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I have returned to Operation: Vampire Movies at last. One day I will see them all!

( The updated list )

I think I've seen Dracula, Dead and Loving It. How could I not have? But somehow I never saw Rockula until last month, so it's possible. Also not listed is whatever awful C-grade recent movie we recently watched whose name totally escapes me. It was bad.

Yeah, you guessed it. V is for vampires. And W is for werewolves. But I am le tired, and do not have enough oomph left for a coherent post tonight. So I owe you a post about chompy monsters.

I dreamed about The Lost Boys last night, and woke up with "Lost In The Shadows" stuck in my head. My success in repurposing Fallen Towers into salable work doesn't mean I should try to dust off my awful junior high Lost Boys homage. Really. My perpetual state of annoyance with Lost Girls shouldn't factor into this either. Or my life's ambition to write a decent vampire novel. Really.

But I'm 31 and haven't written more than one short story about vampires, and it is one of my great ambitions...

Ack! What do I doooooooo?

18. Inkheart

It's so refreshing to see Paul Bettany in a movie I like. I may break down and watch The DaVinci Code just to see him as a self-flagellating evile albino, though.

19. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (vampire movie #16)

This movie is very bad. Its crimes against blue filters are vile and unforgivable. But, hey! It doesn't have Scott Speedman in it!

Inkheart gave me a brainworm, though: The Secret Garden with monsters. Plucky orphans, spooky mansions, creepy dead gardens... Add 200% more monsters (and something that passes for action) and that sounds like a winner to me.

That's my childhood rocking and keening in the corner.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405406/

I was going to go climbing tonight, but after spending an hour looking for my wallet (it was under a cat) decided not to. Instead I watched:

#51. (vampire movie #13) Lost Boys: The Tribe

I hope that they paid Corey Feldman enough to keep him drunk through that whole ordeal.

(Seriously--the awful Lost Boys ripoff I was writing in junior high was better than that. But that doesn't mean I need to salvage it just to prove a point. Really it doesn't.)

Picnic-march, Day 4

"Bone Garden", which may need a new name, but I'm not worrying about that yet.
Words yesterday/today: 2700
Words total: 2700

Yeah. :P I realized that all the faffing about and set-changing was because I'd started the story in the wrong place. Not the wrong point in the story, but the wrong location. So I redid everything, and lost 500 words of faffing and random extraneous extras. Now it's not so much about boywhores vs. oracular demons as about demimonde theatre boys vs. oracular demons. I know, I know, semantics.

Vampire movie #12/Movie #47: Vampires: Los Muertos

Oh god, the pain. And because it was on SciFi, the black guy died. I'm starting to wonder if that's how they select non-SciFi-originals to show. But worse than the movie itself were the commercials on SciFi! ED! Herpes! CATHETERS! Fucking CATHETERS!

Okay, I swear I'm going to bed after this.

Here, for posterity, is the master list of vampire movies I know I've watched. I know there are others, including at least one Chinese vampire movie (figured that one out), but these are the ones whose titles I can remember and look up.

( In mostly chronological order... )

That's a large chunk of my childhood right there.

Because my brain is totally inundated with Hammer films, and because it got good reviews, today the boy and I went to Austin's Romanian restaurant, Drakula. I am now very full of the blood of innocents good goulash and apple strudel.

And while we were in there, we heard three different remixes of the Numa Numa song. Seriously, how fabulous is that?

#4. Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter

This one was a pleasant surprise. Sure it's cheesy, and slow in places, and pretty simple, (and Kronos not only has a katana for no damn reason at all, but also mistreats it criminally) but I liked the vampire mystery. My first guess was right, but they pulled a nice misdirect, and I liked the Durward siblings. (Possibly I have a weakness for a blond and a redhead with just a hint of incest.)

The more I think about it, I'd kinda like to write a version of this. I need to figure out an interesting treatment/woodshedding of the silent & emo road warrior vampire hunter type, and a good setting. I was already contemplating building another universe for oldskool werewolves, vampires in formal wear, and Peter Cushing's cheekbones...