Jason Voorhees that is. I’m watching Friday the 13th Part 2 right now in preparation for Hallowe’en. I love October when all the scary movies come out on TV. I figured I would just pick up a few films on cheap DVD, but after some research found out that no one has ever released a Director’s Cut of a Friday the 13th film (hence, some gore cut out in the films we know now). OH! There goes someone’s head…man, if you can see heads flying off of bodies, what the heck did they cut out?
Anyhow, I downloaded Friday the 13th to watch over the weekend. OH, here comes Jason! Who would have thought? Friday the 13th is not a bad series. I enjoyed Parts 1-4 the most. It made for a good whole story but then Part 5 was just stupid and then came Part 6 and 7. I’ve never seen the later ones because of the lack of goodness going around.
I’m watching these films as background images really as this was the weekend of studying. These are the weekends where I hole myself up inside the house for the entire weekend, crank some study notes out and then study them while having a film in the background. I think I really understand the Sociology class but the Critical Thinking is…strange. A lot of it is common sense but then they have terms which I have to memorize. I hate memorization. I think my brain isn’t wired for memorizing things as I always have a hard time with lyrics and always need my lyric book in front of me.
Other than that, I caught up on some X-Men comic books, watched what I ate (cholesterol-wise of course) and just vegged around. I’m going a little stir crazy at the moment but being stir crazy sparked some creativity and I finished a couple of songs I was writing a few weeks ago. The music is down, I just have to apply some lyrics and voila! I think these will be the ones I ship off to Troy and he can think of other ideas of what to do with them (aka, add some lead guitar and think of some structure elements).
Oh oh, don’t go into that dark room! Man, what is with the stupid people in horror movies? Oh, at least you are smart enough to bring a knife with you. Or…is that an ice pick? Yeah, that isn’t going to be good for anything lady. You know what I like about old school horror films? They were so cheap to produce that they could release one every year! That’s a good way to get the franchise going…look at the Saw series. They release a film every year around Hallowe’en. It’s something to look forward to. Saw will become like the old school horror films with a great franchise ahead of them – they have classic scenarios that repeat and that’s what people like. It’s like AC/DC. Everyone loves how it all sounds the same. 😉
I also picked up a new book on Friday called the Lies of Locke Lamora (sp?). I am starting to pick up some books that Paul and Miguel recommend on The Wolfshack and this one sounded intriguing. I’ll let you know how it is.