fifteen... fifty-two... four... thirty-four, thirty-four, thirty-four... forty-six.

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My mother says I do a great impression of boiling rice.

I'm really obsessed with this video right now:

Massive Attack: Karmacoma. 

I love it mainly for The Shining influences (I wish that The Shining was this hilarious, maybe I could actually watch it... but I can only watch it after "the bathtub scene", which is the single most frightening things I have ever read, and a perfectly good reason to put a book in a freezer - as a result of Room 217, I still have trouble with bathrooms).  The Shining, incidentally, was named for the John Lennon song "Instant Karma!" - "we all shine on..."

Another incidental from the 1980 film: this was the last (or only) movie for the actresses that played the ghost-corpse in the bathtub as well as the ones who played the two murdered little girls in the hallway.

Joel-Peter Witkin's "Cupid and Centaur", "First Casting of Milo", and "Costumed Inmate".  His art, influential in Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" video, is influenced by the childhood memory of seeing a little girl decapitated in a car accident outside his church:

 

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Yeah, I know. She tried to call me and the signal sounded like ghosts coming through the phone. Well, Sunday would probably be better than Saturday for my part, since I don't know what time I'll get there.

Do you know what you're doing about ID cards? Because they changed the ID card system while we were gone?

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We don't have to go to the special ID office?

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Ah, ok. Thankfully you remembered... I deleted the email and am not diligent.

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Guess it's a good thing we have each other then.

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tired models who refuse to show their faces.

no wait, yours is chi-chi!tifa?

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Good! I thought it was pretty awesome.

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oh, that's the version of karmacoma i don't have, isn't it... I saw the Shining when I was a bit younger (don't remember it so well now), but it didn't scare me. Partly because it was daytime, but we closed the curtains.

Also, that is a pretty awesome skeleton picture...

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Yup, that's the version.

I don't think The Shining movie is all that scary. Like I said, it's the bathtub scene, and that scene was actually changed to become less scary in the famous 1980 version. In the tv movie version that Stephen King authorized several years later, it remained true to the book - we don't see Jack, the father, go into 217 (although he does and comes out later looking weirded out) - we follow Danny, the little boy, who is assaulted by the corpse in the bathtub (she never looks young or anything... he's drawn to the room, drawn to the bathroom, and there she is) who follows him almost out to the hallway. There's also a scene where Danny's outside in the playground and hiding in the snowed-in "bunkers" and he feels the hands of the dead children trying to keep him in the bunker. All in the book... sometimes Stephen King's writing is scarier than the movies his books turn into.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

and to think i've never read a stephen king novel. actually, i think i am often more scared by books than movies...

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yeah, partly (for me) cuz they leave it up to you to imagine it, and sometimes that's worse (esp. if the movie has crap special effects). That's definitely what did it for Beloved. I think The Shining is a particularly good one, although I also really like Pet Sematary and his Night Shift short story collection (Jerusalem's Lot, Graveyard Shift, Night Surf, I Am the Doorway, Grey Matter, One for the Road... clearly I love his vampire stories). I should also like to read Nightmares & Dreamscapes and Everything's Eventual (I think King's shorts are actually better than his novels). But now I'm babbling.