Friday, September 30, 2016
Now Playing: The Candy Butcher
By The Divine Sham, from Decayed.
Drove around today in the gloom and rain listening to this amazing album, the music loud, and making the day feel like Halloween was near.
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Nanna
Nannie Doss was known as “The Giggling Granny” for
laughing about the poisoning method she used to kill. She murdered 11 people
from the 1920s to 1954 — four husbands, two children, her two sisters, her
mother, a grandson, and a nephew.
Star Wars: Unmolested
Perfect word for what George Lucas has done...molested.
Had a Star Wars marathon that was playing on the tv on in the background last weekend and those horrid additional/injected/enhanced/terrible-looking/insulting/stupid scenes stood out in such a painful manner. Especially that Jabba's Lair dance number. Christ.
Well, it brought back all the pain (I'll be complaining about this until I die). And then I saw the below article... and I pray it's true. And I pray this somehow leads to a release of the original as-I-saw-it-in-the-theater STAR WARS.
And after watching episode IV, V, and VI again, I feel I can conclude definitively and finally that Chewbacca is a living entity. A REAL animal humanoid. And not some guy in a costume.
Click below for the story...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Monday, September 26, 2016
Anoka: Halloween Capital Of The World
Back in 2008, I blogged that I was going to be moving to Anoka, Minnesota after finding out it was considered the Halloween Capital of the World. It seems our High Holiday is worshiped by those folks, and it's been that way since the 1920's.
But now, according to the Orlando Sentinel...
Orlando has been dubbed the world's Halloween capital in a new marketing campaign to lure more tourists and scare up some extra business.
Visit Orlando is promoting events on social media, arranging press trips and hosting a Halloween landing page on its web site.
The convention and visitors bureau has never branded the region this way before, Chief Executive Officer George Aguel said.
"We needed to pull this together in one big overarching way," he said. "We don't see any place that could even come close to the magnitude of how we celebrate the Halloween period like we do in Orlando."
Here's hoping big money doesn't win out over spirit.
Click below for Anoka's official website...
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Unholy Orchard
There really is no excuse as to why every hayride doesn't have stuff like this in their fields...
Saturday, September 24, 2016
...And We LIKED It.
Like in my case I loved film composer James Horner, but had no easy resources to find out information about him or to know what he was scoring next. We checked out the movie posters in the lobbies of theaters, we went to the library to look up any articles that might exist about him or perhaps even an interview, we flipped through records, tapes, and cd's in record stores for hours looking for something we missed. You'd find "newsletter" advertisements in horror mags or in the back of Starlog magazine and write to them asking to be on their mailing list. Thank the gods for the fanatical people who ran those things. Pre-Internet, they WERE the Internet.
I remember calling a soundtrack store in Leeds, England early in the morning, asking what Horner soundtracks they had... and finding out there were foreign releases not available in the U.S., it was like finding treasure. I think my mother made us pay for those calls.
Anyways, we talked about this stuff and pondered the good and the bad of it all. Like is it a good thing that someone now who discovers they love something suddenly has immediate access to literally everything there is to know about their new-found hobby? Does it feel as good getting it all so quickly?
Mind you, I'm grateful for what the Internet has provided me by way of my strange interests. I'm certain I would have missed out on a lot of the obscure music I love had it not been heard on Pandora or suggested by Amazon.com.
But maybe I savor it more remembering the way it used to be?
Maybe I'm just old.
Lurking Clown Arrested In Kentucky Woods Near Apartments
Clown justice...
How can this be real? It's like when they arrested Michael Myers in Halloween V and let him keep his mask on...
Click below for the story:
Friday, September 23, 2016
The Halloween Countdown Continues
Click below for days and days of the ultimate Halloween playlist...
Creepy Clown Sightings Continue Throughout The United States
I pray, PRAY, that I see one soon...
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| Laugh at me, will they? |
Now Playing: Collage
Horner's score for Titanic is one of the best-selling orchestral soundtracks of all time. He won an Oscar for that score and another for the film's theme song, Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On." But his career began much more modestly: He started out scoring pulpy B-movies, including Humanoids from the Deep for Roger Corman. His wife, Sara Horner, remembers meeting James when they were both students at UCLA.
"He took all of the money he made on Humanoids from the Deep, and then dumped it into the next score — he didn't take any money out," she says. "He used it to make the music as good as he could and lived off the money he made as a TA at UCLA."
She adds, laughing, "We just lived on nothing, just nothing."
Click below for samples from his Collage release:
Click here for the article.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Creatures Watching Over The Dead
The new album by Charred Walls of the Damned now streaming over at HowardStern.com...
Click below (album release date: 9/23/16):
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Monday, September 19, 2016
The Day Draws Near
Re-promoting my favorite candle shop as the big day approaches.
Looking forward to the first carved pumpkin of the season with one of these tea lights inside.
Anise & Clove candles from soyNsuds.
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