Spook-tastic
It’s that time of year again, with goblins & ghosts & ghoulies popping out of the woodwork. Last year, Geoffrey picked up this obnoxious toy - a skull covered in ivy with dying leaves, peat moss, and four creepy-looking black silk flowers sticking out of the top. When you push the button (or set it to motion-detection, and then wave anything in front of it), red lights appear in the skull’s eye sockets, and it starts playing the somber tones of “Chopin’s Funeral March.” For a few moments, anyway - then a hip-hop version of that tune starts up, and the freaking flowers on the top of the skull spin & bounce, as if they’re dancing. It scares the hell out of the cats.
What is your favorite spooky music, whether Halloween-related or not?
It may not be precisely spooky, but I rather like Beethoven’s Fifth. It evokes a mood of trying to escape from something, and that’s kinda spooky.
October 27th, 2004 at 9:31 am
I don’t watch scary movies, what makes you think I listen to spooky music? Though I will admit that some of the stuff on the Akira soundtrack is a bit creepy…
October 27th, 2004 at 11:06 am
mine’s up. mwahahahaha!
October 27th, 2004 at 5:24 pm
My answer is up.
October 27th, 2004 at 7:25 pm
Hey! You bought that thing for me, I did not purchase the dancing black rose skull.
The creepiest music I have heard in a while is the background music for “American McGee’s Alice” or an ambient piece I think done by Viovod involving a recording of plate tectonics and magma flow.
October 27th, 2004 at 7:48 pm
Did I get you that THING?! Jeez, yet further proof that my choices were ALL screwed up last year. *smirk*
October 27th, 2004 at 10:26 pm
Keep the good questions coming!