Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

 A rainy night in NYC, Joan Severance,  a fashion designer, is offered a ride in a taxi cab by fellow occupant, Stephen Bauer, who flirts with her, even providing his coat to "keep her warm" since her dress was damp and the night cold. Eventually the cab stops at Bauer's apartment complex, and he convinces Severance to come up to his flat. Eventually Bauer is seducing Severance, unable to resist her innermost desires and ready to just take him up on Tuesday and Thursday hookups, agreeing to nothing serious.  But can these "meetups and fuck" with no relationship talks continue or will real feelings and want for something more develop? When Severance's brother dies and she happens to spend the night, Bauer reiterates his displeasure in breaking the arrangement set up by them both. Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries was, to me, a rather corny exercise in why so serious? softer-than-softcore Showtime Channel "entertainment". Rarely was I ever actuall

 In preparation for watching the 1998 X-Files film (I missed out on watching it in June for the film's 25th Anniversary), I decided to check out The End and will watch the sixth season opener, The Beginning accordingly. While I won't write on the Pilot, I will be celebrating the series opener's 30th anniversary in September. I do admit, though, I'm not all that crazy about The End . William Davis' Cigarette-Smoking Man is back at it again as the Syndicate needs him to do whatever it takes to nab a young boy, a chess wunderkind later determined by Mulder and Scully to possibly be the key to answers of The X Files due to a brain "mode" allowing him possible access to a "human gift" few have ever been able to utilize. Later Mulder learns that all humans likely have it but never knew how to access that lobe of the brain. A Syndicate assassin (Martin Ferrero) almost shoots the boy, Gibson Praise (Gulka) at a chess game with a Russian genius, hitting

 I was messaging with a friend on Telegram while watching the first episode, the Pilot for the Showtime series starring Duchovny as a novelist in Hollywood suffering writer's block after somewhat recent breakup with his ex, Karen (Natascha McElhone). She was cheating on him with her current fiance while the two share a daughter, Becca (Madeleine Martin). Becca is aware and a bit insecure as a teen with attention from boys says her school counselor while Hank and Karen are given this new information. Hank and Karen just have this palpable chemistry together, an electric sexual energy that is clear. And yet Karen has to be the realist that they could never function as a legit couple. Hank's having fantasies about nun blowjobs, for crissakes, so he's got a lot of existential, Freudian mental unrest to work out. Hank's sex life certainly has no issues. I think I counted three naked women he fucks during the 25 minute running time of the first episode, including Karen's