1963's The Haunting, (based on the 1959 novel by the brilliant Shirley Jackson,) is my favourite horror movie of all time - and it actually is one I have re-watched in the last year or so (I can honestly say it left me just as terrified as it always did when I watched it as … Continue reading The Films That Haunt Us: The Haunting (1963)
Yesterday I wrote about one of the films I saw in childhood that terrifies me to this day, to the point where I just can't bring myself to re-watch it as an adult. Today I thought I would share another with you. The 1961 film, The Innocents, starring Deborah Kerr, was based on the novella … Continue reading The Films That Haunt Us: The Innocents, (1961)
With Halloween mere days away, I sat down this morning to make a list of some of the scariest horror movies I've ever seen. Unsurprisingly, the films that have had the most enormous effect on me are the ones watched in early childhood. These are films my sisters and I used to watch over and … Continue reading The Films That Haunt Us: The Woman in Black (1989)
After being sick with the stomach flu all last week and then coming down with bronchitis, I decided to take today to get a few important health related things done (blood work, picking up a prescription for said bronchitis and also getting a flu shot while I was at it), but in between that medical … Continue reading Self Care Days…
I spent most of the day catching up on the news and feeling really down about things, but by pure chance ran across this ridiculous Funny or Die series, and wanted to share it with all of you. It's been running for three seasons now, so I'm definitely late to the party, but boy did … Continue reading Funny or Die: Zack Morris is Trash
First off, sorry I haven't written in awhile! I ended up coming down with the flu, which has apparently turned into bronchitis, so I've been feeling really run down and physically rotten over the last little while. That said, emotionally I'm in a much better place than I was in the last time I wrote. … Continue reading On Blogging and Boxes
Just a silly post for my cat, who obviously can't read and has no idea what the internet is, except that it is a place where her mom finds the music she loves and she can gaze lovingly at anyone from David Bowie to the Andrews Sisters as they are performing. As I said, I … Continue reading Doris Day, Dream a Little Dream of Me
Patti Smith is keeping me company tonight, in case you couldn't tell from the title of this post... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPO0bTaWcFQ It's been a bad couple of weeks, which is why I haven't really been around. Most of the time I don't even know what to post anymore, because I'm still having trouble with a lot of … Continue reading Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine
Yay! Another issue of Ladies' Home Journal! And I promise this week's post doesn't include another rant. 😉 This week's issue talks about a a "Homemaker Service" in Hartford Connecticut, "substituting for mothers"! It also includes a "complete-in-one-issue" novel by Elizabeth Cadell called Gay Pursuit ("The time comes when the thing a girl wants most … Continue reading Ladies’ Home Journal, July 1948
This year is the twentieth anniversary of Rufus Wainwright's first (self-titled) album, and I just wanted to write a short and completely inadequate tribute to this incredibly talented musician who has helped me get through some really difficult times during those twenty years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIF6f3tFxBw I have been lucky enough to see him perform a number … Continue reading Pretty Things: A Rufus Wainwright Tribute
