A Perfect Halloween Playlist

For over a year now I've been gradually working on putting together a truly great playlist for Halloween. I still believe this is in the beta stages, but I thought I'd share what I've put together so far. I'm not even near being finished, and some of these may not end up on the final list.

(I've noticed that the embed link has left out some of the songs -- visit the playlist in Spotify to get a full list.)

Let me know if there is anything you'd add to it!

**Quick note, you can probably tell from the list I'm not going with songs that are only about Halloween -- I'm also looking for ones that really, REALLY creep you out.**

Weekly Discoveries

// Favorite Parody - This sort of spoilery if you're not caught up with Breaking Bad. Or Taylor Swift.





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// Favorite Music Video - warning -- very very brutal. But great.





// Favorite Advice - How to get your kids to listen to classical music.




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// Favorite Song, Halloween Edition -

Weekly Discoveries

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// Favorite Short - The Greatest Event In Television History



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Weekly Discoveries

// Comedy Album you Must Own -  This gem from Tig Notaro. It's a long story, but I'll let Louis CK explain:

Greetings to the people and parts of people that are reading this.   Hi.  This is Louis.   I'm a comedian and you bought a thing from me. Well, I'm writing to tell You that there is a new thing you can buy on my website louisck.com.   It's an audio standup set by not me but another comedian named Tig Notaro.  Why am I selling someone else's comedy on my website?

Well,   Tig is a friend of mine and she is very funny.  I love her voice on stage.   One night I was performing at a club in LA called Largo.  Tig was there.   She was about to go on stage.   I hadn't seen Tig in about a year and I said how are you?   She replied "well I found out today that I have cancer in both breasts and that it has likely spread to my lymph nodes.  My doctor says it looks real bad. ". She wasn't kidding.   I said "uh.  Jesus.   Tig.    Well.   Do you... Have your family... Helping?".   She said "well my mom was with me but a few weeks ago she fell down, hit her head and she died".   She still wasn't kidding.

Now, I'm pretty stupid to begin with, and I sure didn't know what to say now.  I opened my mouth and this came out.   "jeez, Tig.   I.   Really value you.  Highly.".  She said "I value you highly too, Louie.".  Then she held up a wad of note-paper in her hand and said "I'm gonna talk about all of it on stage now.  It's probably going to be a mess".  I said "wow".  And with that, she went on stage.
I stood in the wings behind a leg of curtain, about 8 feet from her, and watched her tell a stunned audience "hi.  I have cancer.  Just found out today.  I'm going to die soon".   What followed was one of the greatest standup performances I ever saw.   I can't really describe it but I was crying and laughing and listening like never in my life.  Here was this small woman standing alone against death and simply reporting where her mind had been and what had happened and employing her gorgeously acute standup voice to her own death.

The show was an amazing example of what comedy can be.  A way to visit your worst fears and laugh at them.   Tig took us to a scary place and made us laugh there.  Not by distracting us from the terror but by looking right at it and just turning to us and saying "wow. Right?".   She proved that everything is funny.  And has to be.  And she could only do this by giving us her own death as an example.  So generous.

After her set, I asked Mark Flanagan, the owner of Largo (great club, by the way) if he recorded the set.  Largo is set up for excellent recordings.  He said that he did. 

A few days later, I wrote Tig and asked her if I could release this set on my site.  I wanted people to hear what I saw.  What we all saw that night.  She agreed.  The show is on sale for the same 5 dollars I charge for my stuff.  I'm only keeping 1.  She gets the other 4.   Tig has decided to give some of that to cancer research.

Tig, by the way, has since undergone a double mastectomy.  She is doing well.  Her doctors say her chances of survival are excellent.  So she went there and came back.  Her report from the frontlines of life and death are here for you to... Enjoy. 

Please go to my site louisck.com and buy her show.  You can buy it here:
http://buy.louisck.net/purchase/tig-notaro-live
Thank you.  Have a terrific afternoon.
Louis C.K.

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// Favorite Awkward Interview -

The Colbert Report
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// Favorite Political Craziness - This video answers the question - "What if there is a tie in the presidential election?"




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Weekly Discoveries

// Favorite Four Minutes of Comedy - This from the season finale of Louie. (**warning, there is a some language, if that bothers you or if you're at work**)




// Favorite Music/Music Video - The single from Grizzly Bear (their new album, Shields, by the way, is great)




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// Favorite Person - Ze Frank




// Favorite Tease - A potential new Christmas album from Sufjan Stevens (update: yeah, it's happening)





// Favorite Catch




// Favorite Website - Lostalgic (for all you Lost fans)


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