Random Thoughts

As promised, and in no particular order, are some of the books I’ve read and reread. All of these have inspired me in one way or another. Dracula                                                            Bram Stoker The Hound of the Baskervilles                      Arthur Conan Doyle A Princess of Mars/Tarzan of the Apes          Edgar Rice Burroughs Hunchback of Notre Dame                             Victor Hugo Interpretation of Dreams                                 Sigmund Freud            The Big Sleep                                                  Raymond Chandler The Martian Chronicles                                  Ray Bradbury Psycho                                                             Robert Bloch The Lord of the Rings                                     J.R.R. Tolkien The Grapes of Wrath/Cannery Row               John Steinbeck For Whom the Bell Tolls                                Ernest Hemingway Nineteen Eight-Four                   

Here’s a short list of few movies that have entertained and inspired me over the years (the complete list would be huge). If you want to add some of your favorites to my list, hit the comments. I’ll add books and music, soon. Alien, Psycho, King Kong the original, Pulp Fiction, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Casablanca, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Lawrence of Arabia, Star Wars: A New Hope, Silence of the Lambs, Dr. Strangelove, The Pink Panther, Some Like It Hot, Lord of the Rings, Unforgiven, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, Fargo, North by Northwest.

I've thought a lot about the looming zombie apocalypse. Really. When half-rotten (or in some cases, fully rotten) corpses reanimate and feast on the living, what the hell would I do? How would I defend our home? More importantly, how would I defend my family? I've recently concluded a very thorough analysis of my current planning, and it seems my defensive strategies aren't very good. To be a little more precise, they stink on ice. So I decided that I needed advice. Then it dawned on me. Who would know more about killing zombies than screenwriters? With that in mind, I popped some popcorn and downloaded several of the best zombie movies of all time. Sadly, the results were not very encouraging. SPOILER ALERT – If you haven't seen these movies I sort of give away the endings. I could stay and defend my family like in Night of the Living Dead (1968) – Unfortunately, the movie ends with photos of the hero being dumped on a pile of burning bodies. O

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