Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Hellraiser, and some other stuff...

If you can believe this, I never saw the movie, "Hellraiser". So when I had nothing better to do this past weekend since I was off work, I stopped on the Encore channel that it was playing on and gave it a watch. Interesting movie. Sadistic, dark, strange. I liked it. I missed the first 15 minutes of it, but I got the main idea of the movie as it wore on. I also found it a good source of inspiration for some new props. I really liked the winged demon at the end of the film. I can see one of these gracing my haunt (on a smaller scale for storage, of course).

Photo source: http://www.cenobite.com/index.shtml

I also watched "Mommie Dearest" again. I LOVE that movie. It's sad that it is a true story based on Joan Crawford's daughter, Christine's memoirs, but it is a GREAT movie. I can't tell you how many times I've watched it, and it kind of creeps my kids out that I like it so much and that I recite phrases from it often. On a Halloween-related note, I really sort of thought the scene where she goes nuts over the wire hangers and dirty bathroom was a good spot for some prop ideas. Joan's (Faye Dunaway) face with the night cream on it and her hair pulled back was just frightening and would make a great prop for a hag. :)

"I told you... NO WIRE HANGERS..... EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


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As for the rest of life right now, I'm just sort of drifting with the ebb and flow of sleep and work. I love my job. I don't care for the cattiness of some of my coworkers, but I really don't have to WORK WITH them, so it's all good. I'm training with an intelligent and wonderful woman and she is a lot like me in her work ethic, so she and I will make a good team. My sister also works there on the 3rd shift in a different department, so we get time to catch up on breaks.

I still have no interest in Halloween or doing anything for it, and now the time crunch is here. I'm giving myself until next Monday, and if I have not gotten the itch to get something done, I will just go ahead and start decorating and setting up inside the house. Usually it's all done by now. It will be interesting to see how long it takes me to get it set up from start to finish (the interior) under time constraints.

I'm also struggling with keeping up with emails, forums, and blogging... so if anyone has sent me comments or messages, bear with me. It's taking me a while to get back to everyone. I'm not ignoring people, just have a lot to adjust to and it's gonna take a while.

I think that's about it. Catch y'all later!

3 comments:

SolitaireMare said...

Greetings to the Ghostess! You might remember me from over on the boards at GhostDroppings, I'm GhostFaceGirl! I wanted to tell you I have awarded your blog the Arte Y Pico blog award! Please stop by my blog: solitairemare.blogspot.com and pick up your well-deserved award!!

Drop Gallow said...

First of all, awesome coincidence -I just declared this to be Hellraiser Appreciation Week on one of my blogs!
I haven't seen Mommy Dearest. I'll have to check it out.
Sorry about the Halloween Blues. I know how you feel. I've just recently come out of a similar funk and I'm building things now, not to impress at Halloween, but just because it makes me happy. You were a big part of reminding me of that, so I thought I would let you know and I hope you get bit by the creative bug soon (so that I can steal your ideas, of course.

Ghostess said...

Thanks GhostFaceGirl... I don't do "chain" awards though. Most of my fellow bloggers that I keep up with don't do them either, so it'd be pointless for me to bother. Read some of your blog though, pretty cool!

Jeff... so glad you dropped by!! Isn't it funny how we're on the same Hellraiser tangent? I need to do a marathon of watching them. I wonder if they are on On Demand right now? I have Thursday and Friday off and will be looking for stuff to watch. Mommie Dearest is a gem of a movie, it really is. And the blues will pass... if they don't the haunt will still go on. I have too many people (mainly kids) who count on me for it. :)