"I kissed her as she lay there in the coffin; and her lips were cold."

Watched White Zombie last night, in preparation for putting together my Voodoo Dolly piece for the Bela birthday bash.  I think I'd only seen bits and pieces of it before, never the whole thing all the way through.  Apart from some nonsensical things at the end (I think they were running out of film stock or something and rushed the ending), it's actually quite a good atmospheric movie and Bela was in fine form.

( a socio-political-economic discussion of zombies, with spoilers if you haven't seen the film )

Didn't get a ton of direct movement inspiration, but there is one characteristic hand gesture Legendre uses to control the zombies that I can certainly incorporate and that people who have seen the movie ought to recognize.

Also, in the tradition of the armadillo in Transylvania in the movie Dracula, the movie featured the wrong species of vulture in Haiti.  The only vulture there is the turkey vulture, but I suppose their large size would have made them difficult to film.  Plus who knows how cooperative they are. 

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Pretty amazing Amy Winehouse video from this week's Mercury Awards in the UK.  If that's not heartbreak laid bare, I don't know what is.  She looks good, I hope she's holding up ok.

must resist...

Somebody on bhuz is selling a Secrets of the Sphynx costume that would fit me, a little big but that can be dealt with.  But I have really no budget for it, and an upcoming event to plan for that will consume my spare money for the next two months.  Really, really must not buy costume.  But I could cry about it, I've coveted that one since Dahlal debuted it :-(