Only The Dark One Opens And Closes The Gate To Cocoa
So I went and saw Silent Hill last night (Wednesday night) and it has been screwing with me ever since. Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire kept playing over and over in my head when I got home, keeping me from sleep, but allowing me to actually research the games themselves and the stories behind them. Turns out that, instead of a direct adaptation, they took elements from several of the games and combined them into the entity which is Silent Hill the movie.
Not surprisingly, I didn't get any sleep and was wide awake when I went to open projection this morning. Upstairs can be kind of creepy on a good morning, but when you have an overactive imagination, combined with a movie like that and no sleep, it can get quite hard to do your job. Not that I thought the creatures from Silent Hill would show up, because I "knew" they were isolated to that one town (never mind it's fictional), but I feared the darkness and the evil it often hides. I actually turned back several times before I was able to turn on the lights at the end of the hall and I kept a broom with me for the first three hours of my shift. I didn't have anything more solid, so shut up! Thinking back, the parts of the movie that really got to me were the "children" that Rose encounters (*cringes in fear*), the janitor (Jesus fucking Christ!), and the fate of the head of the "faithful" (Damn!). It occurred to me to consider what a fight between the janitor and the Grudge chick would be like but I figured that the amount of evil involved would kill us all as bystanders. Bad shit, man. I also think that Rob Zombie's Living Dead Girl fits in perfectly with the movie and some sort of music video or something composed of the two would be amazing.
So I'm finally done (things had calmed down considerably, but it was still always on my mind) and I'm driving over the bridge to go home and I see this huge billowing cloud of smoke. I call my mother and she says its a brush fire up near Canaveral Groves. One big ass fire, let me tell you. Meet up with James, do a little shopping for this weekend and we go to McDonald's for dinner. As we're leaving, the cloud of smoke is slowly spreading out over us and it is quite thick. "The darkness is coming!"
Get home and see that it's slowly sort of coming our way, but it's not supposed to be any sort of danger as it's under control. Hang out, pack, and do a little planning for tomorrow. By the time I left to go back to the theater to screen RV, it was dark and I didn't notice anything unusual. Whes was having problems upstairs but eventually got everything together and running, but the movie was terrible. It's not a good Robin Williams movie, it's not a good movie PERIOD.
Didn't wind up getting out of there until around 2:15 and I still had some things I needed to pick up at Walmart. It was around the time I turned onto Michigan that I smelled the smoke. I still hadn't had any sleep since 5 something yesterday evening and I started unconsciously making images out of things that weren't real. I knew I wasn't THAT tired and that they weren't real, but the fact that I was beginning to do that kind of startled me. They fixed the lights on Michigan, after several, somewhat scary drives in darkness, but the smell of smoke only got stronger. It made sense because I was getting closer to the fire, duh, but I'm not done. Lots of late-night construction on 524 added an eerie quality to my drive home. The smoke was much stronger once I got into the neighborhood and I could see it and falling ash in the air. Combine that with lights from construction and machinery noises very similar to an air raid siren and you've got one very nervous individual, scrambling to unlock a door that is darkened by a burned-out bulb.
The smoke followed me into the house for aways and it's only gone now because I locked the door to my room and the air has been allowed to circulate. And here I sit, typing this for you. I know I can never play any of the Silent Hill games due to the fact that I'd scare myself shitless in the process. If anyone has any thoughts on the movie or these strange coincidences, I'd be more than happy to discuss them with you, except you'll have to find me in Orlando at Jacon :) Until later then, just remember:
"Irises always smell strongest in the rain. Even if it's raining blood."
.......or ash.
Not surprisingly, I didn't get any sleep and was wide awake when I went to open projection this morning. Upstairs can be kind of creepy on a good morning, but when you have an overactive imagination, combined with a movie like that and no sleep, it can get quite hard to do your job. Not that I thought the creatures from Silent Hill would show up, because I "knew" they were isolated to that one town (never mind it's fictional), but I feared the darkness and the evil it often hides. I actually turned back several times before I was able to turn on the lights at the end of the hall and I kept a broom with me for the first three hours of my shift. I didn't have anything more solid, so shut up! Thinking back, the parts of the movie that really got to me were the "children" that Rose encounters (*cringes in fear*), the janitor (Jesus fucking Christ!), and the fate of the head of the "faithful" (Damn!). It occurred to me to consider what a fight between the janitor and the Grudge chick would be like but I figured that the amount of evil involved would kill us all as bystanders. Bad shit, man. I also think that Rob Zombie's Living Dead Girl fits in perfectly with the movie and some sort of music video or something composed of the two would be amazing.
So I'm finally done (things had calmed down considerably, but it was still always on my mind) and I'm driving over the bridge to go home and I see this huge billowing cloud of smoke. I call my mother and she says its a brush fire up near Canaveral Groves. One big ass fire, let me tell you. Meet up with James, do a little shopping for this weekend and we go to McDonald's for dinner. As we're leaving, the cloud of smoke is slowly spreading out over us and it is quite thick. "The darkness is coming!"
Get home and see that it's slowly sort of coming our way, but it's not supposed to be any sort of danger as it's under control. Hang out, pack, and do a little planning for tomorrow. By the time I left to go back to the theater to screen RV, it was dark and I didn't notice anything unusual. Whes was having problems upstairs but eventually got everything together and running, but the movie was terrible. It's not a good Robin Williams movie, it's not a good movie PERIOD.
Didn't wind up getting out of there until around 2:15 and I still had some things I needed to pick up at Walmart. It was around the time I turned onto Michigan that I smelled the smoke. I still hadn't had any sleep since 5 something yesterday evening and I started unconsciously making images out of things that weren't real. I knew I wasn't THAT tired and that they weren't real, but the fact that I was beginning to do that kind of startled me. They fixed the lights on Michigan, after several, somewhat scary drives in darkness, but the smell of smoke only got stronger. It made sense because I was getting closer to the fire, duh, but I'm not done. Lots of late-night construction on 524 added an eerie quality to my drive home. The smoke was much stronger once I got into the neighborhood and I could see it and falling ash in the air. Combine that with lights from construction and machinery noises very similar to an air raid siren and you've got one very nervous individual, scrambling to unlock a door that is darkened by a burned-out bulb.
The smoke followed me into the house for aways and it's only gone now because I locked the door to my room and the air has been allowed to circulate. And here I sit, typing this for you. I know I can never play any of the Silent Hill games due to the fact that I'd scare myself shitless in the process. If anyone has any thoughts on the movie or these strange coincidences, I'd be more than happy to discuss them with you, except you'll have to find me in Orlando at Jacon :) Until later then, just remember:
"Irises always smell strongest in the rain. Even if it's raining blood."
.......or ash.