Greetings from Laurel Canyon!
Our family trip East was a total success. We arrived home last Sunday, drained and happily ready to cuddle into our Canyon beds. The evenings in the Canyon are now much cooler and noticeably darker. It’s as if the world “churned” a bit while we were gone.
Our cat Lu Lu was certainly fresh as a goth band to see us return? And why? The season of the witch! All hallows are among us. Spiders are spinning their webs, witches dust off their brooms while shrinking heads…”Enter if you dare”!
For there are only two types of wild witches on Halloween…
…those who dress up, and those who remain as they are.
Halloween has and will always be my favorite holiday. I’ve always found joy in anything rock ‘n roll that encompasses “the black.” Call it goth, gloom, or witchy—I’m in.
This year for Halloween I thought I’d celebrate one of California’s coolest ’80s phenomenons—goth chicks. Four score and in the ’80s I had a crush on a gloomy girl from the Valley. She was tall, pale, and shy. Truth be told, there weren’t many goth shows I missed mid decade.
On every occasion I always looked for Val. Oh, how I wished she’d go on a date with me. For Val and friends, every day was Halloween. I’ve always loved those kind of people. The closest I got to Valerie was her phone number and maybe a smile.
So, his year’s Idelic Halloween playlist is for that goth romance most of us never had.
The Idelic Hit of the Week:
Chelsea Wolfe – Our Work Was Good
