Jim and Pam - ep 205 “Halloween”
“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years. […] And there were houses, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.” ― Nora Roberts, Key of Knowledge
Houses in horror movies
The Conjuring (2013) dir James Wan
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) dir Wes Craven
Poltergeist (1982) dir Tobe Hooper
The Amityville Horror (1979) dir Stuart Rosenberg
The Addams Family (1991) dir Barry Sonnenfeld
Psycho (1960) dir Alfred Hitchcock
Beetlejuice (1988) dir Tim Burton
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) dir Jim Sharman
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) dir Francis Ford Coppola
Halloween (1978) dir John Carpenter
Crimson Peak (2015) dir Guillermo del Toro
jacobyverger
here’s a 13 second video of ducks bobbing their heads to bossa nova music
If I lived by the sea I would never be really sad. I get an immense sense of eternity and peace from the ocean. I can lose myself in staring at it hour after hour.
Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956 — Aurelia Schober Plath, 18th July 1951
Bernhard Martin - Manhattan kann es nicht richten (oil on primed raw canvas), 2022
"a bird in the hand is better than a thousand birds flying." - proverbs of ahikar
photos by konsta punkka. (see also previous bird posts)
Foxy
To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.