Greetings Boo’s and Ghouls, this [Music Friday] we have an epic 2 disc playlist for you to get your spook on, all Halloween weekend. I was able revive Shannon the Boy from the dead to assist in putting together yet another eclectic mix of tunes perfect for your devlish Hallows Eve antics. This spell’s ingredients calls for an odd mixture of haunting indie, bewitched electro, creepy classics, demented hip-hop and of course what would a Halloween mix be without this years favorite new genre Witch House! So enjoy your treat, trick!!! Muahahahahahahahaha! Enjoy or die!!!!! (by the way, its not a mixtape, its a playlist….if any of you still use cassette players all these mp3 based playlists you’ve been downloading would be worthless)

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DISC 1

†‡† -”Psychic Teens”
Broken Bells -”Meyrub Fields”
2Pac -”The Fog feat. Notorious B.I.G”
Crystal Castles -”Not In Love (Ft. Robert Smith)”
The Mae Shi -”Run To Your Grave”
Gary Numan -”I Die : You Die”
White Ring -”IxC999″
Pink Floyd -”Lucifer Sam”
Van She -”(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”
Ramona Falls -”I Say Fever”
Keepaway -”Sideways Smile”
Dead Kennedys -”Halloween”
Big Gipp -”Boogie Man Ft. Andre 3000″
HEALTH -”Eat Flesh (Baron von Luxxury Extended Remix)”
Book of Love -”Witchcraft”

DISC 2

NIKE7UP -”Swallowed”
Lil Wayne -”Im a Monster [EverY Day is Halloween]“
Tobacco -”Unholy Demon Rhythms”
Roy G and the Biv -”Somebody’s Watching Me”
The Glove -”Perfect Murder”
Restiform Bodies -”INTERACTIVE HALLOWEEN LAZERSPORT”
Risqué -”Psycho Killer”
oOoOO -”Burnout Eyess”
David Bowie -”Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)”
Salem -”Redlights”
Editors -”Lullaby”
Neon Indian -”Psychic Chasms (Apache Beat Remix)”
Skrillex -”Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites (Noisia Remix)”
Of Montreal -”October Is Eternal”

I headed to Denton,Texas last night for the NX35 Music Conferette to check out HEALTH at The Boiler Room. Denton is quite an interesting place. Can’t say I love it, cant say I hate it, but unique nonetheless. It is one of the last places on earth you can still smoke cigarettes inside.  The show was high energy and I was lucky enough to be able to shoot the band from all over the venue. Unfortunately I lent my camera out to a friend last week and he changed the settings thus the sound was muted on my videos. I might check out the Pacquiao vs. Clottey fight tonight at Cowboys Stadium or head back to Denton to see The Flaming Lips.

Found this video from HEALTH on my friend Tommie’s sick blog, NYEXCUSE.COM. I can’t wait to see HEALTH at FunFunFun Fest in Austin in a few weeks.

So remember that Crystal Castles track “Crimewave” that everyone loved so much? Well, it was actually a remix of HEALTH’s version of “Crimewave”. HEALTH? Yeah, and they also got to tour with Trent Reznor last year to play support spots on the 2008 NIN tour. I’ve seen them live twice at SXSW ’07 and ’08 (when I shot the photo above), and seriously, it blew my mind..it is about 20 minutes of complete insanity. They are based in Los Angeles, they’re colorful, and they are genius in the way of using the line “you will love each other” on t-shirts, and on the cover of the new 7″ single they just released called Die Slow. The single is from their next full-length release that they are currently recording called Get Color, the follow-up to their self-titled debut. You can taste it on healthgetcolor.com, and if you ever get a chance to see them live..be ready for some ultraviolence.

With AIDS awareness week wrapping up today around the world, we at Helloooooo.com wanted to bring a little levity to the most serious of situations….

I’m sure It comes as no surprise that Dallas is a very BIG and very overweight city. There are an estimated 600,000 overweight or obese children within Dallas and its six-counties. Now I really don’t want to come off like I am trashing Dallas because I love this city and ALL the people in it, but I must point out the issues at hand and the much needed CHANGE I see that is still needed here.

One of the first things I noticed when i moved here from Los Angeles four years ago was how Dallas-ites would boast about how their city had more restaurants per capita than both New York and Los Angeles. Well let me tell you please, do yourselves all a favor and put a stop to building any more restaurants! Do we really want to turn Dallas into a McWorld? And, is it too late to turn back? With chains like Chili’s, TGIF, Taco Cabana, Taco Bueno, Taco Bell, What-A-Burger, McDonald’s, Burger King, Carl’s Jr (which is on its way), Sonic, Chick-fil-A, KFC, Arby’s, Dairy Queen, Braum’s, Wendy’s, Popeye’s, Long John Silver, Jack in the Box and Pizza Hut… It is hard to believe you can find yourself eating somewhere else. I do not understand how people are not bigger than they already are. It’s like having a crack dealer on every street corner and then puzzled why everyone is high. It really very simple people. Its only  a two step program: 1) Put a moratorium on the amount of chain restaurants that are allowed in any given city and 2) Start developing new restaurant concepts that provide us with healthier alternatives and actually keep us alive longer than our own pets. If you can’t see your own toes in the shower, then there is definitely a problem.

For an example of the kind of change and goodness we need check out www.Sweetgreen.com, a local DC/Georgetown restaurant that specializes in organic salads and yogurts that i pray to Jesus himself one day decides to come here.