Every Day is Halloween (duh!) – Ministry She Moved Through the Fair – Lothlorien This is Halloween – The Nightmare Before Xmas soundtrack (You could take pretty much any song from that at random, but this one’s a Chez Evil favorite) Symphonie Fantastique – Berlioz. Yes, I mean the whole piece. Well worth your time. [...]
I love autumn. I just do. Always have, since I was a little evil person. Leaves changing colors and falling in great piles on the ground, the smell of people burning them. The warm days and icy nights of Indian summer. The beginning of the school year here in the US (yes, I am a [...]
We carved our pumpkins last night. Normally, we do it the weekend before, but things got out of hand here at Chez Evil last weekend and it had to wait. Two of the three of us have pumpkins. Poor Evil Dad was stuck carving the fiendishly difficult picture of a Cute Kitty thoughtfully selected for [...]
Happy Halloween! Need some music for the occasion? Here you go… 1. Tourniquet – Rasputina (anything by Rasputina, really, but this song has been going through my head lately) 2. I Put a Spell on You – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (my all-time favorite concert experience was one of his final shows before his death) 3. [...]
Last weekend was our almost-annual trip to our local zoo’s Boo at the Zoo fest. It’s normally held the weekend before Halloween every year; last year, we went with School Girl’s other grandparents. This year, we went with some old friends and their three boys, two of whom are 3+-year-old twins. Our first mistake – [...]