peewee
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Ghostly Ghastly and Gruesome Halloween Week
I've been hanging on to this idea for months, and I know it's kind of redundant given peaceweaver's other contest, but we communicated and decided there was room for two in the world of Halloween Songs.
This week's competition will involve Halloween Songs, which may contain the following elements:
ghosts, spectres, phantoms, phantasms, revenants, hauntings, spirits, apparitions, wraithes, spooks, demons, devils, banshees, elves, goblins, hobgoblins, mummies, trolls, werewolves, warlocks, wizards, witches, crones, spells, magic, brooms, death, dismemberment, cauldrons, black cats, fog, spiders, bats, groans, creaks, thumps-in-the-night, curses, bad luck, the number 13, tombs, graves, candy, costumes, gravestones, graveyards, bones, skulls, trick-or-treat, skeletons, corpses, vampires, zombies, human sacrifice, hocus-pocus, voodoo, bloodcurdling screams, mad scientists, potions, blobs, aliens, pumpkins, and any other spooky, creepy frightening, chilling, macabre, spooky or spine-tingling things you can think of.
The songs do not have to be about Halloween, but should contain elements appropriate to the holiday; see list above.
Covers and originals are accepted. Your first video will be your entry unless you specify otherwise. Bonus Tracks will be added to the cauldron with glee.
Ukulele front and center, other instruments OK in a supporting role.
Say the Magic Words "36th Season" or "Season of the Damned" or "Halloween Week", or similar at the beginning of your vid
Post a video and provide a link on this thread so we can all cringe in terror and tremble in fright
Single take live recording, no multitrack for the audio, but I think we can accept some minor video cutaways if anyone feels inspired to shoot something scary.
I request that if you post a separate thread on UU to your video that you also provide a link to this page so people can check out the contest.
I will select a winner, my 6 year old daughter will (hopefully) select a winner, and another will be decided by random voodoo/santeria incantation selection process. The selection process for the first two will be subjective and in direct proportion to the scariness, campiness, song selection, and performance quality
Costume will count in your favor.
Deadline, DEAD-line is Sunday Oct 28 at 1159PM Hawaii time.
I really want to see some songs by The Cramps entered in the contest. (hello, TCK!) - But they must fit the theme, of course.
For those of you who are outside of the USA, I understand that Halloween is a largely American phenomenon. However, every culture has scary/creepy/ghostly traditions and stories..that's what we're looking for here.(hello, Tootler)
Prizes: I am going to keep it simple with the prizes this time, maybe a still-beating human heart for one winner, and a mojo bag for each of the runners-up?
Or maybe some itunes gift cards instead.. $20 for each winner?
I'll try to stay on top of the playlists at least once a day, but it's going to be a busy week..
Bwaaah ha ha ha ha ha ha
PLAYLISTS (abandon hope all ye who enter here):
OFFICIAL ENTRIES
BONUS TRACKS
I've been hanging on to this idea for months, and I know it's kind of redundant given peaceweaver's other contest, but we communicated and decided there was room for two in the world of Halloween Songs.
This week's competition will involve Halloween Songs, which may contain the following elements:
ghosts, spectres, phantoms, phantasms, revenants, hauntings, spirits, apparitions, wraithes, spooks, demons, devils, banshees, elves, goblins, hobgoblins, mummies, trolls, werewolves, warlocks, wizards, witches, crones, spells, magic, brooms, death, dismemberment, cauldrons, black cats, fog, spiders, bats, groans, creaks, thumps-in-the-night, curses, bad luck, the number 13, tombs, graves, candy, costumes, gravestones, graveyards, bones, skulls, trick-or-treat, skeletons, corpses, vampires, zombies, human sacrifice, hocus-pocus, voodoo, bloodcurdling screams, mad scientists, potions, blobs, aliens, pumpkins, and any other spooky, creepy frightening, chilling, macabre, spooky or spine-tingling things you can think of.
The songs do not have to be about Halloween, but should contain elements appropriate to the holiday; see list above.
Covers and originals are accepted. Your first video will be your entry unless you specify otherwise. Bonus Tracks will be added to the cauldron with glee.
Ukulele front and center, other instruments OK in a supporting role.
Say the Magic Words "36th Season" or "Season of the Damned" or "Halloween Week", or similar at the beginning of your vid
Post a video and provide a link on this thread so we can all cringe in terror and tremble in fright
Single take live recording, no multitrack for the audio, but I think we can accept some minor video cutaways if anyone feels inspired to shoot something scary.
I request that if you post a separate thread on UU to your video that you also provide a link to this page so people can check out the contest.
I will select a winner, my 6 year old daughter will (hopefully) select a winner, and another will be decided by random voodoo/santeria incantation selection process. The selection process for the first two will be subjective and in direct proportion to the scariness, campiness, song selection, and performance quality
Costume will count in your favor.
Deadline, DEAD-line is Sunday Oct 28 at 1159PM Hawaii time.
I really want to see some songs by The Cramps entered in the contest. (hello, TCK!) - But they must fit the theme, of course.
For those of you who are outside of the USA, I understand that Halloween is a largely American phenomenon. However, every culture has scary/creepy/ghostly traditions and stories..that's what we're looking for here.(hello, Tootler)
Prizes: I am going to keep it simple with the prizes this time, maybe a still-beating human heart for one winner, and a mojo bag for each of the runners-up?
Or maybe some itunes gift cards instead.. $20 for each winner?
I'll try to stay on top of the playlists at least once a day, but it's going to be a busy week..
Bwaaah ha ha ha ha ha ha
PLAYLISTS (abandon hope all ye who enter here):
OFFICIAL ENTRIES
BONUS TRACKS
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