Reading: Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze by Kenneth Robbeson
Music: Tito & Tarantula
TV/Movie: From Dusk 'til Dawn
Link o' the Day: Near Dark Road

Welcome to rainy Friday. Well, drizzly more than rainy. But it's Friday and I'm glad the weekend is here. It's going to be a broke weekend, so no book-buying splurges this week. Just as well as I'm still reading the swag from last week.

I'm going to try and do chores this weekend, trusting that it's not going to be oppressively gray the entire time. The trick, too, I think is getting an early start and not lose momentum in the morning. Because I have a tendency to wake up early, even on weekends, I get up early, run the outdoor chores (shopping, banking, laundry, etc.) then come home and go back to bed for a while. While I can still do work later in the day, I tend not to do as much physical work until evening, whereas if I get home, and immediately start on some physical work, I'll get a decent amount done before I break sometime around noon or early afternoon. And I'm still likely to do more later in the day.

But man, when sleep doth make its tempting call.... ah well. Courage.

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I have a lot of books. Many books. Too many?

Never!

But still, it's a lot. And they need places to go. I'm going to have to do some more re-organizing of my bookshelves, and maybe figure out how to set up some additional shelves.

On an unrelated note, I was just thinking how much fun I had once demolishing a basement with a wrecking bar and a sledgehammer, and how much cleaning it all up sucked.

Back to the books though. One thing I'm going to do is set up one (small) section of shelf to be my "vanity shelf"--that being all the books in which a story of mine appears. I suppose I could share it with the shelf of books which I designed and did the layout work for. That one would take up considerably more space.

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Imagine if Robert Rodrigues and Quentin Tarantino filmed a remake of Near Dark? Wouldn't that be the best damn vampire movie ever? Not that the original isn't one of my favorite horror films ever, but if someone can have the cojones to remake The Hitcher, then they should be able to scrounge up the money for a Near Dark remake. More explosions. More gunfights. More car chases.

Hmmm, but that's what they already did in From Dusk 'til Dawn and then raised the ante for zombies in Planet Terror. Ah well. it's just a thought. I'm not a big fan of vampire movies, but I love From Dusk 'til Dawn and Near Dark.

But, if they did remake Near Dark, they would have to get Lance Henriksen and Bill Paxton to play the same roles. Well, Lance Henriksen at the very least.

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Today's link goes to Near Dark Road, a very odd fanpage dedicated to the movie Near Dark. It's a little amateurish, but you can feel the love coming off the pages.

Cheers!