Spent the rest of the early afternoon working on Maplepunzel. Maple, Victor, and Mackie help the animals from Hope Springs clear the shards of glass from the mirrors she ran into off Pavla. Pavla refuses to let them see her or have Maple heal her...but Maple remembers that Pavla did raise her, even if she didn't do the best job, and attempts to heal her anyway.
Pavla, however, means what she said. Her magic is too dark to be healed. Just as Victor and Mackie run over, Pavla looks in the last remaining shard of glass on the mirror that Walter the Bear nudged in front of her, so she could see that she was still pretty...and screams in horror at what she sees. Maple's gold light and the last light of the setting sun consumes her as the bird monsters surround her. When the light subsides, they're all normal crows...including Pavla, who has taken on her true form as a large red and black crow whose wings are covered in tattered black lace. She and her flock finally fly out the window.
Watched Hard Rock Nightmare on Tubi while I worked. I go further into this very late 80's heavy metal cheese-fest at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Hurried off to the Thomas Sharp School soon as I finished lunch. This time, we spent most of the afternoon in the library. The Tuesday music class was still in the cafeteria/gym when I arrived. Once again, the kids of all ages were annoyingly rowdy in the halls and outside. I had more fun chatting with three of the younger kids who joined me on a bench after I had to take one to the bathroom. The younger kids stayed in the library, where they colored fall and Halloween-related pages and a teacher read the tools book, The Dandelion Seed, and The Wheels On the Bus. Didn't help that it's gotten much colder and cloudier here, and the wind has picked up considerably.
I went straight home, because Jessa and I were going out to eat at 6. I was feeling like Asian food after the heavy American steakhouse fare at the Pub last week. Jess suggested a new, unique sushi place at the Market Place shopping center in Cherry Hill she'd been wanting to try. Kura Revolving Sushi Bar allows you to order fried food, appetizers, and soups and ramen regularly...but the sushi (and cake desserts) come rolling by you on a conveyor belt. The plates are under a small covered pod. You flip open the pod and take the dishes you want.
It was one of the most creative ways of serving food I'd ever seen. I just loved watching the food go by, whether I ate it or not, but it really was that good. I had udon noodles with tempura shrimp, California crab rolls, crab rolls wrapped in seaweed (shared those with Jessa, since they were big), shrimp sushi, shrimp fried wontons, and really good seared mackerel sushi. Jessa had vanilla ice cream and a red bean-filled fried fish pastry (which she shared with me) for dessert. I had a slice of thick, rich gooey butter cake. Our sodas came on two robot-like machines with shelves holding the drinks.
Finished the night at home listening to Halloween or horror-related records and CDs. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown isn't quite as well-known as A Charlie Brown Christmas, but it does have its share of good tracks. "The Great Pumpkin Waltz" is probably the best known, but there's also that spooky little "Graveyard Theme" from when the kids are running around in ghost costumes during the credits.
Witchcraft...! is my only jazz Halloween record. It's an instrumental collection of songs related to witches, horror, night, moons, or the supernatural, like "The Witch" or "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered." I like some of the songs that were new to me when I found the album, like "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" or "Spellbound.'
Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits is from 1974, when Cooper was still fronting his own band. Songs like "I'm Eighteen" and "Teenage Lament '74" are more teen rebellion than goth spookiness. You get more of what made Cooper's shock jock reputation with the explosive "School's Out," "No More Mr. Nice Guy, and "Desperado."
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