I thought I’d give the boys in the Pumpkin Graveyard one last hurrah:

FULL SET HERE

I took some better photos of my moldering friends:

Carrie Johnson, lovely wife of Rotting Flesh Radio‘s Jonathon, has launched a line of super-awesome hand-made products, including hand-knit pumpkin caps (pictured below). The photo is kind of washed out, but you can see the little green stem on the top of mine (Ripley’s isn’t visible in this shot, but it’s adorable).

You can order your own at http://www.thelittlepumpkinpatch.com/

Special thanks to Jonathan for getting me these awesome Mickey Mouse ears from Disneyworld!

After a perfect crisp, cool September day where every other store we drove past featured its 2010 Halloween decorations and wares, I couldn’t stand it anymore. I broke out the Halloween Music Collection for The Season.

This is no small thing. I’ve been making Halloween mix-CDs since 1999 and, with the advent of MP3s and websites dedicated to the Halloween Ephemera of Yesteryear, any given year could produce a huge amount of music and up to 5 mixes for that given season. Eleven years hence, and it’s safe to say I have a ginormous collection of Halloween-themed and Halloween-related music, sound effects, audio-dramas, stories and related recordings.

And whoa, I’m small potatoes. Jonathon over at Rotting Flesh Radio claims a Terabyte of pure Halloween Goodness, and I believe him. That’s a LOT of Halloween music.

BUT! Because of the way I was raised, I won’t listen to any of it outside of September/October. I usually wait until later in September, but the day was just SO PERFECTLY SEPTEMBER-Y, and the Halloween stuff was JUST SO HALLOWEEN-Y, that I couldn’t stand it. So I’m rocking out to 11 years’ worth of Halloween awesomeness. This year I have the added benefit of FINALLY understanding the importance of properly labeling and tagging ones MP3s, so besides listening to any given year’s mix, I can set the music player to play Genre HALLOWEEN on random, and I’m good to go for the next… oh, say, 200 hours.

I’ll post highlights here periodically, if I can. This is my busy season, after all, but I refuse to miss the season I love because I’m so busy during the season I love. Y’know?

I’ve listened to this song on September 1st for more years than I can remember, and just thought I’d share. It’s David Sylvian’s “September”, from “Secrets of the Beehive”, an excellent album. Click the title below to hear the song; if you’re reading this outside of http://savagesinister.com , this may not work for you.