7800 - leeches, leeches, leeches!

[scottobear]

Sometimes, I feel very reclusive. I like the idea of retiring to a cave. A place with a fire, a wall to draw on, and a personal store of food by an underground spring full of fresh water. Maybe an opening at the far end where the sun can get in, but not so close that rain gets everything.

Perhaps an oceanside opening, too, and a comfortable area to curl up with the Newt-cub.

Only the sound of dripping water from distant stalactites, and maybe torches flickering, leaving a little smudge on the wall where it burns a bit too close.

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If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the internet, post this sentence in your journal.

Actually, I have some friends that I networked to via a net-pal, and the net-pals themselves is gone.

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Age of Empires III is out and about... may be my Christmas prezzie to myself. It looks gorgeous... and I imagine the gameplay will be up to the usual high standards.

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More thoughts about Wallace & Gromit... They didn't have a bunch of science fiction fans called "the Inventive Cheese-eaters" or whatnot (though it does have it's own fans, certainly), and I'm sure the movie will do just fine on it's opening weekend. Fans Serenity could learn a bit from that sort of cinematic Social Darwinism... Good movies will do just fine, with or without some cult-like fan base. I really rather think the name "Browncoats" is just a smidgen too close to "Brown shirts", too. I suspect that the Browncoats didn't do much to get people to go see the movie.. other science fiction fans were going to check it out, because they'd already heard of it, one way or another... I figure they were preaching to the choir.

Wallace and Gromit did well, I'm sure, and it'll surprise me if it doesn't have better opening numbers than Serenity did.

That said, RT has W&G at - 95%... that's a pretty fantastic rating. I know it'll be something people will want to watch on video every Halloween with Great Pumpkin and Night of the Living Dead. I can't say that about Nightmare before Christmas. (the closest similar popular movie I can think of)

vs. Serenity at - 81%, which is still pretty respectable, considering that most fans of the show really weren't crazy about it... (and most non-fans that I know also didn't dig it). I guess the Joss formula of the 80 lb super-girl is still pretty marketable. Will people want to watch it in 5 years? I imagine it'll end up on UPN as part of the recycled Sunday sci-fi movie run, along with Ghostbusters II, because the better and more popular movies will be too expensive to syndicate. (Like Ghostbusters the first)

On a tangent - some favorite Halloween movies - Usually, I like a light opener (comedy or classic) and then actual horror after.

• It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown


• Ghostbusters


• The Mummy (Both the Karloff original, and the Brendan Fraser vehicle)


• Young Frankenstein


• Night of the Living Dead


• Alien


• The Shining


• The Fly (Vincent Price)


• The Thing (Newer one) - I like to Follow up with Big Trouble in Little China


• Evil Dead


• Poltergeist


• Hocus Pocus


• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein


• Beetlejuice


• The Exorcist

Just of the top of my skull.

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a Google search with "scotto needs"

Scotto needs to look into finding another job.
Scotto needs to make an impact.
Scotto needs Chomps to cure him of his insubordinate response to the Prez.
Scotto needs to make an impact.
scotto needs our support!
scotto needs the bucket and i need a lobotomy!
So come Buy with Bid On Auctions for all your Scotto needs.


a Google search with "scotto wants"

Scotto wants to visit 37 places.
scotto wants to correct his apnea.
Scotto wants to do 27 things.
Scotto wants to do more than help businesses and make money.
Scotto wants to protect Alice
Scotto wants to be the first to go in the dunk tank in his white t-shirt.
Scotto wants revenge.
If Scotto wants to do this thing alone, thats fine, and i have the utmost respect for that
Scotto wants nothing more than to somehow comfort her, ha ha.

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Red Hot Riding Hood. woohoo! hooray for Tex Avery!

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How to create a fake depth of field in photoshop

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Tom Cruise as the Corinthian.

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Moment of Lyric (mp3 - via)

It does not move me it does not get me going at all

It does not shift me it's not the kind of thing that I like

It does not move me it's not the kind of thing that I like

She does not listen she's too wrapped up with all of her things

This does not get to me 'cos she's not the kind of girl that I like

She does not move me she's not the kind of girl that I like

It does not move me it's not the kind of thing that I like

It does not move me (it does not move me) it does not get me going at all

It does not shift me (it does not shift me) it's not the kind of thing that I like

It does not move me it's not the kind of thing that I like

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* Bold what is true about you.
* Italicize what you wish was true about you.
* Add one true thing about you to the end of the list.

I love someone who doesn't love me.
I read a book every other day.
I wish I could learn how to fly an airplane.
I like Bon Jovi.
I live by myself. (well, I live with Newt)
I wear glasses or contact lenses.
I want to lose 10 lbs. (Good start)
I've pushed people down the stairs.
I want to leave the country again.
Sometimes I wish I was a kid all over again b/c it was so much fun.
I love birds.
I want to see the person I love every day.
I killed a slug by putting salt on it once when I was 12 years old.
I am in a lot of pain when people die.
I think that even just having worms eat you when you die and your mind and body disolving in the ground is better than living here some days.
My left knee hurts a bit right now.
I am happy all of the time. (nah, all sunshine makes a desert, eh?)
I still know all the words to Poison songs up until and including the album in entirety Flesh and Blood.
I drive a Hyundai.
I believe in God.
I don't like wearing make-up, but I do b/c it makes me feel better about myself.
I don't see what the big deal is about cussing. Words are words...not knives.
I'm a geek.
I drive 100+ mph every day on the way to where I need to go.
I've changed diapers before.
I play violin.
I love being around kids.
I used to go to Atlantic City every year with my grandparents when I was a kid and play in the arcade all day long.
I have many memories of my grandparents.
I never thought of what would happen after I got my MFA when I was a kid...I had everything up until then planned out though.
The first time I got drunk was when I was 17.
I never worry about anything.
I have long dark brown hair.
I believe in love at first sight.
I have had my book published.
I never intentionally hurt someone's feelings unless they've hurt me.
I wish so very much that I could convince some people to give me another chance.
I don't believe in magic, but I do believe in the power of faith/placebo effect/suggestion.

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1 year ago - long bets, 'ween, dark victoria, Frederik Ruysch body part dioramas, google translator

2 years ago - Newt bips me, penis snatcher beaten up, hulk closes for a while, and a nice chat. palm drawing

3 years ago - scary dreams, palm drawings, I'm 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon, moon pies 100 years old, starry night, From Beyond

4 years ago - Sweetie gives me her egg recipe, dorkgirl sends me treats, recherche / chichi, evil news, me no likey xp, birding talk with hala

5 years ago - doc trip, duck echoes, Rhino crackheads, sea chantey, memes, shel silverstein

Comments

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

I feel reclusive at times, too. It's very easy for me to fall into it. My place would be a cabin. :0)

I didn't know you read a book every other day. Neato! I used to do that, but I'm afraid the 'puter has taken up a chunk of my offline reading time.

Hmm..Good thing Katie doesn't have those extra moufs like Tom does. When the new baby is born, she can't make a squeak or a pip during labor itself (Scientology thing. No one else in the room can verbalize anything either). Also, mo talking in the presence of the baby for 7 days after. :P

Here's mine - in order of favorite:
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Beetlejuice
Ghostbusters
The Shining

Stuff with more realistic monsters & creepy things (as opposed to cute or humours creepy) freak out my over-active imagination. Poltergeist already ruined me for life. ;)

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

"humorous creepy"

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Cabins are nice, too, because you can have a fridge. :)

I read on the bus to and from work, plus a bit before bedski, so it makes it pretty easy to whiz through stuff. Technically, it doesn't say "I read a book all the way through" but that's what I figured it meant.

Katie can't talk while baby-birthing? That'll be a neat trick. So the doctor has to communicate with hand signals to push, and whatnot?

I bet you'll add the were-rabbit to your holiday list once you've seen it. :D

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

hooray for your little onion ghost!

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

Whats a Corinthian, outside of something Greek sounding. Cool photo though. Best I've seen him look.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

The Corinthian is a scary comic book bad guy -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_The_Sandman#The_Corinthian

Dream had created the Corinthian as a nightmare that would show humanity its own dark nature, but the Corinthian had done nothing more than commit gruesome murders in his forty years of freedom, doing little to inspire fear on a grander scale in the world. Dream therefore considers the Corinthian to be a failure, and "uncreates" him with no difficulty, saving only one of the Corinthian's skulls for later use. He remarks that the next time he creates the Corinthian, he "shall not be so flawed and petty."

wow

[blond-not-blind.livejournal.com]

Lucky for us google didn't list "scotto wants/needs to live in a cave", I'm pretty sure caves don't come with internet connections.

Re: wow

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

well, I can always use the laptop, and get a satellilte modem. ;)

[rosin-dubh.livejournal.com]

Ahh... <3 the Sandman series.

Not so much the Corinthian. Gives me the creeps, without fail.

Just read all the way back through the series over the past few weeks. Was able to pay more attention to the text this time, rather than the pictures. That helped a lot in being able to follow the story!

I need to sit down with the scanner and make myself a Dream icon. (Probably a Delirium one as well!)

Have you seen/read the Little Endless Storybook? It's very cute!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

It's been a long time since I've even peeked at the series... I was always a bigger fan of Destruction's Lifestyle than Dream, Death or the other Ds. :)

I've seen pictures from the little endless, but never read it.

[rejectomorph]

Oddly enough, I find that picture of Tom Cruise no creepier than his usual pictures.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

He does always have a vaguely deranged look to him... or maybe I'm projecting.

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with that. He seemed so innocuous in Cocktail.

[acoolsecretary.livejournal.com]

SUCH a superb likeness of the idiot Tom Cruise. :)

I myself am a cave person, no doubt. When things pile up emotionally I go to my cave (crochet, watch the boob-tube, and veg-out). Other than that, I love folks, new and old. :)

I LOVE Wallace and Gromit.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

It is nice to have a little sanctum somewhere to regroup your thoughts.

Have you seen the new movie yet?

[acoolsecretary.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen it yet...but can't wait. I've heard good stuff about it though.

Sanctum is Good!

[dcl.livejournal.com]

Any thoughts on..... Black and White 2?

I have it, but waiting on tech support issues - heh, can't see my villagers.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

you know, I really wanted to like the original black & white, but never got into it for whatever reason.

I should return to it and check it out again, see if I stick this go-round.

Invisible villies sounds like a tough game setting, to be sure!

[dcl.livejournal.com]

I loved the concept of the original, but the execution was terrible. All you really wound up doing was creature-sit and try to keep him from pooing on buildings and eating villagers.

I finished it, but was glad to be done with it...despite that I have fond memories of playing it.

I'm hoping B&W2 corrects these problems as it expands on the role. It seems to have done both, but without seeing my people, it's a bit hard to get it going.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'll wait for your review, and then buy it cheap! :D

I was pretty keen on the theory, but I agree, the exection was pretty lacking.

[sedefendendo.livejournal.com]

the first bolded thing hurt my heart.........so here i am to say, mister scotto.....the most human person i have ever met.....i love you up , down, sideways and into next tuesday and the one after that and that and that!!!!!!

love is deep brother!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

The nice thing about love is that while unreciprocated, it can still warm and cheer, at times.

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

It can?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yup!

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

I always seem to have the painful yearning kind. Lucky me.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

ugh... well, hopefully the warm, fuzzy kind will catch you yet. :D

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

Fingers crossed.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

big lovies to you too!

[starjewel.livejournal.com]

That Tom Cruise picture totally freaked me out. And yet, I can't stop staring at the freakiness of teeth in his eye sockets.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

he thinks your eyes would be delicious!