Thursday Oct 15, 2009

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I am in such a weird mood today..... When i dont get much sleep I get in this weird bounce off the walls kind of mood.... and I am a complete spaz or goofball....so it is quite amusing....so as lack of tired ehausted I am.... I am in a really good mood.....so it is even funnier.



Not going to lie... the energy is a little something like this......


hahahhah that video cracks me up!!!!

I wanted to wait til closer to Halloween to do this blog.... but I am too antsy..... so without further adu... here is the Halloween Blog..... it is close enough to Halloween right??? hahahahah!!!!

TRIVIA:
~Orange and black are Halloween colors because orange is associated with the Fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death.

~Jack o Lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday.

~Pumpkins also come in white, blue and green. Great for unique monster carvings!

~Halloween was brought to North America by immigrants from Europe who would celebrate the harvest around a bonfire, share ghost stories, sing, dance and tell fortunes.

~Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.

~The ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts roamed the countryside on Halloween night. They began wearing masks and costumes to avoid being recognized as human.

~Halloween candy sales average about 2 billion dollars annually in the United States.

~Chocolate candy bars top the list as the most popular candy for trick-or-treaters with Snickers #1.

~Halloween is the 2nd most commercially successful holiday, with Christmas being the first.

~Bobbing for apples is thought to have originated from the roman harvest festival that honors Pamona, the goddess of fruit trees.

~Black cats were once believed to be witch's familiars who protected their powers.

MONSTER TRIVIA AND FOLKLORE:
~Signs of a werewolf are a unibrow, hair palms, tattoos, and a long middle finger.

~Vampires are mythical beings who defy death by sucking the blood of humans.

~In 1962, the Count Dracula Society was founded.

~To this day, there are vampire clubs and societies with people claiming to be real vampires.

~There really are so-called vampire bats, but they're not from Transylvania. They live in Central and South America and feed on the blood of cattle, horses and birds.

~Many people still believe that gargoyles were created by medieval architects and stone carvers to ward off evil spirits.

CREEPY SNIPPETS:
~If you see a spider on Halloween, it is the spirit of a loved on watching over you.

~Worldwide, bats are vital natural enemies of night-flying insects.

~The common little brown bat of North America has the longest life span for a mammal it's size, with a life span averaging 32 years.

~In about 1 in 4 autopsies, a major disease is discovered that was previously undetected.

~The Ouija Board ended up outselling the game of Monopoly in its first full year at Salem. Over two million copies of the Ouija Board were shipped.

HALLOWEEN MOVIE DETAILS:
~'Halloween" was made in only 21 days in 1978 on a very limited budget.

~The movie was shot in the Spring and used fake autumn leaves.

~The mask used by Michael Meyers in the movie "Halloween" was actually William Shatner's mask painted white.

~The character Laurie Strode, played by Jamie Lee Curtis was named after John Carpenter's first girlfriend.

~While the setting for the story is in Illinois, the license plates on the vehicles have California plates.

~Halloween is on October 31st, the last day of the Celtic calendar. It was originally a pagan holiday, honoring the dead. Holloween was referred to as All Hallows Eve and dates back to over 2000 years ago.
(ALL INFORMATION WAS TAKEN FROM: http://www.halloween-website.com/trivia.htm)

SCARY MOVIE TRIVIA.....Because lets face it.... Scary movies are awsome and sooo many come out around Halloween....

1. If you are a teenager living on Elm Street what should you never do?
A. Go to sleep
B. Play with dolls
C. Go to the prom
D. Have sex

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

TOPICS: We all know from "Nightmare on Elm Street" that your dreams can get you killed by Freddy Krueger. Written by Craven, a former English teacher, the film's premise is the question of where the line between dreams and reality lies. The villain, Freddy Krueger, exists in the "dream world" and yet can kill in the "real world".



2. If you are up on your movie lore, then you also know that you should never accept what job on Halloween?
A. Hotel clerk
B. Baby sitter
C. Camp counselor
D. Traveling salesman

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

TOPICS: Halloween (also known as John Carpenter's Halloween) is a 1978 American independent horror film set in the fictional Midwest town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween. Originally titled The Babysitter Murders, the film centers on Michael Myers' escape from a psychiatric hospital, his murdering of teenagers, and Dr. Loomis's attempts to track and stop him.



3. What should tip you off to a bad motel to check in to?
A. No one else has checked in for weeks
B. The clerk talks too much about his mother
C. The clerk's name is Norman
D. You are a thief

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

TOPICS: At the end of the film, a forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Fred Richmond (Oakland), explains to Lila, Sam and the authorities that Bates' mother, though dead, lives on in Norman's psyche. Norman was so dominated by his mother while she lived, and so guilt-ridden for murdering her eight years earlier, that he tried to erase the crime from his mind by bringing his mother back to life.



4. If you are looking for a job on Crystal Lake what offer should you not accept?
A. Mailman
B. Truck driver
C. Camp cook
D. Camp counselor

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

TOPICS: In Friday the 13th, we learn it is a bad job to be a counselor at Camp Crystal Lake where the counselors die extremely bloody deaths at the hands of an unseen killer who turns out to be the cook whose son Jason drowned 25 years earlier while neglected by romancing counselors.



5. British actor Boris Karloff created a cinematic icon when he played the role of what monster?
A. Dracula
B. Werewolf
C. Frankenstein
D. Alien

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

TOPICS: British actor Boris Karloff played the role of the monster in the 1931 film "Frankenstein". The ghoulish makeup he wore and the lurching walk he adopted in the film have become conventions, even cliches, of horror films. And beyond the individual techniques Karloff used when playing the role of the monster, he created a feeling of sympathy for the character, a technique that has since become a more general trait of successful horror films, whose monsters often gain intensity by fascinating audiences as well as repelling them.



. Bla Lugosi was a Hungarian/American actor best known for his portrayal of what monster?
A. Dracula
B. Werewolf
C. Frankenstein
D. Alien

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

TOPICS: Bla Ferenc Dezso Blask, better known as Bla Lugosi, was best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in the American Broadway stage production, and subsequent film, of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story.



In this 1970s book and novel, a mother believes her child (played by Linda Blair in the movie) is what?
A. An alien
B. The devil
C. Possessed by a demon
D. Bearing the devil's baby

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

TOPICS: Novelist William Peter Blatty based his 1971 best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States. Blatty transformed the little boy in the 1949 incident into a little girl named Regan, played by 14-year-old Linda Blair in the 1973 movie. Suddenly prone to fits and bizarre behavior, Regan proves quite a handful for her actress-mother, Chris MacNeil (played by Ellen Burstyn, although Blatty reportedly based the character on his next-door neighbor Shirley MacLaine). When Regan gets completely out of hand, Chris calls in young priest Father Karras (Jason Miller), who becomes convinced that the girl is possessed by the Devil and that they must call in an exorcist: namely, Father Merrin (Max von Sydow). His foe proves to be no run-of-the-mill demon, and both the priest and the girl suffer numerous horrors during their struggles.



8. In a horror movie, you should worry if you encounter a doll named what?
A. Smiley
B. Bonnie
C. Chucky
D. Dolly

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

TOPICS:Charles Lee Ray, or Chucky for short is a fictional character from the Child's Play series of horror films, the original screenplay was credited as written by Don Mancini, John Lafia and Tom Holland. He is the primary villain featured in the series. Chucky is a doll that was possessed by means of voodoo magic by serial killer Charles Lee Ray, the notorious Lakeshore Strangler. During most of his time as a doll, Chucky chased after a boy named Andy Barclay because Andy was the first person he told his real name to as a doll.



9. Movies also teach us that if your son warns of "redrum" you better distance yourself from your husband pronto. But in "The Shining" all the husband is worried about is what?
A. Working too hard
B. Playing too hard
C. Becoming a murderer
D. Being murdered

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

TOPICS: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" -- or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's eerie 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Before the Overlook is vacated for the Torrances, the manager (Barry Nelson) informs Jack that a previous caretaker went crazy and slaughtered his family. Settling into their routine, Jack sets up shop in a cavernous lounge with strict orders not to be disturbed. Danny's alter ego, "Tony," however, starts warning of "redrum" as Danny is plagued by more blood-soaked visions of the past, and a blocked Jack starts visiting the hotel bar for a few visions of his own. Frightened by her husband's behavior, Wendy soon discovers what Jack has really been doing in his study all day, and what the hotel has done to Jack.



10. You can never really go home again, or at least you shouldn't if your neighbors belong to this profession?
A. Slaughterhouse workers
B. Morticians
C. Chefs
D. Veterinarians

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

TOPICS: Tobe Hooper's influential cult classic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, continues the subgenre of horror films based on the life and "career" of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein. When Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) hears that the Texas cemetery where her grandfather is buried has been vandalized, she gathers her wheelchair-bound brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) and several other friends together to see if grandpa's remains are still in one piece. While in the area, Sally and her friends decide to visit grandfather's old farmhouse. Unfortunately, a family of homicidal slaughterhouse workers who take their job home with them have taken over the house next door. Included amongst the brood is Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), a chainsaw-wielding human horror show who wears a face mask made out of human skin. Sally's friends are rapidly exterminated one-by-one by the next-door neighbors, leaving only Sally left to fight off Leatherface and his clan.


(INFORMATION AND QUESTIONS TAKEN FROM: http://ezinearticles.com/?Scary-Movie-Trivia-Questions-And-Answers&id=796993)

CLICK HERE TO GET THE HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN!
I am such a geek and love learning things on the History channel....so this vid was neat to watch to see where Halloween came from. Its a pretty short vid....so check it out if you have time!

















And is there any other excuss to dress up like a complete dumbass??? Dressing up is the best part of Halloween!












Love and Happy Scary Times!!!!

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i was worried Krav i thought it said u have a huge ass ;O








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