Tag Archives: Halloween

Hallowe’en

By Jessie | Published: October 30, 2009 Comments closed
New Order – Ceremony Andrew Bird – Not a Robot, But a Ghost Broken Social Scene – Frightening Lives Evangelicals – The Halloween Song Pavement – Grave Architecture Frightened Rabbit – Heads Roll Off Echo & The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon Maus – Ghostsong The Cure – A Forest David Bowie – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) Neutral Milk Hotel – Ghost Blue Oyster Cult [...]
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Halloween in the time of cholera

By Jessie | Published: October 29, 2009 Comments closed
This guy is uploading vintage Halloween inspired photographs throughout the month of October.  These are his uploads from last year.  Amazing. [Somewhat] Relatedly, I remember first hearing this piece by Charles Ives during my sophomore year in college.  Our program’s music professors would put on performances for students once per month, and they played this as [...]
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In the great silence of my favorite month, October (the red of maples, the bronze of oaks, A clear-yellow leaf here and there on birches), I celebrated the standstill of time. The vast country of the dead had its beginning everywhere: At the turn of a tree-lined alley, across park lawns. But I did not have to enter, I was not called yet. Motorboats pulled up on the river bank, paths in pine needles. It was getting dark early, no lights on the other side. I was going to attend the ball of ghosts and witches. A delegation would appear there in masks and wigs, And dance, unrecognized, in the chorus of the living. –Czeslaw Milosz

By Jessie | Published: October 31, 2008 Leave a comment
In the great silence of my favorite month, October (the red of maples, the bronze of oaks, A clear-yellow leaf here and there on birches), I celebrated the standstill of time. The vast country of the dead had its beginning everywhere: At the turn of a tree-lined alley, across park lawns. But I did not have to enter, I was not [...]
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By Jessie | Published: October 29, 2008 Leave a comment
This photographer has been adding one old photo per day for the month of October.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By Jessie | Published: October 28, 2008 Leave a comment
 ”It was the very witching time of night that Ichabod, heavy-hearted and crest-fallen, pursued his travel homewards, along the sides of the lofty hills which rise above Tarry Town, and which he had traversed so cheerily in the afternoon. The hour was dismal as himself. Far below him, the Tappan Zee spread its dusky and [...]
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Sleepy Hollow

By Jessie | Published: October 31, 2007 Leave a comment
“… It was the very witching time of night that Ichabod, heavy-hearted and crest-fallen, pursued his travel homewards, along the sides of the lofty hills which rise above Tarry Town, and which he had traversed so cheerily in the afternoon. The hour was dismal as himself. Far below him, the Tappan Zee spread its dusky [...]
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