Mad scientists ARE hot.
Nov. 1st, 2004 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kleenexwomanMy odyessy to the local Video Land began on October the 31st.
I was incredibly bored that night. I'd already been to a haunted house and my first ever "Rocky Horror Picture Show", and the night stretched out before me, seeming flat and dull in comparison.
Trying to get into the spirit of the holiday, I'd dressed up as a ninja, using some black sweat-clothing and an inside-out black T-shirt. However, there was no trick-or-treating to be found besides that which took place in the dorms, and I felt like an idiot, a teenager trick-or-treating by herself. If you go with a crowd of other teens in stupid costumes, it's fun; if you go by yourself, it's a pathetic bid to either recapture your youth or get more candy than you deserve.
So I lounged around the dorm room for a while, frightening the small children that came to our door with my ninja silence. (Yes, I gave them candy. We'd gotten a mysterious basket of candy in front of our door a few days earlier, and as neither Jessie nor Sasha nor I could be arsed to go out and buy some, we gladly sacrificed our crummy chocolate pumpkin balls and fake grape lollipops to Teh Kiddees.)
Suddenly, I felt an urge go out. Anywhere, just so long as I could sneak around ninja-like and feel the cold wind and wet leaves against my face.
"I am going out," I said. "Does anybody have any errands for me to run?"
"Go to Video Land and get "Dawn of the Dead"," Jessie suggested. Longtime readers will remember Jessie as the movie fanatic.
"I shall do that," I told her. "How does one get to Video Land, anyway?"
Jessie told me from memory, and I took my trusty flashlight and set out for the fabled Land of Videos.
The walk was long and arduous, and I started to sweat in my ninja costume. But at last, I reached Jimmy's Country Burgers, turned left, and there...
The neon! The blue and pink neon! The image of "VIDEO LAND" in a purposely retro font burned itself into my retinas.
I snuck into Video Land, silent as a ninja, only breaking that silence with a cry of happiness when I discovered that Video Land had a "Cult Classics" section. I immediately filled my arms with "Re-Animator" and "Bride of Re-Animator", as well as "River's Edge".
Sadly, the original version of "Dawn of the Dead" was out, and I did not want to watch the remake. But two zombie movies and a Crispin Glover vehicle is better than none.
Discussion questions raised by Re-Animator:
1. Herbert and Dan go to Miskatonic. Do you think either of them would have had access to the Necronomicon? If Herbert had checked it out of the library, do you think he'd dismiss it as superstitious crap or try to summon Cthulhu?
2. What the hell was up with Dr. Hill's Spoooooky Hypnotic Stare? Maybe he read the Necronomicon?
3. What's in the re-agent, anyway? My guess is some amazingly complicated amino acids and caffeine.
4. What would the effects of re-agent on living matter be? We know that Herbert injected it into himself (and apparently got a huge buzz off it), but what would that do to him? Is he a living re-animated, unable to die?
5. The idea of consciousness residing in each cell explains why Hill's body was still cooperative with his head, but then how was his body was able to see to walk and hear the commands of the head without eyes or ears? Maybe Herbert got it wrong, and there's some kind of freaky telepathic/quantum link between each cell.
6. Herbert is much less creepy and a little more personable in the second movie. Is this social absorption from living with Dan for eight months, or is he just more relaxed now that he has more time to work on his experiments?
7. Consider Herbert's speech about various body parts when presenting Gloria's head to Dan. Do you think he's making the woman for Dan or for his own sexually repressed self...or is he looking forward to a morbid threesome? (I think I just squicked myself, but I dare you to write about it. Possible title: "Dead Man's Party.") Ooh, and would she be able to get pregnant? What would the child be like? Is this a good idea for a sequel? "Son Of Re-Animator!"
8. 1985 was a banner year for improbable science breakthroughs in cinema, particularly in the fields of time, death, and sex. Would you rather have a time-traveling DeLorean, an unlimited supply of re-agent, or a computer program that would bring your perfect mate to life? Or should I not even count anything by John Hughes?
I'm going to watch "River's Edge" next. It's due back Friday.
In other news, I have to post this from a library computer because my own computer will not connect to the Internet. I do not know why this is. The "Connection Status" icon claims it's connected, but whenever I try to go on the Net, it tells me that I can't view the page while offline and that I had better connect. Anyone who thinks they can solve this problem is more than welcome to try and I'll love you forever.
Fanfic updates: I've got one wonderful, sad fic by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drworm for my challenge and it makes me very very happy.
I'm also being intimidated by my Marty/Marty fic, becauseghostgecko has given me some really amazingly better ideas than what I had and I'm not entirely sure that I can write well enough to do the story justice. In any event, I'm going to have to let it percolate until November is over.
I was incredibly bored that night. I'd already been to a haunted house and my first ever "Rocky Horror Picture Show", and the night stretched out before me, seeming flat and dull in comparison.
Trying to get into the spirit of the holiday, I'd dressed up as a ninja, using some black sweat-clothing and an inside-out black T-shirt. However, there was no trick-or-treating to be found besides that which took place in the dorms, and I felt like an idiot, a teenager trick-or-treating by herself. If you go with a crowd of other teens in stupid costumes, it's fun; if you go by yourself, it's a pathetic bid to either recapture your youth or get more candy than you deserve.
So I lounged around the dorm room for a while, frightening the small children that came to our door with my ninja silence. (Yes, I gave them candy. We'd gotten a mysterious basket of candy in front of our door a few days earlier, and as neither Jessie nor Sasha nor I could be arsed to go out and buy some, we gladly sacrificed our crummy chocolate pumpkin balls and fake grape lollipops to Teh Kiddees.)
Suddenly, I felt an urge go out. Anywhere, just so long as I could sneak around ninja-like and feel the cold wind and wet leaves against my face.
"I am going out," I said. "Does anybody have any errands for me to run?"
"Go to Video Land and get "Dawn of the Dead"," Jessie suggested. Longtime readers will remember Jessie as the movie fanatic.
"I shall do that," I told her. "How does one get to Video Land, anyway?"
Jessie told me from memory, and I took my trusty flashlight and set out for the fabled Land of Videos.
The walk was long and arduous, and I started to sweat in my ninja costume. But at last, I reached Jimmy's Country Burgers, turned left, and there...
The neon! The blue and pink neon! The image of "VIDEO LAND" in a purposely retro font burned itself into my retinas.
I snuck into Video Land, silent as a ninja, only breaking that silence with a cry of happiness when I discovered that Video Land had a "Cult Classics" section. I immediately filled my arms with "Re-Animator" and "Bride of Re-Animator", as well as "River's Edge".
Sadly, the original version of "Dawn of the Dead" was out, and I did not want to watch the remake. But two zombie movies and a Crispin Glover vehicle is better than none.
Discussion questions raised by Re-Animator:
1. Herbert and Dan go to Miskatonic. Do you think either of them would have had access to the Necronomicon? If Herbert had checked it out of the library, do you think he'd dismiss it as superstitious crap or try to summon Cthulhu?
2. What the hell was up with Dr. Hill's Spoooooky Hypnotic Stare? Maybe he read the Necronomicon?
3. What's in the re-agent, anyway? My guess is some amazingly complicated amino acids and caffeine.
4. What would the effects of re-agent on living matter be? We know that Herbert injected it into himself (and apparently got a huge buzz off it), but what would that do to him? Is he a living re-animated, unable to die?
5. The idea of consciousness residing in each cell explains why Hill's body was still cooperative with his head, but then how was his body was able to see to walk and hear the commands of the head without eyes or ears? Maybe Herbert got it wrong, and there's some kind of freaky telepathic/quantum link between each cell.
6. Herbert is much less creepy and a little more personable in the second movie. Is this social absorption from living with Dan for eight months, or is he just more relaxed now that he has more time to work on his experiments?
7. Consider Herbert's speech about various body parts when presenting Gloria's head to Dan. Do you think he's making the woman for Dan or for his own sexually repressed self...or is he looking forward to a morbid threesome? (I think I just squicked myself, but I dare you to write about it. Possible title: "Dead Man's Party.") Ooh, and would she be able to get pregnant? What would the child be like? Is this a good idea for a sequel? "Son Of Re-Animator!"
8. 1985 was a banner year for improbable science breakthroughs in cinema, particularly in the fields of time, death, and sex. Would you rather have a time-traveling DeLorean, an unlimited supply of re-agent, or a computer program that would bring your perfect mate to life? Or should I not even count anything by John Hughes?
I'm going to watch "River's Edge" next. It's due back Friday.
In other news, I have to post this from a library computer because my own computer will not connect to the Internet. I do not know why this is. The "Connection Status" icon claims it's connected, but whenever I try to go on the Net, it tells me that I can't view the page while offline and that I had better connect. Anyone who thinks they can solve this problem is more than welcome to try and I'll love you forever.
Fanfic updates: I've got one wonderful, sad fic by
drworm for my challenge and it makes me very very happy. I'm also being intimidated by my Marty/Marty fic, because
ghostgecko has given me some really amazingly better ideas than what I had and I'm not entirely sure that I can write well enough to do the story justice. In any event, I'm going to have to let it percolate until November is over.