Our club had zero budget for an adult Halloween party this year. A small, but dedicated group of us still wanted to have it. My spouse & I have been asked to provide the tunes. This is putting a wee bit o' pressure on me to find a good mix that fits everybody. Any suggestions are most welcome! The average age is, well, middle-age with some "tragically hip" people thrown in for fun - and who'll do most of the dancing. I think we'll probably start with a Halloween-inspired mix, then switch to fun dance music later.

I found this Creepy Crawly playlist on iTunes today (and it was along the same lines I was thinking, too):

Ghost of the Motherland / Qyeendom Who I Be 
Disturbia / Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded 
Thriller / Michael Jackson Thriller (25th Anniversary, Zombie Cover) 
Dude (Looks Like a Lady) / Aerosmith Young Lust: The Aerosmith Anthology 
Feed My Frankenstein (Album Version) / Alice Cooper Hey Stoopid 
The Phantom of the Opera / Andrew Lloyd Webber The Phantom of the Opera (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 
In the Midnight Hour / Andrew Strong The Commitments (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) 
Halloween / Aqua Aquarius 
Small Horror / Atlas Sound Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel 99
Lady Magic / Ben Taylor Deeper Than Gravity - EP 
Wanted Dead or Alive / Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet 
This Is Halloween / The Citizens of Halloween Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) 
Cemeteries of London / Coldplay Viva la Vida 
The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum / Collide Vortex 
Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) / Concrete Blonde Bloodletting 
Bad Moon Rising / Creedence Clearwater Revival Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits
Magic Dance / David Bowie Labyrinth 
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) / David Bowie Scary Monsters 
Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula / The Diamonds The Best of the Diamonds: The Mercury Years
The Killing Moon / The Distants Blood & Chocolate (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 
Gravity / The Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls 
Hungry Like the Wolf / Duran Duran 80's Super Hits 
Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead / Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook 
(You're The) Devil In Disguise / Elvis Presley Elvis 30 #1 Hits 
Witchcraft / Frank Sinatra The Capitol Years 
Cry Little Sister (Thou Shalt Not...) Live Performance Version / G TOM MAC So Alive 
Bad to the Bone / George Thorogood & The Destroyers Anthology 
Dracula / Gorillaz Gorillaz 
Bells, Books and Candles / Graeme Revell The Craft (Music from the Motion Picture) 
Poison Girl / H.I.M. (His Infernal Majesty) And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits '97 - '04 
Bound in Blood (Waltz Lullaby) / Hungry Lucy Apparitions 
Damsel In Distress / Idina Menzel Desperate Housewives (Music from and Inspired By the TV Show) 
Dead Man (Carry Me) / Jars of Clay Good Monsters 
Evil Night Together / Jill Tracy Diabolical Streak 
Haunted House / Jumpin' Gene Simmons Goofy Greats 
Dead Bodies Everywhere / Korn Follow the Leader 
The Skeleton in the Closet (Single) / Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra, Vol. 2 (1936-1938): Heart Full of Rhythm 
If I Was Your Vampire / Marilyn Manson Eat Me, Drink Me (Bonus Track Version)
I Put a Spell on You / Marilyn Manson Smells Like Children
Angel / Massive Attack Mezzanine 
Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere) / Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell II - Back Into Hell 
Enter Sandman / Metallica Metallica 
Grace Kelly / Mika Life In Cartoon Motion 
Every Day Is Halloween / Ministry Early Trax 
Just Another Psycho / Mötley Crüe Saints of Los Angeles 
Horny In a Hearse / Nekromantix Life Is a Grave and I Dig It 
Cadence of Her Last Breath / Nightwish Dark Passion Play 
White Night Fantasy / Nightwish Once 
The Hand That Feeds / Nine Inch Nails With Teeth 
Meet Your Master (The Faint) / Nine Inch Nails Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D 
Dead Man's Party / Oingo Boingo 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Oingo Boingo 
Zavelow House / Owsley Owsley 
Time / Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon (Remastered)
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic / The Police Ghost in the Machine (Remastered)
Burn the Witch / Queens of the Stone Age Lullabies to Paralyze 
Transylvanian Concubine / Rasputina Thanks for the Ether 
Living Dead Girl / Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe 
Dragula / Rob Zombie Rob Zombie: Past, Present & Future 
House of 1000 Corpses / Rob Zombie The Sinister Urge (Bonus Track Version) 
Lil' Red Riding Hood / Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs 
Fairytale / Sara Bareilles Little Voice 
Whatever Lola Wants (Gotan Project Remix) / Sarah Vaughan & Gotan Project Verve Remixed 2 
The Purple People Eater / Sheb Wooley The 50's - A Decade to Remember: Great Balls of Fire 
A Woman's Work / SHeDAISY Sweet Right Here 
Beelz / Stephen Lynch The Craig Machine 
Clowns (Can You See Me Now?) / T.A.T.U. 200 KM/H in the Wrong Lane
Psycho Killer / Talking Heads The Best of Talking Heads (Remastered) 
If I Only Were a Goth / ThouShaltNot You'll Wake Up Yesterday 
Zombie Zoo / Tom Petty Full Moon Fever
Brains! / Voltaire Boo Hoo 
Goodnight Demonslayer / Voltaire Then and Again 
Boris the Spider / The Who Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (Box Set) 
Angels / Within Temptation The Silent Force 
When Your Heart Stops Beating / +44 When Your Heart Stops Beating 

My friend Bud's post about a dragonfly (http://buddly47.xanga.com/710242221/dazed-dragonfly), inspired me to post my pictures of a boring, brown dragonfly.

I was getting gas early one morning. He was hanging out on top of the pump. At first I thought it was just a boring, brown dragonfly. Closer inspection led me to appreciate his beautiful wings. I apologize for picture quality as I took these with my camera phone.

Aren't his wings just something?

Here's my kids on the Spinner at the Nauvoo Grape Festival. This is what we get for allowing the 4-year-old to go twice in a row...

I tried uploading it to Xanga, but it timed out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTW0r5luPaE