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Hello again (thanks for the collective 'you should probably re-consider this' last time because I kind of needed that), I've got some more weirdly specific questions that I kind of am not sure how to begin tackling:

So one of my characters is a Japanese man who sort of has a thing for schlocky pulpy horror movies, and while I'm aware of some popular-ish examples of sort of cult horror films in Japan ( Like House (1977) or Tetsuo The Iron Man (1989) which vaguely fit his themes of 'being deeply uncomfortable with the world and his body') but these always struck me as kind of obvious and well known even outside of japan and not something someone who was really into weird stuff would actually select as a 'favorite'. For the sake of clarity: this is set in the present so even relatively recent films are okay.

I guess in general I'm looking for recommendations for stuff this sort of guy would be interested in, or at least something that someone who's a bit of a weird horror junkie would consider a personal favorite.

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Guess who won a chest X-ray, a nebulizer treatment, and will be picking up antibiotics, steroids, and prescription cough syrup? So fun.

The chest X-ray was totally fine, yay. And some of the rattling cough, congestion, and face pain are definitely due to a building sinus infection.

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Damn, it's been a while since I updated. We went to San Francisco for the 2nd MCR show, and it was as fantastic as the first. There were some minor tweaks done to the non-music parts of the performance, and from what I hear more minor tweaks were done for the two L.A shows. Gerard Way is indeed living his best theatre kid life.

The SF "stage B" performance (when they perform non- Black Parade songs) wasn't as meaningful for me as the Seattle one. They didn't play "Thank You for the Venom" or "Vampires Will Never Hurt You", sigh. To the delight of others in the crowd, they covered "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" by Smashing Pumpkins. I say "to the delight of others" because I am a Seattle Old and Have Opinions about Smashing Pumpkins. (Not as bad as my opinions about Courtney Love, but I still Have Opinions.)

We also got to hang out with friends while in SF, one of whom was celebrating her 50th, yay! And we made a pilgrimage to Borderlands Books, where I foolishly looked in the rare books cabinet and then spent money on a first edition of The Vinegar Works, a three book box set of Edward Gorey books. (While I was dithering the Stroppy One said, "Will you regret not buying it?", which made it clear it needed to be mine.)

I brought a rotten cold home from SF; It's been slightly over a week and there's a crackling sensation when I breathe, so I'm headed to a clinic later today to (probably) get a z-pack and steroids.

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OH MY GOD THE TEASER FOR S3 OF ~~INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE~~ THE VAMPIRE LESTAT. Part of the teaser did confirm they're changing the name of the show, because the upcoming season focuses on my beloved egotistical vampire rock star boyfriend. Remember before the show premiered when I had concerns about Sam Reid playing Lestat, and how those concerns were blown to dust after episode one? Holy mother of god, Sam Reid has been possessed by the spirit of Lestat and I am frothing at the mouth about that teaser. I'm also stamping my feet in frustration because we have to wait until 2026 for the show omg I need it NOOOWWWWW.

So between MCR stuff and Lestat content, my Tumblr has been fannish incoherency. In L.A MCR played an unreleased song from the scrapped "Paper Kingdom" album. As I said over there, all I need now is for Hannibal S4 to be announced and my head really will explode.