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Seriously creepy ep. Bunny head and clown face will be showing up in my dreams tonight.
I agree, Paula. I love the fact that the show is starting to scare me again, but between creepy masks and killer clowns, I was tempted to keep all the lights on last night when I went to bed.
…and whatever you do, please don’t throw me in the briar patch. I mean, don’t open the cage.
I always like Brigid Brannagh, she did a nice job with the regretful sister/mom monologue.
She was good. It was such an intense scene.
Very enjoyable episode and always a delight to see Donna Hanscombe being her beautiful, competent self. ‘Mind your own beeswax, Sam.’ Her list of great things about Minnesota – Prince, the Curd Cheese Fest. Doug II’s moustache is also very fine.
I thought the episode generally looked great – some really striking and beautiful shots, especially of Sam. And great performances from the supporting cast. Nice to see that neighbour from a Very Supernatural Christmas again, and I’m sure there were other returnees too.
In a script peppered with great lines my favourite has to be ‘I was just hammerin my bis, getting all swole’. I am proud I actually know what that means.
Jesus, never mind ‘inappropriate behaviour’ with kids tho … If I saw a kids entertainer turn up at my house in that clown mask I would summon the whole town to chase him down with flaming torches. And what’s with the entire town’s obsession with creepy costumes? That’s a whole episode in itself.
I live in Minnesota. Prince and cheese curds are pretty freaking awesome.
You’re going to have to expand on the cheese curds thing, Paula.
Perhaps this visual will help. Soft pillows of cheesy goodness inside a golden crust.
https://www.instagram.com/p/7Nog3xs284/?taken-by=mpls_transplant
More Midwest food porn – deep fried ribs with craft cherry rhubarb cider. If it can be deep fried or made from alcohol, it’s served in MN. But I guess due to time constraints, Sheriff Donna didn’t have a chance to expound.
https://www.instagram.com/p/7N0SLRM2zi/?taken-by=mpls_transplant
(why can’t I hyperlink like the other kids? I feel like a failure)
Ohmygoodness, fried cheesy things are the best. How would you ever stop eating them?
Usually when you feel a pain in your chest and shortness of breath.
I’m ok with that :-)
Helena – You’re doing better than I am because I had to look up what “drop too much Molly” meant.
“What did you do, drop too much Molly, superglue your mask to your head, get paranoid and stab a guy? I’ve been there.” Really Dean? I find it interesting that through the years Dean always drops the drug references and knows the lingo. It’s like he has a secret life using recreational drugs that we’ve never seen.
Paula, great catch –
//“What did you do, drop too much Molly, superglue your mask to your head, get paranoid and stab a guy? I’ve been there.” //
Well, I guess Dean has been there, most of last season, except it was the MOC.
But yes, I love the parallel universe in which Dean is a drug fiend.
//If I saw a kids entertainer turn up at my house in that clown mask I would summon the whole town to chase him down with flaming torches.//
I was about to say pretty much this exact same thing.
That entire town is just insane.
My favorite part? Dean finally getting someone to laugh at a corny joke! Seriously, you find someone like that, you should marry them.
*Fanfic not included in this statement.
And his appalled reaction to Sam’s ABYSMAL Roger Rabbit attempt was entirely warranted.
Oh no! I have no taste.
I loved Sam’s pun.
The pun was great! The delivery was harrowing.
He means well.
Oh wait, that’s the other one.
I had to google Sam’s pun, but I cringed.
So funny that Dean’s stupid jokes were hilarious, but Sam’s very clever reference was painful! Think about J&J pulling this off. Jensen had to nail the comedic timing and Jared would have had to purposefully blow it for this to come off right. I LOVE that Jensen is not afraid to act stupid and Jared not afraid to act unfunny.
So I had to look up all the cool kids’ references but I’m in now! Greatest moment? Sam calling the elevator and when it arrives? Horrible bloody clown! And Sam *stepped in*. His expression was great and I was pretty impressed that he could step into that elevator with his worst fear.
Question: How would Sam get back to the Cage to see what’s happening? Last time he went in with all of the Horseman rings, including Death’s. So. Did Death’s ring fall onto the floor when Dean killed him? Or, a back-door that only Crowley will know about? My mind got stuck on this last night but at least it didn’t leave time for Bunny dreams.
Good question. My guess is Crowley back door. When Lucifer went in the Cage the first time, he was still an ambitious crossroads demon. Now that he is King of Hell, maybe he got access to all the official plans a la President Whitmore in Independence Day learning about Area 51.
Plus we know that the demons were reporting that there was a ruckus going on in the Cage to Crowley. They must be able to get close enough to hear what’s going on, right?
Hehe. We all know it’s gonna happen. It’s the Swan Song principle. How the hell is Sam planning on persuading Dean?
//Question: How would Sam get back to the Cage to see what’s happening?//
I will be satisfied with nothing less than Sam leading St Alphonso’s Drama Department in a guerilla-style attack, complete with cardboard tanks, rubber machetes, spooky sound effects and the power of MUSIC and DANCE.
Hahahaha please this
What Wren said.
Oh how I loved this episode! It had a vengeful ghost…..I have been sorely missing ghosts……Donna, and Sam and Dean having a conversation about the Cage.
Those costumes were horribly creepy and the clown was the worst. That elevator scene was incredible…..Jared deserves awards for his facial acting.
not only did we have c-c-c-clowns and g-g-g-g-ghosts, iron and salt-circles, creepy shots and multiple bloody murders, suburban discord and ugliness, we also had a kid named Max threatening his scratchy-voiced mum after a recent death of an uncle…
I knowwww … she sounded just like Xanax-mom from Season 1. It wasn’t her though, was it?
no it wasn’t her! But the correspondence was interesting.
I was thinking Where The Wild Things Are with Max and the animal costume. I wonder if his dinner was still warm when it was all over.
This is genius.
All the monsters were based on Sendak’s relatives. But I don’t think they went around wearing bunny or deer heads.
Mutecypher,
You have redeemed yourself from your poor taste iin humor with this WTWTA reference. My grandmother, the librarian, ordered this book for us when it won the Caldecott. My copy even has a stamp “Madison County Public Library” in it. This was one of my most beloved books. That movie destroyed my wonderful childhood memories and I have banished it forever from my mind palace. Supernatural on the other hand is delicious when they turn the bright, happy memories of childhood into creepy, terrifying spectres.
“And the walls became the world all around…”
Isn’t that a wonderful line?
*lightbulb* wow, missed this during the whole sibling parallel and “I should have trusted my brother” monologue.
I’d rewatched Plucky Pennywhistle’s LITERALLY the day before. Coincidence? I think not. JP is so funny. Seriously, he seemed on the verge of hysterics.
Also: the clowns were horrifying. And the bunny. But, hell, what about that effing DEER?
Also, JP’s spaghetti legs leaning against the hospital wall make me very happy.
Has anyone else seen the promo for 11×08?
Wren, not a coincidence – you are now in total synch with SPN and every thought you have will somehow manifest itself in the next week’s episode. For instance, I was thinking a day or so ago that it was time for another Sheriff Jody and Donna episode – well, almost, we got just Donna, which is still awesome.
God, THAT DEER HEAD – seriously, what kind of kid’s parties do they have in that town?
There were some serious legs moments in the ep, and they were all Sam’s. Tho I prefer ‘elegantly besuited’ to ‘spaghetti legs,’ I think.
I will need a storm warning if anyone’s going to discuss the next episode because spoilers destroy me.
No spoilers other than to say that Season 11 is the gift tha keeps on giving. OMG
Talk about legs…
Check out @OfficialBrianaB’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/OfficialBrianaB/status/667089107915579392?s=09
And I’m almost embarrassed to admit I found the deer head strangely compelling.
YIKES!
*dies of the legsness*
Hahahaha, I read this as leglessness and thought, well, now, that’s an interesting kink.
//THAT DEER HEAD – seriously, what kind of kid’s parties do they have in that town?// I’m with you both on this one. While the Donny Darko bunny head freaked me out, it’s that effing deer head that I keep thinking about. Why a deer? Nobody has a deer as a mascot (I assume that’s what he was supposed to be walking out of that school.) They aren’t intimidating or particularly intelligent like most mascots. They’re prey. They’re hunted.
And that’s the costume his sister keeps at her house? A remembrance of her poor dead brother who she helped to hunt down. The whole thing gets under my skin.
//’elegantly besuited’ to ‘spaghetti legs’// tomato tamahto. As long as they keep putting Sam in those blue skinny leg suits, I’m good. Soooo tall with soooo much leg.
That was a good suit. Hope Sam keeps that one.
I went to Wikipedia’s college mascot page – not a single deer.
Several beavers: Caltech (!), MIT (meh), Oregon State. And for Lyrie’s amusement, Oregon State’s beaver mascot is named Benny.
And couldn’t find any high school deer mascots in MN. Not even Deer Creek High – theirs is a warrior.
I wonder if the student body president is referred to as the Deer Leader.
http://gizmodo.com/these-failures-are-the-worst-sports-mascots-ever-design-1679318456
I am disappointed to learn that http://www.yourmascotsucks.com is no longer active, but check out these beauties.
//(why can’t I hyperlink like the other kids? I feel like a failure)// it’s a Paulanie thing!
I’m crying at the 76ers mascot. “It looked like a cross between that horrible Donnie Darko rabbit and Eminem. The 76ers got rid of their weirdly muscular mascot by saying he got MARRIED and moved away.” Because that’s how nightmares usually disappear – because they got married. Just ask Chucky.
And mutecypher, angry beavers is not just the name of a Nickelodean show or a bad sexual innuendo. http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/05/29/beavers_kill_man_trying_to_pose_for_photo.html (haha, again with the awesome link)
Wow. I’ll think twice before looking for naughty beavers.
Dag and Norbert were not usually angry beavers. They were just funny. I still bring up the Toe-bot to my daughter when the mood strikes me. And I liked Barry the Bear.
And to keep the bad sexual innuendo going: cats that look like pinup girls. From tumblr. So you know it’s good. If you keep scrolling.
re scary bunny masks – this popped up in my tumblr feed today
It is totally suitable for work. In fact it may even be best to view it in daylight and the company of other humans.
wth? and that music. just wth? not suitable for my piece of mind thank you.
Oops, sorry Paula! By suitable for work I meant ‘fully clothed’ and ‘not spouting gore.’ They are very creepy photos tho.
Oh my!
Lions and tigers and rabbits, oh my.
What is it about leporidae? I can think of 4 horror or horror-adjacent films where rabbits or hares thick one’s blood with cold, namely – Donnie Darko – of course, the chocolate hares in The Wicker Man, Inland Empire, the rabbit (or hare) jelly in The Innocents.
There must be more – suggestions?
Didn’t Sexy Beast have a dream scene with some type of rabbit?
This one?
That’s it! Jack rabbit man riding a mule with an AK-47. Definite in my top five for creep factor.
Cool.
Now, Paula, look away. This is another rabbit-ears-devil-horns-ohmygodhowcreepy-thing that appeared in my tumblr feed yesterday.
It’s definitely in the air.
At least these nightmares have interesting aesthetics. The others are the people who would show up and stare at my house in silence a la The Strangers.
Oh my THAT EPISODE!!!
They are SO back on the horse!
A friend of mine even noticed the title card for s11 resemblling the one of the first season. This is so great, I’m practically VIBRATING with anticipation!
This season is here to correct all wrongs of seasons past! (as in the past two. They were, imho, the weakest links in the chain :( )
But I have to say that the costumes and the bunny – they were the least creepy thing.
The stranger-danger in the episode – now THAT was creepy.
U mean, after the revelation of the things Chester got accused of – the next scene is Dean coming into Max’s house, when there is no parent around???
NO WAY that was a coincidental cut. NO WAY.
And to shoot the tazing of Max with iron – it deliberatly done by revealing his upper back?
Now, THAT was a creepy sequence of scenes/shots.
I LOVE it that you guys deciphered the references for me!
Yes, it is as if Dean has a whole life story of drug use that comes up again and again.
My guess? That period of time when he was hunting alone while Sam was in Stanford? Actually makes a lot of sence :3
//The stranger-danger in the episode// I agree that it was creepy and uncomfortable. Max letting a strange adult like Dean into the house to wait for his mother after his uncle was killed for supposedly being a pedophile? It had two implications and I couldn’t decide which was right. Was Max intuitive and could tell his uncle and Dean meant him no harm? Or was he naive and vulnerable to predators? We knew as the audience that Dean was a protector but this kid didn’t. The reverse is true. Did we the audience truly know that his uncle was harmless to other kids? Max said so (nothing happened to him personally) and the sister’s guilt said so, but something was off in the kid’s reaction.
//something was off in the kid’s reaction//
Right?
Disturbing.
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