Things that go bump in the night
Halloween is coming up, woot! Halloween is my favorite holiday. I guess that is a little odd. Most peoples favorite holiday is Christmas. To them I say, "FUCK YOU! Halloween ownz Christmas."
Halloween is the only holiday dedicated to the "dark side" so to speak. It's the only national holiday that we celebrate death, demons, devils, ghouls, goblins, ghosts, spectres, spooks, magic and monsters. The only holiday that warns us that, "there ARE things that go bump in the night."
Evil lurks around every corner and will reign supreme, if only for one night! Okay, maybe not that dramatic. I guess if you wanna get technical Halloween is just a celebration to honor the dead. But witches, vampires and devils isn't exactly celebrating the dead...unless you're celebrating Abigail Williams and Vlad the Impaler. Heh, we hang decorations of skeletons and dismembered body parts out. We set out mannequins with hatchets in their heads and fake blood dripping down their body into a pool on the ground. People dress up as their favorite horror movie slashers and try to scare the piss outta their friends. Kinda seems like a celebration of REAL ULTIMATE EVIL to me...
Fear becomes fun as haunted houses open their doors to frighten anyone who dares to enter. Horror movie marathons run non-stop for an entire week. I love it! Especially the movies. I can sit in the dark and watch horror movies all year. Halloween gave birth to one of the best horror movies of all time, which is aptly named "Halloween." I've watched it every year since I was a wee lad.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying all of Halloween is a celebration of evil, death and destruction. Theres plenty of good ole wholesome family goodness there as well. Children get candy, play cheesey games like bobbing for apples, and get home before the sunsets "just to be safe." Then they presume to let their parents check every piece of candy for razor blades and needles, eventhough those are just myths. But thats the boring part of Halloween ;) And no I'm not some satanic demonchild who thinks evil is all powerful and good is weak, or anything as retarded as that. I just find the spooky aspect of Halloween more enthralling.
I find it all very interesting as well as entertaining. Especially with how conservative and protective most people are. It's odd that a parent will condemn a video game a kid is playing because he is killing polygons, then proceed to hang a bloody stump of an arm from their front yard tree, dress their kid up like a demon and give him a plastic scythe, then tell them to be "safe," heh.
But, Nowadays parents don't even let their kids go out at night to trick or treat with their friends. Now adults just drive their little pirates and power rangers around in their mini-van at 4 o'clock in the evening, before the sun even STARTS to set. Everything has to be so...so damn "safe." I hate that word. Safe takes all the fun out of being a kid. Now there is nothing to scare kids on the spookiest night of the year, thats no fun...I suppose it's necessary though. Lauren Springer said, "Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore." I'll be damned if that's not true.
Things were different when I was a kid. Funny to say that because it wasn't long ago. I loved going out on Halloween night. And when I was younger we went out with a fuckin extra large pillow case to hold our candy, not this wussy little pumpkin bucket shit. You can't hold enough candy to last you an entire year in a pumpkin bucket, fuck off. Anyway, it was so scary being out with just a group of kids all alone in the pitch black night, going up to dark and gloomy houses of people you don't know, hoping they don't come out with a chainsaw. Dodging the kids who were a little bit older who would beat you up and take your candy if they caught you. People jumping out of random bushes to scare your wits outta you so everyone in you group all took off running in different directions. Then after you all regain your bravery to come out of your hiding spot, you all notice that your group has lost its other half. Then you spend the next few minutes wondering if the guy in the bushes killed them and is drinking their blood. Then they come out cuz they were still hiding and they scare you again and you all split up again. THAT was fuckin Halloween my friends. I'm probably never gonna have kids, but if/when my brother does have children one day I consider it my duty to scare them into a fuckin coma on Halloween night. Then after they calm down we will watch Halloween until they fall asleep and have a spooky nightmare. Just like any good uncle should.
Lol, okay wishing them a nightmare is a little demented...but fuck it, thats what Halloween is all about. And by God when they get to be older they will look back and say, "Man, Hallowen fuckin ownz Christmas!"
Boo bye...hyuck!
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare
Halloween is the only holiday dedicated to the "dark side" so to speak. It's the only national holiday that we celebrate death, demons, devils, ghouls, goblins, ghosts, spectres, spooks, magic and monsters. The only holiday that warns us that, "there ARE things that go bump in the night."
Evil lurks around every corner and will reign supreme, if only for one night! Okay, maybe not that dramatic. I guess if you wanna get technical Halloween is just a celebration to honor the dead. But witches, vampires and devils isn't exactly celebrating the dead...unless you're celebrating Abigail Williams and Vlad the Impaler. Heh, we hang decorations of skeletons and dismembered body parts out. We set out mannequins with hatchets in their heads and fake blood dripping down their body into a pool on the ground. People dress up as their favorite horror movie slashers and try to scare the piss outta their friends. Kinda seems like a celebration of REAL ULTIMATE EVIL to me...
Fear becomes fun as haunted houses open their doors to frighten anyone who dares to enter. Horror movie marathons run non-stop for an entire week. I love it! Especially the movies. I can sit in the dark and watch horror movies all year. Halloween gave birth to one of the best horror movies of all time, which is aptly named "Halloween." I've watched it every year since I was a wee lad.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying all of Halloween is a celebration of evil, death and destruction. Theres plenty of good ole wholesome family goodness there as well. Children get candy, play cheesey games like bobbing for apples, and get home before the sunsets "just to be safe." Then they presume to let their parents check every piece of candy for razor blades and needles, eventhough those are just myths. But thats the boring part of Halloween ;) And no I'm not some satanic demonchild who thinks evil is all powerful and good is weak, or anything as retarded as that. I just find the spooky aspect of Halloween more enthralling.
I find it all very interesting as well as entertaining. Especially with how conservative and protective most people are. It's odd that a parent will condemn a video game a kid is playing because he is killing polygons, then proceed to hang a bloody stump of an arm from their front yard tree, dress their kid up like a demon and give him a plastic scythe, then tell them to be "safe," heh.
But, Nowadays parents don't even let their kids go out at night to trick or treat with their friends. Now adults just drive their little pirates and power rangers around in their mini-van at 4 o'clock in the evening, before the sun even STARTS to set. Everything has to be so...so damn "safe." I hate that word. Safe takes all the fun out of being a kid. Now there is nothing to scare kids on the spookiest night of the year, thats no fun...I suppose it's necessary though. Lauren Springer said, "Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore." I'll be damned if that's not true.
Things were different when I was a kid. Funny to say that because it wasn't long ago. I loved going out on Halloween night. And when I was younger we went out with a fuckin extra large pillow case to hold our candy, not this wussy little pumpkin bucket shit. You can't hold enough candy to last you an entire year in a pumpkin bucket, fuck off. Anyway, it was so scary being out with just a group of kids all alone in the pitch black night, going up to dark and gloomy houses of people you don't know, hoping they don't come out with a chainsaw. Dodging the kids who were a little bit older who would beat you up and take your candy if they caught you. People jumping out of random bushes to scare your wits outta you so everyone in you group all took off running in different directions. Then after you all regain your bravery to come out of your hiding spot, you all notice that your group has lost its other half. Then you spend the next few minutes wondering if the guy in the bushes killed them and is drinking their blood. Then they come out cuz they were still hiding and they scare you again and you all split up again. THAT was fuckin Halloween my friends. I'm probably never gonna have kids, but if/when my brother does have children one day I consider it my duty to scare them into a fuckin coma on Halloween night. Then after they calm down we will watch Halloween until they fall asleep and have a spooky nightmare. Just like any good uncle should.
Lol, okay wishing them a nightmare is a little demented...but fuck it, thats what Halloween is all about. And by God when they get to be older they will look back and say, "Man, Hallowen fuckin ownz Christmas!"
Boo bye...hyuck!
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
~William Shakespeare