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selenakIt's not paranoia if they're really after you. Let's see:
1.) Final scene from Blink, season 3 of current Doctor Who. You know, the one with all those statues. I should add that it doesn't work that way anymore after all the subsequent overexposure of the Angels, but back then? I never felt the same way around statues of any kind again. :)
2.) The panel of a cat dream in Dream of a thousand cats, in volume 3 of The Sandman. Anyone ever owning a cat, or rather, being owned by one, knows that Gaiman reveals the truth here. This is exactly what cats dream of. And if they do accomplish the change they wish, I fear I'll be one of the first to die in the cat revolution. My mother may be spared, being a superbly trained cat servant extraordinaire, but you know, when I'm back home in Bamberg and want to write and our cat wants to sit on the chair in front of the computer? I actually claim that chair and put her down to the floor. I'm DOOMED.
3.) Any number of Twin Peaks scenes featuring BOB, especially if he shows up only at the corner of one's eye, for a moment. But if I have to narrow it down, the final one. If BOB can be in the hero of the show, there is no hope for the rest of us.
4.) Sweeney Todd, the song Have A Little Priest. I entirely blame Stephen Sondheim for suspecting that any given fast food enterprise, either in history or now, could be a means for serial killers to dispose of bodies. He accomplished this not just by adapting that Victorian potpoiler but for making the music of the ballad when Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett first develop their fiendish scheme such a damm ear worm.
5.) The Silence of the Lambs, Clarice Starling enters what turns out to be the villain's lair, a fact she realises by a moth fluttering by. Now that movie has a great deal of scary scenes, plus I had read the novel it was based on before and actually knew what would happen. But the use of moths in it on screen somehow impacted me differently. Maybe because the night I first saw it, the summer night, I went home, took a shower, had the window open, a moth flew in while I was still in the shower... you better believe I screamed. I had no feelings about moths before. But after this film, I always get a little shudder when coming across one. Though the time in the shower was the only time I screamed. I blame you, Jonathan Demme.
1.) Final scene from Blink, season 3 of current Doctor Who. You know, the one with all those statues. I should add that it doesn't work that way anymore after all the subsequent overexposure of the Angels, but back then? I never felt the same way around statues of any kind again. :)
2.) The panel of a cat dream in Dream of a thousand cats, in volume 3 of The Sandman. Anyone ever owning a cat, or rather, being owned by one, knows that Gaiman reveals the truth here. This is exactly what cats dream of. And if they do accomplish the change they wish, I fear I'll be one of the first to die in the cat revolution. My mother may be spared, being a superbly trained cat servant extraordinaire, but you know, when I'm back home in Bamberg and want to write and our cat wants to sit on the chair in front of the computer? I actually claim that chair and put her down to the floor. I'm DOOMED.
3.) Any number of Twin Peaks scenes featuring BOB, especially if he shows up only at the corner of one's eye, for a moment. But if I have to narrow it down, the final one. If BOB can be in the hero of the show, there is no hope for the rest of us.
4.) Sweeney Todd, the song Have A Little Priest. I entirely blame Stephen Sondheim for suspecting that any given fast food enterprise, either in history or now, could be a means for serial killers to dispose of bodies. He accomplished this not just by adapting that Victorian potpoiler but for making the music of the ballad when Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett first develop their fiendish scheme such a damm ear worm.
5.) The Silence of the Lambs, Clarice Starling enters what turns out to be the villain's lair, a fact she realises by a moth fluttering by. Now that movie has a great deal of scary scenes, plus I had read the novel it was based on before and actually knew what would happen. But the use of moths in it on screen somehow impacted me differently. Maybe because the night I first saw it, the summer night, I went home, took a shower, had the window open, a moth flew in while I was still in the shower... you better believe I screamed. I had no feelings about moths before. But after this film, I always get a little shudder when coming across one. Though the time in the shower was the only time I screamed. I blame you, Jonathan Demme.
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Date: 2013-01-12 01:09 pm (UTC)2) I do push my cat off the computer chair, but the deal is that she immediately climbs back on, using me as a comfy heated cushion. Which she is doing now.
3) Hurrah, a chance to use my Bob icon! Which is my favourite Bob scene, where everything falls into place and, as the Guardian reviewer remarked, Bob's your uncle! (I hope you know this idiom, as it's not easy to translate and without understanding the joke is non-existent.)
4) I have not seen or heard, though I know a certain amount of the musical in extracts and it sounds good so I probably should. 5) I have seen and enjoyed but have nothing in particular to say about.
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Date: 2013-01-12 05:14 pm (UTC)I'm familiar with the Bob idiom, yes.
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Date: 2013-01-12 03:00 pm (UTC)2.) Somewhat related, there is this (really, really bad) X-Files episode where a displaced jaguar god turns the domestic and feral cat populations into scarily organized bands of mass murderers. I had to severely chastise myself that it was a *really dumb episode* not to get nightmares from that one.
3.) I spend large parts of my adolescence living near a small forest, and since Twin Peaks fired up my hyper-active imagination like nothing else during that time sunday afternoon walks could get... adventurous. To this day, I'm also mightily suspicious of owls... and yeah, I still regularly check if there is a grubby, murderous looking hippy dude lurking behind my couch.
Haven't seen 4.) but 5.) gave me a whole new appreciation for dark basements. I'm so glad I never saw it at the movies, I wouldn't have been able to get home.
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Date: 2013-01-12 05:15 pm (UTC)The owls are not what they seem.
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Date: 2013-01-12 05:38 pm (UTC)I know. My log told me. *pats log*