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So I watched the 100 scariest moments.
... I am a very special kind of idiot, for I know exactly what it does to me.
Even my ears are tense, and my eyebrows keep trying to climb right up my head.
*facepalm*
so then I hop channels trying to find something, you know, calming
and somehow I end up watching Scream 3.

... sometimes *facepalm* isn't quite enough.
*headdesk*



I do have half a plot bunny for Doctor Who. Doctorless episode meets Ghostwatch - a TV film crew is covering reported alien phenomena in a happy jokey way and it all goes Horribly Wrong. And it's scarier because when they could leave they refuse to believe there's any reason to and when they decide there is reason they can't any more. And at the end someone says what some guy on the scariest moments just said - it has to be TV, reality wouldn't be that interesting.
So now I just have to decide which DW bad thing would work best. Slitheen have a whole bodysnatchers thing going on but they've been totally done. I liked that hiding on television thing they were doing. And Harold Saxon did too. Politicians apparently can get away with anything while the news watches.
But they're not very spooky house. And they've really been done.
and for the thing where the camera doesn't know what's going on to really work I think the audience should know, for the full 'look behind you' experience. A repeat monster could help with that, but then again there's not so many that new audience would be expected to know.
... and also, I'm not technically actually writing for TV.

So anyways, now I will watch more movie and get even more creeped out even while laughing. Cause I always laugh when someone goes boom or something. I liked the clip from Final Destination they showed where they got hit by a bus. It's like a cartoon only with more splat.

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I went and got breakfast again :-)
You know the trouble with me is once I have a routine variations really bother me. Like, today mum phoned just when I was getting ready to go out, and while I like talking to mum on the phone, I had to say that the routine has worn a groove in my brain and my feets think I should be out the house now. But mum understands, so that's okay.

I saw a rat! It was huuuuuuuge, with a wormy tail, so it was definitely a rat and not a bunny or a mouse. It was, fortunately, outside the cafe and not inside. But still, rats. Made me look at my food with very thinky face.

I bought bread and orange juice and a bottle of ribena for taking to college.
I have very interesting life.

Really, now I have a Sunday routine, I need to make it an interesting one. Possibly I could try more walking. Walking could take me more places. More places might have more stuff in them. If I knew which ones were open or interesting to look at.

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ooh, Doctor Who and the Daemons on BBC4 tonight. That's my evening sorted then :-)
And I have apple donuts to go with it.
... yes, I decided to give them up. No, I have no willpower.
Must do more dancing.

Got interviews tomorrow for a person to take me places, so with any luck one of them will be suitable and I'll be able to look for stuff to do. Finally!

But today, just had bath, will have food, all is good.

subcultures reading

I read the bit in the reader about Hebdige talking about punks. There's bits where I wonder if he actually talked to any, or listened if he did. There is a bit where he says that the rhetoric may not mean what it says, and okay, fair enough, but...

There's another bit where he says most subcultures differentiate between those that invented it, who understand it, and those that follow on, who do/can not. And, well, yes and no... I mean I haven't personally originated a style, yet, but I think the distinction I've noticed is between those who wear things as signs, as object+meaning, and those who just wear them as objects. People who unify the style and values, like he stresses subculture is about, or people who just go 'oooh, shiny!' and are all about the look and not noticing the values. In other words, it isn't that those who go first are the only ones that understand, but the ones that understand are the ones who put the signifiers on it and go first. Followers may be plastic or poseur, or they might just be baby, newbies, with potential to grow up. It isn't, like, built in.

... possibly though this has something to do with him studying new subcultures? I mean goth has been around long enough to have generations, so maybe attitudes shift a bit.

*rereads*
... watch me use words I learned on the net. :eyeroll:

fandom is a subculture. but it's a really diverse one. and while you can describe typical modes of dress as 'refers in some way to source text', that really do cover just about every way of looking.

Different texts, different values, yesno? Possibly why some fandoms family tree into each other and others very rarely overlap?

... is time to sleep now, I have big thinking later.