Halloween 2011: The Spider House
This house, a few blocks from me, is overun with giant spiders every Halloween. Fantastically creepy tableau, especially when the cocooned victim (not seen in this shot) is hanging from the porch.
October 18, 2011
Halloween 2011 Sighted:
Pier 1 Imports
Here are Beetlejuice-snazzy Halloween decorations at Pier 1 Imports. The skeleton appears to be light metal and is 5 feet or so tall, and the haunted house and pumpkins' totem are sparkly rad. Their burst of candy colors makes them very stylish for trendy urban decors. Makes me wish they were edible.
Halloween Beistle Jointed Dracula
Here's a puzzle: this striking Beistle 36 inch jointed Dracula from 1998 with the wild eyes and toothy bite is not the one depicted on the packaging label below. Funny, but I just noticed that while scanning this sucker. I wonder why the design change? That dapper vampire on the label is definitely less in-biting, don't you think? He's more cartoony, while this Dracula is more mes…mer…izing… good lord!, don't stare into his eyesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss………………………………………..
Frankie Stein and His Ghouls Tunes
While you can buy the other Frankie Stein and His Ghouls albums from Power Records, song by song, on Amazon. This one, Monster Sounds and Dance Music, my favorite, appears not to be available. I don't like plain old Halloween sounds per se, but when you combine them with cool, jazzy rock and roll, well, you've got something a whole lot better to listen to. Combine some Frankie Stein with your Midnight Syndicate tracks and you'll have a super ghoul-time for sure.
Special thanks to Professor Kinema for unearthing this from his vinyl archive!
Play Side A:Frankie Stein and his Ghouls A
(you can also right click the links to download the MP3)
Play Side B:Frankie Stein and his Ghouls B
Halloween Universal Monsters
Window Color-Clings
I'm not a fan of window-clings: they fade, they're small, so what's the point? Give me big decorations I can show off my Halloween pride with satisfaction. Now these designs are trendy; wish they'd have posterized them or made nice and BIG paper or (gulp) even window-clings of substantial size. Now that would be thrilling.