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larkworth recommended Whip It to me, which I think would make a fine double-feature with Zombieland (which I have also yet to see).

In the meantime, I'm downloading:

and

I ♥ Mélanie Laurent, the only downside is the torrent has no english subtitles.

Speaking of French, I have experience with the language, having taken French classes for nearly a year in elementary school, along with more of it in junior high, then taking French all through high school. I can notice translation errors in subtitles and scan articles and get the gist of it, but I really would like to become as fluent as possible and not let all those years of learning the language go to waste. There are many learning programs available, but I think I'll get back on track with this: http://www.smartfrench.com/Products.php
On top of all of this, I've been writing more Shosanna/Fredrick nonsense which I plan in posting this week. I also have my phobia piece for the November 13 art show and there's a pile of books I want to get to reading, but I've been stuck on Brideshead Revisited. Frankly, I'm not fond of Evelyn Waugh's writing style (the same issue my father has with him), but I adore Sebastian Flyte and Anthony Blanche, as Waugh's style beautifully suits them. However, I want to read Rilke, Pragmatism: A Reader, The Bhagavad Gita, and bell hooks. I've always enjoyed reading non-fiction, and with my fictional-character quota currently filled by those tragic kids from Inglourious Basterds, I'm going back to tackle my pile of books and put Sebastian on hold, for now.

I feel like a worthwhile member of society when I have piles of things to do/occupy me.

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It just made sense to me to put them together. For Halloween, I plan on a night of Blue Velvet and American Psycho. Times like this, I wish a little theater of my own crammed to the gills with film reels so I can entertain myself and other weirdoes.

About five people I know online have independently decided to watch them as a double feature, and I don't know why they make so much sense together, but they really, really do. (I would also 100% read a crossover. Roller derby girls would do well in a zombie apocalypse, I think.)

And I know what you mean. I love planning out my own little fantasy film festivals and double-features and stuff. (And I actually live near a town that still has a drive-in, so I am a big fan of the dusk-til-dawn triple feature+cartoon reels plan as well. I'm kind of sad they don't make crap movies specifically to run as B and C movies at the drive-in anymore. I mean, okay, they've been replaced by direct-to-DVD, but it kind of takes the fun out of it when you're not watching them because you paid your money and you're gonna see all the movie.)

One of the drive-ins in my area had a double-feature of Ghost and Road House for Patrick Swayze a couple weeks ago. I almost wanted to go because you don't get that kind of unabashed drive-in fun these days. The only reason I love re-organizing the '70s newspapers at work is to check out drive-in ads; only a few of them are still running. One of them, Skyborn, was nicknamed Skyporn for years. I photocopied so many of those ads that I used them as the background for a personal art project.

There's something so much more fun about paying to watch schlock projected on a screen rather than renting it and watching it at home. What especially bothers me with modern B-movies is that they try too hard and the actors don't take their parts serious enough. Schlock cannot be forced, it must naturally occur. It's a shame that the Italian film industry isn't like it used to be in the '70s and '80s; if it was, Lindsay Lohan could have a career revival in giallos and Emmanuelle knock-offs and I would gladly pay to watch them. I want more post-apocalyptic nonsense, too.

And I'd pay to see roller derby girls fighting zombies.

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