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    Now Reading

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    Been occasionally reading through Ligotti's Songs of a Dead Dreamer & Grimscribe combo via Kindle for the past 6 months, but have made barely a dent (haven't been in a reading mood at all until quite recently)...though I just bought and started John Langan's The Fisherman, which seems like it should be a solid/easy enough read to get me back in the groove of reading fiction.

     

    I work in a bookshop and had been planning for a couple of weeks to order in The Fisherman when I got paid, then the day before I went in a charity shop and found a mint copy of it for 3 quid, it was insane. 

     

    Not read it yet.

    TWIN PEAKS

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    Who isn't returning? I re-watched the first series but my girlfriend wasn't as into it as I expected so in anticipation I'll probably just watch Fire Walk With Me and give the second series a skip. 

    Films Recently Watched

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    I really liked the Blair Witch Project but wasn't angry about this one in a 'Star Wars fan losing his mind about the prequels' way, it was just awful.

    This. I don't think they knew what made the original Blair Witch Project good. Oh well.

     

    tec - you should watch The Autopsy of Jane Doe. I just watched it. Fairly creepy, also kinda terrible in that horror movie way, but it's definitely one of the better ones to come out this year.

    Yup, there are many examples but a big one was how they chose to have it so time froze (?) so day never came. In the first their desperation to escape each day before sun down was a great tension builder. Nevermind.

     

    I'll definitely give that one a go, glad you enjoyed the film, even if it were no good Brian Cox is usually worth a watch.

    Now Reading

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    Reading Laird Barron's The Croning after keanu reeves recommended him as a deece new author of horror. Quarter of the way in and definitely liking the vibe, you can feel a noose going around the main character's neck that is only going to tighten. I'll get this done then move onto an M.R James re-read for the festive season. 

    Now Reading

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    Now started Jim Crace's Quarantine. I've only ever read Being Dead by Crace (which I highly recommend). Have a bunch more books by him that have accumulated from seeing his name on a book in a charity shop and bringing them home.

    Off to a great start so far.

     

    I read Harvest after seeing it in the gothic exhibition in the British Library, couldn't really get into it but I was hoping for some kinda Wicker man weirdness so the fault may have been my own.

    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

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    Climate change really bothers me as well but over 98% of species to have ever lived on this planet are extinct. When you listen to Joe Rogan and Dan Bilzerian discuss stem cell treatments harvested from placentas and 19 year olds to heal their jiu jitsu injuries, you understand very quickly that 98% of us will go too. Dan Bilzerian will receive CRISPR therapy to become an aquatic reptile capable of surviving in a hot, watery world. He will get a harem of female equivalents for species propagation. Future scientists will be puzzled by tits on a lizard species just as we marvel at the platypus currently.

     

    lol

     

    everything is lol

    Films Recently Watched

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    Every Halloween I try to watch a horror flick that I haven't seen before, and this year's choice was The Sacrament. Didn't know anything about it, I just dived in based on the fact that it was directed by the guy responsible for The House of the Devil, which I loved.

     

    Anyway, it was completely different to that. It's another one of those 'found footage' style films, based on a group of Vice reporters that head out to this batshit religious commune to see what the crack is, but of course it all goes tits up. If you like jump scares, this isn't for you, but if you enjoy your horrors with a gradual build-up of tension and a well executed sense of dread, I'd recommend it.

     

    If you have any knowledge of Jonestown this film is a waste of time. If you don't, read the wiki entry then listen to the sound of them all killing themselves. It'll save you time and is far more effective. After I saw this film in the cinema I got a text from a friend telling me Rik Mayall was dead. That was an awful day.

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