The parents look like total emotionally-bound basket cases, notwithstanding they are grieving for their daughter....BUT-from the explanation the mother goes into, one can gather she was ill-equipped to deal with the dynamics of the parent-child relationship-What is that, you ask? Well, who can say, but I would hasten to guess, that if you followed the mom and dad, back to their parents, and then to the parent parents, you most likely have co-dependency, psych problems, in other words, weak-minded individuals passing on their fuck-ups to their kids-

Tragic-the other viddy you posted raven, has the poor girl as a goddamn pharmaceutical guinea pig, so its no wonder she was near the edge-

how about this one: MySpace is like crack cocaine for idiots who could pass a piss test with flying colors, and we have the last 2 generations of kids and parents, who don't understand the dynamics of meaningful, tangible relationships, and spend too much goddamn time on the computer-(Oh, but it's fine to meet someone on the internet, maybe find some fuck buddy, or someone who will listen to me tell you how I have always wanted to be a girl, someone to party with, etc.) Fucking morons! We are already at capacity for flakes on Earth, let's' just crank out some more!!!

Some 30-40 something folks already feel like Howard the fucking Duck on planet now, because this shit has all happened in the span of 40 years......and you people don't think yer a buncha meatbots??? Give me a fucking break!!

This also looks like a a case of parents hoping to fix a fuck-up, by "trying something new" with their daughter, knowing little of the dynamics involved-God when is the mothership coming??!!! HURRY!!!!

oh yeah, and that bitch lori drew IS a cunt, and she's raising another one to unleash on the world....and y'all think the casualties in Iraq are horrifying...the real horror is back here in the U.S......

I was not a fan of this debate either. I don't like the whole, "smartass in front of a webcam" thing. But what was up with Giuliani? The man was like a rabid wolverine in a pit full of guinea pigs. I think Romney did a nice job and I garnered a bit more respect for Thompson. McCain is a nice guy, but I don't think he would make a good president. I'm between Romney, Thompson, and Paul right now.

It’s a good thing I checked the paper besides looking at MovieTickets.com. Instead of Sunday, the last movie on the list was shown Saturday night. I called the theater confirm the schedule just to be sure.

Before I review the Horrorfest, I wanted to mention the theater where I viewed the films – Hollywood 9. It used to be part of a chain called General Cinema. Some older folks will remember the music that used brushes on a snare drum with an electric guitar to announce “Coming Soon” and “Feature Presentation.” Then stadium-seating theaters were introduced ten years ago. They managed to kill a majority of movie theaters in this area. A local family bought this theater from the chain. It continues to run first-run films. We used to have a network of second-run film-theaters. They were good for when a film left the first-run-theaters. Plus they were cheaper.

Audiences have been small for the Horrorfest – maybe four to twelve people at most. Horror films are more fun with a full theater of raucous younger folks.

And now for my rankings . . . . I organized them from most favorite to least favorite. The films included for 2007 cover certain standard genres:

The Deaths of Ian Stone (R)
Ian Stone keeps dying and jumping to another life. Each time he interacts with the same girl. Before each death a clock suddenly stops. I like this one best because the film takes time to reveal the context of events and characters.

Mulberry Street (R)
This could have easily been called “Rat People.” The film is set in New York City in a rundown apartment building. Rats across Manhattan bite people spreading a contagious “rat virus.” Once bitten, people morph into rat-faced-like-humans. This flick has a style similar to “28 Days Later.” These carnivorous rat-people move fast and gnaw at their human prey. The newscast vaguely covers events as the infection becomes widespread. Other than the rats spreading the virus, there’s not much of an explanation for the virus’s existence.

Crazy Eights (NR)
Six young adults gather together after the death of someone they all knew. Twenty years earlier their parents left them at mental institution as guinea pigs for human experiments. The name given to their group was “Crazy Eights.” Prior to the group reuniting, they started having nightmares. A last request by the deceased takes them on an odyssey to locate a time capsule they made years ago. OK, that’s seven people; so what about the eighth one?

Borderland (NR)
Of the eight films this is the only one based on a true story. It is more consistent than some of the others. Three American guys in their early twenties cross the border into Mexico. In the course of seeking young women, they cross paths with drug dealers who perform Santeria human sacrifices. In this area near the border, the drug dealers have police intimidated. There is one cop, however, who helps two of the guys when the third one goes missing. He’s been investigating the drug dealers for a while. Also, They killed his partner.

The murders in this film are brutal. Sean Astin plays a bad guy – I was expecting him to yell for Frodo. He has a beard that helps a little with his baby face.

Tooth and Nail (R)
Set in the year 2012 (how Mayan ), civilization has collapsed because there is no more gas. People are forced to survive without technology. Two guys and a girl are exploring when they rescue a girl from an armed man. They bring her back to their group. Right away the group does not trust her. Then one night the group’s leader is murdered. Soon group learns that cannibals are intent on feeding on them. Considering the beginning of the film I expected more cleverness in the lines and the battles to survive. I would have thought the hospital, where they are living, would have some neat props and/or rooms to do battle in – I felt like more could have been done. The cannibals dress like medieval warriors. Axes, knives, swords, spears all make for a bloodbath. There are some later twists in the plot that redeem this movie a little. Otherwise, the film just has a body count.

Mike Madsen and Vinnie Jones ham it up a bit.

Unearthed (R)
Unless I missed it, I’m not sure what group of Native Americans the characters are descended from in this movie. Anyway a young male Native American is digging in a cave where a sacred burial ground is located. Unfortunately his efforts release a monster that his ancestors managed to knock out for many centuries.

A female Native American is sheriff. She’s still trying to live down a circumstance in which she was not able to prevent a young girl from being shot. She investigates a vehicle crash site involving a truck. She locates a piece of something that was caught in a truck’s grill. When a biologist analyzes this something, she determines that it is not of this earth and it has been collecting samples of living things.

As the body count adds up, the sheriff does her best to protect those left. In the course of things she becomes covered in some black liquid in the cave. This stuff ends up protecting her in a close encounter with the creature. She and the guy, who unleashed the creature in the first place, figure out that uranium is what they need to make the protective liquid. Someone else will have to comment on the science or lack of science involved here.

The creature behaves a bit like the ones from “Alien.” It is scarier when you don’t see it. However, it does move fast.

Nightmare Man (R)
A woman orders her husband a primitive mask with horns. She gets more than she bargained for in this tale. Although this one starts off hokey, filmed with video, it does improve with some plot twists. This couple runs out of gas on the way to a mental hospital. He leaves her alone while he goes for gas.

She becomes scared by a demon in the darkness. After a bit of cat ‘n’ mouse, she manages to run to a house in the woods. Two couples are enjoying each other’s company until this woman arrives frantic about what is chasing her and the pills she dropped in the forest in the dark. Listen when someone tells you that pills help control a demon inside. : )

Lake Dead (NR)
A grandfather to an incestuous family is killed. Three granddaughters want travel to see the property they inherited. Their father warns them not to go. The kids are mad at him because saying their grandfather was dead long before he actually was dead.

One of the girls skips the funeral and goes to Lake Dead by herself – bad news. Lake is the family’s last name. Anyway the two girls arrive with a couple and another guy. There is a shallow manmade pond on the property. Characters in the story refer to it as a lake.

So then the body count starts. The gene pool in this town is a bit shallow too.


OK, there are the “8 Films to Die for.” When I’ve seen the eight from 2006, I’ll do a synopsis and ranking of them as well.

Good idea. We've got a little spray bottle that will just suit. We got them from the same shop on the same day, so maybe they were already enemies there.. Also, I noticed they get really discoloured fur on their back towards the tail. I'm not sure if it's from laying in pee, or if they lick it a lot. It's on both of them and I haven't noticed them licking much. Weird!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Did you get them both at the same time? If so then I probably wouldn't expect this. If not, then it's possible the one you had first feels like her territory has been invaded by the newbie, hence the aggression. Females are normally much less aggressive than males, but it's not unheard of for this to happen. I had the same problem with my mice.

One possible solution: Fill a spray bottle with water, and whenever you see them fight blast them both. If you can watch them both closely for a while and consistently perform this action the greater the chance of success. It's completely humane too. Good luck, and keep me posted.

In reply to this comment by persephone:
Our rats are both girls, but they fight like crazy. Do you know if this is normal?
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
My son showed me this video a while back after he had downloaded it onto his PSP. He has a couple of pet rats, so he's kind of into them. Let me say this much about owning a rat:

They're good pets. They're smart and friendly, and of all the rodents you can possibly own (i.e., mice, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, etc.), they are the LEAST likely to bite you. We've owned three rats, and none of them have ever bitten us. Trust me; I've owned most of the aforementioned rodents, and rats are the best. The first rat we had, Jasmine, was so cool. She knew her name and would come when you called her, and she would lick your hands and feet if you let her. She had her own little rituals when we let her out of her cage to play, including begging for peanuts and nibbling on an old blanket in my son's bedroom. When a second rat we owned had babies, Jasmine helped watch them while the momma took a much needed sleep break. Jasmine died almost a year ago, and we still miss her. She was a good girl.

So don't be bagging on rats, y'all. They're just trying to get by like the rest of us, and they ain't so bad if you give them a chance.

Did you get them both at the same time? If so then I probably wouldn't expect this. If not, then it's possible the one you had first feels like her territory has been invaded by the newbie, hence the aggression. Females are normally much less aggressive than males, but it's not unheard of for this to happen. I had the same problem with my mice.

One possible solution: Fill a spray bottle with water, and whenever you see them fight blast them both. If you can watch them both closely for a while and consistently perform this action the greater the chance of success. It's completely humane too. Good luck, and keep me posted.

In reply to this comment by persephone:
Our rats are both girls, but they fight like crazy. Do you know if this is normal?
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
My son showed me this video a while back after he had downloaded it onto his PSP. He has a couple of pet rats, so he's kind of into them. Let me say this much about owning a rat:

They're good pets. They're smart and friendly, and of all the rodents you can possibly own (i.e., mice, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, etc.), they are the LEAST likely to bite you. We've owned three rats, and none of them have ever bitten us. Trust me; I've owned most of the aforementioned rodents, and rats are the best. The first rat we had, Jasmine, was so cool. She knew her name and would come when you called her, and she would lick your hands and feet if you let her. She had her own little rituals when we let her out of her cage to play, including begging for peanuts and nibbling on an old blanket in my son's bedroom. When a second rat we owned had babies, Jasmine helped watch them while the momma took a much needed sleep break. Jasmine died almost a year ago, and we still miss her. She was a good girl.

So don't be bagging on rats, y'all. They're just trying to get by like the rest of us, and they ain't so bad if you give them a chance.

Our rats are both girls, but they fight like crazy. Do you know if this is normal?
In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
My son showed me this video a while back after he had downloaded it onto his PSP. He has a couple of pet rats, so he's kind of into them. Let me say this much about owning a rat:

They're good pets. They're smart and friendly, and of all the rodents you can possibly own (i.e., mice, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, etc.), they are the LEAST likely to bite you. We've owned three rats, and none of them have ever bitten us. Trust me; I've owned most of the aforementioned rodents, and rats are the best. The first rat we had, Jasmine, was so cool. She knew her name and would come when you called her, and she would lick your hands and feet if you let her. She had her own little rituals when we let her out of her cage to play, including begging for peanuts and nibbling on an old blanket in my son's bedroom. When a second rat we owned had babies, Jasmine helped watch them while the momma took a much needed sleep break. Jasmine died almost a year ago, and we still miss her. She was a good girl.

So don't be bagging on rats, y'all. They're just trying to get by like the rest of us, and they ain't so bad if you give them a chance.

My son showed me this video a while back after he had downloaded it onto his PSP. He has a couple of pet rats, so he's kind of into them. Let me say this much about owning a rat:

They're good pets. They're smart and friendly, and of all the rodents you can possibly own (i.e., mice, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, etc.), they are the LEAST likely to bite you. We've owned three rats, and none of them have ever bitten us. Trust me; I've owned most of the aforementioned rodents, and rats are the best. The first rat we had, Jasmine, was so cool. She knew her name and would come when you called her, and she would lick your hands and feet if you let her. She had her own little rituals when we let her out of her cage to play, including begging for peanuts and nibbling on an old blanket in my son's bedroom. When a second rat we owned had babies, Jasmine helped watch them while the momma took a much needed sleep break. Jasmine died almost a year ago, and we still miss her. She was a good girl.

So don't be bagging on rats, y'all. They're just trying to get by like the rest of us, and they ain't so bad if you give them a chance.

This roasting situation is static, so swampgirl, m'self, and dotdude are the only real enthusiasts so far, for real. It would be a tragedy, to half-assed begin this thing, without setting down some guidelines.

My gut feeling is, that folks are not eager to roast such a sticky-bun sweet, never say anything bad about anything, floppy-eared dog-lover, mommy-type,OR, they are worried about offending someone. Another reason, for less than enthusiastic support, may simply be y'all think its too difficult or silly to attempt-I say pooh, after you see one in parody, for the perusal of all, the bandwagon will be much better for the next one.



Swampgirl has volunteered to un-volunteer as first roastee....we both think it fitting to elect (or have a volunteer) someone more....un-cutesy, with a few more...raw edges, ripe for lampooning or destroying utterly-

I have my own wannabees, Sg has suggested some of the more vocal folks on the sift, and my offer still stands to be the guinea pig-Ya's trash me alla time anyhow, so why not wave yer aversion to ad-hom officially, and join the "take choggie down" bandwagon....give it a try, you may turn Born-Again ass-handers, after the rave reviews from folks who would rather watch a good tussle, instead of taking part.

Now-everyone rally back on this post-DOTDUDE if you would be so kind, as to discard, or otherwise consolidate the other 2 posts, regarding the roast, as noit to confuse folk-?


*Whomever is interested in taking part in the roast, please bookmark this page, so we can get a count!!!

I have always maintained, that knowledge is power with regards to one's health.
IF, you do not put shit in, you get an organism putting out till it stops, on most cases-The health care situation in the U.S., believe it or say nay, could be transformed, if people would begin to prevent the necessity of such a machine , and begin to teach it to future gens-Die n'beatus, heart disease, and cancer, would have not the effect and levels of preeminence, if folks would eat right.

Then you got yer oath-Hippocrates fans will remember, that docs are in it for one thing-the protection and facilitating of life, above all else-I am forty-two, have had 2 major surgeries because of my own stupid shit, and both I had done, at a county hospital, and never payed a dime, nor did I suffer the credit probs, nor was i turned away for service....HOWEVER-I did have to work harder than most, to get the services rendered....I had to open my mouth, put my foot down, and work it, but I got it done, and done right. This meant being a bit smarter than yer average uninsured person-

I am not suggesting this for anyone else, you must find what makes you comfy. I keep full coverage for my kids,but not for myself. I need a hospital for one thing, at 42....Emergency technical assistance. Broken bones, deep lacerations, and the like....If I become mortally ill, I live in a country, where I will not be left die on the street, or released from a hospital for non-payment, if to do so would end my life-SO....if it gets to the point where I need a transplant, bone marrow or otherwise...GUESS WHAT?? It is at this point, I will prepare for the afterlife. There are plenty of guinea pigs lined up after I pass.
The pharmaceutical industry needs a goddamn leash onnit, as well as insurance companies, not to mention the number if illegals burdening the system, with roman-catholic inspired multiple births-this is not an illusion, it is happening. Take responsibility for yer own well-being, and you don't really need a doctor. jwray, why would I need a blood-pressure medicine, if my blood pressure was not whacked by poor eating habits? Or why would I need to be on an anti-depressant, or my kid on ADHD meds, if I had educated myself as to the possible causes of my own bullshit? Serious auto accidents in the US are mostly due to alcohol?....NO. Booze and pharmies.Let the idiots kill themselves with food and drugs.

If I become seriously ill, Emphysema or Cancer because I smoke, is it not a tragic thing, not that I did not have insurance or medical attention, but that I continued that which got me in that state?

We have a system that works in the U.S., but like most entities here as well, it is poorly managed and abused, and overdue for refining....we can start by burning every fucking fast food joint to the ground.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Zoidberg-Vs-Guinea-Pig

Dead.

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I *LOVE* the guinea pig scene!

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We used to let our guinea pigs free-roam. There were no dogs in the area and they learnt to escape the cats. They were much healthier and happier than when they were caged. We figured a happy, if not short life was better than a long, stressed one. They lived like that for a year until we traded them in for rats.