Tuiti Fuckin' Fruity!!

[wednes]

48,540 / 50,000 (97.1%)

But Wednes, you may say, Why didn't you just finish? You're so close!!. Well, I'll tell you, I was beset by many drawbacks in the last day or so.

For one thing, I woke up from my nap Saturday having recieved three calls from Kwame. He's an interesting guy, and one I feel especially attached to because he reminds of my brother Mark. Anyway, Kwame thought my birthday party was this past Saturday and drove around for an hour looking for my place and phoning me to get directions. I felt so bad when I got his messages that I got all weepy and emotional.

Then about 5 in the morning, I started having an allergic reaction to my new mood stabilizing pills. I had finally gone up to the reccomended dosage after creeping up to it for almost 2 months. My glands got all swollen and I couldn't even wear headphones. I got a bunch of hives that kept going away and coming up somewhere else, and then my lips got all swollen. It was scary as hell. And then after a few hours, it went away all by itself. I know. Madness. I went back down to a lower dose until I can talk to my doctor in the morning.

Finally, and thanks in no small part to pak_man78's generosity, I watched The Devils Rejects tonight. I know a guy who says Die Hard is the Citizen Kane of action movies. Well, this movie is the Citizen Kane of slasheriffic, biker-style road movies. It has all the stuff I look for in a horror movie, and went well beyond my expectations. The gore was outstanding, the suspense was fullfilling with big payoffs, and crazy mother fuckers? You bet!!
I am always amused when directors set us up with horrible characters doing horrific things, and then turn it around and make you empathize with them. Two of my fave movies: Psycho and The Godfather do this as well and I just love it.
To find myself thinking "Oh no...poor Otis!" after what I've seen of him so far is pretty damn amazing. I mean, he's a very bad man. I also enjoyed having the familial relationships explained and dealt with. It went a long way towards making them seem more human. So thank you, Rob Zombie, for reminding people that some of us take horror very seriously, and want to love it very much.

PS William Forsythe and Ken Foree also kicked much ass!
My only complaint (because I must have one) is that I wanted Karen Black to come back.

Comments

[nate101000.livejournal.com]

Well normally I'm all about personal choice. But Perry brings out the bleading heart in me.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Perry was clearly mentally ill, and was not in a fit state to make his own choices. Hooking up with that other guy, the lecherous one, was a fatal mistake.

[nate101000.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's not so much that Perry is a good guy, but that the other guy, whose name escapes me, was so bad. Lusting after prepubescent girls is so YUK!!

[wednes.livejournal.com]

To be fair, that girl was fifteen and likely post-puberty. Of course that does not make her an adult by any means.

But yeah, hooking up with a sociopath is a sure recipe for disaster.