as of today there are 28 days until halloween. one of my fave halloween sites spookshows has a counter, and there is little more depressing than the day after halloween when the counter reads 365 days till all hallow's eve.

if you haven't guessed, i dig fall, and especially halloween. love everything about it, the harvest imagery, the ghouls, the kitsch, jack-o'lanterns, black and orange color schemes, pumpkins, sounds of creaking houses, ghosts that bump in the night. oh man! it is a rich time, and the imagery of halloween beats, for me there is no contest, christmas, easter, thanskgiving and 4th of july put together what with those holidays possess piddling afterthoughts of decorations and traditions rather than the full-bodied expressions of harvest and horror.

so to celebrate i'll attempt at least two movie horror movie reviews a week for the month of oct. the films will run the gamut of cheesiness to sublimity.

to steal a poem by james dickey, my life is made of the world / i will do what i can.

in the meantime, groove on the ambient soundscapes supplied by 13thtrack, a terrific source of halloween music of allsorts.

my cold? gone for the most part. tho without bitching, and i have been bitching too much about it, it was hell. worst cold i've ever had. my name felt like it needed a change to bloody richard.