What a Lovely night...

For haunting. It's raining off and on, there's lightning, and the occasional thunder. Welcome fall, I missed you.

I HAVE BURLAP!

And I'M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!!

Friday the 13th.

I nearly turned in to Jason, Hocky Mask and all.
Friday was the day from hell. I worked two 8 hour shifts in the course of 25hours. HELLOOOOOOOOOOO GRAD NIGHTS.
Yeah. Hellish. Never had to do that before, it was the epitome of not groovy. How ever I got paid, so I do not care. (I love, however, how they gave me just enough time between shifts to avoid overtime pay)
Today is my first real evening to myself this work week.
But a cool thing happened this past grad night: I work at TLT, and we have a stage. On that stage was a DJ spinning techno and house music all night.
At the stroke of midnight the all too familiar refrains of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor came over the speakers with a thick beat in the background. Deadmau5's ghost's and stuff then faded in, and then came a well timed Vincent Price Thriller Laugh.
Hehe.

I liked that DJ.

Less than a month, Tron and Daft Punk.

And I'll be working at Disney.
Freaking crazy. It's hard to believe, but its happening.
So much to do.
Perhaps most appropriately, I finally saw and reveled in the visual and musical feast that is Tron: Legacy, It's an intense film, with a simple quest story that could have been deeper, as was if you knew where and had the presence of mind to look for the depth, but even short of that, I adored the movie, and its one of those films I can say is beautiful. Daft Punk's score is entrancing and addicting, and I now have it in CD form as my best friend bought it for me for my birthday/christmas. It's playing over my purple JVC flats headphones as I type this, the deep resonance of Arena rocking my ears with the awesomeness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFXYuw96d0c
I never thought I'd say "Daft Punks score" with reverence before, but trust me, its perfect.
Anyway, I just wanted to share my thoughts.

We has Policy? Oh yes, yes we has.

Alright, obviously there has been a touch of confusion, and I just want to clarify some of my personal policies dealing with my blog and some things about who I am.

Policy:

• If you email me, it is likely that your email will be automatically sent to my spam folder. I do not check my spam folder, so don't expect me to receive emails. This will not change, sorry. Maybe one day if this site becomes super popular (yeah right) I'll create an account just for this site, but until then, no emails please.
• If you wish to enlighten me about something that is Horror/Halloween/Prop Making related and/or "OMG AWESOME" -worthy, please feel free to let me know in a comment. I prefer verifiable links and or "Hey Strublay! Google this..."
• Understand that what ends up on full blog posts is at my discretion, just because you throw it on the comments, does not mean I'll do a full post featuring what you sent me. If your link or search term proves to be reliable, however, I will allow the comment to be posted.
• My typical sources are HalloweenForum.com, Flickr, Photobucket, ect. So if you are shy, just post your pictures on one of those sites and I'll probably run across them during my daily scans of a bunch of sites for cool pictures
• If you see that something has been improperly attributed, please let me know in a comment.
• Yes I post a lot of my own pictures. It is my blog after all. ^_^

I honestly appreciate your understanding regarding these matters.

About me:
I am an artist and college student here in the Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. I am dual majoring in IT and 'Arcane Herbology and Spellcasting'. I am an artist that does a lot of prop making (which encompass all forms of art, really) and it is safe to say I go through phases. I was born here in Las Vegas, raised here, and I love my oddball city. I lived in Arizona for a short time, and thats when my obsession with Halloween really began to blossom. I have been obsessed with the aesthetic of Halloween ever since.

My nickname, Strublay, originated from my technical theater days in High School, we were doing a play by Brecht, and my director/teacher was a smart alack and altered my first name to one that was in the play in question and used it as my nickname for the duration of the play. My cohorts in the tech department decided that my last name needed to fit in too, as my first and last name were already odd. After the play only my last name stuck around, Strublay. After I graduated, I started using it as my pen name on my less interesting blogs That no longer exist.

Working Like Crazy.

The majority of my costume ideas got thrown out the window... I just did not feel like sewing this season, with 5 classes and a lot of stress, who the hell would?

So I'm not! (LOL)

Thus, I'm trying to figure out how to drape and pin 3 yards of 43 inch wide black fabric as well as drape and pin a dark purple king-sized sheet to look witch-y. 

Work with what you have, right? 

I'm thinking of going greco-roman with it. We'll see, I'll figure it out.

I've got a few more Jars begging to get witched, the Soul Cage is very nearly completed.

I've got treat bags to finish, Photographs to take, and props to set out.

Saturday is carving night. 

Sunday is Samhain!