40 Classic Books Every Horror Buff Should Read

With its visceral, primal, and psychological imagery, horror-themed media attracts just as many slavish devotees as it does squeamish detractors, and has for centuries. Though attitudes change across time, culture, and geography (and, along with them, narrative devices), horror’s core always remains the same. The most successful examples channel internal and external anxieties — many of them universal — and kick them right back to their readers with nauseating accuracy. Read more …

Tokyo Earthquake Amateur Video, main quake as it happened 2011/03/11

Tokyo Earthquake, viewed from the third floor of my apartment in Minami-Asagaya, Suginami-ku Tokyo. This only covers about the last half of the intense stuff, total time lasted over three minutes. The motion started off as usual with side to side jerking but finished with more of a sinking and rising feeling with some side to side motion as well. All in all it was a huge jolt of adrenaline and I’m thankful my friends here are all safe. Read more …

How To Apply A Yuna Make-Up From Final Fantasy X For Halloween

How To Apply A Yuna Make-Up From Final Fantasy X For Halloween: This year, Im dressing up as Yuna from Final Fantasy X. Yes, I know FFVII will always be the best one but I cant pull off a Tifa because Sexy and Bubbi does not go!

So I wanted to be Yuna this year because I just think her costume kicks ass! I love how playful and cute she looks. The makeup approach is capturing her innocence and her kindness. This look is actually not dramatic at all and you can even wear it every day (without the lenses ofc). I didnt wear white eyeliner because it looks too animeish but feel free to do so if you are going as an anime character this year ^^. Read more …

Pirates Only No Trespassing All Others Will Walk the Plank

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Mariah Carey (Themes and Musical Style)- Sexy Halloween Party, 31 oct

Love is the subject of the majority of Carey’s lyrics, although she has written about themes such as racism, death, world hunger, and spirituality. She has said that much of her work is partly autobiographical, but TIME magazine wrote: “If only Mariah Carey’s music had the drama of her life. Her songs are often sugary and artificial—NutraSweet soul. But her life has passion and conflict.” The Village Voice wrote in 2001 that, in that respect, Carey compared unfavorably with singers such as Mary J. Blige, saying “Carey’s Strawberry Shortcake soul still provides the template with which teen-pop cuties draw curlicues around those centerless [Diane] Warren ballads [...] it’s largely because of [Blige] that the new r&b demands a greater range of emotional expression, smarter poetry, more from-the-gut testifying, and less unnecessary notes than the squeaky-clean and just plain squeaky Mariah era. Nowadays it’s the Christina Aguileras and Jessica Simpsons who awkwardly oversing, while the women with roof-raising lung power keep it in check when tune or lyric demands.”

Carey’s output makes use of electronic instruments such as drum machines, keyboards and synthesizers. Many of her songs contain piano music, and she was given piano lessons when she was six years old. Carey said that she cannot read sheet music and prefers to collaborate with a pianist when composing her material, but feels that it is easier to experiment with faster and less conventional melodies and chord progressions using this technique. Some of her arrangements have been inspired by the work of musicians such as Stevie Wonder, a soul pianist to whom Carey once referred as “the genius of the [twentieth] century”, but she has said, “My voice is my instrument; it always has been.”

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How too… Local TRICK-or-TREAT Times

Trick or Treat at Seton: Sacred Heart students will dress up for Halloween and visit residents at the complex. Activities will also be held with the residents. Seton Apartments, 377 Clow Lane, Coshocton. 10 a.m.

Halloween Party: Senior citizens are invited to dress up and enjoy the fun at the center. Coshocton Senior Center, 201 Brown’s Lane, Coshocton. 11 a.m. 740-622-4852.

Halloween Costume Parade: Infant and toddler costume parade held during playgroups at 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Help Me Grow, 724 S. Seventh St., Coshocton.

Trick or Treating: Children will go from shop to shop in costumes collecting Halloween goodies. Roscoe Village, Whitewoman Street, Coshocton. 4 to 5 p.m.

Trick or Treating: Residents are encouraged to distribute candy to children coming door to door in Halloween costumes. City of Coshocton, Coshocton. 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Trick or Treating: Residents are encouraged to distribute candy to children coming door to door in Halloween costumes. Village of Conesville, Conesville. 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Trick or Treating: Children will go door to door in costumes to collect goodies for Halloween. Village of Warsaw, Warsaw. 5 to 6 p.m.

Trick or Treating: Residents are encouraged to distribute candy to children coming door to door in Halloween costumes. Village of West Lafayette, West Lafayette. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Trick or Treat Night at Autumn: Residents will distribute candy to children dressed in Halloween costumes. Autumn Health Care, 1991 Otsego Ave, Coshocton. 6 p.m.

Trick Or Treat: Retailers will hand out treats to young ghouls and goblins for Halloween. Colony Square Mall, 3575 Maple Ave., Zanesville. 6 to 7 p.m. Read more …

Many Companies Forgoing Halloween Costumes This Year

Costumed employees on Halloween are ghosts of the past in many Polk County businesses, but the tradition lives at the Colonial Bank in Bartow and a few other establishments.

“We’ve done it for years and years,” said Colonial switchboard operator Priscilla Gilbert, who is the go-to person for Halloween makeup. “It wouldn’t be right if we didn’t do it.”

The spectre of not having a Halloween celebration is an apparition these employees can do without.

But the spirits of Halloween are gone at most Polk County businesses, including banks that once made a big deal of the occasion.

Betty Wojcik of the Lake Wales Chamber of Commerce said she knows of no Lake Wales businesses that dress for Halloween. She’s considering a promotion for next year, saying it would have “nostalgia” benefits.

“We’re not allowed to anymore” said one Lake Wales bank employee. Read more …