I am unable to watch horror movies. My pathological empathy goes into high alert, I know it is not real, yet it seems so to me- I cannot separate it.

I want so badly to see the new Rob Zombie prequel to “Halloween” but I will not not; because I would become too sick, my heart would drop into a dark and unmanaged place.

Nan Vernon is a Canadian singer/actress whose spooky, terrible and aching cover of ‘Mr. Sandman’ appears on the Halloween 2007 soundtrack. She has also done a quirky, analog, and bongo ridden cover of ‘Moon River’, a personal favorite. I want to know more about her; she seems to have vanished. A languishing myspace page reveals little info, and I do not feel like poking around for hours on the internet, so if you know anything, please consider sharing.

I wanted to do something spooky too, with that little whispery indie voice that seems so voguish now- Feist has one, Jem, the girl that sings Beatles covers on the Target ads etc…

I did this today between 8am & 12pm, it’s a bit muddy and if I told you the number of plug-in effects utilized you might die. Most of the samples I got free at Looperman, which is quite a nice resource for electronic musicians, free to sign up, they merely ask that you contribute to the community, which I have not but sometime I will. I changed all the samples, put on a little midi cello line and a poorly mastered vocal track.

Ode to Nan Vernon

PS: little whispery voice and me do not get along so well…..

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