The Halloween music is over, on our classical music station. The best was Franz Waxman’s soundtrack for “Bride of Frankenstein.” Really creepy!
WSPA 98.9 out of Greenville SC just started, too. I found out when I switched over and heard Wham’s “Last Christmas.”
Lost the roulette seven weeks before Christmas. Good thing I like that song. If it had been “Feliz Navidad” I would have driven into the river.
December will be here before you know it.
If it lasts that long, I will…I have a few miniature red ones that would be perfect!
And Monty will get to start the mini-rants!
(Hope he’s thinking up good titles like this one)
I’ll try, but I don’t think I can top my “June, I’'m worried about the Peeve”.
I have been unable to find out how Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” has become so strongly associated with horror movies. Does anyone know?
Note to self: 1) Wear your glasses. 2) Never trust anything made of plastic.
I stopped by the grocery store to get some shrimp for dinner. They had 4 varieties from which to choose. If I’d been wearing my glasses I’d have been able to tell that I one I picked wasn’t so fresh (I trusted the place I stopped at because the quality of their stuff is usually good. I need to stop doing that and check for my damn self. This shit costs money and I should make sure I get what I am paying for).
When I got home I put one of those microwaveable packages of brown rice in the 'wave and then dumped it into a bowl to add some seasonings. I thought lemon pepper would be good. Except the jar I grabbed wasn’t lemon pepper. It was a jar of cloves, which I’d absentmindedly put in the wrong place. And it doesn’t have a shaker top so I dumped half a jar of cloves into the rice. Since there wasn’t any way to save it, I pitched it and 'waved a new bag. You’re supposed to tear open the top a couple inches to allow the bag to vent. Except it didn’t want to tear, so I kept pulling harder until suddenly the bag ripped open and dumped about a quarter of the rice on the floor.
Glasses. Scissors. I need to use 'em.
It’s on Disney’s Fantasia soundtrack, if available. It’s certainly the version I’m most familiar with.
Time to hit The Sonic. Corndogs, baby!!
Ha! Except there’s no Sonic within miles of me and I hate corndogs. Regular hot dogs and corn on the cob sound pretty good though …
I’m familiar with the piece, of course.
I’m just wondering how the linkage to horror movies came to be.
Crap! I was hoping no one would notice I didn’t read/register past “find”. :smack:
I suppose it’s just a generally spooky sounding bit of music.
No snow here yet but there were cars on the road today covered in it. They must have come from up north somewhere. It’s coming! According to some almanac thingy, it’s supposed to be a long cold winter with lots of snow and it’s supposed to drag on into a late spring. My usual snowplowing service has hiked their rates and I’m trying to decide between getting gouged by them or going for a less reliable cheaper service. With my luck I’ll still be thinking about it when the first major blizzard hits. That will probably be when the furnace quits, which has been making odd noises going on three years now.
It was used as the opening music to the 1931 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and was used a lot during the silent era. That probably started the association, then Fantasia, then it was also used in some versions of Phantom of the Opera.
It’s just a generally creepy sounding piece. I can remember as a child hearing it in the haunted house at our local amusement park.
I moved to England in mid-October. The biggest supermarket in the area had several aisles dedicated to Halloween and half its housewares section already invaded by Christmas.
I’ve lived in places where the decorative streetlights were very generic and never got taken down, they’d just be lit or not depending on the date. That’s making more and more sense every year.
We were in Amsterdam and they had plenty of extra lighting. Makes a lot of sense for a place that’s already got chilly weather and longer nights.
The local news announced that the Biltmore Estate has erected their Christmas tree already: (warning - autoplay video!) That’s all fine and dandy, but the segment goes on to mention that this whole display will be torn down and replaced before Christmas.
That’s kinda sad, and – speaking as someone who absolutely HATES putting lights on trees but doesn’t trust other people to do it properly – what a pain in the ass for the employees.
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They actually replace the big tree a couple of times during the season. It gets dried out and dropping needles doesn’t go with the “Biltmore mystique.”
I found out about that when I was working in hospitality in Asheville. I was in that job for seven years. I hate Biltmore now. (Note: I did not work for Biltmore.)