dia de los muertos
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Album:The Very Best Of The Platters
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the Philippines, a predominantly Roman Catholic country, is among those that spend an extra day of the dead past Halloween in other countries. we observe All Saints' Day on the 1st and All Souls' Day on the 2nd of November. on All Souls' Day we prepare a feast (perhaps more Chinese than Spanish) and light candles for the dead. because i am far from the most Catholic Catholic you will meet, i never know if candles are lit on the eve, all day, or at a certain time of day. my mother texted last week to remind me about it and all i remember is "6PM" which certainly doesn't help.a self-effacing joke of mine for the longest time had been that, for someone morbibly fascinated with the morbid, i sure didn't know how it was to lose someone to death. that changed in June this year with the departing of my 87-yo father (hence, my mother's text reminder.) and i am going old-school here by lighting him a candle; i hope he doesn't mind that it is mango-papaya-scented instead of the traditional stuff. i have not yet grieved him and i do not know how to, but that's another drunken Grim Fandango story.
i mentioned once on mog that my father introduced me to The Platters and The Andrews Sisters, among others. i literally grew up singing along to Twilight Time, it was always my favorite of his music. one day i caught it made into a vampire's theme song in an awesome vampire movie called Blood & Donuts by Holly Dale (1995, Canadian, featuring David Cronenberg, and it's really a love triangle story, too.); it was also used for The X-Files. and it clicked in my head that Twilight Time was the Killing Moon of the fifties, so i fell in love with it all the more.Twilight Time is the original music and lyrics of Buck Ram, Marty Nevens, Al Nevens, and Artie Dunn in 1944. this is its earliest known recording by The Platters, as far as i know, circa 1958. here in the sweet and same old way, i fall in love again as i did then. deep in the dark your kiss will thrill me like days of old. i ask you: are these not the words of a hundred centuries old immortal without Blade's daywalking ability?on video, a DVD trailer for Blood & Donuts - in German, but you get the idea - featuring Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) by Concrete Blonde. oh you were a vampire and baby i am walking dead.
i mentioned once on mog that my father introduced me to The Platters and The Andrews Sisters, among others. i literally grew up singing along to Twilight Time, it was always my favorite of his music. one day i caught it made into a vampire's theme song in an awesome vampire movie called Blood & Donuts by Holly Dale (1995, Canadian, featuring David Cronenberg, and it's really a love triangle story, too.); it was also used for The X-Files. and it clicked in my head that Twilight Time was the Killing Moon of the fifties, so i fell in love with it all the more.Twilight Time is the original music and lyrics of Buck Ram, Marty Nevens, Al Nevens, and Artie Dunn in 1944. this is its earliest known recording by The Platters, as far as i know, circa 1958. here in the sweet and same old way, i fall in love again as i did then. deep in the dark your kiss will thrill me like days of old. i ask you: are these not the words of a hundred centuries old immortal without Blade's daywalking ability?on video, a DVD trailer for Blood & Donuts - in German, but you get the idea - featuring Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) by Concrete Blonde. oh you were a vampire and baby i am walking dead.
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