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It's this guy's birthday today!

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and for $55 this look can be yours.

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CMYK Zip Up
Veer AKA: store for pretentious designers

Zombie Escape Plan
Christine Renee

The Government Manual for New Superheroes
Amazon

Silent Hill

I love horror movies, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Very rarely will I have harsh words to say about a scary movie, unless it was “One Missed Call” because that one was REALLY bad. One of my favorites (a long list by the way) is “Silent Hill”.

Silent Hill is based on Konami’s survival horror video game franchise. Each game hosts a new main character who is searching for something or someone in the eerie town of Silent Hill. Having played the video games, I was familiar with the setting, soundtrack and cast of evil characters.

The movie revolves around Rose, a young mother who’s adopted daughter is sleepwalking and calling out the name “Silent Hill”. Rose learns that Silent Hill is a small town in West Virginia where an underground coal fire has been slowly burning for several decades. Believing that the answers must lay in this mysterious town, Rose takes her daughter and makes the journey to Silent Hill. When they near the town, which has been closed off due to the health risk involved with the fires, Rose stops at a gas station for directions. It is here that we gain a new victim for Silent Hill, a Motorcycle cop that believes there is something shifty going on with the mother/daughter duo and decides to follow them. The cop pulls them over a few miles away from the station, but having seen a road sign for Silent Hill, Rose hits the gas and a midnight car chase begins. When a mysterious and dark figure crosses into the street, Rose loses control of her vehicle and crashes. She awakens to find her daughter is missing and goes into the town to find her and finds that the town has a past so tragic, that it has become a frightful alternate reality that our characters find themselves trapped in.

I don’t know if it is my obsession for horror, or the mood that this movie takes, or if it because I nearly peed myself playing the video games, that drew me into the dark realm of Silent Hill. Maybe I have no taste at all. I would especially recommend this to fans of the survival horror game genre, as this movie stayed true to the feel of the games and offered us a bit of history behind the mysterious town that has been scaring me for 10 years.

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My eyes must be removed immediately

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When I was young I stayed home from school with the flu. To keep me entertained, my mother put the little 13" black & white T.V. in my room. The Wizard of OZ was showing on one of the stations and I can remember feeling so comforted, warm and peaceful. I always have a desire to re-watch this movie when I am sick.

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Zombies only want you for your brain
Type Tees

Black cotton dress
Larimelom

Adventurine Lure Necklace
Realm Jewelry

The Charlie Dress
Miss Brache

Hell House

Hell House. I think we should all watch more documentaries about the horrors of religion. If we do, I would like to think that we would be able to see just how ridiculously it makes people act. Hell House is a documentary by George Ratliff that follows the construction and production of a Hell House, which is a Halloween style house of horrors promoted by the Trinity Church in Texas. The Hell House is the church's way of using outrageous hell bound scenarios that are intended to scare Jesus into you.

To create the “Hell House”, many weeks go into creating the scripts and casting the rolls. But where does the inspiration come from? Well it seems to me that the evils they decide to portray, are topics they appear to only have a vague impression of. They discuss the typical evils of abortion, homosexuality and suicide which are the churches staples, and then they get into the ridiculous evils of Harry Potter, fantasy roll playing games and dancing.

It becomes obvious that they are trying to write a book without doing any research on the subject matter. They accidentally draw a Star of David in spray paint believing it to be a pentagram. A five minute “discussion” about what the actual title of the popular RPG Magic: The Gathering actually is. And the DJ for the Rave (in HELL!) doesn't know what the date rape drug being used in the skit is actually called, other than "the EVIL date rape drug to send you to HELL!" And then it all becomes very depressing when you realize that the one going to hell is the girl who consumed the drug.

Then there were the tragic stories of rape, drugs, suicide, murder and the really really scary morning after pill. Their scenarios in the end are contradictions and tend to blame the victim and not the perpetrator. For example, a woman who is raped commits suicide is damned, the rapist goes on blameless and forgiven. A woman has a drunk and abusive husband, finds love through the internet (unknown if she has actually consummated her internet relationship) is going to hell for not understanding that she is merely property and must take the beatings with a "thank you, can I have some more" type attitude. And an AIDS victim who was molested by a "funny uncle" is sent to eternal damnation, for what? Being gay? Abused? No, for not accepting God, this is his punishment. Fuck that.

In conclusion, Hell House is a beautiful portrayal of the ignorance within the church and their inability to accept or forgive.Fun for the whole family.

Let's Go Celtics!

I had plans last night to just sit around all evening and be moody, but a call from a buddy on my way home inviting me to the Celtics game that evening changed all of that.

Section: 1 + Row: 15 = AWESOME CENTER COURT SEATS

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Abbott Handerson Thayer

This painting is found in the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C. and is oddly enough, one of my favorite paintings and is amazing to see in person as the canvas as it measures 7.5' x 6'.

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Little Flight
Kezzaroo

Pattern PDF Drama Queen Cabled Fingerless Mitts
jmacknit

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Junk Drawers.
I think this is either a brilliant piece of marketing or just really, really creepy.

Jesus Camp

Since last night was Trivia Night, I am opening up the movie vault. I discovered recently that I like documentaries, but not just any documentary, it has to be one that displays the ugly side of something I hate, like FOX news. My family did not raise me to be religious, and kept me away from the people I refer to as "Nut Bags".

I see religion as both a power for good, and a power for evil. In Jesus camp, it shows the conscious effort of the religious evangelicals to begin to mold the minds of their future "army against evil" at a young age. A human brain does not fully finish forming until the early 20's, and therefor a child cannot make a conscious decision about matters of life. They choose what their parents choose, and display the same behavior as what they see around them, we learn language in this way.

The documentary takes place within the North Dakota summer camp for the "Kids on Fire School of Ministry" run by Becky Fischer who is a Pentecostal youth pastor. Due to the reactions of viewers of this film, the camp is now closed. Becky would preach and teach in a method similar to a basketball coach. She would film the actions of the children in church and study them at home for how susceptible they were to the preaching that was happening. The children would go into fits of crying and begin speaking in tongues. This a practice in the Pentecostal religion known also as Glossolalia, which is incoherent babble performed in a trance state and is thought of as religious ecstasy, or the workings of the Holy Spirit. Also known by me as bull shit.

The children are all home schooled to help the children "avoid" evil but is essentially to keep them away from other cultures, believes and perspectives as part of the religion, commonly known as brain washing. And they are allowed to grow rat tails, ew.

One of my issues/disagreements is the inability of the church to separate their religion from politics. This was shown in an all too memorable scene where a cardboard cut out of George W. Bush is brought out on stage for the children to pray to and lay their hands upon. He is called a "Holy Man", I assume this is not for his magnificent performance as President these last 8 years, but due to his religious beliefs.

But my main disagreement is with Fischer's emphasis on spiritual warfare. There is no gray in these teachings, it is only good and evil, and they must fight a war against all that is evil and all who they perceive to be evil. The ones who essentially are hurt, are the children, and during the movie it seems as though they are constantly being punished for actions in this world that they are not a part of, nor could they ever possibly understand at the age they are. These children look as though they are in agony, and I wonder if they even know why. Fischer is such a vile person, she has a complete understandidng of what she is doing to these children, she confesses at the end of the film that it's better to indoctrinate the "right" beliefs in children than not to at all. But what truly is right and what is wrong?

After the movie ended, I rang my mother and thanked her for the way she raised me.

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Once when I was a child, I fell down the stairs in our house. I knocked myself so silly tumbling head over foot, that when I stopped at the bottom, I could have sworn I was a cucumber... like a real cucumber.

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When I think of the South, This is what my brain sees; Wolf t-shirts and American Flags.

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Violet - Art Doll
Black Eyed Suzie

Plum Wool with Lavender Mohair Shoulder Bag
Sketchbook

Urban Modern Teapot White with Skull Design
Urban Soule

Pineapple Express

Team Apatow does it again. Bringing us another "so stupid, it's funny" movie. I can stomach this type of humor more than crass and plain vulgar humor seen in Kevin Smith movies. The movie starts off slow and in a realm I know little about. I have never done pot, so I do not have an emotional bond with it, nor with anything relating to it.

So for the first 15 minutes, I had a feeling of dread that this was just going to be another movie where the writers expect that the antics of a few stoned characters will be enough to make us laugh. But soon enough, a plot revealed itself. Our main character Dale Denton who is a subpoena guy, is sent to serve Ted Jones, who unbeknown to him is a dealer and is the middle of a drug war with the "Asians" who are Korean by the way. While lighting up the infamous "Pineapple Express" blend outside Jones's house Dale witnesses Jones and a female cop murder an Asian man. Denton seeks refuge from Jones at his personal dealer's house, only to find that the "Pineapple Express" blend is so unique, they are the only two people to have received the samples. They go on the lam and from here the wacky antics ensue.

The movie is essentially pointless, and was nothing more than slapstick, but the cast is so good at what they do you can't help but love them. I found it to be an entertaining 90 minutes, but Pineapple Express will be filed away in my brain as something else I have watched, with only fuzzy recollections of the story to not forget it entirely.

Spiral in the Mystic

PATTERN: Spiral Eyelet Socks
FIBER: hand died sock yarn from Sunshine Yarns in Into the Mystic

BRAAAAAAAAINS

Thank you Mediocore Clothing!

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When we first came up to Massachusetts for B.F.'s job interview, we stayed in a rich suburb about an hour and a half out of the city in a town called Sudbury. Who would have thought that a small, unnoticeable restaurant would have some of the best food I had ever consumed. We only went the one time and since we live too far away, have not gone since. My stomach will remember this restaurant with fond memories.

I Know Who Killed Me

...And other sad tales of 2 hours lost. Okay, so I just about jumped for joy when I saw this on the Netflix Instant movie site. I have heard how this is supposed to be the worst movie made, and with Rotten Tomatoes giving it 8% they must be right and boy was I looking forward to it.

It tried to be too many things all at once, Noir, Thriller & Slasher. It failed to actually capture any of these themes successfully. And the heavy handed symbolic use of blue roses went nowhere in my mind.

After watching it completely and not really knowing what just happened to the last 90 minutes of my life, I realized that it was not the worst horror movie (or movie calling itself a horror) I have ever seen. This honor is bestowed upon the American remake of One Missed Call.

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"I am an aspiring artist with visions of grandness and greatness.

but I suck at colouring... as you can see. i did those in PS using a mouse.

my process is simple, i unlock the image, set it to multiply, make transparent layers, and colour on the transparent ones, until I'm done painting and think it looks good enough." ~Leo

This piece of Bad Art was discovered within the pages of The Artists Corner

I have an update! This is SO exciting!

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Keyhole Flats
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Triangle Necklace
Metalnat

T - Narcissist Necklace - Frosted Glass Initial
Yellow Lux

Arsenic and Old Lace

Few movies have been able to stand the test of time like Frank Capra movies. And Arsenic and Old Lace still makes me laugh.

So the dress code is out dated and technicolor has yet to be invented, it doesn't take away from the fact that this is a black comedy that could still fill a movie theater.

Cary Grant is a comedic genius that can make me swoon like no other. This is a story of a newly married confirmed bachelor who discovers a corpse in the window seat of his 2 elderly aunt's house. They then proceed to inform him that they are basically providing a service to the lonely by acting as angels of mercy. By using a concoction of poisons in their elder berry wine, they kill and bury guests and tenants of their residence. With the help of Grant's brother who believes himself to be President Roosevelt, they bury the bodies in the "Panama Canals" that Roosevelt has just dug in the basement.

Obviously chaos ensues as Grants tries to hide this from his new wife, institutionalize his brother President Roosevelt, and protect his aunts from being discovered and to prevent any future murders. When Grant's other brother, who is consistently mistaken for Boris Karloff due to the multiple facial alterations to hide his identity shows up with his partner and another corpse.

Anyway, this story has stood the test of time in my mind and the humor is still relevant. You may just find yourself enjoying this little black and white flick.

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What exactly is a "pizza"?

Double Date Night

Double date night for the Gore Street posse. We got all dolled up, and trudged out into the impending Boston "snow storm" to partake in the glorious sushi at Haru. Their sushi was better than several places that I have been to in Boston and Cambridge but if you are ordering a cocktail, make sure you tell them not to skimp on the booze. For an $8 drink, I want very much to make sure that I can feel the burn.

And like all nights out, we ended up at our local dive bar to sing karaoke.