Weird Tales

Last night I was looking at a website which had some really interesting movie-themed T-shirts, but the twist is that instead of featuring the movie's title or logo it features logos and details of the fictional corporations, brands, or places from the movie. I bought a couple, one promoting emigration to the "Off-World Colonies" (inspired by Blade Runner) and one for "Stovington Academy" (inspired by The Shining). In fact the Stovington Academy one is based on a T-shirt that Jack Nicholson wears in the film. They're kind of different and fun.

I was also listening to the first episode of an interesting radio show called Weird Tales, a series of original radio dramas inspired by the world of H.P. Lovecraft's stories. The first one involved two sisters who return as adults to the strange seaside resort where they used to go on holiday as children, only to discover that something has been waiting there for them for a long time. I also watched an episode of the original series of The Twilight Zone called "Spur of the Moment", written by Richard Matheson, which concerned a young woman who is haunted by a nightmarish figure of a woman in black on a horse. At first the young woman is convinced that the vision wants to kill her, but later begins to wonder if it might have been a warning. It was quite a downbeat episode with some pretty scary moments in it.

It was another fairly quiet day at work, and pretty depressing again. I was really glad to get away this afternoon. I just went straight home and had a microwaved spaghetti carbonara meal for dinner.