Journey To All Our Thoughts

The kind, cruel and most often crazy tides of life have whisked me into another world completely.

Nebula, the galaxy or galactic gases and other particles of space is 74,000 light years past Earth's neighboring Andromeda, which itself is a 126,000 light years farther than our galaxy. When I transform into galactic dust to travel to Nebula, I can swim in a lake between the sun and moon surrounded by incredibly bright stars and marvelous moon beams.

As a cosmic being I can soar to any planet, and all the known universes in the realms of inner and outer space. Because of my ability to travel the speed of light, I can swim circles around hurling meteors toward Earth, thus altering the meteors course to our planet and killing 100 percent of the people.

To date, I've saved the planet 2,111 times. After the 2,112 I save the Earth, the great spirits have promised me they will create another person with my abilities and release me of my choirs from Earth, and allow me to dwell on the island planet I could never spell or pronounce. This island planet has all the combined beauty of Earth's most marvelous water falls, forests, mountains, lakes, streams, rivers, oceans and everything else beautiful on the planet.

The one woman who loves me, as do I her, dwells on the island planet. Years ago I wrote these words about her...

Standing amidst the chaos of pelting rain, crashing
waves and ocean winds, all I could see was 'her' face.
Mesmerized by her smile, fixated by her laugh, drawn to
her every word.
Her heart felt wisdom saturates my mind with love &
laughter.
Indeed she is the true definition of the
word lady.
Lady; Classy, smart, sensuous, soulful,
sweet, and sincere.
Harbored in my dreams and embedded in my soul
dwells she.
Luscious lady who awakes delicious
Desires…

Some of the gods claim I'm crazy because I could be with her right now on the island planet which knows no crime, cruelty or greed. Eternal health and youth mixed with love and laughter govern this incredible world. Why do I spend most of my time on Earth? On the island planet, I have absolutely no way of for seeing an oncoming meteor shower diving toward Earth eager, to destroy the human race.

Mind Adventures

Got no money, got no woman, have a woman, too much compromise and too many augments. Satisfied and happy, too complacent. Sad and suicidal, aspirations and creativity never explored. Seeking life's balance on a tight rope of poverty and success. Dreams creations are a joyous journey on the infinite path of imagination.

The Novel, " A Strange Little Place," A Paranormal Journey...

The author of "A Strange Little Place" is a believer in the paranormal and wrote about ghosts  and other supernatural beings that he claims haunt, taunt and sometimes simply observe some of the living in the small town of Revelstoke, Canada.

Instead of diving into the philosophical waters of the supernatural, Brennan Storr, the author barley gets the top of his feet wet in the infinite depths of the unknown.

I'm giving this book a mere two star rating. The reason the book receives more than  half star is because Storr gave me some cool word combinations I can implement into my own bombastic written thoughts.

Whether or not your a believer or skeptic in the world of ghosts, each and every story (33) Storr wrote about in this book is more boring then the next one. On the bright side, no people were killed by any of the haunting dead, and since a lot of the stories involved children, this was especially a good thing.

Most of the 33 stories, all taking place in the town of Revelstoke were just mere tails of people saying they saw Big Foot, aka Sasquatch, a UFO or one or more ghosts. One person claims he was pushed down a flight of stairs by a ghost, but other then some very minor injuries, so what?
In another one of the stories, a man, his wife and children were driving along a rural highway in Revelstoke, and they all claim to have felt a very ominous presence, so the father, who was driving found a place to make a U-turn on the free way and go another direction. Again, so what? What was the presence they felt? You won't find out in the book either, a lot of the boring stories were the same thing, we saw something so scary, we thought we were going to die, then nothing what so ever happens, and when the people were asked what what the saw or felt, Storr got the same reply;

"I don't want to talk about it."

"A Strange Little Place" was like a joke book with hundreds of jokes and not a single punch line.
I did learn one thing from this book, if you own a car that is frequently breaking down and even with numerous repairs for the same engine problem keep occurring, it may be Gremlins messing with you. To get rid of Gremlin's in your house, leave a fresh glass or bowl of milk outside your door for three days, even if you live where there are many pets and other animals about, they will leave it for the Gremlin's. The milk will still be at your door step at the end of the three days, but the Gremlins will be gone, and your car will run again, according to Storr.

If you believe in big foot, or a colony of  Sasquatches, they sometimes appear along side of a two lane highway or in the woods of Revelstoke Canada.

Bleacher Babble, Sports Blog

At long last, this Oakland professional sports fan is in the midst of growing up and not getting too caught up in the fantasy world of pro sports.

When the Golden State Warriors lost in the NBA finals earlier this year in seven games to the Cleveland Cavaliers, I was devastated. For days, even weeks, I convinced myself that the NBA Finals were fixed and Lebron James was the reason for the fix. Upon listening to others talk about the Finals and re watching the highlights, it became clear to me that the series was not fixed.

The Cavilers, despite being down 3-1 and facing back to back championship loses to the Warriors, James and company got into the Warriors heads and won the final three games to seize the NBA championship. Draymond Green foolishly got himself suspended for game five, a massively needed defensive presence the Warriors, and then Stephen Curry stupidly got himself suspended for Game six. Back to back games in which the Warriors did not have their dynamic dual in the biggest series of their illustrious record breaking season.

This years NBA Finals made me much more of a sports fan, as opposed to just liking or watching only three teams, in my case the teams being the Oakland Raiders, Warriors and the Oakland Athletics. The colossal collapse of the Warriors in the NBA Finals showed me the light, expect nothing and just enjoy the competitiveness of each game.

My favorite baseball team, the Athletics are the worst team in professional sports, many experts claim it's the 1-10 San Francisco 49ers, but I say it's the A's. Billy Beane once the greatest General Manager in all of professional sports is complete joke now.

The Athletics most recent path to patheticism was getting rid of their two best offensive players, if not the teams best players in the last two years, Josh Donaldson and Yoenis Cespedes.

In 2015 Josh Donaldson was the American League MVP, and this year batted over .400 in the playoffs with a HR and amassed five RBIs. Last baseball season Donaldson batted .297 with 41 home runs and a 123 RBIs. In return, Brett Lawrie, who the A's got for Donaldson batted .260 last season with 16 HR and 60 RBIs. The A's also got right handed pitcher Kendall Graveman, lefty Sean Nolin and minor league shortstop Franklin Barreto for Donaldson

Right handed pitcher Graveman has given the A's two complete games in a little over 300 innings of work and an ERA of over .405. http://m.mlb.com/player/608665/kendall-graveman, Mean while lefty Nolin is no longer with the A's and when he was, he gave them a whopping 29 innings of work with a losing record and an ERA of .528. Short stop Barreto has yet to pitch in the majors, http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?player_id=620439#/career/R/hitting/2016/ALL so the Blue Jays are currently laughing at and thanking the A's immensely is my guess.

For Yoenis Cespedes, the A's got star pitcher Jon Lester from the Boston Red Sox,but because he remained awesome, the A's got rid of Lester after only ten games. In the ten games he played for the A's, Lester had a lofty .235 ERA and a winning record.

This year Lester pitched for the World Series champion Chicago Cubs. His ERA for the Cubs was .244 and he was 14 games over .500. http://m.mlb.com/player/452657/jon-lester  Lester was 2-1 for the Cubs in the World Series, including the game seven winner with 2.02 ERA, great job dumping this pitcher Oakland! http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?id=lestejo01&t=p&post=1

In essence the A's got nothing for star player Cespedes, Jonny Gomes is no longer with the A's. When Gomes played for the A's in 2014, via the Cespedes trade, he played in 34 games with 0 HR, five RBIs, and batted .234. http://m.mlb.com/player/430404/jonny-gomes

Mean while Cespedes has 48 HR for the Mets since last season and batted .280 for the Mets this year with 31 dingers. The A's are clearly on a path to patheticism and at least with their current management, I know the team will continue to disappoint, no nail biting playoff games for the A's in the near future, that's for certain.

For us football and basketball Oak town fans, the future looks very bright. The Golden State Warriors won the NBA Finals in 2015 and currently have the best record in the league. Next door to them is the Raiders who are 5-0 on the road, and currently leading their division with a 9-2 record.

I still expect nothing in the playoffs, if either the Warriors or Raiders win a championship this year, fantastic, but if not, so what, life goes on, but I really hope neither team gets blown out in the post season, that's all I demand from my emotions when it comes to sports.

I should take my own advice and follow more local youth sports. ysn365.com is the web place to go if your a Nor Cal person for local high school and college sports.

Lucid Lunacy

When you don't fit in, insanity seeps in, lady lunacy, a potent emotion swirling in my thoughts and dancing in my mind. When you don't belong, you can always cling to that certain song that fuels the flames of savage grace.

The shadows of solitude seek wisdom and demand understanding. The chaotic path of life is a colossal combination of dreams and imagination. Embrace your inspiration and aspirations.

Library Lunacy, Indeed, So Many Books, So Little Time

"The Rest I Will Kill," is a true historic account of one of the first so called hero's of the Civil War states the books author, Brian McGinty.

McGinty is an attorney and writer who specializes in American history and law. McGinty  claims that recorded history, most of it was done by rulers, mostly fools and knaves. Knaves is another word for scoundrels or unprincipled people, you know, government!

"The Rest I Will Kill" is the brief history about William Tillman, a 29-year-old free black man in 1861, who was from the north.

Tillman killed three white men aboard the S.J. schooner Waring wooden ship, and justified the killings in a white court of law, and was deemed not guilty.

Tillman was employed by Jonas Smith, a wealthy white ship owner of the S.J. Waring. Tillman was a cook and steward on the Waring. In July of 1861, ocean prowlers, pirates of the confederate south captured the crew and the Waring.

The ocean prowlers bragged how they were going to take Tillman back to one of the southern states to become a slave. Tillman hid a hatched when the pirates first took over the ship and less then ten days later took a hatched to three of the captors in their sleep, and while still barley alive, Tillman threw them over board into the Atlantic ocean, hundreds of miles away from Georgia and South Carolina. With the aide of a German, William Stedding, Tillman was able to bound the other pirates, and with no navigation experience, and sail the Waring back the New York.

There are only portrait drawings of Tillman, and after he was freed, he got married and vanished from history. Reading this book, I learned that slavery in the south was much more lucrative then the north because the southern states tend to have more months of warmer weather which was good for crops, thus the need or greed for slaves. In the north, only about three months were good for cropping, so northerners deemed it not profitable to harbor slaves for nine months  out of the year without cropping.

What may have also lead to the not guilty verdict for Tillman was the fact that the Waring itself along with its cargo was worth more than $100,000, serious money in 1861.

William Tillman

Amazing how some people still call the Civil War a conflict, to me a conflict is when a wife wants to see the movie "Shoot 'Em Up" staring Clive Olson and the husband wants to watch the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes." A conflict that leaves more than 600,000 people dead sounds like a war to me, and not so civil.

This is another book I have no rating for, you be the judge if you decide to read it, I'm glad I read this book which was released on June 27.

"Liars," A Fitting Title About Politicians

The Aug., 2 release of the political book "Liars" by radio host and best selling author Glenn Beck illustrates the many woes of politics from the 1910s to present day.

Totalitarianism, meaning the total control of public and private life of the people are run by the government. Thankfully were not living like this in the U.S., but were not far from total government control.

In the days of old, the 'war to end all wars', World War I was a popular slogan of it's day which amounted to absolute balderdash. During World War I, the 28th U.S. president Woodrow Wilson was instrumental in stoking the flames of fear into Americans.

Fear, as Beck points out in "Liars" is a key factor for the government to control the masses.  Beck states, we're all afraid of something; poverty, death, racism in government and law enforcement and countless others forms of fear. The pools of political peril are an endless depth that drown positive change and equality for all. The government leaders want totalitarianism, no matter who is in charge. The government as stated in "Liars" showcases the many things that are wrong in the world, then offers up bogus solutions and lies that get us to pay more taxes and give up more of our freedoms.  

 "Liars" reminded me that federal taxes were deemed unconstitutional in May of 1895 by the supreme court. During his presidency which began in 1913, Wilson was able to get federal taxes back for the greedy politicians, by adding the 16th Amendment to the constitution. Wilson did not single handily get the 16th Amendment passed, but he was a major player involved which took away yet more American rights.

"Paying taxes is a great privilege," Wilson said.

What I didn't like about "Liars," is that the book didn't go in to any detail how our tax money is mostly spent, but from reading the 2011 novel "Deadly Indifference," I learned that a lot of our tax money goes to limos, cocaine and prostitutes for high end senators. Regardless, federal taxes are another way to keep the quote unquote middle class down.

"Liars" illustrates how the government continually feeds fear into the American public. In the 40s, after World War  II, the U.S. was trained to fear Germany and thous loss more rights like we did in 2001, after 9/11. To this day the Patriot Act, enacted shortly after Sept., 11, 2001 continues to infringe on our rights and privacy, another step toward Totalitarianism.

Lyndon Baines Johnson, our 60s president who lead us into the Vietnam War was also a major reason civil rights came into action in 1964. Privately LBJ called civil rights, the nigger bill. "Liars" points out when a president does something good, it's mostly for show, and seldom from the heart and never in the best interest of the common people.

The current gun laws, as I learned from "Liars" will not and does not detour crime, Chicago has one of the most stringent gun control laws, and the highest rate of murder in the U.S. Gun laws help the criminals, not the other way around.

"Liars" made it clear what I already knew, but the book points out the real statistics, we have a much higher chance of committing suicide then being murdered with a gun. Heart decease and cancer are by far the number one causes of death, so where is the war on heart maintenance or cancer?

Two and a half stars for "Liars." Yes Beck talks about the government's ways of deception, but he is still too lenient on how evil the government really is, "Liars" is merely an average read on anti government.

Lust...

Light, and a deceitful delight. Caucasian cutie selling sin, this dweeb is in. Licentious love is pricey, but today, the lunatic loner lives, cash for copulation dissolves depression.

Inner Peace, It's Real

Let them hear you smile, as opposed to the reality of hallowed hatred that echoes amidst the Graton halls. Friendly faces and laughing eyes are mostly a rare pleasant surprise, or a distant memory. Combat hatred with dreams creations. Don't imbibe the poison of sour souls and time will be terrific.

Arnott''s Lodge, A Great Vacation Place

Traveling to the Big Island of Hawaii?, Arnott's Lodge is definitely delightful.

Rain Bow Falls

Several parks with beautiful beaches are very close by, two just a few minutes walk away. Rainbow Falls and Akaka Falls are also very short drives away from the lodge, and for a mere $5.00 parking fee, Akaka falls is a very peaceful and beautiful place to relax and bask in nurturing nature. Rainbow falls is also an eye pleaser, and if so desired, it's legal and relatively easy to get to the edge of Rainbow falls for an even more spectacular views of mother nature.

Rain Bow Falls

Arnott's has lodging prices to fit every budget, as low as $20.00 per night or less than a $100.00 per night for a luxury suit. Arnott's Lodge is very suitable for family oriented travelers and is very safe, security is tight, but not overbearing. The luxury suits have beautiful yards and barbecues, and the common areas and also inviting for family and friendly get-together's.

Arnott's Lodge & Akaka Falls

The staff was very accommodating and extremely friendly which is what I especially enjoyed. Four stars easy for Arnott's Lodging.

Onekahakaha Beach Park, very short walk from Arnott's Lodging

The Book, "A Hundred Thousand Worlds," Blissfully Bizarre?..

A Bizarre journey into the imagination fascinates the souls creative desires or "A Hundred Thousand Worlds" is a boring blizzard of lame characters caught between fantasy and fact, you be the judge.

I'm not giving this June 28 novel a rating, I was fascinated and bored at the same time, the duality of my opinion is too mixed to praise or pan Bob Proehl's book.

Valerie Torrey drives across country with her 9-year-old son Alex to reunite him with his not so well adjusted father to say the least, but a fellow still worthy of being with his son. While driving from New York to Los Angeles, their world goes back and forth from scientific fantasy to reality.

"A Hundred Thousand Worlds" mixes fantasy and real emotions well. Hitting the open road in a car, then a van and then arriving in New York on a train leaves the reader in mystery.

While in the company of a comic book illustrator who draws dreams and a fascinating female comic book writer, Alex and his mom Val also mix company in their travels with boring comic book characters and others found only in crazy dreams and weird stories.

Why Val and her son didn't take advantage of time travel is a mystery to me? Non of the people in the story had a real gripping appeal to me, but the novel realistically tells the tale of a single mom who loves and wants only the best for her young son. The ending was the beginning or was it the end?

Hawaii Daze

The allure of the southern shores luscious land leads to wondrous waters. Today, nature's kiss is a blitzkrieg of bliss that fills the goblet of immortality. Dreams awake and the imagination is limitless, anything is possible, I arrive at the beach before I've left.
Basking on the bounteous beach while warm winds caress the soul and cater to the mind. Sensational seas drown depression.                                                                                                 Izzy Schurr

The Malicious Mayhem Of World Politics

The pathetic pillars of world politics showcase the shallowness of universal power. White might makes right, racism and sexism is the consensus's of too many people including our president elect.
Trump will revel in the massive manufacturing of more deadly drones which create even more new enemies for the United States with every destructive strike. (Drones fly, children die. New Yorkers protest signs.)  

Meanwhile in the Middle East, educated women are rewarded with battery acid thrown in their faces, ladies and grade school aged girls are legally raped and beaten. Medieval lunatic laws then punish these females for being vicious victims of premarital and adulterous sex.

The journey to joy is a tedious trek for the soulfully wise...    
                                                                                              Izzy Schurr aka, me, Mark Schurr

Learning Laughter & Bliss

Another sunrise swallows' sorrow, suddenly sadness dissipates into silliness. Friends feed the foolish soul, and indeed it's good to be alive. 
Vast arrays of emotions emerge into a clever cocktail of laughter and bliss. Dumb displays of daft feelings fester into frivolous rants and raves. ignite positive passion and breed actions of wisdom.  

Mark Izzy Schurr

Goodbye

Delightful death eases the souls of the unloved and relinquishes  the tension of never ending bills. Too smart to satisfy the majority who hate me, too ugly and broke to ever achieve true happiness, getting old is welcoming.
This short stupid life had it's marvelous moments, but now, it's time to say goodbye, shut my mouth, and keep to myself, the charade of smiles and laughter  lingers on, but life's end cannot come soon enough...

Hawaiian Night

Floating in the caressing cool waters of the southern seas. Tonight's display of the Milky Way calms the restless soul. The black ocean waters dare the dreamer to swim to the distance depths of inner space, foolishly, I do. Unable to touch the bottom and see what's beneath, I tread the dark wetness as fast as possible till I'm gasping for air and the sea shore is no longer visible to the naked eye.

The Milky Way is even more glorious now, and I relish in the statistical fact that I have less of a change of dying from a shark attack then killing myself. Delicious danger entices me to swim farther out to sea, and I do.

Treading deep Hawaiian waters marvelously lit by a dome of cascading light from the stars illustrates the infinite luster of nature. No camera or words will ever come close to what I witnessed that night.

The allure of soft sand, the might Milky Way, and the crescent moon bouncing light between the palm trees makes it very easy to accept the reality of one day becoming  another victim of time.  

Lost, The Tables Of Time Are Terrific And Terrifying

Entrapped upon Earths erratic ensemble of mixed media and poisonous politics. Abandoned by our creator to reap the benefits of seized success, or handed an untimely death? The tables of time are terrific and terrifying. Rants, reviews and other massive amounts of words and phrases swirling in my head send my imagination into the seas of blissful blue waters or wicked waves of insanity. Do I have time to document what's my mind?  

Hope, Missing Those Who Died

Sudden unexpected deaths of loved ones, even after years of the tragic events send the heart and mind into a shattering world of sorrow. These stabbing moments often strike with reckless abandoned as each emotional lesion scars our souls. Tears often rain down during a drive, or simply standing in a retail line.

Hope may be sensational seeds planted in the gardens of kindness, laughter and wisdom. Fantastic forests of beauty and truth rain eternal bliss from ours tears that worship all those we miss.

Nature 2112

The majestic mystic of the deep and soft sands of eternity seep into the soul, nurture the heart and balance the brain. No longer bound to popular dreams and societies greed's. I've finally embraced natures seeds. Alone I dream, quietly I fade from societies charade.
If I'm not laughing or smiling, I'm swirling in my imagination, no matter the events of any given day, with every setting sun I close my eyes alone and hope someday my ashes will be cast into the moving waters of any beautiful ocean...

Children 2112

Children 2112

Friendly faces, and warm embraces, I've seen the art of innocence and have dwelled in the dreams of happy children. Winds of wisdom whisk across the blissful sky's amidst the laughing little one's eyes, their untarnished hearts covet the keys to all that is pure. Fabulously fierce and brutally honest, their extremely young souls keep hope eternal.

The novel "Court Trouble," a marvelous murder mystery, or a miserable mystery?

"Court Trouble" is a play on words, court being a tennis court where the murder of Manny Grimes occurs.

Grimes is bludgeoned to death on one of the tennis courts at the North Boulder Recreation Center. Right from the get go, how can someone, just one person beat someone to death with a tennis racket?
Novelist Mike Befeler tries to justified this in a non comedic way and this book fails miserably.

The only good thing about this book was that is was free to read, thanks to the coddingtown library. Released to the general public on July 20, "Court Trouble" was troublesome to read to say the least.

The books like the previous one I reviewed lacked any interest for the reader, and for a murder mystery, it was more of a mystery as to why such a boring story was being written. A brain damaged monkey on acid with a rubbery twig in the wet sand could have written a more interesting story.

The main character Mark Yeager was good friends with the murdered Grimes, and even though he's just and entrepreneur with absolutely no police or detective experience, he sets out to question witnesses and search houses, which the cops don't object too, a major red flag for a story that is a drama and not a comedy.

Yeager almost gets himself and his wife killed with his snooping around and dangerous questions to the nefarious folks. Even when Yeager is tied at the hands and feet with duck tape and thrown into an ice covered lake, I knew he'd live and solve the mystery, another red flag, extreme predictability.

There are four main suspects, and four very boring characters who spark as much interest as a documentary about toilet tissue holders.

"Court Trouble" contained all the main ingredients for an adult thriller, illegal gambling, gun trafficking, adultery, murder and mystery, but the formula was nothing more than a messy mix of miserable character development and lackluster story telling. Zero stars for this book, it was simply a pathetic parade of nonsense and boredom.

New Suspense Novel "Red Right Hand" Intense Or Senseless?

"Red Right Hand" released on Sept., 13, is the second book featuring the trained assassin Michael Hendricks.

Is the the novel "Red Right Hand" an intense thriller with colorful characters, rich with humor who wittingly thwart evil deeds, or is it a barrage of boring people fighting government corruption and Middle Eastern terrorism?

I didn't read the first book featuring the main character Michael Hendricks, "The Killing Kind." If "The Killing Kind" is half as bad as "Red Right Hand," I'm extremely confessed as to why a second book was even written.

The F-word was used way too much in this book, maybe third graders love this word used for absolutely no reason, but the profanity was unnecessary and pointless, unless the author was catering to the extremely unenlightening with no imagination.

The story kicks gets going right away when a tug boat driven by TIC, True Islamic Caliphate terrorist ram San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge doesn't even collapse, and the injuries and casualties are extremely minimal. Right of the bat, no intensity and the lack of character development throughout the entire book left the reader with the who cares what happens next attitude.

The female side kick Cameron who is meant to be charming and funny is as enlightening and entertaining as jet black charcoals on the oven floor. Not a single moment went by when I was concerned for the life of any of the characters and when Cameron saved Hendricks life, it was a so, the story continues, oh shucks kind of deal.

I surprised myself by reading the entire book, one and half stars for this hapless novel. The only reason it gets this high of a rating from me is because Holm, the author does acknowledge that all world leaders create war solely for money. Share holders in all parts of the world are profiting from war, an endless sad reality.

Two Suspense Movies, Double Duds Or Terrific Two?

"Nerve" explores the seldom mentioned, but real world of the 'dark web'  that lurks across the universe and is eager to pounce on the too daring or curious minds.

Nerve is a selfie web game that allows its participants to be watchers or players. The players are given various dares from kissing a complete stranger to laying flat on a railroad track while an on coming train approaches. One guess what the watchers do. The players must video themselves or have some else recording while doing their devious dares, and are also timed. If the dare is completed within the time limit, anywhere from a $100.00 to several thousand dollars is deposited into the players bank account.

Nerve hit the big screen in July, and DVD on October 25, it stars the young actors Emma Roberts and Dave Franco.

Vee Delmonico (Roberts), a high school senior succumbs to peer pressure and becomes a player for the wacky and dangerous website Nerve. While playing the game she meets her love interest Ian, (Franco) who is also a player in the dark game. Together Ian and Vee participate in various dares such as potential shop lifting and riding a motor cycle blind folded.

When the two decide the dares are too much, it's too late to simply walk away from the game. Once the two are caught in the vortex of the Nerve, they could be killed or their friends or various family members could be murdered if they quit playing the game. With the aide of Vee's friends, the two find one way to potentially keep their money, and save their loved ones as well as themselves, or does everyone die?

Three stars for the movie "Nerve," it could have been even more intense, but I really did enjoy it, well worth a watch.

"Lights Out," also released on DVD October 25 is not a supernatural edge of your seat teeth grinder, but it was still psychologically creepy, and I flinched a couple of times in my seat.

Actress Maria Bello portrays the mother of Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) and Martin (Gabriel Bateman). Bello is a single mom living with her son Martin and a supernatural entity that murders. Rebecca fearing for her little brother, takes him away from her mom and the tension mounts for all three.
The shadowy female figure that roams around in the dark and kills, seems to have positive ties to Bello.

The dark entity hates the light so much, that it is completely harmless during the day and even a working flash light will keep its potential victims safe, even in the prime of night, yet this devious entity has it's way of cutting off the electricity.

Is Bello completely out of her mind and one who fuels this baleful being into its killing sprees? Rebecca, her boyfriend and her little brother are cast into a horrifying and deadly realm of the supernatural, and together they are forced to combat the chaos of a cryptic world.

"Lights Out" is extremely well acted and though it could have been a lot more mind chilling, I still give it three stars. It's a good flick to watch on Halloween.