Songs To Raise The Dead Mix

This mixtape will be perfect for:

A. getting ready for Halloween

B. donning a costume

C. lighting jack-o-lanterns

D. haunting a house

E. sitting in a cemetery at night

it lies RIGHT HERE, if you dare to disturb it!

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I had a crazy great weekend, travelling down to Mobile with Chris Lawson to not only visit my parents, but to surprise Elise by showing up at her epic "product icons" themed Halloween party! Chris went as Mr. Clean and I was Orville Reddenbacker ... there's a photo of us somewhere down there ...

The night before the party happened, we went to Dauphin Island at night and it was ultra surreal how we had planned on walking on the beach and there really wasn't any beach left to walk on! There was like 2 inches of water on the street we drove down and the waves were rushing up and crashing down under all the houses on poles ... it was really apocalyptic feeling ...

The next day my mom was working to get my grade school, Little Flower's 75th anniversary ready, so we dropped by there ... that was pretty surreal, too ... in a totally different way ... I guess the funniest thing to me is that it smelled the same as i remember ... haha ... mostly like those big pink erasers ... the smell of friction, i guess ...weird

Then we went to the old neighborhood where I grew up in Theodore, and that was strangely undead feeling and slightly haunted ... everything seemed like a kind of decrepit version of what i remember, yet it all pretty much looked the same ... it all fit in nicely with Halloween looming around the corner!

That night we showed up at the Halloween party, which was tons of fun ... Elise (dressed as the Bacardi bat!) was nice and shocked when we arrived! Her husband, Marc was Captain Morgan! Also present was the St. Pauli girl and Samuel Adams, Ronald McDonald, the Shoney's Big Boy, the Land-O-Lakes Indian girl, the Trojan man, Uma and Travolta from "Pulp Fiction", two separate Wendys and many more! There were games, "destiny balloons", dancing and lots of mindless karaoke!

The next day, after Chris and I made the trek back to Birmingham, I went to Alley's pumpkin carving / chili party which was also really fun ... there is photo-evidence from that as well...

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In Fred & Daily news, Peter and I put out a special spooky Halloween EP called "Mask Cemetery" on End Up Records that you can download for FREE!!!

just click the cover below:

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Lastly, in video news, Fever Ray did an amazing cover of Nick Cave's "Stranger Than Kindness" and made a creepy ass video to go along with it! ENJOY!!!