Does it have to be time already?

To go back to work, I mean. Bleh. Holiday weekends fly by so incredibly fast.

It's been enjoyable though. Drama-free, relaxing, and generally nice. I have been getting caught up on TV watching as well as reading. The past few movies that my friend and I have gone to see have been shittttttttty. Halloween 2 disappointed us both. I'd read all this to-do online about people saying it was shocking and Satanic. When we saw it, we were expecting something truly frightening. What we got was rehashed slasher movie cliches. I yawned and checked my watch a lot. Not a good sign. Can't remember if I blogged about hating Inglorious Basterds when we went to see it 2 or 3 weeks back but it sucked, too. Final Destination 3D was kinda snoozy. They didn't really maximize the 3D experience for the audience at all. Plus the death sequences are getting more and more ridonkulous. Let's see . . . we saw The Collector at the dollar movies and left with more questions than answers. It wasn't a horrible film. Kinda just average. But damn, they left the viewer with very little exposition. Who is the guy? Why is he doing this? What is the point? It is a sad state of affairs when the best movie you've seen since GI Joe is Gamer, LOL. At least in that movie, I had no problems staying awake and my attention was held. I also did not leave with a mountain of odd, unanswerable questions. Not Oscar winning fare but it was a good way to spend 90 mins.


I've been reading a couple of books that I need to finish, one of which is Tacitus' Histories. I must confess that I have been slogging through. I think one of the reasons is because his perspective is decidedly unflattering. Not just unflattering but, like, very negative. This is not to say his criticism is not completely and utterly deserved; merely that it is different from the typical material you would read about the lives of the Caesars.
(If you so desire, you can find Volume 1 free on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=vEoZAAAAYAAJ&dq=The%20Works%20of%20Tacitus%20Vol.%20I&pg=PP12#v=onepage&q=&f=false)
It's good to read something of a different evaluatory perspective though. Helps you to think about things as a balancing scale as you try to sift through what's fact and what's opinion.



Quentin is still only sparsely on Dark Shadows. I'm ready to find out more, damn it. On a similar note, I stumbled upon an interesting article this morning regarding A&E's show Paranormal State. Now I have watched every ep of this show and have been waiting eagerly to see if another season would take place . . . until I read this story. I am not naive enough to say that TV shows are not staged and that events are not recreated for drama. But damn. Daaaamn. After this, I don't think I would watch the show again even from the perspective of treating it as pure fiction (if, indeed, every single aspect of it is bogus). Look and decide for yourself:

http://www.ghosttheory.com/2008/11/04/paranormal-state-caught-faking-entire-show