[I know it’s not Halloween anymore. Don’t bother me with details.]
1. What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen?
The Ring, hands down. I only saw the American version and it was so damn creepy that I haven’t dared to watch the Japanese version.
2. What was your favorite Halloween Costume from childhood?
In Austria, it wasn’t customary to dress up at Halloween when I was a kid. That only started a few years ago. But we dress up for carneval and there, my favorite costume was a garbage bag: I took a black garbage bag, cut out holes for my arms and my head and glued on wrappings and newspapers and whatever non-smelly garbage I could find. [I must have been 8 or 9 at the time.]
3. If you had an unlimited budget, what would your Fantasy Costume be for this Halloween?
I don’t know. I mostly have low-budget self-made costumes made out of necessity because I didn’t think of anything and then don’t have time to do something great. I really don’t care much about it.
4. When was the last time you went Trick Or Treating?
Never went. As I said before, when I was a kid, we didn’t do this.
5. What’s your favorite Halloween Candy?
Any free candy is good candy.
6. Tell us about a scary nightmare you had.
I barely remember my dreams and I never really had nightmares. But I remember a recurring dream I had when I was about 15-17. I always ended up in my parents’ car, with my smaller siblings, and I had to drive the car from the backseat with no idea how to actually drive. The dream stopped when I started my driving lessons.
7. What is your Supernatural Fear?
Statues that move completely freak me out. Be it the Weeping Angels (which are genuinely scary) or the statues in The Haunting (which try to be scary but really aren’t for anybody else but me) or even the mural in Devil’s Advocat (they just fuck for crying out loud).
8. What is your Creepy-Crawlie Fear?
I usually don’t have a problem with insects. But centipedes are fucking disgusting.
9. Tell us about a time when you saw a ghost, or heard something go Bump in the night.
When I was twelve or so, it was really popular in my school to use Ouija boards. I made one myself, brought it home and tried it with my mom and my brother. It didn’t work at all but suddenly the stereo started playing, even though nobody was close. It freaked me out – until I wondered where the remote might have been in that time.
10. Would you ever stay in a real Haunted House overnight?
Yes. Especially if it was organised by Derren Brown.
11. Are you a traditionalist (just a face) Jack O’Lantern Carver, or do you get really creative with your pumpkins?
Never carved a pumpkin. But I’d probably have to get creative since my fine motor skills suck ass. “No, my knife didn’t slip. It’s expressionist art.”
12. How much do you decorate your home for Halloween?
Not at all. I’m generally not one for much decoration but if you didn’t do it as a child and don’t have kids yourself who feel entitled to Halloween, it’s especially pointless.
13. What do you want on your Tombstone?
Since I’m gonna be dead, I won’t care. Just get whatever’s cheapest. Which is probably no inscription at all.
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That driving from the backseat dream is weirdly common. That in itself almost freaks me out more than the dream ever did.
There are a few dreams like that. I’ve heard that a bunch of people lose their teeth in their dreams, for example.
We had trick or treat kids ringing at our door. : ) They were actually scary (à la Scream).
The good news: I had chocolate.
The bad news: Next year C. wants to join the trick or treat gang.
I’d have loved this as a child. Blackmailing grown-ups into giving me cool stuff. And dressing up in a scary way! And (the very best thing): Playing tricks!
… sometimes I really dislike being a grown-up.
Since I wasn’t home the whole day on 31st, I don’t know if somebody tried trick or treating me. :)
I think I’d have loved it, too, as a child. But starting as an adult seems weird.
Yawp, starting as an adult is definitely weird.
Unless you accompany alibi-kids.
Have you heard of fhis Danish/Swedish (?) festivity, I think it’s called “St. Lucia”, where the girls give sweet bread and lights to everyone. They sure get loads of presents from the adults they visit. ^^
on a side-note:
I’ve recently read that Roman senator Marc-Anthony used to run naked through the city on Lupercal as it was Roman (or Etruscan) custom. What a cool tradition.
If you want to run around naked through Rome, you have my blessing. You could also do it in F.-City and shock your neighbors forever. :P
In G. kids would go out and do Sternsingen, as is quite normal, but in most houses, they’d not only get a couple of Euros, but also a shot of schnaps (the 13, 14 year olds). Ah, G… they know that you gotta start young to become a serious alcoholic.
When I went Sternsingen, the money we got was mostly for charity. The chocolate, though, was for us :P
(And seriously…Schnaps?! And I thought my hometown was dedicated to cultivating alcoholism.)
Yeah, schnaps. My friends regularly got home full to the brim.
Jaja, die 10-jährigen mit Alkohol abfüllen, aber über die 15-jährigen Koma-Sufer lästern. Österreich.
… Stimmt, Sternsingen! :)
@ kalafudra: Lol.
Ich renn mal nackig durch F-Kaff. ^^
Nein, ernsthaft jetzt: Das coole dran ist ja, dass nur die Männer nackt rumrennen und die Frauen schauen. In Padua machen das die Uniabsovlenten immer noch. Mittlerweile halt mit Shorts, weil der Dekan sonst immer die Polizei ruft. ^^ Und sie machen so Nacktkarikaturen mit schlimmen Reimen über die AbsolventInnen… echt krass, aber ziemlich witzig für die Nichtbetroffenen.
(/) edukativ Ende. OMG, ich vermisse meine “Gebräuche”-Kolumne. Es gibt sooo absurde Sachen.
Ich glaube daher kommt der Ausdruck “sternhagelvoll”. ;P
Es gibt eindeutig zu wenig Traditionen, wo Frauen nackte Männer anschauen dürfen.
Die Olympiade in Athen? Ah, nein, da durften Frauen ja deshalb nicht hin…
Aber jedenfalls: *agree*
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