A newbie!  Well, 2008 makes it close to a newbie. 

Creep factor: High

Names.  None.  Scandinavian.

Skits:  none.

But the scene on the swimming pool (and the attack of the cats) is awesome.

Slipping.  Not sure why.  Attitude?  Am I becoming jaded?  IstheEra of Frank Langella over? 

Creep factor:  Fair.

Names: Langella,Olivier, Pleasance (who makes multiple appearences on the the list)

Sexappeal:  Kate Nelligan and Jan Francis.  No.  Really.  GREAT soundtrack though.

There are SOME laughs on the list and we may as well start with one.

Plan 9 from Outer Space 

Scare factor?  Virtually none, unless bad movies freighten you

Sex?  Vampira

Names?  Bela Lugosi (who died during filming), Criswell (no, seriously) and one of the greates names in moviedom: Dudley Manlove

You know the drill.  Using Flickchart.com I compile a list of my favorite films in a bunch of scary genres, throw em on a list, shuffle a few around and post em throughout the month.

I also try to watch the highest rated movie I HAVEN'T seen in each of several catagories.  No real winners here.  I've SEEN the good stuff.   Here were this month's new additions:

Mimic Not bad but won't make the list next year

Maniac  no bad ... salvaged only by Caroline Munro

I'm done with the giallo, etc., Italian stuff.  Suspiria is awesome.  Everything else is drek, which includes The House by the Cemetery (1981), Inferno, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, and Zombie.  Cemetery Man and Bad Taste rounded out the new views.  Bad Taste is worth a watch as Peter Jackson's first big movie featuring ... Peter Jackson.

 The countdown will start tomorrow.

I'm going dark for the rest of the month.  I started this blog with a few goals, most of which had to do with venting and blowing off steam. I've done that.  I currently have no steam to vent or blow off.  My head's not in the game.  So rather than limp along, posting out of a sense of inertia I'm going to pull the plug.

For a while.

And see what happens.

To the three or four of you who wander by occasionally, thank you.  

I'm fine.  Been dark since last Saturday.  Quite busy.  And today is ... well.... we all know .... so I promise to be back tomorrow.

My RSS reader gagged last night and deleted about 300 old articles because I'm so far behind.  Gotta get caught up.

And I will

This is the whole list.  We're getting a little sparse so maybe the final list will be "pre-teens." 

The Atlantic: Barely a third of U.S. senators pay their interns — and embarrassingly for Democrats, a party focused on workplace welfare, most of them are Republicans.

Its not a bug, it's a feature: Paper: Obama’s Proposal to Limit Tax Deductions for High-Income Donors Would Undermine Charitable Giving.

That way the Feds can have more control over who gets what.

THE HISTORY OF SPENDING FREEZES: “During long periods in American history, flat budgeting was the norm. For the first 150 years of the nation’s existence, federal policymakers generally restrained spending and reduced debt between wars.  .....  Consider that if Congress simply held total spending to this year’s level of $3.5 trillion, the budget would be balanced by 2016 as the growing economy generated rising tax revenue.”

HEY, THEY FORGAVE HIM FOR THE FIRST ONE: Will Democrats Forgive Obama for Blowing His Second Term? “