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Self-published author with 3 books out there dealing with the darker side of life through poetry, short stories, observations and sketches. 'Love or Suicide and the Life In-between', 'this heat, it's hell closing in on me' and 'Words to be performed from under a table by the last of us'. Can't live without music (heavy metal and soundtrack's especially), film buff (sci-fi floats my boat), anime watcher (old school mainly), book reader (anything that captures my interest), gamer (PS4/Xbox-One), gym pumper and all round geek.

Monday 31 October 2011

It's Halloween...

...the night when all the ghouls and ghosts and witches and zombies all come out to play!!

When I was younger, we used to play Duck Apples and Apples on a string and eat lots of sweets and Toffee Apples...good times.  Of course the older you get, the more you turn off all your lights and ignore any knocks at the door for fear of being pelted or stabbed (joking of course!!).  Point is, it's different these days...alot different!

So, we usually just sit in the darkness and be as quiet as possible-we as in my girlfriend and me.  Tonight though will be slightly different and a bit more in the spirit of Halloween.  Tonight, Dominos Pizza will be ordered, lots of sweets and various drink will be munched on and a collection of scary movies will be watched in the blackness of the night!
Lined up, I have:  Poltergeist, Triangle, Rec, Rec 2 and Attack The Block with films such as The Thing, Paranormal Activity 1 and 2, and The Evil Dead all waiting in the background for extreme watching!  Of course, we still will be ignoring any stray trick or treaters that decide to darken our doors.

Naturally the perfect pre Halloween night last night was enjoyed watching Alice Cooper live in the Manchester Apollo.  And I gotta say, it was one of the best gigs I have ever seen.  Highlights were many: the New York Dolls supporting were amazing, a giant Frankenstein's monster joining Alice on stage was brilliant, Alice getting his head chopped in the guillotine was class, one of the guitarists taking a flying backwards slam was amusing, Alice spearing a photographer on stage was unexpected - whilst the whole show, song after song, was performed with such energy and tightness to almost defy belief sometimes; the entire band, especially Alice were that good!! 

But the crowning moment was during 'Schools Out', Alice and the band decided to throw in Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick In The Wall' and had every single person singing along...it now stands as one of the greatest gig moments I have witnessed!!

So, to everyone out there, enjoying Halloween, not enjoying Halloween, have a good night whatever you do, wherever you are!!  Lets get to it!! 

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