MEANWHILE,
IN THE DEEP DARKNESS
OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. . . .

shinsui itō

kazuo tatematsu

on tuesday i am going north to see my friends and sleep in the trunk of a rental car next to a cemetery

(unless an open hand is offered to me. a vampire can only enter if invited in)

apparently it’s supposed to rain the entire time, because of course it will. i will do some walking anyway. it is a good place to do that sort of thing, and i should know

also they closed my favorite coffeeshop there. i reckon i will have to find another one

yes

ok 💜

I’ve been watching every John Carpenter film and have seen almost all of them now. I’m only missing two. I’ve also been watching a bunch of his interviews, and in one of them he mentions the eeriness of a ghost in the daytime from a distance. Basically, it’s much scarier to show horror clearly rather than conceal a monster in darkness which is the way most people do it. This is why THE THING is so terrifying.

He specifically references a horror movie from the early 60s called THE INNOCENTS, and the ghost in the daylight by the water. That image alone compelled to me watch it! And so I did tonight and it really did scare the hell out of me. There is something about Victorian-era stuff that is super creepy to me, and so I reckon that was half the dread I felt the entire time.

Though yeah, you should watch it. The screenplay was written by Truman Capote, for god’s sake!

excellent work mccune

hangin out with my bud hamlet

on the way to and atop and below albany hill in el cerrito, california

some pictures i took in el cerrito / berkeley on my long walk halloween night

people had left bowls of candy on their stoops and i profited greatly