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If have never heard of Tommy Wiseau or The Room, then you’re missing out:

Watching it is like having a fever dream, only the movie makes less sense than a parasite-driven meltdown.

The fact that this has been produce and is ready for sale brings great joy to the cold cockles of my heart, and for that, I’m thankful.

I wish his hair was real.

Also thankful?

The Gang can always make room for The Room

Hola antireales, este post no se trata de un film animado de Tim Burton, tampoco de una (mala noche buena) El tema de hoy es la pesadilla navideña que se nos viene a todos los que trabajamos en algun negocio, jugueteria, regaleria, y demas porquerias afines… ya hace unas semanas se empieza a sentir el aroma a la navidad…..A que me refiero? Olor a chivo de cargar infinidades de cajas de juguetes, bicicletas, skates, muñecas y doscientas mil porquerias que sirven para fundirnos comprando regalos en diciembre.Un dia estas en tu tarea placidamente cuando de repente llegan 5 camiones a l mismo momento, todos de diferentes empresas, para descargar cajas y cajas de productos……..En esos momentos a uno le dan ganas de llorar, porque tiene que salir a descargar casi todo el personal ya que con el personal de deposito no alcanza y el horario de descarga en la maldita capital esta reducido solo a unas horas. Nunca falta un boludo que cuando estas trabajando a full en esa descarga, venga y te diga:CHE, ME DECIS UN PRECIO?…Uno lo mira con cara de      ( sos pelotudo, no ves que estoy partiendome la espalda haciendo esto?) A lo que responden a mi mirada: ESE NO ES TU TRABAJO!!! Porque no te vas a la re puta que te pario!!! flojo/ a de mierda, que lo unico que haces es comer galletitas a escondidas detras de los mostradores y le escapan al laburo con un entusiasmo increible. Hay veces que tengo que cortar charlas interminables con la frase: NO LES MOLESTA QUE LOS INTERRUMPA MIENTRAS TRABAJO, NO? La navidad, trae esto y muchas cosas mas, como gente que lo unico que hace es gastar sus billetes de $100 contra el mostrador, comprando tremendos juegos de mierda hechos con 3 pedacitos de cartones y un cacho de plastico. Gente que solo viene a romper las pelotas pidiendo descuentos una vez al año, porque son primos del amigo del hermano del tipo que tiene un negocio frente al local., Hijo de puta regateador….Porque no te vas a pedir descuento asi te rompen el culo los pobres negros africanos que venden relojes en la puerta del local de tu pseudo-pariente. Algo muy raro, tambien es ver a las judias religiosas comprando juguetes el 23 de diciembre, para darles a sus hijos el 25…..En que cabeza cabe eso……HOLA??? HEY! USTEDES MATARON A JESUS…NO SE ACUERDAN, EL TIPO AL QUE AHORA LE FESTEJAN EL CUMPLEAÑOS!!. Y algo mucho mas raro es la sensacion de ver a nuestros jefes contentos lucrando con las creencias de la 3 cuarta parte del pais. Al principio hablabamos de que olor tenia la navidad……Ahora que lo pienso bien, la Navidad, no solo tiene olor a transpiracion, sino que tambien olor a dinero, a plata sucia, a explotacion a contratos truchos por tres semanas, contratos  que venden una ilusion de un sueldo justo el que luego se va a convertir en humo, despues de todos los descuentos y aportes que jamas van a haber, olor al quilombo que va a quedar despues de que pase todo, y olor a los boludos que nos quedamos y seguimos, para acomodar el quilombo y preparar todo para la proxima mentira Navideña.

Saludos a todos, y los invito a NO ARMAR EL ARBOL DE LA HIPOCRECIA

Muchas gracias y vuelva pronto….

A few weeks ago, Cinematical ran a post entitled “Movies that everyone seems to love but you” and that got me thinking.  For years, I’ve had a grocery list of films that I just can’t get into, just don’t understand, or outright dislike.  I have been thinking of these films from time to time but thanks to the post, I (after talking with Rob and Pete) have a great reason to consolidate these films.

There is one common element in each of the films listed below that is a prime contributor making these films “not our cup of tea”, and that’s probably hype.  If people always say, “that film is awesome!!“, and have said so for years, you expect that, after seeing it, you’d have to find your socks as they, true to the phrase, have been “knocked off”.  Sadly none of these films accomplish said metaphorical action.

You can call us all dense for not appreciating the following films, but we at   G-S-T just don’t buy into the hype that makes other people (namely our friends) just love these films.  Lastly, we have tried, really, on repeat viewings to find the elements that make people just love these films, but to no avail.  We may be cinematically impaired to ‘great cinema’ but part of being a film fan is liking what you like and voicing about what you don’t.  So using this wonderful thing they call a blog, allow me to elaborate on our behalf, some films that we at  G-S-T truly hate…well hate is strong isn’t it?  How about films we just don’t get?  That better?  Thought so…

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Blade Runner – Number one on my list for years and I cause quite a stir whenever I bring up my dislike for this film.  I’ve written before that I think some parts are cool, it is visually gorgeous and that I can see how it was visionary when it was made but that’s as far as I’ll go with it.  Part of the movie’s missteps, (for us at least) it that everything you see is rather ambiguous.  Not sure who is telling the truth, what you’re seeing is real or what to expect in the next scene can get a little old as nothing seems to get resolved.  Part of the reason we dislike the story is that just when they start to get somewhere, and attempt a resolution to something resembling interest, the movie just ends.  That just pisses me off.  Again call me dense for wanting something wrapped up in a Hollywood bow, but why make something so apparently “Hollywood” then go for an indie or foreign feel.  We just don’t understand.

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Scarface – Now there’s two firm classes of fans that just love this film:  Wanna-be gangster rappers and high school kids.  Since we fall into neither category, that might explain the disconnect that we experience.  I know some people who still have posters in their garages, and while I don’t fault them I still shake my head at it.  We’ve never liked this movie but still continually feel we are missing something but don’t know what it is, and do not have a desire to endure another viewing to find out what it is.  If it is a cultural phenomenon, then why is it such a small class of people who like the movie?  Want a great Pacino/DePalma flick??  Try Calito’s Way…much better in all respects.  Though I’ve got to hand it to Tony Montana, how you can get a grown man to wear a Scarface t-shirt is beyond us.

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Donnie Darko – I think a resolution in this film is the most important non-element.  The only saving grace for this film (and I may be really alone on this) is the soundtrack, namely the Tears for Fear song “Head over Heels” but that’s just me.  For something with such a cool concept, interesting characters and something that could have been very impressive and expanded further, it just fell flat.  Now we’ve tried since college to get into this movie but we can’t.  Time travel, alternate realities and Patrick Swayze should have been waaay cooler…it just wasn’t.  Best thing to come out of the movie was the cover of “Mad World”.

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The Nightmare Before Christmas – Something about mixing Christmas with Halloween using a huge Tim Burton spoon just seems off putting.  To top it off, it was more of a musical than a motion picture and the songs were hit or miss.  While the visuals were incredible, we kept asking “what is the point here?”  It was a ballsy concept and there were some parts that were entertaining but overall this film was just kind of a mess.  Now to us, Tim Burton is an acquired taste and being fans we (oddly enough) don’t like all his films.  We love Batman but not Mars Attacks!.  We like Sleepy Hollow but not Big Fish.  Strangely, Nightmare is loved by people of all ages…just not us.  Also as big a hit as it is here, it is just HUGE in Japan.  Rob lives there now and he still doesn’t understand the appeal.  Well I guess there’s no accounting for taste and we just can’t buy into this film.

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Unforgiven – What I really am starting to see with more recent Eastwood films is a pattern.  It goes like this: the film is slow, very slow and sometimes, so slow you fall asleep then wonder how you’re still watching the same movie.  That can be said of other films that we actually do like very much (i.e. Dances With Wolves) but Clint’s ‘lil Oscar winner doesn’t do anything for us.  To be fair, his films really are great, and I love Million Dollar Baby (though it’s not what you would call a “feel good” movie) but I see Clint’s style constantly replicated in each succeeding film and think he got way better after this one.  Admittedly, this came out when the Western was as dead as it could be and tried to make a character film rather than a guns blazing film about cowboys. Freeman and Eastwood’s performances didn’t really inspire and it felt a little hollow for people who are supposed to be friends in real life.  This film started as nothing special, rolled along like a tumbleweed and then just kind of rolled out of sight without any resonance.  ”Unremarkable” is what I would have called it.

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Dis-Honorable Mention:

Sideways – Paul Giamatti is an amazing actor but this film’s wit (and point, really) just eluded all three of us…pity.  Trailer made it look so charming.

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Well film fans, what say you??  Did we stir up a hornet’s nest or hit a nerve with any of you??  Opinions are subjective, but do you think we’re out of line or truly just don’t get “great” cinema??  Love to hear your thoughts…

I’m not sure exactly how many films I’ve seen in my lifetime.

It is probably over a thousand, the list below barely scratches the surface of all the films I’ve seen and it was surprisingly easy to come up with. Rather than systematically list films by era or genre I got my brother’s girlfriend Dawn to call out any films she could think of.

I thought of this idea about five minutes before I began typing and Dawn rattled off films as they came to her while I typed out brief verdicts for each one. I initially intended to create a system for rating but found it too restrictive so I just wrote a brief instinctual verdict for each one.

I have included a link to Rotten Tomatoes and the score of each film, I haven’t seen some of these movies in a very long time…

NOTE: The percentages at the end are not my scores but the percentage of positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

1. Men in Black (1997) – meh (91% – seriously?!)
2. Fight Club (1999) – brilliant (80%)
3. Unforgiven (1992) – immense (96%)
4. Shaun of the Dead (2004) – decent (gets worse every time I watch it)
5. Memento (2001) – pretty good (93%)
6. The Departed (2006) – good (92%)
7. Aliens (1986) – the best sequel ever made (100%)
8. Reservoir Dogs (1992) – great characters and dialogue (95%)
9. American Beauty (1999) – uplifting, brilliant (the stupid bag scene apart) (89%)
10. Goodfellas (1990) – excellent (96%)
11. Predator (1987) – one of Arnie’s best (76%)
12. 12 Angry Men (1957) – captivating (100%)
13. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) – meh (78%)
14. Shawshank Redemption (1994) – really, really good (88%)
15. Little Miss Sunshine (2006) – better than I expected (90%)
16. Sin City (2005) – flashy trash (78%)
17. Toy Story 2 (1999) – yep, it’s good (100%)
18. Bambi (1942) – I remember it being good (much to the amusement of Dawn and Sean, many gay jokes followed) (89%)
19. Final Destination (2000) -guff (30%)
20. Edward Scissorhands (1990) – pretentious crap (90%)
21. Stranger than Fiction (2006) – Surprisingly good (72%)
22. Shallow Grave (1995) – okay (71%)
23. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1996) – facepalm (49%)
24. Man on Fire (2004) – underwhelming (39%)
25. Ocean’s Eleven (2001) – meh (81%)
26. 28 Days Later (2003) – meh (88%)
27. Casino Royale (2006) – surprisingly really good (94%)
28. Psycho (1960) – I was expecting it to be better (98%)
29. The Flintstones (1994) – Jesus wept (18%)
30. Aladdin (1992) – good (92%)
31. Jackass: The Movie (2002) – hard to class as a film really, hit and miss(48%)
32. E.T (1982) – good (98%)
33. Independence Day (1996) – a glorified B movie (61%)
34. Titanic (1997)  – Good (81%)
35. Ring (2002) – fairly decent (71%)
36. Pulp Fiction (1994) – Tarantino’s best film by a long way (97%)
37. Hot Fuzz (2007) – fun (90%)
38. Monty Python: Holy Grail (1975) – classic (94%)
39. Good Will Hunting (1997) – good (97%)
40. Heat (1995) – pretty good, not great (89%)
41. Zodiac (2007) – boring (87%)
42. Little Mermaid (1989) – decent (90%)
43. Ghost (1987) – crap (80%)
44. Dirty Dancing (1987) – utter shit – that women like this film makes me wonder if they actually deserve equal rights (67%)
45. The Terminator (1984) – the best Terminator (100%)
46. Bean (1998) – a test of mental endurance, awful (41%)
47. The Mask (1994) – rubbish (76%)
48. Frailty (2002) – ridiculous (74%)
49. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) – shite
50. Donnie Darko (2001) – overrated pish (84%)
51. Apollo 13 (1995)– crap (96%)
52. Deep Impact (1998)– more crap (46%)
53. Volcano (1997) – even more crap (40%)
54. I know what you did last summer (1997)– yet more crap (36%)
55. The Matrix (1999) – first half decent rest shite (86%)
56. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (2002)– boring (96%)
57. Addams Family Values (1994) – some good moments (74%)
58. Nightmare before Christmas (1993) – overrated, largely guff (97%)
59. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) – (see earlier blog) (75%)
60. Three Men and a Baby (1987) – sickening  (78%)
61. Transformers: The Movie (1986) – decent (haven’t seen it in 10 years) (50%)
62. Cruel Intentions (1999) – trash (47%)
63. Lock Stock and Two Smoking barrels (1998) – good if a little overrated (71%)
64. Clerks II (2006) – absolutely fucking diabolical (62%, seriously what the fuck?)
65. Baby’s Day Out (1994) – horrific (23%)
66. Home Alone 2 (1992) – decent (17% – that seems harsh!)
67. Liar Liar (1997) – pretty bad (84%)
68. Babe (1995) – Jesus wept (98%)
69. The Simpsons Movie (2007) – unfunny crap from a show that is a pale shadow of what it used to be (90%)
70. Mr Nanny (1993) – a holocaust of a film (7%)
71. The Thing (1980) – really tense, really good (80%)
72. Blair Witch Project (1999) – doing something different doesn’t make it good (85%)
73. Run Lola Run (1999) – see above (92%)
74. The Santa Clause (1994) – crap (Dawn: “What’s the film with Tim Allen dressed as Santa Claus?”) (79%)
75. Silence of the Lambs (1990) – they really should have just stopped at this one, a fine film (96%)
76. Matilda (1996) – another crap Dahl adaptation (89%)
77. A Bridge too Far (1977) – the quintessential war movie (67%)
78. Rocky V (1990) – laughable (21%)
79. The Sting (1973) – really good (91%)
80. The Sword in the Stone (1963) – good (73%)
81. The Witches (1990) – crap (100%, what the fuck?)
82. Starship Troopers (1997) – entertaining trash (60%)
83. Love Actually(2003)  – hated it (63%)
84. White men can’t jump (1992) – I liked it despite itself (78%)
85. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1999)– a pointless sequel (48%)
86. A Bug’s Life (1998) – meh (91%)
87. Hollow man (2000)– hollow is an appropriate adjective (but I like Bacon’s character) (27%)
88. Jaws (1975) – good but overrated (100%)
89. Jerry Maguire (1996)– oh Christ (84%)
90. Dawn of the Dead (1978)– awesome (95%)
91. Drop Dead Fred (1991)– mindless crap (still haunted by my little sister’s repeat viewing of this monstrosity) (9%)
92. Braveheart (1995) – good (it’s a movie, not a history lesson) (76%)
93. Saw II (2005) – crap (35%)
94. Mouse Hunt (1997)– hated it (really wanted the mouse to die) (44%)
95. The Mummy (1999)– didn’t like it (54%)
96. George of the Jungle (1997)– crap (53%)
97. Leon (1994) – ludicrous garbage (74%)
98. Death becomes her (1993)– had its moments (56%)
99. Meet Joe Black (1998) – meh (49%)
100. Dog Soldiers (2002) – entertaining (79%)
101. Cool Hand Luke (1967) – the best film ever (100%)

A while ago I said that the volleyball that was played during my gym class was pretty boring and not very amazing. I think we’re getting better, though. I’m not sure if I can say the same for myself, considering the fact I got hit in the head with the ball in our first real class game Thursday.

It’s typical protocol to wear the required gym attire to class every day. A pair of shorts and T-shirt, along with the occasional hoodie. Pretty simple. The majority of the time, I’m in the proper wear of surf shorts and the random shirt of the day. Thursday, I had my black shorts and dark purple Nightmare Before Christmas tee. My iPod shuffle was attached at my hip, as it has been ever since I realized I get pretty motivated through loud music. I didn’t bother to play it during the game, though. I figured I would try and actually pay attention for once. It didn’t get me very far…

I’ll admit, volleyball games have gotten better. The people playing actually do something now, with the exception on some days. I’m hardly ever bored when playing. That is, unless there’s another class in the gym, and everyone decides to gather to the net. Something like that can get really annoying if you’re wanting to actually play a game. With that once-and-a while-occasion, it’s a pretty good day in gym usually. All and all, I’d say we’ve improved.

…I’m not even sure how far into the game we were. All I knew was that the team I was on wasn’t hitting anything for a while and the other team was winning. We were obviously losing. The ball was coming right at me, which was probably the second or third time it’d came to me the entire game. The hit would’ve been perfect if I hadn’t move forward. Thinking I would move up so it didn’t hit the ground, I quickly moved up a little so I could ‘bump’ it. Bad move. I moved too far up and instead of hitting off my wrists as it usually did, the blue and white volleyball hit me on the right side of my dark red head. At first, I honestly wasn’t sure what happened. My team mates were giving me grief because I didn’t hit it, and the fact that I got hit in the head, added injury to insult. I quickly blew it off; something stupid like that didn’t matter anyway. I was definitely reminded of the game for the rest of the day. The collision that involved my head and the ball gave me the craziest headache, and maybe even knocked a little bit of sense into me. Only time will tell.

Whether be out of sheer laziness, a headache, or the fact that it was Friday, I didn’t bring my gym clothes yesterday. I had my shorts and shirt in my gym bag, all ready to be worn come third period. I just happened to ‘accidently’ forget them on the couch. Okay, it was all on purpose, but that gesture made me realize something. I’m a lot better at volleyball when I’m not appropriately dressed for gym. I walked out of the locker room in my super comfy, super fuzzy black sweater and Chiodos blasting in my ears…I played pretty awesome. For some reason, I was actually motivated to play, despite the fact I was just in regular clothes. Who knew that comfortable clothes and loud music could be a motivator for volleyball?

I exited the gym a little late, but it was worth it. My wrists were red under the sleeves of my black sweater and music still going through my green earbuds. It was a good 40 minutes of gym.

My motivation for sports lacks foundation and the breakdown.

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อ่านหน้าอื่น ๆ : ประวัติ วง Marilyn Manson, ประวัติ นาย Marilyn Manson, ประวัติ Twiggy Ramirez, ประวัติ Madonna Wayne Gacy (Pogo), ประวัติ John 5, ประวัติ Zim Zum, ประวัติ Ginger Fish

Marilyn Manson มาจากการรวมกันของชื่อ Marilyn Monroe และ Charles Manson ทั้งสองท่านนี้เป็นที่รู้จักกันดีในยุค 1960’s คนหนึ่งแสดงอิทธิพลในขั้วบวก อีกคนแสดงอิทธิพลในขั้วลบ คือ Marilyn Monroe และ Charles Manson ซึ่งสมาชิคทุคทนในรุ่นแรก ๆ มีการตั้งชื่อแบบเดียวกันหมด คือ ดาราสาว และ ฆาตกร การตั้งชื่อเช่นนี้สิ้นสุดลงในในสมัยที่ John 5 เข้ามาเล่น

1989 ที่ Southern Florida เมื่อ Marilyn Manson กับ Daisy ผู้เป็น guitarist ซึ่งทั้งสองบุกบ่าผ่าฟันเป็นลูกน้องของวงอื่นมาตั้ง 5 วง ได้จับมือกันก่อตั้งวงดนตรีขึ้นมาเอง

1990 Marilyn Manson ได้กลายเป็น Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids ได้มีชื่อวงตามชื่อของนักร้องนั่นก็คือ Marilyn Manson ส่วน Daisy เป็น lead guitarist มี Gidget Gein เป็น bassist และมี Madonna Wayne Gacy เป็น keyboardist ( replaced Zsa Zsa Speck) และ drum machine

1991 Sara Lee Lucas ได้มาทดแทนเสียงกลองที่มาจาก machine

Marilyn Manson and The Spooky Kids, Drawing by Sw Eden

1992, Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids ได้เปลี่ยนชื่อเป็น Marilyn Manson จากนั้น เขาได้รวบรวมชื่อเสียงทั่วท้องถิ่นนั้น มีสามวงมาแข่ง เขาได้เป็นผู้ชนะใน local music award Singles ของพวกเขาได้แก่ Dope Hat, Lunchbox, My Monkey ก็ได้รับการ vote ให้ชนะเลิศ

1993 เขาได้รับสัญญาจาก Trent Reznor และได้เข้า join กับวง NIN ในการ tour ของปี 1994 และ Album แรกก็ได้ ออกมา ให้ชื่อว่า Portrait of an American Family ซึ่งเป็น underway โดยมี Trent Reznor เป็น producer และเมื่อปลายปีย่างเข้ามาถึง Gidget Gein ซึ่งเป็น bassist ได้ออกจากวงเพราะมีปัญหาเรื่องติดยา และ Twiggy Ramirez จาก Amboog-A-Lard, ก็มาเป็น bassist คนใหม่ Gidget Gein เสียชีวิตลงเมื่อ 8 ตุลาคม 2008 เขาเป็นมือเบสที่มีฝีมือเหนือชั้นมาก คุณสามารถดูได้ใน Music Video “Lunchbox” สมัย Marilyn Manson and The Spooky Kids

1994 เป็นปีแห่งความรุ่งโรจน์โชตินาการสำหรับครอบครัว Manson พวกเขาได้เข้าร่วมการ tours ระดับประเทศกับ NIN ทำให้ได้นับชื่อเสียงและสิ่งอื่น ๆ อย่างไรก็ตามในช่วงแรก ๆ นั้น พวกเขาไม่เป็นที่ยอมรับใน Salt Lake City ต่อมา Manson บังเกิดได้พบ Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey ซึ่งเป็นผู้ก่อตั้ง Church of Satan และ Dr. LaVey ก็ให้ชื่อมันว่า Manson หมายถึง บาทหลวงของ Church of Satan ดังนั้นหน้าที่นี้ก็เลยยกให้ Manson ไปโดยปริยาย ดูเหมือนว่าปัจจุบันนี้ Reverend Manson คือชื่อที่เป็นที่น่าปิติยินดีสำหรับ Manson ( นามของนักบวช ) ทำให้ คนออกมาต่อต้านมากมายเมื่อ Marilyn Manson แสดงภาพยนต์เรื่อง King Shot เป็น Pope ในปี 2007

Dead Marilyn Manson, Drawing by Sw Eden

ระหว่างการ Tour กับวงดนตรีอื่น มือกลองที่ชื่อ Sara Lee Lucas ได้ถูกให้ออกจากวง ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างเขาก็ Manson นั้นได้เกิดดิ่งลงเหว ถึงขั้นนรก ในระหว่างการ Tour ครั้งนี้ ทำให้ Manson โทรศัพท์ไปหามือกลองฟลอริดา Frank Kenneth Wilson หรือ ปลาขิง Ginger Fish

Daisy Berkowitz ซึ่งเป็นสมาชิกรุ่นแรก ๆ ก็ต้องมาออกในปี 1996 Zim Zum ได้สมัครเข้าเป็นมือกีตาร์ของวง และสอบผ่าน 3 เพลงบังคับ หลังจากนั้น การบันทึกเสียง Mechanical Animal ก็ได้รับการยอมรับว่าเป็นครั้งที่ดีที่สุดตั้งแต่ตั้งวงมา ซึ่งมันทั้งมืดและหนักหน่วง เพราะเขาได้รับความสนใจอย่างมากจากสาธารณชนที่แลเห็นว่าเขาเสื่อมทราม เด็ก ๆ บางคน ได้ก่อคดีฆ่าตัวตาย ซึ่งคาดว่าเกิดจากเพลงของเขา ซึ่งมีชื่อว่า The Reflecting God

หลังจากที่ Zim Zum อยู่ในวงได้ 2 ปีเขาก็ได้กลับไปหาพระเจ้าอย่างเป็นทางการในวันที่ July 18th, 1998 แต่เขาก็ยังคงสามารถรักษามิตรภาพกับ Marilyn Manson ได้เป็นอย่างดี ZimZum รู้สึกว่ามันถึงเวลาแล้วที่เขาควรจะไปให้พ้นเสียที เขากล่าวว่าเขาและ Marilyn สามารถไปด้วยกันได้ดี John Lowery หรือ John 5 ซึ่งเป็นมือกีตาร์จาก David Lee Roths หรือที่เรียกว่า DLR Band ได้มาแทนเขา ก่อนหน้านี้ นาย John 5 ยังเป็นสมาชิกหนึ่งในสมาชิก 2 คนของวง Rob Halfords ที่จริงแล้ว John 5 ได้สมัครเป็นมือกีตาร์ในช่วงเวลาเดียวกับ Zim Zum จากการติดประกาศของวง แต่ Zim Zum มาสมัครก่อน ดังนั้น Marilyn Manson เลยให้สัญญาว่าจะให้เขาเล่นหลังจาก Zim Zum ไป

Zim Zum Panic! at the Disco nono Court, Drawing by Sw Eden

กล่าวโดยสรุปแล้ว หลังจากที่ Zim Zum ออกจากวงเขาก็ได้ออก CD ที่ 4 คือ Mechanical Animals ซึ่งแตกต่างโดยสิ้นเชิงกับแนวเพลงเดิมของเขา เพราะรู้สึกว่าเขาจะมีความสุขมากกว่าเดิม ปัจจุบันนี้ Zim Zum ทำวงของเขาเอง และยังรักษาเอกลักษณ์กีตาร์สุดเทห์ ในวง THE POP CULTURE SUICIDES

เรื่องที่เกิดในวง Marilyn Manson มักจะเป็นเช่นนี้ คือ Daisy Berkowitz แต่งเพลง แล้วตัวเองก็ออกจากวง ทำให้คนที่เล่นเพลงของ Daisy ใน Live กลายเป็น Zim Zum และเมื่อ Zim Zum แต่งเพลงใน Mechanical Animal เขาก็ออกจากวง ทำให้ John 5 ต้องเล่นเพลงที่ Zim Zum แต่ง

Marilyn Manson BBC News, Drawing by Sw Eden

Marilyn Manson ต้องติดอยู่กับคดีที่ต้องขึ้นศาลเป็นเวลานาน หลังจาก release Mechanical Animals เพียง 2 สัปดาห์ หลังจากเสร็จสิ้นคดีที่ศาล Daisy Berkowitz กำลังฟ้องร้องเรียกค่าเสียหายจากวง เพราะว่าเขาคิดว่าเขาได้สูญเสีย credit กับเหตุการณ์ที่เกิดขึ้น ดูเหมือนความสัมพันธ์ทั้งสองจะแตกหัก แต่หลังจากนั้น ไม่ถึง 5 ปี เขาก็จับมือกัน รวบรวมเพลงจาก Spooky Kids ที่เป็นซิงเกิล มาออกใหม่ Daisy ยังเป็นคนให้สัมภาษณ์ในการทำประวัติ Video ของ Marilyn Manson อีกด้วย เขาพูดถึงชีวิตวัยรุ่นของพวกเขาใน Florida ที่ Marilyn Manson พยายามชักชวนให้เขา อ่าน Bible

Money Rumor of Marilyn Manson and Daisy Berkowitz, Drawing by Sw Eden

2002 ปลายปี Tim Skold จาก MDFMK หรือกลับด้วนคือ KMFDM มาเป็น producer วิดีโอ Tainted love และแทน Twiggy และ หลังจากนั้น John 5 ได้ออกจากวง แทนด้วย Mark Chaussee จาก Danzig

2006 Manson จะออกงานใหม่ปลายปี และ remix This is Halloween ให้ภาพยนต์ renew Nightmare before Christmas ของ Tim Burton ซึ่งมีเพื่อน ๆ ของ Marilyn Manson ทำ remix เพลงเหล่านั้นด้วย แต่ถึงอย่างไร เพลงหลักก็คือ This is Halloween วง Panic! at the Disco ก็ทำเพลงนี้ แต่ไม่ดีเท่า Marilyn Manson นอกจากนี้ยังมี Sally’s Song โดย Fiona Apple ที่คนลือกันว่าเป็นแฟนของ มาลิลิน แมนสัน ด้วย และวงสุด Hot อย่าง Fall Out Boy ทำเพลง What’s This

Tim Skold Angry, Drawing by Sw Eden

2007 Marilyn Manson ออกอลบัม Drink Me Eat Me แต่ไม่ประสพน์ความสำเร็จเท่า The Golden Age Of Grotesque Twiggy Ramirez กลับมาอีกครั้งในปีเดียวกัน เขาบอกว่า ยิ่งอยู่ห่างจาก Manson เท่าไร ก็ทำให้เขาคิดถึงมากขึ้น Tim Skold ได้กลับไปอยู่วงเดิม คือ KMFDM ในปี 2009

ปี 2008 Marilyn Manson พบกับปัญหาอีกครั้งเมื่อ Pogo หรือ Madonna Wayne Gacy ออกจากวง และฟ้องเขาว่าวักลอบเงินวง เช่น ซื้อชุดเมียฮิตเลอร์ ให้แก่ Dita และจ่ายเงิน 12 ล้านเหรียญให้แก่ Evan Rachel Wood ใน Heart-Shaped Glasses Video และยังซื้อกระดูกเด็กจีนเป็น collection ของตัวเอง

2009 ต้นปี อลบัม The High End of Low ออกมาโดยความช่วยเหลือส่วนใหญ่เป็นของ Twiggy Ramirez หรือ Jeordie White แม้เขาจะเสียเวลามากกับวง Marilyn Manson เขาก็ยังไม่ทิ้งวง Goon Moon ที่เขาอยู่หลังจาก NIN (Nine Inch Nails) และ A Perfect Circle ระหว่างที่ห่างไกลจาก Manson นั่นเอง แฟนเพลงคาดหวังจะได้ฟัง Anti-Christ style อีก แต่ Twiggy บอกว่าเมื่อก่อนเขายังเด็ก เขาเลยทำมัน

The Spooky Kids, Drawing by Sw Eden

If you liked the Nightmare Before Christmas here’s a card featuring Jack Skelington’s little ghost-dog Zero flying through the night sky. So cute!

It’s really simple to make- you just need blank cards, sparkly black paper, white paper, toilet paper or Kleenex, a red rhinestone, red puffy paint, a marker, scissors and glue.

First cut out the head and drew in eyes and the mouth

Then cut the sparkly paper and glue on the front of the card

Glue the tissue to the card first, then glue on the head

Finish by gluing on the rhinestone, making the candy cane with the paper scraps and paint, and paint a collar

I’ll be honest I couldn’t come up with anything clever to put inside so go crazy!

No, really, I DO. I went outside the ‘little room’ before the library ACTUALLY starts to throw some trash away and I slipped back in before the door could close fully. It was closing kind of fast too as it does when it gets to a certain point… It was fun.

In other news, it is cold.  I wore jeans, socks (they don’t match…), Etnies, a Naruto shirt, a Nightmare Before Christmas sweater, and my fedora today. Brr!

Speaking of Christmas, I GET TO GO TO ARIZONA (42 degrees F here and 68 there today) FOR THANKSGIVING! Hahahaha! When we visit my dad’s side of the family for Thanksgiving, we do Christmas as well to save on visiting in December too. I can’t wait to see them! I last saw Myk, Carla, Nick, Daniel, Hannah, and Amber (she was visiting Thodes) was the day before Miley Cyrus’ birthday party on October 5, 2008. I last saw the rest of the Coopers and the Kincades on the day before my brother’s 18th on April 8, 2008. :s I WANNA SEE MY FAMILYYYY!!! hahaha. ^_^

Nightmare Before Christmas movie (1993)     IMDB: 8.00

Bored and manner unhappy with the ideal life of being “The Pumpkin King” Jack Skellington of Halloween Town, Jack sets out brilliantly to find something exciting. Jack discovers “Christmas Town” and takes it upon himself brilliantly to take over the duties of Santa brilliantly to deliver toys across the true world brilliantly to almost children .

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Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Musical

Momentan bin ich immer total in Stöckchen – Laune und um mich etwas auszutoben habe ich mir ein Stöckchen von der Fellbande gemopst.

1. Ein Film, den du schon mehr als zehnmal gesehen hast: Twilight

2. Ein Film, den du mehrfach im Kino gesehen hast: Twilight

3.Ein Schauspieler, wegen dem du eher geneigt wärst, einen Film zu sehen: Miley Cyrus und Garrett Hedlund

4. Ein Schauspieler, wegen dem du weniger geneigt wärst, einen Film zu sehen: Brad Pitt und Tom Cruise. Ich mag die nich oO

5.Filmmusical, dessen Songtexte du komplett auswendig kannst: Nightmare Before Christmas… Ich weißt nicht, ob man das direkt als Filmmusical bezeichnen kann, aber die singen da sehr oft ^^

6.Ein Film, bei dem du mitgesungen hast: Nightmare before Christmas

7.Ein Film, den jeder gesehen haben sollte: Der geheime Garten

8.Ein Film, den du besitzt: Der geheime Garten

9.Ein Schauspieler, der seine Karriere nicht beim Film startete und der dich mit seinen schauspielerischen Leistungen positiv überrascht hat: Öööööhm… Kein Plan, Miley Cyrus hat ja mit dem Schauspielern angefangen… Hmmm…

10.Schon mal einen Film in einem Drive-In gesehen? Nein

11.Schon mal im Kino geknutscht? Ja

12. Ein Film, den du immer schon sehen wolltest, bisher aber nicht dazu gekommen bist? Wolverine

13.Hast du jemals das Kino verlassen, weil der Film so schlecht war? Nein, ich hab dann andere Sachen gemacht.

14.Ein Film, der dich zum Weinen gebracht hat? Eigentlich bringt mich jeder Film zum Weinen… Troja, weil Patroklos (Garrett Hedlund) getötet wurde. Dieser hübsche Mann *schmoll*

15.Popcorn? Ein unbedingtes Must Have im Kino XD

16.Wie oft gehst du ins Kino? Eher selten. Geht ja keiner mit, aber vielleicht alle 2-3 Monate mal.

17.Welchen Film hast du zuletzt im Kino gesehen? Oh… Oh… Hmmm… Hab ich vergessen. Final Destination 4 vielleicht?

18.Dein Lieblingsgenre? Horror

19.Dein erster Film, den du im Kino gesehen hast? König der Löwen

20.Welchen Film hättest du lieber niemals gesehen? 28 Weeks Later *immer noch grusel*

21.Der merkwürdigste Film, den du mochtest? The Others

22.Der beängstigendste Film, den du je gesehen hast? 28 Weeks Later. Pfui!

24.Der lustigste Film, den du je gesehen hast? Keine Ahnung.

I’m gonna do the best I can.

(smirks)

Eder Ordbajsare i egen hög person. Jag känner att bloggen har blivit försummad idag. Och därför bjuder jag på diverse mobilbilder – en hel del väldigt talande bilder. Det här är jag. Ingen retuschering men med en hel hög fula miner i fejan, men ändå jag!

Dagen har spenderats hostandes framför datorn och i soffan. Jag har börjat läsa Marilyn Mansons bok “The long hard road out of hell” – hittills är den bra. Jag gillar böcker där man får lära känna artisten lite mer – man får något lite extra, något mer än bara musiken. Inte för att jag menar att musiken är så bara… Men ni kanske förstår vad jag menar? Så för att ge er läsare ytterligare en liten bonus (enligt mig är det en bonus iaf) så lägger jag upp en video med klipp från en av världens bästa filmer “Nightmare before Christmas” av Tim Burton och där Marilyn Manson står för sin version av sången “This is Halloween” – njut!

There is a lot of buzz around Twitter these days, but if you aren’t looking to find out what your friend had for coffee this morning or what’s happening in the latest celebrity gossip, does Twitter have relevance for business? The answer is yes. But it takes a little digging to understand when and how to use this exploding social phenomenon as a tool to build your business.

Marketing has traditionally relied on push methods. Content was sent via direct mail, television advertisements, e-mail, and more. Regardless of the channel, the strategy was to push information in front of consumers, whether they were looking for the information or not.

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Today, thanks to the Internet, marketing has become far more reliant on pull methods. Whether it’s news, politics, business or entertainment, people can pull the content they want, when they want it, so they are receiving only information of relevance to them when they are looking for it. For marketers, the goal is to get people to pull information on their products and services or, if the person is searching by topic, to make sure that their company’s products and services get in front of the user’s eyes. (Hence the importance of search engine optimization—SEO.)

One of the places Internet users are pulling information from is social networking sites. While many in the business community are still getting their minds around whether or not it is relevant to their business, social networking itself is exploding—and its influence over branding and word-of-mouth is growing.

In part, this growth in influence is being driven by skepticism about traditional media. Instead of relying on television, radio and publications, people are turning to word-of-mouth sources such as Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Digg and Facebook. Consumers may not see these sources as more objective, but they may see them as more “pure” in that they are the “real deal” and less influenced by corporate speak. They also provide information that is more diverse.

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Twitter Basics

How are consumers getting information from these sources? They are looking at comments, blogs, trackbacks, feedback and other forms of user interaction. If you’ve read the reviews of a book on Amazon before buying, looked at the seller ratings on eBay, or clicked through a link on a blog post, you know just how powerful these peer influences can be. One of the most powerful these days is Twitter.

So what is Twitter? At its inception, Twitter started out as a content management system. Over time, it morphed into a mass messaging system of the most global and colossal kind. The premise of Twitter is simply to ask millions of people, “What are you doing?” then allow them to answer in 140 characters or less. The result is a free social messaging utility that allows millions of people to stay connected simultaneously. The power for marketing is nearly unlimited—if you can harness it.

Once you open a Twitter account, you can “follow” people that you choose. Once you log into your Twitter account, updates from everyone you are following are displayed to you in a list (like a giant RSS feed) in real time. You can then scan all of the “tweets,” as they are called, to stay updated with what people are posting and what they feel is important at that time. People can choose to follow you, as well. When they do, your tweets are displayed in their Twitter account, along with all of the tweets of everyone else that person is following.

Tweets can be about anything, but from a marketing perspective, you want to keep it about relevant business issues. You might tweet about the status update on a project, an announcement about a new blog post, or a link to a resource you think your followers might be interested in.

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For example, interlinkONE offers multichannel marketing software. As president of interlinkONE, I tweet about marketing information that I think clients, prospects, and others in the industry might find valuable.

You can also do what is called “re-tweeting,” which is the Twitter equivalent of forwarding an e-mail message. “RT” stands for “re-tweet,” and the name after the @ reflects the original source of the information. This is hyperlinked so that people can click through to the original source if they find the information of value.

People can also send you personal messages. Unlike e-mail messages, these messages are posted publicly, like posting a comment on a blog. By posting a comment, this not only gives you an avenue for communicating with the person who has the account, but indirectly with others following them, too. Like posting a comment on a blog, which gives you visibility to everyone who reads that post, commenting on a tweet puts your comment in front of every person following them.

Using Twitter for Marketing

How can you use these capabilities to market yourself? Whether you are tweeting, re-tweeting or commenting on someone else’s tweet, you are creating visibility and marketing yourself and your company. From a marketing standpoint, the goal is to begin to attract followers so that you can post information and position yourself as a thought leader to your followers and, by extension, your followers’ larger social network circles. This leads to greater industry recognition, brand building and hopefully, sales.

Although some Twitter members use the platform to sell, sell, sell, I prefer to stay away from this approach. Positioning yourself in terms of thought leadership can be more powerful—and longer term. This means posting things that are of value to the people that follow you. Your posts may be related to trends in the marketplace, links to valuable e-books or white papers, providing marketing ideas, and so forth. It will also help you discover other sites and communities where you can share your knowledge.

Of course, you can post what’s going on in your company, as well. This might include news updates, events and new product announcements. You can also post fun things. Did someone have a baby? Is your company a-buzz with the NCAA tournament pool? It allows you to show the human side of your business. You don’t want to overdo it, but keep in mind that people do business with people, not with companies, so personalizing your business can have long-term benefits for customer loyalty.

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Let’s look at some specific steps to using Twitter for marketing.

• Lead Prospecting

Find people who are in your target audience and follow them. One way to do this is to search on specific names in the “Search People” box at the top of the page. Another way is to use the search box at the bottom of the page and search on terms that are relevant to your business. The search results will return the names of Twitter members that include these terms in their profiles.

Once you have leads, “follow” them. This allows you to read these members’ profiles, read their posts and do intelligence gathering before you make contact. Even if you do not contact this person directly, they will get a notification from Twitter that you are following them. This allows them to visit your profile to find out about you.

You can also do searches based on geography. For example, you might find all of the people that mentioned the word “print” in their profile and who live in a 15-mile radius of your ZIP code.

• Join Conversations

Just like networking at a business event, you are the most successful with social media when you are actively involved. On Twitter, this includes re-tweeting posts or making replies to other people’s posts.

Replying to another person’s post serves much the same function as posting a reply to a blog post, except that your reply becomes visible to all of the people following that member. Not only does this put your post directly in front of this extended network (giving them an opportunity to re-tweet your post), but your Twitter ID is hot-linked to your reply so they can click through and find out more information about you. To reply, just add the “@” symbol followed by their Twitter name. For example, @JohnFoleyJr, or @PrintingNews. You are the most successful with social media when you are actively involved.

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• Competitive Intelligence

We’ve already talked about using the search functions in Twitter to locate prospects, but you can use them to do competitive reconnaissance, too. Put your competitors’ names (or even your own company’s name) into the search box and seeing what comes up. It’s like having your ear to the wall to see what people are saying.

• Build your network

Twitter is nearly useless unless people are following you, so the first thing you need to do is build your network. Use the advance search tools to find Twitter members who are relevant to you, who you would want to have following you and who might have interest in your product or service.

Twitter also allows you to access the followers of others, such as your clients, your peers and your competitors. If I find the CMO of a company, for example, I check their followers and click on them. They are directors of marketing or other senior executives, I’ll follow them to find out more about them, and hope that they check out my profile and follow me.

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• Engage with the network you have built

In order to get traction on Twitter, you have to use Twitter. You have to get out there, get the conversations going, post information and make yourself visible. You want to be focused in your target audience and post relevant information. If that person isn’t you, it might be someone else at your company to whom you designate the job.

When possible, let others tell your story. Word-of-mouth marketing has exploded. If you have a great company, product or service, people will spread that message for you. That starts by tweeting relevant information. If you become a good conduit for content, people will return the favor (hopefully) by re-tweeting the information. That’s one reason I find content that is relevant to my followers, even if I didn’t write it.

• Be consistent

There are companies that put in hours a day building their brands on social networking sites like Twitter. Some even hire full-time people for this function. Not everyone can do this, but the more time you spend, the more benefit you get. We put in one-half hour a day on Twitter—it is a consistent brand building effort. If you really want to have a strong social networking presence, you have to work it. Be consistent.

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• Track and analyze

Yes, the activity generated by Twitter can be tracked. One way we do this is integrating the conversation into a CRM tool. We follow clients and prospects, and put their Twitter activity directly into our records. In other words, we track their Twitter activity the same way we track anything else, like phone contacts or files we’ve sent. In our system, we capture the current five tweets. Good salesmanship relies on knowing about your prospects. That’s a content management issue, and Twitter can be great content! We also track the hits to our Web site that come through Twitter. When we post an article or retweet, we pass that through a Tiny URL that is tracked in our system. We tie together landing pages that people don’t know they’ve been passed through. It’s a highly effective tracking mechanism. We use the same method for links from other social networks, such as LinkedIn.

Not only can we tell where people are coming from, but we can tell where they are going. We know what they are reading on the site. We can also track back from Twitter activity to see how we are doing from our search engine optimization efforts. For example, we might see that people come from Google search to Twitter to the interlinkONE Web site. This tells us that Twitter is having an impact on our Web traffic.

Benefits of Twitter

There has been a lot of negative buzz about social networking sites as being a waste of time. Far from it. From a marketing perspective, Twitter is highly effective, when used correctly, for doing the following things:

1. Finding prospects;
2. Talking to and educating your customers and prospects;
3. Providing a platform for establishing yourself as a thought leader;
4. Enabling you to establish your brand as a useful resource.

At the same time, do not lose sight on the fact that Twitter or any social media is simply one part of a successful marketing mix. As with any channel, it doesn’t act alone. Traditional marketing media must still be used to reach everyone in your audience.

John Foley is the president and CEO of interlinkONE Inc., a company which produces a software solution that manages marketing needs.

Hello, hello!  Charlotte here.  Hope your Halloween/Dias de los muertos were festive and fun, and just a little scary.  I know my 31st of October was muy excellente, the reasons for which I can sum up in three words: vegan cupcake giveaway!  Yes, there are few things that bring me greater joy than vegan food being made and distributed to the masses gratis.  (Which means I conceptually adore Food Not Bombs, even though the DC chapter does their cooking and distributing when I’m working and/or elsewhere.)  This Saturday, I decided to shake off a painful and frustrating Friday by getting back to one of my favorite activities, and then sharing the fruits of my labor with the world!  Or, at least the first twenty or so strangers I could persuade to take a cupcake from the strange woman in the red wig.  Let me ’splain:

Chipotle gives out free burritos on Halloween, to anyone who comes in dressed as a burrito.  In practice this means wrapping some part of one’s body, however small, in tin foil.  It’s fun, it’s easy, it gets me free quasi-Mexican food.  So it’s become something of a Halloween tradition for us underemployed young people in the greater metropolitan area. There’s always a crowd, which to my mind immediately means: perfect opportunity for some creative outreach.  I could put on my Halloween costume (Sally, from The Nightmare Before Christmas), go give out cupcakes, then wrap my wrist in foil, get my free burrito, and be done in time for the play my roommie and our friend Lady J had tickets for in the evening.  That was my thinking after getting out of bed.  Then I opened VCTOTW to this recipe, and that sealed the deal.  Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcakes?  Chocolate and cayenne pepper?  What better way to celebrate the Days of the Dead?!  Clearly the spirits were sending me a message.

All right, so, the cupcakes: what exactly makes Mexican hot chocolate different from any other chocolate cupcake?  I already mentioned the cayenne pepper — just a pinch in the batter.  Plus cocoa powder (natch), vanilla and almond extracts (still a big fan of the old stand-bys), and cinnamon to round out your spices.  Instead of the usual soy or rice milk, these cakes are made with rich creamy coconut milk.  Pouring it from the can, I almost wanted to forget the cupcakes and drink it straight.  But I restrained myself, and luckily so, or the cakes wouldn’t have been so moist.  The batter also calls for corn flour, as in the substance to which we owe tasty chips, burritos, tacos–all manner of delicious things onto which one may spoon a generous helping of guacomole.  (But I wouldn’t recommend guacomole on the cupcakes.)

Either my flaxseeds have lost some of their oomphf, or my oven is dial is not spot-on (either might account for it), but these didn’t rise in the baking as nicely as other recipes have.  Probably I also took them out a smidgeon too soon.  Terry & Isa always say insert a fork into the center to test for done-ness; when it comes out clean, the cakes are baked.  Well, my testing fork was clean, but the cupcakes still looked a little gooey.  I went with it, though.  I had filled some of the liners too high, and they’d baked over the sides, sticking to the pan, which meant I had to chip a few edges off the cupcake tops to get them out of the pan.  Good for me — I ate the crumbs quite happily — not as good for the cupcakes’ appearance.  To compensate, and also because roommie wisely advised me that anyone who gets a cupcake–even a free cupcake–with no topping feels cheated, I covered each with the Rich Chocolate Ganache Topping (143).  This recipe calls for 4 oz semisweet chocolate, chopped, but I sped things along with some chocolate chips instead.  The Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips (unlike most of the Ghirardelli products I’ve come across) are actually vegan and quite good, in that pretensious fine-chocolate kind of way.

Results?  The cupcakes were an ooey-gooey chocolatey mess, and absolutely wonderful to eat.  Rich, moist, with a nice spicy kick at the end to wake you up.  But not too spicy for more sensitive palates than mine, if my roommate’s reaction is any judge.  It took a lot of willpower not to hoard them for ourselves, I tell you.  Fortunately we knew at least two friends who wanted to get in on the vegan Halloween madness, and we managed to get the rest of the cupcakes to Chipotle without inhaling them all.  The giveaway started slowly.  But my awesome roommate stuck by, handing out napkins and copies of the recipe (yes, Isa & Terry, if you’re reading this, I gave away your recipe — but I cited you!), and within an hour, we had three little cupcakes left from the original 2 dozen I’d made.  One kind man even gave us a $5 donation.  We met a nice family of tourists, and two actors from the local theater down the street.  And we saw lots of amusing costumes.  This may have to become a regular occurence.

Whew!  It’s been a loooong time since I did a cupcake recipe review — hope it was worth the wait.

So, as many of you know I LOVE Halloween. Every year I have fun planning a costume, carving pumpkins, and scaring trick or treaters. This year however I have fully realized just how much has changed in 3 short years. My halloween was spent watching TV during the day, and going to a party Saturday night, which was alright, but again, not drinking makes for a dull party. I used to do Halloween in style, back when we had the old house, I would make it a haunted delight. This year I didn’t even have a string of lights. Sometimes I really miss home!

I DID however get to watch Nightmare Before Christmas, like always, a tradition I am glad has not yet left as well. It was a bonus too since Marc had never seen it before, always glad to introduce another NBC fan

Back to school this week but I made a good bit of money over reading week, and still managed to have some fun so BONUS. Now it’s time to do some serious running around this week to get some of the chores done I was too lazy to do last week!

Till’ Next Time
Sheridan

had girls sliding up against me! hahahahaha! okay sorry just found that really funny.. it was the mask working its magic.i just dressed sensibly neck down.

i love halloween night!

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