3 days til halloween!!

a 2-fer:

first, tim burton's 'vincent'






second, the short film "paranoid" ... based on "Paranoid: A Chant," a 100-line poem by stephen king originally published in the 1985 short story anthology "Skeleton Crew."

the poem is a first-person narrative from the diary of a paranoid schizophrenic person.. the character complains of persecution from "the old woman in the room above has put an electric suction cup on the floor..." "the waitress says its salt, but I know arsenic when it's put before me..." and many more horrors.. when she is served food with mustard she thinks it is "to mask the bitter odor of almonds," presumably a reference to cyanide.. according to the poem, the victim has amassed "500 notebooks with 500 pages in each one" and records all the wrongs done unto them in the books.. she thinks that her enemies are part of a massive government conspiracy and mentions the FBI and the CIA..

but don't we all??