Here are Stefan and Kate’s costumes for Dunsany’s “Carnival de la Mort” Halloween Ball. I was going for something 19th century ringmaster. ‘m still not sure about the red but as Rhapsodies is still a black & White strip I’m not beating myself up about it.
When I first saw the ads for the Seattle Art Museum’s current exhibit, Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon, I automatically assumed it would just be Pre-Columbian Andean art and nothing else. I was so convinced in this belief that I didn’t even look at the flyers that would have corrected me.
When I got to see the exxhibit this extra bonus made the exhibit all the more interesting. I was expecially fascinated by the room showing work from the Cuzco School. A fascinating example of cultural fusion and Catholic propaganda.
Shown here was my favorite a sculpture of the Archangel Micheal Triumphant. Done in the 17th century in polychromed mahogany embossed in gold and silver leaf.
I especially liked it as it’s one of the only representations of an angel outside of comic books I’ve seen where the flaming sword is included.
You know a movie is bad when the only reason to watch it is to listen to a new cover of an old classic in the credits. So here is Spiderbait‘s version of “Ghost Rider’s in the Sky” from Ghost Rider.
Today’s Song is one of my favorites, “That Old Black Magic” There were a lot of different versions to choose from but I decided to go with the Louis Prima/Keely Smith version from 1958.
Enjoy
I first had this one recommended to me from Shaenon K. Garrity‘s mad science song list on her Narbonic strip and I’ve been hooked ever since. So here it is for today’s song, Aimee Mann‘s Frankenstein. Enjoy
Today’s music is Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod best known as the theme music for Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
It’s interesting how our perceptions of music changes with context from individual to individual. Having first ever seen Alfred Hitchcock presents in reruns on A&E in my thirties this music never really had the scary Halloween connotations for me. In fact the first time I ever heard it was an audio version of Rudyard Kipling‘s Just So Stories.
Therefore when everyone else thinks of dark thrillers when they hear this music, I picture Sterling Holloway reading the Elephant’s Child.
