Sean Smithson Eusantos

YES! As a "horror kid" I went to ROCKY HORROR the night it opened, before the cult status. The co-feature? PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, which I already loved and still do!

1000000000000000000000000000000% agreed.

It's all so f***ing exhausting.

From the state of the nation, and world, right down to co-workers walking out on a busy Saturday under bogus pretenses, making me triple time it a second weekend night in a row, covering their absence and the stuff they never got done, while having a full house.

SO much better IMO than the other kinder-horror this year, BRING HER BACK, which wasn't bad, but was nowhere near memorable.

WEAPONS is elevated by the cast, for one. And yup, the pacing is top notch. I saw the payoff coming, but that did not sap any of the potency away.

The punk vignette is based on an actual event I partook in back in the 80s at the Gilman. My old band Sacrilege BC is repped in the piece. The curley haired dud wearing our shirt is a kind of amalgam of us. Long aired metalhead punks more than happy to throwdown against Nazi skins.

When I was in Jr. High in Oakland, this was playing by Lake Merritt at the Parkway theater. EVERY DAY after school, I saved my lunch/snack money and would see this again, on the way home. they gave no F's about the R rating. It was a gloriously scary week!
Best. Werewolf. Movie. EVER.

He still acts less DAMIEN OMEN III than Trump, at the end of the day. Newsome is no hero, but he's got some real catching up to do in the supervillain department to keep up with Duhnull'ed.

What I love MOST though about Brin's outlook on things, is his optimism. Man, he made me feel REALLY good about being a human being, listening to his interview on The Science Of Fiction podcast.
Such affirming words. I slept better that night.

BIG love.

Assuming UAP's like the tictac are merely laser pointers and part of a big practical joke is an incredibly myopic outlook from a real thinker like @davidbrin.bsky.social
I'm no tinfoil hat, but by his own logic..."why bother" (with such a pricey practical joke)?
LOVING his novel EXISTENCE though!

LOL!
I also saw a pic online the other day of someone with the special edition of Abercrombie's THE DEVILS way way wayyyy too fucking close to their breakfast plate and coffee mug.

OMG.

It's courting disaster, I tell ya!

COURTING. DISASTER.

That book sitting in a plate of food is giving the neurotic book nerd in me serious anxiety, LOL!

HOLY SH*T! The first ep of ALIEN: EARTH kicked total ass! So far I am super impressed. Solid plot, the cast is great, the production values absolutely top notch, with some genuinely creepy moments. And if that wasn't enough, the song they chose for the closing credits had me punching the air!

Just watched the film adaption of Joe Hill's short story ABRAHAM'S BOYS. It goes absolutely nowhere the entire time, the performances suck, and...I like Hill's writing but is the original story as much of a fucking rip off of FRAILTY, as this movie?
Because...wow...yeah. Pretty shameless.

Ohh this is coming out amazing.
We will indeed, be "LIVING DELICIOUSLY" tomorrow.

I'm a cook and a chef by day (yes, there's a difference, but it's not near as hoyty toyty a dif as some may think, lol).
Putting on the "chef" hat today, and making this cake for the first time for my cousin by marriage (who is one of the BEST home cooks I know) as a birthday surprise. LET'S GO!

An oldie but a goodie. Anyone read this one? I love this book, and am surprised it was never turned into a film.

THE CITY, NOT LONG AFTER by Pat Murphy is a real gem.

Clicked over and it wants a sign up. No.

Do you listen to music for enhancing the mood while reading? I do.
Music I have been listening to while reading Peter Watts' BLINDSIGHT -

ARRIVAL ost - Jóhann Jóhannsson
MOON ost - Clint Mansell
FVNERALS - Let The Earth Be Silent
LOCUSTS AND HONEY - Teach Me To Live That I Dread The Grave As My Bed

As I finish up Peter Watts' brilliant BLINDSIGHT, I ordered up some new stuff for the next reading cycle. Thank you authors @buehlmeister.bsky.social ‪@aptshadow.bsky.social‬ and @zamakhtar.bsky.social for creating worlds for me to fall into, explore, enjoy...and terrified by!

Golden Diner’s lush pancakes draw crowds who will sometimes wait hours for a bite, but the chef Sam Yoo has never shared the recipe. Until now. nyti.ms/455ASzL

He Saves Decades of Underground Music and Makes it Free to All Shayne Stacy's Sacramento Music Archive is a goldmine of previously unseen punk, metal and indie shows in the Bay Area and beyond.

If it was not for this guy, I would not have copies of shows my old band (bay area thrash/crossover OG's Sacrilege BC) played in my youth.
Shayne is an absolute King!

DONUTS x's infinity.

UAP HOT TAKE: Are there biological pilots to them? Even as a boy (I am 58 now) I thought an earthbound, adjacent race, likely in the oceans, was more probable than star faring beings. Then, the more I read about these creatures, the more suspicious I became. LOL.

But...hmmmm.

This. Book. Is. Blowing. My. Mind. The hype and massive respect this one gets is so obviously deserved. The ideas regarding consciousness that author Peter Watts gets into are way way wayyyyy beyond the usual. This book is a TON of fun, but it's also making me...MORE. BLINDSIGHT is a masterpiece.

Finished this one up a couple days ago. Great dialog, no overwrought world building (thank doG!), masterful pacing, and characters I truly miss spending time with after closing the book. Joe Abercrombie is just so damned good. An event level author for me. BRING ON BOOK 2!

I am reading CENTRAL STATION by Lavie Tidhar atm. So far it's absolutely enthralling. It's my intro to his work, but 50 pages in I'm loving it so much I just put 4 of his books in my cart for Book Buying Day (aka payday, lol!). Seriously can't wait to delve into more of his work.

I REALLY want to see this, but I cant find it anywhere.
LILET (1971)

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A ★★★½ review of Distant (2024) An entertaining two hander, about a couple of survivors stuck on a hostile panet after their mining ship crashes. Simple, short, with a lot of cool bug-monster action.

This was a decent time waster, chock full of alien bug-monster goodness. Simple. Short. Effective. I am kind of surprised it didn't get a limited theatrical.

YouTube video by NEON PRESENCE - Official Trailer #2 - In Theaters January 24

Looking forward to this one quite a bit.

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A ★★★½ review of Foes (1977) Alien encounter movie FOES is a microbudget indy from 1977, came out right on the heelsof CE3K, released a scant seven months earlier. A UFO (or UAP as they are now reffered to) appears over an island...

I wound up liking this one a LOT more than I thought I was going to.
Highly rec'd for those into UFO/UAP stuff. A fun microbudget indy from '77, that shows a ton of ingenuity and creativity.

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A ★★★½ review of The Damned (2024) Simple and short tale of fisherman who decide not to rescue the crew of a clipper ship that sinks on the outskirts of their bay, and fall victim to the curse the dead bring upon them. Long on tone, be...

Watch while under a warm blanket, drinking hot chocolate.