Halloween Lineup 2011 - usa

SATURDAY selection:


Forget Me Not
*  not bad at all.  basic story based on possession/obsession.
* like the ending and how throughout things aren't tediously 'explained' or rationalized.
*  very nice, creepy CG work.

House of the Devil
*  very fun.
*  actually a 2009 movie (I had to check the credits to make sure) but between the music, gritty film stock, plot, and HAIR, completely a late 1970's ~ early 1980's work.
not too mention!
that gigantic walkman she had.  No wonder Ebay was listed in the credits, damn thing was practically an antique complete with the orange foam padding on the headphones =D


SUNDAY selection:

Hammer House of Horror, British TV series
* If you have never heard of Hammer House productions, much less seen any of their works, you can't claim to be a true horror buff.
* very fun, oddly creepy at times, similar distortion of time and place you see in older Japanese works.

Hausu (ハウス), Japanese
*

Circle of Eight
*


Stay tuned and ╠╣αppy Ѽ ╠╣αlloween ┊ ┊┊ ┊┊۶ ه Ѽ ☻ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶


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'tis the ♪season ♫・・・AGAIN！

As I mentioned in another post previously, one of the many reasons I ♡'d Japan was the fact that you get to celebrate Halloween TWICE a year! .～*・°☆

Ahhh, yes, ♡twice♡.
Just recalling that little fact makes my heart go all pitter-patter.

To recap (if you missed last year's post) or refresh your memory (if you simply forgot about it at the bottom of a chocolate martini), here's the rundown:

August is when the Japanese celebrate Obon (お盆). Obon is basically a similar idea to Halloween - spirits of the deceased returning to walk the Earth - except that their Obon wanderings normally last several days whereas Halloween is just that one night stand.

In celebration of this joyous (and potentially creepy) season, and as the gateway drug to the upcoming Halloween Horrors, we are releasing another series of Kaidan this month. (Throughout the year, yes, but AUGUST in particular.)

Kaidan, if you, the gentle reader recall are basically traditional Japanese “ghost” stories usually involving the unexplainable, a flexible concepts of time and space, strange meetings, love gone wrong, the supernatural… They are curious and sometimes terrifying stories, but never centered on nor featuring either gore or sex.

The newest one is already available!

Facts Surrounding the Death of 'M'

There will be at least two more releases this month, so in the meantime, enjoy and until the next installment is released, you can check out some of the past ones by clicking on "kaidan" in the Label cloud.


Thanks for visiting!
Stay tuned and happy listening. (^_-)-☆

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Halloween Lineup 2010 - usa

SATURDAY selection:

Forget Me Not
* not bad at all. basic story based on possession/obsession.
* like the ending and how throughout things aren't tediously 'explained' or rationalized.
* very nice, creepy CG work.

House of the Devil
* very fun.
* actually a 2009 movie (I had to check the credits to make sure) but between the music, gritty film stock, plot, and HAIR, completely a late 1970's ~ early 1980's work.
not too mention!
that gigantic walkman she had. No wonder Ebay was listed in the credits, damn thing was practically an antique complete with the orange foam padding on the headphones =D


SUNDAY selection:

Hammer House of Horror, British TV series
* If you have never heard of Hammer House productions, much less seen any of their works, you can't claim to be a true horror buff.
* very fun, oddly creepy at times, similar distortion of time and place you see in older Japanese works.

Hausu (ハウス)
* Before THE GRUDGE, there was ハウス, a Japanese classic about a house. Silly, but fun.
* More later after I watch it again. Been mannnny years.

Circle of Eight
* Know NOTHING about this one until I watch it.
* OK, it MIGHT have had potential (albiet very hidden) but I gave up after the first 30 minutes which consisted of a shallow stream of meaningless babble interspersed between two very pointless sex scenes .


Stay tuned and ╠╣αppy Ѽ ╠╣αlloween ┊ ┊┊ ┊┊۶ ه Ѽ ☻ ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶

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Skittles! Taste the Rainbow of... Terror?

Late one sleepless night, the idea struck me...

What about colors?

Are there certain colors that seem to have a predisposition for evoking fear?
What colors evoke fear?
What colors seem to have no association to any sense of terror?
And if there are any colors, are those color associations shared across cultures?

I can only work in English and Japanese so those are the two cultures I will be working in.

So far my list is as follows:


RED - The Masque of the Red Death (free audio version available), The Red Beyond the Keyhole (Japanese,鍵穴の向こうの赤, my translation planned), The Red Room (free audio version available), The Red World (free audio in Japanese,赤い世界, no translation unless many requests)

ORANGE - ???

YELLOW - The Yellow Sign, The Yellow Wallpaper (free audio version available for both)

GREEN - Children of Light, Memories of Green (Japanese, 光の子供、緑の記憶, might translate it)

BLUE - Red Paper, Blue Paper; Story of Moon and Rain: The Blue Skullcap (Japanese, 赤い紙、青い紙；雨月物語、青頭巾; might translate them)

PURPLE- The Purple Cloud, 紫ちりめん　振袖火事 (vague recollection of this story. need to find source)

BLACK - The Black Cat (free audio version available), The Black Dog (free audio only)

BROWN - ???

WHITE - The White People (though not really scary; free audio version available)

Also, I have not read nor know of anyone who has read these, but these following are also more candidates for green:

The Green Mummy

The Green God


If you have read the above or can suggest others in either language, we would love to hear of them!
list last updated 2011/07


Stay tuned and happy listening~! (^_-)-☆

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'tis the ♪season ♫♪

One of the innumerable reasons to ♡♡♡ Japan (if you already don't) is the fact that you get to celebrate Halloween TWICE a year! .～*・°☆

So while you are just getting into the Halloween spirit, I have been riding along with the fear festival since August when the Japanese celebrate Obon (お盆). Obon is basically a similar idea to Halloween - spirits of the deceased returning to walk the Earth - except that Obon normally lasts several days whereas Halloween is just that one night stand. So you ride the Obon wave in until the end of August, then find yourself wading around in shallow waters for a week or two in September waiting for that next Big One to start building up just beyond the horizon. Before you know it, the Halloween waves start rolling in and you are back out surfing for those bigger, deeper, darker scares. ♡

In anticipation of such joyous events and previous to the first kaidan release (see previous post), I have compiled a list of potential translations to usher in "part two" of the season. All are in Japanese, all previously untranslated.

So just to wet your whistle, our potential candidates are as follows...

♡　師匠シリーズ：三人目の大人, "Master Series: The Third Person"
♡　鍵穴の向こうの赤, "The Crimson on the Farside of the Keyhole"
♡　師匠シリーズ：海, "Master Series: The Sea"
♡　猫町, "Cat Town"
♡　婦人の黒猫, "Madame Vauson's Black Cat"
♡　お下がり, "Handme-downs"
♡　死の連鎖メール, "Chain-mails of Death"
♡　夢に誘われる, "Invitation From a Dream"

If there are any in the above list of which you have information about and want those in particular translated or a story just sounds interesting from the title OR you feel tantalized by a title and would like some more info....
drop a note in the comment box.
Those will get first dibs.

Stay tuned and happy listening~! (^_-)-☆

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