Come to Texas, see the World's Largest Goofball

So, I've got this VHS tape rewinder. I found it while unpacking a box that had never gotten unpacked until now. I happily put it to good use last night, rewinding some tapes that I'd recorded off of to DVD. I get to one tape and the thing keeps popping back up, refusing to rewind the tape. I'm like uh, stupid thing, rewind! It won't. So I try another tape. Same thing. I'm thinking shit, I just find the thing again, and it's already broken? Pfft.

Turns out the tapes were already rewound.

@_@

DON'T GO INTO THE LONG GRASS!!

Pretty nameplates ^_^

My friend just_kaye made me a bunch of nameplates, and I finally got them up on my personal site today. Looook, so pretty!

http://laurel.dementedstuff.com/mename.htm

There's been a shift in the natural order of Laurel. Notice that my list of Top 10 Bands has CHANGED SLIGHTLY!

http://laurel.dementedstuff.com/me10bands.txt

I just saw a commercial for A NEW MOVIE COMING OUT BASED ON STEPHEN KING'S SHORT STORY "1408"!!!!! I didn't even know they were making this movie! That's pretty much my favorite Stephen King short story ever, next to the one about the brother and sister where the little girl almost falls off a ladder to her death. The only Stephen King story that I can remember that ever disturbed me so bad that I had to sleep with the lights on afterward. I don't completely agree with all their casting choices; I imagined the hotel owner as a big, doughy, very much balding guy, because I believe that's how he was described. But John Cusack as Mike! He's a great choice for a movie like this. I'm sure, though, that I'll have to imagine the short story and movie as separate entities not to go, "No, no, NO, that's all WRONG!" But I am totally ready to give this movie a chance. I'm excited to see how they'll portray all the nightmarish stuff from the story.

I have a very odd allergy to aspirin. When I was a kid, before my mom knew about the allergy, she would give me aspirin for fevers, and I'd have these wild, terrifying, hallucinatory fever dreams in reaction. Except, I was AWAKE when I'd have them. "1408" brought back a lot of memories of what the hallucinations were like. No, I didn't see bleeding walls or bedspreads made of maggots, but I saw stuff that would be terrifying to a child. One of my hallucinations involved picking up the phone and hearing a voice that sounded like what a razor would sound like if it could speak (kinda like that cartoon), and there was something just like that in the story. Reading that brought the memory and the feelings associated with it right back, which is part of the reason why the story scared me so bad. That and the completely unsettling visuals.

I can't WAIT!