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Halloweeeeeen!
Oct. 31st, 2007 08:12 amI'm baaaaaack....
Well... almost. I've nearly cleared the decks of outstanding freelance, and the daily work situation is starting, finally, to settle into routine. I'm still hugely out of touch with what's going on in blogland (or in anyplace, really, other than my workplace or the bus), but... starting to feel like normal. With luck, I should be caught up again sometime this weekend. (I think I've tracked down where the upsetting racism wank I've seen posted about, but where did the whole "Dumbledore's gay" thing come from?)
At any rate, I just had to sign on and report that, when I turned on the telly this morning, I managed to catch the last few minutes of Halloween 3 on AMC. This makes me very happy. I kind of see it as the ultimate Halloween film, no lie. Maybe because it actually IS a movie about Halloween, the holiday, complete with masks and Samhain references, rather than simply being a horror film. Although it is that. Enjoyably so.
And I have to say, teevee has done a bit of alright by itself in creating a spooky atmosphere this year. Special kudos to the programmers at AMC, who seem to rifled through their catalog of films and dredged up every horror film in archive to broadcast in an October marathon. This too, makes me very happy.
Although teevee, in general, had TOO MANY ADS. Really. Nothing blows a good scary film like a loud interruption of bright colors and chirruping announcers. Broadcast television has got to find a better way to address this, other than driving its customers to TiVo everything - in Japan, they do fewer breaks of longer duration, which makes way more sense to me. One wonders about the logic behind the jittery every-few-minutes style of American ad programmming - is ADD the root cause, or effect?
I've more thoughts on Halloween in general, especially on the trend of more adults wearing costumes, but it'll have to wait while I run for the bus. And should I wear bat-winged antennas, the witch's hat, or the cat ears to the new job? Hmm...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
(P.S. I know I didn't get around to doing film recs, again, but this year's primo rec would have to be Black Sheep. Check it out. It's funny/scary in that sort of Shaun of the Dead sense, if a bit more straightforward about it and gorier, but oh, you will laugh. And go ewwwww. Thumbs up!)
Well... almost. I've nearly cleared the decks of outstanding freelance, and the daily work situation is starting, finally, to settle into routine. I'm still hugely out of touch with what's going on in blogland (or in anyplace, really, other than my workplace or the bus), but... starting to feel like normal. With luck, I should be caught up again sometime this weekend. (I think I've tracked down where the upsetting racism wank I've seen posted about, but where did the whole "Dumbledore's gay" thing come from?)
At any rate, I just had to sign on and report that, when I turned on the telly this morning, I managed to catch the last few minutes of Halloween 3 on AMC. This makes me very happy. I kind of see it as the ultimate Halloween film, no lie. Maybe because it actually IS a movie about Halloween, the holiday, complete with masks and Samhain references, rather than simply being a horror film. Although it is that. Enjoyably so.
And I have to say, teevee has done a bit of alright by itself in creating a spooky atmosphere this year. Special kudos to the programmers at AMC, who seem to rifled through their catalog of films and dredged up every horror film in archive to broadcast in an October marathon. This too, makes me very happy.
Although teevee, in general, had TOO MANY ADS. Really. Nothing blows a good scary film like a loud interruption of bright colors and chirruping announcers. Broadcast television has got to find a better way to address this, other than driving its customers to TiVo everything - in Japan, they do fewer breaks of longer duration, which makes way more sense to me. One wonders about the logic behind the jittery every-few-minutes style of American ad programmming - is ADD the root cause, or effect?
I've more thoughts on Halloween in general, especially on the trend of more adults wearing costumes, but it'll have to wait while I run for the bus. And should I wear bat-winged antennas, the witch's hat, or the cat ears to the new job? Hmm...
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
(P.S. I know I didn't get around to doing film recs, again, but this year's primo rec would have to be Black Sheep. Check it out. It's funny/scary in that sort of Shaun of the Dead sense, if a bit more straightforward about it and gorier, but oh, you will laugh. And go ewwwww. Thumbs up!)