Murder is not as easy as the innocent believe...

...and which I am learning 8 times over. I've been trying to murder this character since Friday night. After some initial procrastinating, I have literally been at the keyboard for more than 10 hours total, and still have not managed to kill this girl. It's going to be a bad death, one that has some substantial impact on the story, and I just can't do it. I don't know why. The mechanics of the kill aren't falling into place--the girl's character development isn't strong enough to lead me in the right direction (another problem in and of itself). And my MC is grating on my nerves. But I'm going to do it today. I'm not due at work until 3pm tomorrow, so I'm not going to bed until she's dead.

Cartoons were awesome last night. Family Guy does Stephen King is one of the best ideas they've ever had. And the false lead in about The Shinning? Excellent! Next weekend is all the cartoon season finales. I just hope I'm back in town in time to see them. (I'm going to Clare to celebrate absinthofhearts birthday in case you didn't know.)

H decided he doesn't want to see Star Trek anymore. So we're not going. His rampant mind changing about movies that are getting good reviews is one of the few things H does that annoys me. We'd been planning to see it for months, now he doesn't want to. So...I need someone to go with. Truth be told though, I won't die if I have to wait for the DVD.

Season finale of LOST this week. I know I say this a lot, but 1) I hope there is a polar bear, and 2) I heart Michael Emerson.

Quarrantine

I'm gonna talk about Quarrantine, and I'm not gonna cut for spoilers. I presume that if you cared a whole bunch about seeing it, you'd have almost certainly seen it by now. Then again, I just saw it today...okay, I won't post anything spoilery.
Anywhoo, this movie has an excellent cast featuring plenty of people I've seen on Law & Order. Most notably was Denis O'Hare, who plays a wide variety of crazy on L&O and played a drunk in this one. He was quite good, though I certainly would have liked to have seen more of him. He wasn't in nearly as many scenes as he should have been.
It has that shaky camera work a lot of people don't like. I like it fine. My only complaint about the visuals is that many scenes were way too dark. Sometimes dark is good to amp up the suspense and overall sense of fear and dread. But sometimes it's just annoying that you can't see what the hell is going on.
I don't care for that Jennifer Carpenter or that stupid exorcism movie she did. IMO there's only one good movie about an exorcism. Anyway she was the lead and she was not very annoying. So that's fine.
Cutting to the chase, this movie is brutal, scary, shocking in parts. However, the trailer completely ruined the ending. Completely. If you haven't seen the trailer (or have forgotten it), do NOT watch it again before you see the movie. I didn't, but I still remembered the trailer and it sapped any and all suspense from the end. Aside from that, I enjoyed this movie very much and think it's worth a watch if you like horror, zombies, bloody murder, etc.

Speaking of murder, I'm off to finish killing that character. A someone on Facebook pointed out, she'll die of old age if I don't get a move on.