{"id":932,"date":"2012-10-31T09:26:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=932"},"modified":"2012-10-31T10:13:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T16:13:35","slug":"happy-halloween-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And, to start off happy, we&#8217;ll begin with music. I was hoping to cover all of the classic monsters with songs I&#8217;m familiar with, but I couldn&#8217;t find &#8220;Mummy Shuffle&#8221; or &#8220;Truck-Driving Vampire&#8221; on YouTube. I don&#8217;t intend this to be a comprehensive playlist; it&#8217;s only a few songs for the theme.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start with werewolves, with the song &#8220;Silver Bullet Blues,&#8221; by Michael Longcor:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g4-7SfFVT6Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Next, we&#8217;ll play &#8220;Frankenstein,&#8221; by the Edgar Winter Group (one of my favorite highway songs):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gfQbkFp16cw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No vampire or mummy songs, so we&#8217;ll move into zombies with the Kingston Trio&#8217;s &#8220;Zombie Jamboree:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p4k5XftdTMs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll follow that with a ghost song &#8211; Red Sovine singing about &#8220;Big Joe and Phantom 309&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCeVP9WuA6I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, staying with the dead for a moment, we&#8217;ll finish with &#8220;Dead Man&#8217;s Party,&#8221; by Oingo Boingo:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7PGHF_kza8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Moving on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2012\/10\/killing-sexy-halloween-the-ethical-and-practical-complications\/264212\/\">Eleanor Barkhorn has a problem<\/a> with the idea of &#8220;sexy Halloween costumes,&#8221; particularly with respect to younger women and girls. Given my glandular bias, I have little problem with them, although I might make an exception for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/15-unnecessarily-sexy-halloween-costumes-2012-10#sexy-osama-bin-laden-no-explanatory-caption-necessary-5\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This, on the other hand, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cockeyed.com\/incredible\/atst_costume\/atst_costume1.html\">one impressive costume<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Metafilter had a number of links to appropriate reading material yesterday. I&#8217;m giving the Metafilter links in all cases rather than directly linking to the stories, because at least one of the target websites is trashing the link and going to a generic backup site because of the aftermath of Sandy. Also, the commenters often have interesting additions to the topics.<\/p>\n<p>First, a scientific paper on the feasibility of the events in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/121403\/We-shall-either-go-mad-from-the-revelation-or-flee-from-the-light-into-the-peace-and-safety-of-a-new-dark-age\">The Call of Cthulhu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/121322\/Scroll-Down-for-Shivers\">a pointer to an io9 article on spooky webcomics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There was apparently a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/121314\/and-now-its-time-to-scare-you-half-to-death\">horror and fantasy radio series<\/a> in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Another link to io9, this one to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/121285\/The-horror-the-horror\">the 55 scariest scenes from fantasy, SF, and horror films<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know about &#8220;the&#8221; as the modifier, because these lists are always subjective, but they&#8217;re usually interesting, anyway. Besides, I&#8217;m not much of an aficionado of being scared, so I&#8217;m not one to make such a list myself.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one to scary stories <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/121247\/Frightening-fiction\">selected by writers at The Guardian<\/a>. When it comes to Crawford, who wrote the first story listed, I&#8217;m more inclined to select &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gaslight.mtroyal.ca\/upprbrth.htm\">The Upper Berth<\/a>.&#8221; Another story from that era that I like is, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gaslight.mtroyal.ca\/owhistle.htm\">Oh, Whistle and I&#8217;ll Come To You, My Lad<\/a>,&#8221; by M. R. James.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to make <a href=\"http:\/\/fvza.org\/\">all appropriate preparations<\/a> for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I haven&#8217;t carved a pumpkin for this year, but I did run across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasypumpkins.com\/carving-the-deathstar.htm\">these instructions that I like<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=801\">last one I did<\/a> came out quite well &#8211; not only did my daughter like it, she took it to a party and it was stolen. <a href=\"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=434\">These earlier ones<\/a> also came out pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Some interesting anatomical concept art <a href=\"http:\/\/madspeitersen.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, to start off happy, we&#8217;ll begin with music. I was hoping to cover all of the classic monsters with songs I&#8217;m familiar with, but I couldn&#8217;t find &#8220;Mummy Shuffle&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-music","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}