The Halloween show was its usual scary self, however there was some controversy between Michelle and I about the what the theme really was: Songs that actually sounded scary (Michelle's opinion) or songs that had titles dealing with Halloween, death, the devil, etc. (My opinion). Maybe next year we'll split the show in half. For the next show I'm looking for suggestions for songs about superheroes, this is related the theme of Michelle's birthday party this year, that came about after watching the movie Mystery Men. Send your suggestions along for the next show on November 12. Also, I'm starting a contest about the media and the year 2000 hype, read about it after the setlist. Fireball XL5 Setlist Oct 29, 1999 TALK-Theme (Songs from movies) Acid Test - Mr. Skin Teknakullar Raincoats - Dancing Cadavers Klaus Nomi - Ding Dong (the witch is dead) Juliana Hatfield - Witches Song The Fleshtones - I was a teenage Zombie TALK (80s set) Ministry - Everyday is Halloween Oingo Boingo - Dead man's Party The Smiths - Cemetary Gates Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peek-a-boo Bauhaus - Bella Legosi's dead (with apologies to Trevor) TALK The Smugglers - Your mom's the Devil Hank & Frank - Walk like a Zombie Deja Voodoo - Cemetary (Request) Deja Voodoo - Three Men, One Coffin The Clash - City of the Dead TALK Jackson Phibes - Body of a boy, mind of a monster Colour me Psycho - Sinister Urge The Jazz Butcher - The devil is my friend Eddy Grant - Killer on the Rampage Sucking Chest Wound - Satan'n'Hippies'n'drugs'n'rock'n'roll Todd Rollins & Chick Bullock - The Boogie Man Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots (Request) JS Bach - Fugue in G Minor Shuffle Demons - Funkin Pumpkin TALK Future Bible Heroes - Death Opened a boutique Fireball XL5 - Y2K Media Hype contest details: I have chosen the National Post as the reference newspaper (sorry if this offends some people, but a) I wanted to keep it Canadian and b) they had the only search engine that ordered the results by date).  There are 2 parts to the contest, the first one is to guess the last date in the year 1999 when the word (expression, shortform, whatever you call it) "Y2K"  will NOT be used in an article and the second part is to guess the first date in the year 2000 when "Y2K" will NOT be used in any article. Notes: There is no National Post on Sundays and I am relying on the search engine provided by the Website, I'm not going to actually scan the paper, so "Y2K" being used in an advertisement or in the classifieds doesn't count.  Scoring is as follows:  5 points for getting the date right on, and then losing a point for each day you are off, hence the maximum score will be 10 points.  In case there is a tie here is the tie-breaking question:  How many articles will contain "Y2K" on the January 1, 2000 edition of the National Post? Please submit your contest entries to frseglen@uwaterloo.ca, the cut off date for entries will be November 19, 1999.  There will no prizes, just the admiration of all my loser friends.  You can check the current standings at:  www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/frseglen/y2k_media_hype.htm By the way as of today the last time "Y2K" was not in an article was way back on October 27. Good Luck.