16 his stuff seems to perfectly balance boring with nasty in a way that I cannot get into at all.
Man this sums up my issues with King perfectly
That's exactly why he works so well for me. He takes very mundane, relate-able things and makes them absolutely horrible. He certainly doesn't always hit home runs and he has a thread of creepy sexism in his novels that's a little too thick to ignore anymore but he's really a hell of a storyteller when he gets the pieces lined up.
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Sunday night I did "Nerdyoke" (nerd karaoke) and performed Bobby Brown's On Our Own and Jackie Wilson's Higher and Higher off-key and in costume and I feel like it went over pretty well.
A few more photos from the events over the weekend:
StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I haven't been posting a ton of my personal Halloween stuff here, because it's mostly works in progress. Party is this weekend, so expect a fuck-ton of pictures after that.
But these might not be included in the pictures - here's my cocktail menu, written in the most over-the-top style I could muster.
Styx
The purest distillation of vodka, mixed with a syrup of razor sharp ginger and lime. Served in a single shot, as a toast to the ferryman. Please note – nobody may cross this river alone.
Acheron
Fine Kentucky bourbon, aged in a charred oak cask, is paired with freshly crushed apple cider and languid molasses. Served stained with the charcoal of sin – odorless, flavorless, but damning nonetheless.
Cocytus
Nectar ripped from the tender flesh of the mango, sodden with stinging lemon juice and silver tequila and somberly clad with a corona of ash-black sea salt.
Phlegeton
A dram of silver rum cruelly drowned in sweet coconut water and lime juice mingles with the burning oils of freshly sliced jalapeno peppers. Served with a rim of habanero sugar to further ignite the senses.
Lethe
A haunting bouquet of remembrance: cold brewed Roman chamomile mixed with floral gin and sweet lavender to lull you into gentle oblivion.
They're honestly all pretty basic, because I'm looking to make a lot of stuff in advance so I don't have to spend my entire night behind the bar at my own party. But I've got a half dozen of those menus printed out for folks to peruse (also including the passage from Paradise Lost that describes the river and a version of our logo on the front), and I think the effect of that will cover up the fact that it's a lot of 3-2-1 cocktails.
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There's been a lot of talk about Evil Dead in this thread (some of it very wrong-headed). You all know pretty well how I stand (Evil Dead 2 is one of my favourite films of all time). And maybe there's an argument to be made about Ash changing from Final Girl to Absurdly Masculine Hero, but I still think Army of Darkness is a really enjoyable damn movie. Probably the best way to enjoy it is as a not-tonally-related comedy-horror successor to Evil Dead 2. My mom and I used to watch this movie together, because my mom is a big ol' geek. As a practical effects and physical comedy fan, it's got a lot to offer. And I think the humorous moments are nicely paired with horror visuals - when I was little, the parade of undead didn't scare me per se, but it was very memorable.
...I was a weird kid, the only movie that scared me was The Haunting. And I guess the face-melting scene in Raiders, because I saw it when I was like three.
Anyway! Haters gon' hate, let's all watch Army of Darkness.
Hot enough to be an oven. Hot enough... to bake a recipe from The Necronomnomnom?
Guys I am pretty sure this is some next-level (of hell) twee shit, but it ALSO appears to be heartily laced with puns like 'Shogghoulash' and 'The Sandwich Horror', and I just can't help myself but be really amused. The illustrations are sort of like um... if you read Gnomes, by Wil Huygen, or Brian Froud and Alan Lee's Faeries? It's like those, but more... tentacled. Also, the fifth reward tier for the kickstarter is called "Claatu - Verata - Necktie." (It's a great scene, c'mon.)
I'm banking on the book cutting out the effed up racism of the original Lovecraftian sources.
"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 watched The Tingler tonight on dvd. Tomorrow im watching The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
the plaaaan is to watch Stranger Things, Castlevania, Ash vs the Evil Dead, ie short-form stuff on whatever night(s) we have trick-or-treaters. and Get Out on Halloween. this is the extent of my holiday prep, but i am v pleased with the latter get.
so far we've watched:
- We are still here
- Hush
added to the watchlist:
- train to Busan
- the canal
- the host
- they look like people
- xx
- Gerald's Game aka the book that made me never, ever, ever use handcuffs
She's in the first half. Hers is good, if kind of edge case horror. It's very... Lynch, I guess? Strong visuals, horrific elements, mixed with a kind of comedy of manners thing.
here are my feelings about XX cause I know y'all want some hot off the presses reactions: I'd agree with about 55% good/45% bland but not actually bad per se. just... bland. I'll spoil this in case like anyone is super invested in no spoilers for an anthology horror flick that's at least a year old I don't remember exactly
the box was really excellent short horror, especially since it was so effective at a thing I think most horror really fucks up, both a less-is-more approach and knowing when to stop so that there is no comforting sense of closure or, even worse, it drags on too long and loses the suspension of disbelief that is really key
the birthday party was fucking great even if a friend of mine somewhat pouty said she didn't think it was really horror anyway. I would disagree, especially since the sense of dread and tension was great - you know from the jump something was wrong, and it was almost a relief it was something so mundane, and then you KNEW someone was gonna find the dead guy. it was also hilarious
the uhh camping one. don't fall? that was the low point and it wasn't bad, I've watched a lot of bad horror that's not even funny bad, and it was instead just bland and forgettable. like you knew where it was going the whole time and nothing fun or exciting happened to make it anything but formulaic as fuck. that was a bummer
her only living son could have been really cool but it was just sorta meh. yes, give me the story of Rosemary's baby if she'd managed to bolt and raise him alone!
but then it was just kinda meh. yeah yeah child of evil, pulls off fingernails, tortures people, doesn't seem bothered by it, inexplicably large numbers of evil cultists in every town waiting to make sure he isn't punished.
we watched VHS tonight and initially I was like wow this movie has a problem with women, and then I was like well really it's overwhelmingly sleazy bros who die so maybe it's not so bad, and then I kinda went back to this movie has a problem with women but in a different way than I had originally thought
and then we watched the newest Treehouse of Horror because I guess we just really wanted to be disappointed tonight. don't do that to yourselves. it was real bad y'all
here are my feelings about XX cause I know y'all want some hot off the presses reactions: I'd agree with about 55% good/45% bland but not actually bad per se. just... bland. I'll spoil this in case like anyone is super invested in no spoilers for an anthology horror flick that's at least a year old I don't remember exactly
the box was really excellent short horror, especially since it was so effective at a thing I think most horror really fucks up, both a less-is-more approach and knowing when to stop so that there is no comforting sense of closure or, even worse, it drags on too long and loses the suspension of disbelief that is really key
the birthday party was fucking great even if a friend of mine somewhat pouty said she didn't think it was really horror anyway. I would disagree, especially since the sense of dread and tension was great - you know from the jump something was wrong, and it was almost a relief it was something so mundane, and then you KNEW someone was gonna find the dead guy. it was also hilarious
the uhh camping one. don't fall? that was the low point and it wasn't bad, I've watched a lot of bad horror that's not even funny bad, and it was instead just bland and forgettable. like you knew where it was going the whole time and nothing fun or exciting happened to make it anything but formulaic as fuck. that was a bummer
her only living son could have been really cool but it was just sorta meh. yes, give me the story of Rosemary's baby if she'd managed to bolt and raise him alone!
but then it was just kinda meh. yeah yeah child of evil, pulls off fingernails, tortures people, doesn't seem bothered by it, inexplicably large numbers of evil cultists in every town waiting to make sure he isn't punished.
we watched VHS tonight and initially I was like wow this movie has a problem with women, and then I was like well really it's overwhelmingly sleazy bros who die so maybe it's not so bad, and then I kinda went back to this movie has a problem with women but in a different way than I had originally thought
and then we watched the newest Treehouse of Horror because I guess we just really wanted to be disappointed tonight. don't do that to yourselves. it was real bad y'all
Yeah these are my feelings exactly on every single segment.
StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
I had my Halloween party over the weekend, so here's some pictures:
I don't think anyone picked up on the pun in the name. Which, I mean, it's pretty well hidden, but I invited a couple of classicists, I expected someone to figure it out. Anyways, the sign is done with EL wire on black foam core, with the wire being threaded through the board in places to obscure some of the inner workings.
I ended up just going for a basic salt circle and metal goblet full of fake blood for my porch decoration. It's not very impressive, but it was easy and didn't alarm the neighbors.
In order to get their initial chips, we made people sign their name in red ink in this book. We didn't really want to do real gambling for real money, so this was a nice little way to keep things thematically appropriate.
That's the full half of the main room - the edge of the bar, built-in cabinet, and our golden fiddle. I've got detail shots of a lot of this, but it's probably not terrible exciting. The cabinet has been turned into faux stained glass with tissue paper and some remote control lights, the fiddle was a thrift store find that was painted and restrung, and the lamp shades are made out of embroidery hoops and a textured paper.
Games table. The roulette wheel and board (as well as a craps board) were generously given to us, and a friend did some gratis graphic design for us to get the custom backed cards with our logo. They turned out beautiful, so you're getting another picture of those:
Seriously, they're the best. We got two decks of them, but there was a part of me (the part of my that thinks I'm much wealthier than I am) that wanted to get a couple dozen so I could give them to all my friends.
Craps board, embedded in a coffee table that normally has a glass top. The dice being used there are a bit small, but that's because you can't buy dice made out of bone in casino regulation size.Also all of the coasters - they were just circular cards that we taped together back to back.
The bathroom was redone in all red lights, and we had the burned man sitting in the tub - his hands are like dollar store skeleton hands plastered and painted, and then we just drew an ash outline in the bathtub essentially.
Full food spread, courtesy of my roommate who is way too good a cook. Includes:
- Caesar salad bites, with shaped croutons in the card suits
- Pepper-crusted beef crostini with a red pepper aioli
- Beet carpaccio salad with a blood orange vinaigrette
- Pomegranate chicken skewers
- Caprese skewers
- Forbidden rice, avocado, and portabello mushroom sushi
- Gingerbread blood orange tarts
- Red velvet cake dice
- Chocolate covered strawberries
- The Apple of Knowledge - a red velvet core, covered in chocolate mousse, finished off with a red mirror glaze and shaped white chocolate stem and leaves
It's the traction of Dis, the city of Hell/Roman lord of the Underworld.
My ideal version of the sign would have had the traction section set to a slow blink while the Dis part was steady, but that would have required much more wiring. We did try to emphasize it with the logo design, in which Dis is separate and in a bolder typeface.
StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
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Oh also costume I guess, that's a fairly important part of this
I was Lucifer Morningstar, the Lightbringer
Wings are another EL rig, made out of 12 gauge steel wire and two eight foot cords, attached to the jacket with a piece of cardboard hidden in the lining and powered by a pair of AA batteries
My roomate did a 1920s/1930s inspired Fortuna costume, complete with a spinning wheel of fortune necklace, but I probably don't have her permission to post that here
Sounds like we're throwing a Star Wars sheen over our Halloween display this year, which mean I'm have to figure out some spooky scary Sith lord stuff to get the kids with.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
It's the traction of Dis, the city of Hell/Roman lord of the Underworld.
My ideal version of the sign would have had the traction section set to a slow blink while the Dis part was steady, but that would have required much more wiring. We did try to emphasize it with the logo design, in which Dis is separate and in a bolder typeface.
Oh also costume I guess, that's a fairly important part of this
I was Lucifer Morningstar, the Lightbringer
Wings are another EL rig, made out of 12 gage steel wire and two eight foot cords, attached to the jacket with a piece of cardboard hidden in the lining and powered by a pair of AA batteries
My roomate did a 1920s/1930s inspired Fortuna costume, complete with a spinning wheel of fortune necklace, but I probably don't have her permission to post that here
Daaang. I love how the wings are more like the empty space where wings used to be... dunno if that's what you were going for, but that's what it looks like to me and it's goddamn perfect.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
It's the traction of Dis, the city of Hell/Roman lord of the Underworld.
My ideal version of the sign would have had the traction section set to a slow blink while the Dis part was steady, but that would have required much more wiring. We did try to emphasize it with the logo design, in which Dis is separate and in a bolder typeface.
Oh that's a dismal pun.
I love it.
It honestly took forever to come up with
My initial plan had been to just translate something into Latin to obfuscate meaning, as is my way
But thanks the the Church, pretty much every Latin word relating to Hell has been brought over into English
I stumbled into the prefix thing kind of accidentally, but even then it took forever to get something that still sounded innocuous, as it's an almost universally negative prefix
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
Oh also costume I guess, that's a fairly important part of this
I was Lucifer Morningstar, the Lightbringer
Wings are another EL rig, made out of 12 gage steel wire and two eight foot cords, attached to the jacket with a piece of cardboard hidden in the lining and powered by a pair of AA batteries
My roomate did a 1920s/1930s inspired Fortuna costume, complete with a spinning wheel of fortune necklace, but I probably don't have her permission to post that here
Daaang. I love how the wings are more like the empty space where wings used to be... dunno if that's what you were going for, but that's what it looks like to me and it's goddamn perfect.
Yeah, that's part of it. It's also a joke on the whole lightbringer thing - the first light of morning diluted into nothing more than the all-night neon glow of a casino.
My roommate keeps trying to convince me to not go out to any parties on Halloween weekend.
He wants us to just stay in and drink.
So... I am definitely going to ditch him and go to a party.
Update!
Ahaha...
Me: So you're still doing nothing for this Saturday? Roommate: I guess? Me: Alright, well I am definetly going to [our ex-roommate's] party. Roommate: God dammit... Really? Me: Listen, I only have priority for Saturday night and that's to get so drunk I pass-out in character. They're providing a bunch of free food, free alcohol and a free house to crash in. Roommate: Is that it? Me: WHAT ELSE IS THERE??? Roommate: Alright, I guess I can drive us... God dammit.. God dammit...
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That's exactly why he works so well for me. He takes very mundane, relate-able things and makes them absolutely horrible. He certainly doesn't always hit home runs and he has a thread of creepy sexism in his novels that's a little too thick to ignore anymore but he's really a hell of a storyteller when he gets the pieces lined up.
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Close the thread I guess
"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
A few more photos from the events over the weekend:
But these might not be included in the pictures - here's my cocktail menu, written in the most over-the-top style I could muster.
The purest distillation of vodka, mixed with a syrup of razor sharp ginger and lime. Served in a single shot, as a toast to the ferryman. Please note – nobody may cross this river alone.
Acheron
Fine Kentucky bourbon, aged in a charred oak cask, is paired with freshly crushed apple cider and languid molasses. Served stained with the charcoal of sin – odorless, flavorless, but damning nonetheless.
Cocytus
Nectar ripped from the tender flesh of the mango, sodden with stinging lemon juice and silver tequila and somberly clad with a corona of ash-black sea salt.
Phlegeton
A dram of silver rum cruelly drowned in sweet coconut water and lime juice mingles with the burning oils of freshly sliced jalapeno peppers. Served with a rim of habanero sugar to further ignite the senses.
Lethe
A haunting bouquet of remembrance: cold brewed Roman chamomile mixed with floral gin and sweet lavender to lull you into gentle oblivion.
They're honestly all pretty basic, because I'm looking to make a lot of stuff in advance so I don't have to spend my entire night behind the bar at my own party. But I've got a half dozen of those menus printed out for folks to peruse (also including the passage from Paradise Lost that describes the river and a version of our logo on the front), and I think the effect of that will cover up the fact that it's a lot of 3-2-1 cocktails.
There's been a lot of talk about Evil Dead in this thread (some of it very wrong-headed). You all know pretty well how I stand (Evil Dead 2 is one of my favourite films of all time). And maybe there's an argument to be made about Ash changing from Final Girl to Absurdly Masculine Hero, but I still think Army of Darkness is a really enjoyable damn movie. Probably the best way to enjoy it is as a not-tonally-related comedy-horror successor to Evil Dead 2. My mom and I used to watch this movie together, because my mom is a big ol' geek. As a practical effects and physical comedy fan, it's got a lot to offer. And I think the humorous moments are nicely paired with horror visuals - when I was little, the parade of undead didn't scare me per se, but it was very memorable.
...I was a weird kid, the only movie that scared me was The Haunting. And I guess the face-melting scene in Raiders, because I saw it when I was like three.
Anyway! Haters gon' hate, let's all watch Army of Darkness.
Hey maybe you need some tunes? Maybe you need some classic tunes, instead of the weird crap I've been recommending?
AC/DC's Hell's Bells gotcher back.
The temperature's hot, man.
Hot enough to be an oven. Hot enough... to bake a recipe from The Necronomnomnom?
Guys I am pretty sure this is some next-level (of hell) twee shit, but it ALSO appears to be heartily laced with puns like 'Shogghoulash' and 'The Sandwich Horror', and I just can't help myself but be really amused. The illustrations are sort of like um... if you read Gnomes, by Wil Huygen, or Brian Froud and Alan Lee's Faeries? It's like those, but more... tentacled. Also, the fifth reward tier for the kickstarter is called "Claatu - Verata - Necktie." (It's a great scene, c'mon.)
I'm banking on the book cutting out the effed up racism of the original Lovecraftian sources.
"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
- We are still here
- Hush
added to the watchlist:
- train to Busan
- the canal
- the host
- they look like people
- xx
- Gerald's Game aka the book that made me never, ever, ever use handcuffs
i'd swap out xx with when animals dream, a movie about a rebellious danish teen girl werewolf (it's also on netflix)
as well as the transfiguration, which is about a little kid in the projects who is way too into vampires
She's in the first half. Hers is good, if kind of edge case horror. It's very... Lynch, I guess? Strong visuals, horrific elements, mixed with a kind of comedy of manners thing.
Oh yeah, that was also very good
So I guess like 55% of it was worthwhile?
If those are odds you're willing to take, go for it
the birthday party was fucking great even if a friend of mine somewhat pouty said she didn't think it was really horror anyway. I would disagree, especially since the sense of dread and tension was great - you know from the jump something was wrong, and it was almost a relief it was something so mundane, and then you KNEW someone was gonna find the dead guy. it was also hilarious
the uhh camping one. don't fall? that was the low point and it wasn't bad, I've watched a lot of bad horror that's not even funny bad, and it was instead just bland and forgettable. like you knew where it was going the whole time and nothing fun or exciting happened to make it anything but formulaic as fuck. that was a bummer
her only living son could have been really cool but it was just sorta meh. yes, give me the story of Rosemary's baby if she'd managed to bolt and raise him alone!
but then it was just kinda meh. yeah yeah child of evil, pulls off fingernails, tortures people, doesn't seem bothered by it, inexplicably large numbers of evil cultists in every town waiting to make sure he isn't punished.
we watched VHS tonight and initially I was like wow this movie has a problem with women, and then I was like well really it's overwhelmingly sleazy bros who die so maybe it's not so bad, and then I kinda went back to this movie has a problem with women but in a different way than I had originally thought
and then we watched the newest Treehouse of Horror because I guess we just really wanted to be disappointed tonight. don't do that to yourselves. it was real bad y'all
The real time sink is having to watch the first 19 so that it all makes sense
Yeah these are my feelings exactly on every single segment.
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I don't think anyone picked up on the pun in the name. Which, I mean, it's pretty well hidden, but I invited a couple of classicists, I expected someone to figure it out. Anyways, the sign is done with EL wire on black foam core, with the wire being threaded through the board in places to obscure some of the inner workings.
I ended up just going for a basic salt circle and metal goblet full of fake blood for my porch decoration. It's not very impressive, but it was easy and didn't alarm the neighbors.
In order to get their initial chips, we made people sign their name in red ink in this book. We didn't really want to do real gambling for real money, so this was a nice little way to keep things thematically appropriate.
That's the full half of the main room - the edge of the bar, built-in cabinet, and our golden fiddle. I've got detail shots of a lot of this, but it's probably not terrible exciting. The cabinet has been turned into faux stained glass with tissue paper and some remote control lights, the fiddle was a thrift store find that was painted and restrung, and the lamp shades are made out of embroidery hoops and a textured paper.
Games table. The roulette wheel and board (as well as a craps board) were generously given to us, and a friend did some gratis graphic design for us to get the custom backed cards with our logo. They turned out beautiful, so you're getting another picture of those:
Seriously, they're the best. We got two decks of them, but there was a part of me (the part of my that thinks I'm much wealthier than I am) that wanted to get a couple dozen so I could give them to all my friends.
Craps board, embedded in a coffee table that normally has a glass top. The dice being used there are a bit small, but that's because you can't buy dice made out of bone in casino regulation size.Also all of the coasters - they were just circular cards that we taped together back to back.
The bathroom was redone in all red lights, and we had the burned man sitting in the tub - his hands are like dollar store skeleton hands plastered and painted, and then we just drew an ash outline in the bathtub essentially.
Full food spread, courtesy of my roommate who is way too good a cook. Includes:
- Caesar salad bites, with shaped croutons in the card suits
- Pepper-crusted beef crostini with a red pepper aioli
- Beet carpaccio salad with a blood orange vinaigrette
- Pomegranate chicken skewers
- Caprese skewers
- Forbidden rice, avocado, and portabello mushroom sushi
- Gingerbread blood orange tarts
- Red velvet cake dice
- Chocolate covered strawberries
- The Apple of Knowledge - a red velvet core, covered in chocolate mousse, finished off with a red mirror glaze and shaped white chocolate stem and leaves
My ideal version of the sign would have had the traction section set to a slow blink while the Dis part was steady, but that would have required much more wiring. We did try to emphasize it with the logo design, in which Dis is separate and in a bolder typeface.
i hate it so much
I was Lucifer Morningstar, the Lightbringer
Wings are another EL rig, made out of 12 gauge steel wire and two eight foot cords, attached to the jacket with a piece of cardboard hidden in the lining and powered by a pair of AA batteries
My roomate did a 1920s/1930s inspired Fortuna costume, complete with a spinning wheel of fortune necklace, but I probably don't have her permission to post that here
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
So I guess I'm dressing up as "on brand" for Halloween.
Yes I'm wearing this to a large public party event, why do you ask?
Oh that's a dismal pun.
I love it.
Daaang. I love how the wings are more like the empty space where wings used to be... dunno if that's what you were going for, but that's what it looks like to me and it's goddamn perfect.
It honestly took forever to come up with
My initial plan had been to just translate something into Latin to obfuscate meaning, as is my way
But thanks the the Church, pretty much every Latin word relating to Hell has been brought over into English
I stumbled into the prefix thing kind of accidentally, but even then it took forever to get something that still sounded innocuous, as it's an almost universally negative prefix
Yeah, that's part of it. It's also a joke on the whole lightbringer thing - the first light of morning diluted into nothing more than the all-night neon glow of a casino.
He wants us to just stay in and drink.
So... I am definitely going to ditch him and go to a party.
Kylo Ren ( of Ren and Stimpy)
Update!
Ahaha...
So my roommate caved and will be joining me.
Ahahahahahahahahaha