Listen to the Overture from the film soundtrack to Burton's "Sweeney Todd" for a really cool, albeit brief, mashup of the Toccata with Sondheim's "death theme" from the score.

I should have known better than to open that at my desk.

Good choices all around- especially the "Great Pumpkin Waltz" mention. Spook Party and Ghoul-A-Rama are season perennials for me too. I mourn for the loss of Scar Stuff.

"Master of None" may have gotten mixed reactions due to its heavy-handed nature, but I loved the scene where the act of "walk home from the bar" was presented as perfectly normal for men, John Carpenter horror movie for women, complete with the famous score for tension.

Sincerity is good, I applaud sincerity, though considering Prozzak's entire existence is a meta joke, it's hard to apply it to them.

Black Mirror is a thing.

Sounds like the guy who runs the boombox outside my local haunted house.

You never go wrong with those. I believe all three are on "Just Can't Get Enough New Wave Halloween."

It's good, but how you feel will depend if you liked Prozzak sincerely or ironically. Their third album "Cruel Cruel World" is their serious album- no skits, no kitsch novelty songs, just a relatively straightforward Britpop-meets-electronica album from a fake European band with a tendency towards self-deprecating…

Let's talk about something music and soundtrack related that isn't horribly disheartening: Halloween is almost here (almost enough for the displays to go up in stores, at least), so what's your essential Halloween-music playlist?

I discovered Concrete Blonde through a garage band demo of a cover of "Bloodletting" I found on the internet back in seventh grade. Imagine if instead of nineties goth-grunge, "Bloodletting" sounded like a Doors song; that's what this band did with it.

And a Philip Glass suite so good it almost renders the full version of "Koyaanisqatsi" irrelevant.

I always pictured Jon Fogerty as a somewhat obese, barrel-shaped man with long hair and a handlebar moustache. The sort of guy you'd see riding a really large motorcycle in a "rebels of the sixties" themed nostalgia commercial.

Hot Show never gets old, because it was scientifically designed to be slightly out of date by the time it was released and thus only got retro with time.

So they wanted to have a "modern" cover of Queen by an edgy, garishly colorful post-post-punk band with a pop heart? And they didn't get Gerard Way to do it? Jesus's tits, it's even a comic book movie! Somebody dropped the ball.

That's too much, man!

Ahem, "Man Mayonnaise-berbatch." PG-13, remember?

Is it "The Cube" by Mike Brady?

Stunt shows and special effect spectaculars have this problem; since they are physically engineered in addition to intellectually written, there are things that, once the show is in place, cannot be changed without not only their removal but a complete overhaul of the rigging and programming. Flight patterns, for…

Youngest Alison still begins and ends the show with some extremely low-budget flying: "Daddy, I want to play Airplane!"