So I have officially joined up with the kooky creeps in the newly formed Cleveland Haunt Club. Lots of new members joining daily and lots of cool ideas being thrown around at the monthly meetings (including a corpsing how-to demo by yours truly!!). Lots of positive energy to get me in the mood for the Halloween season...
And if you're in the Northeast Ohio area next Saturday, August 20, why not come check out the first ever Cleveland Haunt Club Haunted Garage Sale? Lots of area haunters all getting together for a haunt, Halloween and horror related garage sale. All vendor tables have been sold, so there should be plenty to pick through. I'll even have a table set up, so be sure to stop by, say hello and buy some of my wares!! Hope to see you there!
Available today is the vinyl reissue of what is perhaps the greatest score ever written - Angelo Badalamenti's soundtrack masterpiece for David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Released 25 years after the original, Mondo's gorgeous new version features a cool die-cut outer jacket, spot varnish and liner notes by composer Badalamenti himself. But perhaps the coolest feature of all? It's pressed on "Damn Fine Coffee" brown swirl vinyl...
Twin Peaks is available now over at Mondo. Do yourself a favor and grab a copy not only for the gorgeous new packaging, but for the stunning score contained within! It's a damn fine vinyl offering.
Every year, they seem to appear on the local grocery store shelves earlier. August 6 and the pumpkin beers are already here! It was 85 degrees today. Way too hot for a fall seasonal pumpkin beer (it's still "summer beer season"), but I opted to open up a New Belgium Pumpkick Ale...
As soon as that first taste of "spicy pumpkin flavor with an added touch of tart cranberry" hit my tongue, my reservations dropped completely. Damn, it was so good! Pumpkin beer season is here!! I'm all in!! So it's time to break out the annual Drunken Jackos rating scale, my HIGHLY scientific pumpkin beer review tool. You can read my original Drunken Jackos review on Pumpkick here. It actually ranked as one of the highest ever. Suffice to say that it's already time for me to head back to the grocery store to pick up some new pumpkin beers. I'll be sure to subject them all to the harsh scrutiny of the dreaded Drunken Jackos scale and share the results. Time to drink up, pumpkin fans. Cheers!!
The newest instrumental synth 7" record coming out next week from Toxic Holocaust founder, Joel Grind. Cool limited vinyl pressings available from Poisoned Mind Records on August 13. I really dig the classic horror synth score sound on both tracks, and a copy of this 7" will be headed to my collection immediately! Another highly recommended release!
A cold, weathered hand pierces the rust-laden earth of a late autumn night. Reanimated decay becomes the evening's guide. Masked faces bask in the fiery glow of a jack-o-lantern's illumination. A lifeless finger points the direction toward the next porch-lit house. For this is the night of ghouls and goblins and tricks and treats. This is the night of Hallowe'en...
