tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post116084467194355516..comments2024-03-17T02:20:03.772-05:00Comments on Riding With The Top Down: Susie talks about a writer's curseKathleen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561028604927993773noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-1160866428173452502006-10-14T17:53:00.000-05:002006-10-14T17:53:00.000-05:00I'm weird. I can shut some things off and not oth...I'm weird. I can shut some things off and not others. And there's not necessarily any rhyme or reason.<BR/><BR/>I love scary movies, but not these new gory things they're coming out with these days. Like to be scared, not petrified or grossed out.<BR/><BR/>I left in the middle of King Kong because it was just TOO much. The big worm eating things in the swamp or river, or whatever it was - I couldn't deal. But Sin City didn't bother me in the least.<BR/><BR/>Susie, I'm guessing you won't be seeing Snakes on a Plane!!Helen Brennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08680081195181747377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-1160864747811433622006-10-14T17:25:00.000-05:002006-10-14T17:25:00.000-05:00Susie, I am something of a news junkie, but I ofte...Susie, I am something of a news junkie, but I often regret having had the news on during dinner when my kids were little. I think all the bad news(especially about children!!) can make our kids anxious and prone to bad dreams and taking on too much emotional load. Don't have much trouble with flying. . . I figure if I go, at least the kids get the insurance.<BR/><BR/>Deb, I'm with you. . . horror movies are the pits. . . especially this new wave of ultra specific horror like the "Saw" flims and that one about the guys who get lured into a warehouse and tortured. Also there was one about the hills having eyes or something that was so graphic even a lot of horror fans cringed. <BR/><BR/>I can read it on the page, but I can only take so much of the stuff on the screen. And that goes for explicit violence as well. I squirm through some of Hollywood's more graphic stuff. . . especially if it involves women or children. A History of Violence stayed with me for way too long. And there are acouple of actors I now avoid like the plague because I can't get the image of them in a sadistic role out of my head. Ugh.<BR/><BR/>But as for phobias. . . high edges, a version of heights. Don't like being around snakes too much. the thought of boiling live lobsters and then dismembering them, and of force-feeding geese to fatten their livers makes me cringe. Otherwise. . . I'm pretty good. Except for the hissing cockroach thing. . .<BR/><BR/>;) BetinaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-1160851623283002532006-10-14T13:47:00.000-05:002006-10-14T13:47:00.000-05:00Susie--I so cannot watch a horror film. Can't do ...Susie--<BR/><BR/>I so cannot watch a horror film. Can't do it. Somehow when I was a teenager I got rooked into Texas Chainsaw Massacre. To this day I cannot tell you how someone got me into that movie. But there I was, horrified (as advertised) with my hands over my ears and my eyes shut swearing no one would ever get me into one of those movies again.<BR/><BR/>I can do SF/F, no problem. I can do horror on the printed page (pretty much) but I cannot watch present-day horror in which "real" (non-alien, non-magical, non-supernatural) people do awful things to other real people.<BR/><BR/>And spiders. Oh, will I do the freaky dance of terror if I even think I've got a spider on my arm, my chair, if I walk through spider silk outside.Debra Dixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03992776098849029414noreply@blogger.com