Halloween Playlist for Thanksgiving
Usually Halloween lasts the entire month of October for me, and even part of September. TV channels start playing the movies, the air gets a bit chilly, and people burn their leaves, all putting me in a creepy mood that lasts up until the day after Halloween. Then we immediately start thinking about Christmas, helped by stores that assume we need to be reminded way too early. Now that it's almost Thanksgiving we should be thinking about being with family and giving thanks, basically Christmas without presents; a nice holiday if you like your relatives. I just never thought Christmas music was right yet at this time of year. It takes over the radio too quickly. Since Thanksgiving is in between two tuneful holidays, and has not very many memorable songs of its own, no real musical identity, why not borrow from Halloween as well as Christmas?Of course, I'm not really serious. It's just that this should have gone out on the Saturday before Halloween, but we got slammed with a huge snow storm, and I've been busy since. More than 950,000 people lost power in Connecticut alone, so some of this was written while using a 12-year-old but never used, breathe-and-it-shuts-down, you-can-have-hot-water-OR-the-refrigerator, and don't-even-think-about-using-the-stove-or-microwave-or-washing-machine generator. The piece of shit was replaced at the first opportunity, five days into the outage.
Also available at YouTube, if you prefer, so you can just play the list and avoid my blather.
I'll start this off with one of my favorite songs ever (well, technically two...actually more than that because each Saw movie had another version of it). My lovely iPod decided to play it as my lullaby on Halloween night. It certainly tops my list, no question. There is a strange and persistent beauty in its rusting metal, dilapidated nightmare.
