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My second wife thought she knew pain. She didn't know shit.
Whelp, I finished reading Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door after explaining numerous times to numerous friends that it's not a book about that stupid playboy bunny movie that came out a few years ago. As if I would ever even pick up such a book, let alone read it or talk about it online. Anywhoo, the book was excellent. Damn scary, lots of suspense, and contained some surprises even for someone such as myself, who knows the source material fairly well. It's also a touch more satisfying than what actually happened.
Two days after I finished it, I decided to watch the movie based on the book. Sucked. It was like watching a high school play of the book. No emotion, really, no truthiness at all. A story like this only works if you feel the humanity involved. The movie presented the facts with no context, no character arcs, no gradual descent into madness. The story doesn't work unless you understand the people. So yeah, big fat suck. My plan is to watch the movie based on the actual Lichens murder next. Coincidentally, it was released the same year as Girl Next Door (2007). This one stars Ellen Page as Sylvia (the victim) and Catherine Keener as the abusive guardian. Obviously, good acting is going to take this story to a whole new level.
Moved on to reading Peter Vronsky's book on Serial Killing Women. By page 5, I fully understood why reviews of this book portray Vronsky as a huge sexist. His basic point thusfar is Lookie, women can also be vicious killers even though they're pretty and probably smell nice--oh, except not Aileen Wournos. Yeah, that's some groundbreaking theory there, Vronsky. Still, I'm not that far in yet and if case studies on people like Mary Bell or Belle Gunness (sp?) are well written, I'll still find lots to enjoy.
H and I may try to get caught up on Caprica, or at least determine if it's something we're going to make a habit of watching. We really loved BSG. I'd go so far as to say it's the best sci-fi (I'm not saying SyFy and you can't make me)show I've ever seen. And that includes Star Trek Next Gen, Quantum Leap, and Outer Limits. It does NOT, however, include Twilight Zone because I consider that mostly horror.
Remember how I said we're getting new computers at work? Apparently there's some kind of lock on the system that makes it so you can only go to 5 websites. I'm declaring shenanegans on that, mainly because that isn't even enough to do our jobs--let alone occupy us when there's only 3-4 calls an hour. So I'm hoping that's a glitch and not some new company-wide policy. I'd hate to have to come back with a broom.
Speaking of work, I'm feel extremely impatient today. If you're calling a business to place an order, you should know what you want (or what you want to ask to determine what you want), you should know some basic facts about your kid's instrument--like what it is and what size it is, and what kind of strings you have on it. Some guy today didn't even know if his kid had a violin or a viola, but was furious that I couldn't tell him what strings he needed. You should know where your credit card is, where you want your items shipped, and ALL the numbers on your credit card. It would also help, when you ask a question, to listen to the answer I give you so I only have to repeat it once or twice.
Here's a list of movies I need to watch within the next month, because I'm sick of not having seen them:
REC
Let the Right One In
Martyrs
Home Movies
Halloween 2 remake
An American Crime
Oh, and I found a date to go see The Crazies. Maybe I'll even buy![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sashakovich dinner after. She's just great.
Tomorrow = LOST. Yay!
Two days after I finished it, I decided to watch the movie based on the book. Sucked. It was like watching a high school play of the book. No emotion, really, no truthiness at all. A story like this only works if you feel the humanity involved. The movie presented the facts with no context, no character arcs, no gradual descent into madness. The story doesn't work unless you understand the people. So yeah, big fat suck. My plan is to watch the movie based on the actual Lichens murder next. Coincidentally, it was released the same year as Girl Next Door (2007). This one stars Ellen Page as Sylvia (the victim) and Catherine Keener as the abusive guardian. Obviously, good acting is going to take this story to a whole new level.
Moved on to reading Peter Vronsky's book on Serial Killing Women. By page 5, I fully understood why reviews of this book portray Vronsky as a huge sexist. His basic point thusfar is Lookie, women can also be vicious killers even though they're pretty and probably smell nice--oh, except not Aileen Wournos. Yeah, that's some groundbreaking theory there, Vronsky. Still, I'm not that far in yet and if case studies on people like Mary Bell or Belle Gunness (sp?) are well written, I'll still find lots to enjoy.
H and I may try to get caught up on Caprica, or at least determine if it's something we're going to make a habit of watching. We really loved BSG. I'd go so far as to say it's the best sci-fi (I'm not saying SyFy and you can't make me)show I've ever seen. And that includes Star Trek Next Gen, Quantum Leap, and Outer Limits. It does NOT, however, include Twilight Zone because I consider that mostly horror.
Remember how I said we're getting new computers at work? Apparently there's some kind of lock on the system that makes it so you can only go to 5 websites. I'm declaring shenanegans on that, mainly because that isn't even enough to do our jobs--let alone occupy us when there's only 3-4 calls an hour. So I'm hoping that's a glitch and not some new company-wide policy. I'd hate to have to come back with a broom.
Speaking of work, I'm feel extremely impatient today. If you're calling a business to place an order, you should know what you want (or what you want to ask to determine what you want), you should know some basic facts about your kid's instrument--like what it is and what size it is, and what kind of strings you have on it. Some guy today didn't even know if his kid had a violin or a viola, but was furious that I couldn't tell him what strings he needed. You should know where your credit card is, where you want your items shipped, and ALL the numbers on your credit card. It would also help, when you ask a question, to listen to the answer I give you so I only have to repeat it once or twice.
Here's a list of movies I need to watch within the next month, because I'm sick of not having seen them:
REC
Let the Right One In
Martyrs
Home Movies
Halloween 2 remake
An American Crime
Oh, and I found a date to go see The Crazies. Maybe I'll even buy
sashakovich dinner after. She's just great.Tomorrow = LOST. Yay!
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I once saw a documentary that profiled various female serial killers, casting doubt on the idea that serial killers is a male only disorder. They profiled various female serial killers. One was this woman who was found with all these coffins in her basement containing the past lovers she had poisoned. Still, it seems like the only ones you hear about are male. Could it be woman are underreported in this respect? Usually gender equality is a good thing, but not in this case!
Aileen Wournos is probably one of the roughest-looking people I've ever seen. I think she could have been at least a pleasant-looking woman, but she had a pretty rough life and it showed.
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I do think that in addition to the fact that women make up a fairly small majority (current estimate being 16%) of serial killers are women, women tend to use methods that horrify people less--and are therefore less "newsworthy." Who wants to read about men getting quietly poisoned when BTK is on the loose?
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