I don’t like horror movies.
Well, maybe I do. I don’t like gory movies, which is what most of today’s horror movies are. Being scared, at least a little bit scared, is kinda fun.
Recently, I went to Walt Disney World — I’m an annual pass holder and live 4 hours away, so it’s not that hard to get to every few weeks — and rode the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Hollywood Studios. The nice lady I was with rode it, too.
This was the second time I’d ridden it — the first was with one of my grandsons — but her first. She had chickened out of riding it during an earlier trip. This time, though, she decided to do it.
She had a blast. I had almost as much fun watching her terror turn to delight as I did riding it myself.
So, yeah, scary isn’t bad. And horror movies aren’t bad. They’re good. Just that gory stuff is what I don’t like.
Speaking of horror movies, you know what the first one was? Well, you’re about to find out.
I’ve seen it before. If you haven’t seen it, maybe we’ll watch it together one night.
Anyway, enough of that. What’s on your mind? Got something you’d like to share? It’s Monday Night Open Thread, and you pick the topics.
Who wants to start?
This seems an appropriate soundtrack for 9/11 (Where’s Iowa Jim when you need him?) —
A YouTube video described thus:
“Pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii bursts into tears when he plays at Carnegie Hall his own composition Elegy for the Victims of the Tsunami of March 11, 2011 in Japan.”
On top of being a composer and a pianist and a caring human being, he was born blind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqoV4ZW7xTA
(4 min. 52 sec.)
Consider how much sadder he’d be to think of lives lost to human terror, rather than to nature’s terror.
No thank you. The 8 year Obama Horror Movie was enough for me.