It's always been grotesque things

Okay so here I am, having just pimped the blog into what it appears now. I must say, it looks quite lovely. To tell the truth I wanted it to look dark, majority black but most of the dark backgrounds weren't satisfying enough, in my humble opinion *laughs*. But then, using mostly purplish ornaments, I think it looks pretty neat. Hopefully it's also eye-safe.

Oh and I also added the twitter widget on the sidebar. Now you can find out whenever I am in the mood to rant or spam about the most unimportant (and sometimes even disturbing) things.



Blog-pimping aside, I'm here now to talk about my childhood obsession, and I think some of you might remember this movie of which I am about to discuss here. The title is The Addams Family, and if I'm not mistaken it was played in theaters somewhere around the year 1991.

Maybe I was born with the tendency to love everything grotesque, dark, gloomy and gothic. I don't know. But for certain, I loved this movie the first moment I watched it. And I was just a kid back then. If it really was released in 1991, then I would be... 7 years old? Yeah, I think that's correct (pardon my calculating-ability, it doesn't work very well at this time of the night).

The whole atmosphere of this movie is everything I love about fashion, furniture and/or style in general. It's thoroughly dark with a funny side, an uncomfortable contrast had it been displayed elsewhere, but in this movie it became something fresh and amusing. Unlike horror movies, the grotesque side in The Addams Family didn't make me turn away from the screen. Despite the inhuman idea of electrocuting your big brother (in real life he should have turned to roasted meat) and a mutilated hand that could move around by itself, the movie itself was not horrifically scary. Of course, if it had been a horrifically scary movie the rating wouldn't have been family-friendly.

I personally love the characteristic of each member of the Addams Family. The father, Gomez, he looked like a mafia guy to me. The mother, Morticia (don't you just LOVE that name??!), kind of resembled a vampiress. And I love her dress. The kids, Wednesday and... what's her brother's name? *laughs* Well, obviously I put more attention on Wednesday more than I did the brother, but that was because she was one of the most brilliantly-invented characters in the history of movies. Okay I might have exaggerated that a bit. Wednesday is truly my favorite.


Okay so that's Wednesday Friday Addams (more details about her here). Adorable, isn't she? Christina Ricci was the cast, and she had the perfect gloomy, expressionless face to play Wednesday. Twin-braided dark hair, plain dark dress, pale skin... She's my role model. I mean, I've always wanted to look like her, but I don't have the skin complexion that she has *sobs* But maybe someday I can cosplay her... Just for a random, nothing-serious occasion. Her appearance is rather simple, but I will need lots of white powder to achieve that skin tone.


Now I wonder if Michelle Phan can do a tutorial on Wednesday's makeup. I should ask her.


Alright well, The Addams Family was and still is one of my favorite family-comedies. I have just downloaded (yes I know, the shame...) the movie and I'm going to re-watch it when I have the time to. I recommend you or whoever happens to stumble into this blog to watch it too. Who knows you'll fall in love with Wednesday Addams too, like I did.


So that's it for tonight then. I'll see you in another random entry.