04 August 2006

creeeeeeeepy

i don't typically embed things from YouTube. in fact, i've never done it before, though i have enjoyed some of the wacky and crazy shit that YouTube contains. what a Sociological experiment that is.



anyway, a friend emailed me a link to the above video by a band called The Greens Keepers. holy shit, did it freak me out. i actually like the song. it's catchy and now the chorus is stuck in my head, but christ it freaked me out.

i don't know your thoughts on horror movies, but i don't like them. i have a much too overactive imagination and i end up freaking myself into a stupor. and Silence of the Lambs, though probably tame for some folks, is scary as hell. ESPECIALLY, that Buffalo Bill dude. he gives me the serious heebie jeebies.

just the thought of ever being abducted and kept as a slave, or tortured, or whatever...brrr...forget it. worst way to die HANDS DOWN.

anyway, thought you might like the video. i think it's pretty clever, really, and certainly sobered up this halfdrunk loser.

12 comments:

christopher cunningham said...

congrats on yer first embed.

it is addictive, man. dangerous stuff.

haven't watched ityet, also NO FAN of horror movies, as real life is fucking plenty scary.

but will

j.b said...

let me know what you think of it.

creepy stuff.

horror movies are the worst. there's the recent one called Hostel, about torture and shit. and people fucking LOVE IT. dude, torture is NOT funny, it is NOT cool. IT IS NOT ENTERTAINING.

anyway.

Kat said...

I HATE-repeat HATE being scared. I have no idea why people like to be scared. I really dislike the feeling and justin, like you said, I've got enough scary shit in my head without adding to it! I will not watch whatever you've got up there because it's bound to keep me awake and freaking out.

I don't even like commercials for scary movies! There is this one about a lady in a pool or something. Lady in the Water? Something like that. Freaks me out a lot. And the commercial for The Ring a few years ago scared me a lot!

I like happy movies. You've Got Mail is one of my favorites. And all those Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan ones. And I love old movies. But no scary stuff!

The last scary movie I saw was Poltergiest (Not sure that's spelled right) and I'll tell you something, I was about 18 years old and I slept with the light on for a week. And that's tame stuff in comparison to scary now!

:)

Glad I'm not alone in this!

j.b said...

Karl,
really? wow...don't you get scared at night? or have bad dreams?

what about walking into a dark house? i haven't seen many scary movies and i still hate doing it.

i've seen The Ring and that was pretty fucking scary. and i had some serious sleep problems after that. i vowed then to not watch any other horror movies. i just can't hack it.

though, i suppose some of the really OBVIOUSLY fake stuff would be funny if i were in the right mood. the shit that gets me is the stuff that could be real (like Buffalo Bill) and the creepy characters.

i had a cousin who was into serial killers when he was younger. Ed Gein and Gacy and all the rest. he would read about them and shit. i just don't understand how anyone could do that and NOT go crazy.

gives me the willies just thinking about it.

Kat said...

I can read scary stuff for some reason. I used to read a lot of Stephen King when I was younger. But for some reason seeing it is so much scarier. It was like when I closed the book it all went away. Does this make sense? :)

BMcG said...

I guess people like horror movies cause it gives them a safe environment to enjoy or experience an emotion/s that other wise would not be possible in reality – does that make sense?

I’m not a fan of horror movies, though I’ve seen my share I guess – the ring I thought was a clever story (I defenestrate between story telling and literary fiction – whole other post) simply because it used what is supposed to be safe in regard the above, namely the device, the tv, video – it made them scary and unsafe.

I agree with j – for me it’s the real life stuff - not so much silence of the lambs, which I think is more thriller than horror - but more the accused, films that contain that particular subject matter, or feature the suffering of kids – and I don’t mean ransom, which again was another thriller.

I can get through most subject matter in a books though – I’ve read 120 days of sodom which makes King look like a kids story writer – de sade plumped the depths, I mean he really plumped the depths – I had the book on my shelf for some years after reading it – I never returned to it and actually got rid of the book, as in binned it – I’ve probably let myself in for some criticism there – you should have given it to a library etc – I don’t know why I just lifted it off the shelf and binned it – I know I’ll never read it again – just interested, has anyone else?

but definitely the king of all horror movie genres – the one that terrifies the very soul of man – the one that if watched will surely led me to be dribbling onto a bib, crayon between the toes, vacationing in a very comfy room – and that genre would be the zombie movie – forget it, game over, I’m done in – and not the whole 28 days running like feck zombie either – it’s the slow, shuffling, suffocating mass, bearing down, no escape zombies that I’m talking about – right, feck it, I’m stopping now.

j.b said...

yes, i think i misspoke by calling some movies horror movies when in fact they are suspense movies, or psych thrillers. the result is all the same to me, and i'm horrified by even the suspense ones, but there is a difference.

i think i saw one Friday the 13th and have never seen a Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street. i can't watch gore (weak stomach) and add that to the suspense and fear, forget it.

and zombie films aren't even up for discussion.

Anonymous said...

I'm sorry J.B., it's not that I don't agree with you on the scary movie thing, I hate them as well and will NOT watch even a commercial on them, it's just that I find it really amusing that all you Guerrilla guys with your clinched fists in the air, being all tough and all, are somewhat child-like when it comes to things that go BUMP in the night. Really cute though.

You might want to quize My Favorite Poet on how his little sister scared the bejesus out of him one night while reading a Stephen King novel. Of course he was a little kid then.....

christopher cunningham said...

christ mom, I'm a big boy now...

:)

and my fist ain't so tough. look at that wrist, you could snap it with an unkind word...

Anonymous said...

J.B. et al.
Please let me apologize for my previous comment. I may have sounded insensitive to something that is very real and I did not mean it to come across that way. So again, sorry!

j.b said...

mom c.

offensive? not at all. it is funny that we so called subversives and revolutionaries can't handle a scary movie or two.

and i just conjured up a funny image of your son getting scared shitless by his sister. hilarious.

Casey-

aliens are scary. one summer while taking a break from college i read the book COMMUNION by Whitley Streiber about his alleged abduction by aliens. i don't believe it, but dude it was well written and scared me. granted, i read it late at night by myself.

scary shit, man.

what about an alien zombie movie? ooohhh.
there's a good idea.

BMcG said...

Plan 9 From Outer Space - the alien zombie thing has been done - course it was the worst movie ever made, oh no, wait, that was my eldest daughters second birthday home movie, the time I forgot to hit record and we had to relight the candles, walk the cake back into the room and get everyone to sing Happy Birthday again.