happy halloween from planetcool

happy halloween everybody! hey, the freaks come out at night, so i guess that makes me a freak. (mmm, something new for me.) here's a shot from ken russell's marvelous 'mahler,' where the composer encounters a painted pumpkin head outside his lake house. the man is robert powell... and we suspect his wife alma, (played by my darling, georgina hale) is responsible for the startling placement of the pumpkin-guy. i love all my friends, and wish them all the treats they can handle, and only the best kind of tricks.

the vampire wave

yeah, i'm not really sure how it started, but jean-lucien and i, being huge monkees fans, have taken to referring to davy jones almost exclusively as 'the wave.' anyway, in the spirit of halloween, here's a shot i took from the second season's 'the monstrous monkee mash' episode. here we see davy reluctantly about to further his vampire powers by drinking blood! bluh-blah! actually, its revealed that its only tomato juice. (WAVE: ...don't you mean 'tom-ah-to' juice?) he drinks it, to 'get used to the color.' anyway, i took the freeze frame from the dvd months ago, and i figured halloween was the right time to shoot it on out to 'planetcool.' he really was a good-looking kid back then in 1968.

tim curry - anything can happen on halloween : video

tim curry as the 'grand wizard' in the 'for kids' movie, 'the worst witch,' also starring fairuza balk, diana rigg, and charlotte rae. it was 1986-87, i think. is it a trick or a treat? mmm, i'd say a little of both.