you know how i dig halloween. and horror movies. goes hand in hand, yeah. so p. burns me a copy of horror movie soundtracks which i've been listening to obsessively in my cube at work. there are 12 compositions without titles and i've managed to identify only a few of those, such as the themes from poltergeist, the omen, the exorcist, psycho and what i think is really scary theme music, penned by none other than john carpenter whose experiments with synthesizers created a simple haunting melody drenched in menace for his great film halloween.

well, so, okay, after working on my loops chap i was dicking around last night surfing genre movie websites and i ran across this blog that specializes in exploitation and horror movie soundtracks 7 black notes. and i send the link to a couple of poet-friends who i think would get a kick out it as much as i do. the blog reminded me so much of when i was a kid. i would take my little 1970s era tape recorder to the tv, or to the drive-in, and hold it up to the speaker to record movie music. i must've recorded hundreds of hrs of shit that sounded like canned musak because the quality was so bad. but as the old mellencamp song goes, it hurt so good. the equipment i have has improved a bit, which helps because that obsessive idiot kid in love with everything about film inhabits me still.

lord help me.