Paranoid Good: October 2012

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

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DIY Pumpkin Terrarium!

Happy Halloween, lovelies! Today we have a simple Halloween inspired DIY for ya! Instead of just carving a big ol' smiley face into your pumpkin tonight, why not turn it into a terrarium filled with (plastic) plants and some cute vintage figurines?! Which is exactly what we did! All you need for this is a nice big round pumpkin, some pieces of fake grass (which you can get at any dollarstore) and some cute little animal figurines like a few ceramic fawns. In the evening it would also be cute to add a little battery-powered tea light at the back to light up your little nature scene!

Seriously, how cute would this look sitting on your porch this evening?

Happy trick-or-treating!
Love, Erin & Stef
XO

Shriek of the Mutilated (1974)

Ostensibly a Bigfoot flick but really just a psycho-killer/Satanic-cult gorefest made in the trashy Herschell Gordon Lewis style, Shriek of the Mutilated is completely devoid of redeeming qualities. The acting is atrocious, the storyline is moronic, and the thrills are nonexistent. The picture even fails as an excessive splatter movie, because the special makeup effects are amateurish. Following a few random vignettes that get the movie off to a disjointed, uninteresting start, the story proper begins when college professor Dr. Ernst Prell (Alan Brock) organizes a group of students for an expedition into the woods where a Yeti has allegedly been sighted. (Why a Yeti and not just Bigfoot, since the picture is set in America rather than Asia?) Prell loads a group of bland young adults into a van and schleps them to the remote home of his colleague, Dr. Karl Werner (Tawm Ellis). Karl’s a strange cat who’s balding on top but wears a graying ponytail, and he favors creepy ensembles of turtlenecks and way-too-tight pants. He’s also prone to florid lines like, “Your Yeti waits for you still, Ernst.” Before long, the college students start getting killed during attacks by a “monster” who’s really just a dude wearing a gorilla suit that seems like it’s made out of white shag carpeting, some pasty makeup, and a pair of dime-store Dracula fangs. It turns out the doctors are actually cultists who lure students to the woods, dress up like Yetis to scare them, and then kill the students for pagan rituals. This plot “justifies” close-ups of decapitated heads and dismembered limbs, none of which have any shock value—more like schlock value. Literally the only amusing moment in the whole movie is the scene during which one of the college students sits at the piano and croons a ditty he’s written about the situation: “On the prowl, hear him howl, here comes the Yeti now!”

Shriek of the Mutilated: SQUARE

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

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Volare in mezzo alle nubi di: AghamoraPPG

Not just your typical Halloween colors.

When you think of the colors orange & black the first thing that pops into your mind is Halloween, right?! Well we beg to differ! Here are some cute non-spooky orange and black things that we are currently loving:

These beautiful vintage-inspired dresses from Modcloth! I can't decide if I like the first dress or the second one better?

Love these pretty polka dot and striped party straws.

This is the perfect men's fall outfit. (pretty doubtful that we could convince our guys to wear this though... in a perfect world, right? Haha!)

Cute mod braclets.

What an amazing focal point this retro 70's-looking artwork makes!

And last but certainly not least, how incredible is this bright orange mid century modern pencil sharpener?! Gah! SO amazing!

Happy early Halloween, friends! XO

The Capture of Bigfoot (1979)

Fungus scraped off the bottom of the Sasquatch-cinema barrel, The Capture of Bigfoot is a no-budget dud in which the redneck denizens of a small, snow-shrouded town blame a string of murders on something called “The Legendary Creature of Arak,” a white-haired Bigfoot/Yeti/whatever rumored by Native Americans to haunt the mountains surrounding the town. During this interminable movie, scheming entrepreneurs attempt to capture the monster for purposes of financial exploitation, while police officers try to determine whether the killings are the work of man or beast. Badly acted, incompetently filmed, lazily edited, and padded with meandering bits like pointless party scenes and unfunny “comedy” vignettes, this is one of those grade-Z creature features that only contains about 10 minutes of actual monster action, so trudging through the flick’s entire 92-minute sprawl is a monotonous chore none but the masochistic should attempt. Toward the end of the picture, once “The Legendary Creature of Arak” is finally captured, he/it is revealed to be a neatly groomed giant with a smooth white coat, a pointy head, and a scowling orange face; closely resembling the ridiculous “Mugatu” alien from the original Star Trek series, this critter ain’t the most formidable of beasties. Plus, the monster turns out to be quasi-benevolent, which makes all the previous scenes depicting the creature as a savage killer seem nonsensical in retrospect. And so it goes for the rest of this abomination, which offers nothing in the way of amusement, entertainment, novelty, or thrills.

The Capture of Bigfoot: SQUARE

Monday, October 29, 2012

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Stefano in volo a Carpegna.

Vietnamese rice rolls & the perfect peanut sauce!

I figured that since Stef and I are lucky enough to be on the other side of the world, eating like queens, I'd share some of our favourite Asian-inspired things to eat back at home! Thai peanut sauce, and with the help of this easy rice roll technique, Vietnamese rice rolls!

Here are my favorite rice roll ingredients. The crunch is a necessity in rice rolls, so I like to add carrots, red pepper, cucumber and bean sprouts, as well as fresh basil and mint to give it lots of flavour You will also need leaf lettuce and rice vermicelli noodles, and of course rice paper to roll them up! For information on the easiest way to roll up the rice rolls, go and check out this tutorial-I used it and I had perfectly rolled rice rolls on my first try! I like to soak the rice paper in a pie plate with warm water.

Cook the noodles as you prep your vegetables!

Now for the peanut sauce:

First chop 1 TBSP of ginger as well as 1 TBSP of garlic.

Fry the ginger and garlic in a tiny bit of oil, then turn down to medium heat and add the following:

3/4 C crunchy peanut butter

1 1/2 TBSP soy sauce

1 1/2 TBSP rice vinegar

1 TBSP hoi sin sauce

1/2 TBSP sesame oil

1 lime, juiced

1/2 C water

1 TSP red chili flakes

Hot sauce (optional)

brown sugar (only add if you find it too salty depending on what kind of soy sauce you use-some are way saltier than others)

Mix everything together and heat until it comes to a boil, than remove from heat.

The rice rolls are best eaten while they are fresh! You can wrap them up in saran wrap and refrigerate for the next day though. Enjoy! Let us know what you think if you try making them!

These rice rolls are vegetarian, but taste great with chicken or shrimp too! Enjoy!

xo Erin

Bigfoot (1970)

My vote for the weirdest of the myriad ’70s movies about Sasquatch, this no-budget oddity transforms everyone’s favorite Pacific Northwest man-beast into an old-fashioned movie monster in the King Kong mold. When the disjointed flick begins, fast-talking drifter Jasper B. Hawks (John Carradine) drives through a forest with his idiot sidekick, Elmer Briggs (John Mitchum), while big-breasted blonde Joi (Joi Lansing) flies a small plane over the same area. Joi’s engine conks out, so she parachutes to safety. Arriving on the ground, she strips out of her flight suit into a mini-dress (!) and screams because Bigfoot has emerged from the woods to attack her. Then laconic biker Rick (Christopher Mitchum) rolls into the woods with his curvaceous girlfriend, Chris (Judy Jordan), who for no good reason is wearing a bikini (!). She stumbles onto a Bigfoot burial ground, and then screams because Bigfoot has emerged from the woods to attack her, too. Because, of course, smooth-skinned white chicks make Bigfoot’s blood boil.

Rick seeks help, but only Jasper (remember him?) believes his story; Jasper offers aid because he plans to capture a Bigfoot for freak-show exhibition. Meanwhile, Peggy—still wearing her swimsuit and, of course, sporting perfect hair and makeup—wakes up tied to a tree beside Joi, who also has perfect hair and makeup. They’re being watched by three Bigfoot creatures (portrayed by actors in ridiculous monkey suits), so Joi and Peggy scream some more. Then Jasper, Elmer, and Rick trek through the woods, bickering all the way, until they reach the Bigfoot lair. Before long, more people get tied to stakes, more people scream, and Rick’s gang of hog-riding biker buddies arrives for a big brawl with a bunch of Bigfoot creatures. Oh, and it turns out the monsters who’ve been guarding the women are the hairy brides/sisters/whatever of the real Bigfoot, a giant ape-like dude.

Bigfoot is a truly awful movie, combining a doofus storyline with shoddy production values and terrible acting, but it’s arresting in a fever-dream sort of way. Carradine’s supposed to be a formidable big-game hunter, but he’s an arthritic, emaciated senior dressed in a suit and tie. Christopher Mitchum, the son of screen legend Robert Mitchum, is supposed to be a tough-guy biker, but he’s a passive nebbish who politely refers to Carradine’s character as “Mr. Hawks.” Jordan and Lansing are so outrageously curvy—and so nonsensically underdressed—that their scenes feel as if they were guest-directed by Russ Meyer. The movie toggles back and forth between second-unit location shots showing actors full-figure from a distance and cheesy soundstage footage with the principal cast in close-up, so it’s like the flick drifts in and out of reality. Bigfoot creatures get more screen time here than in virtually any other ‘70s Sasquatch movie, which is not a good thing—prolonged exposure highlights the bad costumes. And we haven’t even talked about the upbeat honky-tonk music that plays during suspense scenes, or the incongruous surf-music cue that appears whenever the bikers are shown driving. Oh, and at one point, a lady Bigfoot wrestles a bear.

Bigfoot: FREAKY

C2C Humility by Ellen + c2c Trips on November 3rd

Ellen fas been very modest about doing Skyline 4 times in eight days including one c2c
Upcoming C2C trips by the Meet-up group this Saturday Nov 3
Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat Premiere

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