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"If You Start a Fire I'll Bury You Alive"
Hello everyone!
As you are all probably very well aware of, yesterday was Halloween! Halloween is a very special day each year filled with candy and costumes and scary movies. Speaking of scary movies, apparently Paranormal Activity destroyed Saw VI at the box office last weekend so I guess the world is finally developing good taste. Well, except Rolling Stone who had to give Paranormal Activity a good rating and yet write such a cynical review. Oh well. Oh see, my problem with the Saw films is that the ratio of story to gore has been going further and further in the wrong direction with each movie. Does anyone really see Saw for the storyline? No probably not but when it really comes down to it, the first one especially had a really rather decent storyline that if it had been say directed differently could have ranked up there with the likes of Se7en. Instead they focused on the gore more and relegated their movie to the cheap horror movie category. Alas. Do you think they'll ever stop making Saw movies? I sure hope so. I mean, they finally had the good sense to end the Nightmare on Elm Street movies (though, Freddy vs Jason destroys all but original and absolutely owns anything from the Friday the 13th series) so maybe in a few years we'll be Saw-free. At least for around twenty years or so till they start the remakes (just like: Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Friday the 13th, and soon A Nightmare on Elm Street) Ok, ok, I got way off topic. Let's back pedal a little bit here, ok? If you have yet to see Paranormal Activity, fix that now. (even Julio who is deathly afraid of horror movies saw it and liked and recently said he might wanna see it again!) And now to go back even further . . . Halloween! (the holiday, not the movie)
Halloween was a lovely little day. Its been a while since we've been home for Halloween and not in some random city. Well, actually, I was home for last Halloween even if the rest of the band wasn't. However, seeing as I slept through most of last Halloween and don't actually remember much of what happened that day, we can pretty much just pretend like it didn't occur. This year was pretty cool though. We went all out and threw up some decorations such as a rather large amount of (fake) spiderwebs, some fun little lights and glowing signs, and of course, magnificently carved pumpkins including on Jack o' Lantern featuring the Orange Lantern symbol! Yes, thats right, I am that much a geek. I even dressed up this year for the first time in quite a few years (not counting '07 when I was a white version of Samuel L Jackson from Pulp Fiction which really just entailed wearing what I often wear on stage anyway) and rocked not one but two costumes over the course of the night! I began the night as a pre-death by fire Freddy Kruger complete with a red stripped sweater and a glove with (plastic) knives for fingers and concluded the night as a post-resurrection Jason Voorhees complete with a glow in the dark hockey mask and a (plastic) machete and a blood spattered shirt. Apparently I was a rather convincing Jason. It was a fun night. While decorating and carving pumpkins, naturally we had some classic horror movies running in the background such as Scream and Scream 2 as well as the original Friday the 13th (which of course does not actually feature Jason at all except for a dream sequence at the end to fulfill the "moment when the supposedly dead killer comes back to life for one final scare" as Scream puts it though of course that statement doesn't directly apply since Jason of course was not the killer in Friday the 13th though we was supposedly dead). During the trick or treating hours of 6-10 o' clock we had a less than average turn-out (you'd think with a still struggling economy kids would be desperate to get as much free candy as possibly but I guess not) though we did get a few lovely visits from a few lovely Pensive friends so that was fun! Whilst the trick or treating festivities were going on, we watched a fun little movie called 1408 based of course on a story by our good friend, Mr. King and after the candy giving away shenanigans were over we capped off the night with a viewing of M. Night Shyamalan's Signs (aka one of his movies from before he went insane and pulled the greatest practical joke of all time [aka The Happening]). Its funny, when it really comes down to it, M. Night doesn't really make horror movies. Neither Signs nor the Sixth Sense hold up well as horror movies once you've seen them (though the Village can still get my adrenaline flowing particularly when poor Adrian Brody dons the costume and chases poor Bryce Dallas Howard in the woods . . . Oh boy I remember how scary that was the first time I saw it in the theaters. I swear my blood ran cold for that whole entire scene!) Umm, where was I? Ok yeah, so anyway, not horror movies, just dramas with supernatural tinged storylines. I won't give you the breakdown of why I insist this cause I'm pretty sure I've lost most of you by this point but trust me, I'm right!
I think that covers Halloween. Mostly. It is now November. November tends to be a good month. I think good things will happen this month. Though, I don't know if I can tell you all the good things that might happen. We here at Pensive like to keep our secrets. Why? I really have no idea why. I mean sure, we could just tell you all sorts of juicy behind the scenes details about stuff but, well, I dunno. I think its better to wait. Let's just say that by the end of the month or so we should have a rather fantastic song under our belts. Probably more than one but one for sure that's extra fantastic. Oh, and not to sound too full of myself or anything but I've been listening to our little NFG/country song since I shall be writing lyrics for it soon and I've gotta say, I rather dig it. I think you will too. If it ever sees the light of day. I mean, ya know, we're writing tons of songs and chances are at least half will never be heard outside the Pensive house . . . I mean, when we started the hardcore official writing for Artifacts, we had a good 15 or so song ideas in varying stages of completion and you've heard 2 of those. The rest either got completely swept aside or they were scraped for parts (which actually happened quite a lot. Ya know, take a chorus here, a line or two there, a guitar riff from there, etc. etc. Like this one song I had thought up: it didn't make the cut but we completely redid it and fought for days and weeks about it and my one song idea ended up as two songs: Red Letter Day (aka Julio's version) and Lost Inside Your Heart (aka my version). See what I mean?) Anyway, bottom line, who knows what songs you may or may not end up hearing. Though I've always thought it would be awesome to have an album and then have a few other ancillary releases such as EPs, singles with b-sides, and my absolutely favorite and long standing goal: vinyl exclusives! So we'll see. Maybe the best way to solve the dilemma I brought up last week of how to fit a dancy pop song, a punk country ballad, and a space rock epic together would be the idea of separate releases. But naturally I am way ahead of myself and really have no idea what I'm talking about. Do you?
I think that should pretty much wrap things up for this week. Though, you should check back either here or the page cause I'm probably gonna try to put up some pictures from last night up sometime soon. Key word there being "try." So anyway, what did you do for Halloween?
Smokey the Bear
5:04 AM
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