I am reprinting my classic Halloween music mix below for the third time.
This post is a reprint of a reprint.
The mix's name -- "Bereft in deathly bloom" -- is a line from the Bauhaus (the band) classic song "Bela Lugosi is Dead."
I am home alone and being extra paranoid. Checking doors multiple times to make sure they are locked. Checking that garage doors are down.
Ellory is very sick, which is causing me a lot of angst.
I explained her issues in detail Thursday (link below) plus a recent picture. Here's another (below) and a bonus one of Essel.
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Ellory and Essel - Halloween - 2510.31
Convalescing Ellory Queen - 2510.30
That's about al I have to say today other than to share the content at the site where I got the topper photo.
Send love to my baby girl, Ellory Queen.
Thanks for tuning in.
Image above from:
https://lexcolibrary.com/vampires-legends/
Link to the original blog post I am reprinting below:
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1717 - REPRINT - Halloween Mix from 2018 - BEREFT IN DEATHLY BLOOM
Here's a partial reprint of last year's mix minus a player pod for each of the 30 videos in the mix. I was going to create a trimmed mix, fewer songs, but I am too tired to do that now (maybe later).
But this is it for now (tired).
SO I ASKED MY STUDENTS, WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE DRACULA??
Bela Lugosi - 1931
Christopher Lee - 1958
Gary Oldhan - 1992
NOW - 2018 - from Warren Ellis' Netflix Catslevania
Or ?
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
original -
https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1349-bereft.html
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1349 - Bereft in Deathly Bloom - Halloween 2018 - Musical Monday on Wednesday 1810.31
Happy Halloween!! Ooky spooky.
Here's my Halloween Mix.
"Alone in a darkened room, THE COUNT!!"
And not much more in the way of preamble. BOO!
"As terrified as if she were doing some evil thing, she tiptoed down into the moonlit garden, through the long alleys and down the deserted streets to the churchyard. There she saw a group of vampires sitting in a circle on one of the large gravestones. These hideous ghouls took off their ragged clothes as they were about to bathe. With skinny fingers they clawed open the new graves. Greedily they snatched out the bodies and ate the flesh from them." - H.C.A. "The Wild Swans"
Bereft in Deathly Bloom Mix
TRACK LIST
1. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
2. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
3. Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
4. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
5. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust
6. THE CURE - A Forest (lyrics)
7. The Velvet Underground-Heroin
8. This Mortal Coil - Tarantula
9. This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (Official Video)
10. Cocteau Twins Alice HD
11. Dead Can Dance - Mephisto
12. Baraka - Dead Can Dance - The Host Of Seraphim [HD - 1080p]
13. Tuxedomoon - In a Manner of Speaking
14. Bauhaus-Hollow Hills
15. Bauhaus - Exquisite Corpse
16. Wall Of Voodoo - Factory
17. Siouxsie The Banshees - Halloween
18. Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
19. The Specials - Ghost Town
20. Paul Weller - Ghosts (Live on KEXP)
21. Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party
22. Romeo Void - Never Say Never (Official Video)
23. Joy Division - Dead Souls
24. Bauhaus - Dark Entries
25. Joy Division - Transmission [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
26. David Bowie Scary Monsters Live '96
27. Dead Can Dance "Yulunga" 2005 HD
28. Dead Can Dance - Towards the within
29. Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night Intro
30. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
VIDEO POD PLAYER
URL TO THE MIX ON YOU TUBE
Bereft in Deathly Bloom - Halloween 2018 - Musical Monday on Wednesday 1810.31
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1910.31 - 10:10
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Regardless of whether they are the heroes or villains of their story, vampires captivate our imaginations. These blood-sucking fiends (or, in some cases, friends) hide in the shadows, cloaked in the darkness of night. While vampires may hide from the sun, let us metaphorically shine a light on these ferocious, fanged creatures of the night.
Take a bite out of these vampire facts.
- One vampire myth is that vampires are compelled to count things. One way to deter vampires, then, is to throw seeds at them; while they stop to count the seeds, you run away. Sesame Street uses this myth as the basis for the character Count von Count, a vampire who likes to count things.
- Another myth is that only red-heads could become vampires.
- In many vampire legends, vampires cannot enter a house or room without being invited in. However, once they have been invited in, they can return anytime they wish without being invited.
- Vampires were blamed for the spread of the bubonic plague in Europe during the 1300s.
- One of these myths is not like the others … Malaysian lore has many different types of vampires. One of those types of vampires is called the “Pelesit” that takes the form of a cricket or grasshopper, and can inhabit a body. You’ll know someone is possessed by a Pelesit if they can’t stop talking about cats.
- And it’s not just bats — vampires can also turn into rats, owls, moths, foxes and wolves.
- It was a common practice in 17th and 18th century Poland to bury corpses with a sickle across the neck if it was thought that the corpse could rise again as a vampire.
- The same writing competition that produced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein also produced the first vampire short-story. The Vampyre, written by John William Poldari (the physician of Lord Byron), was published in 1819.
- Before The Vampyre, there are mentions of vampires in the eighteenth century. This includes Lord Byron’s epic poem, The Giaour.
- The 1872 novella, Carmilla, and Irish vampire legends heavily influenced Bram Stoker as he wrote the 1897 novel Dracula.
- The character of Dracula was based on a real person — Vlad Dracula, or Vlad the Impaler. He was a ruler of Wallachia, which is part of modern-day Romania, in the 1400s.
- One of the first vampire movies, Nosferatu, is considered an unofficial (and unauthorized) adaptation of Dracula. Names and details were changed for the film, but Stoker’s heirs still sued the filmmakers for plagiarism. While the court ruled in favor of Stoker’s family and ordered all copies of Nosferatu to be destroyed, a few survived.
Link to the original blog post I am reprinting below:
Thursday, October 31, 2019
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1717 - REPRINT - Halloween Mix from 2018 - BEREFT IN DEATHLY BLOOM
Here's a partial reprint of last year's mix minus a player pod for each of the 30 videos in the mix. I was going to create a trimmed mix, fewer songs, but I am too tired to do that now (maybe later).
But this is it for now (tired).
SO I ASKED MY STUDENTS, WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE DRACULA??
Bela Lugosi - 1931
Christopher Lee - 1958
Gary Oldhan - 1992
NOW - 2018 - from Warren Ellis' Netflix Catslevania
Or ?
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
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| me and Satchel - NYE 2016 |
original -
https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1349-bereft.html
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1349 - Bereft in Deathly Bloom - Halloween 2018 - Musical Monday on Wednesday 1810.31
Happy Halloween!! Ooky spooky.
Here's my Halloween Mix.
"Alone in a darkened room, THE COUNT!!"
And not much more in the way of preamble. BOO!
"As terrified as if she were doing some evil thing, she tiptoed down into the moonlit garden, through the long alleys and down the deserted streets to the churchyard. There she saw a group of vampires sitting in a circle on one of the large gravestones. These hideous ghouls took off their ragged clothes as they were about to bathe. With skinny fingers they clawed open the new graves. Greedily they snatched out the bodies and ate the flesh from them." - H.C.A. "The Wild Swans"
When the radiologist make a Jack-o-Lantern. pic.twitter.com/il52lN9uQ5— diversityhorror (@diversityhorror) October 28, 2018
Bereft in Deathly Bloom Mix
TRACK LIST
1. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
2. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
3. Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
4. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
5. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust
6. THE CURE - A Forest (lyrics)
7. The Velvet Underground-Heroin
8. This Mortal Coil - Tarantula
9. This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (Official Video)
10. Cocteau Twins Alice HD
11. Dead Can Dance - Mephisto
12. Baraka - Dead Can Dance - The Host Of Seraphim [HD - 1080p]
13. Tuxedomoon - In a Manner of Speaking
14. Bauhaus-Hollow Hills
15. Bauhaus - Exquisite Corpse
16. Wall Of Voodoo - Factory
17. Siouxsie The Banshees - Halloween
18. Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
19. The Specials - Ghost Town
20. Paul Weller - Ghosts (Live on KEXP)
21. Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party
22. Romeo Void - Never Say Never (Official Video)
23. Joy Division - Dead Souls
24. Bauhaus - Dark Entries
25. Joy Division - Transmission [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]
26. David Bowie Scary Monsters Live '96
27. Dead Can Dance "Yulunga" 2005 HD
28. Dead Can Dance - Towards the within
29. Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night Intro
30. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
(Track list added 1908.20)
URL TO THE MIX ON YOU TUBE
White on white translucent black capes
Back on the rack
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
Bela Logosi's dead
Undead undead undead
Back on the rack
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
Bela Logosi's dead
Undead undead undead
Bereft in Deathly Bloom - Halloween 2018 - Musical Monday on Wednesday 1810.31
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1910.31 - 10:10
- Days ago = 1580 days ago
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2511.01 - 10:10
- Days ago: MOM = 3775 days ago & DAD = 430 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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