One of the great sadnesses of the Fallout world is that Obsidian never got to make a sequel to New Vegas. Man, what could Fallout Miami or New Orleans have been?
I read my first Stephen King novel when I was 12 or 13 and over 30 years later I'm still a constant reader. There is some magic to be had in that. And that's what reading is all about.
Jurassic Park is a masterpiece of a movie and the studios have been chasing that high for twenty years. Like a drug addict trying to recreate that first high but never quite finding it again.
Top 5 Westerns
5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. Tombstone
3. Once Upon a Time in the West
2. The Good The Bad and The Ugly
1. Unforgiven
Top 5 Westerns
5. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
4. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
3. Unforgiven
2. The Good The Bad & The Ugly
1. Once Upon A Time In The West
Do you like Cillian Murphy and Danny Boyle? Do you like sci-fi and horror?
Do you like end of the world movies?Then I've got one helluva movie for you.
For me McCarthy's The Road has always been my favorite novel of his. I think it's his bleakest as well. Sure the boy goes on but to what end? Into nothing I think. Forever into nothing.
Stephen King read
#33
The Tommyknockers. Saw this book on my parents shelf when I was a kid. But damn I don't remember it being so thick.
Also vague memories of the miniseries on tv. Wasn't Jimmy Smits in it?
I'm doing a binge rewatch of Hap and Leonard before it leaves Netflix in March. I love this series and I'm also reading thru the books by
@joelansdale
Check them both out. Their fantastic.
Mongrels by
@SGJ72
is one of the greatest werewolf novels put to paper. Also, I think, this is the first novel based shirt I've ever owned so that says something.
There's a feeling when you reach your 40s. That maybe you no longer know what the hell is going on. Maybe you never did. And death is suddenly eyeing you from afar. Hell it won't be long before he invites himself to dinner.
Now watching: Predator.
This movie man, god damn I never grow tired of it.
Brilliant simplicity and yet it began a lore that storytellers are still trying to recreate to this day.
I've just finished rereading The Only Good Indians by
@SGJ72
for the 3rd time. I don't revisit novels that often, but I don't know man, this one draws me back. It's probably my favorite read in the last 10 years at least.
Once more we come to the path at the end of the beam. Once more we come to The Dark Tower. We should stop here and yet we must know what The Tower holds. Isn't that what we came for. There are no happy endings.
The Man in Black fled across the desert and The Gunslinger followed.
My copy of The Gunslinger "borrowed" from my parents library circa 1991 or 92?
First King book I ever read. Having grown up on westerns that cover was badass.
Reading a
@SGJ72
novel is something you recognize immediately. They possess a kinetic energy that thrums off the page. Like something that needs to be exercised onto the page before it can escape one's grasp.
Anyway the chainsaw reread is ongoing.
Just watched: The Drop.
I don't know how I missed this one. Apparently it came out back in 2014.
Anyways this was a damn good movie that I really enjoyed.
Muting this. Not because some people are asshats who take shit way too seriously, there are some of those, but because I'm tired of seeing 'one' in my post twice. That shit is driving me crazy.
Both Cold in July and Bubba Ho-Tep are on Tubi right now. Two completely different vibes coming from the incomparable storyteller
@joelansdale
Still they make for a cool double feature. I'd recommend finishing with Bubba, cause you're gonna want something lighter after July.
As I mentioned before with Indian Lake by
@SGJ72
coming in March I'm going to reread the first two in January and February. Time to kick it off with Chainsaw. Feel free to join in. Fun times will be had and slasher rules are now officially in effect.
Also back on the Hap and Leonard kick. After devouring the first half dozen books by
@joelansdale
a couple of years ago I've been taking my time with the rest. This resource is finite after all. Damn good though.
I am a woodworker by trade. Dad was a woodworker. Making something that could be around a hundred years after I'm gone is kinda crazy. The thing is though I couldn't afford to buy something from myself. I'm not sure how I feel about that.