Fannish5 - Oct. 31 and miscellaneous

[heavenly_pearl]

Happy Halloween!

First, a fannish5 question, since it's appropriate for the holiday and it seems like forever since I did one.

Name 5 episodes or movies that would be most appropriate to watch on Halloween.

1. The Phantom of the Opera - Like I really need an excuse to watch my second favorite movie, but it does work well as a Halloween movie if you don't care for the scary stuff. (If you want the scary stuff, though, I've heard older, non-musical versions are scarier.)

2. Casper - Man, it's been forever since I last watched this, which is a shame because I adore it. Maybe I'll put it in tonight.

3. The Sixth Sense - Really the only "horror" movie I actually like, because it's more pyschological than gory.

4. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - I was so happy that I actually got to see this year. Usually there's something else on at the same time when it comes on TV, but this year my TV schedule was free and clear. It's good for the nostalgia value.

5. Kiki's Delivery Service - Well, it is about a witch, and it's a really good movie! ... Yeah, like I said, I'm just not into scary movies, so I couldn't really think of anything else that fit. *laughs*



heavenly_pearl's Halloween party:

alex_lebeau dressed as Guy Fawkes but the exploding barrel of dynamite didn't go down too well.
amazonqueenkate dressed as Pavlova the ballerina -- dancing on point too.
ayadec dressed as Nosferatu the Supreme Vampire.
bjfactory didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
catalina_bella dressed as a firefighter.
dark_branwen dressed as a rook.
dejana dressed as Michael Jackson.
demandingvoice dressed as Elizabeth Hurley.
dotmoon dressed as a hedgehog.
faithfullove dressed as the resurrected dead -- complete with the most convincing coffin.
fliederfee dressed as something grand, but what, specifically, you can't tell.
jasonulloa dressed as Anna Nicole Smith.
kihinranno dressed as the Viscount of Black Walnut.
killyoudead dressed as Michael Jordan.
lunaludus dressed as the Governor of Nevada.
mangaka_chan gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as a lecture.
mellowcandle dressed as your grandmother.
mythopoet_blue dressed as a character from Harry Potter and the Treaty of the Wand.
nephthysmoon dressed as Helga the wisewoman, although the live snake was a mistake.
oyster_shell dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Pesty Contender.
papirini dressed as Ivan the Terrible of Russia.
peacewish dressed as Pope John Paul II - tarred and feathered.
regie27 dressed as blues legend Peg Leg Boy Blue, and it suited them disturbingly well.
rosesablaze dressed as Mary-Kate Olsen with her very own conjoined Ashley.
samuraiter dressed as Mde. Lachienne Foutue d'Enfer -- you don't wanna know.
sea_thoughts didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.
sophiap dressed as Harry S Truman.
teh_maskmaid dressed as a bottle of Erkremalella.
thechibisenshi dressed as Optimus Prime.
vayleen dressed as the love child of Bruce Springsteen and Janeane Garofalo.

Throw your own party at the Hallomeme!
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My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
heavenly_pearl goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Witch.
amazonqueenkate tricks you! You get a used tissue.
ayadec gives you 15 dark blue passionfruit-flavoured pieces of bubblegum.
catalina_bella gives you 15 milky white strawberry-flavoured gumdrops.
dark_branwen gives you 11 softly glowing cherry-flavoured pieces of taffy.
dejana gives you 15 white watermelon-flavoured gumdrops.
mangaka_chan gives you 12 mauve mint-flavoured gummy bats.
nephthysmoon tricks you! You lose 48 pieces of candy!
samuraiter gives you 3 mottled green strawberry-flavoured wafers.
sea_thoughts tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
teh_maskmaid gives you 7 light yellow root beer-flavoured gummy bats.
heavenly_pearl ends up with 29 pieces of candy, and a used tissue.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Lessee, what else is there to report? Oh, my birthday is this Sunday. Blergh. I'm not looking forward to it. Is it possible to have a quarter-life crisis? Because I think I'm going through one.

And I'm almost finished making my plans for NaNoWriMo. Still don't quite know what I'm going to do with the middle part of the story yet, but I figure I have at least a couple of weeks before I absolutely have to think of something. (Have I mentioned before how hard it is for me to write romance?) At least I know how the beginning and the end will go. That's something, right?

Speaking of which, I better sign off and get back to work.

Comments

[ayadec.livejournal.com]

Actually, there has been stuff written on the quarter-life crisis (it is real), so it's perfectly normal to go through one. I'm pretty sure I had one and most of my friends did too. Not super fun.

I think there is a book called The Quarter-Life Crisis, if you want to read up on the subject.

[catalina-bella.livejournal.com]

I would put PoT on my Halloween list too, I've been obsessed with it since age six. I would take a musical over a scary movie any day of the week. And you should be happy about your birthday, 25 is too young to have a life-crisis (don't you have to be at least 30 for that *laughs*). Then again, I think turning 18 is going to put me through a crisis. But birthdays are supposed to be fun: cake, ice cream, and PRESENTS! I know, I'll make a Chibiusa and Helios AMV for you, how does that sound? Though it will be after your b-day because I lost my laptop transformer and can't use it until I get a new one.