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Title: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 08, 2009, 02:45:55 PM
So, I ventured along with a friend of mine to a second hand bookstore to buy inexpensive books a few days ago. 

I was looking for old EC Comics (Vault of Horror, Weird Tales, Weird Fantasy, etc.) and some Lovecraft stuff as research for this project I'm writing for.  The place is incredible; it was an old haunt of mine back in my initial Los Angeles reign and it's only amassed more literature in my absence.  It has that dusty, old bookstore smell, and despite a recent relocation (and renovation), still retains that kind of classic shop look from the movies.

I snatched up some great EC Comics reprints of Vault of Horror and Weird Fantasy, but didn't have enough cash to buy these complete, hardcover sets of Weird Science and Weird Tales.  I also picked up some Lovecraft works and essays - including old Arkham essays from the '40s enclosed in folder-looking binding (not the typical book binding).

I wandered into their occult and mythology section, which always has some interesting stuff in it.  At the same time, we were trashing Funny People (which we just saw) and talking about the The Breakfast Club.  Basically, it was agreed upon that Apatow is no John Hughes.

I found an old and worn witchcraft book, which had passages detailing how to do some crazy shit - like raising storms with a cat.  Despite my curiosity to buy it, I put it back.  That's when I spotted something odd on one of the top shelves.

There was a black book laying horizontally on top of other, neatly spined books.  What caught my eye was that there was absolutely no lettering on the spine, and that there was also a faded, purple ribbon of sorts hanging from it.  So I naturally picked it up.  There was no text or lettering on the back, spine or front.  Just a pentagram engraved on the front.

Yes, a pentagram.

At this point, both the curiosity of my friend and I was piqued.  I open the book and find a penciled in price on the first, blank page.  Then I flip the pages - I flip through all the pages.

They're all blank.

I show it off to my friend, who begins to mockingly (maybe?) slowly walk backwards from the weird book.  I put it back on the top shelf and surmise that it is a blank diary or journal of sorts.  We did want to invite our other mutual friend to look at it, because I half expected him to flip through it and go, "What's the big idea? It's full of this old, stupid text!"  Didn't have enough time.

Now, my friend blames me for the death murder of John Hughes, since we were talking about him when I found the creepy, blank diary which Eric P refers to as the NECROBLANKDIARYCON.

Sorry, John. :-\
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Vizzys on August 08, 2009, 03:28:28 PM
must have been a death note
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 09, 2009, 01:55:43 AM
It's a good thing that Willco doesn't know my real name.
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: BlackMage on August 09, 2009, 02:13:50 AM
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Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 09, 2009, 02:18:26 AM
Wilco finds a blank diary at a bookstore, film at 11.
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Don Flamenco on August 09, 2009, 02:26:50 AM
back to EC comics, the Weird Science ones were great!  The one where the guy drinks a shrinking potion and finds all the different worlds as he shrinks through sub-molecular space blew my 8 year old mind.  Also liked the EC comic where the guy gets a zit that grows into another face on his head.


since willco didn't even buy the death note, can this thread be about EC comics now?
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 09, 2009, 02:56:56 AM
Would anyone seriously buy a book like that?

I'm reading through some VAULT OF HORROR stuff right now - EC Comics are awesome.
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Kestastrophe on August 09, 2009, 09:40:59 AM
Is this the plot to your project, going metafiction ala Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on August 09, 2009, 10:09:04 AM
Breakfast club is distinguished mentally-challenged. It's full of obvious stereotypes and lame characters. Not to mention that the high school kids don't look like they are in high school at all.

Freaks and Geeks > Breakfast Club
Judd Apatow > John hughes
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 09, 2009, 12:25:30 PM
Judd Apatow movies are boring.
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: DJ_Tet on August 09, 2009, 01:39:40 PM
Quote from: FlameOfCallandor on August 09, 2009, 10:09:04 AM
Not to mention that the high school kids don't look like they are in high school at all.


Well now they don't cause kids are a bunch of pussies.  But in the 80's all the high school kids looked like Judd Nelson or Emilio Estevez.
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 09, 2009, 01:40:06 PM
Yeah, that is pretty much true.
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Don Flamenco on August 09, 2009, 06:02:47 PM
is there anywhere you can read EC comics online?  kinda sucks that half of these archives are out of print and $100 a piece...and they all happen to be the ones with the comics I'd want to read  :'(
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 09, 2009, 06:15:51 PM
Quote from: FlameOfCallandor on August 09, 2009, 10:09:04 AM
Breakfast club is distinguished mentally-challenged. It's full of obvious stereotypes and lame characters. Not to mention that the high school kids don't look like they are in high school at all.

Freaks and Geeks > Breakfast Club
Judd Apatow > John hughes

Apatow will never make a movie as good as Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Don Flamenco on August 09, 2009, 06:31:51 PM
if you stick a lump of coal up Apatow's ass, in a week, you'll have a diamond
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 09, 2009, 06:37:44 PM
Maybe it the the black bible from bible black.  Wilco have you suddenly grown a penis since reading this book?
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 09, 2009, 06:41:30 PM
No, but I am mysteriously gaining eerie superpowers that are making me increasingly confident and arrogant.
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 09, 2009, 06:44:46 PM
Your still in L.A. right?  That could be it.  Their water is slightly above the norm in terms of radio activity BTW. 
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 09, 2009, 07:32:54 PM
I'm in San Marcos now - still close enough to whiff that self-righteous attitude.
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Hollywood on August 09, 2009, 07:44:17 PM
You said top shelf right? Assuming there were 5 shelves, plus the number of book over, 18, that were there. THE NUMBER 23.

"So, I ventured along with a friend of mine to a second hand bookstore to buy inexpensive books a few days ago.  " 22 words, plus the fact this was in one post = 23.

"Yes, a pentagram." 13 letters + "Sorry, John." 9 letter +  " :-\ " one character = 23.

23. 23.

ITS EVERYWHERE. WHY. WHY??
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 09, 2009, 09:53:33 PM
 :o
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Barry Egan on August 09, 2009, 09:57:34 PM
the op, much like the previous Simpsons thread, is all viral marketing for Willco's "project".
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 09, 2009, 10:10:56 PM
I wish I could say that's true, but it's not my project - I'm pretty much a hired gun.  And it's not really related to Scientology or the occult (although, the latter could pop up).

I am thinking about writing a feature, I just don't know what idea to settle on.
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 09, 2009, 10:13:15 PM
On the other hand:

spoiler (click to show/hide)
The persona of Will Federman could be well executed and long running viral marketing for my actual project.  I have cleverly crafted this Internet character over a decade and will reveal that he is actually a vessel for the harbinger of death!
[close]
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: Reb on August 10, 2009, 07:19:43 AM
Lamest character ever.
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: muckhole on August 10, 2009, 01:16:48 PM
You could write a script surrounding my misadventures with septic tanks!

FECAL MATTERS: The Muckhole Story
Title: Re: My eerie bookstore experience aka DID WILL FEDERMAN MURDER JOHN HUGHES?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 10, 2009, 02:51:12 PM
Internet character I created for my new Hollywood feature.