I have a theory....

Ok, so for those of you who are fans of American Horror Story, you might not want to read ahead for possible spoilers, not that I know what's going on, but I have my own theories as to what will happen at some point during this season.

Ryan Murphy lives to shock his audience, no matter what genre he goes for. Nip/Tuck, Glee, American Horror Story; his creations abound. However, this new season of American Horror Story: Coven, is possibly the best of the three, even though there have only been three episodes.

I significantly like Evan Peter's character more in this season than the others he portrayed in the series.

However, the most hilarious of them all is Emma Roberts' role as Madison Montgomery. Nancy Drew meets Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Except she's a bitch and kind of a slut.

I thoroughly enjoy each season of American Horror Story, despite the differences. That's the fun part. There's always so many different genres pushed into one season, it can't really be put in one category and really answer any questions.

Personally, I'm glad that Jamie Brewer returned to the series. First, she played as Adelaide "Addy" Langdon in the first season of American Horror Story. She only wanted to be a "pretty girl."

I, again, am glad that they brought her back. Although my roommate says they should've brought back Pepper, from season two, Asylum, of American Horror Story.

To get down and dirty about the series, Kathy Bates plays an almost hilarious role as an immortal bitch from the slave era who took too much advantage of her "help" in a sadistic way that was severely unkind. Obviously, turning someone into a minotaur is not a kind gesture.

Speaking of Minotaurs, during episode 3, we really get an idea of who Angela Basset's character is. Plus we get a good long glimpse of the Minotaur that Kathy Bates' character created in the first episode; now forever a Minotaur because of Angela Bassett? Questions abound.

The scene with Gabourey Sidibe and the Minotaur was kind of alluring and seductive. Sadly, he kills her. He killed the girl who played Precious in that movie Precious.

However, she sacrificed herself for Kathy Bates' racist ass.

Overall, American Horror Story: Coven has quite possibly proven itself to be the best season yet. Keep doing a good job, those of you working on this season.

Again: the series in itself has always used a multitude of genres to fulfil their seasons. 

The first season consisted of: haunted houses, ghosts, serial killers, poltergeists, S&M sexuality, suicide, insanity, and adultery (being kind of the main focus of the whole season).

The second season was: asylums (obviously), aliens, Nazis, genetic experiments, religions, demonic possession, the devil (something separate from demonic possession), and a kind of zombie. Among other things.

Last but not least, my theories on this season: Kathy Bates is our olden day racist, she will eventually get hers. Zoe is going to be the next Supreme, because I think it was her kiss that brought Kyle back to life. Although Lily Rabe's character is taking credit for it. I had thought that Zoe and Madison would be in a battle for Supreme, but seems as though that is not the case.

Anyway, there's so much unanswered. 

Rachel T.

More to come...

Just a short post here. I'll post again after I've seen and analyzed the first two episodes of the new American Horror Story : Coven series.

Movie: Curse of Chucky

Just watched the movie Curse of Chucky.

First of all, the doll is a lot creepier than in the original Chucky doll. The overall motionlessness of the doll makes it severely eerie.

And what a way to make Bolognese sauce look extremely gross.

I already knew that guy's head was going to fall off. Called it.

This movie marks the sixth movie in the "Chucky" saga. It's slowly working it's movie numbers into the ranks of Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street and Saw. I hate to include that last one only because I don't like exce sive gore. I only saw the first few Saw movies, then happened upon the Hostel movies. I don't like gore, like I said (before; rhyme), but I mostly got used to the gore. It's not real. It just looks overly-real.

The Chucky doll in this movie is overly-real as well. The original Chucky doll was also real - for the 80's. It's creepy that now we have a doll that seems so much more doll-like than life-like. It's just a doll. It doesn't even look like it possesses an evil soul; whereas I feel in the original Chucky movies, the doll was so much more realistically driven than doll-like.

Side note: I think it's kind of hilarious that Brad Dourif's daughter is the main character in this movie. For those of you who don't know who Brad Dourif is, he is the voice of Chucky. Among other various roles as a creepy dude.

I mention this, because I think it's only slightly silly that they allude to the fact that the main character's parents knew the serial killer Charles Lee Ray before he eventually died and his soul possessed the Chucky doll. Then low and behold, they bring in stuff from the first Chucky movie. Nica, Brad Dourif's daughter, uses the great Google machine and does research. Again - low and behold - she finds out some crazy stuff about the Chucky dolls. Unsolved murders abound in the Google search, but only one sticks out to her: 1988. The first movie, right?

Then, to make matters even worse, the brother-in-law of Nica puts a nanny-cam in the Chucky doll. Doesn't sound like a wise decision, does it?

While watching the movie, I spoiled myself on Wiki, because I don't like feeling like I already know what the answer is to the movie, and I have to find out. Let me say: I. Was. Right.

But I don't want to reveal too many spoilers. Although, if you read this post, it will most likely have many spoilers.

Slowly, of course, Chucky kills off each family member one by one until only one person is left.

Eyeballs have been significantly popular in the movies lately. Eyeballs that are dislodged from their sockets and thrown from the eye. It's happened in a few other movies I can't put my finger on at this particular moment.

Lame that Nica was blamed for her sister's death though. But who is going to believe that a doll killed people in this day and age? Maybe some people, but not a whole lot of others.

For the record, I thought that Jennifer Tilly's character died and was a doll, like Chucky. However, she shows up as a human being in this movie. Odd.... perhaps I should go back and watch the last few movies. Does she come back to life?

Either way, the movie was an overall better movie than a lot of the other sequels in this whole saga. First movies are always the best because it is what everything else is based on for the other movies. Usually.

In an ideal world, all sequels have some significance to the first movie. Too bad that doesn't happen. However, sometimes there are movies that surprise you. Like this one.

Peace and Love,
Rachel 

PS: 2 out of 4 of these pics I screen printed on my computer. (The two in the middle: the eye and the new Chucky). 

Early Morning Post (pun, intended)

I'm not usually up this early, but with my new job, I have to get up early sometimes and shower. (post started at 8:45 am, ended up publishing later)

Anyway, last night I had a bad dream. One that made me realize a few things about my life. It made me come to the conclusion that I don't date for a reason, and I will discuss that here.

First, I have to admit that last night before I went to bed, I saw that an ex of mine was online, and I hadn't heard from him in a while (we were still friends, but now we're not I guess) so I looked at his Facebook page to see what he was up to (instead of just talking to him), and I found out that he has a new girlfriend (why we're not friends any more). I also found out that he got kinda fat and grew some unattractive facial hair.

Anyway, the dream made me realize that every guy that I have ever dated is happier now with someone else. Other than me. Might sound a little like I'm too into myself; quite the opposite. Obviously, since it took a dream for me to realize this makes me a little unaware, sad and awkward. I feel like "the starter girlfriend."

My mom says, "It's just because you haven't met the right person yet."

At one point it was four years between boyfriends, and now I'm working on a span of two years now. Let's see how far we go till we find "the right person" like my mom says.

Mississippi is not the best place to look for someone who is intellectual and funny at the same time.

I was born in Biloxi, raised in Ocean Springs, and currently live in Columbus. My life has practically lived and breathed Mississippi (except for those two, separate, years I lived in Mobile, AL). There is a significant difference between the Coast and the rest of Mississippi.

I'm surrounded by the South, and as far as I know, there is no way out for me.

Peace,
Rachel

Not as drunk as I was before...

Going to post a thing I said about Rivers, a novel by my favorite teacher Dr. Michael Farris Smith. He, along with one other teacher (Mrs. Moffett), taught me a lot about short story writing.

I've been reading Rivers by Michael Farris Smith. Haunting. Perhaps more so than The Road by McCarthy, which I had to put down because it was too depressing. But I'm not having this problem with Rivers: possibly because it has very close ties to my homeland, and he is a mentor of mine. Cormac McCarthy - although brilliant - can be depressing. But Dr. Smith does the craft of literature a favor by writing this novel. It's not a Katrina novel, but it's also not a complete end of the world, apocalypse story; except for the region of the world that probably deserves it the most.

Now, I support my teachers, buying their works, reading them and then trying to find a non-bias way to read it, without not loving it because someone I know who wrote it. 

(Had the same problem with Smith's novella "The Hands of Strangers." I got it when it first came out a few years ago, and acted astonished when other people didn't have copies, if they lived in the South. I don't just mean in Columbus, MS. After I read it, I figured a whole bunch of other people had, because the South is such a tight-knit place, but no one had read Smith's novella, other than a select few who don't count because we all went to the school he taught at and that gives us all an immediate bias against all of his other short stories, for the most part.)