Drunk Strega is totally adorable.

Drunk Strega is totally adorable.

Yeah, but nothing's going to beat Ple's Red Bull and Vodka drunken belligerence.

"What the fuck ever!"

(do they have a more identifying name?)

Xenomorph. I don't know how widely recognized it is, though. If you'd said "Xenomorph" I'd know you meant Alien(s)(^3)(etc.) but it doesn't roll off the tongue and I can't always remember the term myself.

You don't know! You're a drunk valley girl!

I totally am!

But I do get what you're saying. I am just fond of theorizing because, hey, that's fun. Any other day but today I'd probably have said Jaws is a horror movie, because it does use the tropes. The lead-up here made me think about how I'd personally definite horror as a sub-genre. And just like horsies & cowboy hats doesn't automatically make a story into a western, I'd have to say scary man-eating beasts don't inherently make it horror. Which I think is how I got to here.

Man, it'll be fun when I get to reread this tomorrow night and wonder what the hell I'm talking about. If I ask, please assure me that this made sense to me at the time.

I am just fond of theorizing because, hey, that's fun.

It totally is!

And just like horsies & cowboy hats doesn't automatically make a story into a western, I'd have to say scary man-eating beasts don't inherently make it horror. Which I think is how I got to here.

Yeah, but check this: Jaws knockoff movies (like, Piranha, and Alligator - both Sayles scripts incidentally) are indisputably horror movies. The fact that Jaws straddles the line between a manly seafaring adventure and horror, does not diminish the fact its influence was entirely in the horror genre.

I think there is a whole kind of horror that is based on inevitability and unstopability rather than evil. I can't think of examples from movies offhand, but from literature "Incident at Owl Creek Bridge" - definitely horror, definitely based on fate rather than evil. Maybe "Jeeper Creepers"? Ultimately the monster is just carrying out its natural (supernatural?) cycle. Pretty malign though, don't know that I have a strong case there. A lot of the twilight zone was horror rather than pure science fiction or fantasy. And a lot of those horror episodes were irony of fate rather than evil malignant villian.

Hey, I had to type xenomorph while I was drunk. A couple of times! And y'all don't even know. I'm good at proofreading things to make it look like I'm only kinda drunk. It's a lot like when I was recapping! Um, ahem. But if there was no proofreading I'd be posting faster and also my posts would be like this

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So see what you're missing? I know.

(P.S. I'm going to be reading Nextwave soon.)

ZOMG

Do you have the theme song? I can email you the theme song if not. You neeeeeeeeed it. I'm pretty sure Amazon said that "if you like Strega drunkposting, you'll love Warren Ellis writing NextWave."

Edited because I fucked up my own drunken joke. Sigh.

I do not have the theme song! Send it to me! Do I listen to it before, after, or during reading?

based on inevitability and unstopability rather than evil.

The Final Destination series? You cheat death and death works overtime to balance its books?

Okay, drunk unedited Strega's pretty fun.

The Final Destination series? You cheat death and death works overtime to balance its books?

Yeah, that is a good example.