The Month of Horror

It’s October!

Finally! I love October. We get a bunch of pumpkin spice crap and in thirty days we all get diabetes! Yay! I love October because we at the end of the month we get to play pretend and dress up. I haven’t played dress up since I played ‘house’ last year, but we actually called it undress up (no explanation necessary). I have decided what I’m going to dress up for Halloween: Jenna Jameson. For those too young to know who she is – look her up! And if you’re too young, you shouldn’t be reading my blog. LOL! Nah, what am going as will be kept a secret until closer to the time. However, I will be posting clues in the blog until the big day. Let’s start with the first clue.

*Clue 1: It’s from a TV Show*

That is the easiest clue you will get. I encourage people to guess what my costume will be and if you guess right, you know what you will win? Absolutely nothing. Just the satisfaction of knowning you guessed right on Justin’s blog. Anyway, I do love the spirit of Halloween. I love the pumpkins and the ghosts and especially the haunted houses.

I love to go through a haunted house. Ever since I was a young child I’ve loved everything haunted: real and fiction and I love to scare people. I use to scare my grandmother all the time when I would go over to her house. My favorite scare that I’ve done was one time I was staying over my biological dad’s house and me, and his girlfriend, and her friend Bobbie liked to do night walks around their mobile home park. I rode on my scooter (remember those?) and I decided to sneak behind a bush and job out at them as they walked boy and I have never heard someone scream so loud as she did. It was amazing. I know! I'm bad!

Bloody, Bloody, Teeth

I have to get my wisdom teeth extracted tomorrow. Oh, joy! I love pain and I love blood so much. If I admitted to that I would be lying to you. I am sitting here thinking about all this blood gushing out of my mouth as they remove four wisdom teeth and an additional tooth as well that grew rotten and started to cause a nasty infection inside my mouth. Too bad I don’t have the money to pay for a single tooth implant. I would do that. I am terrified of having my teeth worked out and I hate the dentist.

That being said maybe when I go in for the operation, I will film it and put it online for you guys to see the gushing blood and my teeth come out. It’ll be a fun, yet painful experience to watch.

Favorite Halloween Things (part 1)

Favorite Movies:

*Evil Dead

            -The series is quite possible on of the best cult films around.

            -The new one was alright. I enjoyed it still with all the blood.

            -Evil Dead the musical is funny, but doesn’t beat the films.

*Carrie (remake)

            -The book was scary in itself

            -Julianne Moore, need a say more (no pun intended)

            -Carrie! The Musical is amazing also.

Favorite Halloween Movies? Go!

Favorite Haunted Places:

*Queen Mary

            -I love the swimming pool area. I wanna play with the friendly ghosts.

            -The watertight doors are a cool place to play a game of chicken.

            -I once pretended I was a ghost. (Lies)

*Spadra Cemetery

            -I snuck in there once to see it.

            -It’s a pretty awesome place.

            -This is the original cemetery in Pomona. Anyone want to go? I’ll take them.

Favorite Haunted Places? Go!

Not Practically Perfect (In No Way)

Suggested by Joanne Bolinger

Why must we remake classic films? Especially films where the original author of the material didn’t like the film in the first place. Mary Poppins was originally a novel by P. L. Travers featuring a magical nanny and their adventures with the Banks children. Walt Disney wanted to make a film based on a book his kids could enjoy and they were in love with Mary Poppins. When Disney flew Travers from England out to LA, she immediately hated the place and she reluctantly sold the film rights to Disney. Although, she wanted to be a part of the film process and was until Disney became fed up with her nitpicking ever little detail and was kicked out of the studios.

In 2004, shortly before Ms. Travers passed away, they wanted to make a Broadway adaptation of the film and she again reluctantly signed to do it making it clear none of the film cast and crew can be involved with the stage show.

Now ten years after she passes away we decided ‘let’s make another film that she wouldn’t want us to make.’ There has been a poster going around with Tim Burton’s name attached and I was scared to death. Luckily, he’s not involved. I just don’t understand why the company of Disney/Travelers family would be so disrespectful to the fact she would not want another film made of her babies. Oh, wait! It comes down to one thing: money! I am a writer and I would hate someone to go against my wishes including friends and family. The original film is a classic, yes, but still Travers was unhappy and it shouldn’t be done no matter how much money is involved. It’s a disrespect to her legacy.

FINAL THOUGHT: “Don’t sleep in haunted places, watch scary movies, while dreaming of bloody teeth, while you could be watching a bad remake of a classic.”

HAPPY OCTOBER!

Be Open Minded!

-Justin Silva