I’ll post today’s movie a bit later, movie choice depending on if I actually have time to watch the movie I WANT to write about before midnight. We’ll see?

Now that I’m on day 24 and officially starting the last week of this 31 Days of Horror project, how am I holding up? Um… well… oy. Better and worse than I thought I would be? Better in that I’m not nearly as twitchy as I thought I would be. I hit sort of a peak last week and I’ve sort of just leveled out. My dreams are a little weirder, I’m little twitchy walking down the halls, but overall I’m not feeling particularly more nervous than I do on a normal basis. I don’t know what this says about me, for better or worse, but there it is! At the same time, the amount of work this is turning out to be IS getting to me. I’m more concerned about having the time to watch and write about the movies I want to include than I am worried about being scared at bedtime.

When I conceived of this idea, I definitely underestimated the amount of work it would be. I figured if I watched a handful of movies and wrote about a few of them in September, that would be enough to cover the days when I would inevitably be too busy to watch and/or write. I knew there would be days like those, I do have a lot of other things work related and writing related going on. Yeah. Really, if I wanted enough padding, I should have started this a month early. Maybe even two. Yeah. Seriously.

But I’m getting through it. I hope that the things I write at midnight are as coherent as the ones I wrote a couple of days ahead with plenty of time to think things through, edit, etc. I suspect my midnight postings are slightly delirious though. I hope they at least make sense? I also feel like I’m talking less about the movies in a review sense and more about my experience watching them, my relationship with horror films. I guess this is OK? I don’t know, you tell me.

Anyway, one more week to go. It’s going to be a good week I think! Will be writing about a couple of my favorites, have some more guest posting coming up, you can listen to me ramble in a podcast on Wednesday… I may try and catch Phantasm on Thursday or House by the Cemetery on Friday at Cinefamily. So there’s all that! And then it will be Monday, I will post one last movie, and then I will go and watch 80’s cartoons to clear the horror from my brain. I’m thinking Rainbow Brite. Or maybe some My Little Pony.

Oh my gosh I’m tired!

What else?

It’s Food Day! I’m not entirely sure what that means (probably that I should not have had Pumpkin Pie for breakfast). But LAist can tell you. Go eat something healthy, promote sustainable food production, and spread the knowledge. (Really though, I’m a big supporter of this stuff. I was kidding about the pie.)

This last weekend was a weekend of Halloween costume shopping. I did not really find the perfect Halloween dress for my costume. But I did find some really creepy dolls at the antique store. And a haunted thing from a fireplace? I don’t know what that thing was but I did look pretty evil. I did not buy any of these. But I did take pictures.

I also went to visit Occupy San Diego while I was wandering around down near there. There were nice people there! They were talking about a variety of things, including local community issues such as using money to expand mass transit instead of freeways (YES PLEASE!) and supporting postal workers.

I like this whole Occupy movement. I think it’s great that people are out there, talking about issues that are important. I don’t really know what the solution is but I know a lot of shit just ain’t right. It’s about time people started talking about things that matter. Maybe this is a first step to fixing the problems. I hope so.

#occupysandiego