Akeelah and the Spelling Zombie

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Top Zombie Movies and Books

World War Z: (Book)

I loved this book and can't say enough about it. I love the way Max Brooks built such a rich fake history. I also love that the Zombies freeze and then when thawed they attack again.

Shaun of the Dead: (Movie)

When they are walking by the zombies and think they are just some wasted street people, I laugh every time.

28 Days Later: (Movie)

Danny Boyle directing (big fan), love the digital photography. The way the camera moves while the infected attack is just unnerving. I hate when that drop of blood falls down into the dad's eye.

The Serpent and The Rainbow: (Movie)

Director Wes Craven made an awesome movie, that is based on the book by Wade Davis. Bill Pullman is sent to Haiti by a pharmaceutical company, and is pulled into a government conspiracy of Zombification.

Night of the Living Dead: (Movie)

THE ORIGINAL , they just never stop coming.

Dawn of the Living Dead: (Movie)

What can I say, I like the whole mall set up. even though it is the weakest of my picks.

Return of the living Dead: (Movie)

When I was a Punk Rocker in High School, this was the movie we watched over and over. The girl who has sex in the graveyard, loved it. The barking half dog , one of my favorite scenes.

The Evil Dead: (Movie)

I am not so sure I count this as a Zombie movie but the dead are brought to life and it always stuck with me. Directed by Sam Raimi, this is one of those movies that had one or two scenes that scared me to the core. When the girl starts playing with the knife.... eeeep.

The Zombie Survival Guide: (Book)

Max Brooks again, the whole idea of this book is great.

Pride, Prejudice and Zombies: (Book)

Haven't read it yet, but I can't wait. Love the idea!

Top 19 Media About Time Travel

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If you are ever bedridden, here are somethings to do.

Only slightly in order. And just some quick thoughts -- not long winded reviews.

Primer (movie) Great Movie so minimal and washed out. Love the idea that business uses technology just to make money- see how the Porn industry has driven our top tech inventions. Like VHS, DVD, Internet.

Donnie Darko (movie) Love the 80’s sound track and remember Frank is just trying to help you – maybe. I Love how time travel is always blamed on symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.

12 Monkeys (movie) One of Brad’s top 5 performances. Love how Brad and Bruce have possible symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.

Time Bandits (movie) Why does there have to be evil? Supreme Being: I think it has something to do with free will. Look, do you want to be leader of this gang? No, we agreed: No leader! Right. So shut up and do as I say..

Rant – An Oral Biography (Book) Can’t give anything away, so I’ll just say this is a delightful story, just like all of Chuck’s books, if you are a twisted soul. A quick read I finished in only 3 months, with time travel factored in.

Does Groundhog Day count? (Movie) I had groundhog for breakfast! I like to see a man of advancing years throwing caution to the wind. It's inspiring in a way.

The Butterfly Effect (movie) one of the only movies with Ashton I can watch…. Plus it goes with A Sound Of Thunder (see below).

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury (Short Story) The movie sucked, but I love the idea of changing history by stepping on a bug. Some rich business men pay big money to hunt a T-rex. Trivia Ray actually didn’t coin the phrase “butterfly effect” though; it was an MIT dude in the 80’s

The Simpsons episode "Time and Punishment" which was part of Season 6's Tree house of Horror V. The spoof of the short story above. Later stolen to make the butterfly effect.

Time After Time (movie) My name is H.G. Wells. I came here in a time machine of my own construction. I am pursuing Jack the Ripper, who escaped into the future in my machine. One of those movies you saw 50 times because it was the summer you got HBO.

Timeline by Michael Creighton (book) Movie sucked. Book makes sense though, you know if you suspend disbelief.

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (movie) High school movie to watch over and over and over.
Back to the Future 2 and 1 (movies) I really like the second one when Biff uses his time travel to make money. But the popular answer is the first one.

Terminator 2 and 1 (movies) He was right, he did come back.

Planet of the Apes (movie) Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape! You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Lost (TV) who doesn’t love this show freckles? Think of how so many of us thought they were dead and in purgatory.

Peabody's Improbable History (TV) Talking dog historian/time traveler, Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman. The two would jump into their time machine called "The way back machine". Getting up at 5:30 as a kid to watch the Lone Ranger and this was on after it. With Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Once in a Lifetime by the Talking Heads (Song) 1980 “…and you may tell yourself. This is not my beautiful house! And you may tell yourself .This is not my beautiful wife!”

Time Splitter 2000 (PS2) I know it is an old game but its one of the few I have played- as referenced in my Blog Unstuck in Time. I am cheap and only have old games.

Time Machine by HG Wells (Book) was published in 1895. Are you kidding me?! The Island Of Dr. Moreau, War of the Worlds The Invisible Man. HG Wells was a true Futurist.

And finally a poem:

A mammoth, frozen

in Siberian tundra

for twice 10,000 years
Is exhumed at last.

Embedded in the right tusk:

a tracking device

-- Keith Allen Daniels