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solipsistic NATION No. 165: Geas

When I put together the mix for last week’s show I realized that I had over two hours worth of music. I decided to break that mix up into two shows.

Last week’s show was dark and concussive and featured the likes of Hindu Pez and King Cannibal. This week’s show is dark and… atmospheric. Which makes it perfect for Halloween. In fact, you might want to play today’s show while kids come to your house to trick or treat.

Everyone has a Halloween memory so let me share one of mine.

Back when I was a kid I worked at a novelty store called Jack ‘N’ Jill’s Joke Shop in Boston. We sold your usual assortment of hand buzzers and fake dog crap but we made our nut during Halloween. All through the month of October we sold Halloween supplies ranging from fake blood to high-end items like latex masks. Each day was busier than the last and culminated in a shopping frenzy on the 31st with customers lined up outside our door.

At the end of one Halloween shopping day our shelves were pretty bare but I grabbed some fake spiders webs, a strobe light or two and a truly frightening Frankenstein’s monster mask. I rushed home to Dorchester to meet my then girlfriend to make our house ready for the trick and treaters in our neighborhood.

There was just one problem.

We had made our house so spooky and combined with my gruesome mask kids were too terrified to come up to our doorstep for candy. They’d scream and wail and despite encouragement from their parents they refused to take a single step near us. In the end I had to take off my mask so the little boys and girls would get over their fear of me and get their candy.

What’s your Halloween memory?

Photo Credit: ©Teri Mills

  1. Black Light Burns “Ribbons”
  2. Cdatakill “Respirator”
  3. Felix Inferious “Vashta Nerada”
  4. Black Lung “The Regulator Plot”
  5. Frank Riggio “Inside The Skull” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
  6. Pandora’s Black Book “Wavelength”
  7. Access To Arasaka “Montcalm”
  8. Lukeing Forward “Lull Before the Storm That Never Comes”
  9. The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation “The Sexy Midnight Torture Show”
  10. Ezekiel Honig “Porchside Prologue”
  11. Kalte “Shallow Approach” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
  12. David Bickley and Tom Green “Possessions” [FREE DOWNLOAD]
  13. BrainSt0rm “Sc0rpi0”
  14. Lissom “Fallow”
  15. Evan Bartholomew “Secret Entries Into Darkness”