How Children Make You Stupid

Having a child is the first step in the process of becoming senile.

It starts when they are young-they will say something along the lines of "I want to watch The Li'l Nermaid!"

So you refer to the movie as "The Little Nermaid" to humor the little bugger for days, weeks, months, etc...You feel stupid, but you should cherish these moments, right?

Then one day you offer to put "The Little Nermaid" in the DVD player only to be told-"No, mommy. It's "Little Mer-maid."

Or you feel bad that you have to wake the little bugger up early to get ready for school. So you carry her, sleepy-eyed, downstairs in her favorite blanket (WALL-E). When she wakes up some more, she chews you out because "the WALL-E blanket should be in the WALL-E bed!"

So you begin to feel stupid, useless and empty.

I am assuming it's only downhill from here.

Happy Hallo-meme

So, around this time of year we start seeing Top Horror Movie Lists i.e. Top 100 Scariest Movies, Top 100 Scariest Movie Moments. You can actually find a stangely enlightened list from Moviefone (of all places) here.

I also have seemingly forever had a goal that I would spend each day of October watching a horror movie. Of course, I never do it. Because I kinda have somewhat of a life. But my major retirement goal is to accomplish this one task.

But what would I watch? I love horror movies of all types-subtle and gory, funny and definitelynotfunny, old and new, so there is no one qualifier.

So I have devised a list of 31 horror films that would comprise my month o' horror and I invite you to do the same on your own blogs. These don't need to be the scariest, goriest, or anythingest films-just the top 31 movies that would get you in the Halloween mood.

These are not listed in any particular order although most appear alphabetically because that's how Michael orders his DVDs-

1-Alien
2-The Mist
3-Nosferatu (org.)
4-An American Werewolf in London
5-Dawn of the Dead (org.)
6-Dawn of the Dead (remake)
7-Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
8-The Descent
9-Dracula (w/ Bela)
10-The Dark Knight
11-Carnival of Souls
12-Army of Darkness
13-The Exorcist
14-The Fly
15-The Last House on the Left
16-Freaks
17-Nightmare on Elm Street
18-A History of Violence
19-The Invisible Man (org.)
20-Mystery of Rampo
21-Night of the Living Dead (org.)
22-The Shining
23-Psycho
24-Evil Dead 2
25-Se7en
26-Shaun of the Dead
27-Terminator
28-The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
29-There Will be Blood
30-The Thing
31-Young Frankenstein

Notable Mentions-These didn't quite make it but deserve a shout out
Jaws
Open Water (notice the shark motif?)
The Omen-not because it is scary, but because it led to our first child. Out of boredom. Scariest thing I can think of.