Here’s a quick and dirty rundown of the past two weeks in movies:

• Waxwork – this was funny because Don kept saying “I remembered this being better!”
• Waxwork II – I enjoyed the Bruce Campbell “Haunting” bit.
• Masters of Horror: Dario Argento’s Pelts – there should be more raccoons in horror movies.
• The Mad Doctor of Blood Island – I am pretty sure this has the same exact ceremonial dance scene as Brides of Blood.
• Beast of Blood – kept waiting for the same dance scene.
• The Machine Girl – great concept, amazing fight scenes, totally sick.
• Tokyo Gore Police – blood-gushing amputated feet as jet pack!
• The Attic Expeditions – like Cemetery Man, I feel this would’ve been better when I was a teenager.
• Hour of the Wolf – I liked this so much more than Bergmen’s Persona.
• Werewolf of London – the drunk ladies take this from great to awesome.

I tried out the Netflix Watch Instantly thing the other night. I watched the first episode of Forever Knight (1992). I liked the viewer and think this would be even better if I had a cable to connect my macbook to my HDTV. Should look into that! Forever Knight was entertaining enough that I’d go ahead and watch the next few episodes. I wasn’t big on Buffy the first season, but my coworkers at the video store assured me that by the third season I would be completely hooked. I’ll give this a similar stab.

I wish Netflix would make an rss feed of your ratings available. That would make a great WordPress widget, wouldn’t it?

Coming up I’ve got:

• Tombs of the Blind Dead (1973)
• God Told Me To  (1976)
• My Man Godfrey (1936)
• Double Indemnity (1944)

Music I’m enjoying lately:

• Teru’ah – in high school I hung out with the John half of this duo. I love it when my talented friends continue to increase their excellence.

After working on/looking at this new layout for several days and I don’t even feel like I can judge it anymore. Plus, I don’t have IE, so hit me with some comments if you do and this looks wonky. Heck, hit me with some comments if you think it looks wonk in any browser. Or hell, let me know if you think it doesn’t look wonky but maybe dumb or terrible or whatever feeling you might have about it. I’m not shy or closed to criticism.

Wonkiness that I am I working on: Weirdness going on with the padding in the left and right image floats. There’s a conflict with the NextGen gallery plugin and the theme. And the new server doesn’t have PHP5 so I’ve had to disable my Lifestream until I can get that taken care of.

Coming later, but probably tomorrow: My review of Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977).

I suppose to test the install I should upload an image. Oh! This new uploader is probably the sweetest thing ever. It gives mousover options that I plan on having lotsa fun with. Oh boy! Now I just have to fix some stuff that’s been annoying me about my layout. (Namely, the weird padding issues on floating images.)

What I’m really excited about though is the new BuddyPress project.  It will certainly streamline a lot of the sites I host, incorporating forums, blogs, and social networking stuff under one umbrella. Too bad I have to get this soccer league site together for my uncle before it’ll be released.

Anyway, enough of all that. Here’s a list of the sorry contents of my fridge:

• partial six-pack of Amstel
• several bottles of tonic water
• two bottles of champagne leftover from New Years
• one bottle of shiraz
• pickles, dill
• pickles, hot
• Sriracha
• spicy mustard

Freezer:

• bag of pearl onions
• mixed green vegetables
• ice swan

If you can figure out a suitable dinner from that mess, let me know. In the meantime I’ll be making a trip to the taco joint next door. The Tejano beat and the scent of enchiladas verdes, they call to me!