The Coolest Month

[tealin]

October rules.

3rd: New Decemberists CD (The Crane Wife)
9th: Thanksgiving with family in bucolic paradise
13th: New [LAST!(?)] Snicket Book (The End)
20th: 'nother TRIP! (Duuude!) and Nightmare Before Christmas comes out in theatres (where I haven't seen it since 1993) and in 3D (which will be interesting if nothing else).
31st: HALLOWEEN!

In the meantime, I'm making a horrible misappropriation of my time by scanning my gag sketch stuff instead of finishing my coat enough that I can put on the ornamentation when I go away this weekend. But dangit, I want to post some art, and to finish something of my own that I can be proud of. And I should have taken my shower before so that my hair could have been drying while doing so, but that's where I'm off to next. What has become of my ludicrously idiosyncratic time management skills? Alas...

Regarding the title: I would do a parody of that stanza in The Wasteland but I don't have the mental powers at the moment. Maybe later.

Comments

[fairy-gany.livejournal.com]

I love The Nightmare Before Christmas ! I bought the DVD a few weeks ago, and I saw it in english for the first time (great !), wich made me wonder "What's the thing about Lock's, Shock's and Barrel's names ?". In french it's "Am, Stram et Gram", which is a child song with non sense words,to know who's gonna count, and who's gonna hide, if you know what I mean...
Stupids tests "what character are you" also for this movie...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

'Lock, Stock, and Barrel' is a phrase in English which means (basically) 'completely' or 'including all its constituent parts,' usually in reference to the acquisition of something, as in: 'Reacher Gilt bought the Grant Trunk Company lock, stock, and barrel.' It comes from Ye Olden Days when, if you didn't have enough cash up front, you could buy the component parts of a gun individually (the 'lock,' or flintlock, which provided the spark to ignite the gunpowder; the 'stock,' the wooden base you put against your shoulder and on which the other parts are mounted; and the 'barrel,' the long thin hollow part that the bullet flies out of). So to acquire something 'lock, stock, and barrel,' means you've got it all.

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I came up with a version for a place with no guns: Lock, Stock and Quarrel (as in a crossbow bolt).

[fairy-gany.livejournal.com]

THIS was a complete and absolutly amazing answer ! Lol.
Thanks Tealin, you're far better than my english dictionnary !
I'm feeling so full of knowledge right now ! :D

[bananabasket.livejournal.com]

I want to be excited for these cool new things... but...


I went to bed at 3:30 after talking to you and my mom woke me up at 6:45 to paint. AMs!!!


Gah.

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

I note the Decemberists have on their new album a cut called "Shankill Butchers." I read a book about the Shankill (A Prodestant neighborhood in Belfast, Antrim, Ireland) Butchers, a group of brutal murderers back in the 70's. Very, very brutal.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

On a Decemberists CD? [mock horror]

October

[(Anonymous)]

You forgot:

10th: The Tragic Treasury!

15th: My birthday!

[lync180.livejournal.com]

A Nightmare Before Christmas in theatres and in 3D?!? Oh man, please give me a shout if/when you're planning to go. I don't think I've ever seen it in theatres.

[dried-frog-pill.livejournal.com]

ZOMG Nightmare is coming back to theatres?! *will start saving money for a ticket now*

[fairy-gany.livejournal.com]

You lucky anglophones guys... I'm so jealous...

[stevie-roch.livejournal.com]

I have heard the new Decemberists CD in its entirety, and let me tell you, AMAZING. Have you heard any of the lead singer's solo stuff? It's brilliant.

Nightmare? In 3D? I'm not sure how I feel about this...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It's not in 3D animation, it's ... sorta ... 'remastered' I guess, for those polarised glasses. Hey, anything to see it in the theatre again.

Glad to hear the CD's amazing! (Not that I doubted, but you never know...) I haven't heard Mr Meloy's solo stuff; I'm sure it's equally inspired but to be perfectly honest there's only so much of his voice I can take without the magnificent and imaginative background instrumentals. [braces for hurled eggs and tomatoes]

[stevie-roch.livejournal.com]

Oh, I DO know what you mean. But the solo stuff he's done has been quite interesting, mostly old traditional (I think Irish?) songs.

THE WASTE LAND

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

WOW. That is a million times better than anything I would have managed to come up with. You're amazing!

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

I saw Nightmare not long after it first came out, on some kind of church field trip or something. I was just a kid at the time, and all I really remember about it was that the Boogie Woogie Man scared the bejeezus out of me. And the part in the end where he rips open and all the bugs explode out of him seriously grossed me out. (This was many years ago, so I don't know how accurate my memory of this movie is. I just remember being royally grossed out about something.)

It strikes me as weird now that this movie disturbed me so much, because I normally love that kind of stuff (Tim Burton Holloween-ish weird crap involving the undead and whatnot, I mean--see my username). I'll have to see it again when it's re-released to see if my feelings about it have changed.