What a strange week.

I started out hoping against hope that the Titanic submersible would be found.  Of course, by the time it was found, it was already too late.  A lot of people online took seemed to take a ghoulish joy in the tragedy, reminding me of just how awful some people can be.

(I have to be honest.  Whenever I heard about the submersible in the past, I assumed that it was built and equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and that it was being guided by grizzled but competent Navy veterans.  I didn’t realize it was basically just something that someone made in their back yard.)

I then got caught up in the Russian “coup,” which turned out to be a big nothing.  On Saturday afternoon, I tweeted this:

And, by the time I returned, it was all over!

And now, today, people are sending me pictures of RFK Jr. without his shirt on and it’s true that, for a 70 year-old, he looks about 10 years younger.  But I kind of yearn for a world where presidential candidates stay off twitter and keep their shirts on.  It’s just shaping up to be a weird year and 2024 is obviously going to be a lot stranger.

As for this week, I continued to work on my reviews for this year’s Horrorthon.  I’m getting an early start so I can enjoy October this year as opposed to spending all of my time playing catch-up.  I finished watching all of the religious films and now I’m watching movies about serial killers.  It’s a strange world.

Anyway, here’s what I watched, read, and listened to this week!

Films I Watched:

1. 2025 — The World Enslaved By A Virus (2020)
2. A Little Game (1971)
3. The Cross and the Switchblade (1970)
4. Cross Purposes (2021)
5. Day of Defense (2003)
6. D.C. Sniper (2010)
7. Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas (2009)
8. Edge of Salvation (2012)
9. End of Days: Global Catastrophe (2019)
10. Exodus of the Prodigal Son (2020)
11. The Exterminator (1980)
12. Freeway Killer (2010)
13. Happy Gilmore (1996)
14. Hot Fuzz (2007)
15. Plane (2023)
16. Prayer Never Fails (2017)
17. Step Over The Edge (1976)
18. The Texas Railroad Killer (2022)
19. Tiger Claws (1991)
20. The Touch (2005)
21. Trust (2018)
22. The World’s End (2013)
23. The Wristwatch (2020)

Television Shows I Watched:

1. Andor
2. Are You Being Served?
3. Beavis and Butt-Head
4. Bubblegum Crisis
5. City Guys
6. Dancing With The Stars
7. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
8. The Love Boat
9. Making the Cut
10. The Master
11. Night Flight
12. So You Think You Can Dance
13. Welcome Back Kotter

Books I Read:

1. Up With The Sun (2023) by Thomas Mallon

Music To Which I Listened:

1. Adi Ulmansky
2. Annie Hardy
3. Britney Spears
4. The Chemical Brothers
5. Christina Aguilera
6. Fiona Apple
7. Haim
8. The Hives
9. Kid Rock
10. Kylie Minogue
11. Lynard Skynard
12. Muse
13. Phantogram
14. Public Service Broadcasting
15. Saint Motel
16. Taylor Swift

Live Tweets:

1. Tiger Claws
2. Hot Fuzz
3. Happy Gilmore
4. The World’s End

Trailers:

1. Priscilla
2. Drive-Away Dolls

News From Last Week:

1. Actor Fredric Forrest dies at 86
2. Dean Smith, Olympian-turned-stutman, dies at 91
3. Former Megadeth drummer Lee Rauch dies
4. Guitarist John Waddington dies at 63
5. Human remains found near where Julian Sands went missing
6. No Hard Feelings opens soft
7. ‘The Flash’ Box Office ‘Disaster’ Exposes DC’s $1.1 Billion Problem for Warner Bros.
8. All five passengers on missing Titanic submersible dead after catastrophic implosion
9. Lost with the Titanic: Will submarine passengers’ remains ever be found?

Links From Last Week:

1. Is This America’s Most Dangerous Hike? I Found New Video Of Our Hike To Angel’s Landing!
2. Tater’s Week in Review 6/24/23

Links From The Site:

1. I reviewed Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, The Master, and Welcome Back Kotter!
2. I reviewed A Tattered Web and Plane!
3. I shared my week in television!
4. I paid tribute to Billy Widler!
5. I shared a scene from Evil Dead II!
6. Jeff shared music videos from Andy Summers, Whitesnake, Pantera, Iron Maiden, Phil Collins, U2, and Metallica!
7. Erin shared Walk in Darkness, The Search, The Murders of Fox Island, Road Kid, Summer Sidewalk, The Young Titan, and Super Science Stories!

More From Us:

1. At my music site, I shared songs from Phantogram, Kylie Minogue, Christina Aguilera, The Hives, Kid Rock, Haim, and Annie Hardy!
2. At Days Without Incident, Leonard share music from Spider-Man Across The Spider Verse and John Mayer!
3. At her photography site, Erin shared Do Not Enter, Head in the Shadows, They’re Coming To Get You, Best Friends, Evening Tree, Get Down, and This Tree!

Want to see what I did last week?  Click here!