Eww....

I used to love hot pockets but after my gallbladder surgery I quit eating them after all that extra weight it put on me. Plus I get an upset stomach very easily just from eating fried fatty foods now. ::sad::

Man I can't wait to have me a Halloween marathon of classic black and white public domain horror movies on bluray like Night of the Living Dead, Nosferatu, and Carnival of Souls.

Zombies and Vampires and Ghosts, oh my! ::big grin::

If vampires existed I would want to be one.

Me too.

I've always wanted to be a witch so I can have anything and do anything I want with my mystical powers.

I'd be a very dark and beautiful witch who dances naked and enslaves the minds of men with my body. ::devil::

I always consider the pros and cons of being a vampire and while eternity would get quite lonely at long periods of time and I would have to kill to survive, I think I would be able to handle that because I would be dead myself but possess Powers Beyond human comprehension. I am not the kind of person that was passed that kind of power and experience up.

Yeah but vampires are easily killable when you think about it. They can't be out in the sunlight or they get roasted, they can't touch things like garlic, holy water, or silver, being anywhere near a cross would damage you, and all somebody has to do to kill you is shove a wooden stick through your heart.

Personally I think I'd prefer being a Dhampir which is the offspring of a vampire mating with a human. They have all the strengths of a vampire but none of the weaknesses.

Seriously though, I'd love to be a witch. Even a Male witch.

I've had a thing for witches ever since I watched the movie The Craft. ::cool::

What other witch could you be? I guess you could pull a Caitlyn Jenner and be a tranny witch or something ::big grin::

Actually I was thinking more along the lines of using my powers to take the form of a beautiful young woman. ::big grin::

And I'd find ways to gain eternal life too. Maybe do like Elizabeth Bathory and bathe in the blood of young virgin girls to persevere my youth and beauty forever?

I'd be a very dark and evil witch. ::devil::

You could physically be able to kill to survive, but could you really (emotionally/psych/spiritually) be able kill people to feed on them? That's a whole nother story there.

I know what you meant, I was just being goofy. I have always loved you the way and rice writes about vampires. She presents them as a very dark and romantic but very deadly and they are creatures of beauty. That's the kind of vampire world I would want to live in if I had such opportunities.

Awww you have always loved me? ::love::

Lol just kidding I know it was a typo. ::stick out tongue::

I still remember reading Dracula in High School and thought it was an amazing novel!

But now we have garbage like Twight. ::big grin:: Are those books/movies still popular? I haven't seen anything about them in years. ::big grin::

Goats cheese.
Used to hate it. Now I love it.
Still hate Brussel sprouts...they can go fuck themselves. Little poison midget-cabbages.

If I could possess the powers of a vampire and not have to worry about living with the guilt of killing people while members of my family are still alive, then yes, I probably could.

My dark witch fantasy aside, if I became a vampire and had to feed off of innocent humans to stay alive I think I would feel very guilty.

Maybe I would decide to only feed on bad humans who hurt people?

Whoever said they had to be innocent? Why couldn't I just feed off of bad people?

Is anyone not sometimes bad?

Yeah but I think I'd rather feed off a serial killer or a rapist than a miserable average Joe who's got a family who would miss him.

Or maybe I could just turn everybody I fed on into a vampire like me? That way nobody really gets killed. ::wink::

Not so easy to find a serial killer. Slim pickens.

How soon do vampires die without human blood? They might not be so happy with their condition. ::EEK!::

I feel like each vampire story is different. In some stories a vampire tires of feeding off humans so they go into a deep sleep for centuries and refuse to wake up.

But I remember in the novel Dracula the vampire count would age drastically when he didn't feed and then he would look younger after feeding. So maybe sometimes they age too fast and die?

But then in some stories a vampire is sealed in a building as punishment and they go completely insane from not feeding.

I guess the reasons "why" they feed is always different in each story.

Wasn't there a vampire movie called "Innocent Blood"? I've never seen it but I'm guessing it's about a vampire who can only drink the blood of bad people.

I haven't heard of Innocent Blood. Interesting concept. Hopefully for the vampire they can just spit it out, cause otherwise that would be russian roulette.

Reading up on Innocent Blood, I see it's a 1992 John Landis film (of American Werewolf in London fame), where a lady vampire in Pittsburgh kills mobsters and makes it look like gang killings. Pretty bad reviews.

I remember reading a comicbook about a vampire that only drank from donated blood, and was researching for a cure. Much, much later I finally watched House of Dracula (1945). I always thought it was a fascinating concept.

I think the idea of a not-so-evil vampire who doesn't like having to kill innocent people for blood is interesting. I mean why should turning into a vampire automatically make a person malevolent? They seem to have the same intelligence and reasoning skills as a human being unlike zombies.

I guess because they really need blood to stay alive and their immortality becomes a lonely existence they quit having any attachments to humans and view them as nothing but prey.

But I feel like each vampire is different. For example I heard that the vampire countess Carmilla in the novel of the same name grew attached to the main female character Laura who was a mortal human. She actually befriended her but was still killing and feeding off the blood of her victims.

I really want to read Carmilla someday. It's a classic vampire novel just like Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Yeah, there's different kinds of vampires. Usually the recently undead, usually a woman victim, comes back as a bloodthirsty zombie, only slightly able to try to trick a victim. The Dracula is usually given more brains and cunning for some reason, really making them two different creatures.

I guess you mean the "ancient" or "head" vampire vs the "lesser" vampires which are usually their fed-on victims who come back to life as vampires. Yeah the lesser ones always do seem to be weaker.

I guess the older the vampire the more powerful and cunning they are. ::devil::

In interview with a vampire, Louie is totally against killing for so long and then finally sir comes to his urge to feed on human blood. Also, it was under other circumstances, but in The Lost Boys, Michael didn't want to kill anyone either.

Neither did Star from what I remember.

And I think that movie explained that a person suffering under the effects of vampirism could be cured if the head vampire was destroyed before they themselves fed on a victim.

That's basically how Harker's wife Mina was cured in the novel Dracula.

Seriously love the name "Mina".

Yeah it's pretty but I keep wanting to call her "Nina". ::big grin::

My eyes refuse to accept my new reality...they close and my hands lay flat over them as the sockets fill with tears.

I'm sorry to hear that. :( Can I offer you an internet hug? :)

Lets just slap hands on it bruh...been one of those days, thanks for the good word. I always blame it on the stars anyway...I'm sittin' here maddoggin' the moon ::mad::

So...somebody please hep me up. How do I make FB work for me like they do on Jerry? I'm seein' some fly gothic honeys out there. chicks and dudes ya know? We gotta bust it out this Halloween y'all.

I allready cracked open that bottle I got.::smile::

I hear you.....I already opened up the candy I got for Halloween! ::wink::

I get the feeling I won't be doing Halloween this year so I plan to watch some of my horror movies on bluray.

I have Sweeney Todd, Sleepy Hollow, Night of the Living Dead, and soon I will have Carnival of Souls and Nosferatu.

I'm thinking about getting other movies on bluray someday but from what I understand bluray is pretty much dead now thanks to streaming. I don't think some of my favorite movies will even make it to bluray.

This will be my first Halloween in Vegas and I won't be getting to do anything. It's just too expensive to go out anywhere nice very often. I have my yearly ritual of watching horror movies on that day anyway so it's all good. Perhaps this time next year I will be in a better financial situation.

I can't remember the last time we actually did a holiday in my house other than Christmas.

We seemed to quit doing New Years, 4th of July, etc a long time ago. The only reason we used to do Halloween once we got too old to trick or treat was because my sister would do Halloween parties for her friends and now that she's moved away we don't do that anymore.

I guess now that all of her kids are grown my Mom doesn't really see the need to do holidays anymore. Plus like you said holidays can be expensive and we don't exactly have money either.

My copy of Nosferatu on bluray came in today! ::love::

I watched some of it and it really isn't as bad as I thought it would be. I really can't tell that the movie was cropped at all and even though it isn't in full black and white the tinted colors really aren't so bad.

Now I can't wait to get Carnival of Souls. ::cool::

If there were more than one Krampus, would they be called Krampi?

...and I said Krampi not creampie you sick ass muh fuckers ::big grin::

What's a Krampus? Some sort of painful cramp demon for women? ::confused::