I was going to write something else today but I’ve been listening to this song all day and I think you should, too.
October 2010 archive
Oct 08 2010
Weekly Weird News
Google Books never ceases to amaze me. Not only has it been a boon to the Local’s horror research, but it also has full uploads of The Weekly World News back issues from its now-defunct print edition. Now you can finally read the infamous tabloid like you’ve always secretly wanted to, but were too embarrassed …
Oct 07 2010
That Sync-ing Feeling
Popular legend has it that if one plays Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon album while watching The Wizard of Oz, the music and actions totally sync up MAN. Pink Floyd denies that any of this was intentional and it has been pointed out that any seeming connections between the two are just …
Oct 06 2010
Move Your Dead Bones
Back in 2003, the people behind Beyond Re-Animator came up with a brilliant idea. In order to further publicize the latest installment of the 80’s Re-Animator franchise, a music video was prepared featuring an artist specially named to tie into the series: Dr. Reanimator. Not only would it further pad out the extra features on …
Oct 06 2010
King Sickabilly/Sasquatch and the Sick-a-billys
I’m selective in my rockabilly/psychobilly choices. The genre shares an unfortunate quality with modern country, where different people sound alike. Modern country has always appeared to be made up of five session bands and a rotating cavalcade of singers, producing different songs with different vocals but ultimately, sounding the same. It’s dull. There’s no real …
Oct 05 2010
Modern Halloween…Sanity?
I might goof on Halloween articles from old issues of Popular Science in the last few Halloween countdowns, but I should be fair and show some modern examples of their material. After all, things are certainly much safer (and saner) nowadays, right? Sadly, Halloween articles seem to be few and far between these days and …
Oct 05 2010
World Needs Monsters – diemonsterdie
You don’t need to go any earlier than the first Ramones record to see how interlinked punk and horror have been from the start: you can find it in ‘Chainsaw,’ a punk tribute to the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ but as well in ‘I Don’t Want To Go Down to The Basement.’ There was something automatic …
Oct 04 2010
Still More Vintage Halloween Insanity
For the last two years that I’ve do this, I always think I’ve found the most dangerous and foolhardy Halloween how-to and will never find anything that will top it…only to then find something that does so. This year was no exception. When I first read the “Mechanical Halloween Pranks” article from an October 1918 …
Oct 04 2010
Providence
[This is going to be a long one.] Providence, Rhode Island was and remains the home of H.P. Lovecraft. It was a town I had been to only once before I ventured north to see the Deadbolt show at Club Hell back in May 2010. The last time that Deadbolt came east was a year …
Oct 03 2010
Meanwhile…
Our apologies for not getting back to http://www.countdowntohalloween.com/ to get listed in the directory for the 2010 Countdown to Halloween. Paperwork has kept us from making the right connections. Luckily, many others have signed up to the Countdown and here are a few you should check out. Weird Hollow highlights Stan Lee’s Monsters To Laugh With, showing …
Oct 03 2010
More Creepy Cocktails (and Ghoulish Goodies)
If you thought that I had covered every type of Halloween-related cocktail and food recipes last year, you are quite mistaken. Here are my latest discoveries: 500 Caribbean Rum Recipes by Barb Mindar has a recipe for Voodoo Juice. The Daily Cocktail by Dalyn Miller and Larry Donovan has a drink called Hammer Horror. They …
Oct 03 2010
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Oct 03 2010
Stay Sick! Ghoulardi: Inside Cleveland TV’s Wildest Ride
Ghoulardi Inside Cleveland TV’s Wildest Ride by Tom Feran and R.D. Heldenfels Buy here on Amazon Tom Feran and R.D. Heldenfels book Ghoulardi: Inside Cleveland TV’s Wildest Ride documents how Ernie “Ghoulardi” Anderson, through the Ghoulardi character, captured the imagination and energy of Cleveland the way that a lot of the initial horror hosts did …
Oct 02 2010
A Horror Beyond Imagination…
While reading the excellent horror site Evilontwolegs.com, I learned of the artistic equivalent of the fabled Necronomicon, which only gets worse for your sanity the more you look at it. Here’s a quote hinting at the madness within: “If you imagined Freddy impregnating Jason, you’d probably think that this a completely original, albeit bizarre, idea. …
Oct 02 2010
House
Not Hugh Laurie Writing will be the death of you. Personally, I saw this when I tried to finish the 4th Friday the 13th ‘Strange Trip,’ which remains unfinished on my computer until the day comes when I can pick up where I left off. Something about either that movie or the regiment drained me. …