Michael's Musings

I Know Your Secret, Your Dirty Little Secret
Michael Shinafelt

"There's a new game we like to play, you see

A game with added reality
You treat me like a dog, get me down on my knees

We call it Master and Servant
We call it Master and Servant

It's a lot like life, this play between the sheets
With you on top and me underneath
Forget all about equality

Let's play Master and Servant
Let's play Master and Servant" - Master and Servant, Depeche Mode

May all bad energy sent to me be turned into cash $$$

If you can't handle my sparkle, get sunglasses, that's all

Finally saw Jennifer's Body with Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried - LOVED IT!!!

BTW Once I get my UFO don't be asking me for rides, the more you know...

Munchin' Munchkins, discuss

Is anyone buying Marjorie Taylor Greene's get reelected 360? Bueller? 

Guess who is cast free post foot surgery finally? Me! Now I only have a boot, and it was made for walking!!!

IMO John Carpenter's The Fog is quite underrated, it's one of my favorite horror movies

Woman Crush of the Week - One of my favorite actors Naomi Watts got her star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame October 13th, Congrats!

Riddle me this, how can you discover a place that already has people living there?

The Creep Tapes on Shudder has been renewed for season three, it's so good, trust me!

While I am not a "Swiftie" I have really been loving Taylor Swift's latest The Life Of A Showgirl

Note To Self - I left it in the basement of the Alamo

It's Thursday and I'm thirsty (If you know, you know)

Join me and my thirst at -

https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en

https://bsky.app/profile/michaelshinafelt.bsky.social

https://www.tiktok.com/@michaelshinafelt   

Hump Day & Chill

Patty McCormack
as
Rhoda Penmark

 "Why should I feel sorry? It was Claude Daigle who got drowned, not me!" - Rhoda Penmark, The Bad Seed

Tis the season, thus today we are going to Hump Day & Chill to one of the cinemas most notorious sociopaths little Rhoda Penmark straight outta the film The Bad Seed. 

For the uninitiated here's how Bad of a girl Rhoda is:

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark (William Hopper) and his wife, Christine (Nancy Kelly), dote on their pig-tailed daughter, Rhoda (Patty McCormack) -- as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove (Evelyn Varden). But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

"Yes" I have seen this movie and while some of it is hammy in execution and undercuts the darker themes of the story a little. I have never seen a child performance as chilling as Patty McCormack as Rhoda Penmark. 

She makes seeing The Bad Seed a Hump Day & Chill must!

The Bad Seed on IMDb -

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048977/

"Killin Me Now"

Photo Credit:  @The_Corona_Chronicles

Southern California punk band Heartwells has announced an exciting new chapter: a partnership with City Rat Records for their upcoming European tour alongside labelmates Empired. The run will mark Heartwells’ first full European outing, bringing their explosive live energy overseas this winter.

The announcement follows the release of their new standalone single “Killin Me Now” — a high-octane dose of melodic aggression and emotional urgency — and their recent 6-song EP Ollie, released this past July via HEY!FEVER Records.

Stream “Killin Me Now”: https://open.spotify.com/track/3m1lDI07m7Hlr92iWyp7PG

Stream/Order Ollie: https://push.fm/ps/ollie-ep-2025-heartwells

Follow Heartwells:  linktr.ee/heartwellsband    HEARTWELLS TOUR DATES Oct 25 – Gainesville, FL – FEST 23 Nov 01- Hermosa Beach, CA Saint Rocke (with Hoist The Colors Western Waste) Nov 13, 2025 Wermelskirchen Germany AJZ Bahndamm Nov 14, 2025 Münster Germany Heile Welt Nov 15, 2025 Hannover Germany Nov 16, 2025 Berlin Germany Franken Bar  Nov 17, 2025 Vienna Austria Coco Bar Nov 18, 2025 Hradec Králové Czechia Bajkazyl Nov 19, 2025 Hof Germany Punk Rock Office Nov 20, 2025 Den Bosch Netherlands Willem Twee  Nov 21, 2025 Zeist Netherlands De Peppel Nov 22, 2025 Aulendorf Germany

Eighteen & Counting...

Michael Myers v Santa Claus

Halloween is 18 days away those retailers who have already decked their halls with Christmas decor need to slow their roll!

I mean the best day of the year hasn't even happened yet and here you are trying to shove something down our throats that is still over two months away.

Could you wait at least until November 1st?! That would be an acceptable solution Home Depot (and others, but they are the only one I've experienced on a personal level thus far)

Thank you,

Michael Shinafelt and several hundred thousand like minded individuals

PS I'm putting rocks in all of those who are guilty Trick R Treat bags, so there!!!

Find a Spirit Halloween store near you...

https://stores.spirithalloween.com/  

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Diane Keaton

We lost one of the greats yesterday the iconic, not to mention legendary Diane Keaton. She was truly one of a kind. 

I specifically recall that I first became aware of her when she won the Academy Award for Woody Allen's Annie Hall. 

Keaton throughout her life and career was always her authentic self. This is what she will always be remembered for most.

Rest In Power

Diane on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Keaton 

Celebrate! National Coming Out Day!

Out!
Michael Shinafelt & Friend
Photo:
https://www.instagram.com/_hunter/?hl=en

"I'm coming out

I want the world to know
Got to let it show
I'm coming out
I want the world to know
I got to let it show

There's a new me coming out
And I just had to live
And I wanna give
I'm completely positive
I think this time around
I am gonna do it
Like you never knew it
Ooh, I'll make it through

The time has come for me
To break out of the shell
I have to shout
That I am coming out" - I'm Coming Out, Diana Ross 

In Pride!!!

National Coming Out Day on the Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coming_Out_Day  

There Is Nothing Like A Dame

At 80 years young Dame Helen Mirren has lived, and knows of what she speaks.

Trust her words they are the wisdom we all wished we had in our younger years.

There is nothing like a dame after all...

TGIF! Bend it like Dame Helen Mirren, that's all. 

Helen on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/helenmirren/?hl=en