painful process, for sure. Now I'm starting The Round House for Book Club next week. It's a little wordy, but so far I'm interested in the story.
Angie wrote: "Good luck with your applications"Thank you! Wish we didn't have to wait until April for decisions!
Even though the kids are out for thanksgiving I still managed to have a morning alone since they all happened to stay the night somewhere last night. So I'm sitting here with my coffee and book and have the radio on.
I'm sat watching the last season of Dexter trying to fend of the cat who wants feeding Again!! She sits poking me with her paw:)
I found Ramsey Campbell's The Influence for 30 cents. What a great birthday find!
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Cool. I'll have to check Thor 2 out. The first one was pretty good. Eyes too scratchy to read or write, so we're settled in with THE LOST BOYS tonight. Haven't seen it in ages. Good old cheesy fun. I remember trying to sneak into the theater to see this with Adam when it first hit theaters. I think I was 15 and he was 12. We got kicked out and had to settle for THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS.