Reviews of Stuff

[sorcyress]

Random cuddling? Check.
People snarking at movies? Check.
Way too many awesome scifi/fantasy books just lying around? Check.
Kitty!? Check.

Or in other words, nothing I've done in Boston has made me miss The Empty City as much as going to jere7my and adfamiliares's house last night for bad movies.

It turned out to be me and Jere7my and BDan (who may or may not have some sort of 'elljay') and we watched Plankton/Creatures from the Abyss (Notable lines: "how long have you been fucking fish, professor" "what, they were all of age!") and The Oozing Skull (which is the MST3KCinematic Titanic title for "Brain of Blood".)

Uhm...wow. Hokay, all I gotta say? They were *hi*larious. Creatures from the Abyss showed why ichthyophillia really never much caught on --apparently, having sex with fish is *bad*. Even though no one did. They just...ate...the perfectly normal looking fish from the fridge. And that turned them into mutant fish. Okay, look, it had a scene where someone's eye fell into someone elses throat. If that's not comedy, I don't know what is.

The Oozing Skull was a less instantly snarkable movie, which makes it extra nice that the CT people were there to do it for us. Also, as introductions to MST3K go, it was not at all bad. Yeah, I'd never actually seen any MST3K episode before...Sorcy is bad.

(For all of you who are giving me those aghast looks, I'm sorry, please don't beat me! Look at it this way --it'd be more fun to strap me to a chair and force me to watch multiple episodes of MST3K than to beat me, right? Right?)

Afterwards, I decided that I really didn't especially want to walk back to the T-stop, so Jere7my was sweet enough to offer up his guest room. Which meant that, instead of sleeping, we spent three hours watching previews for Something Weird videos (somewhat NSFW link)

I have no words for some of these movies. ((Also, Katters, we *have* to find a copy of "The Adult Version of Jekyll and Hide(sic)", if only because Hyde will quite plausibly kill us both if we watch it. C'mon, it can't *possibly* be worse than the animated version. Well. Okay, yeah it can. But at least it probably won't think Jekyll is trying to cure baldness, and damnit, that's something!))

In short, evening was totally awesome, and I ended it off at too damn early in the morning rereading the two stories I remembered from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (I would've read more, just because Roald Dahl is a god from my childhood, but it was getting on towards five in the morning.)

"The Swan" is significantly less creepy and depressing than I remember, which is good. I think rereading it gave me a little bit of closure from my childhood, which is a Very Good Thing. (It contains one of the pushbuttons that make me go all quiet and moral and depressed -wanton bullying, for no reason. Oddly, I *really* don't like bullying in any form --can't imagine why.)

"The Hitchhiker" is pretty good, though not necessarily as good as I remember it being. I had forgotten the term 'fingersmith' though, I think I have to remember that for some future role playing game. Hum, I should start one up or something, similar to hitchin_dnd.

So, to sum up:

*Jere7my's haus makes me miss The Empty City, because damn, it has the exact same feel. (with fewer¹ people in it at any given point, but that's true of pretty much everybody's house, ever)
*Shlock movies are win
*I need to watch MST3K
*I really ought to go through and reread the entirety of Roald Dahl's works, because that man is made pretty much entierly of writing talent
*I'm adding "The Adult Version of Jekyll and Hide" to my 'Things to do with The Katters' list. (Other things on there include watching "Tron", "High School Musical", "UHF", and "Muppet Treasure Island", forcing her to tell me what it is that she knows that I don't, and, apparently, 'Hair Gel'. Oh, and to get her to teach me how to draw blood.)

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Unrelatedly, I'm going to try again with the stalking-dan4th-in-order-to-play-games thing. MUAHAHAHA!

~Sor
MOOP!

1: Proud of me, Magus?
P.S: Veronica, I miss you. <3

Comments

[shadowcaptain.livejournal.com]

if only there was a web site somewhere that offered complete mystery science theater 3000 (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=mst3k+duration%3Along&sitesearch=) episodes for the watching . . . or even episodes in multiple parts (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mst3k&search_type=) . . .

[(Anonymous)]

P.S. One and a half more weeks. I'm itching to be home too.

(Yes, I'm aware this is all I've commented to you for a while now. Shh.)

[macaroniandtuna.livejournal.com]

Err...that was me. I have no idea why it commented anonymously. I was logged in and everything. Weird.

[drama-angel3189.livejournal.com]

I miss you too dear!

[saberwing.livejournal.com]

"how long have you been fucking fish, professor" "what, they were all of age!"

i have not fucked ANY professors!!

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

"Capital letters are the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse" and "i had to help my uncle jack off a horse"."

~Sor

[astaereth.livejournal.com]

Oh, fuck, The Swan! I remember that being utterly creepy and depressing... maybe I should go read it again. Hm.

But the one I remember the most was the Henry Sugar one, with its story-within-a-story about the Indian seer with dough around his eyes...

If you're going to read Dahl, make sure that includes his kick-ass adult short stories, too, and if you're feeling very adventurous, his semi-porno about stealing the sperm of celebrities. What, you thought "snozzberries" were fruit? :D

[lunaticvermin.livejournal.com]

Have you read Roald Dahl's adult short stories? They're even better than his stuff for children, difficult as that is to believe.