From the History Channel, the history of Halloween
A renewed appreciation for Halloween 3. Yes, I said that.
Only a few more days to Halloween.. silver shamrock.
This YouTube video is a conglomeration of scenes from HALLOWEEN 3, the Season of the Witch.
I fondly remember old times gone by, gathering together with friends in a house of our choice, firing up the colortini, and watching the waves of Halloween flow through the air.
Actually, what we did was a high-school type version of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000. We’d make comments and jokes, mock the film, and laugh throughout.. We did it for more than just Halloween 3, it was for many horror flicks. Our favorite character, as a group collectively, was Doctor Loomis. We coined a term “Loomicide” that would one day go on to become my late 1990s and early 2000s AOL screen name..
Oh, those good old days!
But in hindsight, dare I say, Halloween 3 is sort of a classic. I may have been met with scorn for that comment last century, but I think people are rediscovering the awfulness and also amazingnenss of Halloween 3.
Sure, the acting is terrible.. yes the scenery is awful.. and by all means, the flow of the movie is choppy and sloppy—but isn’t that what sort of makes it good in a sense?
However, think of it this way: Halloween 3 may have been the BEST of the entire series.
Sure, it didn’t feature the SHAPE, Michael Myers, donning the Shatner mask.. and no, it had no mentions of Laurie Strode. There was a scene though where the tied up main star was forced to watch the original Halloween…
There were also some other lessons to be learned from Halloween 3, some cautionary tales to remember..
For instance: Bad parenting. The child who gets his head eaten by snakes and worms had really awful parents, they just seemed to want to be rid of their child.. they were selfish and had little skill in containing their son, who ran wild without attention.
Another lesson: The overuse of television. In that time, the boob tube had antennas. Today, there’s no need with handheld devices and Twittering from all ends of the earth. Maybe, though, the fact that kids were glued to TV and almost slaves to it should be a lesson for all of us.
Something else: How powerful media is. And how many times influential hidden messages can be tucked into our shows. In this movie, kids were told to get home by 9 o’clock too put their Halloween masks on, and then eventually succumb to a massive amount of worms, snakes, bugs, and other things that would eat their brains.. Pretty scary if you minus out the acting of the movie. Maybe John Carpenter was actually trying to show that subliminal messages are alive and well, and that they could maybe make us do things against our will..? That or he just wanted to come up with an idea that was different.
I tried contacting the legend, John Carpenter, for this, but his associate said he was not able to comment on Halloween 3 at this time. Understandable. I think he’s a little busier than me at the moment.
So in that sense, we need to look to past interviews to see what exactly John Carpenter intended on doing in THE SEASON OF THE WITCH. It’s worth remember that Carpenter really didn’t want to do any more Michael Myers related films. They actually envisioned that a fourth Halloween would have been a ghost story. Instead, since H3 flopped, the fourth was the RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS. And then there was a 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, … bla bla bla.. John Carpenter told Aint it Cool news that he didn’t understand why fans of Halloween hated the third installment so much.. He said, “Hey, man, I don’t know. I like HALLOWEEN 3. I like the story, especially weird evil Irish industrialists. It’s hilarious.”
And it was hilarious .. It was awful. Wonderfully awful.
I go back now and think to myself that Debra Hill and John Carpenter touched on a number of themes that are actually quite scary. Yes, teenagers can mock it, just as I did with friends back in sultry summer night parties in the late 1990s… But maybe I have developed a renewed appreciation for this movie..
What could be scarier for a child that having your mom and dad buy you a mass produced mask because you were convinced by a commercial with an annoyingly catchy theme to do it.. and you jump on the bandwagon with millions of other American kids… and you wear your mask, at the same time as them, at 9pm on Halloween night.. and have your brain eaten by bugs?
Now that is scary for a kid.
A renewed appreciation for Halloween 3. Yes, I said that.
Only a few more days to Halloween.. silver shamrock.
This YouTube video is a conglomeration of scenes from HALLOWEEN 3, the Season of the Witch.
I fondly remember old times gone by, gathering together with friends in a house of our choice, firing up the colortini, and watching the waves of Halloween flow through the air.
Actually, what we did was a high-school type version of MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000. We’d make comments and jokes, mock the film, and laugh throughout.. We did it for more than just Halloween 3, it was for many horror flicks. Our favorite character, as a group collectively, was Doctor Loomis. We coined a term “Loomicide” that would one day go on to become my late 1990s and early 2000s AOL screen name..
Oh, those good old days!
But in hindsight, dare I say, Halloween 3 is sort of a classic. I may have been met with scorn for that comment last century, but I think people are rediscovering the awfulness and also amazingnenss of Halloween 3.
Sure, the acting is terrible.. yes the scenery is awful.. and by all means, the flow of the movie is choppy and sloppy—but isn’t that what sort of makes it good in a sense?
However, think of it this way: Halloween 3 may have been the BEST of the entire series.
Sure, it didn’t feature the SHAPE, Michael Myers, donning the Shatner mask.. and no, it had no mentions of Laurie Strode. There was a scene though where the tied up main star was forced to watch the original Halloween…
There were also some other lessons to be learned from Halloween 3, some cautionary tales to remember..
For instance: Bad parenting. The child who gets his head eaten by snakes and worms had really awful parents, they just seemed to want to be rid of their child.. they were selfish and had little skill in containing their son, who ran wild without attention.
Another lesson: The overuse of television. In that time, the boob tube had antennas. Today, there’s no need with handheld devices and Twittering from all ends of the earth. Maybe, though, the fact that kids were glued to TV and almost slaves to it should be a lesson for all of us.
Something else: How powerful media is. And how many times influential hidden messages can be tucked into our shows. In this movie, kids were told to get home by 9 o’clock too put their Halloween masks on, and then eventually succumb to a massive amount of worms, snakes, bugs, and other things that would eat their brains.. Pretty scary if you minus out the acting of the movie. Maybe John Carpenter was actually trying to show that subliminal messages are alive and well, and that they could maybe make us do things against our will..? That or he just wanted to come up with an idea that was different.
I tried contacting the legend, John Carpenter, for this, but his associate said he was not able to comment on Halloween 3 at this time. Understandable. I think he’s a little busier than me at the moment.
So in that sense, we need to look to past interviews to see what exactly John Carpenter intended on doing in THE SEASON OF THE WITCH. It’s worth remember that Carpenter really didn’t want to do any more Michael Myers related films. They actually envisioned that a fourth Halloween would have been a ghost story. Instead, since H3 flopped, the fourth was the RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS. And then there was a 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, … bla bla bla.. John Carpenter told Aint it Cool news that he didn’t understand why fans of Halloween hated the third installment so much.. He said, “Hey, man, I don’t know. I like HALLOWEEN 3. I like the story, especially weird evil Irish industrialists. It’s hilarious.”
And it was hilarious .. It was awful. Wonderfully awful.
I go back now and think to myself that Debra Hill and John Carpenter touched on a number of themes that are actually quite scary. Yes, teenagers can mock it, just as I did with friends back in sultry summer night parties in the late 1990s… But maybe I have developed a renewed appreciation for this movie..
What could be scarier for a child that having your mom and dad buy you a mass produced mask because you were convinced by a commercial with an annoyingly catchy theme to do it.. and you jump on the bandwagon with millions of other American kids… and you wear your mask, at the same time as them, at 9pm on Halloween night.. and have your brain eaten by bugs?
Now that is scary for a kid.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 29 2013
You mean TEPCO was misleading about what last week's quake did to Fukushima? Apparently so..
Since Obamacare became law, 1.5 million people have lost insurance..
*RIGHT, because the season of the witch, Samhain, was always for the 'kids'... Come on..
Halloween nightlife: It's not just the weekend anymore, bars and clubs getting set for a Thirsty Thursday Halloween..
TUESDAY OCTOBER 29 2013
You mean TEPCO was misleading about what last week's quake did to Fukushima? Apparently so..
Since Obamacare became law, 1.5 million people have lost insurance..
*RIGHT, because the season of the witch, Samhain, was always for the 'kids'... Come on..
Halloween nightlife: It's not just the weekend anymore, bars and clubs getting set for a Thirsty Thursday Halloween..
Scary stories to scare kids..
When I was a kid, there were ‘scary stories to tell in the dark’ … and then there was ‘HAROLD' ..
For some reason it was one of the more haunting tales in my early times..
Scary stories to scare kids..
When I was a kid, there were ‘scary stories to tell in the dark’ … and then there was ‘HAROLD' ..
For some reason it was one of the more haunting tales in my early times..
Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance
NBC news reports this:
President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years.
Tweeting Bra: Sends Tweets Every Time It's Unclasped
It’s for breast cancer awareness month.
But don’t phones potentially add to risks.. do we want our phones next to our breasts? Do we even want our bras to tweet!?
What a strange twist of teets.
Tweeting Bra: Sends Tweets Every Time It's Unclasped
It’s for breast cancer awareness month.
But don’t phones potentially add to risks.. do we want our phones next to our breasts? Do we even want our bras to tweet!?
What a strange twist of teets.
Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance
NBC news reports this:
President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years.
Katy Perry to naked female pop stars: ‘put it away’ .. she wants female singers to stop getting naked
So.. would Miss Katy ‘roar’ at this?
Katy Perry to naked female pop stars: ‘put it away’ .. she wants female singers to stop getting naked
So.. would Miss Katy ‘roar’ at this?
HALLOWEEN 2013 STARRING LADY GAGA
She didn't even look this scary in MACHETE 2!!
There has been little news about Lady Gaga recently--even with her new album, she isn't setting the world ablaze as she was when she revealed her poker face last decade..
Until ....
The birthday suit.
There are stories and also lots of images of Lady Gaga wearing .. well, nothing.
She began the show at G-A-Y with a long flowing white dress, pale expressionless face.. She looked like someone walking about of a dive bar by 2am .. But it was really Gaga.
Her freakish attire suddenly vanished, leaving behind her behind. And only what Lucifer gave her at birth.
Though the man in the dorky blue shirt seemingly enjoyed it..
There has been little news about Lady Gaga recently--even with her new album, she isn't setting the world ablaze as she was when she revealed her poker face last decade..
Until ....
The birthday suit.
There are stories and also lots of images of Lady Gaga wearing .. well, nothing.
She began the show at G-A-Y with a long flowing white dress, pale expressionless face.. She looked like someone walking about of a dive bar by 2am .. But it was really Gaga.
Her freakish attire suddenly vanished, leaving behind her behind. And only what Lucifer gave her at birth.
Though the man in the dorky blue shirt seemingly enjoyed it..
HALLOWEEN 2013 STARRING LADY GAGA
She didn't even look this scary in MACHETE 2!!
There has been little news about Lady Gaga recently--even with her new album, she isn't setting the world ablaze as she was when she revealed her poker face last decade..
Until ....
The birthday suit.
There are stories and also lots of images of Lady Gaga wearing .. well, nothing.
She began the show at G-A-Y with a long flowing white dress, pale expressionless face.. She looked like someone walking about of a dive bar by 2am .. But it was really Gaga.
Her freakish attire suddenly vanished, leaving behind her behind. And only what Lucifer gave her at birth.
Though the man in the dorky blue shirt seemingly enjoyed it..
There has been little news about Lady Gaga recently--even with her new album, she isn't setting the world ablaze as she was when she revealed her poker face last decade..
Until ....
The birthday suit.
There are stories and also lots of images of Lady Gaga wearing .. well, nothing.
She began the show at G-A-Y with a long flowing white dress, pale expressionless face.. She looked like someone walking about of a dive bar by 2am .. But it was really Gaga.
Her freakish attire suddenly vanished, leaving behind her behind. And only what Lucifer gave her at birth.
Though the man in the dorky blue shirt seemingly enjoyed it..
A case of the Mondays: Nightmares and dreamscapes
MONDAY OCTOBER 28 2013
It has been well over a decade since my paternal grandmother died. Over the years I have been given the gift of having some dreams about her--however she was never actually in them.. only her vacant house and her empty garden. Last night, that changed. I had a dream that we were saying goodbye to her house and her life (a long time after mind you) and she was in it.. she gave me a great big hug and whispered "where did the time go?" and finally "I love you.' Even though it was a dream it felt like magic.. My dream ended with me asking her, "Do you believe in God" and ....boom. The alarm clock began to do its early morning magic-buster.. I never got an answer.. But I know that she loves me.. Ironically, this was also the first dream in which my son was actually in it--I have been a dad for two and a half years but this was a first.. I was showing my son Ayden a pear tree she had.. I found an old toy in her house..
But as for that potent God question?
Alarm clock.
HALLOWEEN WEEK CONTINUES..
Now onto the news.. the nuclear threats.. the human threats.. the alien threats.. and the winter threats.. I ask you to ask yourself: Is any news good?
Here is something to consider.. A Yale professor on Fukushima: "All of humanity will be threatened for 1000s of years" if the rods in Fukushima Unit 4 pool touch and have a nuclear reaction.. That is a very true statement.. Humanity itself is already being affected by the events of Fukushima--we have been showered with radiation north of the equator for months. And when strong earthquakes occur in the same region of Honshu, as they did last week, and TEPCO tells us that nothing bad occurred, it's laughable. The worst of the bad already happened. Just as you can't fix stupid, you also can't amp up calamity..
There were two major events on Saturday October 26 2013.. The Fire in the Sky news on YouTube reported on meteors with multiple sightings.. According to the report, sonic booms accompanied the meteors.. one report said a low meteor went right above a women's garage, saying it looked like a 'basketball on fire.' There were other reports of loud booms and explosions giving off a blue and green and red smoke trail.. There was another story from just Sunday in which a large fireball image was captured over Poland..
The kids aren't alright: A new trend on Youtube has girls asking if they are ugly.. The NEW YORK POST reports that girls age 9 to 14 are asking the world if they are attractive...
Blast from the past courtesy an old newspaper: A newspaper in 1886 reported that a 10-foot 'wild man' with 7-foot arms was killed.. According to the old news account, the man also had hair all about his body and face.. Now I know it was well over one hundred years ago, and scientific understanding was ancient, but could they have gotten this one that wrong? Was there a 10-foot wild man? The then Waterville SENTINEL reported that very thing..
Meet the actor who plays dead for a living.. Chuck Lamb has appeared in numerous shows and movies ... as a dead man. Naturally he is pale and bald, so seemingly has .. just looks dead? But Lamb is a professional dead man, the one that producers call when they need a victim..
When astronauts get back from space, their eyes are altered.. Apparently one in five report vision changes after their space trips.. Something to consider as private space companies will soon huddle people up in ships and take us into the wild future..
Also on SNL this weekend: Miley twerking in a colonial gown..
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