Happy new year - don't watch I Am Legend at 3am before going to bed.

i love post apocolyptic movies where 99% of the population is dead. i also love zombie (and zombie-ish) flicks, and i will also confess having a soft spot for the fresh prince and his roles in cheesy sci-fi ever since independance day.

queueing up i am legend as something to watch while i fall asleep tonight was dumb. I had this terrible nightmare where I was living the experience in that movie - except there was this weird videogame overlay (i remember pressing f7 to get a map screen which displayed in mid-90s style blocky-computer graphics) and f8 to save, but other than that, everything else was happening in realtime. also, it was happening in my hometown of audubon - and my safe house was the house i grew up in - although it wasn't that safe in that i didn't have the luxury of the armored windows and doors the character had in the movie. so seriously, it was really fucking scary.

my only solace was the knack i have for lucid dreaming. about the time i had to press f7 (with mind powers?) to see the map i realized i was probably in a dream, and hey there's probably a compelling video game design here once i escape this twilight nightmare. i pulled my self out of it as soon as the sun started to come up in game and i was able to 'save' - but now i'm too tired to go back to sleep or something. i almost want to go back in and continue my adventures, although with a few additional power ups. (fortified home base, for example)

anyway, weird dream. i have that love hate things with zombies. i love them mostly in romero films and resident evil games but i definitely don't love them in my head which is the first place they go upon playing said game.

oh well. to happiness in the new year. what movies have watched (or games played) alone that you wish you hadn't? I'll freely admit the gamecube remake of Resident Evil scared the piss out of me on summer - but i couldn't put it down because it was so compelling. i've never seriously played it again since beating it because it was too damn disturbing.