hello, november
I've never really thought about it, but I don't have many good memories of Halloween. It could be one reason I don't tend to participate very much in it (that and I find it vaguely obnoxious). Last year was as far as I ever went in terms of a costume unless you count the one or two years in primary school I was made to get one for the school parades. That was back when I still wasn't terribly proficient in English, clueless about the cultural expectations, and nobody in my family knew a thing about Halloween. Trying to get a costume together back then was, to be entirely honest, a deeply embarrassing, shaming and distressing matter to me. It's probably not a coincidence that I've never formed an attachment to or bothered with it.
So this year my roommates and I just stayed in and watched a film (a Korean psychological horror? suspense? drama? film, A Tale of Two Sisters). Really excellent: lovely cinematography, very dense storytelling, sparse dialogue, emotional punch through the gut. Would recommend. Our TV tint is going blue, though, so the dark scenes were so dark we could barely tell what was going on. We had to rewatch a few bits upstairs afterwards, haha. Anyway, a nice way to pay lip-service to Halloween.
I also bought some good tofu and am proud of myself for cooking up a good veggie/tofu stir-fry dinner. Not gonna lie, I bought the tofu because the meat at the local grocer's was too expensive. I'm a financial vegetarian. (At least in the sense that meat's the first thing to get thrown off my ship-- I still bought some relatively expensive produce.)
Ugh, I have the sketching jitters but have no idea what to draw. Whatever it is, I feel like it has to be dramatic!
So this year my roommates and I just stayed in and watched a film (a Korean psychological horror? suspense? drama? film, A Tale of Two Sisters). Really excellent: lovely cinematography, very dense storytelling, sparse dialogue, emotional punch through the gut. Would recommend. Our TV tint is going blue, though, so the dark scenes were so dark we could barely tell what was going on. We had to rewatch a few bits upstairs afterwards, haha. Anyway, a nice way to pay lip-service to Halloween.
I also bought some good tofu and am proud of myself for cooking up a good veggie/tofu stir-fry dinner. Not gonna lie, I bought the tofu because the meat at the local grocer's was too expensive. I'm a financial vegetarian. (At least in the sense that meat's the first thing to get thrown off my ship-- I still bought some relatively expensive produce.)
Ugh, I have the sketching jitters but have no idea what to draw. Whatever it is, I feel like it has to be dramatic!