all the vampire stuff going on lately has got me thinking about the sixteen candles video..

there is a short movie version of this video that explains the relationship between bills character and mine. as well it explains the idea and paranoia that exists when one realizes that everyone is in on it. everyone is a vampire. i hope to get that out sometime. maybe if we ever get mythical 13th song from take this to your grave too.

oh and i lied about having a bootleg twilight on trl. im waiting for this lil baby i dont got time to buy bootlegs that dont exist yet.

— Pete on the twenty-minute version of the video

 

ya know, i cant even remember what the long version was. i dont think we fully finished it all. we were actually talking about this the other day, and brought up that we should just finish it all sometime soon.

— Andy on the 20-minute version of the video

 

I don’t like a lot of vampire movies. One amazing one is the F.W. Murnau’s classic silent film “Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Graunes” (more commonly just called “Nosferatu,” cause I mean, come on) in which Max Shreck plays the horrifying “Count Orlock” (a legally plagiarised Count Dracula). The great dark comedy “Shadow of the Vampire,” was based on the Hollywood legend that Shreck not only hadn’t made any other movie before, but his chilling performance was due to his actually being a real vampire. “Shadow of the Vampire,” featured John Malkovich as an overzealous film-maker and Willem Dafoe a Shreck, in this case a real vampire. This makes Dafoe one of the few actors to portray both Jesus Christ and some form of Count Dracula.

Dafoe (who’s real name is “William,” but kept it due to an interesting type-o) was originally considered for the role of the Joker in Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman.” Oddly enough, its sequel “Batman Returns,” featured the equally creepy character actor Christopher Walken as a character also named “Max Shreck.”

— Patrick on vampire movies

 

The book A Visitor’s Guide to Mystic Falls, about the TV show The Vampire Diaries, mentions Pete’s role in the video in an essay about Damon Salvatore by Mary Borsellino (uh, me). 

 

on another note i put the vampire teeth from the sixteen candles video in when i went home for thanksgiving.
its funny cause that this the only time i thought i looked alright in the mirror.
is that weird?

— Pete