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A Review…really: The Loved Ones
Sean Byrne’s creepy Toronto Film Festival darling is screening at AFI Film Fest on Halloween and it’s worth the price of admission. Oh wait, it’s free! The Loved Ones will wow horror buffs next week. Here’s a review that tells you why. I had a blast watching Zombieland. I had fun watching Paranormal Activity. But seeing the big studio’s creations and picks made me hunger like a droopy goth vampire in Twilight for a true indie horror film. And I’m not indie horror groupie. I’m picky. It takes a special, twisted mind to grab my heart. The Loved Ones has done that. I fell in love with this movie. First, I have a love for horror mov

MOVIE REVIEW (ending in a rant): PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
Anyone who loves horror movies, loves low budget filmmaking, loves indie film or facebooks knows about Paranormal Activity. As someone who has seen $15K short films that sucked and multi-million dollar horror that sucked. I am completely awestruck by this film. And I am even more awestruck by the way it’s been marketed. If you like old school horror and you are not jaded by high budget screamers, then see this film. It’s for those of us who have a high suspension of disbelief and were more scared by Robert Wise’s The Haunting than any FX laden gorefest in the last 20 years. If you watch film to point out the wires on the floating bed and the zipper on

oooh, what to sell…
So coincidentally, as I’m contemplating what I’d put in my dream shop, John said, “We haven’t done our merchandising plan for STRIPPED yet. You’re good at that. Can you do that this week?” And then he emailed me stuff he’d want to merchandise…t-shirts, figurines (oohh, little cannibal strippers…how cute!), toys, clothes, cd’s, posters, etc. etc. So I got on the sourcing trail and found some very unique ways to promote and merchandise a movie…. 1. Private label wine – Our very own blood red wine. This seems the most fun. I’ve emailed two wineries in Texas and one in Northern California.

i want a store. with a door. and a hardwood floor. even if it makes me poor.
So every few years I get a hankering for a little brick and mortar shop. I seldom care what’s in it. Usually, the stock turns into something I already have -a physical ebay shop that’s all me. My first foray into entrepreneurial bliss was book fairs. I was doing book fairs all over the country in the hopes of making enough money to open a real solid store. I did these book fairs with my lovely friends Harvey and Louis who now have their own gorgeous, cozy brick and mortar in West Hollywood, Mystery Pier Books. I was known in the bookselling world as “Erotica Woman.” My books were far from conventional se

Christianity can be really depressing sometimes…
Funny story about this story in the video… A little backstory, first. (Lots of story today). I was raised by a Shinto-Buddhist and an agnostic from Kansas (which I swear is a sect of non-Christian Christian that deserves a name). But my two loving parents wanted me to get a good education in a strong moral arena. Not knowing a thing about Christian schools, they assumed that would be a good place to get smarts and morality…so I spent my childhood in a First Christian School where I learned that the world would end in a matter of days and “what do you want to be when you grow up” had only two answers: “taken up in the rapture” or ̶