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July 20, 2003
zombies, zombies, zombies!
Joe has some odd addiction for zombies and zombie movies. Within a month of meeting, he made me watch the original Night of the Living Dead, because I had made it to 30 years old without seeing it. Now we have a little joke when we're in various places and see someone strange looking walking around. Joe will invariably point out that they must be a zombie.
We're waiting to go see 28 Days until after next Friday, because we read in the Boston Globe that they will be showing the alternative, darker ending after the credits in new showings. Apparently they had wanted to release two versions--each with a different ending, but it goes against motion picture bylaws to do so.
Well, now you too can take a class in zombie-ism! The catch is that you need to be a UCSC student...you'd never find that class over in Boston. We have too many cemeteries here (there are two within half mile of my house--one of them the famous Mt. Auburn Cemetery). If zombie-ism is real, we're toast!
On an unrelated note, I had been reading Kasey's (our zombie professor extraordinare) site for awhile and through him, discovered Well Nourished Moon. I'd been reading Stephanie's site for awhile when I received an email from her--turns out she had linked through to me from Kasey's site and realized we were alumni! A few weeks later, I receive another email, from another alumni, Heather, who found my site through Stephanie's site--and the irony there is that I had actually written about Heather only a few days prior. We haven't talked in ten years and yet, here I had just written about her, and her note that she had read my post shows up in my email box. Talk about amazement and shock!
Synchronicity is a strange and funny thing. And for as large as this world is, it's really not very big at all.
Posted by crystallyn at July 20, 2003 09:50 AM
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I hadn't heard that about 28 Days Later... I saw it opening night and thought it very well done. Maybe I will have to go see it again if they do show the alternate ending!
Sean
Posted by: Sean at July 20, 2003 02:09 PM
Alternate ending? Whoa! Now I'll have to go see it again!
Great movie, Crystal! Had me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Scariest movie I've seen since The Blair Witch Project. I'd spout more about it here, but it's better if you go into it knowing as little as possible.
Posted by: Sean at July 21, 2003 06:50 AM
Sean's comparison of 28 Days with Blair Witch sickens me.
Blair Witch: stupid and not scary. Unless of course you count the fear that I would projectile vomit on the patrons in front of me from the shaky camera work.
28 Days Later: looking-over-your-shoulder-on-the-way-out-of-the-theatre scary!!!
Sean, I expected better from you.
Posted by: Redpanda at July 21, 2003 01:22 PM
BWP was damn scary. 28DL was pretty scary, but I didn't have to sleep with the lights on for 3 days and cancel a camping trip after it.
Posted by: Sean at July 21, 2003 04:05 PM
I saw BWP on opening night, before the throngs knew the plot and knew it wasn't real, and it scared the holy shit out of me. For me it was the idea that it could have been real--it was weirdly plausible and as a camper, it brought up all the fears about the bumps in the night.
When I saw it a few months later, I found it really cheesy, but that's because I knew it wasn't real and the hype had become just that--hype.
My ex was with me for it and he got motion sickness really badly, and about ten minutes in, he had to leave the theater he was so ill.
I can't wait for 28D now!!
Posted by: Crystal at July 21, 2003 04:23 PM
You had to cancel a camping trip? AYFKM?
Pussy. What kind of girl would ever hook up with you? :)
Posted by: Redpanda at July 22, 2003 08:14 AM
Obviously not one who wouldn't mock him openly on the Internet. :)
Posted by: Sean at July 22, 2003 01:48 PM