Spent the day yesterday in anticipation of seeing Paranormal Activity.  The movie was suppose to be scary and all the hype surrounding it had me wondering if it wasn’t the same false provado  that accompanied “The Blair Witch Project.”

As a horror fan, I was completely let down, when I finally watch Blair Witch.  The jittery camera shots made me nauseated and by the end of the movie I was stunned and disappointed.  I was stunned that people thought Blair Witch was scary and not just stupid.  I was disappointed because it was so poorly done and boring, that I felt cheated out of 2 hours of my life.  I understand that the movie was suppose to be an amateur documentary done by college kids, but it was so jittery and random, that it was just plain awful.

So out comes Paranormal and the ads look good and scary.  I can’t wait to see it and neither can my friend.  We buy tickets for a late show last night and take our teens.   It was a “barf-fest” (literally).  Like its predecessor Blair Witch, the movement of the camera, was intolerable.  I spent much of the movie, looking away because, the motion made me want to hurl.  The finale left the movie goers dazed and confused.  We sat in the theater waiting for “the other shoe to drop” or something to happen, until the lights came on.  We walked out of there saying “are you kidding me?  That was it???”

What spurred this need to purge myself was reading Common Sense on Media blog on an up coming episode of Gossip girl depicting a threesome, during what I consider “Primetime”.  I know that by 9pm all the little kiddies should be snug in their beds, but that is not always the case with the overextended, fast moving lifestyle of many parents today. 

This rant has been a long time coming.  Everyday, I am bombarded by shows, movies, videos, and music that depict drinking, drugs and promiscuity as a norm.  

Today, while driving into work, I was channel surfing on the radio and went from hearing “When a Man Loves a Woman” to “Sexy B*tch”.  It causes me a moment of reflection on the how callus and disrespectful society has become towards women.  Percy Sledge sang of loving a woman to the point of being detrimental to him.  Now men think calling a woman a “sexy” female dog is a compliment.  Don’t get me wrong, I like rap. TuPac was the man, and while he rapped about being a thug, he still loved his momma.  The contemporary rappers have young girls singing about “B*tchs” and “Hoes”, like it is the thing to do. 

According to the book “Oral Sex is the New Good Night Kiss”, girls are being sexualized as young as 12 years old.  Girls are pimp’n other girls for money, clothes or drugs and none of the girls think this is a problems because “everyone is doing it”.  Freak’n on the dance floor has turned into actual sex on the dance floor and it is happening at a school near you.  The teens know about it, acept it and even videotape it for Youtube.  Lewd behavior has become the standard for our youth and most parents are in the dark about it.  The internet and webcams allow a teen the freedom to be naked and perform sexual acts in front of strangers or peers in the privacy of their own room, many times while their parents are in the next room and none the wiser.    

I don’t have the answer to why our society has sunk so low.  In fact, sometimes I think I am a contributor to its ruin.  I do listen to rap, and I like shows, movies and content that is not always PG, but I am an adult.  Some how the line between adult, teen and child have been blurred and it is time for society to sure up those lines.  If we don’t pull back a little I am concerned about the future and what another thirty years of ethical and moral deterioration will do to future generations.  I wonder if “gymboree” will morph into toddlers freak’n on the dance floor while their parents watch.  Who knows, I guess I will just have to wait and see.

I want to stop “surviving” and start “living”! But even as I ponder how one makes the change; I ask myself, “if in this time of economical strife is it pretentious of me to want more than to merely exist, when so many don’t even have that”? I want a change. I have been waiting for a change. Now I want to effect a change. The question is– where to start?

I am an avid reader and truly enjoy a good scary book.    I love story about vampires, werewolves and demons.    I have always loved the strange and macabre.   As a child, I read comics with super heroes like everyone else, but my favorite was the “Tales from the Crypt” type.   School was always a challenge with their limited reading material for book reports.  I would usually choose something penned by Edgar Allan Poe or a thriller from Alfred Hitchcock to fulfill my academic requirements.  While these classic sustained me through school, they never grabbed me the way Anne Rice’s “Interview with a Vampire” did.

I have read many books over the years by many authors and for years my two favorite authors had been Anne Rice and Stephen King.  I always read everything they wrote.  It has only been recently that I have expanded my list of favorites to include JR Ward and her books about the “Black Dagger Brotherhood,” and LA Banks and her “Vampire Huntress” series.  Both of which are outstanding authors.  Don’t get me wrong there are many authors whom I have read that are also good in a paranormal romance kind of way.  But for a true horror buff, I feel cheap trying to get my fix with these love induced, happily ever after, supernatural tales.

Well, this week I stumble across another author to add to my list.  I just finished a book from DD Barant called “Dying Bites” and found it to be a joy to read.   The character was a wise cracking “Criminal Mind” profiler in an altered universe where 99 percent of the population is supernatural leaving only one percent human.  She is stalking a murderer who is also human, which causes her to question whether the side she is on is the right one or not.

This book has everything; vamps, weres, another universe, throw in a modern version of Golems, add some HP Lovecraft elder G-ds and I am in reader’s heaven.

In my busy world a moment of pause! As I find that Ted Kennedy has passed away last night. He will be missed.

Big Bang Theory! Nerds Rule!

Wondering where my little cherib is …not answering his cell phone…why did I buy it…if he won’t answer it???? Question of the day!

Listening to a medly of Michael…his great talent will be missed.

okay feeling geeky…pinging from my phone using opera browser ..good night

Another day in Paradise…1 more hour to go