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The Essential Guillermo Del Toro Dating tip #31: Don’t feed them after midnight. Thursday, October 22, 2015 5A The Valdosta Daily Times XXtra!! #vdtxtra Let the mystery be: HBO HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’ FROM ADAM and the Garveys have moved to Miracle, Texas, a town where no one was raptured. ’ve had a very difficult time pitching HBO’s “The Miracle has become a national park, Leftovers” to friends. hosting thousands of pilgrims everyday I Hey, would you like to watch a show about a small who come to receive whatever spiritual town after a rapture-like event claims 140 mil- protection they believe the lion people? HBO town has to offer. Streets | Did I mention the event isn’t tied A s are lined with vendors ce to any religious dogma, and people ne who sell water and f were seemingly taken at ran - ro knickknacks as m HBO dom, punching a hole in every s “holy relics” e belief system on earth and a s from the town o creating existential panic n God spared. We may be the ultimate message of “The Left - 2 on a global scale? are introduced to the o overs.” f Oh, you’re not inter- ‘ town’s fire chief who The show’s creators hint at as much by cleverly us- T ested? I completely un- h burns down houses ing a 1992 Iris Dement bluegrass song as the season two e derstand. L “Fahrenheit 451” style theme song. e “The Leftovers” is f and his daughter who t “But no one knows for certain, and o based on a 2011 novel by v disappears in the first so it’s all the same to me / I think I’ll e Tom Perrotta and cre - r episode along with an s just let the mystery be.” ated by Damon Lindelof. ’ entire river. You may remember The Guilty Rem- Adam Floyd can be reached at adam. Lindelof as a co-creator nant, a cult of chain- [email protected]. of ABC’s “Lost,” who smoking malcontents, seems to have brought his have also reappeared in penchant for mysterious season two. Last Sunday questions to “The Leftovers” night’s episode showed GR but left his bag of answers at the members are ready to do more airport. than take a vow of silence to The first season revolves around menace others into never forgetting a small town police chief, Kevin Garvey, THE LIST the horror of “the departure.” who struggles to keep the peace in his town, “The Leftovers” may be the best show his family and within himself as people cope three on television right now and also the most difficult to What is the most “basic” thing you enjoy? years after the sudden disappearance of 2 percent of watch. It’s depressing, complicated, slow-moving at the world’s population. times and challenging. Viewers have to let go of th eir Joe: The show’s second season began three weeks ago, desire for answers in order to enjoy the show, which Nothing Kristin: Pumpkin spice everything Paige: Grey’s Anatomy Hayley: Iphone Snob Desiree: Leggings and oversized shirts Jason: Fall What would your pick be? Tell us on Twitter using #vdtxtra. Romantic movie things that are creepy in real life 6) Serenades. 7) Attempting to break up a relationship. 3) Holding a radio FROM DESIREE above your head outside 8) Professing undying love someone’s window. ... after like a week. 1) Sending gifts to can be Desiree Carver someone’s house ... reached at desiree.carver@ gaflnews.com. when they never told you their address. 4) Sending an overwhelming amount of texts. 2) Showing up on someone’s doorstep, especially if they are 5) Objecting during a hours away. wedding. Dating tips #456: Don’t get into windowless vans. SUBMITTED PHOTO 6A Thursday, October 22, 2015 The Valdosta Daily Times Local Music Scene: Demun Jones FROM DESIREE people who are able to express themselves through this style,” Most Southerners who keep up said Jones. with the times already know what Thanks to 92.9 being one of the hick-hop is. only stations in Georgia catering Thanks to Dave “Kraken” Stone to Jones’ style of music, he will #172: tip Dating of 92.9’s Country Fried with the be coming to town 8 p.m. Friday, Kraken and Demun Jones, for- Lucky’s. merly of the band Rehab and cur- “A lot of my friends play at rent hick-hop artist, explained the Lucky’s and I wanted to give peo- concept. ple the good kind of show they’re cat. a get Maybe dating. not consider Jones, born in Macon, ex- use to seeing there,” said Jones. plained this music is a form of His recent album, “Jones Coun- country rap. ty,” is a homage to his home coun- “It’s a mixture of the environ- ty and can be found on iTunes, ment I was raised in and the music Google Play and Amazon. that was popular at the time,” said His new video, “Boondocks,” Jones. drops Nov. 2. His involvement in music be- All tour dates and merchandise gan at an early age. He began writ- can be found on de- ing songs as a teenager and toured munjones.com. with the band Rehab for years. Jones finally struck out on his Desiree Carver can own to work on his current proj- be reached at de- ects and making a name for him- siree.carver@gafl- self in the hick-hop world. news.com. “There have been so many ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘Crimson Peak’ EVENTS What’s happening awash in color, ghosts around town? Ashley Street Station Didges Christ Superdrum w/ A Brilliant Lie @ 10 p.m. Lucky Dutch and the Jen Anders Trio @ 10 p.m. Go Get Gone w/ Ninja Gun Reunion Show @ 10 p.m. Pre-Fest Show: Barb Wire Dolls, Shehehe, Killmama, Wolf & Witness, Divorce, Long Knives, Hashtag Holygrail and Sarah Beth @ 8 p.m. doubt brought over by Wasikowska from- Bleu Cafe The Essential FROM STUART her role in “Stoker,” a 2013 film also con Hank Hall and Dustin cerned with family and obsession. - Otey @ 7-10 p.m. Edith’s childhood friend, Alan McMi Guillermo del Toro f “Crimson Peak” was a book — and - Darren and Rob @ 7-9 p.m. Iit’s a film awash in books, from the chael, is an optometrist and amateur de ghost story manuscript Edith Cush- tective in the Sherlock Holmes mode. - Guillermo del Toro is a ing (Mia Wasikowska) is working on McMichael owns a set of slide pho Salty Snapper storyteller of many mediums. to the family library of Thomas and tos, created using a silver process, that Mark Swift @ 6-9 p.m. Primarily a filmmaker and screenwriter, Lucille Sharpe to the opening and shows ghosts faintly looming in family Sam Jamwich @ 7-11 p.m. del Toro has also produced films, written closing of the film which is book- portraits. - (patio); Leah & Kevin @ 8-11 p.m. ended by a book opening and a book The dead are all around us, McMi novels and inspired television shows, as (Main Stage) well as worked on several video games. closing — it would be the book you chael tells Edith, if only we would learn read in a 19th century English lit to see them. Jen Anders @ 7-11 p.m. If you like “Crimson Peak,” class, the one you remember because Guillermo del Toro is a filmmaker (Patio); Creeksiders @ 8-11 p.m. here’s what to seek: you enjoyed it, the one you remember- awash in influences — Victorian novels, (Main Stage) because you read the whole thing de horror comics, old ghost stories — to the Earth Tribe FILMS spite your intentions to read the first extent where he has a separate house for “Cronos” and last chapter and wiki the rest. his collection of books, movies, comics Revival @ 6-9 p.m. “The Devil’s Backbone” “Peak” — which should please and toys. Tanner “Pan’s Labyrinth” both horror fans and fans of a good “Crimson Peak’s” biggest influence Strickland @ 6-9 p.m. “Hellboy” story — tells the story of Edith, a young is Poe (Allerdale Hall, in its disrepair Backstreet “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” woman who falls for Thomas Sharpe, and torrid history could just as well be Blazers @ 6-9 p.m. “The Orphanage” (executive producer) an English aristocrat who has come to called Usher Hall), but when it comes to- “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” (writer/ America — and Edith’s father, Carter — the ghosts, they’re pure del Toro, resem producer) seeking money, funding for an invention bling the titular character from the 2013 “Mama” (executive producer) that could resurrect his family’s defunct- horror film he produced, “Mama.” The “Pacific Rim” red clay mines, restore the depleted fam ghosts here move in herky-jerky ily fortunes and maybe repair the family movements, clawing BOOKS home, Allerdale Hall, which sits atop the their way des- ASSOCIATED PRESS “The Strain” (w/ Chuck Hogan) mines and has clay seeping up between perately toward “The Fall” (w/ Chuck Hogan) the floor boards. Edith, toward “The Night Eternal” (w/ Chuck Hogan) Thomas is accompanied by his sister, us, at least “Trollhunters” (w/ Daniel Kraus) Lucille, the two of them the only living until the story members of the family. ends and the TELEVISION Which isn’t to say they’re the only book closes. “The Strain.” members of the family who show up in the film. This is, after all, a ghost story - VIDEO GAMES and to paraphrase the narrator of “Mag Sadly, almost every video game del nolia,” we might be through with the Toro works on ends up cancelled, to dead, but the dead aren’t through with us.
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