everyday is halloween

all hallow's eve eve

it's been a very mellow Spooky Season here at Casa de Bronson/Lopez.  we spent a good portion of this month remodeling my backroom.  at the end we exhausted ourselves.  i still need to get candy for the High Holiday!  horrors!  you bet i'm making a candy run tomorrow!  but for anyway, the season turned noticeably cooler.  because of the colder weather our cats would rather snuggle under blankets.  even Leo the Pretty Fierce, who usually prefers to be outdoors, is spending his nights inside the house.  the leaves are turning to rust & gold.  the light is softer & more diffuse.  but then nick is now a young man discovering & making a life of his own.  so we didn't do those autumnal activities, like visiting the pumpkin patch & getting lost in a massively big corn maze, as we did even last year.  life is change & change is life.  still & yet, as my brother in life & art, jonathan hayes reminded me a couple days ago, eat candy, watch some old horror movies, enjoy the fuck out of the day.  agreed, mi brother.  i just had a wedge of pumpkin pie & i've set my sights on this horror classic, Carnival of Souls [1962].  written, directed & starring as the lead ghoul, herk harvey, this gem features candace hilligoss as mary who suffers a horrific car accident on the way to her new job as a church organist.  filmed in lawrence, ks [antipoet jim mccrary's haunt] & salt lake city on a shoestring budget using guerrilla techniques this flick is one seriously scary movie.  i think this is harvey's only feature film.  which is a bummer because he crafted a beauty of horror.  i remember the first time watching this pic.  it was during the Spooky Season in the mid-90s.  musician/filmmaker rob zombie hosted on TV a nightly run of his fave horror flicks & this movie was one of them.  it scared the shit outta me!  perfect for halloween!  you can find this movie easily on many platforms.  so, as the ghost hippies like to say, tune in, turn on, drop dead!

boo!