Halloween

[oyceter]

Happy Halloween everyone! Do people in Europe celebrate? It's very strange here because I've almost forgotten about trick-or-treating and stuff. Boy and I made a last minute run to the supermarket for candy just in case. I also carved my second pumpkin ever yesterday. First pumpkin ever was carved last year at Sarah's house. Pumpkins are kind of gross on the inside.

Didn't dress up or anything, although I have a picture of me in costume from the Stanford GSB Halloween party about a week or so ago. Boy and I not really doing anything because the boy has a midterm tomorrow (boo). I tried to rent Sleepy Hollow, not having the foresight of getting it through Netflix, and both Blockbuster and Hollywood Video were out of it. Grrrrr. Watched Nightmare Before Christmas yesterday while carving pumpkins -- it's so great! I can watch it for Halloween and Christmas! Anyhow, am still completely enamoured of the movie and the off the kilterness of that entire universe. Plus, it just looks awesome -- very little is geometrical, no straight lines, no perfect circles, everything just skewed. Plus, I always laugh at Jack's messed up gifts... one of my favorite parts is when the kid holds up a dried head to show his parents.

I think this means I am a little strange.

And the songs are really catchy. My favorite is "Kidnap the Sandy-Claws," which was stuck in my head for weeks once. Anyway, I love love love that movie. Maybe I'll watch it again today because I wasn't really focusing on it yesterday because of gooky pumpkin goodness. Substitution of one Tim Burton movie for another seems fair...

Giant pictures of me in costume and my pumpkin :

Comments

[hecatehatesthat.livejournal.com]

Dude!! I am wearing the same dress right now, except in navy blue! Isn't it a hot fucking dress? Wooo! (New Hope?)

Also, I love that necklace. And the pumpkin is great.

[oyceter]

New Hope! That's awesome ^_^. The only bad thing is it's sooo low-cut.

I love my pumpkin, as you can tell from my new icon ;).

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Hee -- your Halloween sounds just like mine. We watched NBC, and meant to watch Sleepy Hollow but were too tired (we own both, luckily). I carved a pumpkin for the first time in years (and yeah, I'd forgotten the yuck), and I went as Death last year. *g*

Ahh, it's good not to be stuck in a dorm room for Halloween, and get to hand out candy to adorable little children. Even if some not-so-adorable children smashed two of our pumpkins later. :-(

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[oyceter]

I keep thinking, "Ew, pumpkin brains." And I think I've dressed up as Death in some form or the other ever since freshman year of college! Heh... she's easy, and cool, and it's a fun sort of way to confuse people. I haven't had anyone identify me as Gaiman's Death yet (with the exception of you!).

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Great outfit, Oyce!

[oyceter]

Thanks! I love it very much... also drooled over all the Ren Fair outfits but luckily restrained myself.

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love your dress! And it's not that low-cut, it's just about right ;) I especially like that little curl under your eye. I'm trying to decide if it's fey or like ancient warpaint tattoos.

Your pumpkin icon is fabulous as well! And no, Europeans don't celebrate Hallowe'en. Remember what Wes said in "Life of the Party"? He never celebrated it in England.

[oyceter]

Thanks! I saw a medieval store in New Hope full of this kind of dress and I knew I had to get one! The curl's actually from Sandman -- I'm being Death ^_^. I dunno if the artists in Sandman just made it up or got it from somewhere, but Death is a nifty character.

*nods* Missed that in the ep! I've always pictured All Hallow's Eve and Samhain and pagan traditions, probably because I keep reading the Celtic-influenced fantasy.

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose they celebrated Samhain way back when they were druids/pagans (and maybe still do). And I think the Catholics celebrate All Saints Day, but the whole trick-or-treat, dress up like ghosts thing is definitely North American!