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Speaking of old movies...
Maybe you guys can help me find a movie I saw when I was a kid. It's from either the 80s or 90s and is about a male vampire who holds a woman hostage one night. He is either going to kill her after the night is over or kill himself. Can't remember. At one point she gets to see what being a vampire is like (I assume from having some of his blood). Her vision goes black and white (I think), and her thirst for blood overwhelms her. She rushes outside to find the first living things she can. It's a small boy on a tricycle on the sidewalk. She goes to drain the boy, and kill him, but the lead guy stops her. At the end of the movie, I think the guy dies. I feel like he also wears sunglasses for most of the movie? Not sure.
I know that's not a lot to go on, but I hoping one of you have seen it. I tried every search word combo I can think of, I've search lists of vampire movies from the 80s and 90s, and still can't find it. Overall the vibe was moody and tense but there wasn't a lot of action. They discussed things more than anything, if my memories are correct.
At first, I thought the lead guy was Arnold Schwarzenegger, but no such movie shows up on his IMDb page.
Update: More memories! The woman has a son she hasn't seen in a while. The vampire takes her to see him (maybe from afar? Not sure), I assume because he is going to kill her and he is trying to be humane about it. In return for letting her see her son, she gives him his "sun." They go to the beach and she turns a bright spotlight on him as he lays back on the sand. I think she describes what it's like to be at the beach during the day as the light washes over him. At the end of the movie, I'm pretty sure they struggle and she kills him. She never agreed to be his victim. He just took her and was going to kill her and was trying to be nice about it.
The Boys features a lot of head exploding, so maybe that.
I FOUND IT!!!!! Took 3 days and some recovered memories. Dance of the Damned 1989. Gotta admit the production value was way better in my head. In my mind, everything is sharply focused and the script was never cheesy. The reality is a whole other story.
Was video always this bad back then? Were we just used to it? Or do you lose some of the resolution when you convert it from VHS or whatever?
VHS is a pretty lousy format, so hopefully one is converting from the original film prints if at all possible.
As far as reality failing to live up to our memories, that is most often the case. There are a couple movies from my childhood that I'm a little afraid to re-watch, because there's almost no way they're actually as good as I remember.
..so, are you on Lnux?
...where is that? I know that in northern Scotlland the sun sets at after 22:00.
This is southwestern coast of Finland.
...nah he does so in the dunny at the local watering hole where I hang out here in Portland.
wheee figured how to do layered makeup in carrara. got Rynne working, toes, ears, pose controls and everything.
...I can attest that they do as in my former residence there were serious moth issues and I not only had a couple of Harris Tweeds ruined but a lovely Irish cable knit sweater totally eaten. They never went after the rayon sweaters or Hawai'ian shirts. .
...exactly, but it's their larve which actually eat wool and the like
...or a bunch of kids living in Astoria Oregon.
..but those bots that keep being used to buy up GPUs are ebil.
Oh and as to the Tutu and mask, did you ever try a goth Lolita dress with a flamethrower?
...or someone riding a unicycle dressed as Darth Vader while playing bagpipes with flames coming out of the drones.
...that's one of the reasons why I loved my old 1964 Buick Special, no sunroof. The other, I could fix it myself.
...actually, cedar chips work well against moths as well.
...I heard it has something to do with atomic science and Putinesca.
`...ah the other day saw 3DU's toon dog Bacon in real life:
I spoke with his people mentioning so and they dialed up the Daz site. .They agreed.
He was such a lovey buppy.
...more buppy sweetness. Here are two who I met tonight, the first one a part Aussie shepherd and terrier while the other a lovely old (and sadly blind) Spaniel who was 13 and a half years old (that's like 94 in buppy years). The first one came around to my table as his people were leaving to say goodbye to me. Such a sweetie.
Hi guys, sorry, I actually did go to sleep in the end yesterday, so am a bit late with this - but here's the show I was talking about: https://www.netflix.com/de/title/80244781. For quite a few episodes I thought I was onto something good there. But then ... well, I've read the production lost interest in it, and that's what the ending is like really. Still, some neat ideas I thought.
LOVED the gorilla costume, by the way ... Just the tutu missing now!
there's an Astoria in Queens
rynne in carrara. starting to geel happy with it
Non-complaint: Wheee..., excitement in town again this year. It was missed last year. The annual Memorial Day Parade will be held this year (today) in my little town. This little parade may not be much to look at any more, compared to years in my childhood, but it still brings several hundred people from miles around to line the downtown street to watch the Girl Scounts, Boy Scounts, kindergardners, kids on decorated bicycles, hay wagons, antique cars, horses & carriages, George & Martha Washington**, town officials, fire trucks from the town & neighboring communities, highschool marching band, etc.
And it's something to get me out of the house and walk two blocks downtown. I think the local grocery store is open too, at least until noon when the parade starts and the street gets blocked off. Need groceries, milk, bread, salad makin's, apples, grapes. Guess I need to steel myself for the long trek.
It will be interesting to see how the crowd reacts to Covid restrictions. They've been relaxed but are not gone.
** George & Martha Washington: Costumes made by my mother 30 or 40 years ago and worn by my parents for the parade and other civic events around the county for many years until the honor was passed onto others (my sister-in-law's sister & husband).
FYI: The building in the background is the local grocery/gas store. That, and the car repair shop, a furnace service company, and a restaurant/bar are the only businesses left in town. There used to be four full-service gas stations, three grocery stores, two restaurant/bars, a cafe, a train station, a hotel, a meat market, barber shop, hardware store, wood chipping mill, pickle factory, tractor sales office, doctor's office, ice cream parlor, and lumber yard. Progress.
Most of the abandoned business have been torn down and turned into parking lots, so the town doesn't look shabby, just empty.
Non-complaint: Radio in the background was playing one of my favorites. Just a few minutes of quiet reflection in the moonlight.
Claude Debussy: "Clair de Lune"
Well, it looks I'm going to have to dig up Alexander Hamilton...
Apparently, in the 80s a fellow by the name of Byron Preiss created a treasure hunt which was meant to be solved through a puzzle book he wrote called "The Secret"... there are 12 treasures buried in secret locations, and for each there is a collection of verses and a painting which contain clues to where the treasure is buried...the treasures are located in 12 cities across the US and Canada (well, only in Montreal)...
The treasure is a key inside a casque inside a plexiglass box... when you find the key, you are awarded a corresponding gem.
So far, people have found 3 of the boxes, one in Cleveland (2004), one in Chicago (1983), and the most recent in Boston in 2019...
One of the likely locations is in NYC... and from the clues in the verses and painting, I'm pretty sure it was buried somewhere in lower Manhattan or Elis island... Some of the clues might hint at a connection to Alexander Hamilton, and since he is buried in the graveyard of Trinity church I might have to dig him up a little bit... I'll put him back, I doubt it's in his pockets or anything, it's probably like they hid a clue in his jacket or something... technically there is a statue of him that is nearby that probably has something relevant to the clues in its inscription, but you can't be too sure... besides the treasure was hidden in 1982 and I from my 80s adventures in NYC, I can say without much hesitation, in 82' you could have dug up Hamilton in broad daylight and it wouldn't really have gotten much attention... today, things are a tad bit different, so I might need some disguises and good stories as to why I'm using a jackhammer in the middle of Battery Park, but I'm pretty slick about these things...
I made the mistake of mentioning this treasure book to my daughters... one is a bit like Lara Croft and the other is more like Hermione Granger and now Lara Croft is obsessed with finding it and she is dragging her sister into this as well...
I honestly doubt the thing is still there, most of the parks in NYC have been reconstructed multiple times since the 80s and the box in Boston was almost destroyed by a backhoe as the park was being redone, and only by sheer luck did a treasure hunter happen to arrive as the area was being dug up and managed to convince the workers to look for the remains of the box in the area they just dug up.
But it should be fun to dig up another historic corpse and my kids really like the play Hamilton...
I don't actually know how to redeem the key for the gem, in this case, probably a sapphire... Mr. Preiss died in a car accident in East Hampton in 2005 and the guy who found the 2019 Boston treasure hooked up with a TV show for the award ceremony by the guy's widow...
Well... these things usually work themselves out in treasure hunts.
Non-complaint: The parade. Yes indeedy, there was a parade today. My camera was acting up so I didn't get all the photos I wanted but I got enough to prove it happened. And as expected it had many of the usual features.
The Crowd, the firetrucks, George & Martha, the tractors, the antique cars, the hay wagon. What was noticeably missing were kids on bicycles, the kindergarden class, and the horses & fancy carriage.
Complaint: Oh, poo. The DAZ forum won't let me upload the next pictures. Just sits there saying "UPLOADING..."
watched 'i am dragon' twice in a row last night.
the bride laying down in the boat was a bit silly. no idea what language they were speaking.
I should go look for and download the fancy light sets that I bought from the Daz 3D store.
Maybe you should've asked Jeeves.