I’ve been very bad at following all of the comic based shows that based on my, tastes I should be throwing my support for. Despite likening Arrow my viewing grinded to a halt less than halfway through the season and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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To keep with the holiday season I decided to start viewing some dark fantasy films (my threshold for horror is mixxed at best. I prefer the subtler supernatural over the raw terror of a slasher film so a lot of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Regrettably I think I used all of the good stuff last year, but I’ll try to find some material to keep the mood going. So let’s start things off with Toccatta in Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The topic for this week’s halloween feature is one of my favorite monsters, the Werewolf. The first on my list, Hammer film”s Curse of the Werewolf directed by Terence Fisher starring Oliver Reed, is one I’d been curious about for years. First[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m trying to be a little picky in my selection for this year’s playlist so there has to be more to a song than just Halloween subject matter to make the cut. Mood and tone are equally important. This song,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I realized after the fact that I used yesterdat’s song last year… Mia culpa! Anyway. Today’s music is from Evil Dead: The Musical, yes really. I couldn’t believe it when I first heard of it, but it actually has a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well it’s been almost exactly a month since my first “jog” and not counting a week of being floored by something seasonal and nasty after my first week I’ve been keeping at it pretty steady. I changed two things after the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is one I grew up with from my Dad’s folk music collection. Burl Ives always had a “favorite uncle” quality about him that I pictured long before I ever saw him as the Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Halloween song I first heard in the Henry Selick movie, Monkeybone; “Hell” by the Squirrel Nut Zippers (which I always thought was called “In the Afterlife” until I was looking for it just now.) I’ve been a fan of the Squirrel Nut Zippers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I confess that for the most part other than having the name “Frankenstein” this didn’t quite have the mood of what I would call “Halloween” music, but Marcus Miller serves his Jazz hot just like I like it so what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…