A previous day's comments

So, time for my update… Today I want to tell you about my new computer – I just adore it! While writing this I am watching television on my computer screen and I have just recorded “Dude – where’s my car” to my hard disk from the television instead of recording it on my VCR. I mean, how sweet is that? :o) Well, I plan to watch it a few more times before deleting it.
I have a hard disk of 200 Gb – my last one was of 12 Gb so you can truly feel the difference – even with movies recorded directly onto my hard disk I’ve only used about 30 Gbs…

Right now “House on Haunted Hill” is on TV (and I’m watching it on my computer) – James Marsters is in that movie playing the camera man for a few minutes. His credit just passed the screen. I’ve already seen the movie a couple of times. The first time out of interest and the second time because of James Marsters. Now I’m watching it because it’s on. The idea it’s based on is absolutely brilliant but the movie is sort of poor. It’s too over the edge to really be scary. If they’d toned it down a notch it would have been terrifying. It’s the same with “The haunting” – they’re both remakes of old 60’s movies as I’ve understood. Those, I have heard, should be amazing so I plan to watch them.
I think the general problem with horror movies today is that they over do it completely. The scariest things are those you can’t see. Watching a giant ghost coming out of a wall simply isn’t as scary as hearing it moan and catching just a glimpse out of the corner of one’s eye. That’s what makes the Japanese horror movies work so well – “Dark waters” even made a little girl in a yellow raincoat scary – I think that says a lot.
I was also really spooked by “The 6th sense” – not because it was scary while watching, but afterwards the imagination really ran wild with what you can’t see. I originally saw that at a marathon night at the cinema (that’s where you go to the movies at night, watch 4 movies and leave the cinema in the morning). I went with a few people from my class at high school. Between the movies are breaks and in the break after “The 6th sense” I went for a stroll with my friend Anne Christine at the graveyard (it’s just next to the cinema exit) – that was totally spooky and gave quite a thrill. We also watched the above mentioned “The haunting” at that same night.
The same thing goes for the movie “13 ghosts”. I was truly over the top – and it’s a remake of a 60’s movie – but because you can only see the ghosts when you are wearing a special pair of glasses. That makes you wonder if those scary things are walking among you and you just can’t see them because you aren’t wearing those glasses. That was kinda a freaking experience – well, perhaps that was also due to the fact that I had turned all the lights off completely and the room was only lit by candle lights which shed strange shadows on the walls. And I was watching it alone. I was kinda going for the spook-effect and I succeeded.

Okay, I got a bit off topic there. My computer is just the greatest. Every computer game I’ve installed is running smoothly, which is a first in my computer history. But I also have a killer graphic card – the only thing to complain about is the CPU which is only 2.2 GHz – I would have liked it to be 3.2 GHz, but the RAMs are the most important thing to me so I had to make a compromise there – would I have a killer CPU or a killer graphics card (and a TV-tuner and a DVD-recorder). The choice wasn’t very hard.
For the time being I’ve put my Sims 2 away and I’m concentrating on the game “Beyond good and evil” – I went totally mad the day I bought my computer and I bought 4 games (3 of them on sale and the 4th was Sims 2”. “BGaE” is a great game – the controls were a bitch at the beginning, but once I got the hang of it, it sort of made sense. Now the game is just fab. I offers some enjoyable times – one of the good thing is that it isn’t just monster bashing or one of those “I’m solving the puzzle by placing a weird item on a totally unrelated item”. It has a bit of monster bashing, a bit of puzzle solving – but most of all the storyline is about revealing the truth with the power of the camera. Take pictures of the bad guys and publish them to undermine the bad guys. That’s cool!

I can also tell you that the apartment I had my heart set on was a bit of a let down. Well, I didn’t go to see the place from the inside, I only saw it from the outside, but I can tell you that it wasn’t appealing. I was really spooky with a lot of empty lots and dumpsters. I’ll just continue my search for my perfect place.

Speaking of houses – I’m still watching “HoHH” – it’s actually more scary than I remembered. Mostly because of the chill effect of the human experiments, which appears to be closer to torture. That is exactly what doesn’t make it scary – the severe electroshock treatments and those things are probably true enough, I believe they used to do that a long long time ago – so that would be scary. But some of those other things, like the spinning chamber… what would be the point – other than to give someone a nasty head ache? And a building sending out invitations… A bit far out right?

Well, well, lads and lassies, that’s all for now. I think I’ve filled today’s “word-quota”.