Green Room - Week 0 - Day 6

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

We watched Poltergeist last night. It was the first time in years that I'd seen it (and the 9-year old had never seen it), and I had forgotten that it all boils down to one important lesson: Demons want friends too. Why couldn't they have just let that little girl hang out with her friend the demon, and all of those spirits?

Some parents are just greedy!

It got pretty creepy when I went on Wikipedia to find out what happened with the sequels, and found out what happened to the two girls!

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Speaking of horrible things happening, there is a poll going on:http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/650703.html

and there is still time to sign up: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/648417.html

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Oh, and Happy Mother's Day! Idol appreciates all the Mothers out there who messed their kids up to the point that they decided "I'm going to do that Idol thing!"

Comments

[dreamsreflected.livejournal.com]

I literally laughed out loud at that last line and will be sharing it with my mother who would love to play idol if she could just learn how he internet works.

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

Yay for your first! :)

[x-disturbed-x.livejournal.com]

I've tried sharing it with my mother but she just doesn't get it. :P

[sweeny-todd.livejournal.com]

I posted the lonely island YouTube clip for mother lover on my mums fb page for Mother's Day.

Oh!! And I want to recc bringing_words idol entry. Not because it is about me (well, not just because if that) but I like the way it got people involved in the comments!!

[sweeny-todd.livejournal.com]

Oh!! And I finished voting and commenting. So pleased about that!!

[banyangirl1832.livejournal.com]

I'm spending the day cleaning things up and pretending it's just another Sunday. My mom passed away four years ago and today's kind of hard. At least tonight I'm going out for dinner with my dad, which I'm excited about. Little things! Also, reccing reckless_blues' entry; it's amazingly gorgeous.

Hope everyone else is having a wonderful day!

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

YES YES I told you! I told you in my introduction of him that he is a beautiful person who writes achingly beautiful things! See, you can trust me, I have good taste. :)

Also *hugs*. My husband is the oldest of five, and their mother died a few months before I met him, so it's a heavy day around here too. *more hugs*

[n3m3sis43.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, your Mother's Day comment. That is so true for me it's not even funny. But I'm laughing anyway.

Anyway, trying to make myself work on my book chapter (this rewrite is going soooooo slowly) and adjust to my meds increase and All The Feels and not have a pity party because It All Feels So Real and Everything Hurts.

Oh, and I should probably stay away from the GR right now because that would be much more conducive to writing. Although most people are probably out with their moms now, so fewer distractions?

[sweeny-todd.livejournal.com]

Depends where they are :) even if I were in the same place as my mum, it is quarter to one on the morning. Boo.

[mezzogiorno.livejournal.com]

Oh Lord, Poltergeist. I never saw it as a kid so when I did eventually see it, it was just the most unfrightening thing in the world. The Exorcist got me, though.

Happy Mother's Day to all of the mums out there :)

[x-disturbed-x.livejournal.com]

I still have nightmares over the Exorcist. The creepy part about it was that I dreamed about parts of the movie before I had ever seen it. ;) That always makes me avoid it, haha.

[tatdatcm.livejournal.com]

I'm working on future Idol participants. :D

[n3m3sis43.livejournal.com]

Me too. Max will definitely qualify, by virtue of the two freaks who made and raised him. :D

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

I love my mother, but I don't know that I'm ready for her to read anything I've written about her, my family, or, indeed, myself on Idol. I need to think about that.

I am enjoying a lazy Mother's Day and my first day of the end of the academic year. I work year round, but the absence of students and grading makes for a much different sort of experience.

[x-disturbed-x.livejournal.com]

I don't think I could ever let my family read my writing. A lot of it is NSFW so I'd feel rather uncomfortable, haha.

[belleweather.livejournal.com]

I fought the cold and the cold won, so we're going to the grocery store (the fancy one, with good bread and a cheese shop) and buying treats and then taking the kids to the pool instead of trying to do a Big Mother's day Thing.

Also! I'm taking over the actual office in our house, the one with a DOOR. Hopefully, this will translate into increased productivity since I've got a novel to finish and another one to start before the end of the year. I've already moved my chairs down and put my inspirational poster on the wall, I just need to get all my husband's junk cleaned out and claim the space as MINE. :)

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

Your family pays heed to doors?
Wow. You must have them well trained.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I just found out my review of the latest Sookie book, Dead Ever After, has the highest "helpful" rating of all the reviews of that book on audible. It's so cool. Literally three times as many people read it and marked it helpful. It's like scoring high in poll I wasn't even thinking of as a poll.

[x-disturbed-x.livejournal.com]

That's really cool. :P

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

I suppose I'll call my mother later today.

I took my PPI about 15 minutes or so ago? So I'll eating soon, and then taking a shower, and then...

I meant to get started on the new Sims story yesterday, but then the spousal person told me a library book was due really soon so I spent the day finishing it instead. And now - I still want to write, but I also want to research some stuff.

Do you guys ever make acquaintances on the internet with people who like your writing, and you get along for a bit and they seem pretty cool, but then they reveal something that makes you step back and go "Whoa"?

So then you're confronted with all kinds of issues, like if you're stereotyping people and prejudiced, or if they really are bad people who somehow got past your initial bad person radar sweep, or whatever. Also you're kind of surprised that they liked your work in the first place.

I don't know. In the current situation of that sort, I wonder if maybe it's just ignorance and lack of thought?

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

That happens off the internet, too. I mean, we're all complex people and we all put our best face forward for people, and we tend to assume that when people like some of the things we like, then of course they like all of the things we like. And sometimes the differences are no big deal, and sometimes they're, "Wait. What?"

I vividly remember in college, while (let's call it) snuggling with my (person who would nine years later become my first ex), finding out in pillow talk that she voted for Reagan.

I remember getting out of bed and not being able to think straight for several minutes. I mean, I knew she was a business major, but...

I very nearly said, "Get out of my bed." I talked myself out of doing that, but honestly, the next nine years of my life would probably have been a lot nicer if I had listened to myself that day.

Tangents. I haz them.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I have not seen Poltergeist, but I have seen Poultrygeist, because someone on my flist was involved with making that film, and a documentary about it. ;)

That's all I wanted to comment on. I have to go to sleep now, and hopefully I can actually have some time tomorrow to do things I need to do.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Poultrygeist is oddly in keeping with what's going on in my house right now. My husband and I are getting in a little computer time before we head for the park as a family. With our spare hands, we are each playing with a plastic Fisher Price farm animal that KFP handed us, asking us to join his "Farm Party."

[x-disturbed-x.livejournal.com]

I watched Poltergeist a week or two ago but admittedly I was only watching it to pass time until Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy came on. ;) I couldn't pass up a chance to watch Martin Freeman.

Today is just a lazy day at home by myself. It's a good chance to get writing done but I procrastinate a lot.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Did you see Martin Freeman on "The Colbert Report" during his "Hobbit Week"? Sheer brilliance!

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

I a sure you that I am raising my children right.
They all know how to properly dispatch zombies.

[x-disturbed-x.livejournal.com]

That's very important for them to know.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

So far for Mother's Day, my husband made me delicious gluten-free chocolate pancakes with banana filling, and my son gave me a beautiful card using my favorite color: purple!

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/shantipoet/8731385315/)

Now, we're going to be heading out for a little time in the park.

I hope everyone is having a good day with all appropriate parties (children, moms, grandmoms, etc.) And for those of you who are remembering moms and grandmoms who have passed on, I hope this day brings you lots of sunny memories.

[x-disturbed-x.livejournal.com]

That is too cute. :) And the breakfast sounds very yummy. Now I'm hungry!

[adoptedwriter.livejournal.com]

That creepy old man in Poltergeist Two is creepy too. I heard he was a cancer patient while filming that.

In happier news, happy Moms Day! AW

[impoetry.livejournal.com]

I had nightmares for years as a child about that man. Creepy.

[p-m-cryan.livejournal.com]

In a lifetime of watching horror movies and reading horror books, I accord a very special place to POLTERGEIST.

It turned one of my childhood solaces into a nightmare. It wasn't the clown doll, it wasn't the corpses. IT WAS THE TREE.

[x-disturbed-x.livejournal.com]

I think the little girl creeped me out the most. Too many Asian horror movies with the little girl ghosts have scared me for life.

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

I'm telling my mom you said that when I call her later!

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

En route home from my in laws : waves:

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

My spousebeast gave me a very sweet card and 2 handwritten (highlighter on 3x5 cards) coupons: one to have my Sarah Brightman cds put into the Rock N Roll Dice, and one for unlimited shenanigans today.

To explain, when we roll to see what cd we're listening to, each person gets to call shenanigans once a day. If Beastie Boys gets rolled at 7am (and it has happened), I can call shenanigans and get to roll again.

Of course, today would be the day we've been getting good rolls. Go figure. ;)

Talking to mom today was...yeah. Mom on her 3rd glass of chardonnay (after chauferring my grandparents to Mass, brunch, the grocery store and Walmart, I'm surprised it wasn't quaaludes) is hysterical. And she was watching 'Gypsy.' *shakes head* She played Mama Rose and I was--surprise, surprise--Gypsy Rose Lee in a community theatre production back when I was in high school. She COMPLETELY misses the irony of this.

But I still love her. Happy Mother's Day.

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

That's interesting, with the rolls for the CDs to listen to!

*hugs*

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

Poltergeist--ugh. I saw that when I was little (like 7 or something) while I was spending the night at my aunt's neighbor's town because she had to work the night shift and my parents were away for the weekend for their anniversary. I had no idea what the movie was and didn't want to be the "baby" while we watched (the neighbors had like 5 kids plus my younger brother and older cousin were there) so I made it through the whole thing.

I blame that movie for my clown aversion. Every time I see a clown I flashback to that scene in the movie with the clown under the bed. *shivers*

I did not sleep for days after that. Even as an adult I leave the room during the clown scene.

My Mother's Day is actually going well. Normally my family doesn't celebrate because that means my husband and kids have to do something for someone else instead of me doing everything for them but this year they made me breakfast in bed (first time ever in my life for me), got me flowers (only the 3rd time my husband has gotten me flowers in the 14 years we've been together), cleaned up the house, did laundry and my husband is cooking steak for dinner. Normally I end up having to cook anyway but he's taking care of it this time.

And yesterday we went on a family outing and all 5 of my kids actually behaved and allowed me to take a million pictures including family portraits. That hasn't happened since they were little. It's all kind of making my head swirl, lol.

[poppetawoppet.livejournal.com]

I worked this morning, was surprised how not busy the restaurant was for Mother's Day. Then I came home, napped, bought my mum Taco Bell for dinner, and am now reading Idol entries.

[myrna-bird.livejournal.com]

I have finished reading and commenting and voting. From the looks of these introduction pieces, there's going to be some very fine, interesting and wacky writing going on...and it's all good! I am very impressed with some of the new people, or new names to me. Many old favorites are back making the field very talented. Voting will be tough.

We had lobster and fiddleheads today.
It doesn't get much better than that!

Home Game Thread

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Something tells me I should probably wait until tomorrow, but I don't know if I'll be out and about by the time the GR goes up, so I'mma put this here just in case.

http://jem0000000.livejournal.com/425828.html

Also, there was someone late yesterday asking if people who missed the topic would like to group up and do intros for each other. I suggested they repost today, as the second page doesn't get a lot of traffic, and have not yet seen them; but is there anyone else interested?

(I'll repost this thread tomorrow if the GR is up before I leave. It'd be cool to see more Home Game entries.)