[via DListed]

You know why so many horror movies take place in the 70′s? Because
a) The 70′s were awesome
q) Some of them were filmed in the 70′s and the director didn’t have a time machine and
4) There were no cell phones.

Cell phones are stupid and ruin everything, especially horror movies. You’re never more than 3 clicks away from registering your current location on FourSquare.

So what do you do when you need to screw your helpless cast and your horror movie takes place in the current day? No signal.

38, for the Band .38 Special, and their flame-heavy website. It’s truly the depths of Hell. I haven’t seen so many flames on a website since the days of Angelfire and Geocities (I pronounce it to rhyme with atrocities. Because it sounds cooler.  Deal).

I’d bet $20 .38 Special is playing some time in the next 6 months with Lynyrd Skynyrd.

.38 Special website

39 for the Alfred Hitchcock classic 39 Steps, one of his most praised films. Also one of the longest running thrillers on Broadway.

It really doesn’t get much more descriptive than that.  This gem comes via Weird Hollow via Metal Cakes via The Internet:

Vincent Price Promotes Dr Phibes Rides Again on The Dating Game [via Weird Hollow]

40 years ago on Halloween, Wal-Mart became incorporated. Here’s to one of the most hated and most evil department stores/conglomerates/distributors of Wranglers ever known to man.

Once upon a time (last weekend) I was in Raleigh, North Carolina for a football game. A lovely day full of food, booze, and friends. On this day, I was introduced to what might possibly be my new favorite beer, the seasonal Harvest Time Pumpkin Ale, brewed by Big Boss.

I love pumpkin beers to no end. Beyond the fact that they signal the upcoming holiday, they just taste good. So I’m always game to try a new one.

I was approached with said beer, and with one quick glance at the bottle, I fell head over heels in love:

A quote on the beer:

Harvest Time Pumpkin Ale is a subtly-spiced, fall ale brewed with real pumpkin that will evoke memories of holidays and family.

If your family is full of Satan-worshipping alcoholics, then yeah most certainly.

Harvest Time, unlike a lot of pumpkin ales, didn’t have an overpowering flavor or aroma. It was surprisingly crisp and refreshing. I knew I could drink several of these, rather than have 1 or 2 and get a little tired of it. On a warm late summer afternoon, this is the exact combination I needed.

The beer paired extremely well with anything I ate. With this goes without saying, that beer goes well with pretzels, but this beer went especially perfectly with them. It even went very well with shrimp and complemented some spicy vegetables to boot. Can I say it any clearer? This is the best pumpkin beer I have ever had.

Now I must admit, the bottle art is what initially won me over. It could have contained piss, and I probably wouldn’t have said anything too bad about it. Thankfully, the beer delivered on the promise of the art: an evil, cunning, delicious bit of sin.

Here is some press of the beer:

• http://beeradvocate.com/news/2264415
• http://thinkingbrew.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/big-boss-brewings-harvest-time-pumpkin-ale/
• http://thebeerspot.com/blogs/0002000713

Do you live in New York? Are you interested in spending the night before Halloween in a bad-assed church watching Nosferatu? If so you should buy tickets for the annual Procession of the Ghouls at the Cathedral Church of St John the Divine. I’ve never been, but I think I might have to this year.

Halloween ’09 at St John the Divine

41 For Anne Rice, born in 1941.  She used to write vampire novels and the ocassional soft-core porn read. Now she talks about Jesus a lot and is largely non-famous.

42, for 42nd Street in NYC, home to BB King’s Blues Club, which just so happens to host more metal shows than any other NYC venue.

I still have no clue why this is (maybe due to the fact that the sound and lighting system is pretty high tech, and most metal bands are geeks about that shit anyways), but am fine with it. Nowhere else can you catch brunch, a Beatles cover band, and Immortal.

I have seen Immortal, Obituary, the Haunted, and Testament here. Maybe a few others that I can’t remember. It’s always a good time.

Vincent and I will be making our way to BB King’s to see Samael on October 18th. This is quite exciting.