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BLOGTOBER 10/21/2023: DEATH SPA
This is one of those movies where I've been abundantly aware of the key art for most of my life, and maybe I lagged on watching it because I thought I understood what it was going to be. And I thought wrong! Sometimes you love to be corrected. Instead of a standard issue slasher movie starring a bunch of spandex-clad hardbodies...I mean, it is that, but it also features supernatural horror, an extremely soapy and confusing plot, and sci-fi elements that make it feel surprisingly modern.
The Starbody Health Spa is an amorphous institution that is at once a gym, a dance studio, a day spa, a restaurant, a tech company, and a lifestyle brand--basically, it is every inch a startup company that wants to be all things to all people. For no reason at all, the workout machines are all connected to a cutting edge, computerized master control system that is just as threatening to the clients as the ghost of the CEO's jealous ex-wife. I'm making this sound a lot more coherent and predictable than it actually is and I'm deliberately leaving out a lot of nuances and bizarre revelations because I'm so glad that I saw this with such low and simple expectations. It's really, really weird.
But full disclosure, for many years I worked for a techy startup that was acquired by one of the world's main evil megacorps, and I saw a surprising amount of modern life reflected in the delightfully dated DEATH SPA. The entrepreneuring imagineer who can't focus on perfecting just one useful good or service, instead sprawling out mindlessly into multiple markets just in case there's still a dollar left on the table somewhere; the implementation of overblown and hard-to-control technology with multiplying failure points that improves nothing for the end users but looks exciting to investors and advertisers; the importance of brand identity over product quality...I mean, this movie honestly gave me the chills, the way it reminded me of what it's like to work for one of these shameful pseudo-futuristic companies lead by a guy who doesn't know he's basically just a ridiculous figurehead and not an actual scientist or engineer or guy who knows how to do stuff. Watch DEATH SPA today and see if it doesn't give you a grim frisson of recognition!
#blogtober#2023#death spa#witch bitch#horror#slasher#supernatural#possession#sci-fi#science fiction#michael fischa#mitch paradise#james bartruff
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13 facts about me, though 13 isn’t my favorite type of number, I felt like it was what was needed most. Regardless, a few things won’t exactly make the most sense, but I figured what is already there makes total sense and it actually fits well enough with the idea if there’s only 13.
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Night/Curse of the Demon is the source of the voice saying "It's in the trees! It's coming!" at the beginning of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love!
thank you for your contribution to BLOGTOBER! i was imagining that various parts of that movie were sample-worthy but i didn't have specific information <3
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#Writober Day 29: #SoCS Surprise Halloween Element
#Writober Day 29: #SoCS Surprise Halloween Element #photography #poetry #OctPoWriMo #Halloween
Happy Jack by Maria L. Berg 2022
I’m so excited to share that I am now a published photographer!! One of my photographs is in the latest issue of Wrongdoing Magazine. You can view it online (pages 98-99).
Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS)
Today’s prompt for some stream of consciousness writing is “element.” Here’s an excerpt from this morning’s journal pages:
These days everything is an…
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Dreamlight and music and love and romance 💕
Autumn means snuggling and snuggling means gaming under the covers and avoiding real life as much as I can. I treated myself this weekend to the new Disney game Dreamlight Valley and colour me obsessed. It’s my favourite kind of game – a life simulator – and I am very into it.
I’ve been playing Animal Crossing for ages and I still love it but I needed something new to get my chops around. I…
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Need a Couple of Beta Readers for Blogtober
So, Blogtober is only a month and a few days away and I'm thinking about taking part in it this year. I am currently working with @milliondropsofwater, who's been great, but as the challenge is to post every single day, I think that I will need a couple of beta readers to help me during that month.
If you're available, and you're happy to beta read blog posts mainly about mental health and wellbeing, and know that I can't offer you any money at this point, please send me an ask or a message.
TIA!
#beta reader#looking for a beta reader#blogtober#writing community#beta reader needed#mental health#wellbeing#blog posts#blogger#bloggers on tumblr
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Blogtober 2023: Day 31
Happy halloween!
I can’t believe how fast this month went by. I hope you all enjoyed the post as much as I enjoyed writing them. Spooky season and blogtober is something I always look forward too every year. It always makes me so happy to spread some spookiness. If you crocheted any amigurumi please let me know or tag me on instagram using #grimathon I will make sure to check it out. Thank you…
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Sunday
Day 29
Sunday is for slowing down, sitting down, relaxing, winding down, reflecting, enjoying whatever you accomplished in the week that was, planning the week to come. Sunday is down time
Down time is good, we need a day of rest, a day of no plans, a day of an open scedule.
It's also a day for being outside and get in touch with nature, which is vitale for your general wellbeing, did you know Sunday means "day of the Sun" and comes from Norse mythology they of the sun goddess Sunna"
So don't scuff of the old Sunday stroll tradition, also this Sunday we just set time back an hour which for me is an ample opportunity to get to bed early even though it's kinda still the same time.
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Blogtober Day 3: Tasty Tuesday
Happy Tuesday! I hope this post finds you well!
Last Tuesday, after I grocery shopped and put everything up, I did not feel like cooking. I am sure many of you can relate to this. We’ve been trying to eat a little better, so I also knew I did not want take-out. I remembered I had bought a few things for times like this. See below…..
Less than 10 minutes, less than 300 calories, less than 20…
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Halloween Book Cover Tag
For this Hallow-weekend, I have the Halloween Book Cover Tag for you!
I saw this tag on akernelofnonsense’s blog and decided to give it a go! The Halloween Book Covers Tag was originally created by Metaphors and Moonlight.
The aim is to match covers to the topics for a bit of spooky fun!
1.Skull/Skeleton/Bones
I had to start off with Lady Death from Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas because of course I had to fit in this gem of a novel into this tag!
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Apps That Help!
Good evening all!
Like many people I use several very helpful apps throughout my day. I use my Strava app for fitness. Then I use my Fitbit to track multiple things like fitness and sleep. I’m using the WordPress app right now to make this post. These days there is an app for almost anything.
The great thing is there are many apps out there to help people do better at many thing. Check out Best…
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BLOGTOBER 10/10-11/2023: MAD LOVE (1935), BODY PARTS (1991)
I had always heard, casually, that Eric Red's BODY PARTS was a remake of Karl Freund's MAD LOVE. The relationship can't be quite that direct, since each film is adapted from a separate novel--MAD LOVE from Maurice Renard's The Hands of Orlac (1920), and BODY PARTS from a book with the English title Choice Cuts (1968) by crime-writing duo Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. It just so happens that the two films deal with the notion that consciousness exists throughout the body, not only in the brain. This is a real idea, actually (Wayback doesn't get behind this paywall, but maybe you have something better), although I haven't heard anyone posit that personality exists throughout the body like it does in these exciting movies.
Simply one of the best appearances of a human being in a movie.
In MAD LOVE Colin Clive plays Stephen Orlac, a famous pianist who, after a devastating accident, receives a transplant of both hands from the disturbed Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre). Orlac doesn't know that he now has the hands of a murderer, and they have retained their former habits. Gogol uses the ensuing drama to try to deprive the pianist of his beautiful wife Yvonne (Frances Drake), a Grand Guignol performer with whom the doctor is obsessed. Gogol seems to know that body parts can remain identified with their original owner, and perhaps this awareness feeds into his general attachment to appearances. His projected relationship with Yvonne is filtered through layers of simulation: He "knows" her from her stage role, and he lives with a wax figure of her in a self-conscious imitation of the myth of Galatea, the living statue. Perhaps what's inside doesn't count so much, when the personality is equally embedded in the outside.
In BODY PARTS, psychiatrist Bill Crushank (Jeff Fahey, don't ya just love him?) receives a new arm after a surviving a spectacular car wreck. The experimental procedure seems like a godsend until previous owner's violent nature begins to infect Crushank's behavior. To solve the mystery of what is happening to him, he seeks out the recipients of other limbs donated by the same crazed killer, including a vigorous young athlete named Mark (Peter Murnik) who needed new legs, and Remo (Brad Dourif), a hack painter who has experienced a burst of highly lucrative inspiration since he accepted his new arm. All of the men have been contaminated with the original donor's destructive rage, but Mark and Remo are less willing to part with their, er, parts. Here we have a whiff of the notion that the beast in man--the animal self that resists civilization--is connected to bodily power and pleasure, and also to subconscious, intuitive mental activities like the artistic impulse. Crushank, a psychiatrist who works with prisoners to help civilize them, is naturally less benefited by these bestial qualities.
The makeup in this movie is incredibly great, you can practically smell that arm.
BODY PARTS and MAD LOVE share the intriguing feature of a kind of decentralized evil. There is the evil of the original owner of the parts, and the evil that grows in their unwitting recipients, and the evil of the egomaniacal doctors who perform the operations for their own purposes. Villainy is sort of a free-floating essence that travels through bodily tissue but is never confined to a single, containable, even killable person. Instead it spreads like a virus through a person's life until both their inner feelings and their outer circumstances are entirely tainted. It's fortunate for the films' protagonists that consciousness is still corporeally dependent, despite how communicable it is, or else things could have been a lot worse!
PS Both of these movies deserve a lot more attention than I was able to give them during what I did not know would turn into a speed run season of Blogtober. I reserve the right to revisit them later! I didn't even get to talk about how BODY PARTS was co-written by Norman Snider who co-wrote DEAD RINGERS with David Cronenberg...
#blogtober#2023#horror#body horror#body parts#eric red#mad love#karl freund#peter lorre#colin clive#jeff fahey#brad dourif#science fiction#adaptation
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Eternally dark and beautiful!
List of Superstitions that I believe in. There’s at least 7 on the list, and of course it’s complicated. About time to have fun with them.
#Superstitions lists#journal of superstitions#Blogtober23#blogtober#Blogtober2023#Blogtoberchallenge#Blogtober23challenge#Blogtober23Superstitions#BlogtoberonSuperstitions
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#Writober Day 22: #SoCS A Graven Bowl to Hold What's Passed
#Writober Day 22: #SoCS A Graven Bowl to Hold What's Passed #photography #poetry #SoCS #OctPoWriMo
Halloween Graveyard by Maria L. Berg 2022
Stream of Consciousness Saturday
Today’s prompt for some stream of consciousness writing is “bowl.”
A bowl is both a hemispheric vessel, and the substance that it does or does not hold. A bowl can be a ball that’s rolled, its act of rolling and its action on a thing. An intense feeling, being bowled over, and being a bowl, an unstable empty vessel…
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Blogtober overview
I didn’t exactly set October on fire but managed to post what I could, which sometimes is all you can hope for.
Here’s what we got up to:
Blogtober 2022
October
My Best Friend’s Exorcism
Why I love Halloween
3 Creepypastas
Most haunted: local edition
Horror books to snuggle up with
Positive Menty Attitude
Sissy review
Crystal Eyes review
She Will review
Cosy TV for spooky…
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Blogtober Day 4 - Cozy Places to Read
Blogtober Day 4 – Cozy Places to Read
Fall is synonymous with comfy and cozy. And when I’m comfy and cozy I like to have a warm drink and a book. I love my own comfy and cozy spot on the couch to read and drink. This doesn’t stop me from wishing I had a spot filled with books and soft, fuzzy, squishy things. To the Pinterest.
I don’t know about the candle on the floor but everything else looks wondrous.
Oh hey. It’s the same nook…
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