Somewhere between the extinction of pigtails and the emergence of platinum locks, I have morphed into my grandmother and hence inherited consent to use the phrase, "When I was a girl." Now this isn't something I use consciously or often even, but it has nonetheless become part of my repertoire. I made just a few modifications, in keeping consistent with my progressive nature I have traded "girl" for "a child" or simply "younger".
This evening while home alone, the usual-the little people are people people. I furtively scanned through the channels of our paid for and seldom enjoyed DirectTV. I found The Omen. The Omen has topped my list as the scariest movie I've ever seen for years. This movie's score-y'know the eery opera thing, had me afraid to flush the toilet at night even after I was living on my own! So anyway, it was already an hour in, but being the big girl that I am and after years of therapy on how to assert myself and face my fears, I said what the hell. And, as luck would have it, it was a two for one deal. It was on The Chiller channel. Do you remember Chiller?
This evening while home alone, the usual-the little people are people people. I furtively scanned through the channels of our paid for and seldom enjoyed DirectTV. I found The Omen. The Omen has topped my list as the scariest movie I've ever seen for years. This movie's score-y'know the eery opera thing, had me afraid to flush the toilet at night even after I was living on my own! So anyway, it was already an hour in, but being the big girl that I am and after years of therapy on how to assert myself and face my fears, I said what the hell. And, as luck would have it, it was a two for one deal. It was on The Chiller channel. Do you remember Chiller?
Chiller was- as my grandmother once explained upon my entering her room in tears, " What you get for not taking your behind to bed when I told you to". Well, not only is Chiller a network now, but the ghastly hand is cybernetic and, it has an eye! Who could've known?! Come to think of it when I was a girl I wouldn't have been able to share this nonsensical musing with the world! The times they are a changing. Anyway, it's time for the Chiller network's second frightful feature! Peace.
8 comments:
I, too, use the phrase 'when I was a boy' quite often, probably more than I should. 'The Omen' sent me scurrying to the back of the couch when I was younger and it still does, I'm afraid to admit. It's the build up to it that does it for me over and over.
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Eeep!
Scary movies are not for me!
Chiller - that looks vaguely familiar from the time "when I was a girl." I have always loved frightening films - the scarier the better.
Oh...My...GOD! I remember Chiller Theater and being scared out of my gourd watching The Eye, or The Thing, or whatever was on then.
Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane.
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Ha! That's so funny because every time Sebastian tells a story about when he was really little, he starts it out with "When I was a boy.......", which never fails to make me think of that shitty book The Old Man and the Sea. I've never been into scary movies. They're too......scary.
ha! at 25 i find myself saying "back in my day" every now and then. things just seem so different even from when i was a child.
chiller is totally new to me. that hand is kinda creepy.
i loved that movie, liked the scene when the glass decapitated jones
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