Late Night With Michael Myers
TONIGHT! Between the Saturday witching hours of 9 and midnight, between our first and second bottles of Crown Royal, between Steve Spears being a vegetarian and Steve Spears shotgunning a cheesesteak, a cavalcade of Stuck in the '80s stars will be holing up in the Spears Lair watching Halloween and recording a "commentary." This will be for a future Stuck in the '80s podcast, which you'll be able to sync up with the flick. (Yes, we know it's from '78, but we have our reasons.)
We're inviting you to play along, sending in questions, comments, wacky trivia about the movie or your own twisted trick-or-treating memories. We'll read your stuff during the show, especially if it makes fun of Steve. Heck, if you have Halloween, cue it up and watch it with us. You can post comments here or at Stuck in the '80s, we'll be checking both.
THE EVIL IS LOOSE!
Sean Daly is the pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times. His CD collection -- from Journey to Dylan, Prince to U2, Public Enemy to Stan Getz -- is much bigger and better than yours.
Seriously, Halloween? Are you Stuck in the 70s?
Why not an homage to Sleepaway Camp, a classic '80s slasher flick?
Posted by: Triangle o' Fur | October 04, 2008 at 07:21 PM
I have just entered the Spears Lair -- breaking it gently to Steve that I've invited 20 people here tonight. After the last time, when I left this godforsaken place at 4 a.m., I have managed to get a ride. How will I get home? You never know...
Posted by: Sean Daly | October 04, 2008 at 08:57 PM
off topic, but i scored tickets to ac/dc today, $213 for 2 tickets with charges included. totally worth it, i'll finally right a wrong from 28 years ago.
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 09:02 PM
Which one am I supposed to be reading? I'm cornfused.
Posted by: Cat | October 04, 2008 at 09:23 PM
reading both myself.
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 09:28 PM
Y'all need Pink to get the party started.
Posted by: Cat | October 04, 2008 at 09:28 PM
Hi Sean. I just got home from work. I don't have HALLOWEEN on DVD or VHS. How that's possible I do not know. It's one of the few horror flicks that I enjoy. FRIGHT NIGHT is my fave.
Did you bring extra candles for the bathroom?
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 09:30 PM
SD,
Don't worry, I'm working both sides of the street.
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | October 04, 2008 at 09:31 PM
same here, jeff
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 09:32 PM
Hi Sean,
Here is a shout out to your blog since Steve says you are begging for attention.
On the pop music subject: I am going to see Madonna in less than a month
Posted by: Cylon | October 04, 2008 at 09:34 PM
dont tell steve, cylon
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 09:36 PM
OK, I got sumthin.
Jamie Lee's husband Chris Guest is a Baron in the United Kingdom and is formally known as Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest.
How's that?
Posted by: Cat | October 04, 2008 at 09:38 PM
i hope ya'll dont have any of that yogurt that jamie lee promotes. could be a interesting night.
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 09:41 PM
Hey boys and girls!
The Spears Lair is looking pretty plugged-in tonight, lotta hi-tech equipment that I'm mere minutes away from spilling Crown Royal on.
Here's a TALKING POINT!
What was your most embarrassing Halloween costume?
One year I went as a crayon. My mom made the costume. Unfortunately, I was 14 years old at the time.
Posted by: Sean Daly | October 04, 2008 at 09:42 PM
Madonna is more of a pop culture subject than a pop music subject.
But that's a snark for another night...
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | October 04, 2008 at 09:42 PM
Doesn't she promote activa for healthy digestion? If that is the yogurt, I was not a fan. I got a free sample once at the grocery store and threw it away.
Posted by: Cylon | October 04, 2008 at 09:43 PM
i thought it makes you poop.
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 09:44 PM
Sean, it depends on the color of crayon.
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 09:44 PM
Focus people, focus!
Posted by: Jerry S | October 04, 2008 at 09:45 PM
i mostly went in store purchased costumes, with coat on top of it.
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 09:45 PM
My Halloween costumes always consisted of whatever we could scrounge together from the closets.
My uncle always gave us these fancy shmancy gowns. I never understood why he had gowns to give us for dress up. I assumed he had a lady friend.
Naturally, we had to stuff the boobala area and tuck and pin them to fit. It was later on in life that I learned my uncle put on drag shows.
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 09:47 PM
In Denver you had to assume Halloween would involve cold and maybe even snow.
So costumes were normally worn over ski jackets. It was a non-stop parade of overweight vampires, chubby ghosts, portly pirates...
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | October 04, 2008 at 09:50 PM
dont ever remember any costume being that memorable, except i dressed up as paul stanley one time. i had a friend of mine dressed up as eric carr. bout the only one i can remember
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 09:56 PM
Love it, JiC. That's making the show for sure...unless Spears spikes you yet again.
Pre-Crayon fiasco, my typical Halloween costume was the last-minute hobo getup. I just kinda looked like a drunk businessman. Sad really.
My best costume? Slash. Two years ago I went as Magnum P.I. -- fake 'stache, Hawaiian shirt, gun, snug white shorts. For some reason, I had people asking me if I was Tony Soprano. I flipped out. "Tony Soprano didn't have a bleepin' mustache!"
Posted by: Spearsy | October 04, 2008 at 09:56 PM
The best costume I ever saw was in college.
I girl I knew showed up at a dance I was DJing wearing a flesh-colored body suit with a big pink hat. She had a burlap bag tied to her feet with two basketballs in it.
That's right, she was a crank.
Everyone loved the costume, but no one would slow dance with her.
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | October 04, 2008 at 09:58 PM
sean must be drunk already, he signed it spearsy
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 09:59 PM
Several years ago I donned the "I Dream of Genie" get up. I sewed the blasted thing the day of the Halloween party.
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 09:59 PM
Dammit, that was me!
Stupid Spearsy.
Posted by: Sean | October 04, 2008 at 10:00 PM
must be using the same computer
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 10:00 PM
i think we've heard the magnum story before.
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Ooh, very hot, Marissa. I'd totally be Larry Hagman to your Barbara Eden.
Posted by: Sean | October 04, 2008 at 10:02 PM
I'm not how comfortable I'd be referring to you as 'master' but I'd give it a go.
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 10:03 PM
argh. typo anyone?
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 10:03 PM
didnt she call him master? just saying
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Yeah Sean, we see you in the Hawaiian shirt & white shorts at Tyrone Square Mall all the time.
Posted by: Orange Julius | October 04, 2008 at 10:03 PM
too late i guess, the master joke has already been made
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 10:04 PM
I remember my Mom & Dad going to a Halloween party when I was in high school. She was wearing a cardboard box painted like a pile of bricks, and he was carrying a trowel.
When I asked them what they were supposed to be, he said "She's the bricks and I'm the bricklayer."
[[shudder]]
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | October 04, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Stephanie has arrived! Cue the terrifying theme music...
Posted by: Sean | October 04, 2008 at 10:05 PM
I think John Carpenter wrote that eery freaky tune that scares the bejeebus out of me everytime I hear it.
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 10:08 PM
so ya'll watching the movie on dvd?
Posted by: CHAD | October 04, 2008 at 10:09 PM
I told Harriot that this year she should glue one of the kids' Hot Wheels cars to her sunglasses, carry an empty perscition bottle and go as Heather Locklear.
Posted by: Jeff in Cuba | October 04, 2008 at 10:09 PM
Carpenter did, indeed write the classic Halloween tune. Also this was an indy film, one of the more successful ones.
My most bizarre costume looking at old childhood photos was some kind of dime store darth vader plastic costume with clown makeup....don't ask, I have no clue.
One of my better ones was the classic Clark Kent/Superman last year:
http://www.johnphays.com/images/personal/johnclark3.jpg
Posted by: John Hays | October 04, 2008 at 10:40 PM
JOHN! That is fantastic. The hair? Is that a wig? Or RonCo spray on hair?
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 10:41 PM
It's spray on hair, but people 2 feet away swore it was a wig!
Posted by: John Hays | October 04, 2008 at 10:44 PM
That is some serious craziness on your noggin'. Blond suits you much better.
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Well my dad's hair's that dark, so I was always curious! (for those who haven't seen, here's a regular blond look):
http://johnphays.com/images/personal/johnblack.jpg
Anyway, a childhood Halloween story that came back to haunt me, so to speak:
One Halloween when I was pretty young, my folks drove me around and let me out to walk up to houses to trick-or-treat in our neighborhood. I had a great full-body werewolf costume on that my mom had made. When I got out at one particular house, I was greeted by a huge gorilla! This couple had set up ton of Halloween decorations on their front lawn and the husband was in a big gorilla suit scaring the kids as they came up the front walk. Naturally I was quite scared, and literally dove for the car, slammed the door on my werewolf tail, and insisted that my folks drive away, while the gorilla was trying to get some candy to give me for my troubles. I didn't want the candy, I just wanted out of there.
Years later while a grad student at UF, on Halloween night I was standing off to the side of an auditorium where many students were sitting listening to the leader of our digital arts and sciences club, when suddenly a gorilla came charging down the middle aisle! Most everyone got a big kick out of it. Now the strange thing is that, although I knew it was a friend of mine in the suit, and although I hadn't even thought of the original incident in years, I felt this uncanny fear creep over my body for a second!
I just have to say, it's a humbling experience to find out that you have a subconscious fear of something so random and silly.
Posted by: John Hays | October 04, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Lord, I am way far behind! And I haven't even checked out the 80's side yet.
Just want to say that I made that crayon costume for one of my kids, too. And no, I am not old enough to be your mother, Sean.
Posted by: Lori | October 04, 2008 at 11:35 PM
I always went the safe route (thanks to the dresses donated by my uncle) of princess, bride, fairy ... all things frilly and girly.
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 11:38 PM
John, I generally prefer dark haired guys, but that Clark Kent hair on you does nothin' for me.
Posted by: Lori | October 04, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Riss, is that uncle for real?
Posted by: Lori | October 04, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Holy crap! There's 148 comments over there!
Posted by: Lori | October 04, 2008 at 11:39 PM
My uncle is fo' real. Fo' sho. Wonderful man. He performed drag. Think Harvey Fierstein in drag. Not pretty, but very entertaining. At least that's what I'm told.
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 11:42 PM
Lori, there are live chats that have gone well beyond 300 comments. Steve can tell you the record.
Posted by: Marissa | October 04, 2008 at 11:44 PM
I thought it was going to be all about Halloween The Movie, which I've never seen and likely never will. This other nonsense I am all for!
Posted by: Lori | October 04, 2008 at 11:47 PM
Lori - Umm, thanks? LOL....wasn't really going for the hotness look, it's spray on hair! ;)
Posted by: John Hays | October 04, 2008 at 11:50 PM
John, it was a good costume.
Posted by: Lori | October 04, 2008 at 11:53 PM
I just want to go on record as saying that a week of vacation followed by a couple days of minimal effort on the job, then three days and/or nights of playing is really unacceptable.
Posted by: Lori | October 05, 2008 at 12:06 AM
Hey guys. Sean's on his 12th Crown Royal and his typing started to look like aiypfisyogwao9aphvkba aoiaudm, he asked me to say hi. So, hi! Halloween is taking 12 hours to get to, but it's gonna be a great cast.
Posted by: Stephanie Hayes | October 05, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Hey Steph! You really need to sneak outside the house and start beating on the windows or something, the guys have got to be easy scare targets at this point!
Posted by: John Hays | October 05, 2008 at 12:17 AM
I already called it, Steph.
Posted by: Lori | October 05, 2008 at 12:18 AM
I wonder if FF will be giving us details on Sean's return from the Spears' Lair and how pleasant his Sunday has been.
Posted by: Marissa | October 05, 2008 at 07:05 PM
Poor Sean, When you're BlogMaster General people want to know every sordid l-i-t-t-l-e personal detail. Private life drama baby leave you out. Give a guy some room to breathe, recharge and refresh. You don't need to know.
Posted by: MakenU1der | October 05, 2008 at 10:56 PM
Someone obviously doesn't listen to the podcast. Sean loves telling the details!
Posted by: John Hays | October 06, 2008 at 01:16 AM
Everybody loves Sean's details in the podcast, but the podcast isn't even here yet. Somebody doesn't read very well.
Posted by: Details Details | October 06, 2008 at 07:09 AM
Anonymity's a comfortable thing, isn't it? No accountability, just little jabs.
Posted by: John Hays | October 06, 2008 at 10:31 AM