WATCHING:
Blade Trinity: Damn, but I love this film. Wesley Snipes is fabulously badass, Ryan Reynolds lets rip with some of the most amusing profanity since Dexter's Debra Morgan, and Dominic Purcell is the most glorious Dracula ever. His face when he's in the goth shop (vampire vibrators!) is priceless. Also love the moment when they give Blade the Dracula comic--very Lost Boys.
Supernatural Season 6: In the 'what's your favourite show ever' stakes, the answer would have to be Buffy. There are also very special places in my heart for Prison Break and Life on Mars. But although I was never in the fandom, the show I probably rewatch the most is Supernatural. If shows are like relationships, this is the friend I hung out with for a few years before realising I'd fallen in love. One of my favourite things about Season 6 is Soulless!Sam--I like the way that they didn't make him into a different character altogether--an evil Hyde, or Angelus. Instead, he's recognisably still Sam, just a super-pragmatic and ruthless version. And frequently hilarious, too. The scene in the UFO-abduction ep, where Dean is fleeing for his life through a cornfield, yelling about anal probes, and Sam is listening to him on the phone while sitting in the bar, going, 'Yeah, another beer, please,' is hysterical.
WRITING: A 3.5k SF thriller.
SHUDDERING AT: Tarantula growing antlers. Sometimes, Nature totally does horror writers' jobs for them.
LOOKING FOR: Kurt Vonnegut recs. What's the next best one to read, after Slaughterhouse Five?
CREATING: Cover art for my crime flash fiction collection, Shallow Cuts. Coming soon!
Aiyeee. The tarantula. I never thought I'd feel sorry for a tarantula. I think the ant parasite is pretty wild too. I mean how can it control an ant's brain. You just don't have to make this stuff off, do you. The real world is just astonishing. I've never read any Vonnegut stuff, a serious oversight on my part. I've had a couple reviews that said that my story had something of his flavour.
ReplyDeleteI know, right?! Parasites with mind-control powers! It's pure SF horror, right there.
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