78-year-old Bertha McDaniel and her nephew Terry Hayes, along with his wife Jennifer made the long journey from Seattle to Washington D.C. for the Presidential Inauguration. Massive crowds and restricted gated areas required the small group to split up.
nobody thinks it’s weird that I have a skeleton in my living room- sitting in a chair- by my phone-I bought him from Bucky’s Boneyard, I named him Edgar
(click the pic to got to Bucky’s Site)
I also love the bite sized candy snacks because I’m not happy with sitting down and eating a boring old candy bar- I like them best with wrappers decorated with bats and ghosts and zombies stamped on them.
Most of all I like anything dealing with Zombies because they are the dumbest monsters to ever be dreamed up and I take a certain weird pleasure in biting their candy heads off.
But most of all I enjoy Halloween because of the movies-
the vendors put them all out there, old ones, new ones, whatever, which is good because they’re all good-in their weird way.
These are the best of the Strange and Weird-
And my personal favorites.
Enjoy!
The legend of La Llorona – a Medea-like myth that has haunted the Americas for more than 500 years. Now this supernatural spirit hunts again. Over the course of one ominous day this anguished soul terrorizes New York City escalating her appetite for vengeance. A young mother comes under her spell and collides with two detectives a witch/curandera – and the many who suffer this horrifying vengeance. Evocative and suspenseful haunting and disturbing this supernatural thriller brings to life the chilling legend proving there is no rest for a mother who murders her child and that La Llorona is real
Now this film is one of my favorite Sci-Fi Horror films of all time I only watch it once a year so as to not ruin the experience for myself-
I knew it as 5 Million Years To Earth, but it’s listed at IMDB as
I like this review, it’s from IMDB.
PS
If you click the pic it’ll take you to the Amazon page where you can order a copy.
Workers excavating at an underground station in London uncover the skeletal remains of ancient apes with large skulls. Further digging reveals what is at first believed to be an unexploded German bomb from World War II. Missile expert Colonel Breen is brought in to investigate, accompanied by Professor Bernard Quartermass. When the interior of the “missile” is exposed, a dead locust-like creature that resembles the devil is found. It is determined by Quartermass that these “locusts” are evil Martians who altered the brains of our simian ancestors to eventually lay claim to the Earth. When Quartermass’s suspicion that the missile can reactivate the dormant evil in humans is confirmed, all hell breaks loose.
I like it, because no matter how you dress it up- with the censored version that made it to the screen or the original version where Eve not only tastes but indulges in the bitter fruit of her wicked ways-
all of the characters remained patronizing and vapid.
Not to mention self indulgent.
So I really enjoyed seeing something like Eve show up and set the house on fire.
It’s also worth noting that the women in this movie- from Airy Fairy Karen to Self Adoring Margo to our Wonderfully Wicked Eve
Ruthless people: Anne Baxter plays Eve Harrington in the 1950 classic All About Eve; Celeste Holm (left) is Karen Richards, a friend she uses on her way to the top. Hulton Archive/Getty Images
My friends and I have been talking about Drive In Theatres.
When I was a kid I thought Drive Ins were great because you got to sit in your car eat Popcorn and watch a movie- or if you were a creative kid like me you’d stretch that evening out to a full night of fun.
I used to Roller-skate around the lot before the movie and during intermission and count how many people were in their cars ” getting some Nookie “
That was what my older cousins called it.
Let me clear something up here:
I used to think ” Nookie ” was a word for eating Pizza- I thought it was the steam from the Pizza that fogged the windows up.
Give me a break I was like eight or nine at the time and it made sense.
Plus I was pretty clueless.
Anyway….
When I was about 12 I found out that a bunch of teenagers from the neighborhood used to drive almost 50 miles away to go to a Drive In by the airport- and watching these kids plan for it made my head hurt.
I couldn’t believe how complicated going to the movies was for these kids. I thought they were dumb- how hard could it be to get yourself to a Drive In?
They spent days trying to get a car, hours trying to get a story together about where they were going and somebody always slipped up and someone always got busted before ‘movie night’ and that was always dramatic with barefoot kids in bell bottom jeans running from house to house trying to salvage the evening.
It made my head hurt just to watch this.
Me and my friends and cousins went to the Drive In almost every weekend and we certainly didn’t spend days and days planning it.
We just badgered our parents into making somebody take us.
Later on- when I was about 12 one of my neighbor friends told me the older kids were driving all the way down there to see what our Grandparents called ” Stag Films”.
The kids told me that you could see a bunch of them for free- of course you had to sit on a fence in the cold and dark with a bunch of airplanes landing and taking off every 10 minutes over your head and you couldn’t hear anything because you didn’t have a car to attach a speaker to.
” But man, who cares? ” they’d say.
And I’d think, ” well I would. “
God I’m glad I knew how to keep my mouth shut most of the time.
Later there was this city or county ordinance passed that said Drive Ins couldn’t show ” Stag Films ” anymore so that took care of the older kids going on road trips to airport to watch movies.
On the other hand, if you just wanted to go to the movies and maybe goof off on the playground equipment or stand in line at the concession stands and buy popcorn and hot dogs or play pinball while you waited for your friends to use the bathroom you could still do that- it may not have been as adventurous as watching a movie from the street with the threat of ” THE MANAGER ” chasing you off…but so what?
It was fun while it lasted.
That’s all gone – the Drive In is no more.
The compromise is that now days you can have little TVs in your car or you can watch films on your computer- it’s all very convenient and all pretty Soulless
-and the worst thing of all-
You can’t roller-skate around a dark lot full of cars parked on wavy pavement and count how many people are in their cars getting Nookie anymore.
In the spirit of the upcoming holiday (I don’t mean my birthday…I mean Halloween) I thought I’d post some nifty Halloween Related Urban Legends from now until the BIG DAY.
I’ve decided to start with
The Toilet Monster
The toilet monster is a girl named Carmen who was pushed down into a sewer by her classmates and died. Carmen Whitehead lived in Indiana, so the story goes- and for some reason it’s important to mention that so I did.
Okay…back to the story.
So shortly after Carmen meets her death in the Sewer this post shows up at MySpace:
If you don’t repost this saying:
They Pushed Her Down The Sewer
Carmen will get you…
To fill you in, Carmen from Indiana will come up from you Shower or Toilet and drag you down to where she is in the sewers and then she’ll kill you.
I think it would be way more efficient to kill you first and then flush you down the toilet- but hey I didn’t write this.
I did however enjoy it because I can’t help but to wonder how many of you will think about Carmen The Indiana Toilet Monster the next time you visit the smallest room in the house.
I think that’s pretty darn funny.
Urban Legends…. they are more then amusing stories they are the gift that keeps on giving.
Irregular Bones 