It is now October 1, 2024 server time, but for me it is still September 30th, and I want to include this under this date, especially because I have come to a revelation lately.

I am bored.

I was reluctant to admit this, even to myself, because I have no reason to be bored. And really, being bored is a privilege that a lot of people would like to have. First world problems, and all that. I am also in a place where I get to do fun, interesting things: bicycle up into the Bitterroot Mountains and explore beautiful natural areas that some people pay thousands of dollars for a chance to get to visit for a week. And if I don't have quite the gumption to do that, I have an entire internet of fun and learning, I can chill out by watching hours of YouTube videos where I might actually learn something...or, if I lack the gumption for that, I can very easily hear people lay out their deepest secrets. I mean, that happens even if I don't want to. I have A Big Ball of String here and I

Born 30 September, 1840 in Christiania (now Oslo), Johan Severin Svendsen grew up in a musical environment as his father was a military bandmaster and music teacher. Certainly by age nine he already had shown some talent, having learned the violin well enough to be playing in local orchestras, and he joined a military band at fifteen. By the time he finished his schooling he was touring as an orchestral violinist. It was during

…a good slasher movie doesn't have to be well-acted, believable or suspenseful. It’s quite enough that it keeps you entertained, includes several good, violent set pieces, and leaves you shocked. Robert Hiltzik's Sleepaway Camp is a perfect example of such an effort. It's an exceptionally bad movie but a very good slasher.
—Bartlomiej Paszylk, The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey. McFarland, 2009.

This low-budget 1983