Okay, so I've been busy making (and eating) bazillions of spring rolls¹, which is most of the reason I haven't posted in a while. Oh, and I've also been coaxing my seedlings along. (Well, not so much coaxing as madly attempting to keep up with them and make more and more space for them as it isn't quite time for me to slam them into the ground. I actually begged the beans to slow down, but then I just gave up, gave them bigger pots and lots of porch railing, and let them go nuts. They're such ridiculously fast growers that I can always start more for the actual garden.) So I've been happily busy and away from ye olde laptop.
But after watching Dead and Breakfast last night, I knew I needed to share the trailer -- because we expected just a dumb horror movie² -- and it was such a pleasant (in a really hilariously gory zombie movie way) surprise. It was a bit like a low-budget Slitherwith musical interludes. And David Carradine in a bit part. AND Jeffery Dean Morgan (pitter patter goes my little heart) in a not-so-bit part. I'm going to have to buy it:
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¹I started with the Vietnamese Spring Roll recipe from Molly Katzen's Vegetable Heaven (as well as her Peanut Chili Sauce), but after that first batch, I've just been chucking whatever I want into those wonderful little rice paper wrappers. Which resulted in me finding a piece of broccoli in my hair yesterday morning. At work. Raw, thankfully.
²We've been on a kick -- we watched the original House on Sorority Row³ the night before. (Which, my coworker informed me yesterday, was remade recently into a very different movie. But one that I could probably be convinced to watch. As long as there was beer in the house.)
³Which starred OHMYGOD Eileen Davidson (AKA Kristen DiMera/Sister Mary Moira/Susan Banks/Thomas/Penelope from Days of Our Lives)! It took me about halfway through the movie to place her, but when I did I had to hit pause in order to provide time to compose myself.
Are Vietnamese Spring Rolls (AKA Fresh Rolls) not the most happiness-inspiring invention? Notwithstanding the broccoli in your hair (!) I ate those three or four times during the week before Christmas -- but it's hard to do them for a group. They start eating, and you never stop making them. They're habit forming. But, it's a good habit. I just got three packages of the lovely wrappers, and some more cilantro... sigh.
I love that someone else's misspent youth was filled with DooL...
Posted by: tanita | 21 April 2010 at 08:19 AM
They really, really are. After writing that post I rolled some up for lunch. Sadly, the mint on the side of our lawn got destroyed when the road got paved last year, but I'm going to plant some (in a pot -- an entire lawn of mint might be a tad much) and then I'll be good to go.
I have to admit to skipping a few classes in college due to Days... the Kristen years were rather wonderful.
Posted by: Leila | 21 April 2010 at 08:50 AM
#1 OMG I have never seen the original, now with Eileen Davidson I'll have to,
#2 I am about to get the new Sorority Row on Blu-ray (It has Rumer Willis and Carrie Fisher, how could I not?) - you and the Repub should come over and watch it this weekend.
Posted by: Adam W. | 21 April 2010 at 12:54 PM
Thank you so much for posting that trailer. I'm a hardlovin' bad horror film fan girl and must see this one!
Posted by: Christina | 01 May 2010 at 10:21 AM