The audiobook version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study In Scarlet
“It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.”
Here's my 2014 movie log. This is the second year I've kept track of the movies I watch. Click here to see the 2013 log. The 2015 log is underway...
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Audible offered up Neil Gaiman's super creepy story "Click clack the rattlebag" for free for Halloween again
R.L. Stine's 15 tweet horror story
“People call me a loser, but that’s going to change. I was in a little diner downtown and I ordered an egg salad sandwich. I was about to bite down on it when I noticed something moving in the egg salad. Was I imagining it? No.
I saw a hairy, three-fingered claw push a clump of egg out of the way. I saw two round black eyes. A fur-covered face. The creature poked out of the sandwich, sending egg salad tumbling onto the plate. It was the size of a fat beetle.
But it wasn’t an insect. It had a furry head and eyes that peered into mine. Before I could react, a second creature poked out. And then a third. My sandwich was infested. My stomach lurched.
“Is everything okay?” the waitress asked.
“Yes. Fine,” I said. “Could you wrap this sandwich to go?” Finding hairy things in your sandwich is gross. But I knew this sandwich would make me a winner.
The sandwich would turn my life around. Discovering a new life form had to make me rich. I carried the sandwich home carefully and set it on a table.
I didn’t hear my son Willy come home. When I finally saw him, he had egg salad on his face. Yes, he ate the sandwich. If only I could have stopped him. Now the creatures are biting holes in his stomach.
They are biting holes in Willy from the inside, poking their furry heads out of his stomach, chewing his flesh. Okay. A minor setback. But I’m not giving up. Willy is screaming in agony. The poor guy is terrified.
I’m so excited. Where is my camera? Willy is going to make me rich.”
Another stunning ad from Nike.
Logging and editing a short documentary.
If you've ever liked anything by William Shakespeare, then this is worth a watch. I sat down and watched the entire thing. You learn all about the timing and rhythm of the words and what it would have sounded like in his day.
1. The Imitation Game
"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine."
2. Dear White People
"There was no recent model for a satire featuring black leads and it had been decades (plural) since the films that inspired me to take on the genre (namely Do the Right Thing and Hollywood Shuffle) made their debuts." - Director, Justin Simien discusses how he made Dear White People
3. In The Heart of the Sea
"Trust gave way to doubt... hope to superstition."
4. interstellar
"We must confront the reality that nothing in our solar system can help us."
4. Horns
"Sometimes when you go through hell, the only way out is to walk deeper into the fire."
4. Kingsman: The Secret Service
"You are about to embark on the most dangerous job interview in the world."