In which we think scary thoughts
Published at 9:07 pm on January 19th, 2008
Filed under: Dear Diary, Media Addict.
We’ve just been watching Nosferatu, the classic silent vampire movie, and one little touch jumped out at me. The menu screen of the DVD shows the cover image, a stylised pastel portrait of the titular vampire, but with one small difference: every couple of minutes, he blinks. The sort of thing that: when you see it, you’re not sure if it really happened.
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Keyword noise: fear, fish, Nosferatu, phobia, piranha, teeth.
In today’s Guardian, an interesting article with a firsthand experience of being arrested as a terrorist suspect, for trying to catch a tube train whilst carrying a rucksack and wearing a big jacket. And, interestingly, it includes a list of things that the police are looking out for that mark you down as a potential terrorist.
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Keyword noise: David Mery, fear, London Underground, railway, overreaction, policing, terrorism.
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