On the lighter Side- Movies – Eagle Eye

Shia Labeouf and Michelle Monaghan star two strangers who are targeted by a female voice who tracks their every move and wants them to perform a certain task otherwise they will be killed. Billy Bob Thornton stars as a federal agent tasked with tracking both of them down. It is a constant non stop action film and it never bores you but at the end it is too far fetched to be believable. It reminds of an earlier film starting Sandra Bullock called The Net with somewhat similar premises but that movie was in the mid nineties and this is an updated version. Good action movie. Recommended.

Car maintenance-2

Apart from the previously mentioned expenses, the biggest one is the insurance. No matter even if your car is parked in garage, you still have to buy insurance and this is the biggest ongoing expense. In order to get a good rate, you must be living in a nice town and have a perfect (meaning no points) driving record. Otherwise you get hit by enormous premiums. Another part of having car maintenance is that even if you buy your car in installment with interests involved, you cannot deduct it on your income tax returns.

So you should always know a thing or two about your car so that you don’t get duped by unscrupulous and shady mechanics (and they are out there believe me) when it is time to fix up your car. A triple A membership should also be considered although not mandatory. So like a house, you need car insurance more than ever since you will be on the road and constantly dealing with other drivers who may or may not be as good with their cars and driving habits. And you don’t want to know what happens if you don’t take care of your car and it breaks down just when you are in a hurry to go somewhere.

Car maintenance

If you have a car, you know how much you have to spend on it in order to maintain it and make sure it works when it really counts. At least with the house, if you maintain it and pour money into it, hopefully it will pay off in the future. But not with the car, the more you put into it the less likely you are going to get it (unless it is a classic then it is whole different story). You are just maintaining your car because either you don’t have the money to buy another one or you want to last it much longer or you cannot afford to be without a car for even a few days. Either way it is an expensive proposition to maintain a car.

In the winter you have to make sure, the car is warmed up and in the summer you have to make sure it is cooled enough not be get overheated. Then there are the tires. You have to make sure they are the factory recommended air pressure. Then there are the scheduled maintenances. For brand new cars it is every five thousand miles and for the old ones every three thousand. It includes oil and filter change and other regular maintenance. Although they are not that expensive but it still must be done. Any single thing screws up in the car and you have to take care of it within a certain time otherwise it can escalate into major expenses.

On the lighter Side- Movies – Population/436

Fred Durst star in this movie about a census guy who comes to a town whose population has remained the same for the last hundred years. At first everything seems normal but as he probes deeper, he finds the truth about the stagnant population. It is no horror movie, more like a thriller and certainly not a big screen movie, more like a TV movie of the week thing. Nothing good to recommend here. Watch something else. Not recommended.

On the lighter Side- Movies – Autumn

This is a British horror zombie end of the world type movie. It starts with a virus that kills billions of people in minutes and the few immune survivors holed up in a place. At first they argue and assume that everything is fine and dandy, then the corpses start to come alive and as they progress become more adapt at their predicament. Out of the survivors, three of them split up and holed up in a farm house where they come to realize that the zombies are attracted to noise and light and so they start to become silent and stay in dark. More thriller than horror with hard to understand British accent and oh one more thing you can also see David Carradine as a crazed survivor. Not great I was expecting a little more blood and gore for this type of zombie horror movie but I was wrong. Not recommended by me.

On the lighter Side- Movies – George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead

The world famous George A. Romero’s nearly endless movies with a dead theme in it comes alive again in Diary of the Dead (survival of the dead was released this year). It is about a group of students who are shooting a mummy movie in a forest when they heard that the world is being overrun with Zombies. One of the students starts documenting the events that they face as a student as they move to a safer place. Not a great movie though with less gore than usual for a zombie movie but if you are fan of Romero and you would not want to miss any of his Dead movies, watch this one then. Otherwise forgetful fare to me

On the lighter Side- Movies – Apocalypse of the Dead (AKA Zone of the Dead)

The first Serbian horror zombie movie and pretty good at that. It stars Ken Foree from the original night of the living dead as a Interpol guy escorting one of the high profile prisoners through Serbia and how they encounters zombies who have been infected with biohazard. For a first time basis, pretty good special effects for a country recently torn apart by ethnic and religious rivalry. It is a good movie but you don’t have to loose your sleep over it if you don’t see it. Only if you are obsessing about watching every zombie/dead movie can you watch it. Just for curiosity sake, an East European horror movie. There have been so many movies with dead in it that I have either lost count of it or have become desensitized to the whole zombie genre. More of it later