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infanttyrone

Carpenter's Apprentices

Nov 01, 2007 16:03

So I ended up doing a little bit of last-minute dog-sitting yesterday and this morning, which I was ambivalent about. On the one hand it would allow me to watch AMC's Halloween marathon, including the much-maligned "Halloween III: Season of the Witch", which I've wanted to see for years, ever since I was a kid. But on the other hand, it would ( Read more... )

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bluebellrock November 1 2007, 21:47:55 UTC

However, I have this to say: sit on it.

Aaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

infanttyrone November 1 2007, 22:20:17 UTC

Good idea-- to replace cigarettes, this year the Fonz will be my spirit animal.

bluebellrock November 1 2007, 22:34:41 UTC

Yes, that's what I meant.

jettison November 1 2007, 22:02:16 UTC

Prince of Darkness is classic. I get really angry for some reason when people haven't seen it; I guess it's such a part of my subconscious (I don't watch a ton of movies but have seen that one at least 10 times) that I take personal offense. Plus explaining it is fun - "You know, Satan is like this GOO that spins in a giant jar and impregnates this girl... and Alice Cooper... ahh forget it."

infanttyrone November 1 2007, 22:23:07 UTC

I like that one, and Halloween III for similar reasons: neither of them ends well, and the threat in both films is that the world is about to end, not by huge catastrophe but because we are all about to go gradually, totally, irrevocably insane. And I saw them both on cable at friend's houses when I was wee, and they both marked me deeply.

I've got "Prince of Darkness" on VHS, if you're ever jonesing to see A.J. from "Simon & Simon" with a hokey mustache.

jettison November 1 2007, 22:30:19 UTC

Yes! We need to have a Carpenter Night. I will try to borrow Dark Star, too. Or maybe rent Ghost on Mars.

infanttyrone November 1 2007, 22:57:03 UTC

Never seen those-- I've been hankering to see "Assault on Precinct 13" too. And of course you can't go wrong with "The Thing" or "They Live". And if you were ever a 13-year old boy you would put "Big Trouble in Little China" on the same tier as "Citizen Kane"...
Yes, let's get cracking on a John Carpenter night.

ltmurnau November 1 2007, 22:32:57 UTC

I was even lazier for my Halloween costume: I downloaded a Christopher Walken paper mask (http://www.brandonbird.com/halloween_treat.html) (thanks to zoomardav for the link) and walked around wearing it pretending like I had just forgotten what I wanted to say.

infanttyrone November 1 2007, 22:53:43 UTC

At least it was scary-- I was bemoaning the state of Halloween costumes in this modern world last night. Guys just dress up how they'd like to look all the time (Reservoir Dogs, pirates, lumberjacks, gangsters, "hitmen") and women dress like "sexy-" anything; sexy nurse, sexy cop, sexy maid, sexy prostitute, etc.
I advocate 'scary' over 'sexy', at least on Halloween.

ltmurnau November 1 2007, 23:08:53 UTC

I know, I know; it's not scary, it's just some kind of wish-fulfilment.
Until I found the Walken mask, I was telling people I was "The Enemy Within".

infanttyrone November 1 2007, 23:18:00 UTC

When people asked what I was dressed as yesterday, I would tell them that I was "a guy with very poor long-term career prospects! Whooooooooogly-booooooogly!"

oblomova November 2 2007, 03:53:06 UTC

I dressed up as a member of the elite liberal media.

Boo! (Also, I wore black flats with skulls and crossbones on them.)