Poultry Zombies
It’s been a while since I cooked something new. Of course, even when cooking the same old things, I rarely use the same recipe twice. Things are always thrown in or tossed out, based on what i have handy or what i feel like at the time. It’s a nice creative outlet for me.
Right now, i’ve got a chicken roasting in the oven, and I hope it’s absolutely delicious. It was originally supposed to be a sage roasted chicken, but the store didn’t have any of it, so i had to make due with some garlic and thyme. I’m pretty sure it will be fine, but it’s always a bit of a crap shoot to be honest. Although thyme+chicken+garlic is a pretty standard combination. I just hope that Italian Red Onion that I shoved up the bird will add a bit more earthiness to that bad boy.
Later tonight I might make some chocolate chip cookies, because i’ve wanted to cook a lot lately, and, well, they are damn tasty.
Apart from cooking, one thing that has been bugging me is the fact that people, upon being asked for scary movie recommendations, like to throw in “Aliens.” Alien is a horror movie, Aliens 3 is hardly a movie at all, but Aliens is an action movie. It’s a damn good action movie, but it’ still not horror. I suppose I can forgive people for this transgression because it’s not a big deal, and it does frighten people at times, but c’mon people- if aliens is what you think of when you want to see a scary movie…
Also, I’m very partial to undead/supernatural horror movies. Slasher movies, or movies with a human villain are generally too stupid or mind numbing to be good. Granted zombie movies aren’t the ground breaking or riveting experiences that they could be, but they are scarier.
I think the only slasher movie that I ever really enjoyed was Friday the 13th, with Jason vorhees mother being the killer- that was both a twist and a scary movie. Ever since, we’ve been given garbage like I know what you did last summer, etc etc. Scream was pretty much the only good slasher in the past decade, and that was mostly because it refused to take itself seriously.
The reason I’m discussing this is because I watched REC again, with friends, and everyone thought it was pretty scary. Dan actually jumped a few times, and jokes were kept to a minimum save for an awesome “that’s what she said” reference. Oh, and a paris hilton reference. But I implore anyone who might ever read this, see the movie. It scared the shit outta me when I watched it alone. Watch it, and realize that a movie doesn’t have to do anything new to scare you, it just has to do it well. And I don’t think any of it was off limits.
I’m rambling now, so i’ll let y’all go. But i need to see a few more scary movies- it really would make my day.