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Wax Dolls and Animatronics

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It's a bright sunny day somewhere in Texas. My family and I had just gone to Six Flags the day before and we were on our way home when my parents saw Ripley's Believe It or Not Wax Museum. this didn't seem bad to me, it sounded cool. At the young age of six, I figured that meant giant candle art. Candles were alright, they were familiar. How I was wrong. Once inside I knew something was off, there were a lot of lifelike things and people that weren't alive.  It was bearable for a while, however, a fear of wax dolls and animatronics soon followed as we were touring the museum we came to a HORROR section. It terrified me. None of the wax dolls moved up to this point, but in the horror section there were moving Predators (the Arnold Schwarzenegger one) and wax Jasons and Freddy's that came out of gaps in the walls. It was awful. I don't like candles very much now because of it. One cool thing I got out of it though was a wax replica of my hand.

Danny Elfman and His Many Personas

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Oingo Boingo's most popular logo Throughout Danny Elfman's lucrative career (most know him as Jack Skellington or that one guy who composed the na-na-na-na Batman theme) he has played satirical roles of so many kinds of people. He has played the role of a devout Christian man, a pedophile, a government skeptical, a strict follower of the government, a recluse, a stalker, a romantic, and quite a bit more. The thing is that he's not a visual actor — he does all this through fronting his (former) band Oingo Boingo .                                                                        Easily my favorite  band, Oingo Boingo provides so many perspectives in their music that every song is something you can think about. For example, in Wake Up (It's 1984)  the lyrics attribute Elfman to a well  intentioned class of government skeptics while on the same album, the track No Spill Blood  directly counters the previous track by being about conforming to the governm