Showing posts with label where the wild things are. Show all posts
Showing posts with label where the wild things are. Show all posts

Sunday, November 1, 2009

It's Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus

My Facebook newsfeed has turned into a Halloween party! It's been fun checking out what everyone was for Halloween last night (and the night before). I did, in fact, put my Sherlylock Holmes costume to use on Friday night. This time, I stayed on my feet and off of the ground. Sadly, however, I lost my magnifying glass that night. It seemed that it was National Hangover Day yesterday morning...at least in the town of Boulder anyway. I guess that's what happens when Halloween falls on a Saturday. It was hard to muster up any amount of energy to go out again last night, but after watching Hocus Pocus and drinking a few glasses of spiked apple cider, I got more into the Halloween Spirit.


The first time I saw Hocus Pocus was in Kindergarden I believe. All I remember is that it scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it...I hesitantly admit the fact that years later, I still get scared whenever I watch it.

I decided that for Halloween '09, I would be a mime. All in all, I was pleased with my costume, although I'd often forget throughout the course of the night that I had painted my face and whenever I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror or a reflective surface, I got a little startled. Here are a few photos:







My two favorite costumes I saw last night on the streets of Boulder were Powdered Toast Man (from Ren & Stimpy) and a Jellyfish. The most repeated or abundant costume I saw was either Max from Where the Wild Things Are or Kanye West wearing a Taylor Swift T-shirt toting around a box of fish-sticks.

It's strange to think that this was my last Halloween in Boulder...I can't believe that there are only 5 weeks left before beginning the last semester of my collegiate life. I have a feeling that from here on out (since the time always seems to fly by after Halloween), I'm going to be measuring a lot of events in terms of "my last". I'm not exactly sure how I feel about that yet. There is a part of me that is so anxious to be done with it all and to just move on with my life, but deep down, I know that things aren't going to magically change as soon as I graduate. Change is a process. Of course it's bittersweet. I have met so many people here and I'm not going to see most of them ever again. I am also starting to feel a sense of mild panic and shock because this is finally starting to feel real and it is forcing to me to face what I have been trying to avoid for awhile: my future. Then, I start thinking about this thing they call responsibility. Luckily, I have a few more months before I have to fully embrace this plethora of feelings I have begun to experience and try to make some sense out of it all.








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Friday, August 7, 2009

Down the Rabbit Hole

The trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter) was recently released. I don't think I've ever been so excited to see a movie. Check out the trailer here.

Tim Burton's interpretation of Wonderland.

The role of the mad-hatter was custom tailored for Johnny Depp. This has been his seventh time working with director, Tim Burton.

Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Sweeney Todd, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) plays the role of the Red Queen (the one who says "Off with their heads!")
19-year-old Mia Wasikowska (has appeared in HBO series, "In Treatment") as Alice.

Sadly, we will have to wait until March 5th of NEXT YEAR to see this movie in theaters. Perhaps the release of the adaptation of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are will hold us over until March (it comes out October 16th of this year). 

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