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Yesterday I ran into the lady who lives in the apartment next to mine, who told me that since I'm so rarely seen out and about, her son has speculated that I might a murderer. That's what they always say about murderers, right? He was so quiet and kept to himself. Gee whiz, I always hoped I might someday grow up to be the spooky loner that kids speak of in hushed tones. Apparently, I'm the Boo Radley of my apartment building. While many of those in the law profession attribute their choice of career to reading To Kill a Mockingbird when they were young and/or watching the movie version with Gregory Peck, I bet far fewer ever go up to Robert Duvall and tell him that his performance in that film inspired them to become the creepy neighborhood shut-in.
I'm reminded of an incident a few months ago where I stepped outside, and another neighbor's little girl took one look at me and ran the other way while literally crying for her mommy. At the time, I figured the kid was just skittish around strangers, but now I have to wonder if I'm giving off some kind of vibe.
It probably doesn't help my image now that I have a hook for a hand, following a recent vicious dog attack. It's sure been detrimental to my drawing ability, I'll tell you that much. At least now you know why I haven't been uploading any art lately. Okay, I made up the part about the dog biting off my drawing hand; the boring reason is that I'm in another one of my ruts
Seriously, I think I'd make a pretty lousy murderer. I'd probably get caught because I'd be too lazy to clean up the blood or too cheap to buy shovels and other tools I might need to properly dispose of the body. I mean, sure, maybe I wouldn't mind killing someone once, just to see what it's like- ideally a bad person in self defense. Who wouldn't, amirite? But knowing me, if I ever really did take a life, it would probably be through sheer incompetence or stupidity. Maybe I'd grievously injure them first, by accident, then decide in a fit of panic it would be easier to put them out of their misery and try to cover things up rather than call 911 and face the consequences. Yikes, maybe it's a good thing I stay away from other people as much as possible.
It's not by chance that my neighbor hardly ever sees me- I actively avoid her. It's possible she's an okay person, but something about her seems a little off to me; she's kind of intense and is always a little too all up in everyone's bidness. Maybe she's the murderer! The reason she happened to see me yesterday was because I was clearing the junk out of my car before they came to tow it away.
A week and a half ago, I got pulled over because my muffler was too loud (and my plates had expired in May). I was given ten days to have the problem fixed. Since it would have cost more to fix the car than it was worth, and I couldn't afford the repairs in any case, I sold it to an auto salvage place instead. I've been mostly walking everywhere for a while now anyway.
What I was paid barely covers the fines, but if I hadn't been forced into making a decision, i probably would have continued to hang onto the car, which has been causing me stress almost since the day I bought it four years ago, until it finally broke down and stranded me somewhere, so I keep trying to tell myself that this is a positive thing. I get so nervous talking to people, I wouldn't have taken the initiative to spend a couple hours on the phone calling places that might take my car off my hands if I hadn't been afraid that jackbooted thugs would break down my door and arrest me if I didn't. That would really have given the neighbors something to talk about.
Dammit, I just remembered I left a dead AT&T U-verse salesman in the trunk. Oh, well!
I'm reminded of an incident a few months ago where I stepped outside, and another neighbor's little girl took one look at me and ran the other way while literally crying for her mommy. At the time, I figured the kid was just skittish around strangers, but now I have to wonder if I'm giving off some kind of vibe.
It probably doesn't help my image now that I have a hook for a hand, following a recent vicious dog attack. It's sure been detrimental to my drawing ability, I'll tell you that much. At least now you know why I haven't been uploading any art lately. Okay, I made up the part about the dog biting off my drawing hand; the boring reason is that I'm in another one of my ruts
Seriously, I think I'd make a pretty lousy murderer. I'd probably get caught because I'd be too lazy to clean up the blood or too cheap to buy shovels and other tools I might need to properly dispose of the body. I mean, sure, maybe I wouldn't mind killing someone once, just to see what it's like- ideally a bad person in self defense. Who wouldn't, amirite? But knowing me, if I ever really did take a life, it would probably be through sheer incompetence or stupidity. Maybe I'd grievously injure them first, by accident, then decide in a fit of panic it would be easier to put them out of their misery and try to cover things up rather than call 911 and face the consequences. Yikes, maybe it's a good thing I stay away from other people as much as possible.
It's not by chance that my neighbor hardly ever sees me- I actively avoid her. It's possible she's an okay person, but something about her seems a little off to me; she's kind of intense and is always a little too all up in everyone's bidness. Maybe she's the murderer! The reason she happened to see me yesterday was because I was clearing the junk out of my car before they came to tow it away.
A week and a half ago, I got pulled over because my muffler was too loud (and my plates had expired in May). I was given ten days to have the problem fixed. Since it would have cost more to fix the car than it was worth, and I couldn't afford the repairs in any case, I sold it to an auto salvage place instead. I've been mostly walking everywhere for a while now anyway.
What I was paid barely covers the fines, but if I hadn't been forced into making a decision, i probably would have continued to hang onto the car, which has been causing me stress almost since the day I bought it four years ago, until it finally broke down and stranded me somewhere, so I keep trying to tell myself that this is a positive thing. I get so nervous talking to people, I wouldn't have taken the initiative to spend a couple hours on the phone calling places that might take my car off my hands if I hadn't been afraid that jackbooted thugs would break down my door and arrest me if I didn't. That would really have given the neighbors something to talk about.
Dammit, I just remembered I left a dead AT&T U-verse salesman in the trunk. Oh, well!
Critically well-received movies I saw (2019-2021)
I don't love most of the movies I watch and that applies even to ones that are highly rated among critics, which most of the ones in this list are. That doesn't necessarily mean I hated any of them, but some I didn't care for. Some I was ambivalent towards while others I thought were good but wouldn't necessarily want to watch again or anytime soon. A few of these titles I didn't have anything to say about, but for those you can assume that I liked them well enough, but maybe not enough to formulate any specific thoughts on. Bonnie & Clyde I'd been wanting to see Bonnie & Clyde for a long time and when I finally did, I'm afraid I was fairly underwhelmed. I wonder what it says about me that the main thing I took away from this film was how relatively easy it made robbing banks look, at least compared to modern times. I discovered from reading the trivia that the lady who played Bonnie's mom in this movie was a non-actor who had just shown up to watch the movie being filmed and
Some okay/meh movies I watched (2019-2021)
Painted Desert I'm glad that I finally saw Painted Desert, if only so that I can now say that I understand what the Merry Melodies cartoon "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter" was parodying. But it was such an odd movie that I'm not sure I liked it that much. Mystery of the Wax Museum I'm more familiar with the Vincent Price remake, which I've been fortunate enough to see on the big screen in 3D. This movie by itself is less interesting than the story behind its restoration. The ending of this version was so bad that I literally booed the TV screen. Vincent Leonard Nimoy's one man show about Vincent Van Gogh. I was surprised to realize that Nimoy actually doesn't play Vincent in this, but rather portrays his brother. I watched this on Tubi TV hours before it left that service. I assume it was only a coincidence that the next day was actually Nimoy's birthday. St. Vincent Bill Murray plays a curmudgeon who is humanized when his neighbor hires him to babysit for
Some okay movies I watched (2019-2021)
I'm back to once again relate my pedestrian thoughts on some movies I viewed during the previous three years... not that I expect anyone to give a s***. Dark Passage Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall did four movies together. This is the last one I had yet to see and it may be their weakest. There's an awkward gimmick in which you don't see Bogart's face for almost the entire first half of the film and it's not until a half hour or more into it that you figure out why. I didn't dislike the movie overall, though. Stuck Partly based on a real event, a newly homeless man (Stephen Rea) is the victim of a hit and run driver (Mena Suvari) and lodged in the windshield of her car. The panicked woman parks her car in her garage and callously waits for him to die. Honestly, watching this guy becoming homeless made this movie scary enough to me even before the whole hit and run part. There was apparently some controversy over Suvari's casting in the role of the female lead
Documentaries I watched (2019-2021)
Before I get to the documentaries I watched between the start of 2019 and the end of last year, I need to add two more movies to the list of ones that I didn't like which I neglected to include in my last journal entry. They may be a couple of the worst, so it's strange that I forgot about them, unless I just hated them so much that my mind tried to obliterate them from my memory, as one might a traumatic event. The Astronaut's Wife Charlize Theron senses her astronaut husband (Johnny Depp) is different after returning from space. I knew that this movie had poor reviews and a low score on imdb, but I watched it anyway, thinking it might at least be entertainingly cheesy. My bad. Instead, it was one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever willingly subjected myself to. Well, how was I to know? It has the exact same score on imdb as Aeon Flux, a poorly reviewed Charlize Theron sci-fi movie I actually kinda like. Leaving Las Vegas Roger Ebert called this the best movie of the
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Wait...you mean to say you're NOT A SERIAL KILLER!!!! Oh man, I was totally certain you were...well that just takes all the fun out of following you, now that the cool factor of following a serial killer is gone....