So this was a weekend of moving. Moving furniture, moving our asses and just generally moving. In fact, I’m sore for the first time in a while and that’s saying something since we’ve been exercising every day since the 1st. But rather than dwell on all that (though I will mention that my Goddaughter is a little burgeoning goth girl and I couldn’t be more proud, even painted her bedroom really dark purple this weekend to match her heart), let’s talk about the fun shit.

Namely, parties, con invites, new ROAD TRIP OF THE LIVING DEAD reviews and horror movies!

Friday night was the christening of Caitlin’s kitchen and so yummy snacks were consumed along with inappropriate dialogue, the perusing of male to female genitalia (Thanks Cherie!) and even the gift of hypochondria (Thanks Caitlin for the belated Christmas present-I promise to put it to good use). Saturday we went to dinner with friends and…

I got my invite to DRAGONCON!!!

Aw yeahs.

Also awesome reviews of ROAD TRIP OF THE LIVING DEAD from Scifi Guy (who does some really great reviews, btw), ParaNormal Romance.ORG (Thanks Mippy!), Harriet Klausner (with one of the raciest reviews I’ve ever seen from her), and um…oh yeah, my first PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY review!

Which brings us to the movie portion of this post. Caitlin–and then Caroline and I (for different reasons entirely)–have been itching to see My Bloody Valentine 3D since we heard about its remake last summer, Caitlin, because Jensen Ackles is clearly her TV boyfriend and us because we have an unhealthy relationship with 80s slasher pics. If you’ll recall, this is what My Bloody Valentine used to look like..

And now…

The differences are subtle.  Lemme break it down for you.

1981 actors? Too realistic. Pimply pasty faces with scraggly hair.  2008? Shiny pretty people.  Seriously, there were scenes where Jensen Ackles looked like he was getting younger right on screen.  And he’s gotta be what 35?  40?  Who knows these days.

The 3-D is always fun novelty and started right at the ticket booth when the $12.25 per person special attraction price sprang right out of the cash register.  My heart was racing, I guarantee.  Since when is 3-D akin to IMAX?  Answer: it still isn’t.  But the glasses aren’t paper anymore, they’re plastic and fit way more comfortably, so I guess that’s what the extra $4 is for.  We did get to see the 3-D Coraline trailer which, of course, looks amazing and creepy.  So, bonus!

The movie itself was pretty standard, followed fairly close to the original, but with a few changes (which I can’t reveal because they’re spoilers as to the killer’s identity–in case you were concerned that this slasher flick might actually have some thrilling mystery component, don’t fear, it doesn’t, I just would hate for the spoiler sensitive to shit a brick or something more fluid all over my clean blog).

The 3-D was impressive.  Maybe it was the new fangled glasses, but the depth of the film looked awesome. Even things a innocuous as a pan of a forested area looked amazing.  At one point, I leaned over to Caroline (who–poor thing–was dealing with a surly seat neighbor with a notepad and a developmental delay) and suggested that Harry Warden (the killer), who at the beginning of the film is in a coma, was going to pop a 3-D pee hard and it’d be so realistic she could swat it away before it hit her cheek (these being normal topics in the Henry household, she simply nodded).  The downside?  The filmmakers never missed an opportunity to face fuck the audience with a pickaxe, you can predict when that effect is comin’ (no pun intended), every time.  Though we were impressed when the cop’s jawbone was torn out and hit poor Caitlin in the face.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t give some kudos to actress Betsy Rue, who plays the slutty Irene entirely nude except for a pair of platform wedges.  She’s a natural (or naturalist, or something).  But seriously, I was kind of rootin’ for her to make it, if for no other reason, that she was so fuckin’ ballsy (not a trannie joke).

I’d say go see it.  Pretty fun stuff and a couple of scares.

Speaking of stuff to go see, if you haven’t been following Fantasy Book Critics 2008 Review/2009 Preview, then apparently you have enough to read.  He’s gathered some awesome authors (including me, not that I’m awesome, but I am dirty and that helps) to talk about their favorite books of 2008 and give a preview of books coming out in 2009.  Wanna see my preview?

So, that’s me.  What did you do this weekend?