The Misfits

It is no secret that Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Is there any other event celebrated on a mass scale whose very purpose is to challenge the tenuous divide between pain and pleasure? Halloween encourages us to enjoy our fear, to find mirth in the macabre, to recognize how death enriches life. On every other day, fear holds us back; on Halloween, it propels us forward. What’s not to love?

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A free four-song live EP from The Misfits, and the Catholic Church. Wow. — thatcan.be/my/next/tweet

Every so often, I’ll remember that there is still a band out there that thinks it is The Misfits, and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

I would have omitted the Misfits logo, made the eyes completely black, and dialed the date back thirty years, but still, this is pretty rad.

For years, a Misfits song unknown to me was hiding in plain sight: “In the Doorway”, a previously unmixed Static Age track released in 1997.

This ain’t no love-in. This ain’t no happening. This ain’t no feeling in my arm. instagr.am/p/BlVA

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My first Halloween as a guitar student made the traditional Misfits marathon a staccato affair, pausing every song to learn how to play it.

"Die, Die My Darling" contains 125 utterances of "die." 107 of them are in the final forty seconds of the song.

This day, anything goes.

All those eyes, they're just crowding up your human face.

"We gotta tune up. We pound these fucking guitars like jackhammers. What, do you think we're lightweights?"

Back home from not being able to get anywhere near the parade. Four hours of Misfits begins... now!

Candy apples and razor blades. Little dead are soon in graves. I remember Halloween.

Dreamt that Glenn Danzig returned to the Misfits and they recorded a new single at a remote, Midwestern gas station.

using Wikipedia to finally investigate the unspecified origins of all the tracks the Misfits box set compiles from singles and EPs.

working out an alternate melody and arrangement for the Misfits' "Horror Business" that could make a pretty cool cover version of the song.

decking out the iPhone with some badass Crimson Ghost wallpaper.

How have the Misfits been one of my all-time favorite bands for years and years, and yet I STILL own no Samhain? No more!

A musical baton has been passed to me by Stan and Ethan. Who am I to refuse them?

Total Volume of Music Files on My Computer

• 74.79 Gb

The Last CD I Bought Was

• Big Bear: Big Bear
  Throat-shredding shrieks and mathy metal guitar chugging that somehow owes more to Slint than the Dillinger Escape Plan. Amidst all the starts and stops and time changes, it still manages to swing. Refreshing stuff.

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