the timboucher experience

Yesterday was a hoot. Because the evening before, my girlfriend and I, along with one of her friends had smoked a ton of weed, and between the two of us, drank one huge and one normal-size bottles of cheap pinot grigio. All over a round or two of a boardgame called ImaginIff. Which is a pretty fun game. Needless to say, we were completely ripped before the game was through, and totally passed out by maybe 12:30 at the latest. But not before each of us took a serious turn at the helm puking our brains out. Anyway, so the next day we didn’t roll out of bed until like 11:00am, even though she had to work. And of course, there was more puking on both our parts. It’s really fun having a girlfriend.

Anyway, she went to work, and dropped me off at the light rail. Instead of catching it home, I spontaneously decided that I was going to spend the day at the movies. So I turned around and caught the train north into Hunt Valley. Got a Sprite and some pizza-flavored goldfish at Walmart, and then headed over to the cinema. My first victim was “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” which is that new “joint” by screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, who fucking rules. The movie was totally kickass. As good as Adaptation, but not better. I think. Definitely more subtle and - dare I say - nuanced. Really really good overall.

Later on I saw Dawn of the Dead. It sucked. I don’t recommend spending money to see it in the theatre. I mean, I love zombies and killing zombies and shit. But it just totally fell flat for me. It wasn’t even close to as good as 28 days later, and was only marginally better than the video-game-inspired House of the Dead, which I also saw recently. All it made me want to do really was go out and see the original movie that it was based on. I hear its pretty good. And saw some stills online which lead me to believe it was awesome.

That reminds me, I still want to get that Zombie Survival Guide book. Also, the other day when I was at Walmart, I had the urge to buy a machete ($6.44 in the camping section) and a shotgun, and kill the living hell out of some zombies. I also just remembered how I had a post containing some super-cool information about the real-life phenomenon of zombies. Let me find it:

The use of Datura as a magical plant was and probably still is also common in the Caribbean. There it is known as ‘herbe aux sorciers’ (herb of the sorcerers) and ‘concombre-zombi’ (Zombie-Cucumber). This name refers to a rather sinister use of the plant - literally zombification. Delinquents in particular became the victims of this practice. Criminals who did not seem to improve their records upon other means of punishment sometimes were turned into Zombies. A strong herbal brew containing, among other plants, Datura combined with the extremely potent extract of the puffer-fish poison (d-tubucucurine) was given to the criminal. The effect of the brew was to stupefy the convict to the point of pseudo-coma and to numb his physical sensations. In this state a person is unable to respond to any kind of stimulus, although they may well be consciously aware of them. The Zombie-to-be was declared dead and placed into a coffin with an attached air-tube and a funeral ceremony was conducted. After 3 days or so the coffin was retrieved from the ground and the Zombie was given another dose of Datura followed by an ‘initiation into the after-life’, in which he was brainwashed in accordance with the rules of the new order. From that day on he was given regular doses of the Datura concoction to maintain the hypnotic state. The spirit of the victim was thus literally forced to get out and stay out of the body and the Zombie lost all sense of self or ego-identity.

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