The Sweet End of a Bank Holiday Weekend

[dotinthesky]

My holiday bank weekend was very calm and relaxed. I ended up staying home for most of the time, with a few exceptional walks to Hyde Park (where I spotted Queen Amidala) and sojourns at the local swimming pool to break the routine. I finally finished reading Full Circle, by Peter Straub, and now I desperately want to buy the movie rights and write a screenplay based on it. This feeling was only compounded yesterday by watching House of Wax and realizing that I was born to be the new Master of Horror and teach all those idiots in Hollywood how to make proper scary films. Although I do have to say that it was hilarious to have scenes with Paris Hilton where the background music is going "she's a ho, what a ho..." And her death scene was also a classic - everyone in the theatre laughed. ;-P

Am seriously addicted already to Big Brother, which is pathetic really. Must fight the temptation to watch the live stream, as I do still have some dignity left in me. Consolation comes in the fact that none of the Sissys ever watched Big Brother and are also slowly getting sucked into the trash vortex. I'll know I've hit the bottom of the barrel when I enter a betting house and put a tenner towards Makosi. Triple-evil Big Brother? Scary, more likely.

Just ate a tuna baguette. Now I'm going to degust a canteen banana, then a pear, and catch up with the lives of my sweet cyber lemmings.

Comments

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it! I read that book decades ago... I need to read it again. A movie was also done but I can't remember if it's that good.

[stupid-wanker06.livejournal.com]

I was up all night reading it. Couldn't put it down. I think I'll go check out another of his today. What should I get?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Full Circle! (it also goes by Julia.) I haven't read many of his books, and his latest ones don't appear to be that good (specially the ones he co-wrote with Stephen King.) Just look for anything he wrote a long while ago.

[stupid-wanker06.livejournal.com]

They didnt have it. I got Shadowlands. My library is shit. You would swear it just morphed here from 1975.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you can find it second-hand too.

[stupid-wanker06.livejournal.com]

I'll look.

[twinner.livejournal.com]

the movie is truly bad.....

[twinner.livejournal.com]

Ghost Story, that is; it stars Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melvyn Douglas, & John Houseman & is so far from the original novel, it's unreal. Now that you mentioned the other name of Full Circle --- Julia, I know which novel you're talking about; yes, that is a great horror story.

[twinner.livejournal.com]

By the way, I'm looking forward to seeing your first horror film; Foreign horror films (especially British) are so much better than ours

[twinner.livejournal.com]

Last posting: I vaguely remember a film version of Full Circle, so I looked it up: The Haunting of Julia starring Mia Farrow & filmed in 1976; I remember it as being slow & not too interesting; Have you seen it? It's only available on vhs.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I've heard it's terrible.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Haha! Well... if I ever manage to film anything, I'm sure it's going to be one of those homemovies that only amuse close friends. ;)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I saw Ghost Story a long time ago, so I really don't remember it. Too bad that the movie versions of Straub's books are terrible... he deserves better.