Basically what I'll be doing is lording over the Facebook and Twitter pages of Three Corpse Circus, doing general promotional things (haha, that's in my title). 3CC is an international short horror film fest started by these two friends a few years back, and I originally applied to their company for a Sponsorship Coordinator position, basically selling ad space for commission. Something that I'd never really seen myself doing, but the two interviews I had with Chris and John started to make me think otherwise.
These two guys ere hilarious. From their first question on that couch in one of their homes--"what superhero power would you want and why?"--I knew that these guys would help me through whatever I needed to make myself into whatever I want to be. I thought about it over and over again, wondering if I was just considering this job because it would keep me in Ann Arbor and I'd get over the whole I-hate-selling-ads thing, or if I was really interested in a Horror Film Festival--two things I'd never in a million years considered myself doing, let alone in the same place. When I was a kid, some of the guys I grew up with literally tied me to a chair and made me watch Goosebumps. It was the episode where a crazy man kidnaps children and makes them play the piano for him, then cuts off their hands so their hands will continue to play ad infinitum for the rest of time. That basement with a hundred grand pianos and a hundred pairs of children's hands haunted me for a long time. I'm not really sure why. I didn't even play the piano! I was so afraid of being scared, I think, that I wrote off horror movies or anything of that ilk for a long time. Only recently have I begun to rethink my perception of the genre. See, what I've come to figure is that scaring someone seems to me almost like religion. Not like put-the-fear-of-God in someone scaring, but like reminding people that they are human and humble and small and there are things out there, forces, that we cannot understand. And that's ok.
So here starts my re-education. I have lists of movies from my new boss, my boyfriend, my bro, and I think I'll start to document my reactions on this here humble little blog. I think tonight will be My Bloody Valentine, the remake starring Jensen Ackles, and Friday the 13th, the remake starring Jared Padalecki. I know those actors, I love those actors, and I think it'll be a fun way to ease myself in, you know?
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