holidays!
yay, holidays!
i haven't felt this free since i started design school - although i like the school (oh well, it does have its frustrating moments), i constantly feel caged. i'm not used to compulsory attendance any more - it's been 6 years since i graduated high school, and 2 years since i left university (where i had at least some degree of freedom), and i do not take kindly to the kind of arrogance some, though fortunately not all, teachers display. it feels really good to be free again, if only for 1 1/2 weeks. i was far too busy with overdue school work over the last holidays to even notice, but now i have at least some rest. there's some stuff i'm supposed to do, but it's not that much.
i've spent the last couple of days watching a couple of boris karloff/bela lugosi movies. one (the tower of london) even had basil rathbone in it. ha, he really can't act (though he is an amazing swordsman), but he looks so much like paget's holmes, even with that silly mediaeval haircaut (very short fringes and shoulder-length hair). and i absolutely adore his nose.
anyway, the movies are great, but people really were squeamish back in the 30ies, if that really passed as horror.
the tower of london was, well, a costume drama. there really wasn't any frightening stuff in it - only some suggested torture scenes, which would have been ugly if they had shown them, but not scary.
black friday was rather a gangster flick than a horror movie, but fun. oh, and it did involve some mad science.
the invisible ray - more mad science! now that's more like it! lot's of test tubes, exploding stuff, flickering lights and sketchy, rather esoteric theories that only work in old horror movies. oh, and outer space.
the black cat, even having nothing to do with poe's story (even though they claim it has) and the cat doing absolutely nothing for the story, was fun, and had some really neat scenery. in some scenes, it reminded me a bit of the cabinet of dr. caligari.
i'm going to watch the raven today (not the vincent price/boris karloff/peter lorry one, but the one with bela lugosi). from the description, it doesn't sound as if it has got anything to do with the poe poem either. i wonder if it even features a raven at all. as i said, the cat in the black cat didn't do anything, but... meow-ing? being carried around by boris karloff?
haha, i didn't intend to write a movie review!
anyway. apart from that, i made a t-shirt design i really want to get printed, even though i'm probably the only one who finds it funny. i'm not really happy with the font yet - i used to have one that'd fit perfectly, but i think i have it only on my old computer, which doesn't really work anymore.
i got the idea when i went to a performance of händel's messiah last week (yay for cool birthday presents!) and kept earning disbelieving and reproachful looks because of my colourful mohawk and general punk-ish attire. well, i can still enjoy baroque music.
i haven't felt this free since i started design school - although i like the school (oh well, it does have its frustrating moments), i constantly feel caged. i'm not used to compulsory attendance any more - it's been 6 years since i graduated high school, and 2 years since i left university (where i had at least some degree of freedom), and i do not take kindly to the kind of arrogance some, though fortunately not all, teachers display. it feels really good to be free again, if only for 1 1/2 weeks. i was far too busy with overdue school work over the last holidays to even notice, but now i have at least some rest. there's some stuff i'm supposed to do, but it's not that much.
i've spent the last couple of days watching a couple of boris karloff/bela lugosi movies. one (the tower of london) even had basil rathbone in it. ha, he really can't act (though he is an amazing swordsman), but he looks so much like paget's holmes, even with that silly mediaeval haircaut (very short fringes and shoulder-length hair). and i absolutely adore his nose.
anyway, the movies are great, but people really were squeamish back in the 30ies, if that really passed as horror.
the tower of london was, well, a costume drama. there really wasn't any frightening stuff in it - only some suggested torture scenes, which would have been ugly if they had shown them, but not scary.
black friday was rather a gangster flick than a horror movie, but fun. oh, and it did involve some mad science.
the invisible ray - more mad science! now that's more like it! lot's of test tubes, exploding stuff, flickering lights and sketchy, rather esoteric theories that only work in old horror movies. oh, and outer space.
the black cat, even having nothing to do with poe's story (even though they claim it has) and the cat doing absolutely nothing for the story, was fun, and had some really neat scenery. in some scenes, it reminded me a bit of the cabinet of dr. caligari.
i'm going to watch the raven today (not the vincent price/boris karloff/peter lorry one, but the one with bela lugosi). from the description, it doesn't sound as if it has got anything to do with the poe poem either. i wonder if it even features a raven at all. as i said, the cat in the black cat didn't do anything, but... meow-ing? being carried around by boris karloff?
haha, i didn't intend to write a movie review!
anyway. apart from that, i made a t-shirt design i really want to get printed, even though i'm probably the only one who finds it funny. i'm not really happy with the font yet - i used to have one that'd fit perfectly, but i think i have it only on my old computer, which doesn't really work anymore.
i got the idea when i went to a performance of händel's messiah last week (yay for cool birthday presents!) and kept earning disbelieving and reproachful looks because of my colourful mohawk and general punk-ish attire. well, i can still enjoy baroque music.