People are so emotionally fragile nowadays that Halloween will probably cease to be a holiday in another few years. So, we better enjoy this upcoming October because who knows what the future might hold.

Here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week, as I prepared for the annual Shattered Lens horrorthon!

Films I Watched:

1. Aaron Loves Angela (1975)
2. Bad Girl (2017)
3. Bury The Past (2021)
4. Cheer For Your Life (2021)
5. Deep Blue Nightmare (2021)
6. Driven to Kill (2021)
7. Hiding Out (1987)
8. Killer Cheer Mom (2021)
9. Mahler (1974)
10. Malicious Motives (2021)
11. Pom Poms and Payback (2021)
12. The Price of Fitting In (2021)
13. Psycho Intern (2021)
14. Psycho Storm Chaser (2021)
15. Pumpkinhead (1988)
16. The Secrets She Keeps (2021)
17. The Taking Pelham One Two Three (1974)
18. To Save A Life (2009)
19. The Wasp Woman (1959)
20. The Wrong Cheer Captain (2021)

Television Show I Watched:

1. Bachelor in Paradise
2. Big Brother
3. Dancing with the Stars
4. Friday the 13th: The Series
5. King of the Hill
6. Ordinary Joe
7. Smash
8. Survivor
9. The Ultimate Surfer
10. The Voice
11. The Walking Dead

Books I Read:

1. Who Killed The Homecoming Queen (1997) by R.L. Stine

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Backstreet Boys
2. Big Data
3. The Beatles
4. Blotto
5. Bob Dylan
6. Britney Spears
7. The Chemical Brothers
8. Coldplay
9. Crud
10. The Crystal Method
11. Daft Punk
12. deadmau5
13. Fitz and the Tantrums
14. Jakalope
15. Jake Bugg
16. Jimmy Cliff
17. Katy Perry
18. Lorde
19. Muse
20. O-Town
21. Phantogram
22. Saint Motel
23. Siouxsie and the Banshees
24. Staind
25. Taylor Swift
26. Toots & The Maytals

Trailers:

1. The Tragedy of MacBeth
2. Night Teeth

News from Last Week:

1. Director Melvin Van Peebles Dies At 87
2. Director Roger Michell Dies At 65
3. Actor Willie Garson Dies At 57
4. Anthony ‘AJ’ Johnson, ‘Friday’ and ‘House Party’ actor, dead at 55
5. Twitter lashes out over celebrities at 2021 Emmys going maskless
6. Here’s who was left out of the 2021 Emmys’ In Memoriam tribute
7. ‘WandaVision’ fans cry that Marvel show was ‘robbed’ at 2021 Emmys
8. Ex-ABC News boss Ben Sherwood accused of ‘creepy,’ ‘sexually harassing behavior’ at Disney-owned network
9. CNN stays silent on Chris Cuomo after Shelley Ross’ sexual harassment allegations
10. William Shatner to go to space in Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket ship
11. Chris Pratt’s ‘Super Mario Bros.’ casting angers Italians and Nintendo fans
12. ‘Doctor Who’ Showrunner Russell T. Davies to Return for Next Season
13. The Criterion Channel’s October 2021 Lineup Brings Horror, Kirk Douglas, Edgar Wright & More

Links From Last Week:

1. For Rolling Stone, good politics make good music
2. The World’s Common Tater’s Week In Books, Movies, and TV
3. The State of the Race: How the Oscars Can Avoid the Mistakes of the Emmys

Links From The Site:

1. Erin shared: Lord Vanity, Build My Gallows High, Some Die Slow, Swamp Sister, The Wench Is Dead, Oh Careless Love, and Four Lost Ladies!
2. Jeff shared music videos from Gerry Rafferty, April Wine, Kate Bush, Rainbow, David Bowie, The Specials, and Bootcamp!
3. Ryan interviewed Austin English and took a look at Monsters and The Butchery!
4. I reviewed the latest episode of The Walking Dead and shared my week in television!

More From Us:

1. Ryan has a patreon! You should consider subscribing!
2. For SOLRAD, Ryan reviewed Jesusfreak!
3. At Days Without Incident, Leonard shared September and Ni Ten Ichi Ryu!
4. At her photography site, Erin shared: Forbidden Tree, Creeping Up, Texas Nice, Looking for the Sun, Grass, Hole In A Tree, and Evening Approaches!
5. At Pop Politics, Jeff shared: It Could Still Happen, Beto Again, Pop Politics Endorses Curtis Sliwa For Mayor of New York, Is Nature Healing?, 2024 Profile: Francis X. Suarez, 2024 Profile: Rick Scott, and In Honor Of October and The Tomb of Dracula!
6. On my music site, I shared songs from Britney Spears, deadmau5, Saint Motel, The Beatles, Taylor Swift, The Chemical Brothers, and Blotto!
7. At my dream journal, I shared all sorts of disturbing dreams: Last Night’s Plane Crash Dream, Last Night’s Stalker Nightmare, Last Night’s Backyard Nightmare, Last Night’s Detective Nightmare, No Dreams Last Night, Last Night’s Blogging Dream, and Last Night’s Dream Within A Dream!
8. I reviewed Big Brother the Big Brother Blog!
9. At the Reality TV Chat Blog, I shared My Mistake, It’s Time To Open Up The Diary Room For Week 12, Survivor 41.1 “A New Age,” About Tonight, and Big Brother 23 — The Results of Parts One and Two of the Final HoH Competition!

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