Tis the Season To Be Terrified

October 19, 2011 By Josh Leave a Comment

It might be because it’s October and Halloween’s right around the corner. It might be because I finally got around to seeing John Carpenter’s The Thing over the weekend. It also might be because I’ve been spending quite a bit of time lately hanging around NYC’s Blackout Haunted House — seriously one of the most awesomely terrifying, horrifically fantastic things I’ve ever been to. But whatever if it is, I’ve been in quite a spooky mood recently.

And since I am often the person getting scared out of their skin by their own shadow, I thought I’d switch roles and try to give some fright back to the world. I’ve hunted around online and found what I believe to be three of the scariest/creepiest/WTF?iest music videos ever made. Hope you sleep tight tonight! :)

Aphex Twin – “Come To Daddy”

Tool - “Ænema”

Pink Floyd – “Another Brick In the Wall (Part II)”

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Real Stars of Jersey Shore, Halloween stylin’

October 27, 2010 By Marilyn Leave a Comment

The Jersey Shore is crawling with artsy types. Our newly arrived OG neighbors Chris and Marc Zingarini are another great example. Chris was formerly with Goldman Sachs and is now owner of fashion forward pet boutique Doggie & Kitty Style in Haddonfield, NJ, but you can tell by her fantastic trousers what a rocker she is. Marc, who has been recognized by the publisher of the PA edition of Super Lawyers magazine as being among the top 5 percent of practitioners in his  practice specialty in PA, is a Trenton native and a Jersey guy at heart. He and Chris are the world’s second biggest Alejandro Escovedo fans (we at Shore Fire are #1) and love Neko Case, Bruce, and country music too.

Photo’d here: Chris Zingarini, Raul, and Marc Zingarini.

And Mango Laverty, featured in a K-9 copy outfit from Chris’ boutique Doggie & Kitty Style. Pumpkin mask courtesy of Martha Stewart’s Grandinroad collection.

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My How They’ve Grown: Shore Fire Kids Halloween ‘09

November 3, 2009 By Mark 2 Comments

Halloween is a highlight for the kids of Shore Fire.

Down at the Jersey Shore, Shore Fire President Marilyn Laverty donned a Dorothy costume for the festivities with her son Sam (on left, with friend, on right), who’s dressed as Mario (from the Mario Brothers, of course).


Up in my neck of the woods in Harlem, Halloween’s become the hang out holiday of the year for the growing number of kids on our block. For the sixth year in a row, we’ve gathered on the stoop for a group shot before running up and down the street to fill up buckets of candy. That’s my Leo on the right, all in orange as a hermit crab, with my Eli behind him in the Revolutionary War soldier costume.


Eli in a home-made (by me) Revolutionary War costume.


Inspired by their trip to Disneyland this summer, Matt Hanks’ daughters Emma (age 7) and Sally (age 3) both dressed as fairies, Silver Mist and Tinkerbell respectively. As for Matt, anyone who has ever eaten a meal with him will recognize he’s dressed as creole seasoning kingpin Tony Chachere! He puts the stuff on everything but his Halloween candy.

Here’s Rebecca Shapiro’s 3 1/2 year old daughter Roxy dressed as Annie…she belted out “Maybe” while trick or treating.

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Music Themed Halloween

November 2, 2009 By diana Leave a Comment

Carrie Tolles and I had an action packed weekend frolicking through the city dressed as Ziggy Stardust (she) and Lady Ga Ga (me). The matching lightening bolts through some people off when they tried to figure out who we were.
Here Carrie… eh I mean Ziggy posses with good friend Gene Simmons.

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