Anyone who has
read any two given posts on this blog knows I love horror. They also know I’m
ridiculously forgiving of horror films with problematic plots. Thus it comes as
no surprise that I’m recommending Andrés Muschietti’s Mama, a feature length
adaptation of his 2008 short film of the same name.
Hear that synth? It can only mean one thing: the
long delayed return of the Annotated AvP:
The Story! Please forgive me for being a few days late. I had originally
planned to run a review of Mama this
week, but Ottawa’s current borderline-Antarctic temperatures prevented me from
walking downtown, so that’ll have to wait for next week and now this week’s
post is delayed and… eh, fuck it. Here’s some Godawful fan fiction.
This month, I give you my attempt at writing a
full-fledged battle scene, which is of course shamefully ripped from The Lord of the Rings movies and a
cop-out to boot. Do try to enjoy.
I'm really surprised I've never written on this subject before. I've touched on music previously, of course, but apart from Christmas music I doubt any of my regular readers (all three of you!) have any idea of what I consider the apex of popular music. So, in alphabetical order, my ten favourite songs of all time.
Chief among my artistic obsessions is the act of adaptation: the process, the translation, what's trimmed or added--pretty much everything about it. I'm so intrigued by it that I'm going to focus on adaptation on this blog for 2013.
To start it off, I'm posting my drunken, New Year's Eve liveblog of Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining, starring a very frenzied Jack Nicholson and a very shrieky Shelley Duvall. Typos are, of course, unintentional, but preserved for the sake of chuckles. My companion for the evening was a 2011 bottle of Henry of Pelham baco noir, which has just the right amount of sweetness and generates a warm, fuzzy drunk.
