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John Carpenter Talks To Us About Playing Music, His Favorite Records, and What Scares Him
The Riot Fest InterviewYou may think you know John Carpenter. He is the auteur who gave us such important cult movie classics as Escape From New York, The Thing, They Live, Big Trouble in Little China, and of course, Halloween. You may think you know him, or at least know his work, but lurking beneath is a more…
Fun Facts About Candy Corn
100% True and Fun Facts About Candy Corn According to the National Confectioners Association, more than 35 million pounds or roughly 9 billion kernels of CANDY CORN are sold each year. CANDY CORN is fat free. Each kernel of CANDY CORN has a its own unique shape, much like a snowflake. CANDY CORN is technically…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Monday, October 30th, 2017Happy Halloween Eve! Here’s some hard-hitting and spooky topical content that we’ve published in honor of the scariest of days… https://riotfest.org/2017/10/someone-wisconsin-passing-free-meth-halloween/ https://riotfest.org/2017/10/vampire-costume/ https://riotfest.org/2017/10/gundellas-hour-of-the-witch/ Keep an eye out for John Carpenter: The Riot Fest Interview tomorrow morning… in the meantime, we’ve been keeping up on current events… https://riotfest.org/2017/10/know-george-papadopoulos/ Aand from the grab bag… https://riotfest.org/2017/10/toy-instruments/ Jim James…
Someone In Wisconsin Is Passing Out Free Meth For Halloween
If you like Halloween and free drugs, Wisconsin is the place to be this year. The Menominee Tribal Police Department in Wisconsin, is letting parents know that one cool house in Wisconsin is giving away free meth to trick-or-treaters. If you think sugar makes your kid hyper, you don’t even want to know what giving…
Has Using Children’s Toys in Rock Songs Ever Not Sucked?
I was born shortly after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, so I have a stick and wooden hoop, mouth harp, and near-mint G1 Optimus Prime proudly displayed in my office. What I’m saying here is, toys are great. Nostalgia is, like, sometimes great. Toys in songs made for adults — specifically heavy songs —…
What We Know About George Papadopoulos
George Papadopoulos, retired football player and sportscaster at Chicago station WBJX-TV, who secretly went by the name Alex Karras and died on October 12, 2012, pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents relating to contacts he had with agents of the Russian government while working for the Trump campaign. Mr. Papadopoulos has since…
Gundella’s Collection of Witch Spells is Reissued on Vinyl, Goth As Fuck
Halloween falls on a Tuesday this year, which means that plenty of you party-hearty mugs will find yourselves celebrating for upwards of a week, starting on the preceding Friday (if not earlier, seeing as Thursday is the new Friday, and c’mon, nobody expects you to get meaningful work done on a Friday anyway). Costumes will…
Hey Slackers, You’re Going As A Vampire This Year
When it comes to dressing up for Halloween, there are two types of people in this world: those who decided on a costume months ago and already have it all put together, and those who haven’t thought about it for a single second until just now. To the first type, congratulations. I’m sure your elaborate…