Everybody who said anything about Army Of Darkness other than "it's a cinematic masterpiece for the ages" is now on a list.
It's not a good list to be on folks, just a quick heads up.
is it a list of people with better taste than you
i think it might be
Nah it's a list of people who don't like Army Of Darkness.
(I left so many openings there and you tripped straight over your own feet - "is it a list of people who've seen you naked", "is it a list of people who have ever smelled your breath", "is it a list of people who read your posts" like c'mon man pick up your game, jesus)
it's kinda... it turned out... not appropriate for a halloween costume, at all.
there are some fit issues, shall we say.
but my partner really likes it, so uh, that works out, i guess.
I've been busy lately, especially with Friday the 13th falling in October. People are very glad to see Ghostbusters show up.
We've done some events including a "party in the park" at historic Oakland Cemetery, a totally 80s bar crawl, and Halloween themed nerd karaoke. Next week we'll have two Halloween parades including a Halloween lantern parade. I've made a ghost lantern on a capture stream tether that I'm proud of. I'll be making two more for my team before next Friday.
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October 15th is considerably less spooky than the 13th. You know what's spooky? I spent the entire 13th not realizing it was Friday the 13th at all.
People have been talking about Lore, the podcast, in the thread - I'm not an enormous Lore fan (I can't stop thinking about Leonard Nimoy in The Springfield Files when I listen. "And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No." And then I go from there to the dweebo at the end going "Keep watching the SKIIS" and I can't take any of it seriously at all) but I can appreciate that other people enjoy it! And also, I love podcasting as a medium, so it's exciting to me that Lore has its own Amazon miniseries now. If folklore and urban myths are your cuppa tea, then perhaps you want to give it a whirl? They're short retellings so if you're in the mood for something unnerving but don't have time for a movie, this is a pretty decent option for you, maybe! I haven't watched the show yet - I'll give it a whirl once my company leaves town.
I know that there are humans in the world who love The Murder City Devils... if not more than I do, at least as much. (I always forget who here has the dopest set of Murder City Devil posters I've ever seen, but there's some forumer or mod who has the dopest set of Murder City Devils posters I've ever seen.) This band means a lot to me, and if you don't like them, I so aggressively don't care that I would actually spontaneously transform into my college self, the one who would put on Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts KNOWING that only me and my bff were going to scream and dance and the rest of the party was going to hate us.
My bad luck waited until Saturday the 14th like a fucking prick.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I tried the first episode of the Lore show on Amazon last night, and I don't think it's very good. Really stilted narration, and a bunch of the facts of the case (first episode was Mercy Brown, who I'm obviously familiar with) were elided over or straight up wrong in favor of spooky sensationalism.
I might be trying some more in the future, because short and spooky documentaries are an idea that super appeals to me, but it's definitely a flawed work.
I tried the first episode of the Lore show on Amazon last night, and I don't think it's very good. Really stilted narration, and a bunch of the facts of the case (first episode was Mercy Brown, who I'm obviously familiar with) were elided over or straight up wrong in favor of spooky sensationalism.
I might be trying some more in the future, because short and spooky documentaries are an idea that super appeals to me, but it's definitely a flawed work.
I've also only tried the first episode, but found it didn't add anything to the Podcast. I had actually listened to that episode very recently, AND it is the first story in his book, and thought the TV episode was the worst of the three mediums. It was just drawn out and the dramatization didn't add anything. The first bit, with the animation, was fine. I'll probably finish watching the season so I'm not judging it on one episode.
What if... we're all the narrator of Lore... in some way...
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Does anyone have any good recommendations for like, spooky sounds?
I'm thinking of hiding a speaker in my bathroom during my Halloween party and just having some stuff playing out of it very lightly. You know, at that exact volume where you can't tell if you're actually hearing things or quietly going crazy.
My current plan is to use Fantomas' Delirum Cordia on loop:
Does anyone have any good recommendations for like, spooky sounds?
I'm thinking of hiding a speaker in my bathroom during my Halloween party and just having some stuff playing out of it very lightly. You know, at that exact volume where you can't tell if you're actually hearing things or quietly going crazy.
My current plan is to use Fantomas' Delirum Cordia on loop:
The Alex Jones Soundboard on the google play store allows you to layer hundreds of instances of his rants on top of each other so you can drive friends and loved ones into madness. Just a thought.
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Does anyone have any good recommendations for like, spooky sounds?
I'm thinking of hiding a speaker in my bathroom during my Halloween party and just having some stuff playing out of it very lightly. You know, at that exact volume where you can't tell if you're actually hearing things or quietly going crazy.
I made a spooky haunting one shot for my D&D group a while back and I used a website called Ambient Mixer to make a couple of soundscapes.
You find audio samples from their library and layer them right on the site. For example you can get a seamless "woods at night" type sound for the base, then randomly once every 20 seconds there'll be an owl hooting and leaves rustling, then randomly once every minute there'll be a distant scream.
If you want to download the audio as an MP3 you have to pay five bucks or so, but you can just run it on loop in a browser and it works fine.
I have all the gear to do a cool rear projection display in one of the windows, so I been looking through footage trying to find loops I like. So far they come in two flavors:
a) lame and hokey and just all around shit
b) extremely fucking awesome but will probably involve a visit from the police
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Does anyone have any good recommendations for like, spooky sounds?
I'm thinking of hiding a speaker in my bathroom during my Halloween party and just having some stuff playing out of it very lightly. You know, at that exact volume where you can't tell if you're actually hearing things or quietly going crazy.
My current plan is to use Fantomas' Delirum Cordia on loop:
Does anyone have any good recommendations for like, spooky sounds?
I'm thinking of hiding a speaker in my bathroom during my Halloween party and just having some stuff playing out of it very lightly. You know, at that exact volume where you can't tell if you're actually hearing things or quietly going crazy.
My current plan is to use Fantomas' Delirum Cordia on loop:
there are a lot of 20th century composers who just sat down with a pen and some manuscript and said "how can I make an orchestra sound like a fucking panic attack?"
Does anyone have any good recommendations for like, spooky sounds?
I'm thinking of hiding a speaker in my bathroom during my Halloween party and just having some stuff playing out of it very lightly. You know, at that exact volume where you can't tell if you're actually hearing things or quietly going crazy.
I made a spooky haunting one shot for my D&D group a while back and I used a website called Ambient Mixer to make a couple of soundscapes.
You find audio samples from their library and layer them right on the site. For example you can get a seamless "woods at night" type sound for the base, then randomly once every 20 seconds there'll be an owl hooting and leaves rustling, then randomly once every minute there'll be a distant scream.
If you want to download the audio as an MP3 you have to pay five bucks or so, but you can just run it on loop in a browser and it works fine.
Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
It's actual music rather than just sounds, but The Caretaker is still a great go-to for "I'm hearing something that is probably ghosts right now" music.
"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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Sometimes They Come Back is a made-for-TV film based on a Stephen King short story. This isn’t much of a confession anymore, since I am vocal about my disinterest/dislike for Stephen King’s writing work, but I am noooot really a Stephen King book or story fan! It’s funny. I read nonfiction that is dull as hell by any definition, and I love iterations of the grotesque in film and writing, but his stuff seems to perfectly balance boring with nasty in a way that I cannot get into at all.
That said, he’s got oodles of film and TV adaptations of his material, annnnd I sort of love even the garbage ones. (Like Sometimes They Come Back.)
Writing a Stephen King Novel
Step 1. Have a family move (or move back) to idyllic small town or country locale to either escape or discover the tragic past.
Step 2. Make it very explicit that the tragic past is still very active and present and probably now evil, despite the seemingly-bucolic nature of their new place, neighbors, pets, etc.
Step 3. GHOST FIGHT
No but for real - thpoilerth - a middle-aged teacher stand-in moves back to Podunk Hometown, USA (it looks like Nebraska or Illinois to me), and has to fight off the returned evil ghostly greasers who murdered his brother when he was a kid. Evil ghostly greasers, guys. It’s extra silly but the pacing is good nuff. The evil greaser car makes growly cat noises (because it’s evil) and murders tons of 90’s teen stereotypes (see previous reason), in order to take places in the teacher’s history class, which… seems like kind of an odd choice. But it turns out they have Evil Ulterior Motives - see, they super want to stay out of hell, which I guess they can do if they… cause more murders. Don’t look too deeply into this particular aspect of the plot, okay?
I rented this VHS from Blockbuster when I was a kid, based purely on the cover. I think I sort of still want it to be a demonic version of The Wild Bunch. (It very isn’t.) But it was and is a fun enough watch, at the very least because it is very clear that this guy is a terrible teacher and watching kids torment him is kinda a little bit great.
Also there are two direct-to-video sequels that are progressively more dumb, if you’re in the mood for something even less erudite than the first movie.
Red Fang is a metal band whose music videos are routinely as rad as their music. I feel like they are a bunch of cool guys who would be cool to hang with, and if anyone knows otherwise, please don’t tell me. The video for Blood Like Cream is about zombies who are out, not for brains, but for beer.
Neil Gaiman needs no introduction from me, obviously. He wrote a short story that was published in Fragile Things, called Bitter Grounds, which is a better zombie short story than most. Tor has it on their website presently in its entirety, so… there you go!
"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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So we are changing the narrative to you disliking Roy now
well there's one other person in this very thread so
also it changed ash from "sensitive male final girl" into "toxic masculinity poster boy" which i will never forgive
i'm on my Be Good Hour
the narrative hasn't changed at all
a jabroni like you wishes he could be roy
I don't have any of the Jason movies.
just find someone named jason and stare at him
it's all good
Only if they have Jason Bourne's mother in them.
Martha?
I dig it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAbDvqPFXvQ
it's kinda... it turned out... not appropriate for a halloween costume, at all.
there are some fit issues, shall we say.
but my partner really likes it, so uh, that works out, i guess.
That was fun.
To go with her black skirt.
Now I just need to get her a yellow hair bow.
And I'll have my own little Emma Wiggle for Halloween.
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Should have told me BEFORE it was already Saturday.
Give her a toy gun and she can be Emma Wiggle Peel.
I've been busy lately, especially with Friday the 13th falling in October. People are very glad to see Ghostbusters show up.
We've done some events including a "party in the park" at historic Oakland Cemetery, a totally 80s bar crawl, and Halloween themed nerd karaoke. Next week we'll have two Halloween parades including a Halloween lantern parade. I've made a ghost lantern on a capture stream tether that I'm proud of. I'll be making two more for my team before next Friday.
I've put photos in spoilers.
People have been talking about Lore, the podcast, in the thread - I'm not an enormous Lore fan (I can't stop thinking about Leonard Nimoy in The Springfield Files when I listen. "And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No." And then I go from there to the dweebo at the end going "Keep watching the SKIIS" and I can't take any of it seriously at all) but I can appreciate that other people enjoy it! And also, I love podcasting as a medium, so it's exciting to me that Lore has its own Amazon miniseries now. If folklore and urban myths are your cuppa tea, then perhaps you want to give it a whirl? They're short retellings so if you're in the mood for something unnerving but don't have time for a movie, this is a pretty decent option for you, maybe! I haven't watched the show yet - I'll give it a whirl once my company leaves town.
I know that there are humans in the world who love The Murder City Devils... if not more than I do, at least as much. (I always forget who here has the dopest set of Murder City Devil posters I've ever seen, but there's some forumer or mod who has the dopest set of Murder City Devils posters I've ever seen.) This band means a lot to me, and if you don't like them, I so aggressively don't care that I would actually spontaneously transform into my college self, the one who would put on Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts KNOWING that only me and my bff were going to scream and dance and the rest of the party was going to hate us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPRh4BgAmTY
Anyway that's Midnight Service at the Mutter Museum. I'm glad you're here.
"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 might be trying some more in the future, because short and spooky documentaries are an idea that super appeals to me, but it's definitely a flawed work.
I've also only tried the first episode, but found it didn't add anything to the Podcast. I had actually listened to that episode very recently, AND it is the first story in his book, and thought the TV episode was the worst of the three mediums. It was just drawn out and the dramatization didn't add anything. The first bit, with the animation, was fine. I'll probably finish watching the season so I'm not judging it on one episode.
It's the same narrator
I'm thinking of hiding a speaker in my bathroom during my Halloween party and just having some stuff playing out of it very lightly. You know, at that exact volume where you can't tell if you're actually hearing things or quietly going crazy.
My current plan is to use Fantomas' Delirum Cordia on loop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XNbA7NdE1Q
But I might want to switch that up, I'm not sure.
The Alex Jones Soundboard on the google play store allows you to layer hundreds of instances of his rants on top of each other so you can drive friends and loved ones into madness. Just a thought.
I made a spooky haunting one shot for my D&D group a while back and I used a website called Ambient Mixer to make a couple of soundscapes.
You find audio samples from their library and layer them right on the site. For example you can get a seamless "woods at night" type sound for the base, then randomly once every 20 seconds there'll be an owl hooting and leaves rustling, then randomly once every minute there'll be a distant scream.
If you want to download the audio as an MP3 you have to pay five bucks or so, but you can just run it on loop in a browser and it works fine.
Edit: actually there's a bunch of premade halloween soundscapes if you don't wanna mix a thing yourself.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Was it the series or the movie?
Series, I think we did season 3 and a bit of 4.
It was the one with the mom who turned to salt and all that weird shit.
a) lame and hokey and just all around shit
b) extremely fucking awesome but will probably involve a visit from the police
This is definitely on the creepy and unsettling side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaKQYGIbqBQ
This is a good one.
Along the same vein:
https://youtu.be/Dp3BlFZWJNA
https://youtu.be/uhTusoemAdI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmWslEUpf9s
there are a lot of 20th century composers who just sat down with a pen and some manuscript and said "how can I make an orchestra sound like a fucking panic attack?"
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Amon Tobin has done some pretty good creepy atmospheric stuff on his later albums.
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We put that to pretty good use when I used to host these giant zombie games out at my cabin.
Ooooo
A sleeping next to Dean Winchester mixer.
"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
Sometimes They Come Back is a made-for-TV film based on a Stephen King short story. This isn’t much of a confession anymore, since I am vocal about my disinterest/dislike for Stephen King’s writing work, but I am noooot really a Stephen King book or story fan! It’s funny. I read nonfiction that is dull as hell by any definition, and I love iterations of the grotesque in film and writing, but his stuff seems to perfectly balance boring with nasty in a way that I cannot get into at all.
That said, he’s got oodles of film and TV adaptations of his material, annnnd I sort of love even the garbage ones. (Like Sometimes They Come Back.)
Writing a Stephen King Novel
Step 1. Have a family move (or move back) to idyllic small town or country locale to either escape or discover the tragic past.
Step 2. Make it very explicit that the tragic past is still very active and present and probably now evil, despite the seemingly-bucolic nature of their new place, neighbors, pets, etc.
Step 3. GHOST FIGHT
No but for real - thpoilerth - a middle-aged teacher stand-in moves back to Podunk Hometown, USA (it looks like Nebraska or Illinois to me), and has to fight off the returned evil ghostly greasers who murdered his brother when he was a kid. Evil ghostly greasers, guys. It’s extra silly but the pacing is good nuff. The evil greaser car makes growly cat noises (because it’s evil) and murders tons of 90’s teen stereotypes (see previous reason), in order to take places in the teacher’s history class, which… seems like kind of an odd choice. But it turns out they have Evil Ulterior Motives - see, they super want to stay out of hell, which I guess they can do if they… cause more murders. Don’t look too deeply into this particular aspect of the plot, okay?
I rented this VHS from Blockbuster when I was a kid, based purely on the cover. I think I sort of still want it to be a demonic version of The Wild Bunch. (It very isn’t.) But it was and is a fun enough watch, at the very least because it is very clear that this guy is a terrible teacher and watching kids torment him is kinda a little bit great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Am6AurDEeA
Also there are two direct-to-video sequels that are progressively more dumb, if you’re in the mood for something even less erudite than the first movie.
Red Fang is a metal band whose music videos are routinely as rad as their music. I feel like they are a bunch of cool guys who would be cool to hang with, and if anyone knows otherwise, please don’t tell me. The video for Blood Like Cream is about zombies who are out, not for brains, but for beer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KWhqIoRufQ
Neil Gaiman needs no introduction from me, obviously. He wrote a short story that was published in Fragile Things, called Bitter Grounds, which is a better zombie short story than most. Tor has it on their website presently in its entirety, so… there you go!
"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
Man this sums up my issues with King perfectly