I’ve been in a funk for a while now, but sitting down and reading a bit of @blacktopkid.bsky.social’s King of Ashes each morning has been helping. Only about a hundred pages in and I’m ready to see some bad dudes get fucked up.

Went down a wild rabbit hole today based on a single throwaway line early on in The Shining.

It’s been HOW LONG since I did this!? @lastexittonowhere.bsky.social

We’ve pretty much been snowed in for three days, so of course we’re off to go see The Shining.

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Rewatching Del Toro’s Frankenstein on this snow day and realizing that Victor’s lab is in Vaduz, which actually makes him Liechtenstein’s Monster.

Gotta light?

So I finally take a normal picture with @claymcleod.bsky.social

Sometimes the good thing happens:

In spite of everything terrible going on in the world right now, Delroy Lindo saying the words “I think I just shit myself” and getting an Oscar nomination brings me a bit of joy.

Serious negative mental health spiral this weekend due to multiple reasons. I’ll get back on track, but haven’t felt like this in a while. Forever thankful for my wife for helping me get my shit together. I don’t publicly appreciate her enough.

So… Primate does not mess around. I haven’t seen a crowd that tense since The Mist. Maybe not a great movie, but damn does it work.

Screw it, I’m buying a chainsaw.

These might come in handy.

Listen to me interrupt my friends (and shoehorn in The Life of Chuck and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter) as we talk about 2025 horror movies.

There’s a new Dracula-themed restaurant opening near me pretty soon. I guess saying I hope it doesn’t suck is too obvious.

Virginia artist Christmas haul featuring @blacktopkid.bsky.social and Shaboozey

Tonight’s outing with the eldest. A John Waters Christmas in Baltimore

Cool. A dedicated Nazi-punching street.

Hamnet succeeds in the impossible task of making someone who talks in a theater sympathetic.

Probably going to watch Glass Onion again (haven’t seen it since the theater) because Betty didn’t quite get why Blanc may have had some issues with the church.

Kinda wondering how much money Tom Waits is making from Netflix this year.

Yeah I have a kid named Beatrix. No I did not go see Kill Bill this weekend. But I did throw my money at a movie I hated that had Matthew Lillard in it and frankly I’m happier for it.

Oooooh, the MAYOR. So, um, any new Blair Witch stuff in the works? Asking for a friend.

I haven’t seen a President this obsessed with ballroom since LBJ ordered pants from Joe Haggar

If The Life of Chuck is very tangentially a Shining story, is there a room in one of the apartments where his house used to be that shows people stuff? This is what pops into my head after watching the film five times and I blame @stephenking.bsky.social and @mikeflanaganfilm.com

Nice subtle reference to The Shining in the new season of Stranger Things. I wonder which room Robin’s fake grandma was in.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Another Cronenberg site in Vienna today.

The grave site of Dr Caligari

Lots of mushroom art in my sister-in-law’s house, so guess who’s getting a copy of @bitterkarella.bsky.social’s Moonflow for Christmas.

First time seeing some David Cronenberg locations in person. A Dangerous Method isn’t one of my favorites, but I appreciated it more in a recent rewatch with audio commentary.

Took my youngest to see The Third Man In Vienna and then we took a detour to the Harry Lime doorway.

Bison Bison Bison in Vienna, Austria

I know it’s not the first one, but still surprised by one of the in-flight movie options.

So… I did not expect to be a sobbing mess at the end of Sisu: Road to Revenge but here we are.

As is tradition when we have a flight coming up, Airplane! is the film for this evening.

The new History of Violence spine looks real weird next to the other Cronenberg’s.

Weird work schedule this week, so I’ve been going through movies with @mikeflanaganfilm.com commentaries. The Dead Zone this morning and I can’t help but think Johnny’s cardigans inspired Father Paul’s in Midnight Mass.

Moonflow has everything. Mushroom horror, sinister parks, abandoned buildings, Enya, murder, people acting like they’re in a John Waters movie, and HERMAN. Could have been hornier, though, @bitterkarella.bsky.social

Well, I definitely wasn’t expecting the @mikeflanaganfilm.com commentary on Life of Chuck to also make me tear up.

After seeing Predator Badlands I have one question. What’s the Predator’s species called?

@allymalinenko.bsky.social We’re going to need a gif of Victor going “NO!!!” to post in response to the Frankenonsense. My new favorite complaint is that Mia Goth’s British accent sounds fake.

As a guy who named his daughter “Mathilda” I’m just going to stay really far away from the Mary Shelley discourse.

Tonight’s double-feature?

It’s November 7 and I just got Whamaggeddoned.

So, @sgj.bsky.social - The first question at trivia was “This 2012 comedy zombie novel takes place at this kind of event.”

Heh.

Love this.

Thing is, I’ll wear this normally.