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Saturday, October 22, 2022

Now Playing: Some Saturday Music

By Stars of the Lid.

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Mall Halloween Display

Courtesy of Haunted Eve Halloween - one of my most favorite places on Instagram.

Oh, that Pumpkin GhostWitch.

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Friday, October 21, 2022

Now Playing: Children's Day At The Morgue

Strange this one isn't heard more often during the season. It's like the Grinch song, but for Halloween.

Maybe it's considered low brow?

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Haunted Overload 2022

Lots of photos showing up on Instagram of this world class Haunted Attraction.

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Click below for the wonders of Pumpkin Growing... I wonder if they have a putrid loathing for squirrels and chipmunks like I do after trying to grow pumpkins on and off for years (and then giving up):

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Rum Cider Cocktail

From WorldlyTreat.com:

Ingredients

Crushed ice

4 .Oz dark rum (I used aged rum)

8 .Oz apple cider

4 dashes orange bitters

2 .Oz triple sec simple syrup

ginger beer to top (I strongly advice using Fever-Tree brand. The ginger is intense)

Apple slices to garnish (from 1 apple)

Instructions

Combine the rum, apple cider, and orange bitters in a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake vigorously until frosted.

Fill the serving glasses with crushed ice (you can equally enjoy it without ice).

Strain the rum cider cocktail into the glasses halfway up (about 7.oz). Top with ginger beer. Garnish with apple slices or cinnamon sticks. Sip immediately.

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The Bitter End Cemetery

When it's my time to go, please deposit my remains at Bitter End.

I don't believe I've ever seen a fake cemetery like this one. Usually it's quite obvious it's artificial, especially since the average Home Cemetery is on someone's front or back yard. But the setting of this is like the real thing. Bananas.

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Scored To Death

Really looking forward to this documentary.

I love that there's an interest in stuff like this these days (assumption). Film music, Horror or otherwise, was always such a part of my life when I was growing up. You could tell who a composer was back then, just by listening to the music. And if you couldn't, you certainly could tell the good ones. Like you knew something magical was happening when you heard Carpenter's HALLOWEEN... Or that beautifully creepy motif in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. The massive scores of James Horner, John Williams, or Jerry Goldsmith were their own characters in those movies they scored. And something like Bill Conti's theme from ROCKY was legit a living person.

Enter buzz kill:

Do modern scores do anything these days? I can't think of a single one that I'd really want to listen to over and over again. Scores used to be fun stand-alone things. Now they're just like the movies they're slapped onto - fast and forgettable. I can't think of a single modern motif or theme. Here's hoping there's a Cultural Rennaissance coming. I think I need one.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Three

Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing.

Image by halloween_hostess.

The Night Of The Hessian

The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head.