I bet it's not as much fun.

[opabinia]

Resignation letter in the works. Have to choose a start date. Took a short but tiring ride on an interpersonal rollercoaster Monday and yesterday. Browsed uscav.com for boots. Tickled the Houston contact.

Why do I feel like skinny dipping in a deserted beach? How inconvenient. If I owned a boat, I'd throw a naked party on international waters.

(enter co-worker)

I have to go teach people how to harvest and read tritiated Thymidine proliferation assay plates now. It is less fun, I bet, than a naked party on a boat in international waters.

Comments

me = suck cuz I an clueless

[locriansax.livejournal.com]

here's a lame question to one out of the loop..but are you leaving the boston area?

Re: me = suck cuz I an clueless

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

Nope. Just changing jobs. :)

No boats or beaches but . . .

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

You should help me organize a group late night outing to Walden for semi elicit skinny dippping. I say semi elicit because you're not really supposed to swim at Walden after dark. But, pretty much everyone does it anyway. You just have to park in a not too obvious spot and hike in through the woods.

Re: No boats or beaches but . . .

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

Not a big fan of the "Friday the 13th" series of films, are you? Otherwise you'd know that late night illicit skinny dipping leads to dismemberment by faceless, undead killers.

No boats or beaches but . . .

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

*G* Not something I worry about.
I like "Hellraiser" or "Night of the Living Dead" better anyway. Pinhead and the crew wouldn't want to get their nice leather and chrome studded fetish outfits all wet (nasty dry cleaning bill), and last time I checked Zombies make for bad swimmers.

I thought the 'Friday the 13th' series, really stupid, and not all that scary although as a non sequitor, I think the first one might have been Kevin Bacon's first movie ever.

Then again I MST3K'd the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and though "The Exorcist" was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

Re: No boats or beaches but . . .

[tk7602.livejournal.com]

a bunch of friends and i watched the first jason movie recently, and were horrified by the side view shot of mr bacon in a speedo.

once of us shouted "bacon unit!" and we decsended into immature giggling for quite a while from there.

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

Ew. Speedo. It's just one of those articles of clothing that just doesn't seem to look good on ANYONE. Kind of like 'tighty whitey' underwear and tube-tops. Tighty whiteys just look dorky (unless worn by girls for that nymphet rightous lesbo look) and tube-tops make most womens' tits look like two fried eggs over easy.

Bacon-unit? Gods that's silly. I love it.
Makes me want to run around Boston screaming, "Bacon unit!!!" Maybe the next time I go out for brunch I'll ask the waitress if I can order a 'unit' of bacon.

Re: No boats or beaches but . . .

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

F13 was an almost-competently-done teen-slasher flick that spawned a godawful franchise.

The Hellraiser films just make me wish that someone would show up and give Barker an unlimited budget with no expectation of the result ever being marketable. I have a feeling that he'd make the most viscerally disturbing erotic horror film ever.

Zombies do swim, of course. There is a sub-sub-genre of films involving underwater Nazi zombies.
(Oh, and in Fulci's original "Zombie" a zombie has an underwater fight with a shark. I have no idea why.)

Take home message: when skinny-dipping, look out for pale wrinkly guys in vintage SS uniforms.

[water-childe.livejournal.com]

F13 was an almost-competently-done teen-slasher flick that spawned a godawful franchise.

Agreed.

The Hellraiser films just make me wish that someone would show up and give Barker an unlimited budget with no expectation of the result ever being marketable. I have a feeling that he'd make the most viscerally disturbing erotic horror film ever.

Yeah, I think you're right about the erotic horror aspect. Frankly most of the sex that happens in his books is extremely sensual, if not creepy, and very well written. I strongly suggest you read his short story, "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament". It is the perfect blend of tortured human desire and erotic horror.

Zombies do swim, of course. There is a sub-sub-genre of films involving underwater Nazi zombies.
(Oh, and in Fulci's original "Zombie" a zombie has an underwater fight with a shark. I have no idea why.)

Take home message: when skinny-dipping, look out for pale wrinkly guys in vintage SS uniforms.

Swimming zombies? Wow. I'm intrigued, I am. Frankly, if I'm going to become a zombie, I think the swimming variety would be much cooler. I don't know about the pale wrinkly guys aspect though. I think I'd prefer hot savage flesh eating Mer-people.

Serious horror geeking.

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

"Jacqueline Ess" is indeed crawly. I was also thinking about "The Hellbound Heart," from which "Hellraiser" was made. There are *things* in there that he didn't even imply in the film, and it plays much more with the blurring of pleasure and pain than he probably felt he could get away with on film. I figure that with a free hand and no commercial interest, Barker could get the audience squarely in "I am very aroused and feeling quite queasy about it" territory.

As for hot savage flesh eating Mer-people, I've only got two:

"Night Tide:" not quite a horror film, but it stars a VERY young Dennis Hopper as a sailor who gets involved with a woman who plays the Mermaid at a boardwalk sideshow. She is troubled because she thinks she might be a Siren who kills when the moon is full. Personally, I avoid women like this.

"She Creature:" not the original B&W, which sucks mightily, but a very recent remake which is nothing like the original. It actually starts Rufus Sewell (!) as an Irish carny who steals what appears to be a genuine mermaid. He attempts to smuggle it to New York. "Hot savage flesh-eating Mer-people" are involved. It all ends in tears. Strangely enough, it does not suck, although you'd never know it from the video box.

[hysterikal.livejournal.com]

I'd fly home from Chicago for that. I'd better be invited! :)

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

While you're in internat'l waters, make sure to organize a monkey knife fight.

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

OOHHH!! He ain't pretty n'more.

[bottleimp.livejournal.com]

Bastard. That was next.

[tk7602.livejournal.com]

i hadn't seen that site before.... prices are pretty good. i've had a few pairs of the corcoran field II boots, and i think i paid $149 for them.

my tankers are holding up ok still though :)