Halloween thread! I am on my way to pick up my cape and mask! To what end, you may ask?
So that VON DOOM may stalk the serene streets of Provo!
(As the traditional Trick-or-Treat escort for my brother's kids, I try to stay in theme with them. This year we have a Spider Man, a Batgirl, and a Hermione. Eh, close enough.)
Realizing lately that I don't really trust or respect basically any of the moderators here. So, good luck with life, friends! Hit me up on Twitter @DesertLeviathan
A few months back I stumbled across this amazing psych-salsa version of Thriller by a group called La Mecánica Popular. I cannot recommend it enough for any swinging October cocktail parties you may be hosting. Plus the music video makes you want to track down a whole new set of B-movies.
And to get further seasonally-festive, if you click on the picture below, you can explore these super-great skeleton toy photo sets by a tumblr user who goes by doubledealer93. I don't know anything about this person but I am in love with these skeletons.
Witness the baffling anime that is Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned! To the tune of the theme from 'A Summer Place,' watch as Dracula's baby gets brought back to life by Jesus I guess, and then turned into one of the Wonder Twins. I'm not joking.
This movie is B-A-N-A-N-A-S. It's got all the best aspects of shitty 80's anime - lines delivered rapidly with little emotive effect a la Speed Racer, only the vaguest animation for speech, inexplicable sexism, unfortunately bulgy character design... It also has a plot that makes just enough sense to ~sort of~ hold itself together. It's watchable because of its insanity. See, it starts out with Dracula stealing Lucifer's intended bride from a black mass being held in Boston. (The movie is worth it just to hear people chanting, "HAIL DOLORES, BRIDE OF SATAN.") Then:
He falls in love with Dolores and they have a baby.
The baby gets killed.
The baby gets resurrected (see above) and rapidly aged into a blond weirdo in a jumpsuit
Dolores and Dracula go to hell and get yelled at by Satan
Dolores discovers magical goodness powers
Dracula gets turned human
Dracula mugs a guy for his wallet
Dracula eats a hamburger
Dracula gets spurned by his ex-girlfriends over and over again like the bumbling antihero of a romantic comedy
Dracula becomes a vampire again by defeating a purple man dressed as Liberace
Things explode for no discernible reason
Dracula saves some urchins from a zombie vampire invasion
The blond weirdo turns back into a baby
There's also a side plot with a wheelchair-bound dude named Hans with a sword cane, his crossbow-wielding daughter and the martial-arts-proficient misogynist descendent of Dracula. They spend the whole movie pretty much just following Dracula around? This shit is the craziest shit I have seen in ages and I spend a lot of my life watching crazy shit.
And there you go! Starting off October and the month that is Halloween as best I can.
Also, I'm somewhat worried that I'll repeat items or rehash ground I've covered in years past. If, as I go through the month, people actively ask for recommendations - if you're looking for a mummy-musical-fusion, or claymation vampires, or a song about zombies kissing or whatever - I'm happy to oblige and to take inspiration. My new job is super-duper life-consuming at the moment but I refuse to let that infringe upon the season.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
And to get further seasonally-festive, if you click on the picture below, you can explore these super-great skeleton toy photo sets by a tumblr user who goes by doubledealer93. I don't know anything about this person but I am in love with these skeletons.
My Pose Skeleton is one of my favorite toy purchases of the last year, you can get them on Amazon for less than $10. The accessories are a delight as well, you can get a whole bathroom and an electric guitar!
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I was going to dress up as Palmer Luckey from the cover of Time Magazine (teal polo, flip flops, and a DK2-style old Google Cardboard headset), but, uh, well, that's kind of off the table now. Probably for the best that idea got ruined before I could regret it.
We'll get back there someday.
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THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER
October 2nd: DAY OF THE SEQUELS
On the one hand, I prefer to hold off on premature holiday celebrations so I don't OD on festivities. On the other hand, the grocery store yesterday was playing O Holy Night, so... fuck it! We're cross-pollinating our holidays today in celebration of one of my favourite sequels.
Now don't get confused - Jack Frost 2 is definitely not the sequel to the Michael Keaton weird family Christmas movie. That came out in 1998. In 1997, there was a different living-snowman film, only in this one the guy who turns into an evil snowman is a serial killer and not just a shitty dad. It's preeeetty great, but it is nowhere near as incredible as the sequel. Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman is like the wildly inappropriate, dad-joke-filled B-grade film you wish you could have made in high school. I'm not sure what kind of budget they were working with but I'm guessing they spent most of it on beer because someone said "Yeah I'm pretty good at video editing on my mom's Power Macintosh G3," and they ran with it. Gratuitous nudity and violence ahoy! They also didn't appear to feel especially inclined to have someone waste their time in the snowman suit, because other than some grotesque face contorsion shots and the occasional limb, you hardly see Jack Frost at all. The whole thing is kind of like... Sifl and Olly banged a giallo film.
Moving ooonnn, here's a punk song called Witch Man, by a band I like called Dilly Dally. The lyrics are classic-punk-shallow, but her wolf howling really brings it home thematically I feel.
Annd gonna wrap it up with a short story by Ambrose Bierce called The Middle Toe of the Right Foot. It's a classic of ghostly suspense, so it's possible that the ghost story aficionados among us have already read this one, but I revisited it and it still holds up really well. The premise is simple enough but I'd rather not spoil it if it's news to you. You should just read it, instead.
"If it is agreeable to you, Mr. Grossmith," said the man holding the light, "you will place yourself in that corner."
He indicated the angle of the room farthest from the door, whither Grossmith retired, his second parting from him with a grasp of the hand which had nothing of cordiality in it. In the angle nearest the door Mr. Rosser stationed himself, and after a whispered consultation his second left him, joining the other near the door. At that moment the candle was suddenly extinguished, leaving all in profound darkness. This may have been done by a draught from the opened door; whatever the cause, the effect was startling.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
oh hell yes dilly dally, was just listening to that album on my bike ride earlier. good good good band
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
edited October 2016
Okay I'm still posting from a day behind, I'll try to remedy that. I swear.
Day Tree! I mean, 3.
Back in 1972 some dude named Ray Bradbury wrote a book called The Halloween Tree. It's kind of a bit of a kids' story - a group of boys, in their attempt to locate a missing friend, end up traveling through time and space to explore all iterations of holidays that celebrate death and the dead.
“So," said Moundshroud. "If we fly fast, maybe we can catch Pipkin. Grab his sweet Halloween corn-candy soul. Bring him back, pop him in bed, toast him warm, save his breath. What say, lads? Search and seek for lost Pipkin, and solve Halloween, all in one fell dark blow?"
They thought of All Hallows' Night and the billion ghosts awandering the lonely lanes in cold winds and strange smokes.
They thought of Pipkin, no more than a thimbleful of boy and sheer summer delight, torn out like a tooth and carried off on a black tide of web and horn and black soot.
And, almost as one, they murmured: "Yes.”
The book was originally intended to be a screenplay for a collaboration with Chuck Jones, which would have been amazing. As it is he ended up turning it into a novel, illustrated by a man named Joseph Mugnaini (he did a number of things for Bradbury, so his work may be recognizable if you're a fan of the author already).
As it is, they ultimately did turn it into an animated feature in the 90's. No worries, though, because the 90's version still features a screenplay written by Bradbury, is narrated by Bradbury, and also has Leonard Nimoy as a voice actor, so it's aces across the board. It's for streaming on a bunch of places if you want to watch, although it's not for free anywhere. I'm told if you still have "cable television," whatever the hell that is, they show it a lot around October.
Today's song for your Halloween playlist has absolutely nothing to do with trees, but it does have a double 'E' in it, so like. There's that. Lincoln Durham is like a one-man rockabilly machine. They've been playing his song The Creeper on my used-to-be-local radio station, and you can check it out live from this week in ATX here, or there's a less-good-in-my-opinion studio version on YouTube:
Man I am so glad someone beat me to the "wow I wish I could be screen accurate Max but that would be a lot" punch
The other day I made a few shopping carts on various sites with the various props and clothes necessary
Full Fury Road Max as seen in the final chase scene (with the jacket, accurate boots, and the South African M83 vest covered in various magazine pouches) and cutting as few corners as possible easily tops $1500 if you get a perfect jacket down to the stitching, and all the gun mags and dummy shells necessary, or about $800 if you get a jacket that is less perfect but is more expendable for the purposes of beating up, and also get cheap toy or airsoft mags
Plus you're buying that much stuff and then beating the crap out of all of it!
Back in 1972 some dude named Ray Bradbury wrote a book called The Halloween Tree. It's kind of a bit of a kids' story - a group of boys, in their attempt to locate a missing friend, end up traveling through time and space to explore all iterations of holidays that celebrate death and the dead.
“So," said Moundshroud. "If we fly fast, maybe we can catch Pipkin. Grab his sweet Halloween corn-candy soul. Bring him back, pop him in bed, toast him warm, save his breath. What say, lads? Search and seek for lost Pipkin, and solve Halloween, all in one fell dark blow?"
They thought of All Hallows' Night and the billion ghosts awandering the lonely lanes in cold winds and strange smokes.
They thought of Pipkin, no more than a thimbleful of boy and sheer summer delight, torn out like a tooth and carried off on a black tide of web and horn and black soot.
And, almost as one, they murmured: "Yes.”
The book was originally intended to be a screenplay for a collaboration with Chuck Jones, which would have been amazing. As it is he ended up turning it into a novel, illustrated by a man named Joseph Mugnaini (he did a number of things for Bradbury, so his work may be recognizable if you're a fan of the author already).
As it is, they ultimately did turn it into an animated feature in the 90's. No worries, though, because the 90's version still features a screenplay written by Bradbury, is narrated by Bradbury, and also has Leonard Nimoy as a voice actor, so it's aces across the board. It's for streaming on a bunch of places if you want to watch, although it's not for free anywhere. I'm told if you still have "cable television," whatever the hell that is, they show it a lot around October.
oh shit
I saw this once when I was a kid, I thought I had imagined it
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So we can talk about costumes in here, right? Cool.
Need ideas.
So I'm going trick or treatinf with the kids as Kylo Ren. I already have the mask and it has a built in voice changer and such. I bought a big long hooded robe thing. Gonna tear the arms off of that and wear a black karate gi under everything. I have long black chem resistant gloves and black wading boots. I need to figure out a belt. Any ideas for a cheao and easy black belt to keep my robe together?also should I split it in the back? Like up to butt area?
I'm trying to throw together some kind of discount Mad Max costume, but looking at stuff that cosplayers put together usually shames me out of dressing up at all, even though Halloween is by far the best holiday, contained within the best month.
Mad Max specifically or just something from mad max because you could do a War Boy pretty cheap. And also wear your glasses under some goggles!
If I had a year instead of a month (and more free time than I currently do), I would love to make a functional pseudo-prosthetic arm.
I'm probably going to go up to my girlfriend's place for my birthday and have a relatively quiet weekend but our current cutesy plan is genderswapped Pines twins
I'm trying to throw together some kind of discount Mad Max costume, but looking at stuff that cosplayers put together usually shames me out of dressing up at all, even though Halloween is by far the best holiday, contained within the best month.
Mad Max specifically or just something from mad max because you could do a War Boy pretty cheap. And also wear your glasses under some goggles!
If I had a year instead of a month (and more free time than I currently do), I would love to make a functional pseudo-prosthetic arm.
So, you're Halloweening as Furiosa next year?
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
I have no idea what I want to do for Halloween this year. I've just had no inspiration.
I still have no inspiration for a costume. It's unfair that depression and stress are interfering with my favourite holiday.
A couple of quick shots for you (by which I mean I scanned my DVD shelf on the way out the door):
- The Other Mother from Coraline. It's not that obscure, I swear. And even if it is, if you get those eyes right it will not matter, because it will be creepy as hell. Depending on how far you want to go with it, you could be the benign version, or one of the creepy and stretched out versions.
- Mrs. White from Clue. Yeah, this one works a lot better if you have a whole crew to do it with, but I think so long as you have a weapon on you the message could get through. I recommend going with the rope, personally, if you're going to be out and about.
- James Buchanan Barnes. I don't know how to do any of the necessary parts for this aside from filling your hair with coconut oil and fucking up your eyeliner, but you're on the internet, I'm sure you can figure it out. Bonus: you get to hit on anyone dressed as Steve Rogers.
- Mina Harker or Lucy Westenra. I'm personally partial to the Lucy option, as you can go either full vamp or just be pale and prone to fainting, but she's frequently depicted as blonde. I don't remember the book well enough to know if that's textual, but I guess it's a good way to highlight the difference between her and Mina.
I have no idea what I want to do for Halloween this year. I've just had no inspiration.
Do you want to go spooky, silly, sexy, or nerdy?
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edited October 2016
Here Lies Lester More, Four Slugs from a .44
No Les No More!
Obviously it's a bit of a cop out but today I think we should all take a moment to appreciate Stephen King's ability to write books that turn into great movies, despite being totally uninteresting to me from a writing and characterization perspective. I don't know if it's happy fate that ended up with great directors or screenwriters picking out the best bits of his narratives, or just that talented people are way more patient than I am. I'm grateful though, and today I specifically want everyone to think long and hard about when the last time they watched The Dead Zone was. Not the series, although okay YES that had Anthony Michael Hall in it so it can't be all bad. The movie, though. The movie has Christopher Walken slowly descending the spiral staircase from mild-mannered teacher to a man broken and haunted by his 'gift,' and it's honestly great. I love Christopher Walken. There. I said it.
And you know who else I love? Daaavid Cronenberg. Talk about a dude who knows how to set a mood. I can't be the only person around who saw Videodrome at a probably-inappropriately-young age, right? (Barry Convex would like to talk to you about Videodrome.) Ahem. But Dead Zone you could watch and be convinced that it's on the saner side, except there's Martin Sheen as a Presidential candidate, doing his best toe-the-sanity-line, annnnd I don't want to spoil the movie but if you haven't seen it you should definitely check it out.
I reckon this doesn't count quite as literature or quite as music, but here's Neil Gaiman doing a lovely spooky short story for the New York Public Library:
The story is called Click Clack the Rattlebag, and it's from Trigger Warning, his book of short stories that came out last year. I'm an unabashed Gaiman fan, particularly as long as he doesn't start saying Dumb Shit like certain other gothic-ish arts-ish people I'm looking at you Tim Burton jfc dude.
Lastly, for a little dark and nasty fairy tale, y'all can look for a story called When The Clock Strikes, by Tanith Lee. I know it from a story collection called Masterpieces of Terror, selected by Marvin Kaye (and with a coverpiece illustrated by Edward Gorey - so now you know why it caught my eye). Marvin Kaye has an impeccable eye for horror writing, in my opinion. And Tanith Lee was one of those authors whose writing totally changed my elementary and middle school brain, to the degree that I would hate to revisit her work now and find it means less to me than it did at the time. When the Clock Strikes is a short story that will seem more and more familiar to the fairy tale lovers among you as you read...
Yes, the great ballroom is filled only with dust now. The slender columns of white marble and the slender columns of rose-red marble are woven together by cobwebs. The vivid frescoes, on the faces of the painted goddesses look gray. And the velvet curtains-touch them, they will crumble. Two hundred years, now, since anyone danced in this place on the sea-green floor in the candle gleam. Two hundred years since the wonderful clock struck for the very last time.
I thought you might care to examine the clock. It was considered exceptional in its day. The pedestal is ebony and the face fine porcelain. And the figures, which are of silver, would pass slowly about the circlet of the face. Each figure represents, you understand, an hour. And as the appropriate hours came level with this golden bell, they would strike it the correct number of times. All the figures are unique, you see. Beginning at the first hour, they are, in this order, a girl-child, a dwarf, a maiden, a youth, a lady and a knight. And here, notice, the figures grow older as the day declines: a queen and king for the seventh and eighth hours, and after these, and abbess and magician and next to last, a hag. But the very last is the strangest all. The twelfth figure: do you recognize him? It is Death. Yes, a most curious clock. It was reckoned a marvelous thing then. But it has not struck for two hundred years. Possibly you have heard the story? No? Oh, but I am certain that you have heard it, in another form, perhaps.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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I have no idea what I want to do for Halloween this year. I've just had no inspiration.
Do you want to go spooky, silly, sexy, or nerdy?
All?
I kind of want to make something, but not something too large scale.
About the only thing that has come to mind is do the Banksy mural of the dude throw the flowers.
That's fair. Some people have distinct preferences (I almost never do silly, for instance, and even my sexiest costumes are probably going to have a spooky element to them). But if the field is open, the field is open.
I'll do some thinking on it for you, and see if I have any good ideas. You're beardless right now, right?
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lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
wait.
oh no
This is my first year as a Mommy and doing Halloween.
I'm going to take her around Trick or Treating. do I need to be dressed up as well?
This is my first year as a Mommy and doing Halloween.
I'm going to take her around Trick or Treating. do I need to be dressed up as well?
I need a costume!
What is her costume? The traditional thing to do is to go with something complementary for wee ones.
Like, my favorite is to do up a baby as a spider, and then cover yourself in a cocoon of webs, so that only your screaming face is visible. That sort of thing works really well I think.
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This is my first year as a Mommy and doing Halloween.
I'm going to take her around Trick or Treating. do I need to be dressed up as well?
I need a costume!
Is trick or treating even a thing in NZ?
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lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
We're gonna be in the states visiting Grammy and Grandpop.
She's going as a kiwifruit.
I knitted up the vest and crocheted up the hat. Just need to add some fluffy brown accessories like booties (maybe, a brown fluffy rim around the hat, and maybe a fluffy brown scarf thing around her neck. She'll be wearing long-sleeved brown merino shirt and leggings under the costume as well.
I have no idea what I want to do for Halloween this year. I've just had no inspiration.
Do you want to go spooky, silly, sexy, or nerdy?
All?
I kind of want to make something, but not something too large scale.
About the only thing that has come to mind is do the Banksy mural of the dude throw the flowers.
That's fair. Some people have distinct preferences (I almost never do silly, for instance, and even my sexiest costumes are probably going to have a spooky element to them). But if the field is open, the field is open.
I'll do some thinking on it for you, and see if I have any good ideas. You're beardless right now, right?
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Bonus though, you will be an extremely popular person at that party
Not at any of the parties I go to.
you go to parties?
One time joel came home drunk from a party to podcast and continued to drink, vanishing from the microphone halfway through to vomit precipitously
Joel is a party
So that VON DOOM may stalk the serene streets of Provo!
(As the traditional Trick-or-Treat escort for my brother's kids, I try to stay in theme with them. This year we have a Spider Man, a Batgirl, and a Hermione. Eh, close enough.)
Get cozy as I walk you through your first Halloween treats.
A few months back I stumbled across this amazing psych-salsa version of Thriller by a group called La Mecánica Popular. I cannot recommend it enough for any swinging October cocktail parties you may be hosting. Plus the music video makes you want to track down a whole new set of B-movies.
And to get further seasonally-festive, if you click on the picture below, you can explore these super-great skeleton toy photo sets by a tumblr user who goes by doubledealer93. I don't know anything about this person but I am in love with these skeletons.
Witness the baffling anime that is Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned! To the tune of the theme from 'A Summer Place,' watch as Dracula's baby gets brought back to life by Jesus I guess, and then turned into one of the Wonder Twins. I'm not joking.
This movie is B-A-N-A-N-A-S. It's got all the best aspects of shitty 80's anime - lines delivered rapidly with little emotive effect a la Speed Racer, only the vaguest animation for speech, inexplicable sexism, unfortunately bulgy character design... It also has a plot that makes just enough sense to ~sort of~ hold itself together. It's watchable because of its insanity. See, it starts out with Dracula stealing Lucifer's intended bride from a black mass being held in Boston. (The movie is worth it just to hear people chanting, "HAIL DOLORES, BRIDE OF SATAN.") Then:
There's also a side plot with a wheelchair-bound dude named Hans with a sword cane, his crossbow-wielding daughter and the martial-arts-proficient misogynist descendent of Dracula. They spend the whole movie pretty much just following Dracula around? This shit is the craziest shit I have seen in ages and I spend a lot of my life watching crazy shit.
And there you go! Starting off October and the month that is Halloween as best I can.
Also, I'm somewhat worried that I'll repeat items or rehash ground I've covered in years past. If, as I go through the month, people actively ask for recommendations - if you're looking for a mummy-musical-fusion, or claymation vampires, or a song about zombies kissing or whatever - I'm happy to oblige and to take inspiration. My new job is super-duper life-consuming at the moment but I refuse to let that infringe upon the season.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
My Pose Skeleton is one of my favorite toy purchases of the last year, you can get them on Amazon for less than $10. The accessories are a delight as well, you can get a whole bathroom and an electric guitar!
October 2nd: DAY OF THE SEQUELS
On the one hand, I prefer to hold off on premature holiday celebrations so I don't OD on festivities. On the other hand, the grocery store yesterday was playing O Holy Night, so... fuck it! We're cross-pollinating our holidays today in celebration of one of my favourite sequels.
Now don't get confused - Jack Frost 2 is definitely not the sequel to the Michael Keaton weird family Christmas movie. That came out in 1998. In 1997, there was a different living-snowman film, only in this one the guy who turns into an evil snowman is a serial killer and not just a shitty dad. It's preeeetty great, but it is nowhere near as incredible as the sequel. Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman is like the wildly inappropriate, dad-joke-filled B-grade film you wish you could have made in high school. I'm not sure what kind of budget they were working with but I'm guessing they spent most of it on beer because someone said "Yeah I'm pretty good at video editing on my mom's Power Macintosh G3," and they ran with it. Gratuitous nudity and violence ahoy! They also didn't appear to feel especially inclined to have someone waste their time in the snowman suit, because other than some grotesque face contorsion shots and the occasional limb, you hardly see Jack Frost at all. The whole thing is kind of like... Sifl and Olly banged a giallo film.
Moving ooonnn, here's a punk song called Witch Man, by a band I like called Dilly Dally. The lyrics are classic-punk-shallow, but her wolf howling really brings it home thematically I feel.
Annd gonna wrap it up with a short story by Ambrose Bierce called The Middle Toe of the Right Foot. It's a classic of ghostly suspense, so it's possible that the ghost story aficionados among us have already read this one, but I revisited it and it still holds up really well. The premise is simple enough but I'd rather not spoil it if it's news to you. You should just read it, instead.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
yes
sandra is picking movies just for me now
Day Tree! I mean, 3.
Back in 1972 some dude named Ray Bradbury wrote a book called The Halloween Tree. It's kind of a bit of a kids' story - a group of boys, in their attempt to locate a missing friend, end up traveling through time and space to explore all iterations of holidays that celebrate death and the dead.
The book was originally intended to be a screenplay for a collaboration with Chuck Jones, which would have been amazing. As it is he ended up turning it into a novel, illustrated by a man named Joseph Mugnaini (he did a number of things for Bradbury, so his work may be recognizable if you're a fan of the author already).
As it is, they ultimately did turn it into an animated feature in the 90's. No worries, though, because the 90's version still features a screenplay written by Bradbury, is narrated by Bradbury, and also has Leonard Nimoy as a voice actor, so it's aces across the board. It's for streaming on a bunch of places if you want to watch, although it's not for free anywhere. I'm told if you still have "cable television," whatever the hell that is, they show it a lot around October.
Today's song for your Halloween playlist has absolutely nothing to do with trees, but it does have a double 'E' in it, so like. There's that. Lincoln Durham is like a one-man rockabilly machine. They've been playing his song The Creeper on my used-to-be-local radio station, and you can check it out live from this week in ATX here, or there's a less-good-in-my-opinion studio version on YouTube:
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
The other day I made a few shopping carts on various sites with the various props and clothes necessary
Full Fury Road Max as seen in the final chase scene (with the jacket, accurate boots, and the South African M83 vest covered in various magazine pouches) and cutting as few corners as possible easily tops $1500 if you get a perfect jacket down to the stitching, and all the gun mags and dummy shells necessary, or about $800 if you get a jacket that is less perfect but is more expendable for the purposes of beating up, and also get cheap toy or airsoft mags
Plus you're buying that much stuff and then beating the crap out of all of it!
oh shit
I saw this once when I was a kid, I thought I had imagined it
Need ideas.
So I'm going trick or treatinf with the kids as Kylo Ren. I already have the mask and it has a built in voice changer and such. I bought a big long hooded robe thing. Gonna tear the arms off of that and wear a black karate gi under everything. I have long black chem resistant gloves and black wading boots. I need to figure out a belt. Any ideas for a cheao and easy black belt to keep my robe together?also should I split it in the back? Like up to butt area?
I will have pants.
Also need to make the hood not pointy
If I had a year instead of a month (and more free time than I currently do), I would love to make a functional pseudo-prosthetic arm.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
i have a three pronged hook that would make a PERFECT grappling hook
So, you're Halloweening as Furiosa next year?
Satans..... hints.....
A couple of quick shots for you (by which I mean I scanned my DVD shelf on the way out the door):
- The Other Mother from Coraline. It's not that obscure, I swear. And even if it is, if you get those eyes right it will not matter, because it will be creepy as hell. Depending on how far you want to go with it, you could be the benign version, or one of the creepy and stretched out versions.
- Mrs. White from Clue. Yeah, this one works a lot better if you have a whole crew to do it with, but I think so long as you have a weapon on you the message could get through. I recommend going with the rope, personally, if you're going to be out and about.
- James Buchanan Barnes. I don't know how to do any of the necessary parts for this aside from filling your hair with coconut oil and fucking up your eyeliner, but you're on the internet, I'm sure you can figure it out. Bonus: you get to hit on anyone dressed as Steve Rogers.
- Mina Harker or Lucy Westenra. I'm personally partial to the Lucy option, as you can go either full vamp or just be pale and prone to fainting, but she's frequently depicted as blonde. I don't remember the book well enough to know if that's textual, but I guess it's a good way to highlight the difference between her and Mina.
Do you want to go spooky, silly, sexy, or nerdy?
No Les No More!
Obviously it's a bit of a cop out but today I think we should all take a moment to appreciate Stephen King's ability to write books that turn into great movies, despite being totally uninteresting to me from a writing and characterization perspective. I don't know if it's happy fate that ended up with great directors or screenwriters picking out the best bits of his narratives, or just that talented people are way more patient than I am. I'm grateful though, and today I specifically want everyone to think long and hard about when the last time they watched The Dead Zone was. Not the series, although okay YES that had Anthony Michael Hall in it so it can't be all bad. The movie, though. The movie has Christopher Walken slowly descending the spiral staircase from mild-mannered teacher to a man broken and haunted by his 'gift,' and it's honestly great. I love Christopher Walken. There. I said it.
And you know who else I love? Daaavid Cronenberg. Talk about a dude who knows how to set a mood. I can't be the only person around who saw Videodrome at a probably-inappropriately-young age, right? (Barry Convex would like to talk to you about Videodrome.) Ahem. But Dead Zone you could watch and be convinced that it's on the saner side, except there's Martin Sheen as a Presidential candidate, doing his best toe-the-sanity-line, annnnd I don't want to spoil the movie but if you haven't seen it you should definitely check it out.
I reckon this doesn't count quite as literature or quite as music, but here's Neil Gaiman doing a lovely spooky short story for the New York Public Library:
The story is called Click Clack the Rattlebag, and it's from Trigger Warning, his book of short stories that came out last year. I'm an unabashed Gaiman fan, particularly as long as he doesn't start saying Dumb Shit like certain other gothic-ish arts-ish people I'm looking at you Tim Burton jfc dude.
Lastly, for a little dark and nasty fairy tale, y'all can look for a story called When The Clock Strikes, by Tanith Lee. I know it from a story collection called Masterpieces of Terror, selected by Marvin Kaye (and with a coverpiece illustrated by Edward Gorey - so now you know why it caught my eye). Marvin Kaye has an impeccable eye for horror writing, in my opinion. And Tanith Lee was one of those authors whose writing totally changed my elementary and middle school brain, to the degree that I would hate to revisit her work now and find it means less to me than it did at the time. When the Clock Strikes is a short story that will seem more and more familiar to the fairy tale lovers among you as you read...
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All?
I kind of want to make something, but not something too large scale.
About the only thing that has come to mind is do the Banksy mural of the dude throw the flowers.
Satans..... hints.....
That's fair. Some people have distinct preferences (I almost never do silly, for instance, and even my sexiest costumes are probably going to have a spooky element to them). But if the field is open, the field is open.
I'll do some thinking on it for you, and see if I have any good ideas. You're beardless right now, right?
oh no
This is my first year as a Mommy and doing Halloween.
I'm going to take her around Trick or Treating. do I need to be dressed up as well?
I need a costume!
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What is her costume? The traditional thing to do is to go with something complementary for wee ones.
Like, my favorite is to do up a baby as a spider, and then cover yourself in a cocoon of webs, so that only your screaming face is visible. That sort of thing works really well I think.
Is trick or treating even a thing in NZ?
She's going as a kiwifruit.
I knitted up the vest and crocheted up the hat. Just need to add some fluffy brown accessories like booties (maybe, a brown fluffy rim around the hat, and maybe a fluffy brown scarf thing around her neck. She'll be wearing long-sleeved brown merino shirt and leggings under the costume as well.
You need to use your imagination....
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I'll probably do a boring mommy idea. or find something once we're in the states.
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I am.
Satans..... hints.....