Day 30

It’s been 30 days. This is kind of exciting. I took an IQ test and only scored 140. I had scored 147 has a redhead, so I guess I did lose some IQ points by becoming blonde. But internet IQ test are probably bogus, so who can be sure?

I have the sudden urge to go camping. It could have been because I watched five minutes of Dead Poet’s Society today and realized that I do want “to go into the woods to live deliberately.” I haven’t been camping since... I was maybe 12. I am a bit apprehensive because if you’ve watched as many movies as I have, camping never goes well for blondes; they usually die. Whether It’s at Camp Crystal Lake (Friday the 13^th), Camp Arawak (Sleepaway Camp), or the Tennessee woods (Evil Dead), you’re pretty much doomed. I can’t help but associate camping with horror movies. I suppose there are some great camping movies that aren’t full of gore, but I’m going to make a list. It’s like a challenge (I don’t think I’m going for comprehensive, I’m going for solid movies with the majority of the film involving camping in the woods – I think I’m eliminating desert island scenarios). I like lists and everyone knows I love a good theme! So, here’s a possible syllabus if Professor Blonde was going to teach you about camping via the movies:

Camping Cinema 101:

Friday the 13^th

The Great Outdoors

Evil Dead

Camping: Childhood Fun 210:

Stand by Me (I love this movie, and I think it can count)

Camp Nowhere

Troop Beverly Hills

Meatballs

Camping: Male Bonding 313:

Deliverance

Brokeback Mountain

Without a Paddle

Camping: You Won’t Get Out Alive 425:

Grizzly

Sleepaway Camp

Cabin Fever

Don’t Go Into the Woods

Extra Credit:

The Cabin in the Woods (supposedly coming in 2011)

Swiss Family Robinson (desert island, but they have a badass tree house)

The Sandlot (instructional s’mores scene)

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (opening campfire singing scene)

House of Wax (2005) (camping while on the road… barely counts)

Friday the 13^th Part INFINITY (the original is the best, but the sequels can provide enrichment)

Friday the 13^th (2009) (it’s not that great, but it’s an okay twist on the original)

Today gets 4 Barbie Warhols: