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One of my favorite horror movies is Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux san visage). It is about face transplants. It's actually a very smart and elegant film.

So, when they brought it to the United States, they renamed it The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus.
And they paired it with THE MANSTER.
yes that is spelled right.
the double-feature trailer:

That often suggests Tennesse Williams in one of his more abnormal moods
I'm sorry, but that quote read in the superdramatic trailer voice made me lol

for some extra b-movie fun: The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
I sort of watched that movie on Cinema Insomnia

Okay, so I happened to catch Imagemakers today, and I saw a short film from Ireland titled, "The Ten Steps."

The ending freaked me out.

I was able to do some homework reading after, caught the SNL skit about Rowlf and Swedish Chef, and then took a nap, setting the alarm clock for 1 AM.

I woke up around 1:45. I'm not sure whether I set the alarm clock properly or what. I just stared at Cinema Insomnia, watching random shorts and some old Dick Tracy movie.

I just had to find out about that movie. I thought I had missed something in the beginning, but I saw it again and I had just missed 30 seconds of the front.

The film.

-runs-

Things are scarier when you wake up late at night all woozy.

Right now (It's 12:45 AM when I start this) I’m watching Bob Hope in My Favorite Brunette, the featured B-movie misunderstood film on Cinema Insomnia. Among the evil henchmen are Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney Jr. Lon Chaney Jr. looks a lot like his dad, while Peter Lorre was all cool throwing knives and catching them and his voice and stance are all stronger than usual and the way he says “shut up!” wheeeeeee
Stop calling him “dwarf“ and “gremlin,” Bob Hope. Ha, you were beaten by The Lorre. Ha.

So many things have happened this past week. The Mooninites shut down Boston. A tornado hit central Florida, floods devastated Indonesia, and then there were ( the soccer riots in Sicily… )

( Okay, I need to post something brighter about soccer. Like something about Lionel Messi. )

Watched The Third Man. It’s as skewed as its camera angles, and I like it. It’s cut pretty fast for something from 1949. Music blares too much, but I like how movies like this stick to the plot and just let the themes seep out where they will. No obvious Silent Symbolic Moment of OhMyGoshEventofUniversalSignifanceDon‘tYouSee? here.

Dr. Who comes to PBS in Spring 2007. Now I can see what all the yay is about.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is following me. Two years ago, I went to the San Jose main library and he was nearby, giving a speech at Cinequest. On Monday, he was in Fremont. I live in Fremont. Later this week, he was in Berkeley, introducing the new Alternative Energy program. I go to school in Berkeley.
My theory: He really is a Terminator, but he hasn’t turned good like in the movies. I play some role of significance in the future! It took him two years to find me again, but I think he’s closing in. Aaaaaaaaack

I taped Supernatural, and haven’t gotten around to seeing it yet. So no spoiler please thank you. But I finally got Civil War issue #2 today. I knew about the end, but…oh my gosh. I so need to finish this…and House of M (just need issues 7 and 8!)…and start Infinite Crisis…

--In Physics and Music class, there was one device that used tones to blast gas onto a line of flames. The wave pattern of each tone would show in how the flames settled. Very cool.
--Over the past few days I’ve heard Polysics, weird soundtracks, theme songs by Puffy Amiyumi (their best work, methinks) and the crazy cool end theme of Sakura Wars- all on the car radio. It’s fun, being in the range of four college stations.
--Oh, and I read about the “vaudeville steam punk band” called The Cassettes. They’re pretty cool.
--Saw Paolo Nutini perform on Conan, and…dear, look up. Hiding your face is collapsing your sweet Scottish voice, and it doesn’t help that you’re slightly slurring. But you still sound authentic, and your songs are not my style but I still like them. Just look up more next time, okay?

I ride BART every weekday to school. 45 minutes from Fremont to Berkeley and back. Wasn’t there when there was a shooting at the Hayward station, but even if I was on board we would have ridden past it anyway. But the next day, I was in an angry fit and took the wrong train. Just before the underwater tunnel, I realized I was going to San Francisco. Oh my dearie me. But I dealt with it. Got to class twenty minutes late, but my Japanese teacher took attendance even later, so…-phew-

( Heroes )
And Studio 60 has the ability to create awesome characters and then undermine the awesomeness of those characters at every third turn. That’s all I’ll say.
Oh, and there are smart reality shows (Spy! What about Spy!). Rare, but every genre/medium has the chance for goodness. So, Sorkin, stop writing in your smug little anti-reality comments. You can make good stuff; don’t poison it.

I read an interview in Lost Magazine with Terry O’Quinn (Locke), Adewale Akinnouye-Adbaje (Mr. Eko), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond). Cool guys, all of them. Yay Lost is coming back

Whilst wandering in the “woods” of the Berkeley campus, a squirrel started following me. On his back, sometimes covered by his tail, was…oh my gosh it was white and red and someone ripped out the fur or something in a neat rectangle shape is the white and red what’s under the fur oh no!

Sorry for the length. Next post is full of links and memes, so that will be long too…I’m sorry! So much to tell! The “experts” say that LJ breeds egomaniacs, but if I can’t have you all over to hang out and talk, then I might as well be an egomaniac and post like crazy!