Halloween

Happy Halloween! I’ve always loved this holiday but have not had a reason to dress up in recent years. So this year I decided to create some digital art! This is what evolved on my computer screen after taking a few self portraits. What do you think? I’m thinking about offering commissions for digital art…specifically if a client provides a photograph to work with. This is something I’ve always wanted to do.

To celebrate the day, I baked another pumpkin roll, am preparing a nice dinner for my husband and I, and best of all, I’m listening to my ever-growing Halloween playlist. I live for music! There is a lot of chanting, lovely harmonies, “darkness”, and autumn-themes to these songs. Here is a sampling of the songs that instill the spirit of Halloween and the changing season in my mind:

  • Cormacus Scripsit by Anuna
  • Cruel by Tori Amos
  • Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
  • Devils Haircut by Beck
  • World of Stone & 25 Years by Blackmore’s Night
  • Maiden of the Mountain Deep by Katharine Blake
  • Newgrange by Clannad
  • Dance of the Satyrs by Daemonia Nymphe
  • Carribean Blue & The First Of Autumn by Enya
  • Bring Me to Life by Evanescence
  • Evenstar from Lord of the Rings Soundtrack by Howard Shore
  • Sirena, Ne Aludj El and basically everything by Faun
  • The Mystic’s Dream, All Soul’s Night and The Old Ways by Loreena McKennitt
  • I Am Eve, Lhiannan Shee, and Spiriti by Mediaeval Baebes
  • 26 Ghosts III by NIN
  • Wytche’s Brew by Omnia
  • Huckle Duckle by Primaeval
  • A Window To The Past from Harry Potter Soundtrack by John Williams
  • Time of the Season by The Zombies
  • Every song from the Oblivion video game soundtrack (thanks to Ben :) )

You can read a great post on the history of this holiday over at Christine & Ethan Rose’s blog

Happy Birthday, Dad!

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5 Responses to “Halloween”

  1. Christine says on October 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pm :

    GREAT PICTURE!

    Please make a CD of those songs for me! Another great one is All Hallow’s Night by Lorena McKennitt. Beautiful song.

    Thanks for the kickback to our blog :-D

    Happy Birthday Uncle Bill!

  2. Christine says on October 31st, 2008 at 7:56 pm :

    Okay … actually it’s called “All Souls Night” by Loreena McKennitt. :-D

  3. catherine says on October 31st, 2008 at 8:19 pm :

    Burning CD now :D

    Aw, I was hoping All Hallow’s Night was an un-discovered song I could look for! Hehe. All Soul’s Night is a great song..it’s one of my favorite Loreena Songs!

    You’re welcome on the kickback ;)

    My Dad says Thank You! I’m on speaker phone with the fam while they hand out candy :)

  4. Robert McKay says on October 31st, 2008 at 11:26 pm :

    Love the new art! :) Great playlist too. I need to get some more Tori in my Pandora mixes. Now I’m off to add you to my blogroll. Thanks for adding my blog :)

  5. catherine says on October 31st, 2008 at 11:33 pm :

    Thanks, Robert! I appreciate the Blogroll add :D I’m in the middle of changing my entire website over to this blog, so I appreciate it. Have a nice Halloween night!