Motelx 2013 - Come out and Play said the Creeper

Creepy Crawlers,

Delusional Dames,

Satanic Spirits,

Mangling Monsters,

these are some of the things that give me shivers.

- Sara Dartmoor

 

hello again!

 I went to the Motel X in Lisbon, which is a very scary film festival!

and we love scary, right?

I really wanted to go in costume as Heidi from the new Rob Zombie movie; The Lords of Salem; which by the way I loved to watch immensely. again.

yes, I had already watch the movie but I just had to see it on the big screen, otherwise, what kind of a film addict would I be?

unfortunately I didn't have any spare time *cof, money, cof, cof* to make a good-to-decent costume, so I just flared a bit with some mean eyebrows and the Witches' symbol, that I would adore to tattoo one day.

they also had some cool stuff in exhibition, and just drooled over it...

 lovely guts.

needs more goo!

 now, the concept art, storyboard and little snippets of the actual workers:

 *lower left drawing caption: oh no you don't girlfriend!*

 

 you know, I'd have to say that there are many *jobs* I know I would be good at, and this...

would be one of them.

I actually tried to find courses that taught this type of stuff, but 11 years ago, all I could find was a private course all the way on the other side of my country, that besides being abhorrently expensive, it required high school courses done in chemistry... I was a major in Arts.

what happened to the good old days where a person could just learn by shadowing someone in the business?

 

 and this? I just thought it would be a good wallpaper.

we made plans with some friends to go see some of the new movies, like "The Conjuring" and stuff, but when we tried to buy the tickets to those movies, everything was completely sold out!

so it wasn't much of a big outing with our friends, but  we ended up being with our friend Freezer and some of his mates, who were really cool, and we just chatted about movies while me and Skav were eating dinner.

we ordered 2 large pizzas and a bottle of red wine.

now, we ordered wine because we *thought* the pizzas would suffice as means of not letting us get super trashed, and I'd had pizzas from Baldracca before, and my memory is that they were quite good. granted, it was some odd 3 years ago, but I never thought they would fall trough on quality as much as they did.

the pizzas were an almost comical paper thin dough the size of 2 dinner plates, with what seemed to be 2 table spoons of tomato sauce and 3 lonely, sad slices of pepperoni...

I think this better illustrates our feelings after seeing our "dinner":

 

so yeah, we had a bit of nothing-pizza with our red wine.

after a delightful conversation about Japanese horror movies, we said goodbye to the guys and went on to our designated movies.

me and Skav went to the viewing of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" the original, that I believe every person who even thinks about calling themselves a horror movie fan, has to watch at least once.

it's called old school son.

we were already late to the movie by the time we got up from the table, and even tho we had eaten the "pizzas" we couldn't leave the quarter of alcohol inside that bottle and just leave it there.

we have too much respect to our booze, so we just put the rest of it inside an empty water bottle and continued our drinking inside of the cinema.

was it allowed? I don't think so, but I think we were passed the respect for rules, after downing almost an entire bottle of wine in less than 20 minutes.

an awesome thing about that movie was the person who was going to present it, and it was no other than the amazing Tobe Hooper!!!

my Skav is the real fan of his work, but I was in such a stupor of booziness that I was the one who couldn't contain herself. I was so excited to meet a master of horror like him that the moment he walked through the stage door I went ballistic and waved like a maniac to him, and we were so close to him, that he saw us.

well, I don't like to put my excuses on the booze, but I believe that for character protection I will do it just this once.

the next thing I did was to... "wiggle" my boobies at him while the crowd was applauding insanely.

I was applauding my own way. I'm *different*.

but the most awesome part is that he in fact SAW me, and started saying hello and giving me the thumbs up, smiling with is cute grampa face.

I guess he liked what he saw. 

I could find a very witty way to explain how I think I was behaving at that moment, considering the whole previous rumbustious happenings of that night, but there is nothing I can parody better than the great Seth McFarlane can't do, so... this ended up being me and Skav when meeting a famous movie maker:

 stay cool!

xoxo

Óbidos Medieval Fair - 2013

hello there, friend!

I know what you're thinking... "where the heck are those Christmas posts you promised?"

well, I gave it a lot of thought and I came to the conclusion that whenever I promise something here, there are a series of unavoidable events that flourish into an almost sort of butterfly effect, preventing me of keeping my word.

that or I'm really awful at time management.

so, with no further ado, I will proceed with numerous posts of stuff that happened quite some time ago, because as they say in my country:

"to remember is to live"

***

ah! the Óbidos fair... what a delightful day that was.

 here are some of the highlights of the day, and just that because there was about 100 pictures taken that day, or something in that ballpark.

here you can see the Castle where there's actually a type of fancy hostel if you want to visit medieval times but still be able to take a warm shower and use a clean jon.

the center part of the photo shows you our most favorite place: the bar.

since a friend of ours was participating in the Fair, the nice Friar "Tuck" in charge of the drinks made us a discount price for the entire day, so needless to say, we drank heartily.

thank you Friar Tuck!

these next photos are handmade crafts done by a very interesting Blacksmith (which I felt very attracted to and no, he was not hot at all) that oddly reminded me of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. only because he was big, manly, mean and super muscular... I swear my uterus shivered every time his hammer struck the half-made sword in the anvil.

uff...!  

he was using the above contraption to actually parch his thirst while working.

I kid you not.

 *Skav & Sarah, sitting in a throne, k-i-ss-i-n-g*

 

 *smile, cause you're mine*

*me and my gorgeous little Swan, Dri*

that is an hot ass!

the donkey I mean...

me and Dri were loving to pet this cute little guy, until the owner said it bit off one of her nephew's fingers off!

I never pulled my hand so faster from a cute animal before in my life.

 this was part of the food court, were you could sit (if, and that's a big IF, you had any space for your butt cheeks between the multitude of people trying to do the same) and enjoy some medieval style foodies!

 yes, we even had music!

and please notice the delicious Sus Scrofa Domesticus (miss piggy) being gently cooked on a slow fire in the back... yummmm.

 some of my lovely company for the day.

I really miss that guy... but sometimes life takes such unexpected turns.

I read somewhere that "you are the choices you make".

but what if someone else is making those choices for you...?

life is tricky sometimes.

 *cute little watch tower*

 now, here's a really good friend of ours; the Mead Man!

I can't recall his name, mostly because every time we meet I'm very drunk or getting very drunk, but he always remembers us, from the Vagos Open Air in 2012 and 2013.

we always stayed with him chatting and eating boiled snails (don't hate, it's a cultural thing) during any bands we weren't so keen on seeing.

my little Sis has her birthday very close to the days we're at Vagos, and this nice man even offered her a big bottle of mead, which I had copious sips from, because I'm the big Sis of course.

 *another Friar Tuck, giving out a battle scream, the food's cooked probably*

and now... for your medieval entertainment....

THE JOUSTING!

with a special appearance of the "Espada Lusitânia" and our friend Tomás who was so kind to offer us the tickets so we could enjoy an awesome day - for free!

they enchanted us beyond belief with their skillful swordsmanship!

 

 there he is fighting his sword master.

I once went to one of his classes, and I must say, nothing gets your blood rushing better than invest towards someone with a training sword!

and I did it!

I was scared shitless at first, but I did it...!

 *gorgeous attention to detail to better simulate olden times*

I believe it was around this area (or I could be terribly wrong) where we watched the reenactment of the Portuguese assault to a Moorish occupied castle.

they had real arrows lighted with fire, rock trowing, and loads of people in costume doing that huge production.

I feel bad that I have no pictures of that, but I think it was my lovely camera that decided to run out of battery. thank you kindly.

 *I'm sexy and I know it!*

Lord of The Rings (Return of the King):

Gimli: You young rascals! A merry hunt you've led us on, and now we find you... feasting and... and *smoking.*
Pippin: We are sitting on a field of victory enjoying a few well-earned comforts.
[Merry blows a smoke ring]
Pippin: The salted pork is particularly good.
Gimli: [eagerly] Salted pork?

*cheers!!!!!*

to one of the best days of my life.

if I could turn back time, I would, just to re-live this awesome day all over again.

xoxo