WEEK TWO WAS A LITTLE SLIM FOR ME BECAUSE OF SOME ISSUES BEYOND MY CONTROL.
That being said, this week's OSA is approved by the 'Old School Horror Posse'. OK, so one of the reasons why I didn't get as much done as week one is because the evil overlords at my job poached an operator and we are now short-handed; consequently I got stuck working a double shift -- the second half being OVERNIGHT -- which means I worked from 2:30 in the afternoon until 7 am the following day. Ain't like grand. And very shortly, I will be stuck working 6 days a week until we get a replacement. That being said . . . I'm gonna read books and watch movies while I'm at work, you SEE if I don't!!! Now on to week two of OSA!
While I only managed to read two books in week two, I have some other books I'm reading but didn't finish yet. The first book I read for week two was ANOTHER host rec: GOOSEBUMPS: THE BEAST FROM THE EAST and it was goofy and fun. I liked it! And while I didn't get many books read this week, BEAST FROM THE EAST fulfilled TEN count 'em TEN prompts: Host Rec, Retro/Vintage, Neon, Time Warp, Free Willy, Goosebumps book, Fern Gully, Monster Squad, Goonies and Once Upon A Forest prompts!
After that, I only managed another of those 'WHO WAS/WHO HQ' books I'm currently obsessed with. It's the one I told you about last week: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE LOCH NESS MONSTER? by Steve Korte. I love how they STILL managed to do the cover art with a giant head on Nessie! This book only fulfilled 5 prompts which only looks slim next to BEAST FROM THE EAST: Free Willy, Fern Gully, Monster Squad, Goonies and True Life prompts.
I managed to watch no nostalgic TV shows in week two; however I did knock off a few nostalgic movies -- all from the nineties -- THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, THE ROCK, PATRIOT GAMES and A FEW GOOD MEN. RED OCTOBER also fulfilled an extra prompt: watch a Tim Curry movie. The great, magnificent Tim Curry is in that one! It's funny because I never really liked RED OCTOBER much (I've seen all 4 movies before) and loved PATRIOT GAMES; I found this rewatch that my opinion of RED OCTOBER went up and PATRIOT GAMES went down a little. THE ROCK, meanwhile, is the biggest turd I've ever seen and my opinion didn't change that much; other than to wallow in the pure stupidity of it all making it now a fun watch. And, of course, A FEW GOOD MEN is A FEW GOOD MEN. I hadn't seen THAT one is so long that I had forgotten the presence of three of my favourite actors in it: Kevin Pollak and the late, great J.T. Walsh!
I had completely forgotten they were in this!!! Speaking of which, I had also forgotten the great Tony Todd was in THE ROCK!!! I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Mr. Todd at the Monster Mania convention several years ago and he was such a friendly, generous gentleman! I love him to bits!!!! He elevates any movie he's in!
PATRIOT GAMES, on this rewatch, is still awesome during it's first -- oh, I dunno -- hour? -- but really lags in a way I never noticed before. And even the slam-bang finale didn't hold up as I remembered it. This is interesting because I just bought the JACK RYAN 5 FILM COLLECTION 4K box set and the next film is CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER which I remember hating back in the day. I wonder if I'll suddenly like it if I do a rewatch? So yeah, that's week two in the books. I'm hoping to do better during week three.
4 comments:
Aside from the barracuda chomp chomp bitches stuff, your job is also infringing on our frolic time as well! Doesn't really matter as much these past two weeks though due to the fact we have both been sick since Easter. Just started feeling better this past weekend. I do enjoy reading your posts about this as it proves we don't need incentives to read books or watch films but then again, don't you threaten me with a good time! Good luck in weeks three and four and hope to see you after the smoke clears. Me? I'm enjoying the down time before I get into the Spirit of '76 planning.
Chomp Chomp time is not infringing on anythin', you take that back!!!! How dare you incinerate such a thing. If you think I'm coming near your germy ass, you must be mental!!! However, the job HAS definitely been infringing on frolic time and, since I'll probably be working a 6th day (sundays), you may have to look for me at my funeral. Make sure you have them play my funeral song; it's on the now finished ADVENTURES IN CERPTSLAND VOLUME 4 coming to a Cerpts CD near you.
I said your JOB was infringing not the barracuda club stuff ya knob end. I mean really, do you even read these comments? I might see you at your but I think you have to work that day until noon so I'll see you around three that day. And is that song a cover version performed by Metallica by any chance?
Just because I am a knob end doesn't mean you have to let everybody else know! And yes, I do read these comments but as I'm reading this last one I see you wrote "I might see you at your" which I think perhaps has a missing word and was written by another knob end. If your final question is referring to my funeral song, nope it's not performed by Metallica. Having said that, my job is indeed a pus-ridden boil and I think I should retire and you should support me!
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