Halloween

I think it may be my favorite holiday.

I'm not big on costumes (I have good costume ideas, but I rarely wear them).

I did go as Nathan Drake this year.  He's the protagonist of the Uncharted video game series on the PS3.  I wanted to go as a Party Down employee, but that wouldn't have been any fun without other people doing it too.  The best thing about the Nathan Drake costume is it was basically normal clothing.  I had to find a leather wristband and wear a silver ring on a leather necklace.  No one knew who I was, so I just looked like a douche-y hipster.

It's cool though.  I was comfortable and I nailed the costume.

But back to why I enjoy Halloween.

I think it has to do with my loving genuinely thrilling/suspenseful and supernatural things.  I love a great scary story; whether it is a book or movie or video game.  What I really like are the stories that actually build suspense and don't just go for the cheap "gotcha" scary (like nearly every horror movie in at least the past decade).  Movies like Jaws or Alien nail the suspense aspect.  You hardly see the "monster" before the final act.  Granted, this is due to those movies being made in 70s, but those movies get that what I imagine a lot of people don't understand.

What the viewer/reader/player imagines in their head will always be scarier than what is actually there.

The fear of the unknown is a pretty powerful thing.

So on Halloween I watch classic scary movies.  The past two years I've watched Young Frankenstein (not scary, but hysterical) and Night of the Living Dead (the original zombie flick).  Both are some of my favorite movies.  I think I might add The Creature from the Black Lagoon to the mix.

The other reason I love Halloween, boat loads of candy. Yeah, I know, I'm a kid sometimes.

- In Other News -

I hate the NBA will not have an 82 game season.  It's such a bummer.

It's slightly over halfway through the fantasy football season so I'll do an update blog on my teams.  One is doing stellar, but two are struggling.  Although, this week I will go 3-0.

I bought FIFA 12 and have basically become addicted to its career mode.  Tomorrow Uncharted: Drake's Deception releases and I'll be getting that.  The Uncharted series is one of the best franchises in the video game industry.

"The Little Things" - Danny Elfman

Blogging Bad

Note: I don't watch Breaking Bad (I should), but I thought that was a clever title for this entry.

Ooof.

I haven't blogged for a few weeks now.  I should've... it's not like I'm lacking free time at the moment.

So what's new with me?  Good question.

I finished the first chapter of the story I started last summer.  Chapter two is the process of being completed.  And apparently it's good.  Or at least my friend, Amber, thinks it is.  She is not an idiot, so that means a lot.

Fantasy football isn't going that great though.  I'll be 2-3 in the leagues I want to do well in the most, but will be 5-0 in the league I've been in the longest.  My 5-0 team is a juggernaut featuring Matt Forte, Fred Jackson, Ahmad Bradshaw, Jermichael Finley, Vincent Jackson and, the centerpiece of the team, Megatron.

Tangent: Everyone and their mother is using the "Megatron" moniker for Calvin Johnson and jumping on the bandwagon now.  It's annoying.  I've been a paying member of the "Megatron" bandwagon since '08.

But I digress.

What else?

Oh.  I bought Gears of War 3.  The first new game I've bought in months.

It's really good... like really, really good.  However, one of the things I found myself liking most about the game is how it is written.  I enjoyed it quite a bit and did not expect to at all.

I also started playing Animal Crossing on my Gamecube again.  That's right.  Again.

I made a new town, village, or whatever you want to call it.  Don't ask me how, but it's still as fun as it was back in October of '02 when I first got it.

"Superstars" - Styles of Beyond