In included that first typo because I wanted the world to know that I am okay with being imperfect. The second typo is because I was rushing and didn't proofread.
I remember the first time I saw the video for "Thriller." I was in elementary school the year it came out and my school was having a fall festival. There were games set up in the parking lot, easy games that cost a quarter a piece to play. You won tickets that could be redeemed for various prices--plastic rings and stickers.
In the second grade classroom, a room with the shades drawn and the lights out, a television and VCR were set up to screen the "Thriller" video. It cost twenty tickets to see it. I saved up all of the tickets I won all day long just so I could see it. It took a really long time because I wasn't very good at anything and there is a chance that I was given some tickets by older children who saw me weeping.
I watched the video in that dark classroom by myself because it was late in the day and everyone else who'd wanted to see it had already done so. Our school was really old and in the winter when they turned on the heat, the pipes knocked, a sound which the teachers assured us was caused by the ghost of the woman the school was named after.
Perhaps the video for "Thriller" seems quaint and silly now, but alone in that dark room, the distant voices of classmates and parents in the hallways fading as everyone left, I was utterly terrified and completely rapt. To this day when I hear the song, even Vincent Price's hammy monologue, I get goosebumps and remember the wonderful feeling of being young and believing in that which we cannot see.
When I left the fair to walk home and looked up and down the mostly empty streets of my little hometown, I know for certain that the world was a strange place.
A show about horrific, deathless creatures whose very existence is to experience and perpetuate endless, mind-numbing agony?
It is going to be about lawyers.
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