Happy Hump Day Survey!

I’ve been at the feet of this guy:
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Colloquially known as “The Golden Boy”, but his real name is “Eternal Youth”. This was years before he had his re-gilding, less shiny, but still pretty cool

Not *super* high up, relative to the rest of Santa Fe, but I climbed up a couple of hundred feet, while I was already suffering from altitude sickness in Santa Fe to photograph some petroglyphs this summer:
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The first time I imbibed recreational hallucinogens my friend and I climbed to the highest seats in the University of Arizona football stadium. We managed to make it back down without trying to fly.

HAPPY HUMP DAY!

Favorite scary book, game, movie, show, thing?

I'll take the "thing" category for three.
Lovecratian horror. Junji Ito. Slapped Ham.

Ok, I'll toss in some games: Eternal Darkness, Silent Hill 2, and Darkseed

Book: A Deadly Game of Magic by Joan Lowrey Nixon. Bought for $2 at a scholastic fair in fourth grade, this story sees four teens seeking shelter from a flash flood in a mansion on a hill where an old woman should be living, but isn't seen anywhere. Soon they realize they might not be alone and someone or something may be stalking them. It's very YA so it isn't as terrifying as IT or The Shining, but it was the first book that made me read with someone else in the room.

Game: Silent Hill. While it wasn't my first foray into scary games (Resident Evil 1 & 2), it was the most memorable. My college roommate Scary Geoff and I really bonded over this. We played it together, either passing off the controller when one of us went to class or couch co-op. He used the rifle too often, but still, fun times were had by all.

Movie: Halloween. You just can't go wrong with the original. John Carpenter created the unkillable killer genre, but it wasn't a gorefest nor all that gratuitous. It was such a fun movie with a memorable killer and THE final girl. I also would have said Scream, but that works better as a deconstruction of the genre whereas Halloween created the genre. And there's a reason it is homaged so much in Scream.

Thing:
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Book (Steven King edition): Pet Sematary - I still remember reading this in high school and being terrified. I recall the feeling of dread as I was reaching the end of the book- only a few pages left- and knowing this was not going to end well.

Book (Non-Steven King edition): House of Leaves - more of an unsettling book than outright scary. The maze of unreliable narrators is something you can get lost in, much like some of the characters get lost in the House. The text tricks throughout the book can come off as gimmicky to some, but for me it made it memorable and this book still lives inside my head and made the book bigger on the inside than the outside.

Music: Siouxsie and the Banshees is always a great listen this time of year. So many good scary tracks: VooDoo Dolly, Night Shift, Blow the House Down, basically anything off their Peek-a-Boo album.

Try Carousel for a great song that warps a well known thing of happiness into nightmare fuel.

Alien Isolation! Hands down.

Tscott wrote:

Music: Siouxsie and the Banshees is always a great listen this time of year. So many good scary tracks: VooDoo Dolly, Night Shift, Blow the House Down, basically anything off their Peek-a-Boo album.

Try Carousel for a great song that warps a well known thing of happiness into nightmare fuel.

Now that just reminded me of...

Huh, the playlist YouTube gave me from that video is pretty killer:

Concrete Blonde - Walking in London
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Greg Kihn Band - The Breakup Song
Ghostbusters
Ministry - Everyday is Halloween
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
The Cure - Burn
BOC - Don't Fear the Reaper
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning
Cry Little Sister (The Lost Boys theme)

HAPPY HUMP DAY!!

Worst songs you could play to tell someone you're breaking up with them.

One More Minute by Weird Al

(or would it be the best?)

DiscoDriveby wrote:

HAPPY HUMP DAY!!

Worst songs you could play to tell someone you're breaking up with them.

WARNING! NOT SAFE FOR WORK! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Four hundred and eighty-seven thousand times.

Alien Love Gardener wrote:

What is it with Matt Damon and break up songs?

And BTW, how in the world is "Dead Man's Party" a breakup song?

HAPPY HUMP DAY!

What cartoon character do you most relate to?

Phillip J Fry more often than i would care to admit

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The Shmoo.

No, wait!

Captain Klutz. You can see him over there under my name.

Yes. My apologies. I like Shmoos but one of them isn't the cartoon character I've had over to the left for a long time. Seriously, someone else could very well pick 'The Shmoo' and I'd be cool with it. More than cool. They're good natured things that can't help looking the way they do.

What I mean by that is they look a bit like a... you know.

I shouldn't have brought it up.

thrawn82 wrote:

Phillip J Fry more often than i would care to admit

The thing about Futurama is that I relate to so many of the characters, and it's difficult to say which one I relate to more. Definitely Fry and Zoidberg and Kif. Some Hermes, Professor, Leela, and Amy (my mom is Asian, gleesh). I'll admit to a bit of Zapp in the past too. And of course, I can only aspire to Bender's carpe diem attitude.

I wonder....

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Grenn wrote:

I wonder....

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sh*t. Bob might be even moreso than Yakko

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

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I’m surprised by this. Are you joking or being ironic?